Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Dave Barry on colonoscopies

If you are 50 or older, or about get to that magical number, you need to go read that article written by Dave Barry.  It is a simple as that.  He, in the way that only he can, explains about a colonoscopy, why it is a good idea, and other various and sundry things.  Seriously it is worth reading, even if you have read it before.


Thanks

Samuel Efurd

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Ultimate Charger

OK left that last post up for a while to give folks a chance to look at it.

Now for today's news... I am not a HAM radio operator, however they have many things that I am interested in. I am actually sort of obligated to become one, as I "sorta" stated I would if they did away with the morse requirements. They did, and so I suppose I need to.

Anywho. There was an awesome website that a guy from Colorado had set up (I think), called ultimatecharger.com It was originally for his commercial undertakings, which included a battery charger. Hence the name. Anyway this guy a a BUNCH of stuff with satellite comms, and the different feed systems and such. One of the projects on my list of things to do is a 21 mile comm link between me and a buddy of mine. I was planning on using the information on that website to help me with that. So one day I went to go check on this site and it was gone. I went to the wayback machine and sure enough they had cached the site in multiple versions. The wayback machine is great, but it has some serious drawbacks. One, it isn't indexed by search engines so the data isn't freely available to find. Two, it is slower than dirt, on a good day. Long story short, I decided to make the information more freely available.

Go here and check out my ultimate charger index page. Have fun.