weather
i walked in to a liquor shop yesterday, during the anomalous “blizzard”. the guy behind the counter asked me “what’s up?” i said “this bullshit weather, that’s what’s up.” everybody laughed. i like it when i make people laugh. especially when the weather really was a bunch of bullshit.
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it looks like the ex is no longer my ex. we got back togetehr officially last night. god, she looked beautiful. and hey, so did i. hah.
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i mostly wrapped up a redesign and re-do of an old project, with the intention of re-using the new templates for several other projects. i have this silly project in which i share pictures of discarded umbrellas. but the publishing system i use is clumsy and needlessly complicated for this particular job. i want to model the new format for it and other things after museeba.com, but without the flickr component. i only used that because i was in a damn hurry. places to go, people to see, hearts to break. busy busy busy. anyway, the new template should be usable for the forseeable future, and productive, even if it comes at the expense of having all these sites look exactly the same. after umbrellas i’ll assimilate other single-focus projects under this new approach. yay.
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i am simply loving my phat new radio. Sangean DDR-63. it’s just amazing how much radio hhas changed since the Internet lifted it from local access to everywhere-is-local. this is the Golden Age of radio. it’s ahrd to imagine it ever getting better than it is these days in terms of access, content, availability, and choice.
the problem i’ve always had w/Internet radio is the computer. i do not appreciate turning a $2000 computer into a $4 radio, even with all the bazillions of stations available. i like my radio on the radio.
in the past thhe most exciting feature of a typical household radio might have been station presets, or a TV/weather band. i remember when Bose added a CD playr to its Wave radio, and i thought that was a sea-change in the radio. maybe it was, at the time, but now the access to internet, home networks, ipods, and the ability to schedule recording of programs, Tivo-like. it’s all awesome.
the Sangean is like a traditional radio on steroids, but to me it does not feel like bloatware. it is a very smartly developed product, even if it is targeted at and likely to be best appreciated by radio geeks.
but the radio, the radio device itself, is finally evolving to meet the changing world of online content, and i think it’s pretty flippin’ cool.
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