I don’t think I’ve listened to any OTR in over a week. There never seem to be enough hours in a day…I admit I do listen to news from radio stations streamed across the Internet during the morning while getting my daughter together and ready for school and trying to handle the mailing list and answer email at the same time, but usually I have some time in the afternoon to listen to OTR while programming when the Katester is sitting in kindergarden learning how to be even better at getting whatever she wants from the old man.
But for the last week or so, I’ve been so darned busy with stuff that’s been popping up, I haven’t had time to listen to anything. I’ve been going through video and audio tape and discs gathering information for this fall’s tribute to Harry Bartell (I’ll talk more about that sometime real-soon-now), transfering video into the computer for burning to DVD, fixing things around the house (today a front door hinge, later today or tomorrow a replacement valve in the toilet, that sort of thing), late last week I finalized all the tax information for the accountant (who seemed a little surprised that I wasn’t coming in on April 14th)…it’s all just conspired to make it impossible to listen to any OTR.
Man, I miss it.
And I can’t figure out how other people seem to have so much time to kick back and listen. There seem to be so many things that need to be done nowadays that it drives me crazy when I talk to someone and they say, “yeah, I listened to three Nick Carter episodes and a Shadow yesterday,” while I’m trying to figure out where the d*mned screwdriver is I used yesterday.
Jealous? Me? Na…
But if I don’t soon get some time to listen to some shows, I’m going to need a bunch of guest-bloggers to take up the slack…
From News.com: Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday that it plans to said it will stop selling the Mac edition of FrameMaker, a set of print and electronic publishing tools commonly used to create complex documents such as technical manuals, as of April 21. It will continue to support the Mac version for one year after that.
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5177920.html
Wonder who Steve Jobs ticked off?
You gotta love Archive.org. Not only do they have all kinds of cool stuff sitting around (you can spend weeks wandering around the website - check out the Prelinger Archives and the TV Commercial collection!), but they have the entire 1968 feature film, “Night of the Living Dead” available for streaming, or download as VCD MPEG-1, DVD MPEG-2, QuickTime, and a whole bunch of other formats!
If you want to scare the dickens out of yourself, enjoy this golden oldie, now in the public domain.
(And check out what CopyFight has to say about the availability of the film…)
Press Release from NPR: Bob Edwards, the award-winning, 30-year NPR veteran broadcaster and host of Morning Edition since its first broadcast, announced today that he is leaving as host of the program effective April 30, 2004, to take on a new assignment as senior correspondent for NPR News. His reports will be heard on many NPR programs across the broadcast week.
http://www.npr.org/about/press/040323.bobedwards.html
I’m…I’m…speechless. I…I…holy crap. And I used to get upset during his annual August vacations. How the devil am I going to start my mornings now? I mean…I mean…but he’s been there forever. I can’t remember not listening to Morning Edition with my morning coffee and hearing that calm voice with the silly returns. It’s…it’s…ah, crap.
From Wired: The Recording Industry Association of America said Tuesday it is suing another 532 people — including 89 on university campuses — in its latest wave of lawsuits against alleged file swappers.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62769,00.html
Here we go again…the self-rightous industry group takes on more grandmothers and kids.
