Category: meaningless filler
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September, and the first signs of Fall
It’s probably two weeks ago, now, that I saw a couple of yellow leaves fall off a tree and land by my feet. Around that same time I noticed a few green acorns on the ground. Nights (and days) have gotten cooler. Sunrise and sunset, always in motion, are contracting the daylight hours, a little…
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re: comments on posts
Clearing out spam comments from the blog’s inbox is a chore that I would prefer to avoid, but it has to be done from time to time … most of it is obvious trash or disguised invitations to download malware … the ones purporting to inform me that “you have received 1.3167 bitcoin, click here”,…
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Hamvention!
A quick note for anyone looking for current coverage of Dayton: I am reading Thomas Witherspoon (K4SWL)’s blog, qrper.com It’s been a few years since I’ve been to Dayton; the last time I was there it was still in the Hara Arena … I remember standing in the crowd by the gate as the State…
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A bunch of unrelated stuff
I finally finished my WFD log I use an open-source program called Xlog (the only one I can get to work right with my various Linux Mint computers) to produce electronic logs from my pencil-and-paper ones; it makes a very nice ADIF file that Parks On The Air accepts with no problems, but when I…
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huh, wow, blindsided by Field Day again
Check back after the weekend to find out how I deal with it Updated, July 1st: Never was able to get a block of time freed up to do radio, either Saturday or Sunday. Next year!
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Mid-March omnibus
A summary of what’s been happening lately Tomorrow (the 19th) is the first day of Spring! Astronomical Spring, that is. Meteorological Spring already happened on the 1st; I suppose they do that for consistency in their statistical calculating, makes it easier to just move along and ignore all of that messy real-world stuff. Quick vignettes…
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In a rut
A few days ago I noticed (looking at my POTA stats) that since last June the only park I have activated has been good old K-1480, Wildcat Mountain! Not sure just how that came about; I started 2023 with a string of new (to me) parks. I think I need to get back into that…
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Word cloud
in lieu of any other content: I have always thought word clouds were cool, so when I visited wmtips.com recently I saw this and made a screenshot of it. It seems to only encompass the main page’s content. Maybe I will look for a WordPress plug-in or widget to do this for the whole site.…