Station 13

Alex and Dani talk briefly about Christmas, but mostly about DAWs, music technology, and the balance between updating software and avoiding bloat.

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

• Gorilla Collins
• Roland CR-78
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Logotype
• Black Sabbath
• Finally... the First Farewell Tour
• Station 13 #18: The full duplex
• Tip-truck
• Three kings’ day
• Shonen Jump
• Kindle Paperwhite (1st generation)
• Tron
• Star Wars opening crawl recording
• Steinberg Cubase
• Renoise
• Atari ST
• Pro Tools
• Logic
• Virtual Studio Technology (VST)
• FL Studio
• StrongCar Racing
• Magna Karter
• SkyRoads
• Propellerheads Reason
• Progressive Disclosure

Dani and Alex talk about the recent California wildfires and compare American and Japanese face masks, before thinking about the Japanese approach to health generally. Dani introduces Alex to the concept of live-action role-play (LARP), and stands ready in its defence.

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

• Camp Fire
• This baby gender reveal sparked a week-long US wildfire
• SARS coronavirus
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Radio Taisō
• Kampō
• Stranger Things
• Nattō
• LARP
• Lerp
• Historical re-enactment
• Mind’s Eye Theatre
• Calacil LARP Store
• Paper-scissors-stone

Alex and Dani get together to talk about Alex’s new mouse, living life in the terminal, email conventions in the English-speaking world and Japan, and Alex’s latest music recommendations.

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

• Armadillos!
• Elecom
• Logitech G402
• Razer
• Fortnite
• Overwatch
• Quake
• Doom
• Logitech MX Master II
• Lenovo (neé IBM) Thinkpad
• Pointing Stick
• Pine
• Pico
• Lynx
• w3m
• Mutt
• Midnight Commander
• Taskwarrior
• Forklift
• Inbox Zero
• Regular Expression
• format=flowed
• Devin Townsend
  • Deadhead
  • Stormbending
  • Kingdom
• Ghost
• Strapping Young Lad
• Ziltoid the Omniscient
• Tenacious D
• Black Book Lodge
  • Steeple & Spire
• mouse on the keys
  • Earache
• Switched-on Bach
• Hiromitsu Agatsuma
  • NuTRAD
• Babymetal
• Gotan Project
• Astor Piazzolla

Dani makes a purchase, and Alex waxes lyrical. They talk about ramen and watches, before addressing the vital questions of the day: is a DJ a musician, and what makes a programmer a programmer?

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

• Churros
• Youtiao
• Ramen
• Lamian
• Mille-feuille
• Udon
• Chicago
• Dani’s new watch
• Stowa Marine Original
• Watch Recon
• Omega Forums
• The Vacheron Constantin that got away
• Omega Speedmaster
• Rolex GMT-Master
• Rolex Submariner
• Omega Speedmaster CK2998 “Blue Panda”
• SINN watches
• Meistersinger
• Saxophone
• Kenny G
• Coltrane
• Bruce Springsteen’s Clemons Something-or-other
• Unity 3D
• ZX Spectrum
• Applesoft BASIC
• Unreal Engine
• Stack Overflow

Alex and Dani get back together after their various sojourns abroad. Dani finally fulfils his New Year’s Resolution during his trip to Spain, meanwhile Alex gives his impression of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Oculus Connect conference. Both share their approaches to Jet-lag, before Alex makes another shorter journey, this time to Gothenburg.

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

• The Fast Show
• Marbella
• Granada
• Córdoba
• Churros
• Siesta
• Oculus Connect
• BART
• Syd Mead
• Caltrain
• Tesla Model X
• “More than 0 San Jose attractions”
• Hype cycle
• Folsom street fair
• Melatonin
• Gothenburg
• Adelaide Oval
• Adelaide Street Circuit
• Adelaide Fringe Festival
• WOMAdelaide

Charlie from A-Town FM and Dani from Station 13 get together for this special crossover episode! They compare shows before diving deep into mastodon: the technical details, the good, the bad, and the ramifications of some of its fundamental decisions.

