Are ya up? Well, go back to sleep – it’s an hour earlier than you think it is. If you’re having trouble getting back to sleep, you’re in luck; there’s another round of Sunday boobleheads to help ease you back into unconsciousness. I only hope I can make it through the next nine days or so with my sanity (such as it is) intact. Damnit, let’s just vote already.
On Press the Meat, Timmy KartoffelKopf hosts a debate between Ben Cardin and Michael Steele (who apparently equates stem cell research with Josef Mengele), the candidates for US Senate in Maryland, to see who will fill the seat being vacated by the retiring Paul Sarbanes.
Over on Faze the Nation, it’s, um, well, I guess they must’ve fired their web guy again or something, ‘cuz they don’t say who’s gonna be on today, and it’s really not worth putting in a whole lot of effort to find out. Watch the full Michael J. Fox interview instead. It’s about 24 minutes long. After you watch it, ask yourself how anybody could be so fucking stupid as attack this guy (and that goes for you, too, Matt Lauer, you ratfaced piece of shit). Anywho…
Speaking of ratfaced pieces of shit, on Fux News Sunday, Pissy Chrissy Wallace has Harold “where’re the white women at” Ford, Rick “here doggie, doggie” Sanatorium, and — oh, sweet jeezus, didn’t we just have to look at these two last week on Faze the Nation? — Chucky Schumer and Liddy “Cialis antidote” Dole. I mean, does ‘merica really wanna look at this on Sunday morning?
Now, I’ve said that the day might come when I’d have to abandon my boycott of the Goebbels Broadcasting Company, and this might just be the week. No, it isn’t because George Snufalufagus is gonna bull a Boehner over Mark Foley. And it sure isn’t to see This Weak’s roundtable of George :jerk: Will, Time’s Jay Carney, and his main squeeze, Claire Shipman, and the WaPost’s EJ Dionne. It’s not to see Sarah Jessica Parker trick-or-treat for Unicef, either. No, if I watch ABC tomorrow, it’ll be because they have Michael J Fox on the show. But probably I’ll just wait for it to show up on Crooks & Liars.
Over at Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission, it’s big Dick Lugar, Senator MBNA, Charlie Rangel, Ileana “Iraq is going just wonderfully, and I know ‘cuz my nephew told me so” Ros-Lehtinen, retired Major General Paul “Rummy must go” Eaton, Judy Miller accomplice Michael “aluminum tubes” Gordon of the NY Times, Stormin’ Norman Ornstein, Jeff Greenfield, and Amy Walter of the Cook Report.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley does a story on battlefield medicine in Iraq, Steve Kroft talks to Notre Dame’s football coach, Charlie Weis :yawn:, and there’s another update on the “Duke Rape Case.”
The freakin’ World series is finally over, but the Simpsons is still a repeat. All-in-all, a good day to stay in bed, I think.
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ummmm The blog clock needs to be adjusted its 4:36
rethugs are 👿
It looks like we had a virtual dorm BS session on the blog last night ..that’s cool..:sammy::dancers::boobs::yippee::tongue:
UK paper says U.S. created death squads that rule Iraq, forestall peace.
http://tinyurl.com/y78cs8
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Once again create a problem that requires you to stay in power/control
Rethugs are 👿
Federal government’s top accountant warns that DC has dug a fiscal black hole.
http://tinyurl.com/ydzvv2
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:nana:If we can’t have it our way we will ruin it for everyone else
Rethugs need to be eliminated :gate::omg::fist::jason::jason:
RETHUG(s) :tommygun::tommygun:
The NYT endorses Lamont for the senate.
The Senate Race in Connecticut
The Congressional elections are very much about America’s problems in Iraq. But the campaigns have shed little light on exactly what should happen next. Nowhere is that more true than in Connecticut. The two leading candidates, Ned Lamont and Joseph Lieberman, have clear disagreements over whether invading Iraq was a good idea in the first place, but grow much fuzzier when the question of future strategy comes up.
Mr. Lieberman, a three-term Democratic senator now running as an independent, talks about the threat of Islamic terrorism. Mr. Lamont, who beat Mr. Lieberman in the Democratic primary, reminds voters what a mess the invasion created. When it comes to the next step, Mr. Lieberman seems to mimic the Bush administration’s proposal to stay the course (while no longer mentioning that toxic phrase) with new tactics. Mr. Lamont is close to the Senate Democrats (minus Mr. Lieberman) who demanded a timetable for withdrawal without being too firm on what that ought to entail.
