This is the COOLEST. A Google Earth-type representation of the planet. Every green dot is a radio station. Click any dot to listen in. It’s like cultural teleportation. You could spend hours with this thing… https://t.co/rdEHUUfgvk pic.twitter.com/VJgyzVClJD
— David Pogue (@Pogue) February 14, 2021
Now y’all get to tell me how you knew about this already!
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Completely unrelated, but:
Incident in a NJ Supermarket
At the supermarket today, I found a small, elderly woman standing in front of a high shelf holding @BonneMamanUS preserves. She was having trouble finding the flavor she wanted because the jars were set back on the shelf.
— Michael Perino (@ProfessorPerino) February 14, 2021
“Yes, it tastes good.” She paused again. “I am a Holocaust survivor.”
This was not the conversation I expected on a Sunday grocery run.
— Michael Perino (@ProfessorPerino) February 14, 2021
I told her that that was the best reason I ever heard to buy any company’s product. And then we both smiled behind our masks and went our separate ways.
— Michael Perino (@ProfessorPerino) February 14, 2021
craigie
I did know already, but only since yesterday :-)
debbie
I love Bonne Maman!
Rob
That’s a great story!
The Moar You Know
Had no idea and I’m a radio guy so thank you!
I’m going to assume this is AM/FM commercial radio and not amateur or some of the wackier shortwave stations.
namekarB
The same Tweet came across my Twitter feed the same day. Fantastic tool and caused me to waste a few hours that day
Baud
I didn’t know about that.
debbie
@The Moar You Know:
Not every single station, but lots of them have a dot on the map. The name of the town pops up, and you can click on the name to get a list of the other stations you can click on.
The Moar You Know
As per the jam: Wow. My stepmom always buys it because she’s a Francophile, and I started in spite of that because…it’s good stuff. Really good stuff. But that story – that’s a hell of a good reason to buy their jams. They have a giant-sized mixed berry jar at Costco right now. Shame my wife doesn’t like it, because I find it extraordinary.
ETA to my above post: they most certainly DO have some of the wackier shortwave stations. That’s awesome.
bluehill
Four fruits, my personal fave. Jumbo size at Costco sometimes.
Baud
There have been apps that let you listen to any radio station in the world for a while now. I guess this site just mapped them onto Google Earth.
NotMax
New thread appears whilst hunt and pecking. Typical. :)
Not going to re-post the whole thing from downstairs regarding the USPS , but do take a peep.
lurker dean
oooh, me, i knew about it! a cousin in the philippines tagged me in a fb post about a retro radio station in the PI. not sure why since i’ve never listened to the station. but i was curious so i looked it up and found it was available through radio garden!
http://radio.garden/listen/neo-retro-the-one-105-9/ABxHGvcG
Jeffery
The radio thing would be great if I listened to radio.
Years ago I got a survey call from someone wanting to know what radio stations I listened to. Said none. They said what did I listen to at work. Said none. In the car. Don’t have a car. Couldn’t believe I didn’t listen to radio. I really like silence.
Chief Oshkosh
To preempt what may be coming, according to other tweets (so this must be true, right?), the Bonne Maman company as it exists today started well after WWII, as did its parent company. Plus, not in Paris. BUT, it appears likely that the inlaws of the originator of the parent company, who provided the fruit initially for the originator of the parent company, may have harbored/hid/saved Jews in WWII.
Apologies if I got any of that wrong.
Chief Oshkosh
@Baud: Yeah, but other than that really, really cool feature that might draw in an otherwise-disinterested audience that may in turn develop wanderlust and an appreciation for how other peoples live, who gives a flip, amirite? /s
CarolPW
Two weeks ago I bought some apricot preserves for a lamb tagine and got a french brand because I wanted one that wasn’t too sweet. I just looked and it’s Bonne Maman! Makes me happy.
Steeplejack (phone)
Bad snow day.
jackmac
That radio app is flat out AWESOME!
