How to Make a Turntable.fm Bot

Posted on April 28, 2012 by AR

If you’re reading this, you likely know what Turntable.fm is: a social DJ’ing website that launched in early 2011 with a lot of buzz, which seems to have died down a bit by now, but it is still an impressive place to spin music with your friends, discover new music, and meet like-minded people. When I first gave it a run, from the Las Vegas airport killing time during a delay, I quickly noticed that some rooms were running “bots” performing these fun automated tasks for different rooms, and so I quickly got involved Continue reading →

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FlashDubRadio.com is a Thing Now!

Posted on January 7, 2012 by AR

I know the “entertainment” posts on this site are lacking, but that is largely because of the launch in mid 2011 of a new joint venture between myself and a couple partners known as Flash Dub Radio. It’s a new online radio station playing an eclectic mix of modern music (indie, electro, hip-hop, punk, funk, classics), and any entertainment-related posts/tweets/faceybook talkey talks from me have largely been going through this channel. I also created and maintain the website, and handle all the graphic design, including all the items in our store. Check us out, like us on facebook, twiznitter, all of that! Continue reading →

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Lyrics to “It’s Your Birthday” by Luke (Luther Campbell) Finally Hit the Web!

Posted on July 1, 2011 by AR
Pisces, it's your birthday!

Pisces, it's your birthday!

There’s one YouTube video that I keep going back to over and over again, more than any other, and it’s not even a Parry Gripp video or “Bert & Ernie tries Gangsta-Rap” that I’m talking about today.  That stuff is all awesome, but every since I gave in to facebook a couple of years there’s been an almost-daily reminder of my secret love for a certain mindless guilty pleasure of a booty-bass song.  When I see that it’s a dear friend’s birthday, I feel compelled to share with them the “It’s Your Birthday” song and video by Luke, aka Luther Campbell of everyone’s favorite Sunshine State troubadour family, the 2 Live Crew. Continue reading →

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Pennermania T-Shirts Now Available at MayorsManor.com

Posted on May 14, 2011 by AR
Dustin Penner loves his PennerMania shirt

Dustin Penner loves his PennerMania shirt

Over the past coulpe of years, I have done a few t-shirt designs for a popular blog regarding all things Los Angeles Kings called MayorsManor.com.  The acquisition of the young left wing Dustin Penner from the Edmonton Oilers prompted Pennermania with the Kings fanatics, as well as a request from the Mayor to dish up a Pennermania t-shirt design to go along with the buzz. Continue reading →

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Seamlessly Integrating a Custom WordPress Blog Template into Your Website

Posted on May 14, 2011 by AR

When I first decided to re-launch this website, I had a few goals in mind.  I had been preaching and practicing the virtues of clean code and separation of concerns with the back-end code of the projects I was working on, and wanted to apply the same ideals to my front-end design as well.  While that certainly is easier said than done sometimes, the control freak in me was ready bang out a new custom site template that keeps as much of the aesthetics and presentation information as possible in CSS, and all UI behavior wrapped up into script files, leaving a nice, clean, and minimal HTML5 layer for the actual content. Continue reading →

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