No one expects legislators to dictate military tactics. But what we need from the next crop of elected officials in Washington is a willingness to face reality, to choose from among difficult options and have the courage to be honest with the public about the consequences. On those points, Mr. Lamont is by far the better candidate.
More….
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Authorities upbeat despite violence marking anniversary of ’05 unrest
AP -Updated: 9:35 p.m. ET Oct. 28, 2006
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France – Marauding youths torched hundreds of vehicles overnight and on Saturday in renewed violence coinciding with the first anniversary of riots that exposed a deep schism between poor North African immigrants and mainstream France.
A group of teenagers set one bus on fire Saturday in the southern French port city of Marseille, seriously wounding a passenger. Three others suffered from smoke inhalation, police said. Two other public buses and 277 vehicles around the country were burned overnight, police said.
Six police were injured and 47 people were arrested, ministry officials said. Still the Interior Ministry described the night as “relative calm,” noting that up to 100 cars are torched by youths in troubled neighborhoods on an average night.
Police had braced for a bigger replay of violence in the poor suburbs predominantly made up of Muslims from former French colonies in Africa. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the deaths of two teens that ignited three weeks of riots in 2005.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15424638
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What they haven’t figured out is to take the violence to the affluent suburbs.:gate::omg:
Protest erupts over marijuana at State Capitol (Denver)
Governor Owens and members of different law enforcement agencies initially gathered to speak out against Amendment 44.
The amendment would make it legal for people 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in Colorado.
After the news conference began, it quickly became a contest of who could be the loudest.
“We’re trying to have a legitimate debate, but we’re being shouted down by you all,” said Owens.
The group SAFER, which supports Amendment 44, shouted things like, “What do we want? A safer choice.”
“Marijuana smoke is every bit as cancer causing as cigarette smoke,” said Owens.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers met the most opposition when he was at the podium.
Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener was also there.
“It doesn’t make sense, it’s irresponsible,” said Wegener.
“As law enforcement, we see the direct results on young lives, your children and your grandchildren,” said Lt. Col. Rick Salas with the Colorado State Patrol.
Supporters of the amendment were joined by a former police officer in Seattle, who supports legalizing marijuana.
“I think it’s tragic that police officials and local leaders don’t do their homework. Marijuana is not a gateway drug,” said Norman Stamper, former Seattle Police officer.
Supporters of Amendment 44 say it is a better alternative than alcohol.
“There are parents here and professionals and students and children who realize these laws are not working and need to change,” said Mason Tvert, the SAFER campaign director.
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The war on drugs needs to be stopped too. Its is just a way to take the dissident depressed unemployed poor off the streets and put them in private prisons ( run by other rethugs) …so they don’t steal the thugs “stuff”
Rethugs are 👿
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:sheep::shock: my computer time says 5:26 but this blog says an hour later and so does my clock radio. 🙄
Good morning…
October 28, 2006
WASHINGTON — With Election Day just over a week away, Florida voters are grumpy.
They’re unhappy with President Bush, bitter about the Iraq war and worried that the nation is on the wrong track.
Forty-four percent of Florida voters say Bush is doing a poor job overall and more than half believe he’s doing a poor job with the war, according to a new St. Petersburg Times poll.
Fifty percent want Democrats to take over Congress, compared with just 39 percent that want the Republicans to remain in control.
The mood does not bode well for Republican candidates across the state. Rob Schroth, a Democratic pollster who jointly conducted the Times survey with Republican Kellyanne Conway, said Bush “is really pulling down the entire Republican effort in Florida because of his highly negative ratings.”
http://tinyurl.com/vv8j7
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I hope all these grumpy voters in South Florida do something about it if the election does not come out correctly…or will they just :alc::gate::omg:
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Hi Susan :yippee::yippee::yippee:
My bio clock did not fall back 😮
Neither did the one on the set back thermostat.:eek::eek:
yeah, this falling back hurts….I thought it was supposed to make things easier…
agree with you on the war on drugs, Fred
Hundreds of police officers show up for canceled protest (Chicago)
Edited on Sat Oct-28-06 10:31 PM by struggle4progress
October 28, 2006 – …
It’s a mix up that will cost tax payers tens of thousands of dollars. The anti-war demonstration at Washington Square was supposed to start at noon and the Chicago Police Department was ready. But the protesters were a no show, and police say it was a big waste of time and money.
