Response to a previous post......

I just took some over the counter sleep aids, I hope they work. I consider them kind of risky and hope that I can get my circadian rhythm back on track within a couple of days. I have a life long sleep disorder and have to make adjustments from time to time.

I tried listening to that NPR thing in the links above. When the people from Popular Mechanics came up first I turned it off right away. Because of the insomnia mentioned above, I used to go to the super market after the pre-cable TV signed off and the anthem had played and the flag dissolved into fighter jets on the screen. At the store I would stock up on magazines and read them until I became exhausted. My favorite was Scientific American . If the condition persisted and I had worked through SA then I would get Popular Mechanics but only when I had to because I had read everything else. This was way before 9/11 in the 80's. As a side note, I can record that I always got a creepy feeling reading Popular Mechanics . I know it is subjective and make of it what you will but I got the same sort of dirty feeling that I got as a Catholic schoolboy looking at girly magazines in a friends attic. Also, I always thought that Popular Mechanics was a gyp because the content was so poor.

Anyway, I did read through the comments on the NPR archive and found them refreshing. Judging from them it looked like their program back-fired. I found the last minute personal change on NPR program quite curious too. Radio and TV work on schedules if nothing else and seem to be as ridged as a Mussolini rail timetable with one having to be "wheel" like Johnny Carson to take any time off.

I no longer even glance at Scientific American because it has been so dumbed down. It used to be kind of a stretch for me to read and thus I found it educational. And of course I never look at Popular Mechanics and get creeped out at the mention of it and that is not subjective.