Yes...also known as the DEVIL INCARNATE. I read something interesting yesterday. Should have saved the link...but anyway...All the political talk is about the demon-crats trying to reinstall the "Fairness Doctrine"..but there is another movement coming from the left....I don't know what it is called but it is sort of a "Local Content Doctrine". In other words, an FCC rule that would effectively mandate local programming origination...virtually outlawing satellite provided programming. THAT would change things I think. Over night you would provide tons of One Thousand Dollars A Month Jobs. LOL

KOSO's studios were 1 block outside the 3.16 MVM signal contour. We asked for a waver and they said they couldn't grant one, but a friendly clerk at the Commission said he would put the request to the bottom of the file so it wouldn't come to the surface to get denied. Perhaps someone got to the bottom and that is why they moved the transmitter to the floor. Just a wild guess, probably not the reason. It would be easier to move the studios. Stupid rules that don't benefit the public in the least.

Wouldn't mind one of those $1000/mo jobs right now, it was a hell of a lot more fun. But that was pretty good money in the '60s and '70s so we'd need to be talkin' today's dollars and, of course that wouldn't be the case at all those small market, satellite fed stations now forced to produce and transmit local programming. Maybe they could raise a few bonus bucks selling their Smartcasters but then again who would buy one?

Just got back from the Left Coast where it was, for the first few days of my visit, record breaking warm. I thought seriously about wandering into Sam Wo's but was only in The City for one day (spent most of my time in the Big Sur area) so didn't have the opportunity. Sodini's got serious consideration for my evening repaste but alas - better avert your eyes - I went for the seafood. Yes, damn it, seafood! Crab Louie at #9 Fishermen's Grotto. Also ate most of a loaf of sourdough so it was a very fine evening indeed.

Marco

P.S. Came back to a 3-way tie at the top of the NFC Norris after the Vikes lost to Tampa (no surprise) and the Pack smacked Da Bears (surprise). The Packers are scizophrenic. One week they look like they should be in the Superbowl and the next they look like they couldn't beat the UMD Bulldogs.

HEY! Bulldogs...Undefeated!

Several replies necessary. Deane's mention of the studios being a block outside compliance. Were those the studios at Carpenter & Las Palmas...out in the country? I remember riding around with Bill looking at potential office/studio sites IN Modesto and trying to figure out exactly how far they were and whether they would work. Anyway...when they changed the rule, while Bill was still there and when I was in San Francisco, they moved the Studios into Modesto over by Coffee Road. That was way before the current people moved the tower/transmitter.

I have been a regular social butterfly since getting here. Last night was the masochistic Christmas City of the North Parade. The temp at parade time was surely only about 20 degrees. Fortunately, no wind and I was toasty throughout with 3 pair of socks (hardly could get my shoes on), 3 pair of pants, 2 t-shirts, a hoodie, sweater and over-coat, gloves and a knit cap from Sak's 5th Avenue in San Francisco. The cap was ridiculously expensive and not very warm. In Downtown Duluth, lips were sticking to trumpet mouthpieces and hookers were sticking to the lamp-poles. (In California they spray the lamp-poles with PAM) (In San Francisco the poles are Teflon)

This afternoon the opera HD and got to see The Damnation of Faust. The staging tech stuff was incredible and at the end finally got some of those body tingles....Tonight....going out for pizza and hope your week-end is super.

PS: I would kill for a loaf of good sourdough. Louie can keep his crabs.

Vikes! Yea! Chicago! Boo! Now I have to root for New Orleans? Damn...the Saints deserve to win because of all the devastation from Katrina. Oh wait. That's old news. Is that game in New Orleans? Is there room in the Super Bowl with all those dead bodies?....I am so sick of New Orleans...I am almost tempted to root for the PACK and just keep the status quo. Wait a minute....the Vikes should win it all...they deserve it because of the bridge devastation. Sad to say the Vikes are probably moving to LA in 2011. That would suck. If Al Franken is senator they will leave out of embarrassment alone. Damn...what team then?....I'd rather watch the Rosie show than root for the Packers....and I'd rather eat my own wiener that watch the Rosie show...so.....if Franken wins, the Vikes move, I'll never have to go downtown again.

Wow! Jack kills some guy. Jack kills another guy. Jack kills another guy. Jack kills another guy. Jack kills another guy. Jack kills another guy. Jack kills another guy. Jack kills another guy. Jack checks his gun. Jack kills another guy. Jack reloads.

Damn this show is good. Nextel tie-in. These walkie-talkies work good even in freaking Africa! Jack kills someone.

Why did his friend have to die? Jack could have held on to the toe and the heel of the shoe while his friend carefully untied it and wiggled out his foot. Then they could fill the shoe with rocks and molten lead and made their get-away. The lead could have slowly leaked out of a hole in the toe until it got too light and that would be just when the bad guys arrived and said, "Look at the freaking shoe!" And another thing....the OLD Jack Bauer would have killed the little 'cockroach' kid. "Dammit! We don't have time!" I have to go to bed. Nighty.

PS: The Unit was just as good as 24! So there!