They waited patiently on foot, on bike and in the streets. Hundreds of Chicago police officers were ready to make sure Saturday’s anti-war demonstration stayed peaceful. Their job was easier than expected — because no one showed up …
The organizer of the protest, John Beacham, says his group instead decided to pass out anti-war flyers throughout neighborhoods. He says the mix up is the city’s fault …
“The city is usually spying on us and watching us carefully, so we just figured they understood there wasn’t a demonstration today,” said Beecham ..
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Test ..test is this thing on ..Humm guess not..
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The Sunday (London) Times October 29, 2006
As its earnings pass $12 billion, the American industry is attracting
the attention of legislators.
The American pornography business is growing so fast that for
the first time in a decade it is attracting the unwelcome attention
of the White House and federal prosecutors.
When George Bush entered the Oval Office in 2001 he accused
his predecessor Bill Clinton of being “soft on porn” and vowed to
crack down on an industry that was generating $9.8 billion a
year. But anti-porn campaigners in Bush’s own party say that
since then the president has been distracted by the war on terror
and has done little.
With an average 40% profit margin on DVD sales, explicit porn
is twice as profitable as the music business. Porn revenues in the
US are higher than all money generated by the combined
professional American football, baseball and basketball
franchises.
Production is booming, too. According to Adult Video News,
13,500 titles were released last year, compared with 8,000 in
1998 and 1,250 in 1988.
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I would bet that most drug dealers, pimps and porn movie makers are rethugs too.
There is no industry copy protection either.
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CNN) — Despite politicians’ complaints about judges having too much power, two-thirds of Americans do not believe elected officials should have more control over federal judges, according to a new CNN poll released Saturday.
Sixty-seven percent of 1,013 people surveyed by Opinion Research Corp. on behalf of CNN said federal judges — and the decisions they make — should not be subject to more control.
Only 30 percent said they should.
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oh yes, reminder, Mike Malloy will be on http://www.novamradio.com tomorrow, Monday, 9 to 12 pm EST :jesus:
The Associated Press
LONDON — A comprehensive report on the global economic cost of climate change, to be released by the British government Monday, is expected to be the world’s most serious effort to quantify the long-term effect of doing nothing.
The Independent newspaper reported Friday that the long-awaited review would say global warming could cost the world’s economies up to 20 percent of their gross domestic product if urgent action is not taken to stop floods, storms and natural catastrophes.
Author Sir Nicholas Stern met privately with Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet ministers Thursday to brief them about his findings. Stern, a government adviser on climate change, is a former chief economist of the World Bank.
Quoting unidentified officials at the briefing, The Independent said Stern warned the world would have to pay 1 percent of its annual gross domestic product now to avert catastrophe but that doing nothing could later cost five to 20 times that amount.
“Business as usual will derail growth,” the paper quoted Stern as saying as he briefed the government on his 700-page report, covering a period up to the year 2100.
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Now is “Business as usual” staying the course or can it be translated “rethugs as usual” or both.
Rethugs are 👿
I noticed yesterday that Maddows blog is only getting 3 to 5 hits per show these days.. To bad Peter B doesn’t have a blog. Betsy Rosenburg will loose all her listeners now..I hope Nova M planned for a lot of streaming band width.
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well maybe because she lectures people about how to post from what I seem to remember…
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Deciding Whether to Close a Window Into Space
As NASA learned when it canceled a planned shuttle mission to keep alive the Hubble Space Telescope almost three years ago, its orbiting source of jaw-dropping intergalactic images and deep insights into the early days of the universe had become something of an astronomic rock star.
The scientific and public response was overwhelming: The then-14-year-old Hubble had to be saved before its batteries and gyroscopes failed, and NASA was seriously misguided for refusing to send a shuttle crew to keep it running. This view was strongly endorsed by an expert panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences in late 2004.
Soon after, Michael D. Griffin became NASA administrator and agreed to reconsider the Hubble mission. On Tuesday, he will announce whether the telescope will be repaired or will be allowed to gradually run out of steam.
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“It’s very important for those who want to continue working with Hubble, important for those who want to do other space science, and it’s important as an indication of that evolving balance between space science and human space exploration,” he said. “And it shows that NASA has an enormous number of big issues on its plate right now.”
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if everything the government does has to be predicated on whether it can make some tung money or not then those predicating such things need to be eliminated :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Rethugs are 👿
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Hey PJ thanks for fixing the clock.:yippee::yippee::yippee::dancers::dancers::tongue:
I’m finally watching that Michael J. Fox video with Katie
what a scumbag Rush Limbaugh is to pick on him
Hummm did anyone see Rod Sterling standing .. or..was it PJ standing under that street light in a fog..:eek::eek:
Clocks will revert back to Daylight Saving Time three weeks earlier than usual next year — on the second Sunday in March rather than the first Sunday in April for the first time since 1966.
