DJMcloud 64

Podcast 161

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 05:24:30 +0000

Episode 161 show notes

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· Wearing Jaanuu masks

· Minnesota riots due to George Floyd killing and nationwide talk of de-funding police

· web-component-boilerplate: GitHub, screencast

· Library of Progress: GitHub, screencast

· pacificio.com

· djmcloud.com

Podcast 160 – Into the River

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:56:34 +0000

‘I did PHP code for a while.’ / “The darkest hours of the night” / ‘Visualizing objects recursively’

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re-designed podcast home page https://djmcloud.com
SYML – “Clean Eyes” https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZffQgmPwP1xxRGHCza4fJ
‘Stobe the Hobo’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvolvkzJQM

Fickle Friends – “Pretty Great” https://open.spotify.com/track/5OEh0t74eilX1HnfVy9E4g

okconceptviewer React component for recursively displaying JavaScript objects: https://www.npmjs.com/package/okconceptviewer
“Car goes flying into the Cuyahoga River” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF89Ubq91p0
Nine Inch Nails – “Sin” https://open.spotify.com/track/603q8qCfQVX7uRVnDpRpqb
new sf3am.com front page
video: winter driving in Shorline, Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWwfWmp5rjQ

(Podcast 159) – What they have is a setup method

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:08:18 +0000

“Hooks have become very popular” / “Mango is the biggest fan of apples I know.” / “Instead of using the `this` keyword.” / “A Very Cool Angle On It” / “Comes from the same motivation.”

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Show notes

– Third impeachment in US history

– Cosmic Crisp Apple: my parrot’s review

– iPhone 11

– flexbox CSS

– Quarter Accounting App

– ReactJS – hooks https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

– VueJS v3 proposal https://vue-composition-api-rfc.netlify.com/#summary

– Web Components: lit-html, lighterhtml, haunted and LitElement

– My video on Web Components: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXCfKPEchF4

– My email list

– Alta Redwood Store now in experimental ‘soft launch’ phase

Stuffing their faces with marshmallows (Podcast 157)

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 21:43:16 +0000

‘You look like a woman who enjoys the finer things.’ / “Square and flat, and the color tone,” / ‘I’m the person that discovered love.’ / ‘Capacity to delay gratification’ / “A much more detailed robot.” / “On the metal like this.”/ “You’ll find CSS variables and CSS grid in my code” / “We’re using GarageBand 10 now.”

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– Woman who apparently sent a lot of texts: press conference
– “Chicago City Council Members Lash Out At No Cop Academy Activists”
– Marshmallow test
– Jessica’s site, schedule your session now!: jessmckeown.com
– my (JAM-stack) site: danmckeown.info
– “or maybe follow a link to your SoundCloud”
– Whitney Lyman music
– Nordic Museum, Ballard neighborhood, Seattle
– South Sudan: independent since 2011
– Christian Music and the Seattle music scene via The Stranger

How many mattresses (Podcast 156)

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:11:10 +0000

Listen to episode 156: download the mp3

show notes: ‘Should I get you tickets?’

90s music: The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan, Pearl Jam, LL Cool J, Candlebox, Stone Temple Pilots with a ringer &c.
The ‘podcast boom’ and advertising
“Self-storage: How warehouses for personal junk became a $38 billion industry“
blockfowl.com crypto blog
Paul Krugman won a ‘Swedish National Bank’s Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel’
Bloomberg claims that “The greatest bubble in history is popping, according to Bank of America Corp”
Charlie Munger on Bitcoin: “step on it hard“
Square Inc. has Bitcoin trading in its payments app
Joseph Stiglitz attacks Bitcoin

You will see the console (Podcast 155)

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:18:40 +0000

^People pop out of closets.^ / ^Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.^ / “It kind of goes back to that 90s sensibility.” / “Use the math that’s necessary.” / “An enduring story.” / “Dark and plodding.”

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare [1611].
Macbeth by Orson Welles [1948].
Macbeth by Jack Gold [1983].

show notes

Zite shuts down; is Apple News or Flipboard the better replacement?

“Mathematicians left baffled after three-year struggle over proof.”

UAW makes inroads into South with worker vote at VW plant.

William Basinski – “Divertissment Pt 2“.

sf3am.com/blackjack.

Making private copies of music outlawed in Britain.

