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We never used to get ‘important’ messages on our voice mail but since we went to Vonage there seem to be more than just a few. These are machine generated dribble claiming importance and are merely unnecessary nuisances that waste time and bandwidth. If it is really important, of a legal nature, like a contractual promise or [...] Funny is in the ears of the beholder and the brain in between. Lots of things I deem funny are just stupid catty comments to others. That is okay. I have learned to ignore the static and interference. Recently we left on a shopping trip to a local grocery/dry goods store. Sort of a [...] Been considering building one of these. I have all the parts and these parts are in danger of getting lost if not used collectively in some project. Besides, I am tired of writing software and programming chips. Need some no-brainer, no thought project as a theraputic diversion. So I inquired as to the [...] Way back in 1980 I bought a Genie model 850 screw drive with two remotes. Even though it was more expensive than the chain drive, I bought the screw drive because it was touted to be quieter and more reliable. The old Genie finally quit being reliable recently and I was trying to decide if [...] When it comes to second chances we all feel we are deserving to try again if at first we did not succeed. When and if we are offered that second chance pretty much depends on what we have done to prevent future failure and how bad the past failure was. There are those [...] Several years ago we planted onions. We got three bundles and planted them all. The end result was a wheel barrow full of onions ranging in size from tennis balls to golf balls. This year we planted onions again. Had trouble finding them. The local plant shop did not have any. [...] The 1626 vacuum tube is a low power transmitting triode. Twelve volt filament and runs about 3 to 4 watts output. The closest ‘modern’ day equivalent is a 6C4. Contrary to popular opinion the 6C4 is NOT half a 12AU7. The 6C4 can run an ouput of around 5 watts. [...] Back in the 60’s the phone book used to have two sections. A white pages for residential numbers and a yellow pages for commercial numbers. As the population grew so did the phone book until soon we had an entire book devoted to yellow pages. Today we find vendors and phone numbers for friends [...] I rescued a 1.6ghz Athlon about three years ago. It had a burned up power supply connector on the motherboard. The connector was toasted due to the failure of a third party cooling fan. Fan motor shorted and pulled enough current to fry the connector. The connector was replace with one [...] You could go bankrupt taking advantage of all the ’savings’ offered by those companies who have nothing better to do than advertise impossibly good deals on TV and radio. But wait, thats not all. No, it is not all by a long shot. Promises of 50 percent off, buy one- get one free, and [...] |
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