Moving into our fourth month of COVID-19 induced restrictions and “shelter in place” recommendations, I think a lot of people are getting a little frisky. So here’s two hours of tunes that could be considered either entirely appropriate or entirely inappropriate for the situation, depending on your point of view.
On This Day: Jun 14
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 20 posts previously published on June 14th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 43 Yes, this is a 'didn't take a photo earlier, so I'm playing with filters' day. It happens! ➡
- 2020
- Difficult Listening Hour 2020.06.13: NSFQ (Not Safe for Quarantine) Edition Here's two hours of tunes that could be considered either entirely appropriate or entirely inappropriate for the situation, depending on your point of view. ➡
- On This Day: Jun 14 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 14 ➡
- 2019
- Oh crap, can you see… We're at a point where if someone's displaying an American flag, we assume they're probably not someone we want to associate with -- that it's a display of nationalism, not patriotism. ➡
- 2016
- 2014
- Cuddled up and watching the opening match of the World Cup (Brazil v. Croatia). ➡
- 2007
- Summertime! A number of updates this evening...summertime, no more school, new computers, and new weblogs. ➡
- 2006
- 2nd Quarter done! The last quiz in my music class was last week; the last test in my math class was this morning. As of now, I'm done with my second quarter of college, and it's officially summertime! :) ➡
- 2005
- I can dream… Today, one of Seattle's newspapers (I don't remember which) had a huge headline across the top of the page: JACKSON FREE ➡
- LiveJournal Oddness Also, a quick note out to the other 22 LiveJournal users out there who are subscribed to the woody_eclectic feed -- I didn't set it up, so I usually don't know when it goes wonky, and I don't get any comments you might leave on the posts in the feed. ➡
- iPhoto Quandries A few questions about iPhoto -- things that don't make sense to me. Why can't I export items that are on a burned DVD? When I drag photos from an archive on DVD into my local photo library, why can't iPhoto keep track of the correct tags? Why does iPhoto have to update an archive's database every time it's loaded? ➡
- Less nudity, more polka On our wandering we went through the Pike Place Market, and as we were in the lower levels, something in the bins of a used music store caught my eye. I stopped, backed up, pulled the record out of the bin...and started to laugh. ➡
- 2004
- Skim! Skim like mad! Nine hundred and thirteen posts to work through before I'm caught up (and, since there's no way I'll make it through all that by the time I crash out tonight, there will just be more added to the pile tomorrow morning). ➡
- Stories too good to be true I just watched an absolutely fascinating film — Shattered Glass. It's the story of Stephen Glass, the New Republic reporter who in 1998 was outed as having fabricated everything from minor details to entire stories during his tenure at the New Republic. ➡
- Blogger Anon-O-Con Thanks to all who I met at the Seattle Blogger Anon-O-Con on Saturday! ➡
- Saved! As Roger Ebert points out in his review, the film is '…arguing not against fundamentalism but against intolerance; it argues that Jesus would have embraced the cast-outs and the misfits, and might have leaned toward situational ethics instead of rigid morality.' ➡
- 2002
- tetris is so unrealistic A jet going 100 m.p.h. slammed into a deer, which ruptured a wing fuel tank and dumped 70 gallons of gas on the runway. ➡
- Short attention span voyeurism It's really hard not to go up to an intern in the middle of surgery and say, 'Don't freak out, but you're doing that all wrong.' I try not to do it if the patient's only under local. ➡
- Not in Our Name There is a deadly trajectory to the events of the past months that must be seen for what it is and resisted. Too many times in history people have waited until it was too late to resist. ➡
On This Day: Jun 13
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 20 posts previously published on June 13th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 42 I couldn't resist grabbing a photo with this graduation celebrant. ➡
- 2020
- On This Day: Jun 13 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 13 ➡
- 2018
- Book twenty of 2018: Underworld, by Greg Cox. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
- 2016
- 2014