Will Tony Blair face a trial over Iraq war, as Jeremy Corbyn suggested?

Sham corporate arbitration continues to grow.

Supreme Court allows Highland Park to keep assault weapons ban.

NBA ad against gun violence.

Demographics still favor Democrats over Republicans, but by how much?

#mybestof2015.

#myBestOf2015 #5 Ryukyu a front-end framework with a grid system and HTML starter pages #CSS https://t.co/SgLGrcUx9T pic.twitter.com/9PjPbA54NT

— Dan McKeown (@pacificpelican) December 8, 2015

Movie: Pearl Jam Twenty.

“New York’s ‘Bail Bond Queen’, ruler of a controversial industry.”

My blog: djmblog.com.

Camera wolfing (Podcast 154)

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 21:21:48 +0000

‘They are on the screen and they are still having this play time.’ / “It just seems crazy that people don’t respect photographers’ rights.” / “I celebrate their entire catalogue.” / “I was just walking around West 6th.”

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show notes

“Soaked in Bleach” movie about the death of Kurt Cobain.

“Scott Weiland Dies at 48.”

A visual representation of music genres.

Why is it trendy now for books to be so long?

Journalist harrassed at University of Missouri for taking photos in a public place.
Podcast 1 covered photography freedom.

Federal agent who investigated ‘Silk Road’ [the infamous hidden-web marketplace] admits to theft of $800k.

More deadly shootings, including Umpqua, Moneta, Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, and Inland; these events may turn out to be profitable for the firearms industry. (I’ve talked about gun culture before on the podcast.) And concealed carry of handguns doesn’t make anyone safer.

Republican voters still favor George W. Bush.

Release of tape of the shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police leads to protests.

Michigan State 17, Ohio State 14.

Michigan State 16, Iowa 13.

Djmblog is now using my new free WordPress theme, Theme 12.

We had bow ties (Podcast #153)

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:36:07 +0000

“Not that unusual that there will be fires underground at old dumps.” / ^Oh wow Tila you are judging him.^ / “Not something kind of crafted for the mass market.” / “How many people are buying suits?” / ^That awesome first long drink.^ / “One was in Michigan, One was in Wisconsin.”

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show notes

Michigan State 27, Michigan 23.

“US regulators issue first nuclear plant operating license since 1996.”

Star Wars-style double-sun planet.

“8-Year-Old Gives Thanks for Dead People.”

“Officials squabble as underground fire burns near radioactive waste dump in St. Louis area.”

“Tila Tequila for Donald Trump 2016!!!”

“Appeals court rules that Google book scanning is fair use.”

“Y’all, Norwegians Use The Word ‘Texas’ As Slang To Mean ‘Crazy.’”

George “You’re Going To Like The Way You’re Gonna Look” Zimmer takes on his former company Men’s Wearhouse with new tux rental business.

“With Ahmad Chalabi’s Death, Passing of an Age of Lies.”

“We got married in Chernobyl exclusion zone.”

“Steve Jobs movie bombs nationwide, looks likely to lose money.”

pacificio.com Grunt and Gulp lessons, LinkPig social bookmarking app.

Literally I Walked In (Podcast #152)

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:06:19 +0000

^Millions of our fellow Americans are working at wages that are much, much too low.^ / ‘Hillary..needs to shore up her sh__.’ / “You know I’m definitely no ‘Friends’ scholar.” / “A mock Lewis and Clark farce.”

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previous podcasts

show notes

Ryukyu front-end web framework.

Bernie Sanders in Portland.

“George Will is a disaster.”

“Sarah Palin has become a clown.”

‘I am Chris Farley.’

iOS9; Crystal iOS ad blocker.

Podcast 151 – Sordo’s Band

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:50:17 +0000

“Mechanized doom” —For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. / My Grunt & GulpJS screencasts: compiling Bootstrap 4 SCSS into CSS and more. / “This b—-.” / “Pizza phone!” / “Birdman inkster.”

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Podcast 150 – Oranges are round

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:02:14 +0000

‘A man and his megaphone.’ / ^A battle over biker turf in Texas.^ / ‘You have to just keep fighting for your rights.’ / “Mostly volcanoes.” / “Yeah, rock lawns.” / ‘Let’s take this further.’ / ‘If a banana could talk.’

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Show Notes

Mount St. Helens major eruption was 35 years ago.

