Michael Hanscom

Enthusiastic ambivert. Geeky, liberal, friendly, curious, hopepunk; trying to be a good person. (he/him)

Year 50 Day 277

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Me bathed in red light in front of a concrete wall under a red neon sign that says “OPEN MEMBERS ONLY”

Day 277: Back out at the Merc for Caturday! Love this goofball mix of goth, retro, and just plain silly. Just danced to a mashup of Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” and CeCe Peniston’s “Finally” that I am definitely going to have to track down. And then Utah Saints’ “Something Good”, which I haven’t heard on a dance floor in ages. Such a good night!

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Year 50 Day 274

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Me in front of a wall of large glass bricks.

Day 274: Noticed this wall of glass bricks on my way out from having lunch with my wife in her office. A pseudo-sequel to last week’s shot from the optometrist’s office, I guess?

Year 50 Day 273

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Me in the parking lot outside my work building, with the sun setting behind trees in the background.

Day 273: We knew a couple later days were coming, so we escaped from work a little early while the sun was still up! Then sat through an unusually long slog home that took almost twice as long as usual. Ah, well.

Year 50 Day 272

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Me walking on a treadmill in our basement.

Day 272: When I’m at work (and the weather isn’t crap), it’s pretty easy to go wandering around the campus occasionally. On my work from home days, I have a tendency to get a little sedentary, so today I reminded myself that we have a treadmill in the basement. Something else I need to get back in the habit of doing!

🎥 Haunted Mansion

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Haunted Mansion (2023): ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cute, mildly amusing, and inoffensive. Not outstanding, and certainly not likely to get multiple sequels like Pirates of the Caribbean did, but for a theme-park-attraction-turned-movie, it wasn’t bad. Though I’m mystified by the costuming choices for the kid — I mean, okay, it’s convenient shorthand for “odd socially inept geeky child”, but it was really pushing the concept harder than necessary.

Year 50 Day 271

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Me at my desk at home. Two monitors are mounted one above the other; the top monitor has DJ software, the bottom monitor has video broadcasting software. Below the monitors is a DJ controller.

Day 271: I keep telling myself I need to start devoting a little time on the weekends to practice mixing before the Thursday Night dance at Norwescon so I don’t spend the entire time trainwrecking. Today I actually managed to do it!

The setup is a Pioneer DDJ-400 mixer, the OBS video streaming software on the bottom monitor, and Algoriddim’s djay Pro on the top monitor (plus Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback and Audio Hijack running in the background to capture the audio stream so I can later upload it to my Mixcloud account).