Category: Twitter
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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>
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…