Wag
That reason is even better than the jelly, and the jelly is really really REALLY good!
Baud
@Chief Oshkosh:
It’s about the music, man. Not the glitz.
MomSense
@CarolPW:
I have the apricot bonne maman, too.
Auto incorrect kept trying to turn it into bone madman.
Omnes Omnibus
Their orange marmalade gets the sweet to bitter mix just about perfectly right. Too many go for too sweet.
Jeffro
I’ve been listening to my playlists and few remaining CDs for far too long, this is great! Thanks AL!!
PsiFighter37
My wife and I are debating whether or not to take the plunge and buy an apartment in Manhattan. We have NEVER aspired to own property here, but there is a pretty good deal (relatively speaking) on an apartment close to where our daughter’s new daycare/school. It doesn’t have everything we want, but the all-in monthly payments are basically in line with what we would be comfortable renting. Rents are likely as low as they are going to go in NYC (unless there is a definitive shift out from NYC because of sustained COVID-19 restrictions around social gatherings, years after), so we know we would likely be paying more for rent eventually. That said, my wife and I – while we do love the city – would definitely move to another neighborhood if we had the chance (i.e. whenever our daughter goes to a different school), and when we are empty-nesters way down the road, we would probably retire and keep a much smaller place here, or leave entirely. The other negative weighing me down is that the upfront costs of closing a mortgage on a condo are stupidly expensive – it’s like 15%-20% of the down payment itself.
Decisions, decisions…
The Thin Black Duke
@NotMax: The asshole needs to be fired.
Just Some Fuckhead
A couple of weeks ago, we installed the Youtube app on one of the smart tv’s and watched live performances of 70’s songs for hours. You just pick one and then Youtube keeps queuing up the next. So many were from the 70’s television show, The Midnight Special.
The Moar You Know
@PsiFighter37: I never thought I’d be able to buy in the state I was born in, much less the city I grew up in, so when that opportunity struck I just did it. It was a rough few years at first. But damn. It’s not like it’s ever going to get cheaper. And it never has, and never will, unless we run out of water. And maybe not even then.
Suspect property in Manhattan is the same deal, barring a meteor strike. I would do it in a heartbeat if I could.
NotMax
May as well put in a plug for friends’ computer and tech radio program, which has been running live on the air for more than 20 years.
Every Saturday on Maui’s KAOI AM & FM (although once in a blue moon the AM broadcast is pre-empted by a sporting event). 12:05 p.m. to 2 p.m. Hawaii time (5:05 p.m. to 7 p.m.. Eastern currently, 6:05 p.m.to 8 p.m. Eastern after youse guys change the clocks next month).
NeenerNeener
I’ve got a box full of rhubarb Bonne Maman jam in my house. I have to order it off the internet because I’ve never seen it in a grocery store. It’s the only rhubarb jam that I like as well as Rothschild Farms rhubarb-strawberry. Other jams with rhubarb are usually so heavy on the strawberry you can’t taste the rhubarb at all.
PsiFighter37
@The Moar You Know: It’s hard to say. We looked up the history of the place we are buying. The condominium was previously an old industrial-style midrise that was converted to condos 15-20 years ago. The folks who own it now bought it from the original sponsor – at what was then a ~15% discount. The list price is approximately 20% above what was paid nearly 9 years ago, and that is before paying the agents. That’s a terrible rate of return (like 2% p.a or so) for an asset class that falls in the alternatives bucket. Honestly, I have not heard of anyone actually making money on owning a place in Manhattan – like, earning a return one would typically associate with real estate…so to me, this isn’t even about it being a smart investing play, but more that it gives stability and certainty for however long we want to be there. My mentality would be to go into it and frankly be prepared to lose money by way of simply paying the interest on the mortgage.
raven
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
What a heartwarming and lovely story
debbie
@MomSense:
I think I could live on the wild blueberry!
