Friday, October 26, 2012

Softbank and the Long Now

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My director at work brought up a 30 (or 300) year plan from Softbank in todays Ops review.  For the impatient, you can find the slides or a...
Monday, October 22, 2012

WiFi density as an Economic Indicator

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It's interesting that the neighborhoods with known lower income families have far less wifi access point density - the South West corner...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Watching TV

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Cable is easy.  And boring.  But over the air TV reception is interesting.  I've always loved finding radio signals over the air - fas...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Who's Softbank? And did they just buy Sprint?

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SoftBank, while not well-known in the United States, is a major player in Asia, where it’s one of the biggest Internet and telecommunicatio...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Planting grass

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Summer heat killed off all of my bluegrass. Instead of renting a power rake and clearing out all the dead grass, I decided to turn the weed ...

Electronic Pearl Harbor - Haven't we heard this before?

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta smirked his way though a press conferece, apparently sourced from the 1997 recycle bin.  He claimed that we...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

How To Register Adults with Trailhead BSA

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Hmm.  Learning fast as a Cubmaster. When registering Adults as Cub Scout leaders,  you'll need to bring in all the training print outs....
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Saturday

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First free weekend in a while. Been camping, riding and blowin and goin the last few weeks. Up next: two campouts in a row! Troop 387 shooti...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Gangnam Style - with lyrics

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Ganganm Style has hit bigtime - it was on Good Morning America this week.  Nice to see KPOP and dubstep hitting the mainstream...   ...

Great Cub Scout Adult Leadership Recruiting Skit

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The Yardstick  The importance of the ages 6 - 11, the Cub Scout years.  Created by Pack 715, Scouter Joe Wollet  Props - You will ne...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Scouting and Social Media

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Seems like I've been promoted to Cubmaster for Pack 3094 (whole nother story there).  Since I don't know much about nothin but dig...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

White Sands Missile Range Museum and National Park

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// another great missile post from bOINGbOING -- happens to be on the way to Tuscon to see the Titan site too!  Just across I-10 in Southern...

Titan Missile Museum, Tucson, Arizona

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// From bOINGbOING, an interesting article on a Titan Missile Museum.  Sounds like it's on my bucket list! Titan Missile Museum, Tucso...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Minuteman Missile Silo Photos

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A couple photos from the Minuteman Missile Natl Park from my visits in 2011 and 2009. Control Panel Missile Replica in the Silo ...

Ending August

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Wrapping up August by recruiting Cub Scouts and getting ready for a family campout. We had a good recruiting event for Pack 3094 - over...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Sunday the 26th

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Up late, dialed into church.  Weak commentary on violence in the Old Testament.  'sometimes you have to move a lot of dirt to find the g...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

2009 Riding Map

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Got some good riding in for 2009, until I broke my collarbone in karate.  That'll stop that for a while! Started out with an MSTA lunc...

Whitebalance Fail

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Was playing with the new (to me) Canon 300D this weekend and set a custom white balance for the very yellow 'soft white' CFL bulbs i...

Riding your Motorcycle in the Wind

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Reading on the CBR250R forum some good tips on riding in the wind . 1 - Use your knees to keep yourself anchored to the bike 2 - Loosen y...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Saturday Wrapup

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Got the meal plan for Crater of Diamonds State Park lined up.  Basic but solid foods.  Now to pull the kit from the garage and get it packed...