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The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time, first conceived of by American inventor Benjamin Franklin, is to make better use of daylight.
http://tinyurl.com/sovdw
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 — Frustrated with laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back.
Now that corruption cases like Enron and WorldCom are falling out of the news, two influential industry groups with close ties to administration officials are hoping to swing the regulatory pendulum in the opposite direction. The groups are drafting proposals to provide broad new protections to corporations and accounting firms from criminal cases brought by federal and state prosecutors as well as a stronger shield against civil lawsuits from investors.
http://tinyurl.com/yc4eyx
Got to skedaddle until after lunch will blog with you all later:dancers::dancers::eek:
Maybe I should go back to bed? It’s only 6:43 here in Birmingham.
Morning folks!
Ive nominated PJ for the Nobel Prize for service to humanity. Do you have any idea how much teeth-grinding i have been spared by reading his pre-game summaries of MTP and other sunday shows, instead of having to watch the actual shows? Start working on that speech.:sammy:
Morning/Evening :yinyang:
mkay, I’m gonna broadcast a little while this morning.
Cresttwo, I agree. Not only has he saved your teeth but he has spared my teevee from having a shoe thrown through it.:peace:
http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
Click the above link to listen
Call me on skype: cnickthomas
My WI absentee ballot hasn’t arrived, yet. :knit2: When will it arrive? Soon, I hope.
Here’s a scenario for you: :tinfoil:
The Republicans win the election in a landslide. It is so obvious that the elections were tampered with that the results are frozen while an investigation islaunched – and it quickly turns out that Hugo Chavez is behind it! We launch an invasion to teach them a lesson (and grab a few oil fields), and in a wave of patriotic fever the R’s legitimately win the new election held in Feb. of next year.
This scenario brought to you by Alcoa. Because these days one layer of tin foil on you head just isn’t enough . . .
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Hey everyone…The New York Times endorsed Ned Lamont!!!
I put the entire editorial up on my blog!
Jeeze Fred, do you ever sleep late? You beat me to the punch!! Mom was waiting by the phone for my AIM to pop on the computer, and before I even got past the ad-aware report, the phone was ringing with a very excited Mom yelling that the Times has endorsed Ned!
Very good news here…not that the Times really effects change in those who would vote for Lieberman…but its a pretty nice article. Ned must be happy….and I want him to run again if he loses…so any positive note in all of htis is nice.
and Fred, its wasnt so much a dorm room bullshit session…it was a tech lesson in how to have a group voice chat in skype.
But mustve seemed sorta silly if you werent in on it because we were getting people and then troubleshooting…..I didnt even really read last nights blog in whole…Ill have to look…
all youse out there get ye a good headset and get in on the chat!
PJ check the cool emoticons that they have on skype chat….I like the clock, the breaking heart and the dancing stick men….
Hey Nick- Hen you got your mic (electrovoice) did it come with a wire and a stand?…mine is just the mic and needs the cord and stand….which I didn t order, of course…
But, at least I got the box opened…adn iRiver is sending me a brand new recorder because the apparently gabbed the wrong one when packing the box….huh? This thing was dirty and missing plug end covers with some wires exposed…Ive heard of refurbished, but this was just trashed!
oh god, next on snuffle’s show is Fox, shaking like hell an dlooking like shit….I hope this buries limbaugh…but it is just too sad. What a nice guy…with kids and a wife…and if for nothing else than to illustrate what the ravages are and try to balance that against the potential (aka never to exist) snowflake children…damn….
The Arizona Republic has endorsed Harry Mitchell who is running against Windbag Hayworth. This is a first in the 6 times that Hayworth has run. :banana: :banana: :pirate:
Okay, what kind of headset do I need to get to use skype? I’ll check on prices today but I shouldn’t be spending money on such things at this time. :doh:
Hold on and I’ll look up the cable you need
Melina you need this cable. If this is the microphone you ordered.
Kristapea, check out these headsets. The cheapest one will work just fine for skype conversations.
well…it turns out that the Amazon page offered the cable with it, so they just didnt send it for some reason…So, I mailed them.
of course, I can get through amazon without browsing the archos player/dvrs and then ending up on Woot….damn
I meant…cant get through amazon
the skype headsets need that digital doo dad if youre ever gona be recording…I think anyway.
Nick are those all mac compatible….?
I need to send some to sweden and my friend is so computet illiterate that I dont know if she will even be able to plug the thing in. I need the simplest that will works well with mac laptop.
