tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148424392008-07-16T18:17:00.756-07:00Tiffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570624563255009880noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14842439.post-1155543355474961862006-08-14T01:08:00.000-07:002006-08-14T01:30:18.886-07:00

Tom and Ray have put it all together here so I don't have to say another thing, besides that I found their site by searching "OnStar safety?" I was wondering what happens when the wreck destroys the battery? Interestingly enough, the search took me to this response by the Car-Talk guys to GM's onstar study. Now I can "shut up and blog" whew! (Well OK, one more...Who says the Army isn't smart?)

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I gave this as a speech Thursday morning at Toastmaster's meeting: -------------------------------------------------- The End Is Near The end is near. The world is watching as August approaches. The beginning of the end. This is the time to make up your minds. Not later. Not when it's too late. When it's all over. This is not a time for indecision. Things are heating up. Now is the time to get

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I decided to take a break from restoring some old radios tonight and walked up to the corner coffee shop. I had heard there'd be a guitarist from Seattle starting at 9PM. 103 degrees was the 'official high' in ellensburg today, but it was very muggy. Travis was the guitarist and I was delighted I caught his act. Acoustic guitar through an Oberheim Echoplex, so he'd record his accompaniment. His

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I have long held a disdain for cellphones. It seems now God has made it clear how he feels about them. BBC News Article Notice there have been four cases recorded to date! Get 'em God! Here are some of my main gripes about the cell phone: I believe they are perpetrating rudeness. It used to be public telephones were in a sound proof booth. They make me not want to ride my antique Harley. (

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A few weeks ago I went bowling with the CWU College Republicans. I grew up in a bowling alley so it was really wierd to be back in some lanes again after decades. My dad was co-owner of Kent Bowl. He used to drill his own bowling balls to compete in leagues. My Mother was a leaguer too, in fact I'm not quite sure who was the most serious about knocking over a bunch of pins. I couldn't go to the

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All to cool your CPU

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This was presented as a speech to the Ellensburg Toastmasters Club on March 23, 2006 ---------------------------------------------- Technology. I searched an on-line dictionary for words beginning with TECHNO. Apart from that very word refering to a style of modern synthesized music I found: Technobabble, technocrat and technocratic, technocracy, and finally Technological. Recent use of the

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Thought I'd share a little chuckle I just had. I was about to pack away a plastic (yes, I use them for all sorts of things around the shop) grocery sack. Paper is so hard to deal with...for one thing they don't seal up like plastic. When I saw the paper receipt in the bottom. Usually I only bother with them when I know my name and last four of my bank number is printed on them for all the world

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"2005 December 31 23h 59m 60s Look again. Normally the atomic clocks would go from 23h 59m 59s to 00h 00m 00s but this year because the earth is slowing down, they will add a second. A Leap Second. The last one occured in 1998. So how will you spend 2005 December 31 23h 59m 60s? Perhaps you can contemplate that if we didn't add the second (which some are proposing) we'd need a Leap Hour in

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Bringing the Dodo back to life (click for original story) When I first saw this story, I thought they were talking about me going back to college. But no, it's true, some engineers want to reconstruct the Dodo bird from DNA. Why? Because they can. Let's bring back the Edsel too! Glad I'm studying Latin. I understand it's name. What a bum wrap for this poor creature, and why prolong it's agony

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Maybe there IS something to global warming...

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Why a USB turntable? What next, a Bluetooth 8-track player? Read review

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I herby announce the creation of a new school. The CW Institute of Technology. CWIT will be accredited and all that as soon as I can find a sponsor. Upon receiving that first pledge I will patent the name. (and get the URL before anyone else does.) Do your part to keep the skills of morse code prevalent in the youte of America. (and the rest of the world, of course.) Do your part to keep CW

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I've got some friends. They showed up last night because I've been careless about leaving food out. I also thought I'd sealed every nook and cranny behind that cabinet. They can chew their way through most anything if they think there's an "all you can eat--open all night" diner on the other side. So I had some old ricketty wooden mouse traps, you know the kind your grandfather used, why I ever

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It's been five years since the Presidential Election fiasco in Floriduh and the Democrats are obviously still not over it, despite all the indie recounts and research that prove Bush actually did win. Speaking as someone who really does have something to complain about here in Washington State where dead Democrat voters cancelled out mine, It's difficult to understand why they can't give it up.

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When I was a kid, the Electronics section of the store was where you found the transistors and resistors. The solder and the printed circuit boards to build something electronik. The earliest form of the word was the greek hlektron refering to amber (when you rub it you get static electricity). (J. B. Calvert) Electronics was what I read about in my dad's technical periodicals, not the

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rr tnx fer calling. ur rst 599 5nn fb sig, qth ellensburg, wa IMI ellensburg, wa BT name hr is christopher IMI christopher, age 46 es hv been a ham fer 3 yrs. hw copi? AR ...* The preceding is not an excerpt from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, but an example of a typical initial Morse code contact. I have always been a stickler for proper spelling, resistant to acronyms, un-necessary

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Is automation evil? I sit here facing myself. I'm blogged. This is me! Yes, many times I've formulated thoughts, theories, postulations, and wished I had an outlet to share them. Even to just get them in writing would have been nice. Prior to a week ago, I was just nobody Christopher Hobbs. Now, in the midst of technological wizardry, I am a "dot" on the map of blogdom. Is this a good thing? Or

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"Null A" is a reference to Alfred Korzybski's useage in Science and Sanity and is short for "non-Aristotelean." I have been fascinated by this concept for many years. I read Science and Sanity in the 80's, and went on to study the works of S.I. Hayakawa who elaboroated on many of the ideas put forth by Korzybski. The term was also used by science fiction writer A.E. Van Vogt in his trilogy

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