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2020-01-22 I was Zucked by a Facebook Group Administrator

Jeff Collins There are too many admins who have no consideration for members and give no warning to members that they violated some capricious rule that the admin arbitrarily made up. I was banned without warning from an Arduino group for something that wasn’t my fault. The admin decided I had to apologize for blocking

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2020-01-20 Costs of Radio Assemblies and Parts

From FB group Vintage Transistor Radios A thought occured. Do you think that Motorola may have had a lot of parts for tube sets and they decided to use them up by putting a transistor chassis in them? If you break down a radio into its assemblies and/or parts, which of them has the highest

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2020-01-13 Slide Rule and Calculator Battery

From FB group Jan 19 Joe Haupt In the ’80s I occasionally did work in an electrical room on campus that had a 7 foot slide rule that had been removed from the classroom. It was there for years, but the fire inspectors would make us keep the junk from accumulating in closets, so it

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2020-01-11 Reinventing the Archer’s Bow – Amazing!

So why didn’t someone think of this long, long ago?  It has so many advantages.  It’s amazing!

2019-12-24 Sad, Sad, Sad

Merry Christmas… I switched website providers more than a year ago. This week the company suddenly went out of business and everything on my blog is gone.

2018-09-08 Skunk!

From FB comment to Kate Jesse’s skunk visiting her back yard, 2018-09-12 One time I was on guard duty at the Artillery Hq. in Minneapolis, standing in the 3′ by 3′ guard house at the front gate. I saw something crawling under the fence several yards away, and when I saw the white stripes, I

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2018-07-22 Newspaper Delivery

From FB group 50s-60s Compton John MacBride Yeah, people don’t realize that the newspapers worked 24 hours, and all the delivery took place at night and early morning. There were neighbors a few houses down that never seemed to have jobs, I think their last name was Humberger. I found out that the L.B. Press

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2018-06-23 Chapman Ave, Santiago Canyon College

From FB group Orange Talk regarding accidents at Chapman and Jamboree I stood on the balcony of the B bldg at Santiago Canyon College and watched the traffic going right through the middle of what is now D bldg, and saw bikers on their Harleys going 50 around the right hand turn lane from Chapman

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2018-05-31 Four Legged Homeless?

From FB Why? Last week, a lizard took refuge on my screen door. Now, I’m watching a silly pursuit on the 11 pm news, and I hear this noise on my screen door. I open the door and see one run away. But two more went into frozen fear mode and just stayed huddled in

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2018-05-12 No One Who Can Read . . .

Comment to Katie’s post No person who can read has enough time in their life to read all they want to read – to learn about things, to go on adventures to places far away and long ago, to explore the future. I’m grateful for the Lord of The Rings movies, but I found so

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