'Bout time I did this again.

( signed, Stephen Bierce! )

The Japanese toy manufacturer Art Storm is set to release a set of diecast vehicle toys based on the hero machines of the classic anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, known better here by the titles Battle of the Planets and G-Force (no relation to the new G-Force movie about espionage gerbils). My interest is in the two fighter jets: the G- ( Read more... )

Two major problems with the VCR/DVD combo Dad bought sight unseen ( Read more... )

Dad bought a VCR/DVD recorder combo deck, without telling me he wanted one.

It's an off-brand model.

From China.

Mail-order.

The serial numbers have been blacked over.

I know I'm only his son, but on matters like this I'd like it if he asked my advice sometimes.

FP

Yesterday was a very busy day for big-time motorsports. Vettel won at Silverstone, Franchitti at Newton Iowa, and Kahne at Sonoma. And again, I spent the evening afterward doing donuts on Wikipedia trying to sort out where motorsports is going ( Read more... )

The conundrum of the elderly lady's TV reception continues to defy solution. Dad (in an unprecidented move) read the manual...and somehow came to another wrong conclusion. Now he's moving the antenna mast back where it was in a move I do not approve of.

Had an idea overnight to put lady's old antenna underneath the new one on the mast and splice the coax lines, so we'd somehow get the signals from one or the other. We tried it. Didn't work ( Read more... )

An update to one of the stories HEREWithout any input from me, Dad bought a new TV antenna for the elderly lady we helped earlier, because she still wasn't happy with her reception. He volunteered me to help install it too, which annoyed me because he didn't ask me first and I had other plans for the day. Anyway, he gets the old antenna off the ( Read more... )