{"id":783,"date":"2009-05-02T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2009-05-02T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T00:37:11","slug":"looking-forward-to-my-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/looking-forward-to-my-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward to my commute?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Da Roomie<\/acronym><\/a> and I have been sadly watching the downward spiral of local radio in Portland, and it has gotten to the point where I just can’t take it anymore. Radio sucks, and I get tired of swapping CD’s around on the road – especially when I’m flying solo out to one of the wineries on the back twistys and don’t want to stop just to change discs.<\/p>\n

So, I’ve been saving up for a new toy, and today I treated myself (and my passengers) to some new audio capabilities: a Kenwood KDC-HD942U<\/a>. So far I’m diggin’ it. MP3-on-CD-R support, USB<\/acronym> support and built-in HD radio.<\/p>\n

I don’t really care about the HD radio – it sucks just as bad as regular radio – but that USB<\/acronym> support is crucial. The reason for this particular model, however, is that the USB<\/acronym> port is a cable that they routed from behind the unit to one of the center console pockets. On all the other models in my price range, the USB<\/acronym> ‘support’ is a port on the faceplate so you can break off you thumb drive and kill the port with an accidental grab at your drink. <\/p>\n

A quick trip to the electronics store netted me a 4GB USB<\/acronym> drive, which is plenty of room for my roadable selections. Of course, it will take a bit longer to dig my way through the manual to figure out how to use all the functions on the thing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Da Roomie and I have been sadly watching the downward spiral of local radio in Portland, and it has gotten to the point where I just can’t take it anymore. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}