So I signed up for severe weather alerts from The Weather Channel after being disappointed by similar offerings by a local news station. I set up my BlackBerry email with it and my Berry beeped a second before my weather radio sounded. Love it.

Those of you who are not following XKCD regularly first need to ask yourselves why you are not following XKCD. Secondly, and band-nerds (past and present!) you'll appreciate this, see XKCD's latest.

Dear current and future students of the University of Nebraska at Omaha ( Read more... )

Today, a couple minute before class, my mother called. She left a message, and asked me to call her. She sounded upset. So I walked out and called her right back. Turns out, she was having some computer issues. That wasn't what was upsetting her, though ( Read more... )

Returned from the vet a bit ago. Vet said she had lice, and could see some eggs/nits in her hair. Upon closer inspection, looks like she's just been ravished by them, and she sure didn't look happy, which I don't blame her one bit for ( Read more... )

I'm totally geeking over the topic of our Ak-Sar-Ben Amateur Radio Club meeting tonight: Ham Radio Deluxe. HRD is a FREE program for Windows that can control your radio. It allows you to do everything you can do on your radio, except it allows you to do it much quicker, and with more control. You can jump from 7MHz to 430MHz by just clicking a ( Read more... )

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Awww, all the World of Warcraft realms are down. :( But I want to play now!

"NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!"

That is all. I will go back to my comfy chair.

Too many people believe that amateur radio involves things like "broadcasting", "radio shows", and "music ( Read more... )