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Prepping For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – A Procrastinators’ Guide: “To help you prep (or at this point, cram), TrekMovie presents a list of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes that showcase Jean-Luc Picard’s exploits with the Borg and Romulans, plus a few essential Captain Picard episodes that reveal his character. We also include a bonus list of a few Seven of Nine-centric episodes of Voyager.”

DJing on Twitch

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I tried a little experiment this morning with DJing live to my Twitch channel, and I don’t think it went terribly badly…so I’m thinking I may do this on a semi-regular basis.

Background: Like many, many people…I used to be a DJ. ;) Lately I’ve been missing it, so this is a way for me to start practicing again. I have no visions of getting back into clubs or anything along those lines (though it’s always a fun fantasy), but this should at least help scratch the itch a little bit.

I’m using djay Pro 2 and a Pioneer DDJ-400 mixer, and figured out how to use OBS (with some assistance from Loopback to route the audio stream from djay to OBS so I wasn’t just broadcasting whatever my computer’s internal mic could pick up) to stream to Twitch. I’m also recording the video and audio output locally, and will upload those to my YouTube and MixCloud accounts within a few days after broadcasting.

Here’s the video for my first attempt (the audio kicks in at about 45 seconds).

And here’s the audio on MixCloud.

In the future, I’ll figure out how to keep the Twitch chat channel up on a second screen so I can take requests as well (on the off chance people actually stop by to watch and listen live).

It’s an experiment, and I’m not sure how long I’ll keep doing it, but for now, at least, it should be fun to play with.

On This Day: Jan 11

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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. Here are my past posts for January 11…

There are 23 posts previously published on January 11th

  • 2024
  • 2020
    • Prepping For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – A Procrastinators’ Guide: “To help you prep (or at this point, cram), TrekMovie presents a list of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes that showcase Jean-Luc Picard’s exploits with the Borg and Romulans, plus a few essential Captain Picard episodes that reveal his character. We also include a bonus ... Read more ➡
    • DJing on Twitch The first of a hopefully ongoing experiment with DJing live to Twitch. ➡
    • DJing on Twitch Kicking off an experiment with DJing live on Twitch. More to come! ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 11 ➡
  • 2018
    • Book three of 2018: Software, by Rudy Rucker. 🌟🌟🌟 ➡
    • Current amusement: as I age, I’m getting a respectable start on “old man” eyebrows. But they’re much thinner on the outsides of my eyes than the insides, so the end result is occasionally a very Vulcan/Romulan upwards slant to my brows. I’m ever more saddened that I’ve never been able to lift just a single ... Read more ➡
    • Chucks of the day (57): Blue faux-leather high tops with black sidewall trim. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2016
    • I have got to start remembering to do this before the very end of the night. Because then I do weird stuff like this. (11/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • We were going to Do Stuff today, until we decided the day was better spent relaxing in our jammies. ➡
  • 2013
    • You’ve Got A Dirty Speech Synthesizer An amusing little anecdote about Watson, the IBM supercomputer that was featured on Jeopardy, that might seem a little familiar to those of my friends who are parents. ➡
  • 2009
    • Links for January 9th through January 11th Sometime between January 9th and January 11th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Anchorage Wedding - Stephanie & Royce • Seattle P-I put up for sale • Knitting for Psychos • Computer geeks learn to flirt • UPDATE: MACWORLD THREATENED BY DEATH RAY ➡
  • 2006
    • Help: .htaccess redirects Never having quite gotten the hang of .htaccess redirect requests, I'm hoping someone out there might be able to give me a hand with this. ➡
  • 2005
    • Face Analyzer Jacqueline pointed out the Face Analyzer. This struck me as worth killing a few minutes playing with, so I grabbed a recent headshot of me from when I got my new glasses, and sent it in. The results were something of a surprise. ➡
    • Malicious Software Removal Malicious software removal? It's bad enough that so much of their software is fairly malicious in standard day to day operations, but now they're actively promoting a product that, judging by its name, will gleefully and with great gusto go rampaging through your computer, removing the most useful pieces of software it can find? ➡
    • Who are you? So. You're the head of a highly secretive company. You're known for being temperamental and very mysterious. The goods your company produces are highly popular, but they're developed in secret. When they're introduced, they're invariably accompanied by much anticipation, a media blitz, and fans the world over salivating over the newest products. Who are you? ➡
    • 6 year old webserver While talking with Prairie about how Macs generally tend to have long lifespans, I looked up the original introduction date for the 350Mhz Blue and White G3 that acts as the webserver for my site, and found out that it was originally introduced on January 5th, 1999. ➡
    • Mac mini (and more) Only the sketchiest details so far, ganked from MacRumors' live update page, but…the Mac Mini is here. ➡
    • Macworld 2005 Keynote The keynote for this year's Macworld starts in about an hour. I won't be able to 'liveblog' it as I have the past couple of years, as little things like work and Apple's decision not to stream the keynote are getting in the way. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • A call for help! The 'hide/show smileys' links in my comment forms only work in IE — Gecko-based browsers ignore the javascript, and kHTML-based browsers don't even display them! Is there anyone out there who can help me with this? ➡

On This Day: Jan 10

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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. Here are my past posts for January 10…

