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ANOTHER Update…
Sep 8th
Updated Photo Gallery ‘Frank’s New House’ with pictures of the progress he’s made this last week. Will have another update this coming Monday or so for the work we’ll do this weekend.
Enjoy!
Frank’s New House
Sep 5th
The race to beat the weather rages on. The siding is almost completed and Frank has been staining the installed siding to weatherize it and the staining announces the finishing of that side of the house. It looks pretty cool. I’ve added the latest images to the Gallery – go take a look!
I also updated the sort order of the Gallery. A lot of the images were out of order. Some might still be; it’s kinda tough to look at 255 images AND make sense of the order looking at thumbnails that are only 1/2 inch in size. Maybe someday I’ll get it down…
Big Changes Here At My Little Corner Of The InterWebs
Aug 31st
I’ll be switching from Qwest to Comcast next week. Qwest was AWESOME in the last ten years, but their technology has lagged and now is almost unusable. I’ve had way too many instances of the Net just screeching to a halt in the afternoons and weekends due to way too many people being served out of the old technology. [SIGH] So, for a while, the camera and weather systems might be offline.
I’ve also updated the Photo Gallery with some new collections. Enjoy!
Understand The Scale Of Kelvin
Mar 4th
My buddy Andy has posted some pictures of his new son, Kelvin, displaying him with some everyday Geek items to give you the scale of the (tiny) guy. Genius!
Click HERE to see it!
Yuma High School – Class of 75
Feb 24th
A buddy (Tawn) wrote me an Email that one of our classmates had passed away and gave me the link to a ‘reunion-style’ website where I could see the death notice. While I was sad to hear that our classmate had died, I was even sadder to note that almost all of the links to Yuma High, the school district, the ‘Crims Web Site’ run by ‘students’ and most amazing, a website supposedly run by the school districts IT department were broken, timed out or just gone forever.
What a way to run a ‘school district’, people. Fuck, I’m betting that my pudgy self, along with Tawn and a couple of computer books could run most of those sites by ourselves.
So if you’re drifting through here after having seen my Email address/Web site address on that reunion site, consider yelling at me. We might could get some REAL I.T. people moving on fixing that mess they’ve created down there.
Well, that and get a Mr. G’s burrito. (FYI – their website no longer exists, either!)
[UPDATE 03/04/2009] In just a week’s time, I’ve found about a dozen of my old classmates from YUHS. One of them, Diana Colby-Brown, has reconnected with me via email. If this keeps up, I’m going to be of those old geezers at a reunion. I’ll fight it, yes I will! 
Understanding The Scale Of Kelvin
Jan 20th
My buddy Andy has posted some pictures of his new son, Kelvin, displaying him with some everyday Geek items to give you the scale of the (tiny) guy. Genius!
Click HERE to see it!
Welcome to Earth, Kelvin!
Jan 16th
Amy and Andy have brought us Kelvin, their son. He was born this morning about 10am.
(Sorry about the mess)
He weighed in at 7.86oz and 20.5in.
LED Sign
Nov 17th
A good buddy just handed me an LED sign. I’m sure you’ve seen them in stores and such that scroll messages across them. This one is a BIG one! Thirty-two letters across the screen and the letters are about 4 inches tall! It has an RS-232 (9-pin) connector on the back to ‘program’ the sign, but I’ve not been able to get it to respond yet. There’s a web site out there that has a little (Damn little) info on it.
Mine is a model ADT6502/32M
The original company (of course) is out of business and what few hackers out there that have written something to USE the sign are Linux folks and, since I’m not a programmer, all their hard work means little to me – dammit.
So, if you know of someone who has gotten this beast to work, point me at them! I’d LOVE to get this running!
A Letter To Macmillan Part Deux
Feb 5th
Posted by MDF in Commentary
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Amazon has caved to Macmillan’s demands to RAISE E-book prices to consumers. So, what’s the bottom line? Macmillan makes oodles of money from books, whether they are E-book or paper. Amazon gets 30% of each book sold. You and I get to pay whatever Macmillan wants for each E-book. Why all the screaming?
Before this row, Amazon PAID MACMILLAN FULL WHOLESALE PRICE PER BOOK. Amazon sold it to you and me AT A LOSS TO AMAZON, NOT Macmillan. Macmillan objected because ‘..it cheapened it’s books..’ WTF? Macmillan makes every penny it wanted to, Amazon lost money per book but made up for it other purchases book buyers made while at Amazon and you and I got E-books for less than we would have paid for the paper version. A Win-Win in my ‘book’, yes? Evidently not. Macmillan bent Amazon over to ram home the fact that the 800-lb. gorilla of publishing wanted TOTAL CONTROL. And Macmillan isn’t the only publisher squirming … There will be more, too. As far as I can see, three publishers are bitching: Hachette, Macmillan and HarperCollins. And now Rupert Murdock’s getting into the act.
So, you and I lose and a big, fat corporation wins. Again. Still.
My shout out to those publishers fighting Amazon? Watch what happens next. You modern-day buggy whip manufacturers days are numbered.