The KGB Wheel (KGB San Diego, 101.5FM)

From: KGB Program Director
To: All Jocks
Subj: Music Rotation

You are to play songs by the following groups, with the quantities listed each hour. I don’t care when, I don’t care how, I don’t care if the songs clash.

Rolling Stones (ONLY from their top-10 hit list, Sympathy for the Devil MUST be played once per shift) (2)
Aerosmith (’dream on’ MUST be played once per shift) (2)
Supertramp (ONLY from ‘Breakfast in America’, ‘long way home’ MUST BE PLAYED on each shift) (1)
Beatles (1 or 2)
Anything from the 1969 ‘metal library’ (2)
Anything from the ‘pop-rock’ library (KISS, BOC (top 5 ONLY), Ozzy (top 5 only), etc..) (2)
Anything from the ‘hair pop band’ library (Scorpions, Def Leppard, etc..) (2)
Any ONE throwback song that is not on the top 150 rotation (1)

Promos:
Dave, Shelley, Chainsaw:
2 Minute Clip: 1
1 minute Clip: 2
Coe’s cafe: 1

Don’t forget to ‘cackle’ as much as possible during the morning show, we need some annoying filler for the post-drive time block.

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And this, folks, is why KGB sucks.

Kyle, the Nut, and Envy

What do these words have in common? They are the result of a real, spontaneously created, Burning Man virtual Theme Camp based around a live video presentation of the Burning Man festival in September 2009.

Hosted by Ustream, the live video link displayed a pole-mounted camera near the center camp location. During the week that was Burning Man, this camera was run, at times, in an automatic 360′ pan. When the camera panned across the support tower, users noticed that one of the support bolts was missing it’s nut. From that point forward, people in the chat section of the stream began to make comments about the missing nut, to the point where the unofficial symbol for the group WAS the nut. Talk about spontaneous performance art!

But that’s not all…. Apparently someone named Kyle went missing on the playa, and his mother dropped by the official radio station, Burning Man Information Radio (BMIR), which also happened to be playing on the video stream, and put out a request for Kyle. Voila! We now have the second meme for the stream, “Kyle.”

Combine these two together and you wind up with stories of Kyle stealing the missing nut, Kyle missing one of HIS nuts, the nut kidnapping Kyle, etc…. much fun was had by all.

The last great meme of the stream may be the long-term creation of a REAL theme camp, Camp Envy, named after the folks watching the stream, envious of the other folks in the desert. This ‘camp’ grew over the week and now has its own Facebook page, it’s own dedicated web page (still looking for a web designer, btw), and probably a real on-playa presence in 2010.

The video stream brought together thousands of people from around the world, many who wanted to be at the event but could not; this is technology at its finest.

Next year, in Black Rock!

Links:
FACEBOOK CAMP ENVY
USTREAM chat room
campenvy.com
-greg
(sdmedia on the ustream system)

Troubles? Let me tell you about troubles….

This is a reply to Brian Stephen’s blog entry “What is an E-Rate Approved Vendor’ at Funds for Learning

Troubled? Let me tell you about troubled….

While you may be troubled by the ‘E-Rate Approved’ vendors posting their laundry lists of so-called eligible services/devices, it is even more troubling when these items actually get funded. I have lost track of how many times bandwidth shaping devices from Packeteer get listed on 470s as ’switches’ (funded), and CA schools that issue laundry lists (everything on the left side of the ESL for ‘all sites’) and get funded.

Each year we see about 40% of our requests for biddable information (quantity, type, sizing, hardware/service details) ignored by applicants after three contact attempts (voice and email). We just chalk it up to applicants having pre-selected a vendor before bidding ends. Of course, some of the vendors don’t make it hard to ’select’ them during the bidding process, just look at their websites (if you want our services, just put ’service x’ on your 470, wait 28 days, and then write our name on your 471).

