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Much Laughery.   -- Primis            5-17-00,  12:25AM And people wonder what it takes to be in radio... The following are all quotes taken from a recent issue of Gavin -- a radio play-charts publication: Q106 San Diego, awaiting its flip to all-Spanish, is currently the home of the "Continuous Single Hit Music" format.  The station has changed format three times in as many days -- segueing from "All Macarena" to "All La Bamba" to "All To All The Girls I've Loved Before".  PD Todd Shannon:  "We believe that a longer, slower song like 'To All the Girls...' will have more longevity in continuous play, because listeners won't hear it as many times per hour.  We briefly considered rotating in the original Ritchie Valens' version of 'La Bamba' to give our audience the variety they seem to be looking for, but Willie and Julio's test scores were just too strong to ignore". (Ed. Note:  Yes boys and girls, that's what happens when Music and Program Directors become lame ducks and just stop caring...) KFMA-Tuscon PD Chuck Roast reports:  "We're getting a brand new antenna in July.  Hopefully it will boost our pathetic little signal to house-frying, man-sterilizing, Zombie-blasting-from-every-appliance-in-the-house proportions." (Ed. Note:  Wouldn't that slowly kill off your core demographic?) WILD 94.9 has a tradition of alerting labels when they dump their regular weekend programming in favor of all-mixing, all-the-time. Valentine's weekend was no exception, and PD Michael Martin sent this muchy, sentimental note as a warning to the labels:  "Roses are red / Violets are blue / We're mixing all weekend / Your spins just went from 47 to 2". (Ed. Note:  Spins refer to the number of times a song is played) Bob Lewis, PD of KISV-Bakersfield reports: "I want to be the first PD to brag about my own down-trend!  The good folks at Arbitrary....err, I mean Arbitron have seen fit to bestow an 8.2 to a 7.1 trend on me.  Apparently they feel that my next step should be to buy a home and appear on the cover of a trade magazine.  If that doesn't work I'll finance a new car, get married, and get fired during the birth of my son, just days before my next numbers come in which will, ironically, show a rebound in ratings.  Based on my trend... maybe it's time I took "Batdance" out of heavy rotation..." ... and there are more but they'd take too long to type in.  Perhaps I'll use them in a later post. And people wonder why I find my job, career, and chosen profession so darn amusing... Indiana's Folly.   -- Primis            5-16-00,  11:25PM Yesterday Indiana University publicly admitted that its basketball coach Bob Knight was a jerk, and his behavior was unacceptable. Well, yeah.  Everyone outside the state of Indiana has been saying that in unison for years. More... GHHHHAAAAAAAA!   -- Primis              5-14-00,        5:35PM That scream you heard around 5pm Eastern today was me finishing Half-Life: Opposing Force.  I won't spoil the ending for anyone who hasn't finished it (or played it even) yet but... even though I knew in my gut what might happen I was still less-than-enthused about the result.  In fact, I was rather ticked-off. Nevertheless the game (or really it's an add-on I guess) is still one of the coolest out there today, so go buy it and enjoy.  A couple battle scenes are just really, really entertaining -- particularly the ones where you stumble upon Black Ops fighting Aliens, and neither are terribly thrilled with your presence. So it's not ultra-realistic like Ranbow Six.  Who cares?  It's still incredible fun! The Week In Music   -- Primis              5-14-00,        1:45PM All I can say is "ouch".  Fred Beckley of Knight-Ridder Newspapers might get the award for the most scathing album review of the year thus far for Pink's Can't Take Me Home.  "Philly-bred Pink's debut marks another low point on the committee continuum at the end of which all Atlanta-touched R&B will eventually converge into a single bad album... leave this at the store."  Like I said, "Ouch". This week is a big week on the tube for rock fans.  Tuesday night, Tool frontman Maynard's side-project A Perfect Circle will appear on Conan, while Foo Fighters will appear on Letterman.  Wednesday on Leno, you can catch 3 Doors Down.  And finally, if you can stomach it, Kid Rock will be on Saturday Night Live (I refuse to acknowledge which one I'm referring to stomaching). Uhh, "War"?   -- Primis              5-13-00,        5:45PM When mankind created war, I guarantee you dear friends this is NOT what he had in mind.  Just some more of those things that make you go "Uhhh..." I guess. (For some real fun click on the "Evil" link). Welcome the Strategy/Programming Genre.   -- Primis  5-11-00,  9:55PM If you've ever seen the show Robot Wars on PBS you know how cool it is.  But even then, those robots on the show are controlled remotely by humans.  So what about AI-controlled 'bots? CogniToy has released a game called MindRover which charges you with creating and programming a virtual robot to compete in a RobotWars-style competition. It features an intuitive interface, and original concept, OpenGL graphics, and more.  Best yet, you don't need to know much or anything at all about programming to play, although programming/scripting experience sure couldn't hurt.  If you're craving something deeper and more cerebral in computer games, check the demo download for yourself... Because Knowledge Is Power... Allegedly.   -- Primis  5-11-00,   2:55AM And while we're on the subject of radio, a few people have been asking me how come I know all sorts of radio-related news all over the whole country, and what's going on, and such.  If a station changes format, or if a major name leaves their position, I know about it.  Well, that's because of AllAccess. AllAccess is probably the single best tool for radio broadcasters out there, complete with job classifieds, net news, forums, and more.  If you have some unnatural, unholy obsession with radio like me, you'd be wise to sign up for a free account and have all this info at your fingertips. Mmmm... Sounds....   -- Primis                 5-11-00,   2:35AM Being in radio, and being interested very-muchly in the production end, I find myself looking for and using great little audio snippets we like to call "drops", and little hard sound effects we call "hits".  Well one of the best pages I've found for drops is at RadioEARTH.  They have short little movie and TV snippets, amongst other things.  Sound quality varies, but you can put some SERIOUS montage's together using them, regardless of quality. Got Lego?...   -- Primis                 5-10-00,   12:35AM ... and a spare day to kill?  And a friend who shares not only your unnatural obsession with Legos, but also your unnatural obsession with wargaming?  Well then, LegoWars is definitely for you.  Think Warhammer or BattleTech, except using all Lego stuff.  The timeline alone makes this page worth the read... Where's My Spreader Rifle?   -- Primis                 5-09-00,   11:35PM This was on Slashdot a couple days ago, but stuff this cool bears repeating. There's a 3-man metal band called MiniBosses making MP3's of everyone's favorite NES game music.  I personally found the Contra one incredibly cool.  If you're one of us who spent entirely too much time playing on your old NES console Back In The Day, then this is for you.  Thanks to SychoSyd for whacking me and pointing this one out. 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