CBC = Rant
Sep. 13th, 2005 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinOkay, so the CBC is on strike. This affects me in that I have to wait until I get to work and turn on Radio 4 to get any idea of what is going on in the world, which is no fun. Also, I am used to letting the chattering of intelligent radio hosts* be the background noise to whatever I am working on at home, and that has all been replaced by boring everyday music.**
HOWEVER.
This evening I turned on the radio to find that the episode of Ideas that they were re-running tonight was not one of the personally unintersting things they often have like Did You Know Nursing Homes Are Miserable – it was A Short History of Progress! Jubliation! Ecstasy! Rejoicing! And since it's a five-episode thing, the rest of the week will be just as good if not better, because the remaining three episodes are the most interesting. So, whichever Canadians may be reading this, read yesterday's entry but replace 'USA' with 'Canada', 'read' with 'listen to' and Thud! with A Short History of Progress! It'll be on from 9-10 pm (half an hour later in Newfoundland) and it is so good.
For Americans who want to know what I'm talking about, go here and listen to the station most likely to be in your time zone. If Canadian geography confuses you, look up a map of North America and draw your time zone's borders up past the US border, then pick a numbered dot within your boundary. 9-10 pm. Good stuff.
Now I must run out and get some tapes in case they decide to run the René Girard series again! Perhaps I will buy them with my share of That Greatest of all Treasures which is Hope. (They've got to re-run it someday.... )
By the way, what is 'Ogg Vorbis' besides a very unlikely pairing of Discworld characters?
*Except DNTO. Nothing personal against the host, I just find the whole show tiresome and unappealing. Add the fact that it falls during the four peak chore hours on Saturday when I want something interesting to listen to on the radio while I'm working, and grrrr. No likey DNTO. (I'm an old fogey.)
**The CBC has an amazing library with all sorts of interesting music – why can't they play some of that, instead of one rock/pop/country band after another? I can listen to any radio station for that kind of stuff; I can only hear Icelandic chant and 15th-century folk dances on the CBC. Did the music librarian take all the cool CDs with him to the picket lines? I bet he did. Well I hope he's happy.
HOWEVER.
This evening I turned on the radio to find that the episode of Ideas that they were re-running tonight was not one of the personally unintersting things they often have like Did You Know Nursing Homes Are Miserable – it was A Short History of Progress! Jubliation! Ecstasy! Rejoicing! And since it's a five-episode thing, the rest of the week will be just as good if not better, because the remaining three episodes are the most interesting. So, whichever Canadians may be reading this, read yesterday's entry but replace 'USA' with 'Canada', 'read' with 'listen to' and Thud! with A Short History of Progress! It'll be on from 9-10 pm (half an hour later in Newfoundland) and it is so good.
For Americans who want to know what I'm talking about, go here and listen to the station most likely to be in your time zone. If Canadian geography confuses you, look up a map of North America and draw your time zone's borders up past the US border, then pick a numbered dot within your boundary. 9-10 pm. Good stuff.
Now I must run out and get some tapes in case they decide to run the René Girard series again! Perhaps I will buy them with my share of That Greatest of all Treasures which is Hope. (They've got to re-run it someday.... )
By the way, what is 'Ogg Vorbis' besides a very unlikely pairing of Discworld characters?
*Except DNTO. Nothing personal against the host, I just find the whole show tiresome and unappealing. Add the fact that it falls during the four peak chore hours on Saturday when I want something interesting to listen to on the radio while I'm working, and grrrr. No likey DNTO. (I'm an old fogey.)
**The CBC has an amazing library with all sorts of interesting music – why can't they play some of that, instead of one rock/pop/country band after another? I can listen to any radio station for that kind of stuff; I can only hear Icelandic chant and 15th-century folk dances on the CBC. Did the music librarian take all the cool CDs with him to the picket lines? I bet he did. Well I hope he's happy.
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to Tealin
Date: 2005-09-14 10:55 am (UTC)Is it Terry Pratchett book??
Thanks ahead, Katia ;)
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Date: 2005-09-14 12:29 pm (UTC)Enjoy the show, anyway. What sort of progress is being discussed? Technological, social, political, all of them?
totally cunfussed
Date: 2005-09-14 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-14 03:35 pm (UTC)likewise totally cunfussed
Date: 2005-09-14 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-14 03:40 pm (UTC)Re: likewise totally cunfussed
Date: 2005-09-14 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-14 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-15 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-15 01:38 am (UTC)LJ used it for phone posts, so people probably associate it with low-quality sounds, but like I said, it's about like mp3.
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Date: 2005-09-15 05:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-15 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-15 07:17 pm (UTC)Nanny Ogg is an jolly old witch with a ... er, 'rural' sense of humour and hardly any discretion at all, and Vorbis is the most frightening extreme fundamentalist high-priest type character you can imagine.
So, hmm, if you were to make parallels with Disney characters, Vorbis would be Frollo and Nanny Ogg would be ... er ... I don't know if she'd be allowed in a Disney movie, actually. Help, someone?