I’ve been listening to “The Sound of Young America” radio program lately via the podcast. It is quite entertaining. Jesse “America’s Radio Sweetheart” Thorn is the host of this radio show which is based out of Santa Cruz and is currenlty on the Santa Cruz radio station and one other in Hattiesburg, MS.
He interviews a wide range of ecelectic guests that fall into a few categories - sketch comedy, performance art, musician. or just strange occurance. Look here for a sampling of past guests. I’ve been listening via the podcasts from the link on the website. (This doesn’t mean you need an ipod to listen to it. Most media players will do.)
I’ve been looking for something that would give me a better breakdown on the visitors to my lovely website. I signed up to get a beta version of measure map. It should be quite interesting when it arrives because it is specifically tailored to blog traffic.
However, when Google produces a new tool/toy, I feel the need to at least give it a spin. Google bought the company, Urchin Software, which creates the Analytics software to breakdown site traffic.
For me, it’s probably only going to provide me with more useless stats and entertainment. Or course I’m using the free version. I don’t have much need or desire to optimize my site traffic. It’s just fun to get a graphically organized display of the stats I look at from time to time.
This image is the base page. The four windows will be filled with joy when it picks up some site traffic. It said it would be about 12 hours before anything meaningful would appear. It should provide me with some entertainment in the morning.
The source comes from long nights in the candle factory. Trying to push out one more wave of candles. Gently tapping the edges of the frost cooled mold against my hand. Progressing to tapping the mold on the table. And finally shaking with unnecessary force and pulling with a pair of vice grips on the wick.
Sack would sing this little song. He heard it in his youth in the hills of South Dakota and we all know it’s a mantra he lives by. Secretly, I became slightly obsessed with it. Not enough to go out and really look for but everytime I’d hit the thrift stores, I’d look the records knowing that at some point in time, this record would pass in front of my eyes.
I think it took about seven years to find it and now it is yours to enjoy.
Today is a good day to vote. I was able to hit the polls before work today. Megan studiously filled out her absentee ballot last night.
Rule of thumb for this election – If you talked about killing the monorail, my vote will not be yours. I think this is now the fourth time I’ve had to vote on whether or not to build a monorail (I think the fifth time overall for the City). I think a big problem (and I may not have all the facts) is that it was set up as an independent agency. This sounds good in theory but not quite as good in practice. It’s a City transportation issue and project and should be treated as such. However, not being under direct control of the main City government provides easy shots for elected officials to pooh-pooh it and get in its way. It also doesn’t hurt that you have a lot of large property owners in the downtown area throwing a lot of money at it to try and derail it.
I can sense the impending doom in the future when they decide to replace the viaduct that runs along the waterfront. The traffic downtown sucks already with the buses from the tunnel moving up on the surface streets while they modify the tunnel for the light rail That is only adding hundreds of buses a day. What do you do when the 27,000 trips on the Viaduct have to be moved elsewhere? (I’m assuming the number of trips is much greater than this. The only number I could find was a 1983 vehicle count.) The monorail isn’t the only solution but without – mass transit above grade –we don’t even stand a chance.
sadness has descended over my soul. the worst of possible outcomes. the world should not be run this way. decisions need to be made. it turns out that on december 10th, blowfly is playing at the funhouse and sharon jones is playing at nuemo’s. most likely my decision has already been made, Sharon Jones far and away has my heart now. The super 70’s funk and soul explosion wins out. It also doesn’t hurt that the horns and backup band consist of members of antibalas and others from the daptone label.
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