Podcasts

Grey's Anatomy

I picked this podcast because I used to be pretty addicted to Grey's Antomy, but I've missed the past few seasons. I thought it might help catch me up, but I found that I was pretty lost. They talked a lot about each one hour episode for thirty minutes, so it was a pretty in-depth analysis. There were two people having a conversation so it wasn't completely one-sided. It was just an audio podcast. The draw-back was that you really needed to be following the show to understand the plots that were going on. You can't just listen to the podcast without having a clue about what's going on in the show. I probably won't listen to it again without watching more of the show, because I was so confused. I did not listen to any of them on my iPod.

Happy Tree Friends
This was under the cartoon section on iTunes so I thought it would be cute and fun. No such luck. It started with happy kid music, but then somehow turned into a vending machine popping the eyeballs out of this fuzzy bear with a lazy eye that wanted nothing more than a candy bar. It was violent with the facade of innocence, which made it pretty grotesquely funny. It was a short little episode with video...less than two minutes. I would watch it again.

Fifth Ave Sounds
I searched music and different genres came up. I picked reggae for something fun and different. This podcast just plays music from this band. It was decent - good for bacjground noise.

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Vtdigger.org

At first glance, I thought that this would be a pretty interesting site. The graphics caught my eye made me want to look around more. It reminded me of an elaborate scrapbook page with stickers and torn paper. I went to the Business Model tab and found how they were non-profit and that I could easily made a donation through PayPal. That is always a good idea because when using your PayPal account, you don't even need to enter your credit card number so it feels like your not even spending money. I tried to go to the Comic section, because that sounded appealing to me, but their were no comics in it. This disappointed me a little bit. I enjoyed the Opinion section which seemed to have stories from a broad ranger of people. My favorite was by a high school student by the name of Luna Larkin. I liked that these opinion pieces ranged from serious to upbeat and funny like hers was. The stories do seem to be all around well-written. If i were to assign them a political leaning, I would say liberal. I went to a story about the deployment of the Vermont National Gaurd, that included a video clip of the speech that Michael Dubie gave. I thought it was a decent unbiased story, however a man (Rod) did not agree. He stated that Obama was just as war-crazy as Bush and that this was horrible reporting. Four minutes later a response to his comment was posted by Anne Galloway. I think that this shows how dedicated that she is to this website. She is monitoring all activity on it very carefully and responding immediately to the reader feedback that comes in. I think that this site has definite potential for success. It is well-organized and varied greatly, from the writers styles to the story topics and layouts.

Tuition Break

Blurb: Students are finally going to pay less

Text: In the first ever LSC tuition decrease, tuition will be going down 10 percent starting fall semester.

Harold R. Drazsnzak, LSC vice president for finance, made this announcement at a news conference in the new auditorium in ASAC.

"Without a doubt, this decrease is long overdue for students," said Drazsnzak. He said that this decrease is possible because of increased revenues from the state.

LSC Student Goes to Jail

Blurb: LSC student turned bank robber?

Text: LSC senior and reigning Miss Vermont, Cathy Bensen, was arrested yesterday for robbing the First Vermont Bank, police say.

Bensen is the daughter of local attorney, Jim Bensen.

The amount of money stolen was not disclosed by the police, but police said the Bensen was wearing a mask during the robbery.

Bensen is the daughter of local attorney, Jim Bensen and she has been planning on going to Dartmouth for medical school after he gets her Bachelor's degree from LSC in Atmospheric Science.

TV Punched or Stabbed

Blurb: Public safety works to prevent continued vandalism

The television in the Alexander Twilight Theatre was destroyed in an act of vandalism on January 18 between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.

This vandalism will cost the school 3,000 dollars to get a replacement TV that they will be ordering next week.

"The willful destruction of community property for no good is pretty sad," said Jonathan Davis, associate of student affairs.

George Hacking, director of public safety said that they are trying to put more security measures in place. They are thinking about putting security cameras in the theatre lobby and hiring another public safety officer.

"Currently we have no leads coming in," said Hacking. Public Safety asks that anyone who has information about the vandalism contacts them.

Also see the story from The Critic.

Lady Killed Trying to Save Cat

Blurb: Woman hit by car

Text: Around 4 p.m on Sunday, a local woman was killed on I-91 southbound as she was walking across the passing lane of the interstate to rescue a stray cat.

75-year-old Cynthia Long, from Putney, was struck and killed by 28-year-old Jonathan Ribas, causing the interstate to be closed for about three hours.

Anyone having information about this accident is asked to call Trooper Wagenbach at the Vermont State Police Brattleboro at (802) 254-282.

Pretty Pimp

So...my blog.
I just added a bunch of random gadgets - tetris, adsense (so I can make a fortune), and top iTunes songs. I also adopted a bat (bandit) who lives on the bottom of my blog. I added an image to the top to add a little extra color, and I adjusted all my font sizes and colors for my text. I also added new a template to make it more interesting. I added a rating system so people could tell me if they think me posts are horrible by picking a low star rating. I gave myself a five for this post. :D