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DJMcloud 64

Daniel J. McKeowndjmcloud.danieljmckeown.com
pacificpelican.us/64 podcast is an Internet talk program about books, technology, the web, programming, smartphone apps, and photography, as well as music, news, birds and sports. Join Dan McKeown and occasional co-hosts for the DJMcloud audio podcast.
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Podcast 161

Episode 161 show notes Listen : download the mp3 · 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 · djm cloud.com...

Jun 12, 2020

Podcast 160 – Into the River

‘I did PHP code for a while.’ / “The darkest hours of the night” / ‘Visualizing objects recursively’ Listen: download the mp3 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/p...

Feb 18, 2020

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

“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.” Listen : download mp3 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-...

Dec 23, 2019

Stuffing their faces with marshmallows (Podcast 157)

‘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.” Get the podcast: download the mp3 – Woman who apparently sent a lot of texts: press conference – “Chicago City Council Members Lash Out At No Cop Academy Activists” – Marshmallow te...

Jun 12, 2018

How many mattresses (Podcast 156)

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...

Apr 19, 2018

You will see the console (Podcast 155)

^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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 S...

Jan 01, 2016

Camera wolfing (Podcast 154)

‘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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 i...

Dec 09, 2015

We had bow ties (Podcast #153)

“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.” Listen : download the mp3 . 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 Peo...

Nov 11, 2015

Literally I Walked In (Podcast #152)

^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.” Listen : download the mp3 . 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....

Sep 25, 2015

Podcast 151 – Sordo’s Band

“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 .” Listen: download the mp3 ....

Sep 03, 2015

Podcast 150 – Oranges are round

‘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.’ Listen : download the mp3 . 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-M...

Jun 16, 2015

Podcast 149 – Pure fashion play

“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 .” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 su...

Jun 05, 2015

Podcast 148 – Briefly available

‘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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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...

May 04, 2015

Podcast 147 – Why does that get a ding?

“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.’ Listen : download the mp3 . 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 Confeder...

Apr 04, 2015

Podcast 146 – It’s just certain days

“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.” Listen : download the mp3 . 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 onl...

Mar 17, 2015

Podcast 145 – The unattainable, or oblivion, or something

“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!” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 ....

Mar 09, 2015

Podcast 144 – The tape is going out

‘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.” Listen: download the mp3 . show notes Sunset [photo by Jessica ] at Long Beach, Washington on Valentine’s weekend. New...

Feb 18, 2015

Podcast 143 – On any screen

‘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.” Listen : download the mp3 . 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 th...

Feb 06, 2015

Podcast 142 – The pour-over

‘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.’ Listen : download the mp3 . 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...

Jan 08, 2015

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

“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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 ...

Dec 15, 2014

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 140 – Big Week

^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.’ Listen: download the mp3 . 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 – “ Dreamc...

Oct 03, 2014

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

‘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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 ....

Sep 26, 2014

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

‘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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 point...

Sep 16, 2014

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

“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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 .”...

Sep 08, 2014

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 135

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. Listen: download the mp3 .

Jul 06, 2014

pacificpelican.us/64 podcast 134

Low-stress Seattle and “gangstalking” and World Cup first round and travelin’ down South. Listen: download the mp3 .

Jul 01, 2014

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

“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.” Listen: download the mp3 . 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 ” mode...

May 22, 2014

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

“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.” Listen : download the mp3 . 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...

May 10, 2014

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

^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.^ Listen : download the mp3 . 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. Ne...

May 01, 2014
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