Another design flaw with the new Linux Journal – besides bringing Petreley on staff – is that it is now bigger and no longer rests on the toilet paper dispenser in the bathroom at work. Obviously no forethought or design work went into this change, either.
My son came into our room this morning armed with a crayon. He proceeded to draw ‘rocket ships’ all over our white sheets. I love having kids. =)
I just got an FM transmitter for my Nano so I don’t have to keep tucking the cord for my earbuds under the collar of my shirt while I drive too and from work. I had no idea there were so many radio stations – which lends to my argument later. It’s impossible to find a tiny bit of moderately dead air anywhere. Now I live “Near” Seattle.. but far enough in the sticks that I’d expect to get more clear channels. Then.. after you’ve got a decent channel you’ll lose it if you drive more than a couple blocks. So.. basically…
Pack it in, radio stations. No one is listening. I can’t stand to turn on the radio anymore because when it’s not commercials there’s a slim to none chance they’re actually going to play something I’d like to hear – I’m sure it’s mathmatically quantifiable. Radio formatting is becoming increasingly like television with ads making up nearly half of what’s played (it seems) but unlike television it’s not the soul source for it’s content – and even that’s coming to an end what with iTunes Video and other services. I’ve got the music and mostly podcasts that I want to hear so it’s fairly pointless your existing and sucking up the airwaves. I mean.. who needs half a dozen stations for each genre – hate that term – playing the same crap? And like I said… every inch of bandwidth realestate is in use. So much babbleing I can’t belive it.
Now.. I thought about this as I was driving in and I thought:
Me: “You privilaged jerk! Not everyone HAS a Nano or some mp3 player. Like not everyone HAS cable.”
Me(also): “I don’t have cable, and I don’t watch TV!”
Me(again): “That’s beside the point.”
Me(you guessed it): “True”
Yes, not everyone has an mp3 player. And radio SUPPOSEDLY allows you to hear new music and expand your interests – though I’d suggest Pandora better suggestions without all the ads. Just consolidate stations then. Make room for other things. Of course.. in the future I’ll imagine it’ll be easier to connect you mp3 player to the radio. That’s the nice thing about being a little off.. I can have arguments with myself.
Anywho.. thanks for coming. In summary… radio stations: Go away. And for the search engines – RIAA: Bite me.
p.s. Someone just sent out a meeting request to all of corporate. Mid way through the list of required attendess was “eat me” lol!
Clerk at the store: “You guys watching the super bowl tomorrow?” he’s wearing a SeaHawks Jersey
Me: “Oh.. heck no. I guess we’re going to go down town and hang out. Hell, I bet it’ll be totally empty tomorrow.”
Stacia: “Well, if they win..”
Me: “Oh..”
Clerk: “Yeah, if they win it’ll be a riot. If they lose there will be a lot of drunk people driving home from the bars.”
Me: “Oh crap, yeah. Especially around here.”
Clerk shoots me a You’re-not-one-of-us look.
Me (Unconvincingly): “Yeah.. uhh we have some really special neighbors.”
This would all be a little funnier if you actually knew where I live.
Like I told cj the other day. All pick-up trucks and W’04 stickers.
Sitting at breakfast yesterday morning:
Me: “Our kids are so cute.”
Stacia: “Yeah.”
Me: “We have our own little people.”
Stacia: “Well…”
Me: “We OWN little people.”
Stacia: “We don’t OWN them.”
Me: “Oh My GOD! We’re slave owners!”
Obviously this was pre-coffee. Yeah.. that’s it.
Came across two interesting sites I wanted to post.
The first is “Just What I Wanted!” a blog that is apparently dedicated to providing the loved ones of geeks with ideas and insite as to what their geek might want for christmas. Very cool stuff. I notice they have the hand warmers that use supercooling just like Nat found in China. I’d like those. =)
The second is a blog entry about O’Reilly – not the cool book O’Reilly – the nut job. I’ve heard a little about the “Christmas Terrorists” bit from O’Reilly. But the idea on this site is laughs. Check it out and print out your new “We Like Pandas” cards now. =)
This was too funny not to blog.
I remember when I toasted my first processor. It was an Athlon 950mhz. The first chip I’d gotten that HAD to have a heatsink and fan. So I got it home and it said “Grab the tab and peel off the cover of the heatsink/fan and place it on the processor.” Well.. I grabbed the tab and pulled.. and I got a cover off. But apparently there were two layers of plastic that seperated and left one layer behind covering the conductive goo.
Well I’m looking at it – never having used this stuff before – and thinking.. I guess it’s semi solid until it heats up and then sort of oozes in around the processor or some thing. *shrug* So I slapped it on and fired it up. It posted and then went *PFFFFEW* and a little trail of white smoke rose up from the processor. DOH!
I took it back to the company and told them it was bunk to start with. They said “Yeah we get a lot of those” and gave me a new processor! I so lucked out. And they’ve since gone out of business. =)
So, it’s so foggy I can’t see the end of the block and it’s 35 degrees. This prompted our Saturn Vue’s temperature indicator to flash “ICE”. I’ve never seen that before. Cool.
But, as I was saying.. it’s 35 degrees so what did I just do? Mowed the lawn. Apparently lawns need to be winterized. “I did not know that.” All through my youth I never once winterized my father’s yard. And since I was the defacto grounds keeper I imagine if it were a real process and not something made up by Scott’s Turf Builder I would’ve done it.
Even so, I am fairly certain that this new fad of winterizing shouldn’t actually be done in the winter. But I’ve procrastinated when it comes to yard work. I think it’s a subconcious rebelion against my neighbor who mows his lawn at LEAST 3 times a week.
Basically my love knows you need to winterize and by god it WILL be done. Even at 35 degrees. The moral.. “Don’t put off what you can do at 60 degrees what you’ll eventually have to do anyway near freezing.”
Oh.. and I added link to the Blogs called “Planet Rev”. If you’re at all interested in reading the blogs I have listed that link will take you to a planet page I’ve setup that aggrigates all those feeds – sans the monologue one, that’d just be too big. I got tired of opening countless tabs to check people’s posts – most don’t update often anyway. And I didn’t want to install a RSS reader on all the different machines I log on from.
http://idoom.hyarion.com/about.php
Doome for the iPod. =)
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