Floyd Wright
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Floyd Wright has had a love of radio since 1978. He grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut listening to all the great radio personalities in Hartford, New Haven, and New York city on his dad’s gigantic ‘Zenith multiband stratosphere all tube radio’. This radio featured a strange new band called ‘FM’, and from then on, Floyd was hooked. He used to play radio in the basement of his home and even built his own radio station by hitching ‘record players’ and a cassette recorder into a small am transmitter kit. Then he figured out how to hitch the transmitter into the water pipes which made the station transmit a couple of miles. Floyd’s parents told him nobody was going to pay him to sit around all day and play music for a living, but they sent him to Emerson College in Boston to get a ‘Mass Communications degree’ anyway.
After becoming the station manager at one of the school’s radio stations he was lucky enough to get “ real” radio jobs in New Hampshire, Albany, New Haven, Waterbury, Hartford, and even a couple of stations in New York city. Over the years Floyd has been involved in raising money for muscular dystrophy, the Arthritis Foundation, and the March of Dimes, and has been given three awards from Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Floyd's Blog...
January
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The new year is here and a lot of people think of it as a time of renewal. What a coincidence that I just got notices from the Hartford Courant, TV Guide, A.A.A. and my insurance company. It does seem like we get some kind of snowstorm every year on New Year’s Eve. The snow mixes well with the Christmas decorations that light up the neighborhoods. Connecticut really does have a beautiful landscape during the winter when the snow falls on the rolling hills and clings to the evergreen trees. It’s a view that southerners only get to see on Christmas cards. I enjoy this view from Thanksgiving until New Year’s Day. After that I’m ready to skip right over the months of January, February, and March (with the possible exception of Saint Patrick’s Day) and go right to spring. To me Saint Patrick’s Day really marks the end of winter, although occasionally we’ll get a Saint Paddy snowstorm that’s so big even a gallon jug of Irish coffee isn't big enough to keep you warm. When I was in grammar school most of the kids in my classroom hated winter. That was probably because the nuns made us go outside for recess even if the temperature was absolute zero. I guess they just wanted to get some peace and quiet for awhile. Or maybe they were taking bets on who would win the snowball fight!
Here’s the list of the worst college bowl names in history according to a story on yahoo. The Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, the Magic Jack St. Petersburgh Bowl, the Tobacco Bowl, and the Culligan Brand Holiday Bowl. The one with the longest name is the San Diego County Credit Union.com Poinsettia Bowl…by the time you say the name it’s already half time!
Scientists at Eindhoven University claim they have created ‘test tube bacon’. Eventually the meat from just one animal will create the volume of meat that previously had to be provided by a million animals. The college professors are claiming this could end world hunger……or at least knock the price of a Denny’s Grand Slam way down!
