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Difficult Listening Hour 2020.10.31: Halloween Afternün Spüki Tünes

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Two hours of “spüki tünes with DJ Wüdi on Halloween afternün”. Goth Christmas silliness! Some classics, some newer, some oddities, some just felt like they fit.

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On This Day: Nov 1

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 14 posts previously published on November 1st

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • The key didn’t look particularly important. Just one of many on the keychain. Weathered metal, obviously long-used, but nobody could remember when it was last turned. The mystery wasn’t what lock it would open, but what would be released when it was used. Microblogvember: key ➡
  • 2016
    • Not only did Prairie run away to conferences, leaving me without adult supervision until Sunday, but she took the car, so I’ve got a week of brisk early morning walks to work (and afternoon walks home)! Guess I’m making my step goals pretty easily this week. :) (306/366) ➡
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • Jason Webley this Saturday! Hello tomatoes! Halloween has passed, but don't put away your disguises, your devilish laughs, or that glimmer of mischief in your eyes. Bring them to the Catwalk in Pioneer Square this Saturday night! ➡
  • 2004
    • VOTE Vote. ➡
    • Priorities $3 million: Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks. $50 million: Amount granted to the commission that looked into the Columbia space shuttle crash. ➡
    • Puppy playtime Sunday afternoon, Prairie and I went over to visit Prairie's sister and her boyfriend to visit, celebrate Prairie's birthday, and visit their new puppy, Loodie. ➡
  • 2001
    • West Coast targeted? Reportedly, unspecified groups are targeting suspension bridges on the West Coast. Six incidents are to take place curing rush hour beginning Friday, November 2 and continuing through November 7, 2001. ➡
    • Enterprise: The Andorian Incident We are also being treated to a much more interesting view of the Vulcans. We're now seeing some of the Vulcans weaknesses and less-than-idealistic tendencies, and I for one find the new look at the history of the race fascinating (to coin a phrase). ➡

On This Day: Oct 31

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 22 posts previously published on October 31st

  • 2025
    • Initial Thoughts on Affinity by Canva We'll see how things go over time, but all in all, if not cautiously optimistic, I'm at least cautiously hopeful about the just-announced changes to Affinity. Seeing more improvements in their PDF accessibility tagging is encouraging! ➡
  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Happy Halloween, all! Trek or Treat! 🖖 ➡
  • 2020
  • 2017
    • Vampires do not say “blah, blah, blah”! #lego #halloween #vampire #bat ➡
    • Spooky #lego #halloween graveyard! ➡
    • Eating candy, building #legos, and watching #strangerthings season two. Happy #Halloween! 🎃💀👻 ➡
  • 2016
    • Happy Halloween! #Lego #goth at work today. #cwupride 🎃🕸👻💀 (305/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • A Halloween Lego treat: a cute little bat with a pumpkin to snack on. :) #halloween #lego #bat #pumpkin ➡
  • 2014
    • The Red Skull says Happy Halloween! #Halloween #papercraft #wintercroft #wintercroftmasks @wintercroft ➡
  • 2008
    • Happy Halloween! A silly, simple one-day-only design change to celebrate Halloween. Have fun today, and watch out for ghoulies, ghosties, and things that go **bump** in the night! ➡
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween, folks! A couple more pictures of decorations 'round our apartment after the jump. ➡
  • 2004
    • Jason Webley Halloween Show 2004 Prairie and I went to Jason Webley's Halloween/Deathday show last night. The show, of course (and as always), was incredible, and I'll try to get a better writeup later on today. For now, though, I've uploaded a photoset from last night to Flickr. ➡
  • 2003
    • One last interview I think that this should be the last of my posts regarding my recent notoriety. Tech news site BetaNews interviewed me about the entire affair yesterday, and the interview has just been posted on their site. ➡
    • Hey Mr. DJ! An 80's pop music online quiz. ➡
    • And I thought the politicians were scary Here's a fun little Halloween story that I'd not heard before. Apparently, the U.S. Capitol Building is haunted! ➡
  • 2002
    • T minus 2 hours and counting Instead, I'll be turning off my PC, closing down my web browsers and newsreaders, leaving my instant messaging programs off, and focusing on diving into the wierd and wonderful world of becoming… ➡
    • Kung-Tunes upgrade Just upgraded to Kung-Tunes 1.9.0. There's now a bit less information displayed for the currently playing track, but it displays a history of the last few tracks I've listened to. Cool stuff! ➡
  • 2001
    • A ghost closing his mouth after a long summer’s yawn One of the few slight bummers about this past weekend was that I missed Jason's Halloween show. Having only seen him perform a couple times at Bumbershoot, I'm really hoping to be able to catch one of his shows sometime, but just had too much going on this weekend to be able to do it. Hopefully it won't be too much longer before I get a chance I can take. ➡

