NYTimes has a little article about DJing with MP3:

Hard Disk DJ’s ‘Spinning’ MP3s. NEW YORK (AP) — Friday nights at Brooklyn’s BQE bar appear like most others. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]

I have fairly mixed feelings on the whole mp3/digital mixing thing. On one hand I think it’s pretty damn cool if it works. My friend Lukas has a DJ CD player that is actually fairly cool. But in the end for me there are things I just like about vinyl and using turntables.

The first is the tactile aspect. As I’m beatmatching I feel, as well as hear, how much I’m slowing down the turntable with my fingers. I feel much more connected to the record. Secondly, the visual aspect. By looking at a record, I can usually tell when there are going to be quiet parts just by looking at the grooves. I’ve found this invaluable when looking at when to start bringing in a new track.

Last but not least there’s the issue that most of what I’m getting comes out on vinyl. Which would mean I’d have to transfer everything to digital as I got it. While not being that big a deal, it is a bit of a hassle. It would make it harder for me to pick up a new record and drop it that night someplace.

I don’t think DJing by CD or mp3 is any less valid a form of DJing though.

I was first getting sucked into Utena. And it only took me 11 months to see the rest of the show!

Alan Perlis. “The computing field is always in need of new cliches.” [Quotes of the Day]

Going through my News Aggregator last night I saw:

KVETCH IS DEAD [jenett.radio]

I was like ‘huh’? Then I remembered kvetch.com. The site I used to bump into every six months or so. I’d love going by there and typing in a few things or having it set to display what people were entering. How sad that it’s gone.

Among the things its creator learned:

People love to complain. Always have, always will. This site collected hundreds of thousands of posts in its lifetime. Football fields of complaint.

Wherever there are people, there’s the potential for love. I know that Kvetch was responsible for at least one marriage. A union born of kvetching. Amazing.

‘We’ve Been Waiting,’ They Say After 3 Days Underground. Rescue workers broke through a coal-mine wall to nine trapped miners and found them all alive and well after three days of fighting for survival in a pocket of air. By Francis X. Clines. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Joe Martin. “The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against wacking them around a little.” [Quotes of the Day]

Radio Free Blogistan there’s been some really great posts lately on blogging. This post jumped out at me because it talked about the various kinds of blogs out there. I like to think that my blog is a kind of mishmash of the various types of blogs out there. A bit of journal, a bit of links, a bit of snapshots of my life. It’s as much for me to go back and read through at a later point as it is for people to see what is going on with my life.

And, once I go into the hospital, I see it as a way for people to be able to keep up with what is going on with me. Since if I were to try and email everyone I knew I’m sure I’d forget people. It will be much easier just to post things here and let folks read. (That is, if I’m even up to posting much. They tell me I’ll probably be pretty exhausted from recovery and rehab).

Wow. I have been so sucked into this show for the last few days. I’d heard about it a while ago, but for some reason the title just didn’t seem to pull me in at all (when will I learn). I’m not sure what I expected from something titled Full Metal Panic, but it wasn’t quite this.

It’s a very fun show. A nice balance of seriousness and humor. With some of the more serious parts really catching me by surprise.This is another show I’ll be picking up on DVD when it comes out. Once I get done with this I can finally catch up on all the other stuff I have waiting, like the latest Kenshin disc.

“If you see only one movie about giant, radioactive, rubber nuns this summer, make it Sister vs. Mecha-Sister.” – Davezilla[Flash 1.1Mb] [davezilla.com]

I think I like that saying a lot.

No Medicine for Stupidity. There’s a wonderful Japanese saying that states there is no medicine for stupidity.[Antipixel]