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Logbook, August 12-18, 2019

Monday, August 12

I read Read Look Think 161. So glad to see this link blog back.

I recommend you read How a Parry Saved Street Fighter: 20 Years of 3rd Strike and It’s A Good Time For A Street Fighter III Revival.

I wrote a quick review of the Apple USB 3 to Lightning Camera Adapter https://t.co/Uw94w1k9Eh

I recommend you read On the Troubling Subtext of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Why can’t we just call things unkind?.

Tuesday, August 13

I went to Therapy.

Wednesday, August 14

I added Metal Gear Solid by Ashly and Anthony Burch — Boss Fight Books to my wishlist

Thursday, August 15

I read What Are You Secretly Good At?. I read What’s the Most Memorable Thing a Therapist Ever Told You?.

Friday, August 16

I read Mastery.

I had family in town so I became a bit of a Toronto tourist. I took them on a tour of the waterfront on the Kajama, a ship I used to work on in college as a DJ. Then we hit up the distillery district, followed by dinner at Superpoint.

I read What Fire Emblem: Three Houses Gets Right (And Wrong) About Teaching, and The best $20,000 I ever spent: Starbucks every day of my adult life, and Siri, Privacy, and Trust.

Saturday, August 17

More Toronto tourist stuff with fam. Frans for breakfast, then St Lawrence market, Chinatown, Sonic boom, Graffiti alley, and Kensington, with stops in Longboard Living, Ozzy’s burgers, and Ronnie’s.

We put on our third Glamdrunk movie night, this time showing off 1976’s The Ritz.

Sunday, August 18

We went to see Scott Pilgrim on the big screen at The Royal. Bryan Lee O Malley was there to introduce the movie!

Cura, August 15, 2019

Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.

Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.

I hope you like it. I made it for you.

Here’s the track listing for this week:

Tifa’s Theme By The St. Louis Ocarina Trio

Yuri on ICE By Taro Umebayashi

lit(var) By Kensuke Ushio

Zelda’s Lullaby By The Marcus Hedges Trend Orchestra

Misato By Shiro Sagisu

かたわれ時 By RADWIMPS

Tears in the Rain By Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch

Aerith’s Theme - Final Fantasy on Piano By Dagmar Krug

Newt and Anathema Wake Up By David Arnold

Elisa’s Theme By Alexandre Desplat

Apple USB 3 to Lightning Camera Adapter Review

This is a weird one. It doesn’t do what I thought it might. With iOS 13, Apple’s newest iPhone OS, you can finally plug in flash drives and external storage. However, you need an adapter. This software upgrade is intended for the iPad, but it is supposed to work with the iPhone as well. So I tried it.

If you plug a usb thumb drive into this dingus, it won’t work. But if you plug the dingus into a power source and try again (the dingus has a USB port and a lightning port for power), it will work. That’s neat! It’s not worth $50 Canadian dollars, but it’s neat.

The actual neat trick this dingus performs is with Microphones. I was able to get my Blue Snowball mic working with GarageBand on the iPhone. The recording sounded pretty reverb-heavy, and I was not able to figure out how to fix that. But hey, as a technical check mark, it gets it. However, it just isn’t going to be the great portable podcast machine that a few other bloggers have suggested (they may be a little too used to living in dongle-town).

It might be worth the money if it worked with proper external hard drives. But even with power, it wasn’t enough to keep my external drive booted. The drive always gave up with the saddest little noise.

Now, neither of these things are really what this dingus was built for. It was for transferring images from a camera using the USB port. And this works! At least, so long as you make sure it’s plugged into power.

Return.

Logbook, August 4-11, 2019

I’m changing up the logbook to weekly because daily is a lot. It’s not that it was hard to make, but it’s not great to have to read.

August 4, 2019

Never underestimate Toronto’s ability to underwhelm with a live event.

Played a round of Ping Pong King.

Went on a date.

August 5, 2019

I read Three Kinds of Writing, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master in the shadow of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’, and “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” Episodes 23–24: Knocking on Heaven’s Door.

I went to bed around 11:06 pm.

August 6, 2019

oookay getting off twitter until everyone’s had their 30-50 shots with this joke. exactly. https://t.co/wycI2rsuYd

if twitter were around in the 30s we’d be making jokes about silly things right wingers do instead of stopping them.

Like we are now. https://t.co/DB2pLBRIz8

I took the TTC.

I read For a Better Marriage, Act Like a Single Person, and How Can I Train Myself to Want Less Stuff?.

I wrote a blog about Animal Crossing New Leaf https://t.co/1fFhHuIc7V

According to https://t.co/pdCbw2KpBw, the past even one generation back is just the worst forever.

This episode of Call Her Daddy was a riot

Walked right by this for five years, only saw it today for the first time. Near twenty years in Toronto, still finding pretty stuff. https://t.co/mAfHxv3Y5c https://t.co/FSweSdK1NQ

August 9, 2019

Can I be in one of those Ancestry.ca ads? “I thought there’d at least be something non-english in there. But nope. All white. Literally the whitest. Goddamn basic vanilla frap white.”

I made a mixtape: Cura, August 8, 2019 https://t.co/DMqYZSP6An

I watched In the Soup, 1992 - ★★.