On This Day: Oct 30

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 25 posts previously published on October 30th

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 181 Trying to figure out a photo when my wife decided that she could help. ➡
    • 🧪 Test Post 21 of Several Test twenty-one of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
    • 🧪 Test Post 20 of Several Test twenty of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
    • Test Post 19 of Several Test nineteen of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
    • Test Post 18 of Several Test eighteen of several as I try to troubleshoot blog issues. Will probably be deleted later. Sorry for flooding your feeds. ➡
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Linkdump for January 27th through October 30th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between January 27th and October 30th. ➡
    • Old mashup from DJ Wüdi: Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999 (Depeche Mode “Flexible” and “Just Can’t Get Enough” vs. Prince “1999”). The only inspiration I can remember for these is that I like the source songs and I had the acapella for “1999”. I do like the way it came out. 🎵 ➡
    • Old mashup from DJ Wüdi: Give It A Crablouse (Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give It Away Now” vs. Lords of Acid “Crablouse”). I realized a few years ago that the verses for “Crablouse” had the same rhythm as those for “Give It Away Now”, so…this was the result. 🎵 ➡
    • New mashup from DJ Wüdi: Closer to Virginity (nine inch nails “Closer” vs. Madonna “Like a Virgin”). Originally did this “live” when DJing back in the late ’90s by quick-fading between the tracks; this version is my first attempt at using Logic Pro X. 🎵 ➡
  • 2016
    • Being clean shaven is weird. My face feels funny, and colder than it should be where I’m used to having fuzz. (304/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • Thor is back on campus for Halloween! ;) #halloween #thor #mjolnir #mewmew #cwu ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
  • 2007
    • Spamalot (And Some Etiquette Grumbling) So, wrapping things up: people suck, can't (or won't) behave properly in public, and most of them really shouldn't be let out of the house. The show, while suffering from some very notable rough spots, was generally very enjoyable, though in the end, not quite the experience we were hoping for. ➡
  • 2005
    • He wrote some pretty creepy stuff… He has a terrific imagination, he's going to be the next Ray Bradbury. ➡
    • Halloween Weekend Erk. Forgot that daylight savings time kicked in (out?) today, and got up an hour early. Meh. Could've had that extra hour in bed! Fun night out at the Vogue for Halloween, though. ➡
  • 2003
    • Look out! Pornography! Duck! I can't tell you how much safer and more secure I feel about the world around me to know that our dearly beloved President declared the week of October 26th to November 1st, 2003, to be Protection From Pornography Week. ➡
    • People must like my design There is a potential downside to a good site design that I hadn't foreseen — that being people ripping it off. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. ➡
    • 'Big Mac' details Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, the head of Virginia Tech's recent construction of a 1,100-node Power Mac G5-based supercomputer (currently tentatively ranked as the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the word) gave a talk at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference this week. ➡
    • My inner fanboy just had an orgasm Whoever wins…we lose. ➡
    • Is Boing Boing broken? While the current page is certainly friendly and cheerful, it's not quite the Boing Boing I'm familiar with. ➡
  • 2002
    • It’s tricky Jam Master Jay, DJ for Run-DMC., was shot and killed in the studio. ➡
    • Bloggertypes I seem to be a mix of 'Techie Blogger (Togger)' and 'Link Blogger (Blinker)' with a touch of 'Goth Blogger (Glogger)' tossed in every so often. ➡
  • 2001
    • Mullet haiku Short like your schooling / Long like your prison sentence / The penal haircut ➡
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🖖 Discovery S03E03: The ship travels to a planet only to find itself caught between two warring factions, and they must try to convince both sides to stand down and find a resolution. This may be one of the most “Star Trek”-y Discovery episodes yet, and it pulled it off. Plus lots of good character beats and more clues about the state of the galaxy in this new time period. So far, season three is on a good streak.

