Station 13

Alex and Dani recount their various travels over the summer! Dani likes camping now, and Alex came to a variety of realisations: about himself, about airport food, and about his taste in watches.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @protracker
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
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• Brighton
• Bognor Regis
• Develop
• GDC
• Värmland
• The Robotech Role-Playing Game
• Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
• D&D
• AD&D
• Palladium
• Pathfinder
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Cyberpunk 2020
• Shadowrun
• Adelaide
• Yosemite National Park
• Housekeeping Camp
• Glacier Point
• Portola Redwoods State Park
• OTAQUEST Live
• Capsule
• m-flo
• Derrick May
• Bohemian Rhapsody (film)
• Queen
• Dubai International Airport
• Stockholm Arlanda Airport
• Defakto Akkord
• Stowa Marine Original
• Omega Speedmaster CK2998 (2016)
• Tudor Black Bay
• Rolex GMT Master II
• Rolex Explorer II

Dani and Alex finally manage to get back together for a bumper episode with all your favourites: Alex has a new pen, and Dani’s lusting after a new watch and has just bought some old books. Naturally, this leads to a deep discussion on the ephemeral nature of modern storage media, the perceived value of domain names, colonialism in the age of the internet, and, er… Kim Kardashian?

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @protracker
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

• [spunge]
• Lamy Safari (ballpoint)
• Lamy AL-Star
• Parker Jotter
  • Grey/Green
• Bic Crystal
• IWC Spitfire series
• Q TIMEX
• Rolex GMT Master II
• Senecæ Opera (Elzevier 1672)
• Seneca the Younger
• De Brevitate Vitae (On the shortness of life)
• Internet Archive
• The Day the Music Burned
• Amazon prevails in battle with South American countries for ‘.amazon’ domain name
• Kim Kardashian's Kimono lingerie line sparks Japanese anger

Alex and Dani record an EXTREMELY brief episode to talk about the future of Station 13.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @protracker
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

Dani and Alex reveal their general ignorance of brass and woodwind instruments, as Alex has recently reignited his passion for the French horn! Alex has a Remote Transmission update, and both of them are considering changing their Twitter usernames.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @protracker
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

• Trombone electro-scooter
• French horn
• Capo
• Recorder
• Septoplasty
• R-Type
• Afrika Bamabaataa & The Soulsonic Force — Planet Rock
• Roland TR-808
• razorblade oscilloscope
  • so this is texas
  • kid viddy and the cosmic space-beasts
• ProTracker
• @protracker
• @Station13FM
• @danielpwright
• @kidviddy
• @tataminomusi
• @timeforacuppa
• Speedball 2: Super Deluxe

Alex and Dani catch up on the watch scene following Baselworld, before diving deep into a variety of Japan-related topics, including the announcement of the name for the new imperial era, the Cool Japan and Cool Biz policies, and the current Taiga Drama, Idaten.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @ATYPE808
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

• The Fashion And Watches Of Baselworld 2019
• Talking Watches 2 with John Mayer
• Dani’s dream Omega
• Bauman Rare Books
• 1653 Enchiridion of Epictetus
• Reiwa 令和
• Japan’s New Era Gets a Name, but No One Can Agree What It Means
• Shinzō Abe
• 冷
• Golden Bomber - 令和
• Cool Japan
• Cool Biz
• Necktie Origins
• Taiga Drama
• NHK
• Idaten
• 1912 Summer Olympics
• Charlotte Kate Fox
• Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man
• NHKオンデマンド
• TV Japan

Dani and Alex correct a number of factual issues from the last episode, before reviewing Alex’s recently-released music/writing collaboration, Remote Transmission. Dani’s viral tweet sparks musings about the nature of attribution on the internet, and the influence of money. Speaking of the internet, Alex has been making a website and enjoying the features offered by modern CSS.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @ATYPE808
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

• Ideogram
• Logogram
• /u/No_Tamanegi’s Sanger
• JHS Pedals
  • History of Distortion
• Howlin’ Wolf “How many more years”
• Ike Turner “Rocket 88”
• Marty Robbins “Don’t worry”
• Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone
• The Rolling Stones “Satisfaction”
• Vox Tonebender
• Fuzz Face
• The Big Muff
• BOSS DS-1
• Ibanez Tube Screamer
• The Night Flight Orchestra
  • Sometimes the world ain’t enough
• Leprous
  • Mirage
• Remote transmission
  • Twitter
  • Apple Music
  • YouTube
  • BandCamp
  • SoundCloud
• Dani’s viral tweet
• Alex’s most viral tweet
• @forexposure_txt
• @archillect
• @archillinks
• Pinterest
• 30 years of the World Wide Web
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Modern CSS
  • Grid Layout
  • fr units
  • Writing-mode
• printpac.co.jp
• Hoshinoya Kyoto

