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| Sunday, September 9, 2001 |
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Rating public radio 
| | Been getting questioned about the contexts for the numbers I gave for public radio ratings. How good is, say a 4.0 for KQED in San Francisco? Well, look here. It's tied for #4 with KDFC, the commercial classical station. (Very unusual territory, San Francisoco.) With a 7.9, KUNC in Ft. Collins is #2 by a very small margin. And there are dozens of stations in the total listing, incluging pretty much everything from Denver. |
| | And look here: in the Raleigh-Durham metro, WUNC has a 13.9 while WCPE has a 10.2. That puts them at #1 and #2, ahead of everything on the commercial dial. (Note that the latter is updated continuously while the former is for Spring only, but the ratings don't change that much for the top stations.) WUNC is the NPR affiliate while WCPE is the full-time classical station. All told, the bottom end of the FM dial gets 24.4% of the listening in the Raleigh-Durham metro. What does that tell you? |
Weather or not
| | The forecast for yesterday ranged from "sunny" to "partly cloudy," but it rained the night before and threatened to do the same all day. We had piles of stuff on the back deck that got soaked, or at least damp. No permanent damage, I don't think, but it was still a gloomy day to figure out how to finish getting the contents of a 4000 square foot house into a 1900 square foot one with less storage. |
| | One big plus here is local friends for Jeffrey. He's already hooked up with two other boys in the same kindergarten class. They're a few houses away, and so is the school. So this is, as we had hoped, turning out to be a Real Neighborhood. Which makes for a happy boy. |
| | He also got a new haircut yesterday. Here's a close-up from this morning. I love the way iMovie just takes over the camcorder over the FireWire cable. I shot and saved this frame as a .jpg in about five minutes. |
The hits just keep on coming
| | Here's a Cluetrain book review in Silicon 2.0, which happens to be our local technology pub here in Santa Barbara. I don't know the reviewer, and I think my being here is purely coincidental. I think it's a positive review. One sample: |
| | The authors come across as rejects from '60s who never grew up and forgot how they came to this world of wealth and health. I found the critical corporate tirades particularly humorous since I was reading it during a period of massive new age company meltdowns. |
| | Hey, I remember. Don't know about those other rejects, though. And, to be fair, Rick was more like a reject from the 70s. |
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