Drinking from the Firehose

When I first started working at the large corporate enterprise, people there kept saying that the experience of ramping up there is like “drinking from the firehose”. I was so excited, it didn’t really matter. Yes, I had a lot to learn – I had never worked for a big company before (largest company I had worked for had 20 people) and knew absolutely nothing about software development. I stumbled around for six months, not really sure what was expected of me and not getting any helpful feedback – other than I was a senior person and that as a result I should be able to figure it out.

And then about six months in, it all clicked. I’ve had two positions since then, each time being thrown into an area I knew absolutely nothing about and I’ve learned how to absorb a lot of information while participating simultaneously. It’s a bit of a tricky act.

In June, I will have been here for five years (?!?!). And I’m moving into another new role. I’ve been wanting to have more growth opportunities and more of a chance to show off my technical chops – cause that’s what it’s all about here. (Okay, maybe not all, but that’s a huge part of what is recognized and rewarded. The other stuff – the getting the business part of things going – is important, but the superstars are the technical people. Mostly developers, but that’s not in my realm, so I do the best I can.)

Anyways, I’ll be supporting (important) customers – being their direct conduit to the product team, working with the product team to develop or enhance or modify existing functionality to better address customer issues and helping customers work through new issues that are coming up as our company moves into the “new” world of the “cloud”. My focus will be security, but it’s apparent that I’ll be addressing all different kinds of issues.

So I’m working on ramping up and understanding the technology (and terminology – seriously, if it’s possible to acronym something, we will) while helping the woman who’s stepping into my job ramp up.

It’s good though – I haven’t been challenged in a while. I hadn’t realized that I was kinda bored at my gig now that things are running smoothly. Interesting, eh? I prefer the excitement of a lot going on while scrambling to figure out how to organize things and make them work. It’s why I liked consulting and I think this new gig is going to provide plenty of excitement.

Plus, our fiscal year ends in June and management had me push up the schedule on another project I own, which means that I’m going to be doing a lot of travel between now and the end of June. I went to the corporate travel site to book tentative flights to China and they tried to force me to book it in coach.

I have only flown internationally in coach once. I know it makes me a princess. I don’t care. It’s 12 hours of sitting on a plane and then having to work afterwards. + it’s budgeted for.

New policy (as of last year) says you have to fly internationally four times a year to be able to fly Business Class & I will definitely meet that criteria, so I’m going to call the travel people directly and have them book it for me and confirm with my management if necessary.

Cause I’m a princess.

You can be a single lady if you want

Christian Prank Show

Apparently this is a “show” (?) that pulls' “Christian-style” pranks on other Christians. In this particular prank, they make a girl think that the rapture just occurred and she has been left behind. She freaks out. Isn’t that funny?

Not being properly educated on the rapture, I had no idea that you are raptured naked & leave your clothing, shoes & coffee cups behind. So I guess this is a good education for me.

Apparently, cell service isn’t interrupted, which is good to know.

Christians are hi-larious.

Gay

Ricky Martin.

I know. It’s shocking. Apparently he came out on his website today.

(I’m suspicious that this is a ploy to get him back into the spotlight again. I heard he’s going to be on Broadway in Evita. Interesting timing. I hadn’t heard anyone mention Ricky Martin in years and now he’s all over the interwebs.)

Apparently, his website is overwhelmed, but here's some excerpts (thanks Towleroad!):

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment. The word "happiness" takes on a new meaning for me as of today. It has been a very intense process. Every word that I write in this letter is born out of love, acceptance, detachment and real contentment. Writing this is a solid step towards my inner peace and vital part of my evolution.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

(Oh, and is everyone jumping on the gay bandwagon now? James Randi came out on his blog last week.)

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Jamie Oliver

is a chef from England. Now, as a general rule, I don’t typically look to the English for tips on how to eat, but he’s taken on trying to get Americans to eat better. And he decided to start by going to Huntington, West Virginia (which someone has labeled “America’s unhealthiest city”). Of course, all of this is recorded & available on the teevee for your entertainment (or of course, on Hulu). And he’s kinda adorable – he used to do a show in England called “The Naked Chef”. I think the Naked had something to do with the food rather than with him, unfortunately. Although, it might have been distracting if he was swinging his man bits around while chopping up food.

He starts off by going to an elementary school and tries changing the food that’s being served to them in the cafeteria. Much (oy) hilarity ensures when the caf ladies (one grumpy one in particular) are resistant to chopping veggies rather than serving pizza & french fries to the kids.

