Little Raleigh Radio kicks off its donation campaign!

Little Raleigh Radio


Little Raleigh Radio, the LPFM station I’m helping launch, has gone live with its Kickstarter donation campaign! After just one day it’s already reached 1/3rd of its goal of $10,000!

Help bring really local radio to Raleigh! Donate today!

We are building a community radio station and we need equipment so we can start broadcasting.

We are doing this. We are starting a community radio station in downtown Raleigh and we are doing it legit.

This studio will launch our internet broadcast stream and it will also prepare us to be on the air with a low-power FM signal in 2013. We need to populate the studio with more hardware than a couple of laptops and microphones borrowed from our volunteers. We are using Kickstarter to raise $10,000 to purchase gear including soundboards, CD players, turntables, microphones, speakers, cables and supportive equipment. We need your help. We believe in the value of community and we want our volunteers to be able to create community through radio.

via Little Raleigh Radio // We'll do it live! by Little Raleigh Radio — Kickstarter.

Slimming down without really trying

I could scarcely believe my eyes this morning when I stepped on the scale and registered 170 pounds even. It’s what I consider my ideal weight and about thirteen pounds below my highest weight.

I’d been noticing that my waist has been slowly slimming down, so much so that I’m able to wear pants I last wore ten years ago! My waist has dropped about two inches over the past year. The other times I’ve dropped down to this weight didn’t include the smaller waist so I’m hopeful this is a more permanent change.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-19

  • My smartphone can change traffic lights to green. Seems all I have to do is pick it up. #
  • @GGatilov It's time Russia put on its Big-Boy Pants and find a solution to #syria The world is watching you! #
  • The new Dell laptop docks ship with the biggest power adapters I've ever seen! http://t.co/GNNsVdrK #geek #
  • Success tonight with Raleigh CAC's UDO workshop and passing new bylaws. Could #catHerding be giving way to #consensus #

Twitter Updates for 2012-07-19

  • My smartphone can change traffic lights to green. Seems all I have to do is pick it up. #
  • @GGatilov It's time Russia put on its Big-Boy Pants and find a solution to #syria The world is watching you! #
  • The new Dell laptop docks ship with the biggest power adapters I've ever seen! http://t.co/GNNsVdrK #geek #
  • Success tonight with Raleigh CAC's UDO workshop and passing new bylaws. Could #catHerding be giving way to #consensus #

RCAC gets things done

Instead of a regular RCAC meeting, tonight we had a workshop and session away from the TV cameras. Turned out to be pretty productive.

Christine Dargas from the city’s Planning Department briefed (and I do mean briefed) us on major changes to Raleigh’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). Lots of questions were raised and Christine answered as many as she could in the time we allotted her. The UDO is a huge beast of a document and 90 minutes is not nearly enough time to do it justice, so I hope to have a follow-on session sometime in the near future where we can get into more detail.
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Milk: it does a body good? Perhaps not.

Here’s an interesting take on milk and how we’re probably drinking too much of it.

Today the Department of Agriculture’s recommendation for dairy is a mere three cups daily — still 1½ pounds by weight — for every man, woman and child over age 9. This in a country where as many as 50 million people are lactose intolerant, including 90 percent of all Asian-Americans and 75 percent of all African-Americans, Mexican-Americans and Jews. The myplate.gov site helpfully suggests that those people drink lactose-free beverages. (To its credit, it now counts soy milk as “dairy.”)

There’s no mention of water, which is truly nature’s perfect beverage; the site simply encourages us to switch to low-fat milk. But, says Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, “Sugar — in the form of lactose — contributes about 55 percent of skim milk’s calories, giving it ounce for ounce the same calorie load as soda.”

via Got Milk? You Don't Need It – NYTimes.com.