Just get a USB headset then and all she’ll have to do is plug it in the USB port on the computer. Anyone should be able to do that.
Well, Maybe I’ll go to Fry’s today and get one if there’s one less than $50. Where do they plug in? Okay, I see a mic and an input thingy on the back, looks like that would be it.
Tell the sales clerk at Fry’s what you’re going to do with the headset and he/she can recommend the right one for you Kristapea.
So, how do I record when using it? Would I use Replay AV? I can do a radio show with a headset right?
If the headset comes with miniplugs – one miniplug (the one for the mic) goes into the input on the soundcard; the other miniplug (the one for the headphones) goes into the output on the soundcard.
Hmm, you use a windows machine don’t you Krista? Perhaps wait for PJ to show up here and ask him about recording on your Windows machine. Or Fred could prolly answer your questions.
This is the one that TWIT’s leo laporte suggested…well, the one up from this…this is the one that replaces it…
You need broadcast software to do a radio show. I think Shoutcast will work for you Krista. Ask PJ about that.
I like that headset Melina. And the price is really good when compared to Plantonics website.
You don’t really need a headset – just speakers and a microphone. You can get a cheapo mic for about $10. Spend a buck or two more and you can get one that will sit on your head, and help cancel out the noise from your speakers. Since you can listen to Internet radio and podcasts, I’ll assume you already have speakers.
You can always opt to spend more money that you don’t have later on. Just my opinion.
If you get a USB headset, be aware that USB uses more system resources than just plugging into your sound card. I have no problem, but if you have a system w/o a lot of oomph and a bunch of stuff running, you may experience some sluggishness.
Krista- there is a 3mm mic input there…but also alot of them are USB….try to get a digital plantronics one. It shouldnt be more than $40 or so…and maybe alot less. But the good one at Amazon is $40..
The one that the podcasting guys use was discontinued …but it was only $50.
You can get by with a really cheapo one, but it seems worth it to put in a few more bucks if it will prevent feedback and echo in group discussions.
I have to write to linksys and ask them why my phone would suddenly get that echo.
probably trying to shut me up…I need that emoticon with the tape on the mouth!!:rofl2:
So in using speakers PJ would you not have a problem with sound feeding back into the mic while your trying to talk?
PJ- if you hadnt been out galavanting around last night, you coulda seen how its probably better for everyone to have a good set…because its a big group and if one or two have a shaky setup we spend alot of time messing around…when we need to gossip and maybe even start to plan our world takeover…!! We kept looking for you…
Be sure to block out some time next Sat…or sooner…to skype…Granny too!!
I think I may have to get Will a headset…he was really into it.
Next thing you know he will have his own little mac radio show for the kids…
I agree with the issue of using a USB headset on a computer with limited resourses. The computer will definitely be sluggish.
I think you might…and its probably Ok enough for sometimes, but if you can really use the thing…Hell, lets start a fnd to provide skype headphones to all….Im gonna get the $40 ones for claire …and maybe for Will too.
Nick, what is the software for the mac? Is it nicecast?…for Will to broadcast…is it in the mac or should I get it for him?
maybe the usb issue is why my computer was a little slow on the uptake. It was the chat that was slow, not the voice though…
Wow, kick ass senate debate on press The Meat!
At one time we had five people in a conference call last evening. Even Farmerkat was online with us til she had some problem with her audio we could not resolve. That’s when we looked to you PJ. Would be nice to have you with us next time PJ.
do all mac laptops have a standard mic jack? Is that what I should look for for Claire? Her laptop might be old…
Nicecast is the software. It is $40.00 bucks.
:yippee::yippee::yippee:PJ!!:dancers::dancers::dancers:
Come to the chat!!:banana::banana::banana::banana:
They use the miniplug for the mic input. Yes. Or you can use a USB headset.
You may need to buy another microphone if Will gets into broadcasting. Grooming a new generation of Marc Maron’s! Cooleo
Im gonna get that and a headset for Will so he can do his own. He loved the idea of playing music…Ill bet he can get his friends on…..
Though he has a lot of explicit music. Its not bad, but has some F words and stuff…
If you have a regular mic plug on the headset and it goes to the soundcard, can you listen to the broadcast while chatting?
Will also does some standup. he was the hit of the endless school talent show last year
The Nicecast software is only for the Mac. That’s what I used to do last nights broadcast. You do not need Nicecast to hold a conference call. You only need skype. Free download. I use Nicecast to broadcast the skype conference calls so listeners to the broadcast can hear us talk. Thus a Radio Show!
well, he can use the electrovoice. I doubt we would be using it at the same time. Im not gonna broadcast unless I can set up a server and a network out of here, and hire PJ to run it…and program it with alot of old time radio shows and maybe develp new time radio drama…and then add another channel for politics…why not?