There’s an exchange between Jamie & the (grumpy) caf lady about the fact that they don’t provide knives for the children – because they don’t know how to use knives. He tells her that children in England are taught how to use knives in school – that the teachers help out – and she asks if he has an documentation to prove this!?!?!

My “favorite” part of the show is when he brings in vegetables to the kids (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant – which he thankfully does not call aubergine, turnips, etc) and asks them what they are. Shockingly, the kids have absolutely no idea what these items are. Seriously – they didn’t know what a tomato or a potato was. And they had no idea that french fries were made from potatoes. It was frightening.

It (plus a blog post from my friend Peter) did motivate me to download Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food to my Kindle & start reading it immediately. He says you should eat real (not processed) food, mostly plant based. I have been struggling with food for a long time and have gotten into a rut where I get all addicted to sweets and crap (it literally is an addiction for me – I will get obsessed with eating ice cream or something else bad for me and it’s incredibly difficult to resist the urge. When I stop eating sweets for several days, the obsession leaves). I like veggies & fruit (I was a vegetarian for a long time) and I’m hoping that as I educate myself more that it will make it easier for me to make that step to treating myself better by giving up the processed stuff because I know it’s horrible for me.

And, while you're at it, sign the petition to improve school food in the U.S. because it’s disgraceful what we’re doing to our kids.

Updated at 8:30am to include this article that talks about the scientific support about being “addicted” to fatty foods.

And at 8:33am with another article.

The thing that bugs me the most about this tattoo

Is the misuse of the apostrophe in “it’s”.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the tat artist miscalculated and had to finish it on her buttcheeks?

From the 20 worst tramp stamps.

Not sexy girls

But kinda amusing…

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Dogs just wanna have fun

mini van driver hearts the village people.

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Robert Culp

Dead.

Why you should be watching Glee

Sneaky gays (for example):

Open letter to conservatives

Just read a very interesting blog post entitled “Open letter to conservatives”. Here’s how it starts:

You're going to have to come up with a platform that isn't built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from your own; fear of reform in banking, health care, energy; fantasy fears of America being transformed into an Islamic nation, into social/commun/fasc-ism, into a disarmed populace put in internment camps; and more.  But you have work to do even before you take on that task.

Your party -- the GOP -- and the conservative end of the American political spectrum have become irresponsible and irrational.  Worse, it's tolerating, promoting and celebrating prejudice and hatred.  Let me provide some examples -- by no means an exhaustive list -- of where the Right as gotten itself stuck in a swamp of hypocrisy, hyperbole, historical inaccuracy and hatred.

It then talks (and lists) hypocrisy, hyperbole, history and hatred and then wraps up with:

Oh, and I'm not alone:  One of your most respected and decorated leaders agrees with me.

So, dear conservatives, get to work.  Drain the swamp of the conspiracy nuts, the bold-faced liars undeterred by demonstrable facts, the overt hypocrisy and the hatred.  Then offer us a calm, responsible, grownup agenda based on your values and your vision for America.  We may or may not agree with your values and vision, but we'll certainly welcome you back to the American mainstream with open arms.  We need you.

(Anticipating your initial response:  No there is nothing that even comes close to this level of wingnuttery on the American Left.)

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It’s a weird day in America

when I’m agreeing with David Frum, George W Bush’s former speechwriter.

But he says that the Republican party blew it by not working with Obama, who reached out to them, to have influence on the health care bill. He says that the bill is not signficantly different from the bill the Repubs offered up during the Clinton health care debacle.

And he says that this is their Waterloo.

Here are some choice quotes:

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.

At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.

…

Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts plan. It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican counter-proposals to Clintoncare in 1993-1994.

Barack Obama badly wanted Republican votes for his plan. Could we have leveraged his desire to align the plan more closely with conservative views? To finance it without redistributive taxes on productive enterprise – without weighing so heavily on small business – without expanding Medicaid? Too late now. They are all the law.

…

I’ve been on a soapbox for months now about the harm that our overheated talk is doing to us. Yes it mobilizes supporters – but by mobilizing them with hysterical accusations and pseudo-information, overheated talk has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead. The real leaders are on TV and radio, and they have very different imperatives from people in government. Talk radio thrives on confrontation and recrimination. When Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted President Obama to fail, he was intelligently explaining his own interests. What he omitted to say – but what is equally true – is that he also wants Republicans to fail. If Republicans succeed – if they govern successfully in office and negotiate attractive compromises out of office – Rush’s listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they listen to the radio less, and hear fewer ads for Sleepnumber beds.