- 2009
- I’m in an Australian Hip-Hop Music Video! If you were to watch the video for 'Chase That Feeling' by the Hilltop Hoods, just past the one minute mark, the camera pans down over the top of a desk, and sitting on that desk is a very familiar family portrait... ➡
- 2007
- THE Final Exam **PUBLIC SPEAKING:** 2,500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek. ➡
- Frahnk-en-steeeen! In the vein of The Producers, Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein is being turned into a stage musical. As is becoming something of a trend , the show is premiering here in Seattle before opening on Broadway. And Prairie and I have tickets for opening night. ➡
- 2006
- Best. Costumes. EVAR. Seriously -- I think these may be my favorite convention costumes ever. Spotted by artvixn at Baycon 2006. ➡
- 2005
- Text-only individual archives in Movable Type When I was first investigating Markdown, one of the things that caught my eye was the ability to see the 'source' for any of the pages by simply replacing the `.html` extension with `.text`. I'd been wondering if it would be possible to pull such a trick for my site for a while, and got it figured out tonight. ➡
- 2003
- Viagra gum? Wm. Wrigley Jr., maker of Juicy Fruit, Big Red and Doublemint gums, is expanding its definition of 'doubling your pleasure.' The Chicago gum company has been granted a U.S. government patent to develop a gum that contains a dose of the generic chemical in Viagra. ➡
- Heroes Except in the life of a hero, the whole world is meaningless. ➡
- The greatest American is… So, out of a completely open playing field, what ten people were nominated as the ten greatest Americans ever? ➡
- 2002
- ‘I drank what???’ Incidentally, each of these movies has the distinction of having one of my first 'movie star crushes' -- Mia Sara in Legend, and Michelle Meyrink as Jordan in Real Genius. ➡
- It is so hot out! Where a week ago Seattle was setting record low temperatures, this week things have done a complete 180, and from what I hear we're pushing record highs for this time of year. ➡
- This is where it starts Constituion? Rights? What are you talking about? Those don't exist in the USA anymore. ➡
- Mentally 19? According to the What's your mental age? test, I'm mentally 19. It's a bit of a shame that it doesn't give any sort of justification or reasoning for that, but hey -- good to know, I suppose. ➡
- Naked over your clothes I'd almost love to see a group of 10 to 20 people walking down the street wearing this stuff, just to see how much confusion and consternation it would cause! ➡
On This Day: Jun 12
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 19 posts previously published on June 12th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 41 Shepard Fairey's 'We the People' posters line the staircase down to our basement. ➡
- 2022
- 🎥 Firestarter What was the point of re-adapting this in such a lifeless, boring manner? ➡
- 📚 Designing Starships: Discovery If you’re into this sort of thing, you know. ➡
- 2020
- On This Day: Jun 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 12 ➡
- 2018
- Neat long look at how Netflix is doing what it’s doing in The Netflix Binge Factory: “Netflix is hiring everybody in and out of Hollywood to make more TV shows than any network ever has, and it already knows which ones you’ll like.” ➡
- 2016
- Thanks everyone for your notes (comments, likes, hearts, etc.) on my hooding ceremony picture and yesterday’s with Mom and Dad. It’s been a very nice weekend. For tonight, I’m being amused at our little exercise trampoline acting as a silly halo. (164/366) ➡
- 2014
- Since this is graduation weekend (here, at least), I changed my mind on my #throwbackthursday shot. Here’s @jenadzima, Charles, and me at our high school graduation in 1991! ➡
- 2009
- Links for June 8th through June 12th Sometime between June 8th and June 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The grand strategy of Al-Qa’ida can be thought of as auto-immune warfare • Clove Cigarettes to be illegal • 30 ROCK Is a Rip-Off of the MUPPET SHOW! • Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames • _Yub Jub_ Means "Devour the Weak": An Authoritative Study of Ewoks, From the Field Notes of Davo Atten-Boru and Pladdo Cardigun, Exo-Naturalists. • Sprinkle When You Tinkle ➡
- EMPSFM and Muppets I think my puppet looks the best -- not only did I know the lyrics, but I have that version of 'Rainbow Connection' in my collection, so I was able to keep 'Kurt' pretty synced up with the music. Fun! ➡
