Went to the Mobile (Alabama) Swapfest today… first time to another club’s Hamfest. Nan went with me and got to meet a lot of people she doesn’t know, and she wasn’t impressed with how small the swapfest was. I told her the big ones like Dayton, Orlando, and Huntsville are a lot bigger. The purpose … Read more
Ok… What’s Tom talking about now? Well… I was browsing the net and came across the tale of Neil and Nancy Sirman and their “Amazing Geriatric Adventures aboard the terrific sailing vessel Active Light”. They set sail on a voyage to circumnavigate the world. Along the way the spent a year in Mexico, about 14 … Read more
We went to Circuit City again today… They’re down to about 11 TVs… One is damaged… the rest are pretty big… between 46 and 52 inch and most above the $1200 range. They’re running out of stuff pretty fast. We picked up a 40 inch LCD the other day when they had about 25 TVs … Read more
I recently went to Omaha, Nebraska on a business trip… it happened to be during the time of what I would call the “original” Digital TV transition date… If you’ve watched ANY TV in the last 15 months or so you’ve most likely seen all the public service messages with people walking in dry cracked … Read more
In case your Administrator account can’t seem to edit stuff it’s “supposed” to edit… Just wasted nearly half an hour trying to mod my hosts file on my vista laptop… ya I know… why run vista when I could run a flavor of Linux… Truthfully I have a few Linux boxes here on the network, … Read more