Here’s a link to his entire blog post. Comments were enabled yesterday, but have since been turned off.

Jamie Cullum

A friend comped me some tickets to go see Jamie Cullum last night so Shoshanna & I went to check it out. I was slightly familiar with his work and Shosh had never heard of him. Our seats were right in the front – third row, center, which was great.

This guy is an amazing performer. His style is jazz/pop and he’s kinda funny looking at first. He dances sorta badly. And the whole thing works – he’s friggin’ adorable. Seriously – girls were swooning all around me. And his voice is beautiful and he’s funny and he definitely knows how to work a stage (and a crowd).

He was on top of the piano, he was off the stage & singing in the audience, he was dancing (badly) all over the stage.

Here’s some video I shot:

Out in the crowd towards the end of the show. He was right at the end of our row.

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Kill the Bill

I’m sure that not everyone who is opposed to the health care bill is as uneducated as the people who are in this video, but seriously…when people are asked what specifically they disagree with in the bill, they each admit they don’t know what is in it – except for the girl who said the death panels.

Q: Where are you hearing these things about the bill? A: Fox “News”.

Q: What specifically do you disagree with in the bill? A: It’s socialist.

I find it depressing that we’re arguing with the uneducated. Or the ridiculously mislead (thank you Fox “News”).

Microsoft Campus

Interested in knowing why we call it a campus? It’s huge & it has all kinds of amenities and facilities like a university does. It was really nice out yesterday so I wandered around and took some pictures. You can see all of them here.

Microsoft’s founders – look at what a babyface Bill has.

Gus the dog celebrating St. Patty's. He's a real party animal.

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Boy Interrupted

Watched a film named Boy Interrupted (it was on HBO) last night. It’s a documentary about a fifteen year old bipolar boy who committed suicide. Both of his parents are filmmakers so they had tons of footage of him. I’m having trouble getting it out of my mind.

It’s narrated by the parents, who describe a three year old boy talking about hanging himself. Evan is a really sweet looking kid, but when his mom describes his face when he’s in his dark moods (and illustrates it with pictures and video), your heart just breaks for this little boy’s suffering.

Eventually, Evan is diagnosed as bipolar and put on lithium (after standing on the roof of his school and threatening to jump). That, plus a short (3 month) period in a residential program puts him back on track. He goes back to the Upper East Side (parents are obviously very wealthy – not that it helped) and to a new prep school and makes friends and does well in his classes.

He’s a creative kid – they show him making movies with his friends (there really does seem to be a relationship between creativity & mental illness, I think) and he’s turning into a really good looking kid. And then he convinces his parents to let him go off the lithium.

They interview his friends and a psychiatrist and they all say that he appeared to be okay, but obviously he was suffering and hiding it. That’s the part that I disagree with. Having spent a large part of my younger self suffering from suicidal ideation, my hypothesis is something set him off – sounds like something happened at school with one of his friends (based on his suicide note). He then went home and his mom was hassling him and that was enough.

People think that when someone finally takes that step, it’s something that they’ve been planning but in my experience, I would get closest to that point based on tiny little things that totally set me off. My head would then go off on telling me how horrible it was and I was and how it was never going to get better and that life was just too hard. It wasn’t the really big things that set me off – it was always little stuff.

I think that Evan took his life impulsively because he was spinning and couldn’t get out of it. He was only fifteen so he didn’t have a lot of perspective – although getting older doesn’t necessarily give you the perspective when you have mental illness.

The scariest part is that he went off the meds. The psychiatrist in the film said that kids on meds always go off of them eventually. I hate the idea of children (or anyone, including myself) being medicated but I also have seen (and experienced) what it is like to actually require medication to get well. I do think that antidepressants are way overprescribed because people (and doctors) are lazy. However, they are extremely helpful and necessary for some people – apparently, Evan could not survive without lithium.

I can’t imagine having gone through this as a parent. The picture is touching and heartbreaking and it’s really stuck with me. Not sure what I’m going to do with this, other than ask you to be aware of what other people are going through and have compassion.

I’m disappointed

that none of you readers have posted a comment to the Boobies & Kittens post.

Shame on you all. That’s some funny stuff right there.

That’s it. I want a pet lamb

Response to the surprised kitty video

Here’s the original video:

And here’s the (great) response video:

Peter Graves

Dead.

