\t\t\t\ti just heard elton john sing “count the headlights on the highway”,
\nreminding me that as a kid i thought he was saying “count the headlice on
\nthe highway.” as a kid it made sense enough. now i imagine a dude driving
\nalong on the interstate, plucking lice critters out of his hair and
\nkeeping count of the number of plucks, singing about this particular
\nepisode of headlice because “it’s been a busy day today”.<\/p>\n
i guess i’ll have a busy day tomorrow. not on account of lice or scurvy or
\ncrabs but jury duty. i don’t mind going. i have nothing else to do, as i
\nspent the day lamenting. nothing useful, that is. my main worry is setting
\nthe alarm clock. i haven’t done that in 10 years.<\/p>\n
i do not consider myself a weather whiner but this so-called summer has
\nreally been getting me down. the weekend heat was a seductive respite, but
\nhere we are again back to days of clouds and rain and temperatures in the
\n60s. it’s just so fucking wrong.<\/p>\n
i listened in to Nebraska radio this afternoon. it took me a long time to
\nwarm up to the Sangen DDR-63 WiFi Radio that i bought last year, but i’m
\ngetting as much out of that beast as i could reasonably desire. it is an
\ninternet device, of course, so it shares the same Internet connection used
\non the computers in my apartment. but i like the separate device. i have
\nnever warmed up to using a $3000 computer as a radio, and i know that this
\nSangean is but an extension of the computer in a way, but it can operate
\nfully without the computer being on and it is a radio, not Winamp or Real
\nPlayer or Spotify, all of which i like just fine, but as a faux
\ntraditionalist of sorts i still prefer the actual table top device for
\nlistening to radio stations. and a device that brings in thousands of
\nstations is pretty cool, even if it doesn’t bring in local obviousnesses
\nlike Yankees baseball or Bloomberg Radio. the Sangean DDR-63 is not the
\n“all-in-one” it bills itself to be, but it is a pretty impressive
\n“lots-in-one” device.<\/p>\n
its chief flaw is its lack of AM tuner. that, as mentioned before, makes
\nit impossible for this New Yorker to hear local broadcasts of Yankees
\nbaseball and Bloomberg Radio. Bloomberg Radio has no advertised public
\nInternet stream, though it is available directly from their web site,
\nsuggesting that Bloomberg Radio may be accessible through
\nsome not-so-crazy URL hack. but Yankees baseball is only available
\nfor pay over the Internet. So your $400 radio comes with an additional
\npricetag if you want to use it to hear some local AM radio.<\/p>\n
is that even legal? to sell a radio device that would force buyers to
\npurchase additional services to hear content that the FCC mandates should
\nalways be available locally? and why do these radio makers give AM such
\nshort shrift?<\/p>\n
in the modern world of HD radio one could expect to get AM stations on the
\nFM band via HD3. WCBS 880 AM (which carries the Yankees Radio Network in
\nNYC) has 3 HD channels, including its HD3 station which is simply the AM
\nstation. (i’m going to double check this when i get home. i have a
\nSony HD radio that gets all the local HD stations, but it’s possible that
\neven their carriage of WCBS’ HD3 station does not carry live Yankees
\ngames.)<\/p>\n
i like listening in on local AM radio from faraway places. they talk about
\nhog futures and sand hills on Nebraska radio. they also talk about the
\nsame shit they talk about on talk radio everywhere else in the country,
\nsince the same nationally syndicated shows echo in Lincoln as rattle
\nthrough Queens, Brooklyn, and all the rest of this righteously
\nself-centered town.<\/p>\n
you can’t be too much of an audiophile if Internet Radio is your thing.
\nsome stations sound hearty and full, others sound like butt, and surfing
\nfrom station to station can be jarring. thus, the DDR-63’s greatest
\nquality — its sound — is subject to squalor as an internet radio. local
\nFM sounds awesome. the iPod sounds as good as it can, depending on the
\nsource of the recording. CDs sound as good on the DDR-63 as any device i
\ncan remember. the network music player, which plays FLAC and MP3 and OGG
\noff my RAID (look all those up), sounds great but exhibits evidence of
\nsome strange product-development decision-making-processes (so does the
\nCD player).<\/p>\n
blahblahblah. words that will linger unread on the world wide web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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