Biker shootout in Texas at restaurant.

Democracy Now on shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes by police in Washington.

JavaScript/jQuery framework for random colors and more: joeypc.com.

Anti-Monsanto protests this year and in 2013.

Bison tosses Australian tourist at Yellowstone.

Mowing goats apparently for rent on Amazon.

Harry Belafonte on the CBC, 1967.

Cleveland shooting.

‘Mother dangled toddler over cheetah exhibit before fall, Cleveland Zoo says.’

“Kentucky deputy accidentally shoots his own mom after bringing gun to wedding.”

Washington Initiative #594.

New lovebirdsconsulting.com home page powered by Wintersmith.

Parakeet Tracker.

Podcast 149 – Pure fashion play

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 01:20:03 +0000

“Not that my Gruntfile is maybe an exemplar.” / ‘Those Michiganders and their car Bibles.’ / “The mechanical watch is a long-running product.” / “Timber country, just really remote stuff.” / “It became a stocking pool for my videos.”

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show notes

Apple Watch (and its auto-installed companion app), Passbook, Newsstand, iBooks.

GulpJS and Grunt.

TV show Sabado Gigante comes to an end.

Google is now said to be favoring mobile-friendly sites for mobile search.

Sisters survive in woods for 2 weeks in Upper Michigan.

Podcast 148 – Briefly available

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 04 May 2015 05:11:27 +0000

‘After a while that’s the same shot.’ / “Other than the boots of course.” / ‘Well..who’s that woman?’ / ‘Why do we start recording at midnight always?’ / “Top-heavy bitterness..malty-high-punch.”

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show notes

Wild by Cheryl Strayed and ‘Wild’ from Fox Searchlight Pictures.

The Pacific Crest Trail.

Ray Jardine’s Adventure Page.

Launcher & Music Launcher for iOS.

Firefox developer edition.

Cassetteboy – “Emperor’s New Clothes rap.”

20 most popular beers in America.

TheWisemensCommittee – “Shengreg.”

TheRealStreetz.com – “Nashville TN (Preview).”

Podcast 147 – Why does that get a ding?

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:54:52 +0000

“I had to turn the brim around.” / ‘Can you name other subsets?’ / ‘These fraternities are awful.’ / “Number 4 is the fedora.” / “Most tainted: the pointed hood.” / ‘Like they don’t know it’s supposed to be the other way.’

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show notes (co-hosted by Jessica)
“Men’s Hats Ranked From Most to Least Tainted.”
Racist fraternity at University of Oklahoma.
Microsoft ad: Windows 10 developer wears Fedora.

Chris-chan’s 2010 video about McDonald’s character Grimace.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

Podcast 146 – It’s just certain days

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:53:30 +0000

“Both based on, and a projection on, Amy.” / ^It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person.^ / ^Now they want to ruin the Internet!^ / “Sparse, kind of heavy style.” / ^Flint is a smaller version of Detroit.^ / “You know, what’s your benchmark?” / “She had blackmail vomit.”

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show notes
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

‘History Of Tha Streetz’ video.
Millions of dollars worth of seized ‘Silk Road’ Bitcoins auctioned off by Feds.
Retirement Planning Like a Dinosaur online book by me available now via pacificpelican.us independent press.
Semantic Versioning v 2.0.0.
Mercurial version control tutorial.
Fortnightly podcast.

Podcast 145 – The unattainable, or oblivion, or something

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:04:37 +0000

“The darker impulses and nature of Captain Ahab.” / “Definitely not in the Information Age.” / “Mills and stuff.” / “Foolishly chasing a whale that’s too fast to bother with.” / “Cosines and square roots.” / “Well this is worth continuing!”

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show notes
Co-hosted by Jessica.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville Kindle Edition.

Calcbot calculator app for iOS.
Noisli background noise app for iOS.

DJMcloud 64 podcast on iTunes.

Podcast 144 – The tape is going out

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:07:49 +0000

‘That guy’s a rebel.” / ‘It seems as though they never had a time to explain.’ / ^This is a harbinger.^ / ^Day by day, in as much detail as you can stand.^ / ^They will pull you out of your anchor chair.^ / ‘The early frames of somebody going crazy.’ / “The dude handed out flyers and then committed suicide apparently.” / “It’s one of those things you’ve got to come in prepared.”

