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*Four Jobs You Have Had In Your Life*
– Dickie Dee Ice Cream Vendor
– Programmer
– Freelance Sports/News Photographer
– CTO
*Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over*
– 5th Element
– Shogun (if I ever get it back from Nurse Debbie)
– Contact Juggling Vol 2
– Snatch
*Four TV Shows You Love to Watch*
– CSI
– Six Feet Under
– Weeds
– most anything on Sci-Fi channel (with a few noteable exceptions)
*Four places you have lived*
– Dunnville, ON
– Kingston, NY
– Toronto, ON
– Zephyr, ON
*Four Places You Have Been On Vacation*
– Turks and Caicos
– Cuba
– Roatan, Honduras
– Margarita Island, Venezuela
*Four Websites You Visit Daily*
– Om Message Board
– Tribe
– ContactJuggling.org
– eham.net
*Four Of Your Favorite Foods*
– Roti from Bacchus Roti
– Pizza
– Wings
– Stuff Kim cooks me
*Four Places You Would Rather be Right Now*
– Somewhere warm and sunny near the ocean
– Somewhere warm and sunny in the ocean
– Somewhere warm and sunny under the ocean
– Turkey for the Eclipse
*Four favourite books*
– I almost never read fiction. Current non-fiction reading materials include:
– ITIL best practices
– AARL Handbook 2005, and
– the RAC Study Guide for the Basic Ham Radio Qualification Exam. _Yes, I’m a geek and proud of it._
4 People to tag:
– everyone I know that blogs has already been tagged
I don’t get it.
I didn’t understand when GWBush got re-elected south of the Boarder. I don’t understand the Canadian electorate bringing in a Concervative government w. a Liberal official opposition.
We, the people of the country called Canada, just wasted $300M on an election to return things to almost the status quoe. We’d best launch an investigation into this scandal and waste some more money. _sheesh!!!_
I guess the good news is that when Canada becomes the 51st state I’ll be able to work in the US without getting a work visa.
Have you ever flushed a toilet in an office or restaurant that sounded like and flushed like it was jet propelled? My new office has them, and being the curious person that I am I had to find out how this worked.
Seems these toilets use a product called a [flushmate](www.flushmate.com). It looks like a pretty neat piece of equipment designed to boost your long-drop’s performance. With the reno’s that Kim and I have been doing and in the vein of concerving water, I think that the 1GPF (1 gallon per flush) model from one of the many vendors is in our immediate future 🙂
After all, a man is King of his house and the King’s thone *needs* to be jet assisted!
Recently, I’ve been working at learning Morse Code (frequently abbreviated “cw”). I found a very cool piece of software for OSX called [MorseManiaOSX](http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/morsemania.html). I’d been going along learning to hear code, but the interface for entering code was via a mouse button. For those of you who have never tried morse code, let me tell you, a mouse button is not a good vehicle for quick and well timed dits and dahs.
So, not to be thwarted by this, I decided to cannibalize an old USB mouse and create a USB CW interface. My radio uses a 1/4″ stereo headphone jack to attach the key to the radio, so interfacing should be simple (and it was). Disassemble the sacrificial mouse, find the switch that operates button 1 and the contacts on that switch that close when the switch is pressed. Solder on the leads from a cable attached to a female 1/4″ headphone jack and you’re in business. Rather than use a project box, I decided to drill a hole for the new cable and reuse the mouse housing to hold the circuit board.
Here are some pics:
The mouse pc board with the wires for the headphone jack soldered on.
The project back in the mouse housing.
The Patriot Act is essential to fighting the war on terror and preventing our enemies from striking America again,” President Bush said in a statement praising the House vote. “In the war on terror, we cannot afford to be without this law for a single moment.”
Ok American people, let me rephrase: “You’re afraid, and so we, your gov’t, are going to take advantage of that to further erode your civil liberties”.
Talk about using terror constructively, at least for the administration.
Hey folks! [Kelly](www.marmalade.ca) found this last year sometime and givin the upcoming election you may want to reference it to see how your local candidate and/or party have voted in the past.
[How’d They Vote](http://howdtheyvote.ca/)
I’m working on wiring in the house today and there’s a knock at the door. It’s a volunteer for the local NDP candidate soliciting votes/interest.
I’m polite and take her materials. She asks if I’m an NDP supporter and I say, no, I usually side with the Liberals. To which she asks “Why?”
I told the young lady, in a nice way, that it was really none of her business and excused myself to return to my wiring.
Now, the question is: am I over sensitive to being asked by a complete stranger why I support a specific party in the upcoming election? Seemed pretty nervy to me.
To the “Police State”. Lets face it here folks. Guns don’t kill people: people kill people. The Martin/Miller idea to make handgun ownership illegal is nothing new. It’s pretty much patently illegal to own a handgun in Ontario already and it’s damn near impossible to get the license to own one. Unless, of course, you belong to a shooting club and you get express permission to take your handgun from your home to the club along a defined route with no stops.
Handgun ownership of almost every kind would be illegal under the proposed “total” ban, which Liberal sources say would go further than any previous attempts to take guns out of people’s hands — whether criminals or simple collectors, whose guns are often the target of thieves.
Only police, security officers and a select few sport shooters would be allowed to own guns.
– Graham Fraser – see the entire article here
So what they’re saying is that they’re making illegal gun ownership *more* illegal? I don’t get it.
If I’m a criminal, or someone who really wants a handgun and I don’t give a damn about the legality of it, I can get one. It isn’t hard. If, on the other hand, I want to legally obtain a handgun the costs, process and investigations into my private life (not that I have anything to hide, but who wants people digging around) are unwieldy.
So, lots of political bluster equating to a preservation of the Status Quo. Guns are easy for criminals and impossible for good law abiding citizens who’d like to have the comfort of some home protection.
Wups… forgot… protecting one’s home in Ontario will land you in jail. Nice!