In typical format I was just cruisin’ along the other day and low and behold Delta Nove’s latest album ‘the future is when’ comes on my iPod and it is just crankin.’ I’m not really sure why I remembered their album isn’t “polished” as these three songs just kill it. Track 1 [...]

I thought I’d do some recollection on a band we’ve seen a couple times now called Delta Nove from Long Beach, California. Live recording from 2006 (details below):

Mostly testament to the despicable music industry (as it really is sad – so many good artists and such utter crap on the radios most of the [...]

The answer?  20 years after Ronald Reagan famously removed Jimmy Carter’s solar hot water panels, George W. Bush installed the largest solar array on the Whitehouse out of anyone, believe it or not…
Since September 2002, a grid of 167 solar panels on the roof of a maintenance shed has been delivering electricity to the White House [...]

Here is an interesting read from the NY Times today about Obama’s proposed stimulous plan… http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/us/politics/11radio.html
Some quotes from it:
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday again raised the estimate of how many jobs would result from his economic recovery plan, now saying it would create or save three million to four million, nearly 90 percent in the [...]

Thom makes some very valid points in a December 23rd Op-Ed about the state of America versus other countries. That we’ve rewarded our smartest people with higher incomes in the financial industry versus innovators and engineers; and that the USA may not be “#1″ any more as our economy dwindles and our infrastructure falls [...]