On This Day: Oct 29

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 26 posts previously published on October 29th

  • 2023
  • 2021
    • Achievement Unlocked: New job acquired! After five years in the corporate tech world, I'm coming back to higher education — as of December 1, I will be the Program Manager for Accessible Technology at Highline College! ➡
  • 2020
    • 🖖 Discovery S03E03: The ship travels to a planet only to find itself caught between two warring factions, and they must try to convince both sides to stand down and find a resolution. This may be one of the most “Star Trek”-y Discovery episodes yet, and it pulled it off. Plus lots of good character ... Read more ➡
    • Maybe not the most exciting way to spend an afternoon, but at least the weather is nice so I can wait outside comfortably. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 29 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 29 ➡
  • 2019
  • 2017
    • The misty fog makes for perfect Halloween spiderwebs this morning. ➡
  • 2016
    • Me and my inspiration for my costume. :) #lego #goth #emo #spooky #halloween #halloweencostume ➡
    • Happy Halloween from a sad little Lego goth boy! 👻💀🎃🕸 (303/366) #halloween #costume #halloweencostume #lego #goth #emo #spooky ➡
    • While getting ready for bed, I noticed I’d gotten a souvenir from Frank N. Furter, who sat on my lap during part of “I’m Going Home” and kissed my cheek as he moved on. 💋 #rhps #rockyhorrorpictureshow #lettherebelips ➡
  • 2013
    • Death of a Furby I've always felt a weird sort of guilty glee at my role in the (temporary) psychological torture and murder of a poor, innocent Furby. ➡
  • 2008
  • 2004
    • I’ve voted! Thanks to the joy and convenience of voting by mail, I've just filled out my ballot, and will be dropping it in the mail momentarily. For the record, my votes on two of the most important issues that I've been watching over the past few months: Kerry/Edwards for President and No on I-83. ➡
    • Time to Vote Want to vote on Tuesday, but don't think you'll have the time? Think again — thirty states have laws giving workers the right to take time off to vote. ➡
  • 2003
    • Are you on the blacklist? The NRA has a 19-page 'blacklist' of groups, associations, companies and individuals known to support gun control legislation posted on their website. Feeling left out 'cause you're not on it? Sign up to be added! ➡
    • More E-voting issues The security breaches and known vulnerabilities of the current E-voting systems make it clear that in their present state, they cannot be trusted — and I, for one, would greatly prefer it if I could be sure that my vote in 2004 goes to the candidate I intend it to. ➡
    • Automatic defrag in Panther Everytime an application opens a file for reading, HFS+ checks if the file is fragmented and is less than 20MB in size. If so, it copies the file's contents to a continuous region on the disk and frees up the previously allocated blocks. ➡
    • I always knew she was evil! New from Mattel, just in time for Halloween — Secret Spells Barbie! ➡
    • Two days to Halloween… …and I still don't have a costume. Maybe I should go as Bill Gates? ;) ➡
    • Fifteen minutes of fame Another major followup post, answering questions about my experiences over the past couple days -- Slashdotting and all! ➡
    • Yikes! Oh my lord -- I've been slashdotted. ➡
  • 2002
    • Remember the 80’s? I just took the 80's Purity Test. It's weighted a bit more towards 'girl stuff' (lots of questions about wearing scrunchies and jelly shoes and the like), but I still didn't do too badly. ➡
    • Renovation is fun! Oh, now this could get interesting. Our building just started undergoing renovation — new carpets and paint in the hallways, a few new units being put in, upgrades to the heating system (I think), things like that. A minor pain, but nothing too bad, right? ➡
  • 2001
    • Quotes: OS X, iPod The iPod certainly got a lot of attention when I showed it to people, including a Windows guy named Bill Gates. He spun the wheel, checked out the menus on the display screen and seemed to get it immediately. 'It looks like a great product,' he said. And then he added, incredulous, 'It's only for Macintosh?' ➡
    • One very cool weekend Apparently I have a second cousin who had a meeting scheduled in the World Trade Center on September 11th. He had to duck a fair amount of falling masonry and other debris, but he managed to get out of the area, and is apparently doing well. ➡
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Have a couple hours to kill this Saturday before the evening revelries? Join my DJ alter-ego for Spüki Tünes with DJ Wüdi on Halloween Afternün!

