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I taught myself programming to Orbital. I'd just moved into the basement, and finally had my own computer: a hand-me-down PC-AT, my father's, which I upgraded w
by samatman 3y ago
I taught myself programming to Orbital. I'd just moved into the basement, and finally had my own computer: a hand-me-down PC-AT, my father's, which I upgraded with a 486 motherboard with an entire megabyte of RAM.
I'd pop in a CD of Orbital 2: a twist, in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop. Then zone out on Turbo Pascal. When I didn't understand how to do something, a very frequent occurrence, I would pick up one of three hefty tomes and try to figure it out. Funnily enough, the thinnest one, which promised to teach me Turbo Pascal in 21 days, was the most useful.
Several years later I discovered LSD, and let me tell you: whole different album!
I've never entirely stopped hacking to Orbital 2, once or twice a year it's just the thing. LSD I moved on from.
- hyggetrold 3y ago> a twist, in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop Are you referring to the theory of the mobius, Mr. Worf?
- joemi 3y agoYes and no. There's an Orbital song that samples that line by Worf from Star Trek TNG.
- hyggetrold 3y agoThank you, I was aware. :) That sample is the opener for the Orbital 2 album.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoI always get that episode confused with the one where Data must choose Riker's plan #3 to avoid crashing into the other ship captained by Frasier Crane.
- nine_k 3y agoOrbital under LSD is likely a combination tried by many. But how was "Teach yourself Pascal in 21 days" under LSD?
- samatman 3y agoBy that point I had moved on to C/C++, and Perl. Mostly Perl. Perl is an acid casualty of a language, so that worked out ok.
- z0r 3y agoIt's true, Love's Secret Domain does not share much stylistically with the brown album