I have been listening to more and more talk radio the past year. Commuting to work will get you to turn off the crappy music stations that you find in favor of some other distraction noise to keep you awake. Maybe it’s the music industry, maybe it’s the bad musical tastes of “Generation Y”, but the music on the radio has gotten so stale, that I often end up listening to talk shows that I completely disagree with.
I can’t wait until the radio stations around the country catch on to some new grooves with independent artists and start sharing some fun music rather than the pop filler that is passing as hits these days. Until then I will be talking to myself in the car disagreeing with these crazy talk shows and the callers that get
air time, because as bad as they are, they are still better than the crap that is filling the airwaves passing as music these days.
It’s either that, or I am going to have to break down and get subscription to satellite radio to have more options. Although from some of the reviews I’ve read, even with satellite radio there is some lacking in the talk radio show areas.
Read an article that was posted at the worpal Random thoughts blog, describing how easy it is to set up a 
podcast or internet webcast today. Technology has been taken pretty far, and is enabling almost anyone from anywhere to broadcast and share thoughts via blogs. I think that the audio and video netcasting is awesome. Now if there was a better way to search through all of the audio and video podcasts to find relative talks of interest, it would be great! Perhaps the big search engines will have a way to transcribe and create text based directories of all of the talk shows and audio sharing that has occurred and certainly will be occurring over the coming years.In the meantime I hope we’ll see broadcasters using descriptive keywords in posts and tags to help those of like minds (and not so like minds) to find each other!
A few months ago Wal-Mart decided to dump HD DVDs in favor of Blu-ray discs. This announcement came after Best Buy and NetFlix both decided to carry only blu-ray discs. I had heard that when the movie studios decided to go blu-ray that was pretty much sealing the fate of HD DVD, but now that all the major united States retailers are not going to carry the new format I think that means the end of the HD DVD format for sure. I have seen a lot of Blu-Ray movies at Wal-Mart but I have yet to buy any of the machines or discs. I’m resisting spending the money for now.
Well my sister’s on the road again. She’s been in the home office and stayed home for the past three weeks, but now she has to travel again. She says it’s really weird that she’s been traveling so much that being at home now is like being in a foreign country! She’s traveled so much this past year that even though she misses being at home, when she is home it doesn’t FEEL like home! That must really be weird! 
Anyhow, she’s not going far this time, and not for very long. She has a three day conference in Dallas and it’s not going to be too much travel around the city, she will be staying in the same hotel as the conference. She says she will probably not even leave the hotel the whole time she is there. She is working on writing a new book, which keeps her on the laptop all night, not much anything else needed as long as there is room service.
I wish she would start taking more pictures and perhaps come out with a random picture travel blog. It’s amazing how you can spend years in a city and never even know what it really looks like out there in the rest of the world. Of course spending years out on the road, you can fall into the trap of not really knowing what it is really like in the city. Isn’t it amazing what we all get used to dealing with and accept as our surroundings? If we all only had the time to explore more, we might find that the places we deal with regularly could be so much more.
I wish I could claim this photo as mine, but it was found at another blog, from a guy that is truly seeing the road… on a motorcycle and taking some great pictures of places that seem unreal to many who don’t get out of suburbia purgatory.
I’ve been hearing that there has been a successful cloning of pit bull dogs in Korea. I’ve read a few articles about it on Time.com, and heard about it on television. I have to say I’m a little bit confused about that. I can understand that people love their pets, and would like to replace them when they die with “identical” stand-ins, but clones don’t have the same memories, and perhaps won’t have the same personalities. That results from their “raising” and their life experiences (although SOME personality traits are genetic.) And dog breeds don’t differ that much in appearance, if you loved your dog a lot, when it dies it would make sense to buy another one of the same breed, but to go to the expense of cloning it seems a little bit much.
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