I upgraded to Traktor Pro the other day. After a couple of fumbled attempts to get started this evening, I stopped trying to mix without sync and tried to get the hang of this new software. Fortunately, I picked out a small group of tech house and electro tracks that should be pretty easy to [...]
I was feeling a little disco today, so I decided to throw together a short little mix. We’ve got soulful grooves and punchy funky tracks. It’s a fun little mix of house music for the middle of May. I hope you like it. Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 04, Session Mike — The Ides of [...]
Last week, I got a new right fan for my MacBook Pro, which has been having crash problems for most of 18 months, possibly because the right fan hasn’t worked at all for a long time. I’m pretty used to seeing temperatures, according to smcFanControl, of 165 – 185°F. So, after some frustration, I found [...]
This afternoon marks two years since I switched my training program to CrossFit. While I still don’t have a barbell and bumper plates, I’m making progress on plenty of my fitness goals and I’m in better shape now than I’ve been since I was 20 years old. Hopefully, soon, I’ll add that barbell to my [...]
On this day in 1994, I lost my youngest sister to a drunk driver. It seems like only yesterday, but it seems like a hundred years ago. She was an amazing person. I miss her terribly. We can only imagine who she might be today. Don’t drive drunk. Seriously.
It’s laundry day and rest day at the same time. I might as well get another mix session done. This time, I picked out a bunch of electro tracks, pulled the slider back to 121 beats per minute, and grooved along for about 78 minutes. Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 02, Session Golf — Laundry [...]
Another CrossFit rest day, another mix. Maybe I should do one of these every rest day (lately, I’ve been doing one every other rest day). Let’s dance. I spent part of the day at work yesterday listening to tracks from my high resolution smart playlist in iTunes and grabbing a few tracks to throw in [...]
I’ve just returned from a spring break road trip with my family. I spent a lot more money than I intended to and managed to get my first speeding ticket in more than a decade. Here are ten things we did which we enjoyed the most. Toured the Theo Chocolate factory in Seattle and learned [...]
Today’s a workout rest day. Lately, I’ve decided to do a mix session on every other rest day. In this one, I wanted a funky groove, some punchy beats, and a smattering of great vocals. I approached this one like I approach many of my mixes — by checking each track I tossed in mix [...]
It’s my birthday! Woo. To celebrate a perfect workout month and my big 0×26 (heh), I put together a funky house mix. I wasn’t too worried about digging through Digeum to see if I’ve played any of these tracks before. I just aimed at playing a fun mix that will hopeful have you smiling as [...]
After I left Mighty this morning, I went to my car to change into my dry shirt. Utah Street in San Francisco was empty. 50 feet away, some chick climbed into her Camry, started it up, backed all the way across Utah Street in a slight arc, and put her back bumper through my left [...]
Time to kick off the new year with a new mix. I decided to start off 2009 with a grooving house mix, featuring a bunch of different house grooves — a few electro thumps and a few more vocal house grooves. This was fun to put together. I think it sounds pretty good, despite a [...]
After getting delisted from Technorati a while back—due to a XSS attack (I think, nobody informed me)—I managed to get through to a customer service representative at Technorati and my block has been lifted. Interestingly, Digeum, ApolloLee.com, and Osteocephalic were not affected by the delisting. I wonder if it had anything to do with Panera [...]
I set a couple of New Year’s Resolutions last year, which I didn’t get around to posting here. One of them was to write 52 tracks, which I finished. I slipped on a few others. So, I’m going to post my goals for 2009 in three categories: personal development, music, and fitness. You ready? Let’s [...]
On this day in 2000, I started blogging in this space. Nine years of the Oracle of Apollo later, I’m scratching my head and wondering if the time for this site has passed. I have no idea how to build an audience for any of my blogs, even the ones that are updated continuously with [...]
At the beginning of the year, I decided that I wanted to write 52 tracks in 2008 and post them all on a new blog I started in March. There were some weeks that I had no output at all, but for most of the year, I carried my Korg padKontrol in my backpack, so [...]
Yay, Christmas. I’m still foggy on why it is that the price of gas has dropped by three dollars over the last four months, but my air fare to Boise is more expensive than it was last year. I guess that’s not the most important thing in the world to focus on, but I’m worried [...]
While I was on my recent road trip, I thought I’d be nifty to spin up a DJ set in Flagstaff, which I’ve dubbed “Soul at 7000 feet”. It consists of 75 minutes of deep soulful house music at 121 beats per minute. I tried to lay back on the groove and I think, despite [...]
This morning, I went in to my local election station as early as possible, arriving just after 7 this morning. Turnout was unsurprisingly very high. With my cheat sheet in hand (Obama, Holtz, random city council people, No on everything except high speed rail), I waited patiently. As 7:30 came and went, I’m still standing [...]
On a quiet Monday morning on my last full day in Milwaukee, I looked out the window, plugged in my gear, and spun up a set of lovely tracks for Eric & Betsy. I really got into a nice groove and, while there were a couple of spots I wish I could do over, I [...]
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