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show notes

Sunset [photo by Jessica] at Long Beach, Washington on Valentine’s weekend.

New theme for WordPress – Big Lake – (with widgetized front page and responsive sidebar post pages) designed for the djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com front page.

Officer Ed Powell is aware of the trolls.

Phillip Perea, formerly of the local Fox News in Austin, Texas.

This podcast on iTunes.

Glenn Beck says “revolutionaries” will “shoot you.”

Book: Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrom.

Podcast 143 – On any screen

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 07:58:23 +0000

‘There is some possibility of some entertainment.’ / “A talking puppet for the GOP..” / ‘Non-sequiturs and insanity.’ / “The onslaught of all these new [programming] languages.”

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show notes

Jessica and I talk about a range of topics including Sarah Palin and “triple that amount of fingers,” Chris-chan, trolls, and a ‘documentary‘ on about him on YouTube, grid systems in front-end frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation, my Material Design influenced WordPress theme Portage Bay at v1.0.0, the ‘long form’ reading trend, the effect of emojis and meme stickers on communication, and the apps ComicBook! and Coach.me.

Podcast 142 – The pour-over

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:13:46 +0000

‘Drinkable warm-hot.’ / “Designed to work on both.” / ‘Just a little shipping container basically.’ / ‘Glowing from the inside.’ / ‘I’ve-been-doing-this-all-day energy.’ / ‘You run the risk of being run over.’

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Podcast topics:

Starbucks Roastery on First Hill in Seattle.

Starbucks locations at grocery stores: are the workers there like caged animals?

Pacemaker, a DJ app for iPad that Jessica found.

Fedoras: Kickstarter top-hat-trilby-Nightmare (‘Le Grand Hat‘)

Woman in Idaho shot at a Walmart by own two year old.

16-year-old in Texas runs a man down with a car and kills him over not buying alcohol.

“Non transparent” ETFs still yet waiting for approval.

Zuckerburg’s book club.

CloudMagic email client app for iPad.

podcast 141 – “One-horse sleigh on a night with some snow and stuff”

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 07:55:27 +0000

“I don’t like things being cut off mid-sentence.” / “It might be a slightly crowded market.” / “They just steal images off of the Internent for their PowerPoint presentations.” / “At the edge of downtown Orlando.”

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show notes

Overcast podcatcher app.

‘Plagiarism Today’ on public domain (and not) Christmas songs.

Youtube playlist: Videos that excerpt clips from different episodes of this podcast on specific topics (books, Cleveland, Twitter, MSU, gun culture, OS X, and more).

Microsoft removing ^clipart^ from its Office product.

New version of Drafts app [Drafts 4] for iOS 8.

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 140 – Big Week

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:22:48 +0000

^You post the video.^ / ‘Media…really lost that important position.’ / “The new enemy they just rolled out.” / ^They call it a grinder.^ / “A lot of compelling kind of scenes.” / “Y’know, place to eat…is it on Greenwood or Phinney?” / “slipshod 2-bit con job” / ‘Part of the overall scramble.’

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show notes

LIGHTS – “Oil and Water.”

Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron.

Cloud Nothings – “Now Hear In.”

Our Quirky Guide to Seattle.

Gunslinger & Shpongle – “Dreamcatcher (Interpulse Remix).”

Parakeets video: ‘House of Nubs Web Series’ episode 1.

‘Chris Chan‘ is on Kickstarter.

The Intercept on a fake media-hyped ^terror^ “threat.”

Jessica’s web site: jessica.sf3am.com.

Neener – “Salt Water.”

My web site pacificpelican.us & novel Crossing the Continental Divide.

Get the podcast on iTunes.

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 139 – A mess and an attempted reboot

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:53:26 +0000

‘Where can I get my [S]urge?’ / “Sentralstasjon: It starts with an S, and goes from there.” / “You were just bringing me slightly up to date on this.” / “Bristol..reported to be..throwing haymakers.” / “Known with a K.” / “It was across the way from our juice.”

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show notes
Surge (pop) resurgent, Ello, Indieweb & Indiewebcamp and Known, Anchor CMS, iOS 8, Upcoming.org coming back, ‘Bill and Ted’ third film (??), Goat Simulator.