- 2003
- If this country fails I think that what drives me to keep going is the knowledge that if this country fails, then a beacon for the world is lost. And this country is headed for failure under this president. ➡
- Habits Certain events must be described as 'fuckin' awesome.' ➡
- But what about the kittens? Logic, of course, can be skewed terribly when your premise is a theory based on the Lord being a female kitten. ➡
- Speakeasy needs a laxative! we are awaiting the new upgrade switch to be thrown deep within the bowels of speakeasy. once this bowel movement is finished please credit the customer a month of service. they have agreed to recontract if we do this favor for them. it's like a new order, only it's an old order with a funny hat on. ➡
- Fundamentalism Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. ➡
- 2002
- ClearChannel sucks ClearChannel owns a ridiculous amount of the radio stations in this country, and seems intent on driving them all down into blandness and mediocrity. ➡
- Switch Apple's got one word for you. ➡
- Welcome back WaSP After a short hiatus to regroup, the Web Standards Project is back up and running. ➡
- Emperor of the US I first read about Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America in one of the Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. ➡
- Music industry wakes up According to a story in the LA Times, Universal and Sony will be offering low-cost, unencrypted music downloads over the 'net. ➡
On This Day: Jun 11
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 19 posts previously published on June 11th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 40 A night out dancing at the club has done wonders to loosen up those tight muscles. ➡
- 2020
- On This Day: Jun 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 11 ➡
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- Feeling a little glitchy. Working on putting the pieces together. ➡
- 2007
- Inappropriate Thoughts I once knew someone who told me that, upon meeting the new husband of an ex-girlfriend of his, had to suppress the urge to say, 'I took your wife's virginity.' ➡
- 2006
- X-Men: The Last Stand We went out to see X-Men III today. Overall not _bad_, but not _nearly_ as good as the first two were. ➡
- 2003
- Who's who in the blogging world A simple guide to the A-list bloggers is a wonderful tongue-in-cheek introduction to the "big names" of weblogging. ➡
- More impeachment talk It seems to me that impeachment isn't unrealistic to at least consider, at this point. As has been quoted here before: Bush lied. People died. ➡
- Slipping through the cracks With all those reporters covering politics and government in Washington and around the country, you would think that the press would be watching the powerful on behalf of the people pretty persistently. But you would be wrong. ➡
- Like I think, like, I want to, like, ban the word, like, 'like,' from the English, like, language. ➡
- Alexandar Diego Soli And so to assert the existence of the self is therefore a sin, the worst of sins; therefore it is better to cut out one's tongue than to speak the word 'I.' ➡
- Still here? Been kind of quiet around here lately. No major reasons for that, really, but a few minor ones. ➡
- 2002
- Gambit Look out and lock up your daughters, everyone, we're in the presence of Remy LeBeau. That's right, you're that smooth-talkin' Cajun boy with a flare for making women swoon and a great love for all things shiny and steal-able. Sure, you're forever on the run from your past, but there's no reason why you can't run from it in style, oui? ➡
- 2001
- God of Ecstasy! Your open-mindedness and irrepressible energy allow your sexual energy to keep going and going and going. And when the day is through, you've left a trail of satisfied mortals in your wake. ➡
On This Day: Jun 10
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 20 posts previously published on June 10th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 39 This has always been my preferred way to hit the clubs; fashionably late has never been my style. ➡
- 2022
- 📚 Designing Starships: The Kelvin Timeline If you’re into this sort of thing, you know. ➡
- 2020
- On This Day: Jun 10 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 10 ➡
- 2018
- Meet the guys who tape Trump’s papers back together: “Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building, standing over a desk with scraps of paper spread out in front of him.” ➡
