It’s amazing how they can fit an entire radio station in those little glass fibers

That's David down the end
Today (no doubt inspired by my visit with Cory) I finally got around to wiring up the (not terribly impressive) speakers in my monitor in the office and ginning up the mighty U-90 Alternative! Yup, I was tying up valuable trans-Atlantic bandwidth, listening to Morris’s finest radio station, streaming in real-time from Minnesota here to the UK through little glass fibers buried in the ocean floor.

And it was sweet, and very rarely smelled of seafood.

Actually, it wasn’t quite as cool as it might have been, since all I got was the loop – apparently there were no live DJs in the studio this morning. This was a serious bummer, as my plan was to IM the poor DJ and freak them out with the news that someone was listening all the over in the UK. There’s always tomorrow, though, and many more days after that.

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Tomorrow in London: Unhindered by Monkey River Town!

The Rosetta Stone!

CoryQ of the venerable Monkey River Town, and also a source of photographs strange and wondrous on Flickr, graduated from UMM nearly a decade ago. Among his many accomplishments at Morris was his many and varied contributions to the campus radio station (KUMM). I’ve only seen Cory once since he graduated, despite the fact that he lives and works in the Twin Cities, just three hours down the road.

So instead, we’re going to meet over here, in London.

Tomorrow.

At noon.

In the British Museum.

At the Rosetta Stone, one of the most amazing artifacts in human history.

Kind of like Cory. (I’ll spare you the stories.)

Wow.

It’s so cool that I’ll get to see Cory and wife again, and in the British Museum to boot! Be prepared for too many pictures…

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