HI IS very worried about the political stuff because he was in the mccarthy stuff and had to testify and whatever…hire his writers under diff names and go through all sorts of crazinss. He is sure that this administration is worse than anything we have seen ever….
But I dont want to hide…because thats as bad as anything that has ever happened.
So Hi grabs my roadside impeach signs and throws them down, and I go out after hes left and put them back up!….
Okay, I’ll get a headset today. The ones with a seperate mic/input jack not usb. If I have a headset do I still have to get a mic to do a show?
If you are hosting a call-in show you don’t want to be listening to the live online broadcast. The delay would confuse you. That’s why I told those on skype to close out of the live broadcast.
Yeah, he has a mac laptop…and now all the kids upgraded to a powerbook, so I think that we are gonna get him that through the school discount and I was gonna sell the laptop on ebay, but Im thinking of giving it to Ben for now…and then when we work out his school situation ge thim the one the school he goes to will want and give this one to little fritz or shalay or any number of kids down there who could use it…..
Sorry but I thought I included Fred’s comment#12 ”
I noticed yesterday that Maddows blog is only getting 3 to 5 hits per show these days.. To bad Peter B doesn’t have a blog. Betsy Rosenburg will loose all her listeners now..I hope Nova M planned for a lot of streaming band width.”
I suggest everyone heavily encourage them to do just that and offer free downloads rather than a “premium” service. It is a good way to promote the product, especially in markets with no outlet.
And damn, Melina, why the hate for Leo LaPorte? He and Peter B. were both victims of Bob Agnew’s reign as station mgr at KNBR in SF when he brought on Rush and started righty talk here. But he can be a twit, I suppose.
The problem with not using headphones is that the sound can echo back to the other listeners – not really a feedback issue. There are noise cancellation settings in Skype (at least, I think there are) to optimize it for use w/ external speakers. I’ve done it that way, and it’s really not much of a problem. I’ve even just used the mic built in to my web cam, and never got any complaints.
Certainly, you can plug both earphones and a microphone in together (there’s nothing that says they need to be integrated into one unit). When you’re talking about compressed audio aver the Internet, I’m not sure how much difference a microphone will make. A really, really crappy one might sound tinny or something, but really, for voice conversation? The mic in your telephone handset isn’t exactly a top shelf item.
I have a mic that sits on my head. It came with some voice recognition software, and the benefit is that it sits right at your mouth and doesn’t pick up any extraneous noise. The only reason I got a USB headset is because my soundcard uses the mic in port for the subwoofer out. It’s nice, reasonably comfortable, and, well, for all the use it gets (next to none), not really worth the $50 I paid for it (but it was for a school VoIP thing, so I worte it off to that).
But, yeah, if you think it’s something you’re gonna use a lot, then get something comfortable to wear on your head.
Krista you can use the headset to do a show.
OK….but if you are boradcasting, do you listen in a headset to what is on while broadcasting?
IM thinking that with the seed money to get the scholarships and computers thing started I can go out and get matching funds from local businss….Stamford is the second largest financial center now in the USA,,,next to NYC
All those big corporations are building headquarters here…
Computers for kids…education for kids…skype for all seditionists!!
Re 86, I guess I’m not following you Melina. Sorry. PJ, would you please answer Melina. Thanks (How’s that for passing the buck?)
re#83 ????????
I love leo laporte…where did that come from? Ive been suggesting the headset he likes for skype boradcast interviews….
and Ive been the biggest proponent of allowing free downloads of AAR shows and others too…because it is worth more as a promotional tool than anything else…at least int he infancy of a network!
I listen to what I’m broadcasting through a set of Bose headphones and talk with my broadcast microphone. The same one used to do my podcasts.
Have to back Melina up on LaPort. We all LOVE Leo LaPort here. I was a BIG fan of “Call for help” and the “Screensavers” on TechTV. To bad that network was absorbed by G4. TWIT (This week in Tech) is a podcast Leo Laport does each week. You can subscribe to it in iTunes.
I think he misunderstood…its OK
so when you talk over the music, do you hear the music and your voice?
maybe he tought I was calling Leo a twit!:rofl2:
Sorry, I misread this quote “This is the one that TWIT’s leo laporte suggested…well, the one up from this…this is the one that replaces it…”.