There are 32 posts previously published on January 10th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • An Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story Inspired The Big Mystery For ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 – TrekMovie.com: ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ is one of Ursula K. Le Guin’s most famous stories and often used in classrooms discussing ethics in literature. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2021.01.09 Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let's-see-what-happens mixing. This week ended up being (nearly) all '80s alternative. ➡
  • 2020
    • The One Remaining Use of the Word “Macintosh”: “Some weeks ago, I was struck by the thought that Apple had almost entirely managed to scrub its corporate communications of the word ‘Macintosh.’ It’s not surprising, of course, but I was curious if the company had slipped up anywhere.” ➡
    • On This Day: Jan 10 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from January 10 ➡
  • 2019
    • OTC Contraceptives Now Covered By Insurance in Washington As of January 1, 2019, all Washingtonians with state-regulated insurance can now pick up over-the-counter contraceptives for free at their in-network pharmacies, according to the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. ➡
    • 21st century blogging problems: When a prominent blogger tweets a link to an old blog post of mine about Pixar’s lack of diversity in their characters that is showing raw Markdown instead of rendered HTML (now fixed, of course). How embarrassing! ➡
  • 2017
    • When we got home yesterday, there was a good four or five inches of snow on the driveway, but we were too tired to deal with it. Then it snowed more today, so we had at least six inches to shovel after work. It sucked, but we did it! Can we be done with winter ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • Approaching the end of season six of Voyager. Trying to decide what I think about the introduction of the Borg Babies to the show. (10/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • I haven’t worn a watch in decades. Got an inexpensive one to start getting used to it again before the Apple Watch is released. Just in case, y’know. ➡
  • 2014
    • Almost the weekend! ➡
  • 2013
    • This Far, No Further I don't mind disagreeing with people, I don't mind people disagreeing with me, and in the right circumstances, calm, rational discussions of disagreements can be quite good. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere, and I've now found two places where I'm quite comfortable drawing that line. ➡
    • Give It A Crablouse Here's the second of my contributions to mashup culture: Give It A Crablouse (Lord of Acid vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers). ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • iTunes MiniStore Apparently, one of the changes made to iTunes was **more advertising**! _Yay!_ I was just lamenting the fact that I didn't see enough ads while deciding which song to play next, and here Apple's gone and taken care of that for me. ➡
    • Apple Intel Ad Music: Moby The music in Apple's clever Intel processor ad sounded _really_ familiar, and after running it around in my head for a bit, I figured it out. It's Moby's 'God Moving Over the Face of the Waters', which I have on the soundtrack to Heat. ➡
    • SeaBlogs Overrun by TrackBack Spam This is just sad -- sixteen of the twenty-five displayed TrackBack pings to Seablogs are TrackBack spam. Is anyone paying attention to moderating the site? ➡
    • Seattle Pillow Fight So here's the deal... **SEATTLE PILLOW FIGHT** is going to be a Guinness World Record breaking event held right here in Seattle **THIS SPRING IN 2006**! ➡
    • Macworld ’06: Dawn of the i(ntel)Mac Big news of the day, of course, is Steve Jobs' keynote address at Macworld 2006. I'm not exactly up-to-the-minute on this, but I just got home from school and I'm watching the video stream of the keynote now. ➡
  • 2005
    • Bloggers’ Rights and Blogophobia With the news of another weblogger losing his job because of posts on his weblog the issues of what webloggers can and cannot expect to be able to post on their weblogs has started bubbling 'round the blogosphere again. Now there's a proposed Bloggers' Bill of Rights — but how useful is it? And which companies should really be singled out? ➡
    • Dominant Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator. ➡
    • The Phantom in 15 Minutes While she's not posting much at the moment due to work on a book, Cleolinda Jones has graced us with another Movies in 15 Minutes parody: The Phantom of the Opera. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2002
    • Free association, job possibilities, and haiku If I'd been kidnapped by alien space pirates and forced to endure hours upon hours of back to back Hardy Boys television episodes overdubbed in Tagalog in a devious attempt to brainwash me and force me to assassinate Sonny Bono with nothing but a Ronco Turnip Twaddler, three jars of Nutella hazelnut spread, and a 5-inch length of dental floss -- that would be worth writing about. ➡
  • 1995
    • [From Usenet: 1.10.95 0448] I do suppose, while not being necessarily one of the 'big names' (with a gun? sorry...seemingly obligatory lyrics reference) on a.m.nin, I might as well pitch in... ➡
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 1.10.94 0643] This is hardly official, but as far as I know... ➡
    • [From Usenet 1.10.94 0610] Was curious as to whether anyone knew of an ftp site with .gifs of the cover art to any or all of KMFDM's albums...I love Brute's artwork, and would love to get my hands on some. ➡
    • [From Usenet: 1.10.94 0552] Really? Bizarre...up here in Anchorage, it actually is fairly 'easy to find,' as both locations of Mammoth Music (the local 'alternative' music store) regularly have at least one copy on the shelves, and I even see it fairly regularly at Camelot... ➡
    • [From Usenet: 1.10.94 0539] You might want to try... ftp.uwp.edu/pub/music/pictures I've gotten some fun stuffs from there...but if anyone else has some good places to go, please clue me in also... ➡
    • [From Usenet 1.10.94 0539] First off, I'm insanely jealous whenever someone casually starts off a post about BlackHappy with 'some friends of mine....' `` Anway... ➡
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I don’t really keep up with automotive news, but…um…Subaru? Everything okay over there?

Bonus: As long as this model exists, any contest/competition that awards a car as a prize, but doesn’t offer this model, obviously gives no FUCKS.

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Short Treks E10: “Children of Mars”: A curious and moody prequel that sets up a bit of backstory, but mostly won’t really fall into place until Picard starts. Guessing that “synths” might be androids based on Romulan experiments with Borg technology? 🖖