it lives on a blog called Donklephant, a Centrist sorta place (so I feel less OUT of place than normally).
I love forests. New England, my new home, has no end of them. This time of year the trees are beginning to quake with fall color. Red and yellow branches are beginning to lash out of the green canopies that shroud this land. Soon the leaves will briefly dominate the hills in a quiet fire, then fall to the ground like ash, waiting for the embrace of snow…
As Autumn breaks, the chill of winter has begun to descend from the north. With the frost I have found myself contemplating a long, cold winter…
My option as a voter appears to be a false choice. Either I can vote Republican, lest we ignore the war on terror, or I can vote Democrat, lest we lose the planet to the sun. Our political culture is coarse and cramped with soundbites that have overshadowed eloquent debate…
Read the whole post. It’s not only a saddening statement, it’s also a rallying cry….
Since I started using Pandora Internet Radio, I’ve hit Amazon a few times to check availability of cds, etc. Today I see that the ads showing in the Amazon section when I’ve got the player running are ads which actually pertain to “my sort” of music.
Now is this a good thing? Or not? I guess it’s all of a piece with the rest of the “no privacy left without mega-intervention” situation….
which are guaranteed to make me cry. Period. No stopping for second thoughts, or reasons why.
Chariots of Fire by Vangelis…. Colors of the Wind by Vanessa Williams…. Simple Gifts by anyone in the world….
Makes it hard to listen to music sometimes….
After a partial server/provider move that turned out “wrong” for so very many reasons, I thought we’d just have to stay with Below10, even though they’ve done some seriously wonky stuff in the last few months - stuff that prevented most of the php scripts we use on a daily basis from working.
Then I ran across Network Redux who provide more space/bandwidth, and the same cPanel I’m familiar with for years now (which Mosso did not, having their own proprietary one - and which would not have made our clients happy, being functionality-limited and practically stats-program-less!) NR migrated our whole reseller setup (into separate accounts, mine and my daughter/business partner’s, instead of having them munged as we’d had before) in about 2 hours total - and sorted out the minor confusions we had due to different ways of handling support etc.
So things are back in working order, and were “out of order” for such a short time no one even noticed. I still rather resent that Below10 forced this move, but then again, without change life would be no fun, ain’t?
may I respectfully suggest you RUN do not walk to the Pandora website immediately if not sooner? At $36 a year for a subscription, it’s cheap enough for anyone. And if that’s still a bit expensive for you, you can get most of the yummies free - though there are ads if you don’t subscribe.
The best thing? YOU choose what you want to hear, setting up your own “stations”. This is music the way you want it - now and for the future.
Bless the beasts and children…. Pandora’s Box may be open, but it’s NOT full of nasties this time around!
I’m not now nor have I ever been much of a television watcher. When I was very young and we first had a TV, I watched some of the Disney offerings (Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro….) and Saturday cartoons (what child didn’t?) - but by the time I was a pre-teen, I simply didn’t have the interest. I read instead (still do….)
I did watch the original Star Trek (in B&W - we were the last family in Vegas to own a color TV!) in the mid 60s. And the rest of my family WERE TV junkies. But I really didn’t pay much attention to what they watched.
Just now, a whole TV-show intro swam through my fall-allergy-wrong-meds soggy brain: “Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man; a knight without armor in a savage land. His fast gun for hire, he’s the calling win. A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin….” complete with music and the singer (whose name I never would have known I’m reasonably sure).
A bit of research on the ‘net convinces me that it must have been my dad who watched this show. Richard Boone, ex-army, Civil War vet, professional gunfighter…. yup, had to be Daddy…. who was a man out of his own time, which would have been (had he had the option) the West of the 1800s….
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