I thought you were calling him a TWIT. Sorry. He is actually a great guy.
One advantage of a USB setup is that the USB headset becomes a second audio device. So, in skype, I tell skype to use the headset, while the system default is my soundcard. So, I can listen to, say, AAR on my computer speakers, and talk/listen with skype on the headset (as I did the other day, when I got to speak to Tom in Tokyo while listening to Marc on Springer). In fact, I have it ring through on my computer speakers so I know there’s a call coming in, but the rest goes through the headset.
Leo is a goofy bastid, and I like him very much. I like Patrick Norton, too (even if he wears a kilt). A shame that Kevin and Sarah broke up, but now Sarah is off traveling the world on her honeymoon, and Kevin, last I heard, is hangin’ out with Amber Mac.
And Martin Sargent is from Rochester.
Yes, I miss TechTV.
Yes, Melina I hear the music on the headphones and hear a slight delay of my voice through the headphones. I pull em off my ear a bit so I don’t get to confused. If I’m not skyping I connect the headphones into my mixer to hear my voice and listen to the music through my computer speakers, turning the sound of the speakers down when I talk between songs.
Re 96, PJ you are a wizard! You should have been on “Call for help” man.
Re 93, yes
Sorry for all of the misunderstanding. My Internets are real slow this morning. I never saw Tech TV much except for when I was visiting somewhere and it was on that cable system. Strangely it was done in SF but was not on the cable here for the longest time. Their studios were near Potrero Hill. I went in and watched Leo tape the show he did with the young woman in glasses once. With the re-run schedule he once made up 25% of their programming.
I was a little jealous that Leo had all the cool gear and the cool jobs.
It’s all cool wvmc3d, I’m jealous you got to see Leo in person. I live in an isolated part of the world. No one famous ever comes here. 🙁
If you ever saw the episode where they went to Corbin Bernsen’s house, he had a great setup, with a nice rack (so to speak) in a computer closet. That definitely made me jealous.
Hey, I have even cooked with Leo. He’s pretty good.
Maybe someday I’ll meet one of my hero’s like Marc or Leo!
I’d be so astonished I wouldn’t be able to speak or I’d say something real dumb!
Will is really into the Diggnation podcast….its sorta funny but also techy…
So, Im gonna stick with USB connections…except that the separate mic should go into the mic port if using a separate mic while broadcasting, right?
you don’t really need a separate microphone for broadcasting. I’d get a really good headset if I was gonna use it for both broadcasting and skype.
I don’t use a headset because I have the broadcast mic and a set of headphones.
Listen to Rocky and Bullwinkle on my broadcast.
OK…am not seeing nicecast…is it called something else? Spelled differently?
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/
hi guys! That was fun last night. I read that some older macs’ microphones don’t work when using battery power. My version is a bit newer than what they say, but we’re wondering if that was last night’s issue. Will try to test the mic later.
The tractor was stuck in the mud up past its front tire. Used a neighbor’s truck with a wench,THAT truck blew its batteries and then its alarm started up and shut the entire truck system down. Then used our truck to get the tractor out of the mud the rest of the way, but the neighbor’s truck is still kaput! Oh my!
put two picts of Murrow up – sorry they aren’t focused too well.
will check back later. It’s a beautiful day here! Need to do some paperwork, but….oh well.
I broke my personal pledge not to watch the sunday dickhead shows, and i caught some of Wolf Blitzer and saw Senator MBNA Biden –
However, Biden did one thing i really liked – twice he responded to a question premised with a Bush sound bite with the words: “I don’t question Prez Bush’s patriotism, but i do question his judgment.”
In other words, lets keep bringing up, and plant subliminally, the fact that these fuckheads have destroyed our military and played perfectly into the hands of people who want to destroy our country, “but we’re not calling you unpatriotic or anything.”
If the voters are so fucking stupid that they still at this point can’t make up their minds to overwhelmingly turn these bastards out of office, lets use the typical subliminal stuff you’d use on a moron.
Its a bit like LBJ planting the story that his adversary had sex with barnyard animals, and when questioned by his staff, responding “Well, no, I don’t think the voters will believe that he’s a pig-fucker; I just want the sum bitch to have to deny it.”
Okay MBNA Joe, for today at least, you’re the real deal. :sammy:
farmerKat,
I have an older powerbook and the internal mic works fine. I bought mine in Jan 2005. You were in on the conversation for a while and then something changed.
i s mercury in retrograde again?
Roxie?
Druid?
:tongue:
Farmerkat..