- 2017
- The great things you find while cleaning out drawers for a move… #djwoody #djwüdi #thelostabby #gigsmusictheatre #anchorage #alaska #1990s #goth #industrial ➡
- 2016
- Across the stage and hooded! (162/366) #cwu #cwuwildcats #cwupride #ms #itam #graduation ➡
- Chucks of the day (11/?): Grey with red laces, Superman logo on rear, tongue, and inside lining. These seemed appropriate for the day I receive my masters degree hood at tonights’s Graduate School graduation ceremony. #chucks #converse #superman ➡
- 2014
- Crazy windy today (25-35 MPH, with gusts up to 45 MPH). Used a long exposure app to try to capture the trees blowing around. Interesting final effect! ➡
- We are the visually impaired Borg. Your visual and optical distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is…fuzzy; focusing is futile. We need to work on our script. ➡
- 2008
- Graduating on Friday While this has been mentioned briefly here and there, I figured I might as well take a moment to make it explicit. I'm graduating! :) ➡
- 2006
- My Father’s Eyes The more I see of my dad's photography, the more it becomes clear to me where my eye for photography came from. Few exact matches, but _lots_ of similarities in the compositions and subjects that we like. ➡
- Missing: One Pink Monkey At some point over the past few days, it appears that someone ducked into our car after we'd forgotten to lock the doors. Thankfully, they didn't take much -- what they _did_ take was this cute little monkey. ➡
- 2005
- Prices keep going up The clerk scanned the soda, then the water...and then we both started laughing when the register displayed a total of $520,007.00. That's some _expensive_ groceries. ➡
- A blast from the past… It's kind of fun to be able to pinpoint the very day that I realized there was this 'weblogging' thing going on...and to know that I'd been doing it for a good while before that. ➡
- 2004
- Art is terrorism Steve Kurtz's wife, Hope Kurtz, died in her sleep of cardiac arrest in the early morning hours of May 11. Police arrived, became suspicious of Kurtz's art supplies and called the FBI. ➡
- Ducks in the city What happens when a family of ducks takes a walk through the city? In this case, an unfortunate (but amusing) tragedy. ➡
- Saved! The Seattle PI has an interesting (if short) Q-and-A session with director Brian Dannely, the man behind one movie that's been high on my radar for a few weeks now — Saved! ➡
- Ink or champagne? Following up (in a way) on my printer ink woes, MetaFilter today points out that by volume, printer ink is six times more expensive than Dom Perignon champagne. ➡
- 2003
- Foolishness Who is more foolish — the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ➡
- 2002
On This Day: Jun 9
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 18 posts previously published on June 9th
- 2024
- Retro News: Gigs Music Theater Closes A blast from the past — two news reports on the closing of Anchorage's all-ages music venue Gigs Music Theater, in August of 1998. Includes a quick shot of me DJing! ➡
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 38 A couple cool, grey, drizzly days are very welcome. ➡
- 2020
- On This Day: Jun 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 9 ➡
- 2018
- The book After Man: A Zoology of the Future imagines what animals might look like if humans went extinct, and absolutely captivated me when I was a kid. Neat to see a new edition is being released. Recommended! ➡
- 2017
- 2016
- 2014
- Dammit, Monday. I already knew this was a Monday without your having to go and make it a seriously Monday-ish Monday. Can I get a do-over? ➡
- 2010
- Links for June 7th through June 9th Sometime between June 7th and June 9th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • The Story Behind the Recycled Newspaper Prop • Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club • Study: Secondhand Smoke May Affect Mental Health • How to Send Your Face to Space • Kids of Lesbians Have Fewer Behavioral Problems, Study Suggests ➡
- 2008
- Bonehead As I waited for the bus to roll to a stop, I peeked out the windows and scanned our parking lot for the car to see if Prairie was back from her morning jaunt with Hope. The car wasn't in the lot... ➡
- Trifecta Point one: A news story about a Darwin Award contender. Point two: _great_ headline. Point three: horrid choice of ad banner (probably automatically generated). ➡
- 2005
