Michael P. O'Connor

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Walmart sales down

Categories: News, Politics

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Published on: November 25, 2006

I just saw on Fox news that Walmart sales for yesterday were down 10%, but they did not report why, but I think I know why. I got this email from the AFA on Nov 21 of 2006.

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Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your entire email list of family and friends.

Send A Message To Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club, Don’t Shop With Them This Friday Or Saturday

Dear Michael,

We have asked our supporters not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club this coming Friday or Saturday. Thus far nearly 400,000 families have agreed not to shop at Wal-Mart on those days. We suggest you shop with your local merchants.

Here is why we are asking you not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club this Friday or Saturday:
Wal-Mart gave $60,000 to homosexual group to support homosexual agenda in the workplace

Wal-Mart made a generous donation to the Northwest Arkansas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center

Wal-Mart sells pro-homosexual items from their website

Wal-Mart asks for, and receives, permission to join Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

Wal-Mart invites homosexual ad agency to headquarters for 2-day seminar to indoctrinate employees.

Last March, Wal-Mart chose to promote “Brokeback Mountain” video over a top-selling family-oriented film. Wal-Mart began taking advance orders of the homosexual love movie, “Brokeback Mountain.” A large display greeted customers when they walked through the front doors of the store. “Brokeback Mountain” was released the same day as best selling pro-family movie, “The Chronicles of Narnia” which Wal-Mart did not promote.
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This shows just how much power the AFA does have.

Cool

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Irish Tin Whistle

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Published on: November 24, 2006

A year or two ago, my parents gave me a DVD “Creating The Lord of the Rings Symphony” In a tune labeled “The Shire” I hear a familiar sounding instrument, I look over at the screen (I am listening to it and not watching) and I see a Tin Whistle, I think to my self that can not be right, the Tin Whistle in a classical piece. So I watch as the guy fingers the instrument and try to copy it a bit, well, other then being about 3/4th of a beat off it sounded the same, the note the pitch, and the sound wow, after seeing that IF said Symphony ever comes to Pittsburgh I will want to go see it.

Happy Thanksgiving All

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)

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Published on: November 23, 2006

I am over at my parents place, but I wanted to just log on to wish all a happy thanks giving, I hope you had a good one.

It still gives me a rush

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Geekdom, Technology

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Published on: November 22, 2006

This still gives me a rush. What is it, it is where I give a first run test of some code I wrote. When I run it for the first time, and the code I wrote runs as I had planned on as I wrote it. It gives me such a rush when I see my code run.

I did record the practice tonight

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)

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Published on: November 21, 2006

I just have to edit out the talking, we did a lot of BS while we where practicing and I want to take some of that out. I just don’t have the time tonight. (I still have to post 2 other podcasts that I have the recording for too.)

Due to Bandwidth theft

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Web Site

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Published on: November 20, 2006

I have turned on Hotlink protection for my site. If you find a page on my site set, mikeoconnor.net hamradiobb.com please let me know what page. I do not wish to let myspace people steal my bandwidth.

Finally got my iBook working

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Technology

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Published on: November 17, 2006

Well it took me alot time of work, but I finally got the iBook to a usable state. I been unusable for over a year, but now that I been doing some work on the hardware and put Linux oneit, it seems to be working fine, the only thing I need to get done on it now, is to see if I can get the bluetooth dongle to work on it under Linux for the Mac.

Oh Holy Night

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Irish Tin Whistle

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Published on: November 15, 2006

We might be adding “Oh Holy Night” to the Dec 1 singing. I am practising it on the Tin Whistle. And ouch those high g a and b notes are harsh, right now I can tell I am missing it up big time they just sound so wrong (well at lest to me)

Where is the simpsons Springfield

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)

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Published on: November 14, 2006

I know the creators say they will not let people know what state the Simpsons live in, but I think we can get it down to a region. Well here is where I am coming from. To the best of my knowledge Principal Skinner has spent his life in Springfield (except for the time he was in Vietnam) and in the episode “Homer’s Paternity Coot” where Homer gets a 40 years old letter for his mother that states that she was having an affare with a life guard, Principal Skinner is talking on a Ham radio and he gives the call sign WA3QIZ as his call sign (a quick check of qrz does show that it belongs to a club, but that is unimportant in this case just a side note)
A quick check of the call districts in the US shows that there are 3 states and one district that has 3 in it. PA, MD, DE, and DC. We can remove DC from that list since DC is a city and not a state. So we have one of three states the Simpsons live in PA, MD, or DE.0

Yes I know this is a pointless post but I just thought it would be fun, I guess I should get a life, or a girlfriend.

Some fun tonight

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)

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Published on: November 11, 2006

Tonight a bunch of my friends and I went out to the Church Brew works to celebrate my 30th that was yesterday.

Tried to record my Tin Whistle Practice tonight.

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Irish Tin Whistle

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Published on: November 9, 2006

I tried to record my practicing, I used my palm pilot to try to record it. There was a problem as I was try to record it to the SD card, it was recording every 5th second so when I tried to play it back it was only 5 minutes long and just sounded so wrong, I will try to recording my practice tomorrow.

Due to spam

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Blog Stuff

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Published on: November 9, 2006

Due to spam I have set a limit you can only post one comment every 5 minutes. If I have to I will up that time, but for now I will test the 5 minutes rule.

My Plans for tomorrow.

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Misc (no other place to put this stuff)

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Published on: November 8, 2006

Well I took tomorrow off, I planned this some time last month. I am going to sleep in tomorrow, then I will hit Matins tomorrow at church. I will probably come home and read. Why did I take tomorrow off, why would some one take a Thursday off. Well first I had 6 vacation days I have to use before the end of the year. And tomorrow is my 30th Birthday. It is a big round number, so I am going to take the day off.

Thanks to Rob and Terry

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Family, Politics

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Published on: November 7, 2006

Today, I asked two of my friends Terry and Rob to go with me when I went to vote, I was worried because back in 2004 moveon was doing aggressive campaigning inside the polling places, and there was almost no privacy on the new voting booths. I was glad when I went in and saw that there was no one campaigning inside the polling place this year. Thanks goes out Rob and Terry again.

An anser to Dan

by Michael O'Connor

Categories: Blog Stuff, Irish Tin Whistle

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Published on: November 6, 2006

Dan at Necessary Roughness asked the following question “I don’t know anything about your whistle, but one # in the key of G makes for slightly more readability than two-sharp D 🙂 Not that big a difference though.” To my Post on about transposing “A Mighty Fortress” But since I can not do table formatting in comments I will post the answer here so that I can use table tags in the answer. So here goes my answer.

Dan on the Tin Whistle, I just look at the key signature just to see how to play the C, to give idea how it works the finger is as follows.

*The fingering for the Tin Whistle, O = open hole X = closed hole*
HOLE	A	B	C	C#	D	E	F#	G
1	X	X	O	O	X	X	X	X
2	X	O	X	O	X	X	X	X
3	O	O	X	O	X	X	X	X
4	O	O	O	O	X	X	X	O
5	O	O	O	O	X	X	O	O
6	O	O	O	O	X	O	O	O

So for me the key of D and G are just as easy as each other. and for transposing the song would look at this.

Key	DO	RA	ME	FA	SO	LA	TE	DO
D	D	E	F#	G	A	B	C#	D
G	G	A	B	C	D	E	F#	G
C	C	D	E	F	G	A	B	C

So as you can see going from the key of C to D is just upping the notes by only about one in most cases and in 2 cases only 1 1/2 step. For the key of G it would be 5 notes in 7 cases and in one case 5 1/2 steps. So for me I felt that it was just easier to go up to the key of D was best for me.

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