I also spent a lot of time making Skype test calls and I had a little lapel mic that Travis is now using. The internal mic on the laptop just sounded better and the lapel mic sounds fine when paired with T’s PC which doesn’t have an internal mic.
I am here:
http://www.veritecoffee.com/
but must go to an appointment…
it is raining/hailing in Seattle today..
Beautiful with the fall colors.
Here is a favorable review of Hartmann’s latest book:
❓
Greetings
The American pornography business is growing so fast that for the first time in a decade it is attracting the unwelcome attention
of the White House and federal prosecutors.
All right, NOW they’re going too far. It’s bad enough that Bush is using the Constitution for asswipe and murdering soldiers to increase the profit margins of Halliburton stockholders, but DON’T COME AFTER MY PORN.:no:
It’s hitting below the belt. Literally.:jerk:
Andy, I like the new handle
If anybody’s interested, the full video of George Snufalufagus and Michael J Fox is on the This Weak webpage. Look for it under “exclusive video.” It’s about 24 minutes long (the one on the show was only about 7 minutes worth, I guess).
Thanks Susan – I uoloaded some of the photos from the Weldon protest to the photo blog.
Screwed Review:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=10&ItemID=11195
I’ll check them out Andy
Ah there’s the review :sdavid:
Some interesting points made – it’s probably a book worth reading…he seems to think the system can be fixed though
A Lesson in Nobel Economics:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=11241
The system can be fixed–to a much better functioning one. Think Sweden or Germany. But serious flaws will remain, of course.
“It is a sad commentary on the system that allows people to spend valuable resources in acquiring requisite capabilities and skills and when they acquire them and are ready to contribute, they are told that they are unwanted. How humiliating it is!”
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Grand National Championship TONIGHT on FreeRadioSAIC.org at 8 PM CENTRAL TIME!!!
Don’t forget to have turned your clocks back (internet clocks included).
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Global Finance:
http://MondeDiplo.com/2006/10/02finance
just as some species of bird-like dinosaurs were evolving into the feathered fellows we know today, a surprising fossil find shows that the honeybees, Apis mellifera, we know and love today were also evolving in the years before the Age of the Dinosaur ended 65 million years ago.
http://tinyurl.com/yczxju
#129: That sort of thing is dehumanizing. Or at least disempowering, discouraging.
makes me feel kind of helpless…
I am listening to a talk on the New Left by Michael Albert.
Real Player.
sounds interesting – I’ve had trouble downloading real player recently, though
A positive development on the global front:
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11141§ionID=10
I have to pause the player and go jump in the shower. Still have my makeup on.
:omg:
Norway is a good role model
that can be taken the wrong way….people, he means Halloween makeup …
My eyeliner and lipstick.
:pirate:
What were you for Halloween? I was Clockwork Orange Alex.
I was a glitter heart girl, that’s what the kids put on my face yesterday…just a lot of hearts and stars
did anyone take pictures? I want to see
That’s right. Fucking Halloween isn’t until Tuesday. We had an early Halloween/Performance.
did your intruments show up?
I had some SLR photos taken. There were some digital cameras. But no one has checked back with me-yet.
oh well, hopefully we’ll get to see the makeup job soon :nod:
No. But we have resolved the problem. I’ll tell you about it when I get out of the shower.
Yesterday, I saw someone who was walking around downtown taking photos with a Leica. Beautiful camera!
We did an impromptu set with recorders, bongos and various percussives. Poetry reading and songs.
I need to get myself a camera… especially by when you visit
sounds wonderful
I have a Pentax K1000 SLR.
that sounds pretty good – though I’m not an expert in cameras
Okay, I got a headset, I’m ready to become a radio star :pup:
So where’s Cnick when you need ‘m?
It looks like I scared everyone away- it’s not even Halloween yet!
Boo!:reaper:
Ok, i tested the mic on skype (the lady in England and a phone call) and on the computer voice activation and they all worked just fine. I think it was that I was running on battery. that’s my theory and i’m sticking to it until it doesn’t work again. :billcat:
wish i could have been in Ballard with you blue.
kp, i’m heading to bed soon, so maybe we can try your new headphones tomorrow on a call. you can give me a Nellie update and I a Murrow one to you!
crest, Dean was good on Faze The Nation, too, btw.
tomorrow i go get hay just to be sure i have enough for winter. a lot of folks didn’t get their normal second cuttings because of the lact of rain this summer, so hay is pretty scarce.
Thanks for tuning in, those who did!
I’m still pissed off… but that’s why God gave us alcohol and sedatives.
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