Ohio Mom
Jeffrey @13:
Silence, the world’s oldest form of music.
No name
@PsiFighter37: Go for it. Short term you’ll be better off by paying towards something you will own rather than the black hole of ever increasing rent. Long term when you are ready to sell you will have enough to go wherever you want. Things are going to bounce back pretty soon and since NYC does everything in a big way the bounce will be even more profitable there.
PsiFighter37
@No name: As noted, this property has largely remained flat. Perhaps it’s the neighborhood (it’s western Hell’s Kitchen – so very limited amounts of the high-rise luxury condos that have overtaken other neighborhoods), but I don’t think it will ever become a neighborhood, in the next 2-3 decades to come, that will have the cachet that other neighborhoods (like my current one, Chelsea) have gained over a similar timeline.
Warren Senders
It’s very unsettling how many regional radio stations in Africa and Asia are running the exact same identical ads you can hear on commercial radio in the US (Geico FTW). I guess Clear Channel or some other syndicate is world-wide.
My daughter and I spent yesterday morning listening to local radio from Indonesia & Papua New Guinea.
VeniceRiley
I found out about the green dots over the weekend. Oh, and I ordered Bonne Maman tarts delivered to my future wife in her birthday package.
Baud
@Ohio Mom:
I thought it was farting.
zhena gogolia
I always buy Bonne Maman! It is really good!
Just Some Fuckhead
Gonna be really tough to solve the Republican problem when their own party leadership admits they aren’t sending Republicans to Washington to “do the right thing.”
SiubhanDuinne
@zhena gogolia:
Yup! Ever since I discovered it a few years ago. So glad to know the backstory!
P. S. What’s your boy J L Cauvin doing with himself now that his primary source of inspiration has largely (mercifully) vanished from view?
Poe Larity
Never really looked at the brand name but I’ve been a consumer for decades as that was all mom bought.
Maybe Cole should start DJ’ing again, an all funk station, rather than swimming in the digital cancer with the twitratis.
Matt McIrvin
Heh, I like it! The app brought me by default to my town and a Spanish-language station I’d never heard of… which seems to be in the same building as my doctor’s office, if they’ve got it marked right. So I can get some cross-cultural knowledge while hardly leaving home.
JaySinWA
@PsiFighter37:
One thing I worry about in real estate right now is what happens when eviction moratoriums end. Without some rent/mortgage forgiveness and relief to landlords and lenders, I see some very nasty displacement coming this year and I don’t see anyone addressing the issue.
I foresee bankruptcy, homelessness, and migration issues on the horizon and not a stable market.
Lyrebird
Thank you, I did not know about either of those!
Good things: my car is a dark enough color that the little light we had today made the ice coating the car easy to get off, and we have power, and I was able to work from home.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Vaughan Meader?
Gin & Tonic
@NeenerNeener: You know making your own jam is super easy, right?
Nora Lenderbee
@PsiFighter37: The New Yorker just published an article by Rivka Galchen about her neighborhood, which is near the Port Authority, and about how it isn’t exactly a neighborhood and she likes it anyway.
Clicky linky
Barbara
@debbie:
Love, love love them too! But especially the apricot and the orange marmalade.
No name
@PsiFighter37: Aah, I see, but still feel at least your money would be going towards something of your own and you could have stability as you refer to in your comment #30.
Matt McIrvin
@Matt McIrvin: …ah, it seems the locations aren’t that specific, basically by town.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
He’s still doing Trump videos, as well as McConnell. I must admit I don’t have the heart for it any more. He’s very talented, but I think he needs a new shtick now.
Just Some Fuckhead
A few years ago we were driving back to the States from Cape Breton and in New Brunswick we stumbled onto a French Country & Western station and we were spellbound hearing American Country & Western standards sung in French. It was just so freaking disorienting. I recorded a few songs off the radio with my mobile phone for novelty but I think I may have found the station with this app around Moncton.
