It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating
around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
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Happy Canada Day 2025!
It’s July 1st, which means it’s Canada Day! Have a happy one, everybody!
And to celebrate, click on the video above — it’s Toronto 1980s garage-punk band, The Supreme Bagg Team, covering a most Canadian classic tune in the most Canadian possible way. (Gen Xers, the blink-and-you’ll miss-them images will induce deep nostalgia.)
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating
around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
While waiting for our flight to Toronto, I went to the bathroom in Tampa’s airport, where I saw this attachment in the stalls:
It’s The Pouch, an acrylic bag or item holder that’s been making increasing appearances in public bathroom stalls over the past decade.
But the Pouches at Tampa airport are unlike others I’ve seen. They differ in one key way, with this sticker:
That’s right — it’s a “do not jam your baby into the Pouch for hands-free pooping” sticker!
I have this question: Was there an incident that led to the sticker, or are they anticipating that someone might try to use it as a baby-holder?
(To be fair: the “Pouch” name and logo, along with the fact that kangaroos actually carry their young in their pouches, might lead people to think that’s it’s supposed to be baby storage.)
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A couple of DJX “DAWless jams”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve tripled the number of keyboards in my office (the electronic music kind of keyboards, not the typing kind). As a result, I’ve probably more than tripled the amount of music I’ve played as well.
Before I took up the accordion, I played the synth. I’ll continue to play the squeezebox, but it’s also nice to get back to my roots.
The DJX jam
About five weeks ago, I drove to a Steak n Shake in Valrico to meet someone to buy their Yamaha DJX, a dance music keyboard released in 1998, and a keyboard I regret not buying back then.
A day after I bought it, I did a little “DAWless jam” (that’s the term the kids use these days for “playing a physical instrument without the aid of computer software”) on the DJX. I started recording, picked a beat, and jammed for a couple of minutes.
Afterward, I gave the recording a listen and thought, “this needs to be on a 1990s cyberpunk-style video.” So I took the track, grabbed some cyberpunk clips from Canva and Pixabay, and assembled this video in Camtasia:
All told, I recorded the jam in under ten minutes, and put the video together over a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon.
The DJX II jam
The other keyboard I regret not buying back then was the Yamaha DJX II, the follow-up dance music keyboard to the DJX, released in 2000. In more than a few ways, the DJX is a better keyboard than its successor, but damn, the DJX II is a better rhythm machine than the original.
Rare as the DJX is, the DJX II is even more so. I found the DJX through good ol’ manual Googling. I found the DJX II only because I’d cobbled together a little Python script to comb through Craigslist’s “musical instruments” pages in cities all over the U.S. for a DJX II. As I wrote in an article I wrote earlier, it worked.
On Saturday, I recorded another DAWless jam, this time on the DJX II, and here’s the result. No video this time — just the audio of me pretending to be the backup band for Morcheeba or Lamb or Tricky:
What do I plan to do with all these jams?
Among other things, I make technology videos, which I post on the Global Nerdy YouTube channel. While I think I have a pretty good narrating voice (I’ve been told time and again that I should be on the radio), a video still benefits from having a good soundtrack. I already do the writing, presenting, and graphics — why not also do the music?
My videos already incorporate my music, and there’ll be more — both videos and music — soon!
Hey, Tampa friends! My friend Sam let me know that the Tampa Indian Christian Association is holding their Indian Christian Day festivities this coming Saturday, June 28th from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m..
Indian Christian Day celebrates the arrival of St. Thomas the Apostle, who’s credited with having brought Christianity to India around 50 A.D.. This is a free event, open to all, and it includes lunch!
Find out more about this Saturday’s events at the Tampa Indian Christian Association’s site.
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating
around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
Just a reminder: In the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, Rick Scott was Chief Executive of a for-profit operator of health care facilities, which committed what was then the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history.
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