Wired is running an article on how the book “Police Call” is ending its publication run. They made a comment in it that I never really thought of. Scanning of the “Public Safety” bands was just the precursor to shows like COPS. It looks like TV has hurt another hobby. The show “COPS” just puts[…]
Back on the 16th of this month I had my DVR record the Vancouver Canucks vs the Dallas Stars. And I just watched it today. It was a good game, during the second period of the game the two teams go into some really good hockey. There was a good amount of time where there[…]
Well at the current time (8:45pm) the hockey game is in the second intermission, and they only have the 3rd period to go. I am going to go out on a limb here, and I am going to say I think the Penguins will loss again today. I can say this with some form of[…]
If you ever read Dante’s Inferno you will recognize the 9 levels of hell, well I found a site that lets you create your own version of hell, look below to see the one I created. It is just mean, very politically setup. GreensCircle I Limbo GothsCircle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind[…]
We finally made it, we have Tropical Storm Alpha. Cool this is our 22 named storm of the season. I wonder how many more we can get, the end of the season is at the end of November. This storm is very close to Wilma, and they will get closer as time goes by. I[…]
Todays WPLUG was a good one, Bill gave his talk on SOAP. I will have to say it was a good talk, and I think I will want to look into SOAP a bit more. Also I gave my talk on Linux in the non-profit organization, I think it was well received, I had a[…]
The nominations for the Candidates for the board of WPLUG are in they are Beth Lynn Eicher Mark Sikora Steve Hancock Bobbie Lynn Eicher Mike O’Connor David Ostroske Bill Moran Scott Kriebel Chris Teodorski Steve Boffardi John Vukovic Patrick Wagstrom Also you can find information on voting at the wplug voting page. You can also[…]
Tomorrow at wplug I will be giving a presentation. Also Bill Moran will be giving a presentation on SOAP.
Fox Sports is running an article on Paul Coffey is retiring, and they retired his original Number (#7). Paul Coffey played for the Penguins I think when he played for the Penguins his number was 77. I remember being at the game where he got his 1000th point in the NHL. He was my favorite[…]
The National Hurricane Center is now tracking Tropical storm Wilma I posted about this before when it was still Tropical Depression 24 The BBC is running a story on how this is already affecting Gas Prices. Now if we get another Tropical storm (or higher) we will be looking at using the name Alpha.
Last night I biked up to my friends game night. After I had been there for 1 or 2 hours, with the bike just sitting outside, we hear this loud popping noise. I bikes tire had just popped, and this tire was just put on last month, and had no patches on it. Well when[…]
The NHC is now tracking tropical depression 24. If this turns into a Tropical Storm it will get the name of Wilma, which is the last name in the list of names for this year.
One of my friends from work, Patrick Wagstrom, had a game night at his house, with some of his friends from his church. He also invited me. It was a good time, played a few good games, and meet some new people. I should have a game night at my APT some time in the[…]
WPLUG just had the nominations meeting today, we have 13 people running for office, there are 5 slots to fill on the board. I think it is nice we have that many people running for the board. The election is on Nov 5, 2005. If you are a member I would encourage you to be[…]
Tomorrow is the First ever Nominations Meeting for WPLUG, we are going to be working under the new bylaws that the group has come up with. If you are a member of WPLUG, if you are you know who you are, I would say go, and run for the board.
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[…]
Well I been Furlough durning this goverment shutdown. I have decided to not waste the time. So I took a Skywarn class and got a skywarn certification. That was on Friday Oct 3rd, so now I am a weather spotter. Then last week I spent studing to upgread my Ham radio License from Technitian to[…]
For the last few years I have been off the air. And recently decided to get back on the air (Amature Radio) This was persipitated when my old car (a Scion IQ) died, the computer of it got fried. So I had to get a new car. With the change of the car I took[…]
I think Nintendo is make a mistake with the “game key cards” the new digital only game cards that Nintendo is doing. With the situation where more 3rd parties are doing those instead of a real game card. I will not buy a game that not fully on the disc or on the cart, which[…]
Well looking at the new switch 2 that is to come out soon, I originally was excited and was thinking of pre-ordering it. But after the news of both the system, and the games, my doubt started to set in. Then I looked at the launch line up, and found none that I wanted. And[…]
So far this year we have gotten some great JRPGs Persona 3 ReloadedShin Megami Tensei V: VengeanceLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth And there are still more coming, coming on the 5th of July the one I am most hyped for The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak and latter this year we are getting Metaphor:[…]
Today I weighed myself and came in at 130 pounds. When I started I set a goal of 125 pounds. So only 5 more pounds to go. I am a long way from where I started, I started at 300 pounds on March 31, 2022, it been about 15 months since I started this diet.[…]
With summer coming buy, and me still on my diet, I came up with a snack, I have always enjoyed popsicals, so what I am doing now, is I am taking those water enhancers that say they have 0 calories and use that as the flavor for my popsicals, and I have some popsical makers.[…]
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
