Knuckledragger

Last night's show is up:

Test Tone @ Home live right now: https://mixlr.com/illuminator/

This new editor is kinda weird. More like 3, but who's counting? Raymond Loewy design for Studebaker "Wagonaire" with retractable sliding rear roof section, 1963. Also, Imgur informs me that I've been on the site for 10 years as of yesterday.

NYC Sunset Sept. 5, 2019, 7-50 PM. There was a zoomer meme going around last month about "Zucc kinda thick tho." 1957 Snider TV Clock/Lamp.

Oof. Headed out the door to go "off to the shops" as my EU friend say. I turned the key in the lock and ...pulled back the head and nothing else: I was now locked outside my house, with a broken key shaft embedded in my door. Using some kind of Jedi mind powers, I pulled the broken bit out with my fingertips. I then went trudging to the far end of my 3.75 acres, to check the farthest building to see if I had left a spare key hidden in it. I had not. Half an hour later, many curses and the death of one window screen later, I got back inside. I now have located all the spare keys to the front door I had in the house. I did manage to eventually get to a few stores, but at lest one had closed by the time I did. Also, Webcams are sold out literally everywhere. It's like there's some reason everyone needs one right now. I can't for the life of me figure out what it is.

I (politely) pestered the mods are /r/reddisessions and they said that the message I got was in fact a generic one. The reason they cancelled my stream was that I didn't have the equipment I was using on camera. I experimented for an hour trying to figure out where I could position my iPhone so that the DJ mixer was in frame where I wanted it. My conclusion is that the FoV of the iPhone's camera is such that the only possibly mounting position is ...right in the fucking way. So now I'm shopping for a webcam JeffyBozos.com. For some reason or other, all the decent webcams (Logitech mostly) are out of stock and offered by 3rd party retailers at 3-4x their original price. I can't for the life of me figure out why everyone needs a webcam right now. I've been looking at various Chinesium models on AMZN, armed with the FakeSpot Chrome plugin. Ho Lee Shit are there a lot of farmed reviews out there. All of this said, I've found what I think are a few acceptable models and a mounting arm so I can position the camera above my mixer. I also spent (an even longer amount of time) getting some slow moving blinkenlights pointed at the mixer so it's at least visually interesting. It turns out I have a nearly 20 year background in that field. Who knew? I'm going to order the various bits and widgets this evening and try another broadcast on Reddit when it all arrives.

Oof. Got removed by a mod 28 minutes in. One of the users in chat said I had to have the camera pointed on me or the DJ gear. The removal notice I got was generic "This post is off topic and does not pertain to /r/redditsessions. /r/redditsessions is specifically for music broadcasts only."

Testing out the MOTU M2 and Reddit's PAN right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditSessions/comments/inx438/downtempo_dj_of_25_years_doing_some_sunday/

Last night's show is up: Last, ahem, Saturday's show is also up: Also, I spent some time tonight monkeying with my new MOTU audio interface and Reddit's PAN livestreaming service. I'm toying with the idea of doing a short broadcast tomorrow evening.

Linus Sebastian is an annoying squeaker, but he gets to play with some fancy toys.

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

Never have I felt so personally attacked. Would not wear. People are going to think it's a MAGA (or "KAG") hat at any distance. 2020 in one photo. "Strangers, lovers and a family." BMW R100 RS “Good Ghost” Bentley Mark IV, 1940's V-12. Heatman/Caton.

Special Saturday edition of Test Tone @ Home (to make up for last night's technical implosion) is right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

Packed up a GLite PSU to send to everyone's favorite fat-headed Mexican: Banana for scale. I didn't have any other box in the house that was both smaller and could contain the Elpac.

Well, THAT sucked. After much futzing (hours worth) I figured out the problem. In OS X speak "Mic access" means access ANY audio input devices. My laptop had a security burp (possibly brought on by an update, unsure) that revoked mic access to most of the apps that previously had it -- including mixlr. I eventually sorted out that problem, then got mixlr working with both of my audio devices. A casualty in all this was 3 years of show recordings. I have them backed up, but now I have to fish them off Time Machine, which will take several hours. /wrist as the kids say. Show will probably be on tomorrow night.

Indeed. Show is scuttled for tonight. Also, the Gilmore Lite puts out a lot of power if one is not careful. Also, I am now deaf. Gonna spend the remainder of the evening nuking and re-installing mixlr. Whee!

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

Look who's back.