Small town news? Big cat.

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Glenn Beck Listens to Rock Lyrics

Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is My Land” – communist.

The Beatles “Revolution” leads to destruction ya know. Also, it’s very close to the word “Evolution”.

And Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” is anti-American. (Um, someone should have told Saint Ron Reagan that before he started using the song all over. Until Bruce told him to cut it out.)

German police summoned over forgotten vibrator

BERLIN (AFP) – A woman in Germany phoned police after hearing "suspicious noises" in her flat, but much to her embarrassment officers found the source was a vibrator, authorities said Friday.

The noise was so loud and strange, even over the telephone, that police in Bochum in western Germany decided to send a patrol car around to the "scene of the crime", a statement said.

"Daringly, and with the occupier's permission, one of the officers opened the drawer of a wardrobe where the noise was coming from.

"Underneath some clothes he found a very personal, battery-operated object which had obviously switched itself on... The tenant's face abruptly changed colour."

Police then "wished her a nice evening and left".

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Um...definition of awkward?

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Seriously entertaining letter opener

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AmyNews

Nothing. Bleh.

I know I haven’t written much lately, but I’m kinda bleh-y. Crucial.com is still ignoring me. My friend Dave came & rebuilt my machine – basically, we ordered new everything other than hard & DVD drives. He guided (ok, told) me which components to buy cause he knows these things. Then he built me a new machine – we/okay, he had some problems: 1) apparently, the computer gods require blood when you’re building a machine and he had to be the sacrificial lamb 2) the motherboard didn’t fit in the old machine – but I had some spare machines in the garage so Dave used a jigsaw to cut something off one one of them (I don’t know what it is – this is highly technical stuff) and voila – everything fit. Well…mostly – I need to get an extension for the power supply cable to the DVD drive. Right now, it & the hard drive are sitting on the machine rather than in it. I don’t really care about the aesthetics though.

Other than that, I’ve been pretty stressed. Work stuff – things are all akimbo and I don’t know exactly how it’s going to shake out. I know in the big picture it will all be okay, but I don’t think I’m going to get exactly what I had hoped for and I’m frustrated. Also, I just don’t like being left hanging.

And things with the Tardy Girl have been generally good – we had a really nice time this weekend where we went out to Alki and went to the beach and had fish & chips & just relaxed. Because she’s been sick for so long, we haven’t really had a chance to do anything like that. But there’s still all kinds of drama and stuff going on in her life & she’s still very sick, which is stressful for both of us.

Net result = migraines, insomnia & other physical ailments that are none of your friggin’ business. Suffice it to say, I need to start meditating. Quick.

(Honestly, there’s nothing terrible going on – but good stress is still stress. I should probably watch the boobies & kittens video a few more times – see below.)

UPDATE – it’s been about 10 minutes and somehow I just watched my new motherboard spark & emit smoke (I’m on my laptop – that’s my desktop). I am cursed. I think I’m about ready for full-blown depression now. You’ll be able to reach me in my bed. Unless reaching for the phone (or laptop) is too stressful. Send soup.

Feeling down? How about some boobs? Still down? How about some kittens? Boobies & kittens ftw.

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It gets funnier as it goes on, I promise...

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Corey Haim

Dead.

It's mobile phones & popcorn that tie the world together

Pop Corn téléphone portable micro-ondes
Uploaded by sassiere. - News videos from around the world.

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Courtesy of my dad, who forwarded this one to me.

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Who is your real friend?

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Good point.

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Scariest condom ever

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I'm not sure I want that many hands inside of me. All at once, I mean.

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Photo

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Sounds about right.

Crucial.com is still treating me like crap/an idiot

Okay, let’s ignore the poor grammar, punctuation and spelling. That’s tough stuff for the illiterates that work as Customer Service Reps at crucial.com. Technically, they’re full of crap. My response:

I hate that they’re treating me like this. I am incredibly loyal to the companies I use and the fact that they are acting like this was my fault rather than stepping up and acknowledging that it’s possible that there was an issue on their end just makes me crazy. It’s horribly short sighted. I’m going to continue to blog and post about this so that as many people as possible know that crucial.com will screw you if it might cost them a few bucks – if they had handled this right, they would have gotten so much more than $200 worth of business from me in the future.

