Writing two posts like these back to back may be enough to have me certified, but so be it.A short while ago I was on a TV news program, on a panel with a couple of other people, discussing children and sexual predation online. It wasn't a heated debate or anything (no one on the panel was for it or something) but it was kind of depressing to hear about what's happening to some kids. Afterwards...
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I had a very strange thing happen yesterday. Remember those classic 60s and 70s sitcom episodes in which a character could somehow 'receive' radio broadcasts in their head? I think there was a Brady Bunch episode in which one of the kids (probably ever-picked on Jan) got braces and those somehow acted as an antenna, etc., and there may have been a Gilligan's Island episode as well.Anyway, yesterda
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Last month I went to a show at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, sponsored by WXRT-FM. They've been doing this for a couple or so years now, bringing in a few bands each year to play at the zoo in their Jammin' At The Zoo thing. Anyway, the show started at 6pm according to the website for it, and nowhere did it mention opening acts. In fact, most people who went brought their kids, as often happens now
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Until I bought a new car recently I didn't realize how much I missed having the "scan" feature on the radio. When I replaced my car stereo a couple of years ago in my last car so that I could have an aux jack for my iPod I discovered (too late, because I was focusing almost entirely on the aux feature and little else) that it didn't have a "scan" button. That didn't seem like a very big deal un...
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The good news - the 7.1 surround system is fantastic. I listened to a couple of the Talking Heads' DVD-As and even though I don't have the system calibrated, or any furniture in the room, I heard all sorts of new and interesting things, and the surround mix did not really fundamentally change the music, just the experience of it.The bad news - am I going to go through the same thing I did when ...
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I couldn't resist the Honda MusicLink when buying a new car a couple of weeks ago, but so far it has not worked as advertised (and the advertising itself was less than enticing anyway, it charges the iPod and transfers audio to the car stereo but it doesn't transfer any info about the music like the id3 tags, playlists, etc.). None of the controls work from the car stereo, all I can do is skip ...
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If I manage to get done what I need over the 4th of July holiday weekend, I'll have a 7.1 surround sound system set up in my (nearly) finished basement. This begs the question: What to listen to first? I remember when I first started buying good quality audio equipment, one of the first decisions (after deciding what to buy, of course) was what to play first. The choices were circumscribed by m...
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