- Seattle Polite As I stood there, the car coming down the hill slowed, stopped, and the driver nodded for me to cross. I pointed at the light -- 'You've got the green, buddy...' -- and he just waved me across. ➡
- 2004
- Little details Former Microsoftie Will Parker has an interesting post about the Microsoft Mac Business Unit's work on a generally under-appreciated aspect of software publishing: the packaging. ➡
- VisitorVille Apache log file analysis plus SimCity equals VisitorVille, a program that displays your website as a city, with traffic represented by people moving from building to building (page to page), and arriving via bus (referrers and search engines). ➡
- Enough already Yes, yes, we know. Reagan died. Can we get back to reporting about more important things now, please? ➡
- No longer the top of the heap Well, it lasted longer than I thought it would, given how fast technology advances, but my dual 2.0 Ghz Power Mac G5 is no longer the top-of-the-line machine from Apple. ➡
- 2003
- That'll stop them! Our Attorney General wants to make terrorist attacks against military bases or nuclear plants a capital offense. ➡
- 2002
- Needles and bottles and junkies, oh my! Apparently, some of the tenants next door feel that using garbage cans is more trouble than it's worth, and prefer to toss a fair amount of their garbage out the window and into the alleyway -- everything from smashed TVs to used syringes, all mixed in with a generous helping of broken glass bottles. ➡
On This Day: Jun 8
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 15 posts previously published on June 8th
- 2023
- Year 50 Day 37 Fifteen hours on campus makes for a very long day. ➡
- 2020
- On This Day: Jun 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from June 8 ➡
- 2018
- To my friends old and new, family born into or chosen, and loved ones however defined: you’re valid, valued, and loved, and my world is a better place because you’re in it. I hope you can remember that even when it’s tough, and that you’re around for a long time to come. ➡
- 2016
- 2014
- Out to see Maleficent! ➡
- 2011
- Hey Look… Squirrel! That's pretty much the level of discourse we've been having over education funding in Washington state, the kind that's designed to keep our eyes off the ball by assuming that voters have an attention span shorter than that of the average dog. ➡
- 2007
- Steam Trek Steampunk Star Trek! ➡
- 2005
- It’s a hoax! No, it was a hoax. Now it’s real. Compare and contrast: Photos of the internals of an Apple Intel Development Box with the infamous G5-to-PC mod hoax that had lots of people up in arms in January of 2004. ➡
- 2004
- Time for a touch-up Photo post: painting a church at 7th and Seneca. ➡
- iTunes supports AC3 and DTS? I was just reading this Macworld article on how AirTunes works (the new audio streaming technology built into Airport Express), when I noticed this paragraph… ➡
- 2003
- The Purity Test The test itself is a series of yes or no questions designed to determine how morally, ethically, and sexually pure you are. As you go through the test, you mark off each thing you've done. At the end of the test, you count up your answers, and figure out your percentage — the more you've done, the lower your final score, and the less 'pure' you are. ➡
- 2002
- Something worth saving do you realize you just sumed up your teen years and mid 20's all in one paragraph ➡
- Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy While not quite as good as Illuminatus, it was still much of the same style -- bizarre, confusing, and entertaining, with a wonderfully twisted sense of humor throughout. ➡
- Faster than a speeding bullet So, at this point, I'd like to give major thanks to Karim, who graciously let me use some space on dragonshed.org to host my .mp3 files. As dragonshed sits on top of an OC3 connection, anyone who wants my .mp3s will now be able to download them at the maximum possible speed of what ever line they are using to connect to the 'net with. ➡
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.06.06
Week sixteen 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 mid-mornings. These are the results. Anything goes.
📚 twenty-seven of 2020: Star Trek S.C.E.: Have Tech, Will Travel by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kevin Dillmore, Christie Golden, Dean Wesley Smith, and Dayton Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A collection of four novellas following the S.C.E. characters. More of Trek’s expanded universe.
