SmugMug has been working hard to revitalize Flickr, and is now offering a 25% discount for new signups! I’ve been active there since Sept. 2004, and while my use has ebbed and flowed as it’s had its ups and downs, after uploading over 18,000 photos, I’d hate to see it disappear.
Geekery
Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.
An Old Music Meme Revisited
For no particular reason (and certainly no good reason), resurrecting a silly little meme from a few years ago…
Some silly pointless statistics on my iTunes music library:
- How many total tracks?
33,978: 109 days, 2 hours, 38 minutes, and eight seconds in total, taking up 228.35 GB of storage.
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Sort by song title — first and last?
- First: A Drowning (Bonus Track), by How to Destroy Angels, from Welcome Oblivion
- Last: } . } @ } . @ . } @ } . @ . } @ } . @ . } @ } ., by The User, from Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers, if you sort special characters and numbers after letters, as iTunes does, or Zyklon B Zombie, by MSBR, from In Formation–A Tribute to Throbbing Gristle if you just want the last one alphabetically
- Sort by time — shortest and longest?
- Shortest: 0:01 — g-and that’s all she talks about, a sample of a girl’s voice I pulled from somewhere for use in DJing
- Longest: 4:23:21 – Thor’s Day Night, a nearly four-and-a-half hour mix of me DJing at Norwescon 36
- Sort by Album — first and last?
- First: Abandon, by The User
- Last: Either 55578 by Wolfsheim, if you sort special characters and numbers after letters, as iTunes does, or Zoot Suit Riot by Cherry Poppin’ Daddies if you just want the last one alphabetically.
- Sort by Artist — first and last?
- Top five played songs?
- Wasted, by And One, from Virgin Superstar
- One World One Sky, by Covenant, from United States of Mind
- Kathy’s Song (Come Lie Next to Me), by Apoptygma Berzerk, from Welcome to Earth
- Afterhours, by Covenant, from United States of Mind
- Doubleplusgood, by Eurythmics, off of 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)
- Find the following words. How many songs show up?
- Sex: 279
- Death: 215
- Love: 1,853
- You: 3,014
- Home: 344
- Boy: 901
- Girl: 793
Thanks to micro.blog’s ability to import Instagram archives, all 1,512 posts, from my first on 12/14/13 to my last on 12/31/18, are now on my blog (all tagged as from:instagram, on the chance someone wanted to browse back through them all). Nice to be out of that walled garden!
Meeting’s done, time for the Norwescon holiday party! For which, of course, I brought out my most seasonally appropriate suit coat.
Gathering the troops for this month’s Norwescon planning meeting. Just four months to go until this year’s con!
Amused to realize that at the moment, thanks to my posts about books and Short Trek episodes, I’m kind of dominating micro.blog’s 🖖 Star Trek “discover” feed. Maybe once Picard starts broadcasting more micro.blog Trekkies/ers will show up?
The Newest Short Treks Offer a Bright Hope for Star Trek’s Animated Future: “These two tales, on their own, may not be the grandest Star Trek stories ever told—but they don’t have to be. They prove there is space for Star Trek, on the precipice on an unprecedented level of saturation, to tell tales which are both reflective of nostalgic charms and push the boundaries of how the core themes of wanderlust, understanding, and exploration that define Star Trek’s heart can move into styles of storytelling that play with fantasy and comedy as much as they do science fiction and serious character drama.”
Trying an experiment which I hope I won’t end up regretting: Re-enabling comments on blog posts on my site (but leaving them set to auto-close after two weeks).
Don’t know how often they’ll get used, or whether it’ll just be spammers and trolls, but it’s worth an attempt.
Short Treks E09: “The Girl Who Made the Stars”: A sweet fable told to a young Michael Burnham (with an adorable tardigrade stuffie) by her dad. Gorgeous animation—and the being the girl in the story meets sure looks like it came right out of The Abyss! Maybe a crossover? 😉 🖖
Short Treks E08: “Ephriam and Dot”: Extremely cute, and definitely a love letter to TOS Trek—though perhaps so much so that more casual or newer watchers might be confused by some of the images that flash by. It worked for me, though. Plus, the narrator is Kirk Thatcher! 🖖