Cold Time Rock and Roll

November 20, 2002 D. H. McKee

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Getting really cold out these days. Going to have to get those snow tires on soon. My current tires are going to be replaced anyway, since there’s not much tread on them now. The car has a hard time gripping in the rain, let alone snow. We’ve already had some snow up here, and the weather is being very inconsistent – snow, rain, sun, snow again. I hope it finally stabilizes on something before December.
Finally got me a Gigaport AG for the laptop. It’s a multi-channel sound card which has eight 16-bit analog outputs, and one lightpipe (whatever that is). The trick is you need to use PCDJ Red, v5.2 before it will give you a multi-channel mode, and make the Gigaport worthwhile. They don’t tell you this on the forums, and you pretty much have to figure this out for yourself. I was going crazy trying to configure the laptop sound and the Gigaport drivers, before I realized you needed to upgrade the PCDJ version. Don’t get me wrong, the Gigaport is great, and PCDJ is the best DJ software out there. The good folks at Visiosonic have a great support site, and plenty of newsgroups for their customer base. However, the customer base is largely made up of Wedding DJs, and I haven’t heard much about the club scene by reading the newsgroups. Most of these guys fight over what makes a better “first song”, “Old Time Rock and Roll”, or Pink’s “Get this Party Started”.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.