Oh, the horror of it all. The WEATHER outside. Oh my.
68 yesterday, in the low 30s today. Global warming be damned, I wish it would just warm up already. It stayed warm well into the fall of 2005, and that meant Emily and I could spend our spare time galavanting around Southern Illinois, hitting up state parks like they were going out of style. Now, the cold has us indoors. Not as fun. Nope. Mother Nature needs to get with the program.
• So everyone’s barking about XM these days, with Sirius out-earning them in subscribers in the fourth quarter and the acquisition of Oprah, who’s “no Howard Stern.” Whatever. Both companies won’t see profit for some time, and just because one member of the board has no foresight and leaves screaming “the sky is falling” doesn’t mean there are problems ahead.
The whole XM vs Sirius thing is quite silly. There’s room for two in the land of satrad, just like the DBS world has DirecTV and Dish Network (two other satcasters that were in the red for some time but now are on the gravy train to cash town.) It’s all about personal preference: if you like Stern (my sympathies) or the NFL, then by all means get Sirius. If you’re like me and you must have your baseball (or Cinemagic or 60’s on Six,) then not having XM would be stupid. To say that one is better than the other is incorrect; XM’s technology is superior, but not by leaps and bounds. It matters what you want. I want my John Rooney The Tesseract video buy Scarface .