August 2009 Entries
And so begins my final full day in Boston for a long while. It's a feeling that I knew was coming since last year, but finally set in. I'll be making my last rounds around the city in the morning, and plan on finishing up the packing in the afternoon, leaving Saturday morning for the 6.5-hour, 400mi / 650km trip to college. Hopefully it won't take me all that long to get situated there so that I can come back and detail the move-out and move-in.
Anyway, the past few weeks have been rather eventful:
My rooming situation has been up in...
Yesterday, media conglomerate CBS Radio pulled the plug on local radio station WBCN, in the process moving MIX 98.5 to the 104.1 frequency and turning 98.5 into a sports radio channel. After 41 years broadcasting a rock format, it's sad to see WBCN go - some have compared it to dismantling the Citgo sign or bulldozing Fenway Park, both popular landmarks here in Boston.
WBCN is living on in a limited form - on a subchannel of 98.5 that's only accessible to "HD Radio" listeners (as a side note, I don't even know anybody that owns an "HD Radio"). There's as...
I managed to scrounge up yet another dead LCD monitor today. This one sat on a desk for about three years and had a relatively uneventful life, yet managed to fail anyway - with the exact same problem as the ViewSonic one I got a few weeks ago, no less. A real testament to how they don't make them like they used to!
(For clarifications, though I thought I had fixed the ViewSonic monitor, that actually turned out to be a side-effect of heating it up with the hairdryer. Once it cooled back down, it went right back to shutting off.)