Jason Sidabras

So I’ve had a free subscription to Sirius radio ever since I bought my new Audi. It’s quite a nice service, no commercials and I get treated like an adult (i.e. swear words aren’t bleeped out). Some problems I have endured mainly come from the fact that I don’t hear commercials. For instance, I forgot sweetest day this year and I didn’t hear the advertisements for the Chili Cookoff this year.So now only tickets are available at the door.

One of the perks of Sirius is that they are constantly updating content… well it was a perk until this morning.

I’ve been dealing with the fact that the Punk channel has been AC/DC radio for over a month. I thought it was going to stop when the new album dropped… but it didn’t. Now that channel no longer exists and is replaced by some light “rock”. My favorite channel Boombox, is gone. No longer are there any stations that remix rock and pop songs. Only 2 dance stations, where there used to be 5.

There are more classic rock stations that I will have to check out over the next couple of weeks, but there are also more “single band stations”. One of which is Led Zepplin. So, that is awesome, but only Zep? At least it will be a constant source of good music.

They have also upped the number of Jazz stations from 2 to 5. And I found a station called “real jazz” which sounded good this morning.

Anyway, here is the new linup. It seems Zepplin station will be going away 01/01/09.

This is pretty annoying.

So I’ve created a little tradition that I’ve tried to upkeep. Starting from my 21st birthday I’ve found a song that will ultimately decide my fate for the upcoming year.

This year is no different. But instead of looking for a song that says 27 in it, I’ve decided to go a different route.

How many times will it take for me to learn that once a RAID system is up and running, stop screwing with it.

Phew: everything works flawlessly again. Now… should i go back to installing mod_python?

As a casual observer, and subscriber to “reality”, I have a hard time understanding things today. The United States crazies are coming out in droves and there seems to be more of them than I ever imagined. The first thing that came to my mind was the violence on the Senate floor months before the Civil War broke out. As it was, the previous day Senator Sumner criticized the southern states, especially North Carolina, for allowing slavery to occur for so long. The next day, Senator Brooks (the N.C. Senator), repeatedly bashed Sumner over the head with his cane while shouting “You have libeled my state and slandered my relation, who is aged and absent. And I feel it to be my duty to punish you.”

Historians agree that this eruption on the Senate floor, really described the tensions that were occurring in the United States before the “shot heard around the world“.

I’m not aware if it is because of the past 8 years, the economic downward spiral, the eventual dismounting of America as the world powerhouse or just that the Internet allows me to see multiple situations occurring at once, but this country is going to hell in a hand-basket.

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To better prepare myself and my fellow Wisconsinites (bleh ) for the upcoming election I have found the list of people running for the General Election for Wisconsin 2008.

Equally important is the list of referendums that may be on the 2008 Wisconsin ballot.

The one that worries me a bit is:

Raise $67 million for property tax relief by removing Parks, Transit and EMS levies.

Transit is bad enough in Milwaukee and the price is kind of steep. I love the parks and I think a lot can be done to keep them up.

Any-who, just some heads up on the ballots.