Twitter (Charlie): @chuckyc17
Mastodon (Charlie): @[email protected]
Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright
Mastodon (Dani): @[email protected]

Station 13
Reddit: /r/Station13
Twitter: @Station13FM
Mastodon: @[email protected]

A-Town FM
Reddit: /r/atownfm
Twitter: @atownfm
Mastodon: @[email protected]

• A-Town FM
• A-Town at the movies
• Station 13 #6: You can’t make sushi without good fish
• Rolex Cellini Moonphase
• A. Lange and Söhne Zeitwerk
• Station 13 #21: Slow News Day
• Pilot Metropolitan
• The Pen Addict
• Station 13 #1: Red means “go carefully”
• Station 13 #18: The full duplex
• Douglas Adams cookie story
• Station 13 #33: Toot!
• A-Town FM #52: Coffee Cola and New Social Media
• Hatching Twitter
• bbq.snoot (Film Mastodon Instance)
• pawoo.net
• friends.nico
• Nico Nico Douga “Freshly washed sheets and a cat”
• Nico Nico Douga 10 year festival
• Ready Player One
• Overcast
• Daring Fireball
• PixelFed
• Plume
• GNU Social
• PeerTube
• The Wil Wheaton Affair:
  • In his own words
  • Background and counterpoint
  • Consequences for instance moderators
• A-Town FM #53: Making Salads We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants

Dani and Alex get a bit geary as Alex has a new guitar! They talk Fender, Gibson, single-coil vs. humbucker pickups, playing with a pick vs. playing fingerstyle, and Dani’s weird Epiphone Stratocaster.

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

• Typhoon
• Etymology of tea
• Awaji Island
• Great Hanshin Earthquake
• Typhoon Jebi forces closure of Kansai Airport
• Alex’s tweet about his new guitar
• Fender
• Gibson
• Telecaster
• Stratocaster
• Epiphone Stratocaster clone
• Epiphone Goth Les Paul
• Single coil guitar pickup
• Humbucker
• Mark Knopfler
• Jeff Beck
• Gibson guitar maker files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
• SG
• Les Paul
• Flying V
• Explorer
• Rolex
• Tudor
• Hofner
• Lucille
• Precision Bass
• Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray
• Tony Franklin Fretless Precision Bass
• Messenger Bike

Alex gets the lowdown from Dani about his recent move, which prevented the last show from being recorded! Dani has also moved much of his social networking presence to mastodon, while Alex has been taking some time out from being online recently. We learn a little about the Swedish energy system, before returning to the perennial topic of language learning and education.

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

• Mastodon
• Alex Jones
• Twitter comment on Alex Jones
• Twitter API changes rundown
• Ello
• mastodon.social
• Pawoo
• friends.nico
• mstdn.jp
• Tweetbot
• Twitterrific
• Paul Haddad on lack of demand for tweetbot
• Paul Haddad on tweetbot names
• Amaroq
• Tootdon
• Toot!
• The Iconfactory
• Nordic Green
• Duolingo
• TOEIC
• IELTS

Dani and Alex brave the heat to get together and talk about language learning apps! Alex has been using DuoLingo recently, while Dani has been using Memrise, so they compare the two offerings based on their own tastes and experience. Finally, Alex gives some insight into the Swedish education system and their approach to testing.

Discuss this episode on reddit at /r/Station13, or contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Gion Matsuri
• The Warriors
• Xenophon’s Anabasis
• Anki
• Memrise
• HelloTalk
• DuoLingo
• TinyCards
• SuperMemo
• James Heisig’s “Remembering the Kanji”
• Swedish user decks on Memrise
• First 5000 words in Spanish
• Knowledge Economy

Alex finally watches Blade Runner 2049 with proper sound, which has him thinking about apocalyptic science fiction tropes. Dani is sceptical about AI. Alex’s son watches Star Wars for the first time. Dani is sceptical about the “Let’s remake Star Wars” initiative.

Discuss this episode on reddit at /r/Station13, or contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Flying Tiger
• Village Vanguard
• Blade Runner 2049 Shorts
  • 2036: Nexus Dawn
  • 2048: Nowhere to Run
  • Black Out 2022
• The Animatrix
• DUST
  • Mis-drop
• Fetch!
• Faces in Things
• Ex Machina
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979)