This has got to hurt the Washington Capitals. Wow what a way to end this part of the time, I am going to miss hockey for the next few weeks, unless i figure out how to get the Olympic Hockey games. If you are in the Pittsburgh Area, could you let me know what station[…]
Right now I am watching the Hockey game, I recorded it on my DVR so I am watching it late. I am still in the first half of the first period, and wow, there was a great fight. I lasted though a drop puck. I am watching the game right now as I type this[…]
Tonight I had dinner with my family, My mother & father, my sister & her husband, and my Aunt Ellen. My sister and her husband are in town from Modling, Austria, and my aunt is also in town from Austin, TX. It was a lot of fun, we were in the restaurant for about 2[…]
KDKA is running story about how some kid killed themselves playing some stupid game where they try to chock themselves, in an attempt to get a “buzz”. This is one kid that deserves the Darwin award!!! I am just wondering what kind of brain failure you must have to think that strangling yourself can be[…]
What is Linux? How do you use Linux? What programs are avalable for Linux? What does Linux look like? Have you ever asked any of these questions? Are you wondering what I am talking about? Do you just want to hang with other Geeks? Come on down the Demo Days at WPLUG The next one[…]
For those of you that know about it There is a podcast called pghcast that covers topics of interst for the Pittsburgh regions. Well on Monday they did a show on the Super Bowl win (well no shocker there) but they said that they would cover the Pens next week. So I thought I would[…]
Leave in the comments your favorit Programming language and your top 4 favorit Refernce Books for it. Here are my ansers Language: C++ Books: The C++ Programming Language:Special Edition (by Bjarne Stroustrup) Beginning Linux Programming (by Alan Cox) A great book for POSIX stuff Object-Orinted Programming in C++:2nd edition C how to program (by Deitel[…]
Well I asked my friend before if there would be a problem if I set up auto disabled comments after a set amount of time. Well I been getting so much spam today, and my friends said it was not a problem to have auto disabled after some a set of time. So I have[…]
Some guy in Seattle, Dave Fox’s Outbursts does not seam to think there is much to be happy about in Pittsburgh. I would say go over there and tell him what you love about Pittsburgh.
First I saw Rob over at unspace state that he saw a jump in the amount of spam on his blog, and today, I been getting about 10 to 20 spam messages a every 10 minutes.
Well when I went to work today (I work at CMU) it felt empty, there was almost no one there, and a bit lonly with no one around. Oh well.
Well I am listening to the Police scanner since I am wondering what the riots are doing, the thing that I am hearing is that the riots are contained to the Oakland section of the city, and inside of that contained on the Pitt campus and where the Pitt undergrads live, that is assuming I[…]
The pictures are now up. Also if you see the picture of the car that was overturned, I just heard on the police scanner that the car has been set on fire, I am so glad that I came home when I did, that has got to be dangerous, and I do not want to[…]
Well after the game I went with some friends down to Pitt. It was good at first, but after we where there for a bit, some of the students flipped a car over. I did get some pictures of it, I will post the pictures later. But when the police left the care, they are[…]
Yes this non-football fan is watching the Super Bowl, I am because I am at my churches Super Bowl Party. And this is cool we are leading 7 to 3. Also check out Robs site unspace.net he has alot of Super Bowl Links.
I saw an video recently on youtube where someone was complaining that hobbies have been ruined in recent years, he made his argument. I personally reject his argument. His argument is that influincers on either on Youtube or tiktoc have made it where people feel they have to spend a lot of money to get[…]
A while back my dad was going to get rid of his old telescope as the cover on it would not come off. I had help from a friend to get it off, but it does come off now. All that was missing at that point was an eye piece for it, and I found[…]
I was talking to a ham friend of mine about the new domain I have and said I am thinking of doing a website on the domain along with the email. And he said since it will be a ham radio website, I have to do it in 90’s style since a lot of personal[…]
Today I found out about the .radio TLD. I also found out that while it normally 200+EUR ham radio operators are given a discounted price of 25EUR (about 30USD) a year, and I thought it would be nice to have my call sign as a domain. so I registered kb3hcg.radio right now I have it[…]
I fiannly got the attena tuner today, and have set it up. Now here are some pics of my setup. First here is my setup where I sit to operate the radio. You can see the ham computer I have setup, the ham radio and the tuner, and my late mothers old shortwave radio (a[…]
While my FT-891 works great with my ATAS-120A Antenna on my car. But I been unable to get a good attena working for my FT-710, I been tring to use 2 ham sticks setup in a dipol setup, but I can not get the SWR under 5:1, so I kind of given up, so I[…]
Back on Nov 24th I went out to the DE Ham Radio Outlet, to get a Yaesu FT-710 feild. While I was out there I also picked up a FT-891 for my car, since I recently got my general upgread for my ham license. I have not had a chance to play with the FT-710[…]
The other day I went down to a local home depot to pick up some stuff to build a small attena mast for my balcony. One of the items I needed was a block of wood for the base. When I went to the wood section the guy there was helping another customer cut some[…]
Back on Oct 11, I took the test to upgread my ham licnense from Tech to general, yesterday I got the email from the FCC that my license in the database has been updated. Also last week I decided to join the ARRL. Over the years I have heard of 3 things that the ARRL[…]
Tonight I setup my 40m attena to tune around the 20m band of the ammature radio band, while I did not key up (still have yet to make any contacts on my new privileges that passing my general exam granted me) I did enjoy tuning around. It took me some time to get my attenas[…]