Citizen_X
@NotMax:
@The Thin Black Duke: Agreed, get rid of DeJoy. He’s not supposed to be fire-able (so the PO can be free of political influence), but Biden should be telling his legal counsel to find any way of canning the guy.
If there’s anything to be learned from the Texas power problems, it’s that this country seriously needs to start sinking some money into its infrastructure. We’ve been living off of wise investments by our ancestors for too long. The last thing we should be doing is crippling the Post Office. Revamp it for the 21st century, and let the libertarians and Trumpist crooks howl.
Matt McIrvin
*sigh* just landed on a program in Alimosho, Nigeria with a schoolteacher goofing on “Baby Shark”, talking about how much she misses her kids and praying for the end of this frickin’ pandemic…
Omnes Omnibus
I just noticed that Radio Garden does not have WXRT in Chicago – or I missed it somehow. I wonder why.
Another Scott
I first discovered the Bonne Maman jelly when I was looking for something different than Smuckers. And I looked at the ingredients. What’s this?? No HFCS?! It’s made with actual sugar??!!? Amazing!
Good stuff.
And a great story. Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Martin
Pff. I’ve been using that since the mid 70s. What took you so long?
Argiope
Enjoying clicking on all the remote island stations around the globe to see what’s playing. I think this is going to get me through the rest of the winter. Thanks, AL!
Martin
The main problem in Texas is that ERCOT isn’t connected to any neighboring grids so they could dodge federal regulation since they don’t transmit power across any state lines. CA buys and sells power from/to about 8 other western states. ERCOT can’t do that – they are physically isolated, so when you get an inelastic demand situation like this (people will pay ANYTHING to heat their home when it’s subzero) you need something approaching an inelastic supply. You buy power from Louisiana (no outages) or the western grid (no outages).
This isn’t a failure of infrastructure. It’s a political choice to have shitty infrastructure.
That was the mayor of Colorado City, TX. Well, ex-mayor. He resigned over that.
PsiFighter37
@JaySinWA: I think most of what Biden and NY legislative Dems (no thanks to Cuomo) pass will stave off the worst-case scenario for the city.
@No name: The ‘having something to call your own’ is a very American concept what it comes to owning property. I am an immigrant, I love to travel – having ‘roots’ is not something that terribly concerns me all that much. Whether or not to do this is much more a financial decision than a sentimental one.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Biden holding a town hall on CNN at 9PM eastern/6PM Pacific
dnfree
@PsiFighter37: I have lived in Illinois my whole life, so I have no advice relevant to New York. However, I’ll tell you what my boss told me back in the late 1960s, and he was quoting the advice his father had given him.
Don’t look at a home as an investment. Look at it as a place to live. If you make money, it’s gravy, but it’s by no means guaranteed.
Of all the homes we’ve owned, we made money on one, back in 1979. We broke even on several. The lovely old Victorian we owned for many years we lost heavily on relative to the money we put into it, but we loved living there. There is too much that’s unpredictable to look at a home as an investment.
raven
@dnfree: Everyone here told me not to do a reverse mortgage and it’s doing quite well for us.
CarolPW
@PsiFighter37: Owning became very important to me because I got tired of landlords fucking me over about pets.
lowtechcyclist
My wife’s aunt makes jam and sends it to us, and before that, my wife’s now deceased grandmother did the same. We haven’t had to buy store-bought jam in the 30 years we’ve been married.
But if it ever comes to that, I know what brand to buy.
PsiFighter37
@dnfree: I agree on the investment part. We know someone who bought a giant house (6,000 square feet) in the Boston burbs…and yet they have no kids, no plan on having one anytime soon AFAIK, with only a dog. It’s a gorgeous spot, but aside from viewing it as an investment, I would have never bought a place like that at that stage in my life, or even now – it only makes sense to have that kind of space if you are going to have the kids to fill it.