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 138 – Very dream-state-like

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:23:22 +0000

‘So I have a blanket outside.’ / ‘Algorithms are sometimes so…non-human.’ / “I kind of enjoyed reading it.” / “That can easily be bulls–t.” / “I certainly wanted to roam freely before.” / “That gap has narrowed massively.”

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show notes

“Shock Doctrine” (Eskmo Remix).

Is a “Facebook-style filtered feed” coming to Twitter?

Critique of ^gamer culture^ as “the consumption of media as a means of identity formation.”

Scotland independence polls narrow to within a few points.

Fight in the stands leads to cancellation of Ohio high school football game.

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 137 – There is no star

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:23:06 +0000

“I don’t know that it’s evolved beyond a web form with features.”/ “It’s definitely called a recipe.” / “They sort of deprecated the star.” / “It was all about the DJ..music.” / “They’ve definitely got the street talking.”

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show notes

Claude VonStroke: “CaliFuture.”

Photo: Grand Tetons.

Follow-up to podcast #136 on ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?‘ by Phillip K. Dick.

‘Crapper on curb.’

Chicago’s “Wild 100s.”

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 136 – a shirt with two wolves and a moon on it

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:47:33 +0000

“Imagine putting a sombrero on that head.” / ^Hotheaded inappropriate unstable.^ / ‘Who writes this stuff?”

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show notes

http://foreveralonefedoras.tumblr.com/.
‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’ by Phillip K. Dick.
Yoga Journal.

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 135

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:21:41 +0000

The Hobby Lobby farce, Hashtags (“#lifehack #crispyBaconInTheOven #YumYum #NomNom #SundayFunday #eggs #bacon #healthy #FitFit #Mom”), Facebook emotional manipulation, Rob Ford called out as a liar by a jogger, Ice T and guns.

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pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 134

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:01:56 +0000

Low-stress Seattle and “gangstalking” and World Cup first round and travelin’ down South.

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pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 133 – All sorts of crazy demands

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 22 May 2014 02:14:16 +0000

“Someone who works on a ship; who has a complaint.” / ^It brought me to tears–a burger!^ / ^It was a scam, nothing but a scam.^ / “The house is confusing.” / “Vivid imagery, cramped sense of place..” / “Some interest the character had in a woman.”

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show notes

Police rain bullets on unarmed suspects, anti-competitive behavior by Steve Jobs, “Say Whatever” by Bastien Laval featuring Melissa Loretta, Amerika by Franz Kafka, Tom Waits, ebooks and the “agency lite” model, ‘Netflix for ebooks’ services: Scribd, Oyster Books and Entitle, is App.net going down in flames[?] and text editor Atom is now out from GitHub.

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 132 – Give back those territories

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sat, 10 May 2014 03:56:24 +0000

“Kind of a breakdown of what the Internet was founded on.” / ^Looks like that truce isn’t happening.^ / “Gangsters recruiting homeless people.” /^Camping, sweating in the rain.^ / “There’s still a lot of cleanup work to be done.”

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show notes

“She Got Game.”

“RANT: I hate Coachella?.”

“Simon Ostrovsky held” in Ukraine.

New York Times posts now-discredited anti-Russian propaganda photos at behest of US State Dept.

Planetary Assault Systems – “Flat Tire.”

“Japan’s homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up.”

“Japan told to halt Antarctic whaling by international court.”

Bridge Constructor game for iOS.

Net Neutrality is so totally over.

“Cliven Bundy’s Racist Comments.”

Richard Falk on Palestine.

Juice Rap News on “Isreal vs Palestine.”

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 131 – There were many heroes

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 01 May 2014 22:58:52 +0000

^This electronic digital command system.^ / “Those types of [late night] shows, are they for morning people?” / ‘At least I’m not driving on bricks.’ / “If you use OS X.9 and you have a spinning hard drive, you’re going to have a beach ball party.” / ^He looks like he could be hitchhiking.^

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show notes (co-hosted by Jessica)

“Scary” Perry Caravello done with acting(??); late night talk shows.

Videos by Rauscheder: Cleveland potholes and plastic 40oz. of IceHouse.

New Twitter profile pages.

The “Fail Whale,” created by Yiying Lu.

BBC: “Unusual punishment for US bully” in Ohio.

“Missing Boy Found Inside Claw Machine.”

Brodinski: “Nobody Rules the Streets.”

Heavy metal crews brawl in Lakewood.

