Product Plug: Sirius Internet Radio

Surprisingly enough, my current company has not blocked streaming media. Myspace yes, Friendster yes, my personal Yahoo Mail account, YES, but not my Sirius Radio subscription.

My wife bought me a Sirius for the car, and well, I take the train to work.

But the side benefit of this is that you can log in to the web based streaming player and listen to music, talk and Howard Stern while blocking out those annoying cubicle conversations.

Recently, Sirius started offering just an Internet only account, which I think is the best deal out there for fellow dwellers.

It certainly beats those goofy noise cancelling headphones people wear. Jeez...

Driving in on a Friday morning

Listened to the new Tom Petty album. Track one is fantastic, the rest of typical Petty.

But typical Petty isn't bad at all.

My boss, and other cubicle dwellers had a conversation about music. My boss, like myself is an old metal head. We got onto a conversation about Iron Maiden and surprisingly the other three cubicle mates chimed in on this. We kind of chuckled about our musical selections when we were young.

The important thing to note is as metalheads we appreciated hard and fast lyrics that may or may not be understandable during the melodies. The chorus you always understood that was your rallying cry to your metal god on stage.

I grew to appreciate Petty later in life. Simple lyrics, simple melodies, good tight music. Definitely not metal.

Ah when will I get any work done today?