A while back I purchased a stack of ancient amateur radio magazines. They’re so old, some of them date back before I was hatched(!) I find all sorts of interesting information in them, from basic electronics (TUBES, of course) to ads. It’s incredibly interesting to look at the differences in advertising between then and now, […]
Last night my wife was watching the local news (I always do something else when she watches local news because local news has no content whatsoever. She called me in for a story about a zone of no car alarms.
There was some sort of local shopping center where, for the last year, no one […]
YouTube - Syndicated Radio host Michael Reagan, adopted son of former president Ronald Reagan, publicly calls for 9/11 Truth Activist Mark Dice to be murdered.
“We ought to find the people who are doing this, take them out and shoot them. Really. You take them out, they are traitors to this country, and shoot them. You […]
No I’m not.
I just feel so isolated out here… maybe if I put iphone in the title, I’ll feel more welcome. I’ll fit in better. Then I can start talking up Vista!
Ok, I’ll stop.
Let me think about the top tech acquisitions for the near (and far) future.
Well, some nice soul recently gave me […]
A few years back we heard of terrible devastation via tsunami. One of the many sad facts was that no one knew that animals heading for high ground meant TSUNAMI.
No one knew because the knowledge didn’t get passed down. Think about it…Apply this to wherever you live.
My wife came from a large family. […]
I’m a hardcore guitar player. I love the guitar like nothing else. My music lists tend to reflect this but lately as I get old(er), there are other things creeping in. Things with no guitar solos or guitar heroes playing.
I’ve always had a weak spot for certain vocalists. I successfully covered […]
I just came across a service called Meemix (.com). It’s one of those personal web radio stations where you put in a favorite artist and it tries to guess what kind of music you like to hear. You rate the songs and it adapts to your tastes.
These things have traditionally turned out to […]
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Great article on how amateur radio operators stepped up when there was no communication coming from or going to parts of Oregon during a disaster.
