Category: Twitter

  • 2023 Week 31 – River Cruising

    2023 Week 31 – River Cruising

    What’s Going On:As I continue studying to upgrade my Amateur Radio license, I’ve added a couple of “stealth” antennas to the attics in my house. Unfortunately, because of my HOA, I can’t put anything on the outside of the house; I’m limited to using the attic space for the equipment. While not ideal, it’s been…

  • 2023 Week 2 – 4% and Climbing

    2023 Week 2 – 4% and Climbing

    We’re 4% into the year, according to @year_progress on Twitter, and it’s really hard to believe how warm this winter has been. We had a cold snap around the holidays, but it should not be in the 40s in mid-January. We checked out a new restaurant this week and dug into the history of mid-century…

  • 2022 Week 38 – Phone Phreaking

    2022 Week 38 – Phone Phreaking

    Last week I stumbled upon an old article on Altas Obscura, initially published in 2018, that brought back some fond memories. What if I told you that once upon a time (the late 60’s), you could take a cheap plastic whistle that you dug out of a box of Captain Crunch and blow it into…

  • 2021 Week 11 – Spring Forward

    2021 Week 11 – Spring Forward

    I hope everyone remembered to set their clocks forward an hour before you wane to bed last night. I usually have DST on my calendar as a reminder but didnt for some reason this year so the time change kind of snuck up on me. I was doing some work in Downtown Indianapolis this past…

  • Apple Pay Competition Has Some Work to Do!

    Apple Pay Competition Has Some Work to Do!

    As Dan Frommer on Twitter points out: Oh I’d MUCH rather have a 2-foot receipt to deal with than just Touch-Pay-and-Go </Sarcasm>

  • Public Art in and Around Indianapolis

    Public Art in and Around Indianapolis

    While doing a little online research last weekend I came across the Indianapolis Public Art website.  Even better they have a Public Art Locator that pinpoints pieces on a Google map.  It’s pretty amazing the number of statues and sculptures in the area.  I wanted to share the site with the IndyScan visitors since it’s…

  • Tweets from 1939

    Tweets from 1939

    Every once in a while a great idea comes along that, once you hear it, is so obvious! On Aug 31, 2011 a British man named Alwyn Collinson started a 6 year project that uses Twitter to send out messages from World War II.  These messages are reports of the war as they happen on…

  • Book Review: Sh*t My Dad Says

    After a 3 month reading hiatus I’m one again getting a lot of use out of the Amazon Kindle I purchased last last year.   The latest title to be delivered by WhisperSync is “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern. From the Publisher: After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself…

  • Signal to Noise

    I realized the other day that I really was not using Twitter as mush as i used to…  I realized that following 250+ people just created to much noise & no matter how hard I tried I just could not keep up with the noise. So, in a last ditch effort to keep my Twitter…