Alex and Dani follow up on the status of Renoise development and Dani’s JLPT preparations. Alex has bought some new gear and a pedalboard to mount it on, and Dani has a new watch.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @ATYPE808
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

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  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • Email
• Station 13 #40: Merry Christmas, Mum, here’s a fish
• Renoise forum post
• Dani’s JLPT books
• Thing Explainer
• Heisig’s “Remembering the Kanji”
• 炊
• 敷
• Neuroplasticity
• List of writing systems
• Nephila clavata (Jorō spider)
• R
• Good Will Hunting
• Haskell
• Garbage collection
• Lazy evaluation
• Erlang
• Erlang Meet Up Stockholm
• Bill Bailey U2 sketch
• Dynamic range compression
• BOSS OC2
• Distortion
• EBS Multidrive
• Big Muff π
• TalkBass.com
• DOD Carcosa
• Phaser
• MXR Phase 90
• Earthquaker Devices
  • Westwood
  • Hoof
• Terminal
• Devin Townsend Blows Our Tiny Minds – That Pedal Show
• Seagull 1963
  • [Seagull 1963] Apparently all 42mm versions are fakes
  • [Seagull] A 1963 Reissue Options Guide
  • 1963 Chinese Air Force style watches from Thomas and others ...
  • Watch Unique
• Remote transmission
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • BandCamp
  • SoundCloud
• @ATYPE808

Special guest Chris joins Dani and Alex to talk about Scandinavian hot dogs, Thunderbirds, and Japanese learning, before both Chris and Alex give their thoughts on games development for VR. What are the unique challenges facing VR developers, and how should they approach solving those challenges? Finally, we get a sneak preview of Good Times’ latest game in development, Polyblaster!

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @ATYPE808
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

Twitter (Chris): @fishtopher
Twitter (Good Times): @goodtimes_ok

• Black ice
• Thunderbirds
• Stingray
• Thunderbirds Are Go
• Lumino City
• Tengami
• The vacuum game
• All Japanese All The Time
• Duolingo
• Anki
• HelloTalk
• Shadowing
• Noise cancelling headphones
• KBS京都　笑福亭晃瓶のほっかほかラジオ
  • 2019年1月23日のオープニングトーク
• BOSE QuietComfort 35 II
• Sony WH-H900N h.ear On 2
• The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day
• George M. Stratton inverted glasses experiments
• Polyblaster Pew! Pew! Pew! Tweet
• @goodtimes_OK on twitter

Alex tells Dani all about his trip to Scotland, and Dani shares a weirdly emotional experience. They explore what the latest in Japanese scientific research has to say about the relationship between tea and influenza, and what the ramifications are going to be of the imperial transition later this year.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @ATYPE808
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

• Kirkcudbright
• East Kilbride
• Haggis
• Pavlova
• Edinburgh
• Tom Waits
  • Martha
  • Soldier’s Things
• Adam Neely — How to Practice Music (without your instrument)
• 驚愕報告！インフルエンザウイルスを15秒で無力化する「紅茶」の力
• Station 13 #39: It’s like nerdy paintball
• Japanese era name
• 2019 Japanese imperial transition
• International Components for Unicode
• Year 2000 problem
• 2020 Summer Olympics

Dani and Alex reflect on the year gone by and plan for the year ahead. They exchange resolutions, until Alex can no longer contain his enthusiasm for… rechargeable batteries.

Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter (Alex): @ATYPE808
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Twitter (Station 13): @Station13FM
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]
Mastodon (Station 13): @[email protected]

• Mince pies
• Boxing Day
• Hogmanay
• The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast
  • The Queen’s Christmas message 2018
• The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy
• Republicanism
• Station 13 #18: The full duplex
• Remote transmission
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • BandCamp
  • SoundCloud
• El Lissitzky
• /r/latin
• Fabellae Latinae
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Google Play Music
  • Overcast
  • RSS Feed
• Japanese-Language Proficiency Test
• TOEIC
• Eleven-plus
• ならでは (nara dewa)
• Rechargeable battery
• Alex’s fancy battery charger
• Lithium-ion battery
• Eneloop