Calvin Harris – “Century (Tiesto and Moska remix).”

Google’s new Android (Kit Kat) camera app discourages vertical videos.

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 130 – The northern shore of the game’s map

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:28:59 +0000

‘A lot of people are getting password change reminders.’ / “L1 and R1 in PlayStation-speak.” / “It’s going to record audio of its own blades [moving].” / “She had the pink cere.” / “Y’know Chicago.”

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Show Notes (co-hosted by Jessica)

Remote control helicopter with camera as mentioned on podcast 125.

Goat Rampage game for iPhone.

“Let’s get social” song.

Res – “They Say Vision.”

New Spotify app design: dark and flat.

Our tributes to house legend Frankie Knuckles and parakeet Sparta (aka Sparty).

My Webcam Broadcaster for Mac and My Webcam [the viewing app] for iOS.

“Follow You (club mix)” by Nitrous Oxide, Aneym.

“The Heartbleed Bug” exploits OpenSSL.

1Password.

Little Walter – “You’re So Fine.”

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 129 – A pretty cool radar readout

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:34:05 +0000

“A lot of songs with very prescriptive lectures on how to take on house music.” / “I think I was the audience they were making that for.” / “It’s trying to be iOS 7 friendly.” / ‘I just listened to that going to sleep.’ / “An old mill town.” / “Low ceilings and columns.” / “Giving me this fake connectivity message.” / “I hit the check mark.”

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show notes (co-hosted by Jessica)

Nirvana – “Lake of Fire.”

NY Times: “Chasing Kurt Cobain in Washington State.”

Pinner for iOS: Pinboard client.

Showyou video aggregator.

Bain cat.

Cockatiel sings.

Mark Knight – “Your Love (original mix).”

Oculus Rift bought by Facebook.

Last.fm shuttering music subscription service.

Johnny Cash – “Hurt.”

Intellicast iOS weather app.

Pretty Lights – “Finally Moving.”

A yoga playlist by Jessica: “Yoga Berea Rec.”

Chris Christie bridge scandal: David Samson resigns, Christie gets interrupted.

What are “dead genres” in fiction and how many people are writing in them?

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 128 – You don’t have to have a long beard to download it

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 03:36:43 +0000

^She called her drip coffee ‘Guts.’^ / ‘Branding problem! Branding problem!’ / “Something we can probably get under control in the next ten seconds.” / ^A new piece to the puzzle.^ / ‘Bizonkers.’

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show notes (co-hosted by Jessica)

“Are You That Somebody (Acoustic Cover)” by BANKS, open offices, Libre Office, fancy toast, “Transit Ride” by Guru, Glenn Beck and the Republicans praising Putin, pacificpelican.us/cms for URL shortening, equal pay for women.

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 127 – You can’t not play

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:42:26 +0000

“There’s apparently two saxophone movies.” / ‘Speaking of laughs..’ / “Some of it is a more brooding, dark kind of thing .” / ^Tatooed breasts and flamin’ eyes^ / ‘Somebody’s calling me–I have this device.’ / ‘They revel in the beauty of nature that they live in.’ / “It looks like they’re in a long hallway but they only walk down a narrow part of it.”

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show notes (co-hosted by Jessica)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “John Finn’s Wife,” Cleveland International Film Festival: ‘Scent of a Woman‘ and ‘The Sax Man,’ Miles Davis – “Tempus Fugit,” prank calls and free speech and the ‘Stilwell Grandma‘ and the Frank scare of 2008, will the J.J. Abrams Star Wars film be better than the awful prequels?

^They still attack framed photos^ video

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:38:25 +0000

“I thank the strangers the most!”

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pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 126 – On each side there’s a pile

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:36:15 +0000

“I was looking at stuff on the Internet…”

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show notes

Winter weather, Neil Young’s ‘Pono’ hi-fi portable music player on Kickstarter, 5by5 interview with Pocket Casts (podcatcher) developer, clips including: cat cornering family; RT on crooked juvenile court judges in PA; and Milwaukee’s gun-nut sheriff, Vinyet social video app and my upcoming video ‘They Still Attack Framed Photos’ on Youtube.

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 125 – Hitting those buttons over and over

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:30:50 +0000

“This idea of connecting the world.” / ‘That’s a lot of likes.” / ‘Kind of whipped..beaten..thrown to the ground.’ / “It doesn’t take too much skill to fly.” / ‘Not a huge fan of the gold.’ / ^It’s chock-full-of-nails.^ / “People were comparing them to movie openings.”