August 10, 2019

I went to The Summit, an all-women’s wrestling show. Summerslam was this weekend and it attracted a number of indie shows. The last time I went to summerlam in Toronto I stopped watching WWE for nearly five years. So yeah. I went to a great women’s show this morning instead. Here’s the photos

I read Bye-Bye iPad.

August 11, 2019

I wrote up this thing, which does take a minute. I embedded all those wrestling photos into the Summit posts. Caught up on the G1. Sent some invoices, did some mic tests for the upcoming Fran’s Not Here live show on Wednesday. Computers are hard!

Photos from The Summit

Photos taken on the August 10 “The Summit” all-women’s wrestling show at the Midtown Event Theatre.

Rosemary

A tender moment

Shotzi Blackheart

Shotzi Blackheart vs Delilhah Doom

Shotzi Blackheart vs Delilhah Doom

Shotzi Blackheart vs Delilhah Doom

Aerial Monroe

Zoe Lucas

Zoe Lucas

Zoe Lucas vs Aerial Monroe

Zoe Lucas vs Aerial Monroe

Zoe Lucas vs Aerial Monroe

Zoe Lucas vs Aerial Monroe

Zoe Lucas vs Aerial Monroe

Zoe Lucas vs Aerial Monroe

Zoe Lucas vs Aerial Monroe

Bull Nakano

Bull Nakano

Aerial Monroe

Aerial Monroe

Aerial Monroe

Priscilla Kelly

Lufisto

Lufisto vs Allysin Kay vs Cheerleader Melissa vs Priscilla Kelly

Lufisto vs Allysin Kay vs Cheerleader Melissa vs Priscilla Kelly

Lufisto vs Allysin Kay vs Cheerleader Melissa vs Priscilla Kelly

Lufisto vs Allysin Kay vs Cheerleader Melissa vs Priscilla Kelly

Lufisto vs Allysin Kay vs Cheerleader Melissa vs Priscilla Kelly

Jordynne Grace

Mercedes Martinez vs Jordynne Grace

Mercedes Martinez vs Jordynne Grace

Mercedes Martinez vs Jordynne Grace

Mercedes Martinez vs Jordynne Grace

Mercedes Martinez vs Jordynne Grace

Mercedes Martinez

Nicole Savoy vs Nicole Matthews

Nicole Savoy vs Nicole Matthews

Nicole Savoy vs Nicole Matthews

Nicole Savoy vs Nicole Matthews

Nicole Savoy vs Nicole Matthews

Nicole Savoy and Aerial Monroe

Nicole Savoy and Aerial Monroe, Nicole Matthews in foreground

Nicole Savoy

Nicole Savoy and Aerial Monroe

Cura, August 8, 2019

Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.

Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.

I hope you like it. I made it for you.

Here’s the track listing for this week:

I’ll Still Have Me By Cyn

I Hope You’re Very Happy Together By Art Brut

Capacity By Charly Bliss

Turn The Light By Karen O, Danger Mouse

Geology By Barrie

I Like (the idea of) You By Tessa Violet

Jane, Don’t You Know Me? By Elvis Depressedly

Drunk on a Rhythm By Gothic Tropic

You’re Somebody Else By flora cash

Summer Girl By HAIM

Animal Crossing New Leaf

Even though it’s been a few years since I’ve picked it up, I still hold a lot of fondness for New Leaf. It got me through a lot. I also took a lot of screenshots. Here’s some of the best ones.

Gullivers’ dreams were the best.

Logbook, August 3, 2019

I woke up around 8:35 am.

I read Why Are You Laughing at Bruce Lee?.

Went to the Rogers Cup opening qualifier rounds.

Watched A Silent Voice. Hey, you know that scene in the movie where you can’t help but cry? Here’s two hours of those scenes in a row.

I went to bed around 1:07 am.

Logbook, August 2, 2019

I woke up around 6:06 am.

This is all @xkcd’s fault. https://t.co/W6qENPnTCI

I finally beat A Link to the Past. What should I do next in my 3DS backlog? Steamworld Dig or Bye Bye Box-Boy?

Played a round of Ping Pong King.

I took the TTC.

Went on a date.

Logbook, August 1, 2019

I woke up around 6:51 am. I took the TTC.

While the rest of my G1 prediction bracket is totally shot, I did pick Okada and Moxley as finalists. Feel pretty good about that one. Guys I was 100% wrong about: I thought Takagi, ZSJ, Sanada, and Fale would do way better than they are. The one I was most off was Jay White. I had him getting 10 points. Didn’t realize it was CHAOS revenge-time. Taichi vs White. The immovable slime vs the unstoppable grease. I love bad guy fights.Night 12 might be the GOAT.

I watched Why Does Celeste Feel So Good to Play? | Game Maker’s Toolkit.

Played a round of Ping Pong King.

Hello Darkness My Old Friend https://t.co/h9XFoFdUS8

I took the TTC.

Trying to get off a subway while nobody moves out of the doorway. It’s like the city collectively forgot the lessons gifted to us by Ludacris.

Played a round of Ping Pong King.

Went on a date.

I went to bed around 10:31 pm.

I recommend you read Amazon Kindle Oasis Review: Now Is the Perfect Time to Buy an E-Reader. I agree with just about everything in this review. 1: You don’t need an expensive Kindle, or even a Kindle. Any recent eink device is great for the purpose of unplugging and reading stuff on the web, but away from eye-straining light.