Archive for the ‘Gadgetry’ Category
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Until recently, I had a minidisc recorder which I had used to record live music - mainly my own practices and performances - and which I had occasionally used to make digital recordings of public speaking. The latter were mainly sermons at church which I recorded off the sound board ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
For about the time it takes to mow the entire lawn, I worked on my weedtrimmer on a recent afternoon.
The last of the original line had spooled out, except for about a foot long piece. I looked forward to replacing the line with child-like anticipation. Because my new weed trimmer had a Speed Spool(TM), ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Yes, by posting this I will undoubtedly get a lot of search engine traffic concerning this hose-beast of a blu-ray player, which bricked itself after telling me to load a firmware update. Go ahead, tell me your tale of woe...
This player was the successor to the infamous BD-P1500, which bricked ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
... at Books a Million Prattville. Details: http://www.randomkeystrike.net/index.php/nextmeeting
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Okay, I know this is just narcissistic, but my work PC now has 2 GBs more RAM and when I got to talking to my computer tech (Fred Limmer, On-Site Computers) about how I'd like to get one of those new wide monitors, he mentioned that he had one in his ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
My USB tuner, as seen in the previous post, arrived. Works okay, one surprise (because I didn't read the product description carefully): it is an ATSC tuner ONLY, which means it won't pick up NTSC. This will be irrelevant after 2009 anyway. I was impressed with how good the images were ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
In addition to my being banged up and currently bed-ridden, a tornado went through my fair city this Sunday. Some guys have all the luck (I know, at least it didn't hit my house). The power was out for over an hour, and cable was out for about 24 hours.
At ...
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