Archive for November, 2008
Nikon Coolpix 995 Macro demo
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As you can tell from the home page of this blog, I have a web page that long pre-dates this blog (can I say blog anymore times in a single sentence in a blog?) :-)
I continue to face the dilemma of where to put stuff. I don’t like to scatter things around but the [...]
Ignorance in America
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This little ditty
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
is making the rounds right now, typically forwarded by a knuckle-dragging right wing whacko (as opposed to the left-wing knuckle-dragging whackos) to demonstrate how ignorant people are today of their “heritage”.
I took this quiz and was horrified at the number of flat-out wrong answers. (absent the questions with no right answers or [...]
That Worthless UL Label
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If you’re a “Boomer” like me, you were probably raised up to respect that UL or “Underwriter’s Laboratory” label on electrical stuff. I still remember the ads on TV. The label really meant something too.
UL started out as an independent testing laboratory funded by the insurance companies to test boiler safety valves and [...]
Emergency Standby Lantern
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And good for camping too.
Question:
>There are a few of us on this list interested in flashlights and similar
>devices. I’m looking for a camping/power outage lantern. Picture a
>propane lantern or slightly smaller, but battery powered. I’d prefer
>something that took D cells, but lantern batteries would be OK, I’d have
>to think about typical rechargeable cells as that [...]
