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Happy Tower Day

Well, after years and years of legal squabbling and other setbacks, the Lookout Mountain Digital TV Supertower finally went online today! Now we can get all our local digital HD channels from LM and I no longer have to rotate my antenna between LM and downtown depending on what channel I want. High-powered [...]

Sky Signal

It occurs to me I have not updated my loyal out-of-town readership lately on the status of the Denver Digital TV Supertower, of which I wrote so many blog entries decrying the NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) mentality of the residents in the area. Looks like my last entry on the subject was way [...]

Red and White Fingers Point to the Sky

Since I’ve talked so much about the proposed Digital TV Supertower that a consortium of local Denver broadcasters wants to put on Lookout Mountain, I thought it was long overdue to put up a picture of the existing Lookout Mountain antenna farm here (click on it go to the Flickr site and view larger images, [...]

Clarity From The Skies

Hi, it’s been awhile. How do you do? How have you been? The Blogging Well has run a bit dry here at FlasshePoint, plus I’ve been kinda busy. And just waiting around for something interesting to happen to me. Wait… is that it…? Nope, only a particularly loud burp.
Still no [...]

It’s Not Over Now Just Because It’s Over

Attention Magnetic Fields Fans: I’ve mentioned before the latest album by Immaculate Machine, Ones And Zeros. I’ve also mentioned how much I like it. It will most undoubtedly be on my Top 15 list for the year (probably in the top 5). But one thing I’ve never mentioned is how much one [...]

Denver Cowtown Status Intact

Kudos to the Rocky Mountain News for an editorial today (belated though it is) decrying the stupidity of the Jefferson County commissioners in not approving the digital TV tower on Lookout Mountain (see my previous blog entries about it here and here). I’m ashamed to be living in the county that these bozos oversee. [...]

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