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I’ve had this link sitting in my starred items for a while, so I’m going to link it so you can enjoy. Thing is, I remember some of these! Ouch!
I’ve had this link sitting in my starred items for a while, so I’m going to link it so you can enjoy. Thing is, I remember some of these! Ouch!
Today I deleted a spam comment from this blog. That is not very memorable. What was different was that the first line stuck with me. This is a very funny blog! I loved the way you … One of the techniques of comment spammers is to include generically congratulatory text on the grounds the bloggers…
From the folks at smartermsp.com, we have some brief history of #FORTRAN (#TECHTIMEWARP). I wanted to add my humor note, as I was working with computers while FORTRAN was still fairly commonly used. I studied it and took a challenge exam, getting 4 quarter hours of college credit in the language, but I never owned…
This resulted from random lyrics sent to the Dilbert blog. It’s more comprehensible than some real songs. But not very . . .
First, the news–I received my vanity callsign, KT4B, replacing my old KE0OY. KT4B was my late father’s callsign, so I had the inside track. Second, my sister Betty is now licensed as KC2TZO with a general class license. That brings us back to 4 ham radio operators in the immediate family, my brother N3AU, mother…
My local Publix grocery store has been remodeling for a few weeks. In general, I don’t care for the reorganization. That’s because I’m a list shopper, and not a browser. I am looking for specific things and I like them to stay in the same place. But that wasn’t the fail I noticed. In reorganization…
Television has been changing for some time as cable programming becomes more sophisticated (no, not the content–that’s still pretty dumb–the delivery), and TiVo makes it easier to watch what we want, when we want. Multiple channels now spread out the seasons of TV programming, so that there’s something new coming on most of the time….
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