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Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Bring the pain

A hard hour of Krav Maga tonight. You know it’s a good class when you’re wreaking of somebody else’s sweat, it hurts your chest to breath, and your throat is bleeding. More please?

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No 857

I went to the ham shop (“the candy store”) on Saturday all excited because I was going to buy a Yaesu FT-857D for the truck. Much to my disappointment, they were all sold out as of Friday. I hope to have my grubby hands on a unit this week sometime. I hear the Belton hamfest […]

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KE5KOA

The FCC issued my callsign today. I’m KE5KOA.

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Wiring up the apartment

This has been a geek weekend. I discovered that I have cat 5 ran to all the phone/coax outlets in my apartment and terminated in a distribution block in my closet. This is significant in that it finally solves my age old problem of getting wired internet to the bedroom for high speed file sharing. […]

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Passed Technician tests

Yay! I passed my element 2 and element 3 amateur license tests! This will give me a Technician license whenever the FCC gets around to processing it over the next couple of weeks. When I solve Morse, I’ll be able to get my General license. They let me keep taking tests until I failed, so […]

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Stuff

The question (to myself) finally arose as to what I’m doing with my old Powerbook and why I don’t have a massive amount of storage in my apartment somewhere. So, last night I went to Fry’s and picked up a pair of 300 GB hard drives and a firewire enclosure. It’s proving a bit impractical, […]

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Burning Man Aftermath

Back in Austin, yipee! Ah, my clean apartment, my clean kitchen, my clean rugs, my bed, and my downstairs neighbor’s yapping dogs. I got in about 1 PM and promptly went to sleep again. I dropped off four rolls of film this afternoon, so I should be ready to start selecting and scanning in pictures […]

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Ozona, TX

Somewhere in Texas. It’s rainy, my catnap at Fort Stockton did nothing, I’m still four hours from home so I gave up and got a seedy motel room. 1,100 miles at 75 miles per hour is 14.67 hours, easy right? Every time I’d recalculate the time it would put me 10 hours out, grr. Somehow […]

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Blythe, CA

Somewhere in California, I’m absolutely wiped. On the way back home I decided to try the route Google and my Garmin recommended, which was to go over to Sacramento, catch I-5 down to LA, and over to Phoenix. The idea was that it was faster, there’d be less curvy mountain roads and I wouldn’t be […]

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