Friday, February 08, 2013

STAR 2013 Route to Lexington, KY

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Assuming we actually get to go, here's my tentative route. Day 1: KC to West Plains MO.   Nice older motel there with doorside parkin...
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Saturday, February 02, 2013

Cutting the Cord

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Cutting the cord - dropping your landline service to use just a wireless phone.  I was thinking about that today; I was quite an early a...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

2012 Riding Map

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Great year of riding - all local stuff, nearly 2,000 miles on the new CBR250R!  Got married, my new bride is learning to ride and we have tw...

2011 Riding Map

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Got a 'new' 1994 BMW K1100LT in preparation for a multi-thousand mile ride to Nelson BC, Canada this year.  Check ride to Arkansas c...

2010 Riding Map

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2010 - a bit busy.  Burned out on riding.  Or something.  Went to a lot of baseball games with the boy.  And Cub Scout camps.  But I did get...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Career Advice from CEO's at CES

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My VP got (had?) to go to CES and took some notes from a CEO panel. From panel with Marissa Mayer (CEO Yahoo) and Laura Desmond (CEO...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

First week of 2013

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First full week of 2013 is in the books. Good week. Scouts. Karate. Cub Scout Recharter went far smoother than expected. We even got the gol...
Monday, January 07, 2013

Car Camping Tips

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I love to travel.  And I've got a great station wagon for camping.  Been reading up on some tips for setting the car up as a mini RV.  P...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Interesting point of view on full capacity magazines

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Used to be all in the gun rights issues.  Now reading both sides of the aisle.  I still have my opinions, but I tend to keep them to myself....
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Monday, December 31, 2012

GOODING "Crash" Live

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One of my favorite bands out of Wichita (now LA) has a new video out from their last tour.  Wish we could have caught them!  Next best thing...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

What Would Help?

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In Connecticut, the following gun laws applied to the crazy bastard that shot up a school: Permit to purchase handgun FBI and State bac...
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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...   ...