Anyways, we are hoping to get a tour on Friday. Perhaps the pictures are hiding something we can’t spot, but I would not be surprised, knowing our tendencies, if we come away feeling like if we can get the bid to the right number, we would make the trade.
dnfree
@raven: I didn’t tell you anything one way or the other! The point is just that too much is unpredictable about the real estate market in one’s location, the economy, the tax code…many factors. Think of the people who bought homes out of their price range in the early 2000s because everyone was telling them the market could only go up and it was a great investment. Too many of them lost their homes and their down payment. Treating the decision to buy as a potential “investment” may or may not work out.
raven
@dnfree: Oh, I didn’t mean you specifically. It was a long time ago now. Actually a lot of people lost their asses on reverse mortgages at that time. They did it and then spent the “line of credit” and were left with zipola.
StringOnAStick
We met some new neighbors last weekend (we’re the new ones, they have been here almost a year); they saw my husband out shoveling and brought us a pint of home made berry jam. I made bread today and we opened it, it’s so completely fruity, hardly sweet and in other words, absolutely perfect. Man, we love where we moved to, the town is great and we have met more lovely neighbors here in the months since October 30 than we had in the 16 years at our old home. I sure hope the usual neighborhood block parties can happen this summer, Covid willing.
It’s been a bit strange moving to a town where we knew no one and in the middle of the pandemic that has limited our ability to meet anyone. My husband is an introvert and even he is feeling it but we did make a backcountry skiing friend since we can do that outside and have been doing so with him consistently. Hanging out outside season will be a extra pleasure this coming spring and summer.
Elizabelle
Biden up at CNN Town Hall in Milwaukee. Just told Anderson Cooper he likes babies more than people.
Says all of us will be able to get a vaccine by the end of July — 600 million doses. Applause. Clarified that means doses will be available. (I know the rollout can be slower.)
Link for those of us who don’t have cable: https://livenewschat.eu/breaking-news/
PsiFighter37
@raven: Hard to tell if this is DougJ-level trolling or not.
Elizabelle
First audience question was about reopening brick and mortar schools. Biden says he thinks teachers should be vaccinated much sooner. Applause.
khead
Yeah, I already knew. Because I’m a loser with nothing better to do than sit on the Internets all day.
Met some nice people in a zoom call last night though. :)
Also, tonight’s Twitter is all about “Tim Boyd, Colorado City Texas”. Fuck that guy.
Citizen_X
@Martin: Oh my god, that mayor. Everybody else: it’s worth clicking through to see what he actually wrote. What a Class-A jerk
ETA: That would be the mayor of Colorado City, TX, that khead is referring to above.
marklar
Thank you so much for the post about the radio stations, Anne. I’ve shown it to my 20-something autistic son, and he’s loving it. It’s also incredible hearing him say something like “let’s listen to Memphis”, and he goes directly to the proper dot (same for Marquette, Birmingham, and Cheyenne)! The kid knows his geography (I’m a proud papa).
CaseyL
@PsiFighter37:
Just for fun, I went on Zillow to see properties in the Hell’s Kitchen area, and all I can say is: You must love living in NYC a whole lot.. Because I look at those prices, and can only think of how much house I could get for the same amount elsewhere!
Best of luck snagging the apartment!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Yowza. Live how you want to live, but all I can think of seeing that is the upkeep: that’s a huge roof, a lot of windows, I assume the HVAC has some kind of zone set-up, but still…. and a big yard, and taxes that would pay the rent on a decent 1BR apartment (maybe not in the Boston area). Such thoughts been on my mind because a relative who just came into some money has started doing the real estate porn thing. She sends me listings of giant houses for herself, her twenty-two YO daughter (who’s been a bit slow to launch but will presumably be moving on and out soon) and a ten year old dog. She claims to love “gardening” but has been paying somebody to mow a postage stamp lawn for years, has a cleaning lady once a week for her current house that is probably half (or less) the size of the ones she’s looking at, which she bought less than five years ago because her last one was too big and she wanted to downsize.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Elizabelle: are you allowed to talk about that on a “respite” thread? /half snark
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s a friendly audience. They’re responding very well to Biden, who is very approachable and seriously 1:1 with all the questioners, including an elementary schooler.
