Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
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8/2024
The fifth of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. No review, because I’m the award ceremony coordinator. I’m not remotely involved with selecting nominees or winners, just making sure the ceremony goes as it should, but it’s best to keep my reviews to myself.
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).
Day 270: Lunch and a book on a grey, drizzly Seattle winter day.
7/2024
The fourth of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. No review, because I’m the award ceremony coordinator. I’m not remotely involved with selecting nominees or winners, just making sure the ceremony goes as it should, but it’s best to keep my reviews to myself.
Day 269: Forgot to take a picture until after I was in bed, so, much to my wife’s amusement, and in her words, I’m posting a nudie pic.
Day 268: We needed a new pizza cutter, so we decided to see if our preferred knife company (Henckles) made one. Turns out they do, so we ordered one, but somehow got one shipped from Japan that’s about 2/3 the size of the pizza cutters we’re used to. It should work just fine; we’re just amused at how tiny and cute it is!
Day 267: Yes, it’s a cheesy touristy t-shirt. But it’s a cheesy tourist-y t-shirt that I got in New York, and we really enjoyed our time there on our vacation, so it’s legit.
Day 266: Kicking back in the optometrist’s waiting area, but hey, that’s an interesting background!
Day 265: Watched the first hour of the Antiques Roadshow Alaska episodes. Didn’t see anyone I knew (not surprising, since it’s been almost 23 years since I left), but it was fun to see the Alaska-related artifacts. And I was amused that, while we got the requisite Rolex watch and Fender guitar, the sports memorabilia wasn’t baseball or boxing and was actually very cool and setting appropriate (Susan Butcher’s 1990 Iditarod win trophy), and in what may be a first for any Antiques Roadshow episode I’ve watched, no firearms (particularly surprising given Alaska’s high number of gun owners, but perhaps being a bit far away to have Civil War-era firearms helped)!
Day 264: Amazon finally delivered Eugen Bacon’s Danged Black Thing, completing my stack of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominated books. Three and a half read so far!