Basically the next Ken Jennings For the last 8 or so weeks during the stay-at-home orders, KCRW hosted a live, online trivia game every afternoon at 4pm. The questions were often related to news bits that had been on the show in the previous several days, or just random facts...

Chapter 1: The Brompton Beginnings This begins with me stealing saving Cindy’s Brompton. She’s drunk the Marie Kondo koolaid and has been purging everything that’s fun from her garage. For a long time I was only using it as a dog runner at nights since the low top-tube made it...

I’m back, baby! Because I’m in the mood and haven’t done anything with this blog in 3 years – today is a 2fer! I’ve finally taken the reins of running vanlew.net from my brother. He ran it for probably 10 years, hosting the pages for me, him, and my mom....

D3 & speed upgrades to Eightyninenine.com After 3 or 4 years of leaving it to its own devices, I finally had the time to do some major fixes to eightyninenine.com. Important changes: replaced all the highcharts.js-based plots with my own d3.js versions. artist/song bar charts have been replaced with dual...

A KCRW Data Site eightyninenine.com is the cleverest url I could come up with for my new site. It’s in reference to both 89.9, the broadcast frequency in LA for KCRW and the (widely popular?) data/statistics site fivethirtyeight.com. The site exists because KCRW, aside from their world-renowned music programming, is...