I have a confession to make. I am a time traveler. Since the early 1950s I’ve been spending a fair amount of time posing as a student at high schools across this great nation of ours. I’ve seen fashions come and go, but I’ll tell you one thing – class never goes out of style….
Month: September 2008
bcTool is a tremendous piece of software. Absolutely wonderful. If you’ve got a Uniden scanner and have wanted to control it from your PC, your options were limited. There were only two real choices to do so, ScanControl or Butel‘s ARC series. Both of these cost money, crash often, and have user interfaces straight outta…
Seven months… We’re only doing these fancy monthly photos for the first year. I’m going to miss them when they’re done!
The LHC is now online! Despite concerns to the contrary, the world was not sucked into a black hole. Personally, I’m feeling okay. Aside from the blinding white flashes and temporary weightlessness, I’d say my morning commute was relatively unaffected. I spent a good five minutes thinking up that little one liner, and Tammy did…
We took Kate to Disneyland on Monday. She’s been lots of times already, but this is the first time she met Mickey. Mickey isn’t allowed to talk, but he is allowed to make kissing sounds, evidently…and that is what was going on here, not forced nose-eating! We were sitting on a bench with Kate when…
spraind wrst. cant tyep. sned help.
Once Kate turned three months old, things got a lot easier. She was less of a baby and more of a person. By three months she already had some personality…by then she was sleeping through the night, smiling all over the place, and the spit-ups had practically ceased. I think six months is a similar…
800mhz rebanding is finally starting to happen in small pockets across the country. Uniden has for years promised firmware updates for their scanners to keep up with the changes, but so far hasn’t released anything. This week they announced free firmware upgrades as well as some additional new features for nine of their scanners –…
RIP, Don LaFontaine. He had a voice that only years of chain-smoking could get you. My ears will miss him.