1 p.m. (Pacific time) on my Twitch channel. Old classics, newer goofiness, and some stuff I just thought would fit in.

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.10.27

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Week thirty-one of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday afternoons. These are the results. Anything goes.

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On This Day: Oct 28

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 23 posts previously published on October 28th

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • 📚 40/2021: Boogeymen by Mel Gilden ⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻 ➡
  • 2020
    • Have a couple hours to kill this Saturday before the evening revelries? Join my DJ alter-ego for Spüki Tünes with DJ Wüdi on Halloween Afternün! 1 p.m. (Pacific time) on my Twitch channel. Old classics, newer goofiness, and some stuff I just thought would fit in. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.10.27 Week thirty-one of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. ➡
    • On This Day: Oct 28 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from October 28 ➡
  • 2016
    • Don’t dream it…be it! #rhps #rockyhorrorpictureshow ➡
    • Rather pleasantly surprised that my insurance company offers AD&D insurance. That’ll be handy if I decide to do a dungeon crawl! 😄 #adnd #advanceddungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #idontknowwhatthatactuallymeans ➡
    • Happy to see these #culturenotcostume posters by @cwudiversity get put up on campus. A little bummed they just showed up today, Oct. 28th, when many costumes will have been made/purchased already, and on a Friday, when my building is nearly deserted. Much better than nothing at all, though! ➡
    • Tumblr encouraged me to “take a spooky selfie” today, and this was the overlay it provided. I guess I’m spooky now? This is silly. (302/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2005
    • OpinionOutpost Apology Last June, I got a comment on my site that as far as I could tell was comment spam advertising a site called Opinion Outpost. Not being a fan of that style of advertising, I posted about it. Yesterday, I actually got an apology from the person who originally left the comment that started it all. ➡
    • More family photos A couple of months ago, Prairie and I drove down to join my parents at my brother's house in Corvallis, OR for a weekend. Dad's just uploaded his pictures of the trip, and two in particular caught my eye. ➡
  • 2004
    • Prognostication You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. ➡
    • 2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes On my way back to work from lunch I passed one of The Stranger's distribution boxes, paused a moment to check out this week's cover — and probably startled a couple of the people around me when I burst out laughing at the cover photo. ➡
    • Wishlist: Bank transaction RSS feed Just something that popped into my head. I want a daily update from my bank via authenticated RSS feed. Are there any banks (especially in the Seattle area) that offer this as part of their online banking? ➡
  • 2003
    • Thank you! Many thanks to all of you who've passed on words of encouragement. Here's some answers to a few of the questions that have been brought up over all this. ➡
  • 2002
    • George Whatever the cause, the effect was an animal more purely and innately demonic than any other that I've ever run across, or would care to run across in the future. ➡