not really - but it looks cool as a title ( Read more... )

AKA - TheFire Marshal, He A Badass theory.

So I was mulling it over, and thinking on some of the services that use the PSTN system.

Scanalert/Pulsenet ... techincally, they don't require a phone line, a circuit works too. Before I get into it, let me explain WTF those are.

Back in the 70s before digital phone lines and 1G was introduced, effectively 0 ( Read more... )

So, AT&T and Verizon both believe it will happen - but at different times. The FCC actually submitted a proposal last December ( Read more... )

Monday, I don't normally work on Monday. But today I went in for 4 hours because they needed the help. And immediately got bitch slapped by work. Ah AT&T you dumb little clueless monkeys ... when I tell you it's the High/Low Filter on the Two Wire Circuit in the Central Office do not argue with me, especially when I even give you the part number to ( Read more... )

That's right, Vinyl records are not making a come back ( Read more... )

This is how the day started: I took a shower, where everyone called all at once. Within a three minute time span. I had a razorblade to my throat trying to shave when the phone went berserk. Why my first thought was "I could slip, and they wouldn't find me for hours...many quiet hours" I have no idea. Maybe it's a reflex to a phone screaming like a ( Read more... )

We'll start with my car, because almost everyone who gets into my car goes "Holy Crap! It's like riding in the future!"

.... I don't get it either. But people seem to think my car is kinda cool, possibly a little creepy, and at least one friend thinks it'd make the perfect vehicle to ride out the apocalypse in... (or at least thinks I should arm it ( Read more... )

June... I get depressed in June a lot. Seasonal depression not during the winter season I suppose ( Read more... )

Looking up one thing often leads me to find another. Oddly, I started off looking up peoples takes on 100 Things that managed (in a very meandering, round about, sideways kind of way) to lead me to Brute! Pop (Aidan Hughes, creator of KMFDM cover art as his likely more famous - or recognizable addition  to the world of art).

Where I found that he ( Read more... )

I ran into this twice today, in various forms. Both of them put in the context of humor - while funny from one angle it's more thoughtful from another ( Read more... )