Author: RTOlson

My new radio show will air 7-10 a.m. Saturdays on WMTU. It’s basically the same format as the two-hour version but it will be called sonardome + because there so much more.

Of course, everyone is free to listen in and comment.

From Michigan Tech Athletics
“MICHIGAN TECH DROPS 4-0 DECISION TO MICHIGAN TECH”
Just a late-night chuckler. I’ll let them know about it tomorrow (if no one else has).

It’s sad…The show must go on
Although I’m tired as all heck, it’s kinda disappointing that the radio station hasn’t been trasmitting for a week and a half. WMTU went down for Thanksgiving break and there was a fault when they were trying to bring the station back online.

Although the station is supposed to be up later today (Thursday), that means I’ve missed two shows so far. There’s only one more week before finals and that would be all until the next year.

Stop the madness
One week — 488 SPAM e-mails. This amount of junk mail is starting to get ridiculous because I have to spend 15 minutes every week going through my spam folder to make sure that I don’t have any important messages through all that desperate chaff. I’d rant more, but you’ve heard it all before.

The thing that’s scary is this do-not-spam list and law that’s crusing for approval in Congress. The main concern is that it legitimizes spam if it meets certain guidelines. I guess it’s not that bad — as long as clearly labeled mass-mailings that be easily filtered into my trash can.

Oh well, back to work.

Talk to me

I’m current at the studios of WMTU. I’m doing a very special (mostly) jazz show as a substitute for someone who couldn’t make it today. I like doing a radio show, but I sure wish people would call in or something. I get very little feedback with my programme and it’s irksome. Eh.

Tune in
A special edition of my radio show, Sonardome, will be aired Sunday from 7-10 a.m. EST (don’t forget the time change). It’s all on WMTU 91.9 FM Houghton. Feel free to tune in online

I’m going to be placing my playlists and other content online shortly.

Hell Remains Quite Toasty, Yankees Win
Despite Apple’s claim to the contrary with their launch of iTunes for Windows, Cubs and Red Sox fans remain in baseball’s purgatory. Grrr, they were so close to winning the pennants and facing each other in a battle for the ages.

The league championship series were the most exciting baseball games I’ve seen in a while. I can say I haven’t been this interested in baseball in years. I might actually tune into the World Series just hoping for the opportunity for the Florida Marlins to knock of the Yankees.

Bloomin’ Onion
Just got back from the Houghton County Fair. I’d like to talk more but there’s something going on in Ontonagon. Gotta go see what’s going on (and maybe take the long drive to the mill).

Defiant judge suspended
The Associated Press (via AJC), reports that
Moore suspended on ethics complaint over refusal to move monument. In short, Ala. judge Roy Moore was automatically suspended after an ethics complaint was filed against him.

He’s remained defiant despite the fact the U.S. Supreme Court — the highest court in the land charged with interpreting the U.S. Constitution — turned down his request for an appeal on an federal court order to remove a 5,000-pound monument of the Ten Commandments.

From the article:

Moore said he told the commission that he upheld his oath of office by acknowledging God. Moore has said Thompson has no authority to tell the state’s chief justice to remove the monument.

Funny, I would have thought that his oath would have included something about upholding the laws of the State of Alabama and the United States. The Constitution’s 14th Amendment basically applies the Bill of Rights to the states and that includes the ban on government promotion of religion.

It’s true that our system of justice is built upon Judeo-Christian principles, but that’s the foundation. Just as our nation has grown, so too has our legal system and inclusion of different peoples. The Ten Commandments has a place in the hall of justice alongside the Torah, the twelve tables of Roman law and British common law, but a standalone 2.5-ton monument is overkill. Sheesh, my car weighs less than that.

And another thing — in all these media reports about the controversy, I have never heard a single iota about Moore’s ability to be a judge. It sounds like the Alabama electors choose then-district judge Moore to be chief justice based solely on his blatant endoresment of one certain religion. Is he any good? I’d like to know.

The sobig virus is really annoying me. I’m on a Mac so I can’t get infected or transmit the virus. Unfortunately that doesn’t stop others from e-mailing me the virus — 150 times.

Although we’re mostly Macs at work, I think it took down the company’s e-mail server in West Virginia briefly yesterday. Network traffic was congested today. Oh well.

BTW, I was watching a repeat of the pilot episode of “The Séan Cullen Show” when the Montreal Expos’ Youppi mascot. Given my silly trains of thought that I go off on from time to time, I thought it would be modestly funny to have a face-off between Youpii and a Yooper. Because you know, they sound similar … and they look totally different (for the most part ….)