I've recently acquired an interesting iPod dock. Well, it's interesting if you look at from the angle of it's a radio with a bolted on iPod dock.
With a proviso that the radio part only picks up FM. Oh and that odd little technical exercise called Terrestrial Digital Radio, or DAB for the continental set
amongst us.

Now while the land of roaming kangaroos & many dangerous critters (some called 'sheep') has been experimenting with it for awhile, it's only
been freed from the labs & the Techies and placed into the hand of the public, in the past month. Just with the small twist of using the 'new'
version: DAB+ which not many places are using yet.

As such all the currently available DAB+ receivers are mantle to hi-fi component sized bits of gear. Alarm clock/radios are on the TBA/TBD lists.

Which leads back to the iPod. I'm using that as the alarm clock source. Something it does quite well, provided I can come up with an appropriate morning
wake-up playlist. For I don't think some of the songs in my collection are anywhere near being a good choice. Does "1812 Overture",
"Telephone! RingRingRing", "Dragostea Din Tei" "Top Gear Driving Songs" or the YTMND soundtracks provide some indication of the
amount of audio chaos present in my iPod. And yes the 'Best of Queen' and "Magic Carpet Ride" are in there too.

So, anyone got a suggestion on a wake-up playlist for me?

--Rod.H (who has provided an early Drunkard's Walk iMix to iTMS)

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/goods/goods_de ... EOGDS-8405]Hoi-Hoi-san, in 1:1 scale!

Isn't she the cutest exterminator you've ever seen?

(What? "Who's Hoi Hoi-san?" Oh, you're in for a treat... Go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichigeki_S ... HoiHoi-san]her Wiki page, or download the http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/505.html]fansub of the OAV that's far too short to be licenced.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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There is no coincidence, only necessity....
- Clow Reed

Click http://www.mediafire.com/?vdzovzltjmu]HERE to download.

Looks interesting.

Edit: Looks like the http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sho ... he_comics/]Strikers manga has updated as well.

In addition to updating the top page for the first time since last August, I have added pages for Skyefire's A Message In A Bottle and for my recent I Dream of
Djinni.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I've forgotten who was kind enough to take over maintaining a placeholder toon for Wetter Hexe on Virtue for Helen -- if you've kept it up all these
months, thank you.

Anyway, I have news for you -- Helen has just told me that after she and Attila upgrade their system (apparently soon), she is considering getting COH/COV, at
which time she'll want to use Hexe. So let me know who you are so I can make sure you're alerted when this happens.

Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

Although officially unemployed ("retired" sounds so much nicer), I'm currently helping my sister
with a book she's publishing on teaching literacy. My part of the job is copy-editing the contributions on the subject by a variety of university
professors (each provides a chapter). These are supposed to be well-educated men and women, able to communicate clearly; the subject my sister teaches is
Education, after all, and they're all more-or-less in the same field. I've been savaging their work with vicious glee.



One document included the sentence, "African American communities, for example, are a case in
point." I crossed out "for example" and inserted a terse comment: "Redundant. A 'case in point' IS an example."



(Most of my comments are actually rather more polite, and include explanations of how the style guide
we're supposed to follow dictates the changes I've made - especially in cases where the guide and my own inclinations are at variance. Still….)



"Apology accepted, Captain Needa."

Or, in the words of another of my idols (Dogbert), "I'll dismiss their life's work with a gesture and a witty comment. Bottom line, I'm just
not a people person."
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

... for http://www.pvponline.com/2009/05/26/y-so-srs/]today's PVP strip, at least.

And haven't you always wanted to see the police chief say that to the costumed vigilante? (I know I have.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I think it isn't too early to ask... after all, http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Home]Anticipation (host to the 67th Worldcon) is only a shade over two months from now.

Alas, I can't make it. I can't justify spending a week away from Ottawa and work when (a) one of my co-workers is off to care for his wife while she succumbs to cancer, and (b) my mother is still recovering from a stroke. (Things I didn't bother mentioning at the time, because Bob had more important events happening in his family's life at the same time. There's a time and place to kvetch, and that wasn't it.)

I recall somebody who attended last year's Worldcon has a relative who collects shot glasses from the various Hard Rock Cafes, and I have a spare from the Ottawa Hard Rock... and I've got a Neil Gaiman hardcover that's just perfect for a dedication... and I can't be there.

But I can justify the drive from Ottawa to Montréal and back to Ottawa for one evening (it's about 2.5 hours each way by car), if people are going to Worldcon and getting together for dinner. I'll just need to know at which restaurant and when on which evening, so I can take the afternoon off work and show up at the right place at the right time...

Oh, yes... if you're coming from NYC or Detroit, http://www.viarail.ca/en_index.html]take the train - the train station in Montréal is less than a kilometer from the convention centre, while the airport is far enough away that the Ottawa-Montréal train stops there before reaching Montréal. (NYC to Montréal by Amtrak direct run. Detroit: to Windsor by car, then Windsor to Toronto by VIA Rail, then Toronto to Montréal by VIA Rail.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012