Such a relief to have a POTUS with empathy.
Lapassionara
@NotMax: Arrgh. What do we do to stop this?
Elizabelle
Biden just referred to “the former guy.”
moonbat
Bonne Maman’s apricot preserves are my absolute favorite. So glad to learn that they are good guys to boot.
And that radio station map is awesome. It allows me to travel a little while I cannot travel at all. Thanks, AL!
rikyrah
@PsiFighter37:
Sounds like you will be getting a new apartment ??????
Martin
That’s because they both drink their blood!
Platonicspoof
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was wondering the same about a very popular, decades old station in my major metro area when Radio Garden was mentioned here a while back. I entered the call letters in the search box, and it simply said station was unavailable. Still googling, but there are some requirements according to this website.
LongHairedWeirdo
One of my favorite XKCD comics ever: https://xkcd.com/1053/
(Subject is, basically, “just think how much wonderful stuff is in store for someone who has never heard of X_(meme/website/activity/etc.)”.)
(Now I saw the story of the jelly, and feel blessed to be one of today’s lucky 10,000, except it probably won’t be an “everyone knows about (x)”)
Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Contributions to climate change are directly proportional to dwelling size. Big houses produce big pollution, and there’s not really a way around that.
hitchhiker
@Ohio Mom:
since i got tinnitus in 2007, silence doesn’t exist for me.
:(
Elizabelle
@Martin: LOL. Eternal youth.
Kent
I guess if someone has deep roots in NYC it might be worth it. But there are so may other more affordable urban areas in this country today. We live in the Portland metro and it’s already expensive enough out here. I can’t imagine Manhattan or SF prices.
Ohio Mom
hitchhiker @90:
I have a touch of tinnitus too. It isn’t that loud so I am able to ignore it but I think my days of hearing complete silence is over.
CaseyL
@Kent:
I could not afford to buy my current house, and it’s a townhouse in a complex that was built in 1969. (Which turns out to have been a very good thing, because it was built before developers wanted to cram as many units into as small a footprint as they can. We have open spaces, landscaping, and paths. But the place is old and in almost constant need of expensive repairs.)
dnfree
@hitchhiker: I am in the same boat you are tinnitus-wise. I got mine in 2006 and there’s never a silent moment. I know it has affected my ability to concentrate. It’s fortunate I’m a “screener” vs. being a non-screener like my husband. It would drive him nuts. Most of the time I can tune it out, but I do miss silence.
hitchhiker
@StringOnAStick:
Are you us? We also moved to a new community a few months ago & have the exact same experience. Lovely neighbors who are doing their best to make us welcome + a genuine longing to get to know them.
The anticipation I experience every day is a lot like the way I used to feel in late summer when I was so, so ready to go to school.
Ohio Mom
It’s funny, I look at those prices and think, “Are NY real estate prices plateauing?”
I grew up in NY and remember when my cousin, a single-mom of one and a public school teacher, bought an apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn about 35 years ago for $90K — which the inflation calculator tells me would be about $215K today; she sold it a few years ago for $900K.
That’s just one example, I have others, all New Yorkers do. The prices seem impossible but people make it work, some how.
SFBayAreaGal
@hitchhiker:
@Ohio Mom:
@dnfree:
What does your tinnitus feel or sound like?
SFBayAreaGal
Thank you Ann for Radio Garden. I’ve been listening around the world
hitchhiker
@SFBayAreaGal:
It’s only in my right ear, and it’s like a low-volume, high-pitched whistle. I hear it most when there’s a contrasting low-pitched steady sound (driving in the car, e.g.), or when there’s supposed to be utter silence (hush before a symphony, lying in bed falling asleep, etc.)
