UGH! I've been without internet since yesterday and it's been aggrevating! Our cable system went down, so no internet, phone or cable. Just got it back up about an hour ago and have been scrambling to catch up on stuff since!
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Orly posted on the Q board a few days ago, said he was doing well with the e-cigs and that he was going to wait a while before starting any blog/sales.
Last I heard Orly was trying to learn as much as he could about electronic cigarettes so he could start a blog to teach his Spanish brethren about them.
That's good to know. I wondered what had happened to him.
And Kristin I would be absolutely lost in that situation.
I'm freezing!
it's 69 {my favorite numbers!} degrees and it's cold for me in these here woods.
I'm hitting the hot tub care to join me?
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
C.B.
Ok maybe it was sorta inappropriate I guess....
I'm certain it was taken in the spirit in which it was given (was by me anyway), no worries!
A dip in a hot tub would feel SOOO NICE on my back right now!
any of you here still using "regular" carts with your attys? keep hearing about the "fluval" batting replacement and was wondering if anyone here had an opinion about it.
I mainly use boge LR cartos with my Riva SE, but sometimes when I don't want to drip I'll pull out a cart for my atty. Running 50/50 juice right now, and the stock batting can't really keep up (and I'm trying not to push it very fast either).
Not a big deal, but was curious nontheless...
I mainly use boge LR cartos with my Riva SE, but sometimes when I don't want to drip I'll pull out a cart for my atty. Running 50/50 juice right now, and the stock batting can't really keep up (and I'm trying not to push it very fast either).
Not a big deal, but was curious nontheless...
People still have a home landline?
It's beyond irritating when the internet goes down. Mine has been flaky at best since a car took out one of the fiber connections near my home. It caused an outage for a couple days and was supposedly fixed. Before that though I never had any issues with it. Fortunately I always have the option of tethering my phone's 4G connection to my PC.
Never had an issue with my satellite.
"Is it snowing in space?"
People still have a home landline?
funny you mention that... I am in the process right now of updating the phone lines in my home, tying them back to a single 110 block in the basement (I'm running ethernet to each room as well). Have Vonage at home now, which is ok most of the time. It's a 1919 foursquare with lots of original built-ins and the like (my wife picked the house, she likes old things... me for instance).
My wife REALLY misses the clunky old 500 and 302 phones we had when we were kids, and I just picked up a box of old 302 phones (the ones with METAL CHASSIS from the 40s) at an estate auction. Out of the parts I've resurrected three, and they work great... going to wire them up all over the house!
Only caveat now is I need to pick up a power booster to run them with Vonage (not enuf voltage/current to run more than one of these babies with stock vonage hardware). I've already got a rotary-touchtone converter that I'm gonna wire in.
Yes, I'm going to make my kids dial their friends the "old fashioned" way!
My kids (5, 3, 19mos) are either gonna think we are SOOO COOOL or SOOO OOOLD once they realize that everybody else has new whiz bang phones in their houses.
No wonder my favorite ringtone on my LG Octane is "classic telephone".
I had Vonage for a time, but got rid of it because I just couldn't justify having and paying for two phones I really don't use. Honestly, I don't really talk on the phone much. My mobile is mostly used for texts and internet and since I can take it anywhere, it was just easier to cut Vonage. I think between me and my wife we used all of 200 minutes last month and that's atypical because she was out of town.
When I was little I remember us having a fugly yellow 2500. My grandparents were still using an old rotary 500 that I was fascinated by. I learned at an early age I could dial the 2500 by pulsing the "buttons" the handset rested on when it wasn't in use. I got pretty good at dialing out with that method (near 90% success rate).
When I was little I remember us having a fugly yellow 2500. My grandparents were still using an old rotary 500 that I was fascinated by. I learned at an early age I could dial the 2500 by pulsing the "buttons" the handset rested on when it wasn't in use. I got pretty good at dialing out with that method (near 90% success rate).
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Yes, I'm going to make my kids dial their friends the "old fashioned" way!
On rotary phones? Oh their poor little soon-to-be-traumatized fingers!
(You should probably hang on to a couple of buttony ones for when one of the grownups needs to call somebody in a hurry)
I suffer connectivity overkill. FiOS, 4G hotspot, packet radios, tethered phones, SoS satellite phone data, packet data over carrier pigeon. OK, I made up the pigeon. It died. -Magnus
p.s. Don't ever loan packet ratio equipment to any Arab Spring movement. They use it for pr0n. Not freedom. I kid you not.
p.s. Don't ever loan packet ratio equipment to any Arab Spring movement. They use it for pr0n. Not freedom. I kid you not.
On rotary phones? Oh their poor little soon-to-be-traumatized fingers!
