But he hasn't parted the Red Sea yet...

I guess stuff like this is going to be popping up left and right until January 20th, 2009.




Here is the link just in case the embedding doesn't work.

In geek news, the Federal Communications Commission has finally done something right and voted for the opening up of the "white spaces", swaths of frequencies that will be opened up upon the final extermination of analog television transmissions taking place on February 17, 2009. All of the stations that used to live on channels 2 through thirteen are being sent upriver to the land of the UHF channels (the ones labeled 14 through 80 something).

With this event we now have a chance to get broadband for the masses via the latest generation of wireless networking. More frequencies available nationally make for an environment where solutions can be implemented on a national basis (where cool things like economies of scale kick in making everything cheaper).

Let's hope that it happens sooner rather than later. By the way, Dubya still has over two month to finish running the United States into the ground. Yes, he can.

Peace be with you,
Glenn

What a long strange trip its been...

Things are mutating again in MLC Land. My daily routine has been upended by the need to have some "regular" money coming in. I have been training to become a school bus driver with the goal of working mornings and afternoons, thus having the gap in between and after to continue seeking voice work. At the same time, I have embarked on some continuing voice training AND my Tai-Chi instructor has us starting a new extended form.

Needless to say this is impacting on other activities. I find myself having to move my weekly Rando Radio showtime to a Saturday afternoon, with the first one possibly this coming weekend. The past couple of shows have found a mix that I am comfortable with and a flow that is more in keeping with the RR vibe. If my last eBay shipment gets here on time I may have a viable substitute for the Elk so they can get a proper rest.

The bus company I am working for has a very interesting mix of humanity, and I have to admit that I was getting more isolated from the human part of the outside world for a while. One cannot maintain a sane balance if one only hangs with "like minded" people. Your "reality tunnel" gets smaller and smaller until the remaining aperture lets very little get through and a low-grade paranoia sets in (read Robert Anton Wilson's COSMIC TRIGGER to get more background on the concept of a reality tunnel).

Election Day has come and gone and the domestic and global stock markets are continuing their tanking. Too bad the business world and the banks cannot seem to share the love that is going around. Then again, they didn't give a rat's ass before and nothing of substance will change until January. Can we watch the economy continue to free-fall? Yes, we can.

Everything happens the way it is supposed to, and I guess we are being chastised by the universe for being accomplices in the pillage of Iraq and our inability to see past the Weapons of Mass Delusion. Let us make sure that a President Obama is not inclined to start one of his own conflagrations just to help cinch some political deal. This is, after all, the same Obama that sold us out to the Fascists in his wrong-headed vote on FISA this year. If clicking on FISA doesn't bring up the link, here it is to copy and paste-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act

Don't get me wrong- McCain Palin was a disaster waiting to happen and I'm glad to see that business over. But I remember what the Staple Singers said about smiling faces. A line went something like "beware of the handshake, that hides a snake". As they say on WBAI, PAY CLOSE ATTENTION.

Peace be with you,
Glenn Carella