I've been listening to the 1968 BBC radio dramatization of The Hobbit and wow is it a bit jarring. Having grown up with the music from the animated 1977 Rankin and Bass production, hearing the poems and songs performed with different melodies and cadence is an "uncanny valley" level of weird.
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I enjoy listening to non-commercial radio. If you don't know what that means, its radio supported by donations and not commercials. If you are hearing commercials for local businesses every few songs any time you tune in you are listening to a commercial radio station. One of my favorite stations...
Why Amateur Radio?
I've been listening to scanners since I was a young teen, first at my grandfather's house outside of Philadelphia (which was a lot busier than where I lived) and later at my own home where the scanner is now non-stop police calls 24 hours a day. In High School and for at leas...
I've listened to Rich Conaty most Sunday nights for maybe 25 years now. He didn't know me, but I feel like I knew him some. He was always there as the week came to its close when I knew I'd have to be getting up in the morning and doing it all again soon. Sadly, Rich won't be getting up anymore...
One thing I need in a vehicle is a working radio. It doesn't have to be flashy, or even have bluetooth or a touch screen - I just need it to be able to tune in AM and FM radio and have a clock in it. The Van of Doom didn't have a radio. It was supposed to have had a radio, but when I went to pi...
Its been a long time since I've written about anything here! There are a couple reasons, not the least of which is that I hurt myself and developed some kind of tendinitis. This was probably because I ignored some early warning signs and kept mountain biking despite pain and weakness in my elbows....
Pandora certainly aren't the only folks to offer a streaming music recommendation service on the web (I had accounts on reverbnation and last.fm for awhile myself) but services like this generate lists of music programmatically in some way, either by simply sorting on the "genre" tag on the mus...
Several years ago I wrote a piece about my old GE portable radio. It was just a cheap portable AM/FM/cassette which got lugged around to keep me company while I was painting or doing chores. That radio eventually got relegated to the kitchen and was usually tuned (to the best of its ability) t...
I can't remember when I had bought that old radio, a GE model no.3-5636A with dual tape decks. It says "1976" in the embossed plastic lettering on the bottom, right next to the Indiana customer relations address beneath the slightly larger "Made in China".Its certainly not that old. It has the re...