(You should probably hang on to a couple of buttony ones for when one of the grownups needs to call somebody in a hurry)
Oh definitely, we have a 2500 with "old style" bells inside, sounds just the same as the old 500 rotary model. Plus there will still be a cordless phone *somewhere* in the house, in the kitchen now, hopefully to be replaced by an avocatto green Western Electric 2554 TT model if I can get a few more parts.
Have you ever seen at thinkgeek or similar site the "old school" handset which plugs into a cell phone?
Retro Phone Handset - Thinkgeek
Picked one up for the wife last year when all we had was cell phones (she detests new phones, and I'm not a fan either, always use the speakerphone on my cell, she's the only person I call on it anyway). She's an affirmed luddite in so many ways, and I enjoy tagging along.
Does all of this retro talk make me sound weirder than I already am?
We still have a 27" CRT as our only TV as well (much safer with kids banging around, as long as it doesn't fall on them).
Got rid of the DVD player, only have a Digital set-top converter for OTA and a WDTV-Live PLUS to watch movies and old tv shows (we talked about hard drive space about 300 pages ago, I download nearly everything we watch). Suppose this thing supports netflix but haven't signed up yet...
No cable, just a "7-up" antenna on the roof. Was nice of them to use the higher frequencies once they cut over to digital, made the VHF side of things MUCH SMALLER!
Then there is the KLH Model Twenty One table radio I'm refurbishing for my uncle (would KILL for one of these). Got lucky that our house came with an old zenith floor console radio in the basement corner, cleaned it up and works great, even the shortwave!
Next project is getting a small AM Transmitter to "pipe" my music from the MPD box to it.
When I win the lottery I'm gutting the 70's refurb bathroom and putting back in the subway tile and a claw foot tub. Prolly the closest thing to a hot tub I'm gonna get.
We still have a 27" CRT as our only TV as well (much safer with kids banging around, as long as it doesn't fall on them).
Got rid of the DVD player, only have a Digital set-top converter for OTA and a WDTV-Live PLUS to watch movies and old tv shows (we talked about hard drive space about 300 pages ago, I download nearly everything we watch). Suppose this thing supports netflix but haven't signed up yet...
No cable, just a "7-up" antenna on the roof. Was nice of them to use the higher frequencies once they cut over to digital, made the VHF side of things MUCH SMALLER!
Then there is the KLH Model Twenty One table radio I'm refurbishing for my uncle (would KILL for one of these). Got lucky that our house came with an old zenith floor console radio in the basement corner, cleaned it up and works great, even the shortwave!
Next project is getting a small AM Transmitter to "pipe" my music from the MPD box to it.
When I win the lottery I'm gutting the 70's refurb bathroom and putting back in the subway tile and a claw foot tub. Prolly the closest thing to a hot tub I'm gonna get.
I didn't know they had BBSes anymore that carried pr0n!
I'd love to have a packet radio setup, but there isn't anybody within 100 miles I could link up with. On that note, is packet radio feasible on the longer-range bands? I've always thought VHF-ish is about all you could run on (and most ppl listen on). In the 140Mhz range?
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I would have gone that route if I had the Octane then, but no BT on the old cell. She kinda likes the cord anyway.
We went with vonage b/c her family is long distance, get unlimited calling, best for the money. She's a stay at home mom, so no need to have a "real" cell for her, just have a tracfone if she goes to the store with the kiddies.
The irony is that we run the vonage box on our DSL connection.... which we get from our Baby Bell Qwest.
If they'd give me a deal with DSL and unlimited calling w/o the dish cruft I'd go back in a heartbeat.
How cool is that! Love it!
Is it wrong that I read that with Jack Black's voice a-la Kung Fu Panda?
I didn't know they had BBSes anymore that carried pr0n!
On that note, is packet radio feasible on the longer-range bands? I've always thought VHF-ish is about all you could run on (and most ppl listen on). In the 140Mhz range?
I've only done two-meter myself so 100 miles is about the upper limit. I've never had someone to peer with myself more than 57 miles away. There are far more experience radio aficionados that created Marine SSB packet radio setups w/ GPS assist that were with significantly longer distances. And the latest on the * Spring front is APRS solutions combines w/ the amateur satellite projects.
And yes, there are quite a few pr0n BBSes out there and most specialize in things that are very illegal. It was really disheartening to think we were actually helping to find out that almost none of the already minuscule bandwidth was going to good use. -Magnus
ROFL! They must be popular, I see they're out of stock. I'd get one, but this begs the question of whether the current fashion of carrying a bag roughly the size of Mongolia is here to stay, due to the cubic volume of stuff people are now required to carry around, or if I will one day be able to return to my dainty little NotChanel flaps, which will barely contain all the Old Sick Person Supplies I have to carry around, even just to ride up to the CVS, just as a matter of basic Unscheduled Zombie Attack Preparedness.
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