I mostly don’t notice it otherwise, unless — like now! — I’m paying attention to it on purpose. The good news is that it hasn’t changed in 14 years. That’s also the bad news, I guess, but I live with low level dread that it will get worse.
moonbat
Biggest Radio Garden surprise so far: Tammy Wynette singing “Stand By Your Man” on LM Radio Mozambique 87.8 FM Maputo, Mozambique. lol!
Nelle
We’ve moved a lot and thanks to Radio Garden, I’m listening to Barrow, Alaska and the harsh consonants of Inupiat. I spent eight summers on the north coast of Alaska (Kaktovik, on Barter Island, part of the Arctic National Wildlife Range). It’s nice to hear it..I could sing along to familiar hymns inn the little Presbytrian village church, with poor pronunciation, and no understanding of exact meaning.
Then I zip down to New Zealand for the lovely Kiwi accent and a bit of Maori. Can’t remember what I meant to do this evening.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@PsiFighter37: ahhh, buying Manhattan real estate on the cheap …. beware of catching a fallen knife, so to speak.
I agree that it’s a better time to buy than usual; Manhattan real estate is usually up, and best times to buy are always the best times to rent as well, which makes buying hard.
That said, there was really *one* run-up in prices, from 1997 to 2003. Otherwise the prices trail the stock market, and you’d do better in an index fund.
And I think the market hasn’t bottomed out yet. Remember the last bottoms were 1994, and then 2003. The market trails the economy. I’d wait until summer if I were you.
TomatoQueen
Bonne Maman Red Currant, for that extra bit o’ Frenchie glaze on your tarte, or if you like tart and sweet on top of your crispy skin chicken. Otherwise it’s not easy to find any brand of Red Currant jelly on a store shelf, so as I don’t have access to a red currant bush or if I did, any desire to do that canning job ever again in my life, there are small batch makers on eBay and A*a*o* (near Amish country or even in it) that will charge me too much for two jars at a time.
Ohio Mom
My tinnitus is like a very soft background noise that is high-pitched and constant. It does not waver. I don’t know how else to describe it.
NotMax
@TomatoQueen
Yup. Red currant jelly used to be readily available in any chain supermarket.
The it one day just … went away.
Kayla Rudbek
So tonight I can spend my time like I did in high school; listening to KBEM Minneapolis! They play a lot of jazz and their announcers are high school students who are doing it for credits/grades, so it’s not your standard really smooth announcers…
Mr. Rudbek and I were discussing how telework has changed the work day, and I brought up that I miss having human voices and interaction (even though my employer in general and my floor of my particular building were notoriously quiet. As in “Wednesday afternoon 1 pm would be as quiet as a graveyard shift in a hospital or morgue” was a comment from a coworker). He doesn’t miss in-person meetings or training at all, and he thinks that telework levels the playing field for the disabled .
And unrelated radio trivia: the convention in the United States is that the call signals for channels east of the Mississippi River start with W, and the call signals for channels west of the Mississippi start with K (some grandfathering in was done for the really old stations). So Minneapolis-St.Paul has both prefixes for call signals in the broadcast area. I’ve also wondered how they handle radio stations at latitudes north of Lake Itasca, as by definition there’s not a Mississippi River present there…
Kayla Rudbek
@Ohio Mom: That must be annoying! I can get an intermittent/occasional sound that goes “eeeeeee” in one ear at a time, and the pitch starts very high and moves even higher until I don’t hear that “eeee” anymore. Is that a tinnitus ringing?
Cowgirl in the Sandi
Bonne Maman makes an advent calendar every year that is fabulous. Check their website in September as they sell out right away. You get a big box with 25 small jars of different kinds of jam/honey/jelly – one for each day before Christmas. They make great gifts – last year’s was $35.00. Once they sell out, the calendars sell for upwards of $80 on Amazon!!
Doug
A college friend was part of the team that made Radio Garden. I agree, it is awesome.