Been meaning to pick up a reciever for today, but have been finding that 99% of the hardware is junk. Like K-mart quality stuff compared to XM kits. I've had a hard time finding one that fits my needs.

I've had XM for a couple years now and love it, but would gladly switch so I can tune into Stern. It's too bad that Sirius has such poor hardware partners that making the switch is nearly impossible.

I'm not totally sure I follow you Jared, but I'm not wise on much of this stuff...  I got a receiver and a car kit and that was about all I needed.  Looks and sounds great...  I'm wishing I had a walkman I could like plug it to or something though because I'd like it for at school when I'm there.  Not sure how I can do that.

As far as today's show I've caught it a couple times today/tonight now and that alone is great...  I wasn't always up early enough to catch the old show. 

Today's show was fantastic though...  Lots of glitches early on, still ironing out technical kinks because that's just to be expected.  Stern actually was on twice over his downtime trying to iron them out early and there was basically just little 3 hour test runs of the show that were really funny unto themselves.

They announced what the things were that the staff were to reveal today...  Great stuff, though some really seemed like it would be a letdown if tied to certain members of the show.  One of the revealed items was that someone cheated on their wife, someone had plastic surgery too, and another one was that someone has a half-sister that they don't care to know...  Also someone paid for an abortion at one point in their life.

They didn't say who's revelation belonged to who though, that's tomorrow, but I'm curious now...  A lot are saying Stern's the one who cheated, and now that makes me curious.  That'll actually change my view of him completely if it is true.

There were some things revealed I really don't want to get into here, but suffice it to say, there's some disturbing stuff and it belongs to one of them...  Some of it was just gross and I could see it coming from a couple of the staff just because it's how they are all the time and not really revealing a whole lot.

The press interviews were funny...  Stern took all questions, including hostile ones, and retorted with a lot of funny stuff... 

Anyway, as far as this goes my Sirius has been a great gift besides Stern...  The comedy channel Raw Dog is worth it alone, but there's lots of music channels too.  I'm not a big music guy though so I'm hardly good to ask for an opinion.  Lots of talk radio though, both sides of the fence, and the Stern channels are really enough for me to enjoy.  I like the news, the roundtable shows, and now that the regular show is here I'm glad I can listen to it almost any time.  I'm having fun. 

I just gotta figure out how to get this in my car because there's an antenna thing and I have a conertible...  It's not easy to figure out where I need to put the antenna as I don't want it on my trunk really.  My buddy has a jeep and put it on the roll bar.  I'm trying to figure if I can mount it inside to the roof bracing so it'll move with the roof, I dunno.  I really don't want it on my trunk lid though really.   

Oh all insults on both sides have been duly noted and recognized, rest assured.  It was a fun time really.

Chris didn't threaten to ban you for using your punctuation Lady Jaye, as I noted in my post (BTW Chris didn't even make the point, I did, so addressing Chris as threatening to ban you for your grammar seems a tad irrational when his name wasn't brought up).  The point I made though is that we do hold a higher standard of quality here...  We don't want the posts of our members to be so poorly structured that they don't make sense, that they add confusion to our boards...  Grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc., are what we are addressing so making light of how punctuation goes as "no big deal" around here isn't true...  I'm correcting that is all.

It isn't a HUGE deal, but it isn't something we take lightly either and have taken action on people in the past.  It wasn't for using excessive exclamation points, but it still is something we watch around here.  When there's a problem with excessive exclamation points we're certain a notice will be posted to limit them or cut it out and post properly.

"Style" isn't important here, but our members posting in a respectful and respectable manner is important though, and that's where we've taken action in the past when people felt that their spelling and grammar just weren't important because "it's just a toy forum".  It's also a place where you are still putting yourself out there in public and people form opinions on you based on how you present yourself.  This includes how you talk to others, how you present your additions to a conversation...  It's more important than people give it credit I believe, as like I said there is a greater focus on E-Communications as a legitimate contribution to knowledge, academia, etc.

The guy on the right REALLY ought to have Philip's head though.

And it's not improper either as using "!" or "!!" (etc.) is...  It's not bad "netiquette" as I pointed out earlier.

Of course there's plenty of relaxed banter here, but I think what the Cos is saying is that "style" and routinely using an exclamation as your punctuation are two different things.  It's not wrong to put "..." at the end of a sentence if you're carrying on a thought or whatnot, whereas there's never a proper time to use two !'s, and even using 1 ! is a rare occurance in writing.  It is like yelling by typing in all capital letters emphasizes the post.

You can use it to emphasize a word, but some use it to emphasize an entire post, and it comes through as yelling...  Ending every sentence with "!!!" isn't too much different and I suppose it can be annoying to some, distracting to others, and I'm sure others will not look at it with much respect...  Does that matter?  Well, it depends who is being told I guess...  If it didn't, would we have this conversation with so many replies though?

I think people aren't saying it's a big deal so much as they're saying it shows a lack of posting class maybe...  I don't think there were names being called either, just honest opinions about the subject at hand...  For instance Bill Cosby didn't call anyone a buffoon, he just said that the !'s make LJ look like one...  I maybe missed the "fighting" though, I dunno, I've lost track honestly, but this wasn't anything bad to read through I thought.  Weird...  but not bad.

Not to do a pile-on but I actually have some experience with internet etiquette or "netiquette".  It's actually a real thing developed for academic debate/writing electronically since forums and other E-sources of discussion have become more and more in the spotlight and accepted as credible academic resources.

I know when I was in one of my basic college writing courses things like quoting an entire source instead of specific points was cited as bad netiquette.  Just like typing in all caps is for example.  Also, overuse of punctuation, especially the exclamation mark which is rarely to be used in a literal sense, is bad netiquette.  That's not to say it's annoying to anyone or everyone either, it's not "good form" though and diminishes the quality of the text in which it is written if used improperly.  I believe the proper use of the exclamation is a very rare occurance in most writing.  Such as "Wow!", or some such.

1/9/06 and Stern's on...  God it's refreshing too, and was a great show.

Lots of technical difficulties which was to be expected.  They started the show early over their holiday break a couple times trying to work out kinks in "test runs" but it didn't fix everything...

The show was good though.  Very funny...  They have George "Mr. Sulu" Takei as their announcer and boy that guy's funny and jumped right into the fun himself.  Very amusing.

Commercials/breaks are infrequent, lots of great stuff...  I'm loving their revelations bit that they started over on boring old radio, and are continuing here.  Great stuff being revealed.  Anyone get a Sirius Radio for X-Mas?