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Saturday I passed my ham radio technicians exam, paid my FCC license fee Tuesday, and today received my call sign. I may now legally communicate with other amateur radio operators,…
Book Review: Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic
From the early 1900s when baseball was truly America's Game, Major League Baseball, as had all major professional sports in the United States, has had its share of truly bad…
Cool Photos #13
Just before sunset, I left my hotel and walked towards Piazza Unità d'Italia in the center of Trieste, Italy, a surprising number of tourists milling around even at this late…
Historical White-Washing?
Just south of Dubuque, Iowa on US-52 is Mines of Spain, a state park which, despite driving by innumerable times since first moving to Iowa in 1972, I had never…
Desperate Times For Britain?
Is this what it's come to? A fairly nondescript flyer poorly taped to a bulletin board in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, apparently begging continental Europeans that they are relevant ten…
Remembering GMAC/RFC
As seen at the Highland Bridge Lunds & Byerly's: an unexpected GMAC/RFC sighting! Its primary line of business was purchasing mortgages from originators and bundling them into securities for sale…
Unlikely Mental Health Cure
Not quite as outrageous as entries seen on engrish.org, but pretty good nevertheless. Imagine its advertising campaign: Depressed? Unexplainable outbursts? Feel your world is spinning out of control? Need something…
How To Confuse Your Viewing Audience
Only ten days into the WNBA season and I've already watched games on: ABC Amazon Prime Ion Television NBC USA Network VictoryPlus I'll also be able to watch future games…
(Almost) Free Gasoline!
We've noticed this on multiple drives through Grantsburg, WI: gas priced at just under 1¢/gallon! With war-induced inflation seeing prices approaching $5/gallon, this is definitely unexpected! My wife believes it's…
Book Review: The Transylvania Trilogy
The Transylvania Trilogy, or Erdélyi történet in Hungarian, is, at its essence, a romance novel: boy (Bálint Abády) grows up with girl (Adrienne Uzdy); girl enters loveless marriage; boy expresses…