Now, I’m all about not only not giving them my business, but letting as many of my geek friends as possible know about this and discouraging them, and the people that they all provide tech support to (cause we all help out our friends & families with their computers) so that it’s a more substantial hit. I know it won’t be significant, but it certainly will be more than the $200 they’re fighting with me about.

Dancing Cats in Happyland! (proving once again that 70% of the internet is cats)

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Beautiful Time-Lapse of the Milky Way over Hawaii

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This was filmed near the observatories on Mauna Kea on the Big Island. The nighttime sky is a BIG reason I love the Big Island so much.

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Spiderman Visits The Wailing Wall (wtf?)

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I guess these days even superheroes need all the help they can get.

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NJ prudes can't handle naked lady snowman

Ms Gonzalez thinks the Venus now looks "more objectified and sexualised"

Police in the US state of New Jersey have ordered a family to cover up their snow sculpture of the famous nude Venus de Milo after a neighbour complained.

Eliza Gonzalez sculpted the snow-woman with her son and daughter on her front lawn in Rahway following a snowstorm.

Many people praised their creation, but a police officer told them a neighbour had found it too risque, she said.

When given the option of covering the sculpture up or knocking it down, she dressed it in a bikini top and sarong.

"We didn't want to have any problem with the police so we covered it up," Ms Gonzalez told the AFP news agency.

But she now thinks the snowy Venus looks "more objectified and sexualised" than it did before the authorities intervened.

From the BBC (apparently they're having a slow news day in England today): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8551528.stm

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Sarah Palin 2012...

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Fox “News” says they present both sides of the story

Jon Stewart does a little digging and finds they might be exaggerating when they refer to “both”.

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Yet another anti-gay Republican hypocrite (seems like they all are)

Sen. Roy Ashburn (R)

It's no good for a family values Republican to get picked up on a DUI. But substantially worse to get picked up for a DUI after leaving a gay nightclub with an unidentified man in a state vehicle.

That's the sorry state that befell California state Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) early Wednesday.

In better days Ashburn, a fierce opponent of gay rights, was fighting marriage equality and organizing anti-gay marriage rallies as part of his "Traditional Family Values" campaign.

But he hit a bump in the road -- figuratively, not literally -- Wednesday at around 2 AM when CHP officers observed him weaving and driving erratically in downtown Sacramento. After a field sobriety test, officers determined that Ashburn, who reeked of alcohol and had bloodshot, watery eyes, was under he influence of alcohol and placed him under arrest. He was released from jail just before 4 AM.

Initial reports only noted the DWI arrest and Ashburn issued a contrite apology on Wednesday. But late this evening, the CBS affiliate in Sacramento reported that "sources" confirmed that Ashburn had left Faces, a gay nightclub in downtown Sacramento, just prior to his arrest.

The state issued black Chevrolet Tahoe Ashburn was driving has been impounded at the state Capitol.

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Oh, Fox "News". Thanks for the smile.

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Static cat versus balloon

I haven’t posted any kitty humor recently and this one cracked me up.

Once again proving that 70% of the internet is cats.

That’s a hellaton

A petition to make Hella- the official SI prefix for 10^27, for measuring things bigger than Yotta- (the prefix for (US) billion trillion). For instance: 'the sun (mass of 2.2 hellatons) would release energy at 0.3 hellawatts.' It would also come in handy for eventually measuring Internet traffic and US national debt."

The Official Petition to Establish "Hella-" as the SI Prefix for 10^27

Are you listening?

When I was living in LA, I discovered KCRW, a local NPR radio station. They had great programming, including incredible music programming, with real DJs and lots of folks coming in to talk to them. Because they’re in LA and many “Hollywood” type people listen, I think it’s easier for them to help break new bands.

Now that I’m in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, I can’t listen to KCRW that easily…or so I thought.

Turns out that if you’re using iTunes, you can listen to KCRW live or KCRW music 24 hours a day by clicking on Radio (under Library), then navigating to the Eclectic category and expanding it:

(By the way, KEXP Live is a good alternative streaming station – they’re based here in Seattle and you can also listen via iTunes or via browser by clicking on the link.)

And if you’re on a work machine and can’t/shouldn’t install iTunes, you can stream KCRW live (the On Air option) or KCRW music (the All Music Channel option) via your browser by clicking on the Listen Now button – and it also tells you who you’re listening to (along with links to iTunes & Amazon so that you can easily purchase the song or check out the artist).

I highly recommend KCRW music for discovering new bands and for breaking up your listening routine.

I miss my sassy gay friend

(Thanks Francie!)