{"id":1404,"date":"2024-05-06T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T09:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2024-05-06T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:51:07","slug":"current-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2024\/05\/current-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Current affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just to catch up a little after a two-month gap: I have been busy. Mostly busy with life stuff (I&#8217;m still working full-time and studying full-time, which doesn&#8217;t leave me a lot of time for other things), but some of the work I&#8217;ve been doing will also hopefully lead to interesting news on this blog in the longer run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one thing, I&#8217;m progressing well on my first scholarly article, the topic of which I shouldn&#8217;t talk about yet. I hope to have it finished by the end of the semester, which means around August, but we&#8217;ll see how that works out. I don&#8217;t know how and where I can publish it, since there are usually some prerequisites I don&#8217;t meet yet like an affiliated university or an academic grade, but I&#8217;m sure there will be a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, I&#8217;m part of a musical project that has me play a Commodore 64 live. We were supposed to premiere a few days ago, but due to some last-minute obstacles we cancelled our appearance. At the moment, we are looking into other ways to continue \u2013 different venues, but also ideas to expand our planned 15-minute improvisation into a longer performance. It currently looks like everything will click into place soon, so I&#8217;m going to postpone any further announcements to that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also still writing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2023\/04\/suc-session-adventure-ecke\/\">Spectrum fanzine <em>SUC-SESSION<\/em><\/a>, with the third instalment of my &#8220;Adventure-Ecke&#8221; having come out recently. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2023\/12\/suc-session-in-english\/\">English version<\/a> usually follows soon after. (I&#8217;m not translating those articles myself, but from what I&#8217;ve seen the translator is doing a fantastic job.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t been following my activities too closely (which I assume means everyone), I&#8217;d also like to mention my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/event-calendar\/\">calendar<\/a> again where you can see all my public appearances, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2023\/09\/tours-at-the-computerspielemuseum\/\">public tours at the Computerspielemuseum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two remaining German-only articles on this website, short birthday greetings to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2020\/12\/herzliche-glueckwuensche-zum-67-geburtstag-bob-bates\/\">Bob Bates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2020\/12\/herzliche-glueckwuensche-zum-50-geburtstag-tim-follin\/\">Tim Follin<\/a>, that I didn&#8217;t originally intend to translate, but if nothing interesting keeps happening, I might be tempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The featured image was taken from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/lego-blocks-on-white-plastic-container-7662317\/\">photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@scott-mcniel-1364193\/\">Scott McNiel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to catch up a little after a two-month gap: I have been busy. 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