98.5 KOME – Fan Blog

You know when you are driving and a song comes on the radio that you remember loving? The trick for me when that happens is to hope to remember the song when I get home so I can look it up and find where I can get it on line. Neat trick for someone my age, trust me. I have kids so I am legally brain dead.

Well there is a way now to ‘tag’ that song so you can go to iTunes later on and buy it, no memory required. At HDRadio.com which is a Digital Radio Service not a Satellite service.You simply go to a dealer and pick up the HD Radio™ receiver. This receiver has the ability to let you listen to your local stations in CD quality sound. When a song comes on that you love, simply tag it and go to iTunes to purchase, simple as pie.

The Jensen JiMS 525i Receiver is really nice, the features list is extensive and the price is really good. It has duel alarms, 30 presets and its a nice looking set. I love that this receiver will fit most any decor and fit nicely just about anywhere from the Bookcase to the shelf unit.

The quality of music you hear on HD is amazing. I listen to KUFX from the San Jose area on my computer and they offer a streaming HD channel, which is really great. You can find your available local radio stations that provide HD streams, for instance the station I mentioned listening to, KUFX is listed on this list.

I like the idea ofsong tagging, like every other service I use via the Internet the applications I use most are the applications that provide ease of use to me, and HD song tagging and the crystal clear sound they provide gives me this. I suggest you check this out, you will be glad you did.

The Ferry at Sunset

Originally uploaded by iSew

I love to peruse Flickr for photos of home, this one is so nice. Makes me miss home so much I can almost feel the sun setting on my face now.

Okay now for my picks from the play list at KFOX tonight…….. and an honest question for you all:
Who rocks harder, AC/DC or Black Sabbath?
Leave your choice here, or if you have another choice slam it down here

I was lucky enough to have been at the Back in Black Tour, at the Cow Palace wayyyyyyy back when
(1980), and to this day I can remember each moment of that show. It was the very first rock concert I was at, and my Dad had given me the money for the tickets and a reprieve from my curfew — had the entire night to myself. My friend Christine and I went in her moms 442 ( beautiful car too) all the way to San Francisco, beer in hand. Well, we get to the gates and no booze inside. So brainyacks that we were, we took the beer back to the car which was parked on the street, and locked it in the truck.
Went inside and had a total blast. Well, when we got out to the car, guess what we found? Yep, missing windshield, missing side door windows, lol. The kids that had been watching us put the beer in the car, tried to get into that car and when they could not gain access, they smashed the s%$# of her moms car! We drove all the way back to Sunnyvale with no windshield on the 101… what a ride that was, what a night!

Wow, my choices tonight for my KFOX pics were too varied! Narrowed it down to these two tho any of what was on the play list Tim Jeffreys had tonight would have been awesome to have here. You know the deal, I have kid in a candy store syndrome.

Tom Petty’s Learning to Fly ~

and The Police Synchronicity II ~

I looked up synchronicity and here is what the wiki says :

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated.
The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead, it maintains that just as events may be grouped by cause, they may also be grouped by their meaning.
DEEP.
In order to be ‘synchronistic’, the events must be related to one another temporally in a way to rule out direct causation.