The SLD has a ‘waste, fraud, and abuse hotline,’ also known as the ‘code 9′ line. You can ‘code 9′ an applicant or vendor you suspect of waste, fraud, or abuse of the E-rate program, anonymously. Of course, during the investigation of your call, you name will probably get out. This CAN be used to stop some abusive practices, but in reality, any SMB would be insane to use it. Since I started working with the E-Rate program in 1998 (year 0), my companies have seen many, MANY abuses of the rules. Sometimes the abuses cost us big ($millions) contracts. Did we ever ‘code 9′ an applicant? Nope. Never; and none of the vendors I have spoken to will admit using it; the potential backlash is too great. Everyone talks to everyone else in the K12 market, and all it takes is a SUGGESTION that a company did a ‘code 9′ on an applicant or another vendor.

So we just sit back; we complain, we bitch, and we moan, hoping that someday, someone (but not us) will do something to fix these problems.

I suppose that this is the most troubling of all.

CILF

Amy Wong
Leela
Lois Griffin
The Crushinator

An Open Letter to the Striking Students at LA Unified

Shut the fuck up and get back to class

So, you want to strike to prevent Los Angeles Unified School District from laying off teachers. Really? Which one of you mensas decided this? Are you sure it wasn’t just an excuse to get a four day weekend?

Lets work through some numbers (I doubt you did this) and see if your ’strike’ makes any sense…
But before we do that, how about we start with a basic understanding of how our economy works.

The people establish a government, so keep things running smoothly and to provide services to the masses that an individual, on his/her own, could not do for themselves. These services are funded by those being supported paying for the services rendered. These payments are called ‘taxes.’ In some cases, some people benefit from these services without paying their complete share. In the context of this ’strike’ those people are YOU.

Of course you can’t pay your complete share, you don’t have a full-time jobs, you are students, and we (the rest of the country) understand this; we don’t expect you to pay the same amount in taxes as your parents. If you were not students, many people would call you ‘scammers,’ and ‘cheaters‘ for not paying your own way.

Well, it turns out that some (many) of your parents are greedy people and are not paying their own way either. If you had taken time to read the newspaper instead of sitting behind your (insert game console or crack pipe reference here), you might have heard about something called ‘The Economy.’ The Economy is in the shitter now because many of your parents decided to buy homes that they could not afford, buy cars, boats, Travertine countertops, and toys for you. They did this by inflating being irresponsible with their finances (take a look at http://housingpanic.blogspot.com for more info). During the ride UP in so-called value, government entities were able to spend more money and provide more services to those whom it served. Since the gains in value were really an illusion, the government now no longer has the funds to provide these ramped up services.

The result of this: LA Unified cannot afford to pay the teachers it needs to have on board to teach YOU, the non-paying freeloader, because of your parents (the greedy bastards).

Are you striking against the right people? Hell no! You should be on strike against your parents. Of course, that would not get you a day off so you can pretend that you are doing something for the greater good.

Oh, did you know that the school district receives money for every day a student in IN CLASS? This is called Average Daily Attendance (ADA), and is the primary way that schools get funded by the state. Each day that each one of you is not in class, the school district looses money.

Other things that cost money:

• Police Protection (City, County, and LA Unified)
• Street Maintenance
• Public Transportation
• Private transportation

Back to the topic at hand….

No Taxes = no funds for services (for everyone, including freeloading students)
Strikes do not magically create funds
Strikes by students reduce the funds available by the school district to PAY FOR TEACHERS by reducing ADA and increasing costs for security and student protection.

A working strike needs to have sacrifice, size, and publicity to work. You have none of these on your side. Why?

You are ’striking’ on a Friday before a three-day weekend. What great sacrifice; you get a four day weekend for not showing up to class. Why not do this during a teacher in-session day WHEN CLASS IS NOT IN SESSION and you use your already free time (sacrifice), could get more students (size) and better publicity? Who is paying attention to the news on the start of a three-day weekend? Nobody.

Kids, seriously, if you want to play in the big league, you need to think big league.

In the meantime, shut the fuck up you free-loading kids and get back to class.