There is a really pervasive trend in video these days where people will use (usually auto-generated) open captions (sometimes called “burned captions”), where the text for the narration or the like is baked into the image of the video. This is sometimes accompanied by some attent … | Continue reading
The latest version of Logic released today, with some much-vaunted features. It’s also finally gone to version 11, after being stuck on 10.x for over a decade, even though 10.x minor version updates were often larger than the differences between major versions (and those major ve … | Continue reading
Okay so. Originally they were going to lend me a Kia Forte, which is a tiny economy car, but that was returned in unsafe condition. | Continue reading
Today, right around when I was about to leave for the Matrix test drive, I got a call from the dealership: the loaner was available, but it wasn’t in a totally safe state due to a huge crack on the windshield. They asked if I still wanted it and I said I’d rather not. | Continue reading
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The Kia service person finally got back to me several hours later, and I have learned: | Continue reading
Today I finally got in touch with Kia’s corporate customer service after filing a complaint yesterday, and they said that they also haven’t been able to get in touch with the dealership. | Continue reading
I took my car to the local Kia dealership to get TSB ELE234 taken care of on Tuesday. I still don’t have my car back or any indication of when I’ll be getting it back. | Continue reading
Stuff continues to happen! | Continue reading
It’s been a little while again! I think I like these collected updates rather than doing daily micro-dumps, and it’s also nice posting it here instead of on Mastodon or whatever. Timeline-based social media kinda bums me out these days. | Continue reading
I’m still trying to figure out the best way to get my music copyrights properly enforced on YouTube. | Continue reading
Time for another tedious life and project update-ramble! | Continue reading
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I’m not sure if I remembered to post this here and I apologize for the last-minuteness if this is my first post but!!!!! | Continue reading
For quite some time I’ve had my music site hosted by Bandcamp, since it was a pretty low-friction way to get my discography up and online, albeit with some annoying limitations. Previously I had the main domain host a “micro-site” for whatever my most recent release was and then … | Continue reading
Last night I took some cough suppressant before I went to bed and remembered to run my humidifier, and when I woke up this morning I was feeling fine. So maybe this was a false alarm as far as COVID re-infection goes. OR maybe my immune system finally knows how to take care of it … | Continue reading
So, there was a COVID outbreak at my choir. At first it seemed like it was isolated to folks who participated in one extracurricular thing after the last rehearsal, but it turns out that it’s been affecting a lot of folks. We were going to have a talent show and fundraising aucti … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve compared Crowd Cow to the grocery store in terms of price and quality. Maybe I should update things based on what I’ve been buying lately and how it compares to QFC. | Continue reading
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Hey y'all, since I have the album coming out on Monday, I figure Sunday night would be a good time to actually try out Bandcamp’s “listening party” biz. It’s Sunday, March 31 at 5:30 PM PDT (GMT-0700). | Continue reading
I’ve recently joined the video editing team at Trans Academy, and that team has standardized on DaVinci Resolve for all editing. Since I’ve been coming up on the limitations of Final Cut Pro for quite some time I figured I’d finally give it a try, and since I’m working on finishi … | Continue reading
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Just farting my words into the ether, as usual. | Continue reading
Song Fight! has been going for a long-ass time, and we’re hitting a big milestone, our 1000th title. The due date for “A Grand Parade” is in a few days and I’d love to see a bunch more people submitting songs for it. Help us celebrate this event! | Continue reading
Just some updates about the pertinent things. | Continue reading
Available for purchase on Bandcamp or itch.io. | Continue reading
Just a little checkin on what’s going on with me, because there feels like a lot of it. | Continue reading
I’ve been building some simple acoustic panels to improve the acoustics and aesthetics in my recording studio. Mostly the aesthetics, really, but still. | Continue reading
I managed to actually get a lot of stuff done today, and I’m feeling quite tired, but in a good way. | Continue reading
Several years ago I started an album called “Instrumental,” which was meant to be a showcase of my game and video music production skills, and a place for all of the little leftovers from canceled projects and one-off tunes to live. I’d been considering this to be “on the backbur … | Continue reading
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Today my first two slip-cast pots were unloaded from the kiln and I picked ‘em up. They came out great! | Continue reading
Okay, so, I’ve been having a lot more frustrating issues as of late: | Continue reading
busybee Music Stuff you can stick in your ears and maybe enjoy. Song Fight! Live!ish 2023 Instrumental Strawberry Jams I Ate March 1, 2024 12:00 AM (2 weeks ago) fluffy fluffy at beesbuzz dot biz A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions. they … | Continue reading
I finally tried out a roast I’d been looking forward to, a medium-light roast of Burman Colombian Las Montanas, an EA-decaf natural process coffee. This is one of those coffees that tasted so good I just had to record my notes for later. | Continue reading
The work on my bathroom is nearly complete. The wall is patched, the tile is fixed (and it went surprisingly well with no additional damage from the broken tile’s removal), and all that’s left is replacing the baseboard and painting. I don’t even need to be without a shower while … | Continue reading
Wellp, I had another big panic attack while driving today. Worst one I’ve had in around a year, and my usual grounding and mindfulness things didn’t help. I had a vertigo attack while entering the tunnel to the I-90 bridge, and this very quickly cascaded to a full-on panic shutdo … | Continue reading
Hey y'all, I’m looking for a better way of managing my to-do list for managing commissions and such. I’ve been using iCloud Reminders since it has good integration into macOS and iOS, but it has a few shortcomings, such as being a little annoying to manage nested tasks, and not h … | Continue reading
Time to let people know I’m still alive, somewhere other than Mastodon and occasional Tumblr/Cohost. | Continue reading
I’ve been experimenting with coffee-based sodas again. Unlike last time, I decided to experiment based on the espresso kola idea. | Continue reading
I wasn’t planning on getting into VR tonight but I ended up doing it anyway. | Continue reading
This search engine seems pretty cool. So far the catalog appears to only have human-submitted feeds, though. I’ve already submitted a couple of mine, and hopefully more folks get on board with it. | Continue reading
Today the Niro became available for test drive and purchase, and I got the next available appointment. CarMax was super busy and they weren’t able to see me until nearly an hour after I arrived (ugh) but the process went pretty well.I gave the car a test-drive and found that I re … | Continue reading
A random conversation tonight awakened a memory in me, namely, back in the 90s, we didn’t refer to fursonas as fursonas, but as “personal furries,” and I had it in my mind that the term “fursona” actually started out as derisive and came from an anti-furry space. Which led me on … | Continue reading