It’s car registration renewal time! Let’s see how much having an EV saved or cost me. | Continue reading
The vet just got back to me with the results of yesterday’s tests. | Continue reading
This is a followup to my previous cupping; this time around I evaluated the Decaf Project samples for S&W Roasting. | Continue reading
After having eaten a bunch of wet food last night and having had three doses of antibiotics, Fiona’s getting back to her usual cuddly/climby self. She isn’t sneezing anymore, and while she’s still a bit congested she snuggled up with me in bed this morning, and right now she’s be … | Continue reading
Fiona’s been getting on in years. As a rescue stray I don’t know exactly how old she is, but the vet’s estimate was that she was around 18 months old when I adopted her in late 2012, so she’s probably 13-14. | Continue reading
Quite some time ago, James Hoffmann stated his interest in doing a broad decaf test where he would get one set of bulk single-origin beans, split it in four, and process it four different ways. It took a while for this to happen, but finally he was able to make it happen, in the … | Continue reading
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a roundup of current and upcoming EVs. Even though I don’t drive very much, I still like to keep track of where EVs are especially for everyday people who aren’t doing massive amounts of driving or cargo-hauling or whatever. I have no plans to up … | Continue reading
I finally got a bunch of stuff working on the new Sockpuppet website, including the music browser. Now people will have the ability to actually find something in my vast sea of content! | Continue reading
Just some random stuff about the state of media management in my life. | Continue reading
Wow, lots of stuff happened today (meaning Friday). | Continue reading
I’ve finally set up a separate site for my music. Please go there instead! | Continue reading
Gosh I have a lot of projects to think about right now. | Continue reading
Over the past few days I’ve been pushing myself to finally get a usable new music site and it’s finally at the point where I’m ready to have the tires kicked. There’s a bunch of stuff that needs to still be done on it but that can come later. For now it at least has vague parity … | Continue reading
There’s a bit of a historical progression regarding my old high school’s mascot which amuses me quite a lot, and very few people know about it. | Continue reading
I watch a lot of Living Big in a Tiny House, and I have very mixed feelings about it. But there’s definitely a bunch of trends I’ve noticed with it (and also with other tiny house channels on YouTube). | Continue reading
I had my release party for Transitions today. It went pretty well! Around a dozen folks attended in VRChat, and another half-dozen tuned in to the stream. Everyone who came enjoyed it and had nice things to say. | Continue reading
Today I somehow managed to tweak my back, right before I was going to do some gardening. I ended up doing the gardening anyway. This was, as it turns out, not a greaet way to help my back to feel better. | Continue reading
Transitions promo November 21, 2024 5:18 PM (a minute ago) fluffy A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions. they/them or it/its (if you're nice about it) music polls spotify Spotify allows artists to submit a single track per album for promot … | Continue reading
Some songs I wrote 20-25 years ago, remade for today. | Continue reading
Some songs I wrote 20-25 years ago, remastered a little. | Continue reading
Now that I’m able to come up for air because the album is finally done I think I’ll talk about my next few intended album and music-related projects. | Continue reading
Today’s choir show went amazingly well. | Continue reading
Last night’s show went really well! There were a bunch of technical hitches and I made a bunch of mistakes and so on but it was a good time and it was great to get a lot more people hearing my music. Hopefully I’ll be able to do more of these things. | Continue reading
There’s been a schedule change with Aga’s Toys for Tots event, and I will now be going on at 2 PM Pacific. Also it seems that I’ll be performing from an instance where I can invite a small audience to join me, so I hope to see folks there! The instance will be owned by my VRChat … | Continue reading
Transitions is (finally) almost done. There’s just a couple of little tweaks left to do (like, super duper minor things, decibel-level adjustments and slight timing tweaks and a little bit of vocal tuning). It’ll be really nice to finally have this album done after all this time. … | Continue reading
Hey everyone! On Friday, November 15, at 2:30 PM PST I will be performing a live set in VRChat for a charity fundraiser, benefitting Toys for Tots. | Continue reading
Okay my gut feeling was at least agreed to by a bunch of other people: Material Change will not be going onto Transitions, and instead the chamber pop version will be something I do for a later album, named “Misfits,” which I already have so many ideas for. | Continue reading
When I work on an album, I’m not just working on the songs in isolation, I’m also constantly playing the album as a whole to check things like song-to-song flow, dynamics, and listening for defects that I’d like to fix later before I release the album, since noticing and fixing l … | Continue reading
Tired of dealing with the annoying processes necessary to run an unsigned application on macOS? | Continue reading
Gosh it’s been a while since I’ve checked in! Here’s stuff that’s going on with me, music-wise. | Continue reading
Gosh it’s been a while since I’ve checked in! Here’s stuff that’s going on with me, music-wise. | Continue reading
My current hardware setup: M1 Mac studio in the office, M1 mini in the recording studio. | Continue reading
Lately I’ve been feeling super isolated and depressed. A lot of it is because I’ve just been so fatigued all the time, and the rare times I have energy to do anything I’m pouring it all into the album. But like, I’m getting very little socializing in with other people. | Continue reading
So, today Apple unveiled the new M4 Mac mini, which seems like a perfect upgrade for me! Except… they did something really asinine: | Continue reading
For several days my tinnitus and vertigo were getting progressively worse, which made me once again worry that I am developing Ménière’s disease, which has a prognosis that is very much Not Good. | Continue reading
When I was a kid I was really into Infocom text adventures, and the game Beyond Zork had some very strong tabletop RPG elements, much moreso than other Infocom games. One of the things about it is that when you started the game you had to roll a character, and you could choose th … | Continue reading
Okay it turns out that while the mobile version of PlexAmp works exactly how I want it to, the desktop version kind of sucks? Like, if you’re doing “album radio” (which is the shuffle-by-album thing I love so much) it is super easy to get out of the actual player view, and as far … | Continue reading
My big fibromyalgia flare seems to have finally subsided, so I’m back to working on music, yay. | Continue reading
I finally tracked down contact information for the attorney the scammers claimed to have on their counsel, and sent him an email. He almost immediately got back to me: | Continue reading
No idea if they’ll even respond to this. They probably won’t. But it’s more paper trail for me and the credit card company, at least. | Continue reading
I’ve been having another major pain flareup, or rather the pain flareup that started a few weeks ago has continued to get worse, and it’s super difficult for me to do anything right now. Typing hurts, my brain is in constant fog, and there’s no freaking way I can work on music or … | Continue reading
So, I’m in a bit of a frustrating situation right now. | Continue reading
Hey y'all, it is Bandcamp Friday, a good time to buy independent music while Bandcamp opts to release their share of the purchase price. | Continue reading
Grab-bag of stuff going on for me, apologies for my usual unstructured rambling | Continue reading
If all went well, my concert is now underway. In theory, here is the VRChat instance (but if nobody’s there check the VRC group). And in theory, the stream should be live. | Continue reading
Seeing this post made me think I should also list my computers and their purposes/vague specs. Because I’m that kind of a nerd. | Continue reading
I’ll be performing in VRChat tonight at 9 PM PDT. Join my VRChat music group for the instance link. | Continue reading