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Show notes

Pussy Riot attacked in Sochi.

Venezuelan protesters shot.

Explosive riots kill dozens in the Ukraine.

Tom Verlaine: “The Grip of Love.”

Facebook buys WhatsApp cross-platform messaging service.

Comparing a remote control helicopter (Syma S107C) and Flappy Bird and how do game makers try to game the app store?

Jessica’s web site.

My novel: DJMcloud.com/book.

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pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 124 – Like a team of horses

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:03:20 +0000

“Off the field, in the culture.” / “They spell tires there ‘tyre,’ but they burn just the same I guess.” / “Let me go into Evernote here.” / ^But nonetheless it is said and done.^ / “In the farm belt.” / ^Doing the right thing a lot of times doesn’t make the most money.^ / “He weaves the songs back into the book.” / “With a saxophone, it’s not easy to make one of those things sound good.” / “Kind of hard to trace at this point.”

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Show notes

“Timber” performed by Miranda and Lindsey Stirling.

Jason Whitlock on Michael Sam and the fading role of sports in bringing social progress in America.

Tire fire in Britain.

Barack Obama goes to Michigan State to sign the Farm Bill.

Washington state governor suspends executions.

Glenn Beck and Antonin Scalia and ‘FEMA camps.’

Microsoft pays off Youtubers for shilling for Xbox One games.

Epic Sax.

‘Autobiography‘ by Morrissey; songs: “Everyday is Like Sunday,” “Reel Around The Fountain [John Peel session]” (with The Smiths), “Irish Blood, English Heart,” “First of the Gang to Die,” “I Will See You in Far Off Places,” “Alma Matters,” “How Soon Is Now?” (with The Smiths), “The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils.”

Is a “solar lull” part of the reason for the frigid winter here in North America?

pacificpelican.us/64 Podcast 123 – My posture picture

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 04:27:20 +0000

“More simular.” / ‘That’s not a word.’ / ^All over America, people must be writing.^ / “You can only guess at the details of the story.” / “In 2001 I had a Vaio desktop.” / “Potentially the Internet could become very difficult for small content providers.” / ‘Achy blurb.’ / “What is the real purpose of backing up your data?” / ^The sort of place unconventional, mixed-up people would come from.^

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Show notes

Draft for Android.

Byword for iOS.

Drafts for iOS.

Swype keyboard for Android.

Accidental Tech Podcast: touch keyboards of the future?

The Hawk in Paris: “Wake Me Up.”

Simple digital camera using a ^Raspberry Pi^ via Digital Trends.

Kitten bouquet on ThinkGeek.

Sony plans to shutter its Vaio PC business.

“Applebees is changing me” video.

pacificpelican.us/photos.

jessica.sf3am.com.

Phony Orphants – ‘Sun Sessions.’

Is net neutrality in peril?

Rezonate: “Pump it.”

Eric Sneo feat. Chris the Voice – “Shut Up and Dance (Pleasurekraft remix).”

Exporting emails from Gmail using Google Takeout.

Book: `The Bell Jar,’ the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath.

Adventure Club – “Wonder (TriiCore remix).”

My novel.

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 122 – Arbitrary cropping

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:43:11 +0000

‘I feel like responsive is like the anti-click.’ / ^The storm afterwords.^ / “Once we get into ‘it is what it is’…I’m ready to turn it off.” / ‘Where’s my wolf?’ / “There’s going to be some adrenaline.” / “A lot of complexity is going to be built back into web pages.”

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show notes (co-hosted by Jessica)

“I am Pizza!”

Kamadoma feat. Andy Huntley – “City Lights (TriiCore Remix).”

Dennis Rodman on CNN.

Kate Gosselin’s awkward Today Show interview featuring two of her daughters.

Jessica on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0.

Beats Music service.

Mobile-centric web design.

Pitbull feat. Ke$ha – “Timber.”

Jessica tweets to Scotch and gets retweeted.

Trapzillas – “Dabs.”

Wolf howling at San Diego Zoo.

Talon for Twitter: app for Android.

Paramount ending film distribution in favor of all-digital.

Richard Sherman’s awesome TV interview after the NFC championship game.