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DJDarren

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org

Quality Ass Man by day, tired by night.

#iPod nerd, #ADHD brain, fundamentally lazy.

An actual DJ - Monday nights - 8:00-10:00 BST on https://labr.online

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Richard_Littler, to sport
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I still find it utterly absurd that is a mandatory part of all news broadcasts. For someone with zero interest in sport, it has sounded like this to me for 50+ years: "Those were the main news headlines... Now, rodent news: Manchester Zoo has loaned Señor Fluffi, a Spanish gerbil, from Zoo Aquarium de Madrid for £20 million. They have also expressed interest in acquiring a squirrel..."

DJDarren,
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@Richard_Littler I feel the same about all news broadcasts, tbh.

I find it absolutely bizarre that I can be jiving about the kitchen on a Saturday evening, enjoying the funk & soul show on 6Music, to be brought down to earth with a thud with a news bulletin about how shit everything is.

I understand the need before we all had All The News in our pockets, but these days we need an escape.

DJDarren, (edited ) to random
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In the battle of the grizzly voiced singers, who would win?

DJDarren, (edited ) to random
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The theme for tonight's edition of is...

Summer

The days are longer, the sun is shining, the flowers have bloomed, the bees are buzzin', so fire your summer related picks at me.

Today, 8:00 - 10:00pm UK time...

https://stream.labr.online/

@labr

DJDarren, to random
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With much deliberation, I have decided that the theme for tomorrow's edition of #ThePlaylist is...

Summer

The days are longer, the sun is shining, the flowers have bloomed, the bees are buzzin', so fire your summer related picks at me.

feorag, to random
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Looks healthy.

DJDarren,
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@feorag I don’t see a problem there. You’ve got fruit and that, and that’s good for you.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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This is the future they want

DJDarren,
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@TheBreadmonkey I enjoyed that movie. Being direceted by Wally Pfister means that if nothing else it looks beautiful.

DJDarren, to random
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Well, that’s a new one by me…

Woke up the Work Mac as usual, but it took ages for some of the apps to be usable. They were there, but suspended.

Then the screen went black, and looked like it was rebooting, before coming back to the log in screen.

It’s now rebooted, but apparently the Bluetooth doesn’t want to play ball, so no trackpad and keyboard.

Yay.

DJDarren, to random
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I can hear a gull on the roof of the office that, when heard among the other noise of the yard kinda sounds like my Best Good Boy cat Milo.

I won’t lie, I wish I was at home on the sofa reading my book, while Milo is being Very Long next to me.

urlyman, to random
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UK

“I’m a tool because my dad was a toolmaker”

“With our fiscal rules we will give the economy a good fiscing”

“Stop the boaty McBoatfaces”

What else?

DJDarren,
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@urlyman Related, I want all political speechwriters to open their Word docs and do the following:

cmd+f “deliver” “delivering”, cmd+a > delete

Or whatever the Windows equivalent of that is.

DJDarren, to random
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On the one hand, it’s only been half a day since Sunak called a GE and I’m already exhausted by it.

But on the other, I’m a slut for reading about how much the Tories are suffering so don’t want to mute all mentions of it altogether.

It’s a real conundrum.

DJDarren,
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@tigerfort I find the best approach is to simply not engage with any news sources at all.

DJDarren, to random
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Just had cause to remember the first radio show I presented on a community station near Southampton. This was in 2007, a month or so after I started my radio degree.

Because I had no real way of playing requests on the fly like I could now if I wanted to, I had to make sure my playlists were all backtimed and ready, then I burned them onto two CDs. Even tracks on one, odd tracks on the other.

This meant I didn’t have to cue anything because the next track was already lined up.

DJDarren,
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However, it meant that I had to be really precise when hitting the hour. I couldn’t just drop another track in if I was coming up short, because unless I could find something suitable on the playout system (and there was never anything suitable) I’d have to waffle on for several minutes to fill time. No one wants that.

Because I have to edit my playlists down now, I usually have one or two tracks that I can bounce in if my timings haven’t worked out, which has made me a bit lazier.

DJDarren,
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I even used to back time to the point that I’d make sure to hit the half hour bang on too. Hell, I had a printout that told me exactly when I should be hitting go on any given track.

I don’t bother with that anymore, and just go by feel. And to some extent it shows.

DJDarren,
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I had music beds on one MiniDisc and idents on another and it was glorious.

But it did mean having to burn two CDs every week, which I’d then toss in the bin because I had no further use for them.

DJDarren, to random
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It’s been brought to my attention that Incubus have re-recorded Morning View and I’m listening to it right now and am not entirely sure why.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a perfectly fine re-recording, but the original is still perfectly fine as well. And it’s been 23 years since. Not 20, not 25. 23.

Odd.

But hey ho, fair play to them for sitll rocking out.

DJDarren, to random
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A few months back my pitched a fit and reset itself, losing my reading data for the year to that point. Not a huge issue, as for some reason I remembered that it was up to 65.2 hours.

Ever since then, I’ve had to add 65.2 to the current listed time in order to calculate my current reading time.

Anyway, I’m currently figuring out whether I can adjust the time displayed on the Kobo by editing the KoboReader.sqlite file.

So far my experiments have been unsuccessful, but I shall persevere.

DJDarren,
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If anyone out there knows anything about this sort of thing, feel free to offer me some pointers…

DJDarren, to random
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And now the internet here is on a go slow.

Very fucking close to just saying fuck it and going home.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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Incels are so weird, man. Just have a wank or go for a walk. Read a book, play some video games or hang out with some buddies. Rather than planning to elaborately blow up the Olympic torch to demonstrate how much you think it's unfair women don't want to touch you.

DJDarren,
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@TheBreadmonkey They have a load of buddies who are all similarly desperate for sexual attention, so my suggestion is they all fuck each other.

DJDarren,
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@TheBreadmonkey I’m only semi-joking.

The sooner these pricks work out that cleaving hard to their perceived sexuality is a ridiculous notion, the better the world will be.

If they can’t find women who want to fuck them, then they could all take turns sucking each other off and feel a lot more relaxed.

jackdaw_ruiz, to random
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withnail and i memes? on my tl? uk posters are on one.

DJDarren,
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@jackdaw_ruiz @babe

Withnail & I gif. Withnail leaning out the window of a battered old Jaguar, shouting “SCRUBBERS!”

DJDarren, to random
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I really, really hate our company HR portal.

When you open the page for staff admin it loads every employee in a card. We have 130 employees, so the page goes slooooooow.

Now, imagine having to set the page to include all former employees as well, so I can check for people who have left. It’s basically unusable.

DJDarren, to random
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Wake up babe, new dosdude1 video has just dropped!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQq8fx4D0Q&

DJDarren,
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Watching another dosdude1 video while I’m updating spreadsheets at work, and I think the reason I love these videos so much is that he makes it look so easy.

I’m watching him repair and upgrade the storage of an M2 Mac mini, and thinking “Yeah, I could fully upgrade my Macbook to 2tb”, as if I already have all the equipment, knowledge, and ability to do so without completely shagging nearly £2k of laptop.

DJDarren, to random
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To make matters worse, I have ‘Tie Me Kangaaroo Down Sport’ as an ear worm, for no reason I can begin to fathom.

Jesus fuck.

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