[Kzyxtalk] A very sweary New Year. Fresh hell daily. See flyer for specials.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A very sweary New Year. Fresh hell daily. See flyer for specials.

/"There are scents that dogs can smell and we cannot. There are 
wavelengths of light we cannot see. Why should the remark, 'Perhaps 
there are thoughts we cannot think,' surprise you?" -Richard Hamming

Here's the recording of last night's (new year's eve, 2021) Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0469

Thanks heaps to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost. And thanks to the 
Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided almost an hour of the above 
eight-hour show's most locally relevant material, as usual, without 
asking for anything in return, and to Kevin MacLeod, who composed and 
provided Sleazy Weasel, MOTA's official intro and outro theme; they've 
made a documentary about his life and work, and it's finally out. It's 
called /Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod/.

Email me your writing on any subject and I'll read it on the radio this 
coming Friday night on the very next MOTA show. If it's more than plain 
text, please provide a link to the media you want me to see or hear, 
rather than attach it.

FURTHERMORE, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh 
batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering that show together. 
Such as:

Betty White was going to be a hundred years old soon, but she died a 
couple of days ago, after eight decades of radio and teevee and show biz 
in general. She had a smart mouth; she swore like a sailor, and everyone 
loved her.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jadecardichon/betty-white-photos

Betty White, high-rez, 1954, sparkling in thought, word, deed and eyes.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26415?size=_original#caption

Speaking of sparkling, /this/ page shows the progress, in real time, of 
the James Webb telescope on its way to the L2 point. Congratulations! 
Your item [fabulous infrared space telescope] has been shipped. 
Estimated arrival date, January 23. Please contact our customer service 
representatives if you have any questions. (From the FAQ: Yes, James 
Webb was a racist. Also that was a long time ago when everyone was 
racist, and he truly never had sex with that woman, who was in her 
thirties not her teens and fully consented to all contact, plus he's 
dead.) (It's too late to cancel your order.)
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

And here's a compelling case for self-driving cars. Give this a minute 
and you'll give it another four, then you'll watch the whole rest of it. 
Once upon a time every elevator employed a driver. There was a point 
where people stopped feeling weird about an elevator driving itself. The 
robot car driver can see in all directions all the time, even in the 
dark; it has 29 cameras and LIDAR; it knows to the inch where objects 
and pets and people and other vehicles are, and what direction they're 
all going, and how fast. Whenever one robot driver learns a new danger 
or trick or technique, and they're all learning all the time, soon all 
robot drivers know that too. Most of the huge amount of death and damage 
and tragedy on the roads up to now comes from a very short list of 
common human driver errors that robot drivers already can never make.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2021/12/self-driving-cars-yay-or-nay.html

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com