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Having found the telnet access on my Denon AVR 6500h, I've built out all the UI the poor little screen and remote control wished it could deliver. Clearly they prepared for amazing features and tools, but I guess only for the dream board or the fancy home integration companies. It's staggering how far I can push the thing and how little is surfaced on the UI.

Way to go, Ace!

Leveraging the Ai for a Denon telnet / HTTP integration to help guests watch a DVD or the radio without my help : )

Cool - what were you working on!

It's not totally for business, but I run some antennae and radio telescopes that feed through a Gateway 386/33/16MB RAM. As well as a Getac, no idea what model, but it's from the early 2000s. They both feed through to a A/B switched Paradise CRT (so cute). dBase is on the list.

Just finished reading Amusing ourselves to death : public discourse in the age of show business by Postman last night - and then seeing this... <laugh-cry>

Essential reading!

Can there be ANY doubt this "channel" will follow the Trump brand when he's no longer obliged to public service?

You said it - and the same is true for many of the other talents from Ai. I've worked with gobs of artists, accountant, MBAs, developers, appliance repair techs, and so on. Ai does a better job than most of them, but not as good as the best of them.

The thing I recall about playing CNA and other big tablers like it (e.g. Hobbit, Axis & Allies, etc.) was when they were over, the replay in debate about how things turned out, especially the simulations, went on almost as long as the game play!

How did the game parallel the actual events, where it divitated why, and then comparing it to other sessions. If we didn't finish the game, aside from the mundane reasons like a parent needed the table, floor, room, or player, it was usually because we found a bad route in the game. Often from a sploiler in the group (I'm looking at you, Mitch! Haha) who took such an extreme tact that made the game play boring or worse, short! The last thing you want after spending a full day or more setting up a game is to have it end in a few hours.

I once gave a short talk at Harvard. Nearly didn't because I was so intimidated by the crowd. Got through it, hardly able to read the room because of my internal dialogue of focusing on the content, and also convinced I was a fraud. Then I realized I went over my time limit by almost 50%. When it was over, my emotions were such a mess I logically thought I should try to cry or scream to let off the overwhelming negative energy I had built up. It was one unreal bucket of feelings after another. As I collected my clip board and bag, I walked to the side of the hall where I was sure I had seen an exit, someone dodged in front of me and put their hand out and introduced themselves and started asking questions about the talk. Took her card and suddenly there was another. It wasn't until maybe the fourth person when I realized there was a line of at least twenty people. Yeah, stop and say hi. Even with critical questions, complaints. Making a connection with other people is one of the most important things we can do.

And you reminded me of a short-lived station out of either Philly or maybe smaller market like Pottstown that played new wave. I was loading my tape deck every night. I just dug out my old disks, cassettes, I wonder if they are in there.

There was also The Sunday Night Six-Pack on either WMMR or WYSP that played 6 albums straight through uncut. I used my VCR to record the whole show every week. Still have a few of them left - Joe Walsh night!

No kidding. Seattle has almost nothing left, except an AM station and a few shows on mixed format stations. Chicago's top shelf if you're hunting for online. They have lots of choices, just depending on your particular need / mood.

Power 99 was 98.9 WUSL (I looked it up to be sure). All I could recall for sure was "Power 99...FM". Heh.

This is a timely intersection for a search I've been doing for archives of the Quiet Storm shows of the 90s from Power 99 FM in Philly. At the start of my search I didn't realize how ephemeral radio was treated. Growing up I listened to tapes of Abbott and Costello, The Shadow, and dozens of other shows. I just assumed there were recordings of everything. I found hundreds of KCMU and WFMU shows I recorded from live streams, when I wasn't living near enough to get the terrestrial signal. And the odd LPFM / pirate broadcasts. It might be time to build an archival WARK.fm