Lately I've been doing projects around the house. I converted an old desk into a media cabinet, and am now rewiring the cables in the basement to hide them, make them more functional etc. On the back of that old desk sits a four-port ethernet switch, looking a tad incongruous. Just lately I added a Netgear wireless access point in the basement, ( Read more... )

We spent Oct 12-30 on an expedition to historic and archaeological sites in the Eastern Mediterranean, by air through CDG to Rome; cruise on Voyages to Antiquity to Sicily, Athens, Greek Isles, and Turkey; and flight home also through CDG ( Read more... )

Friday we went to a book reading at the relocated Modern Times Bookstore: Barb Jensen, for her book on working class culture. Barb opened the reading with a couple of songs with Karen, with whom she was in a musical group back in Minneapolis two decades ago. It was great ( Read more... )

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Last night we saw the local Lyric Theatre production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Grand Duke," G&S's last collaboration and a show rarely performed ( Read more... )

We went to a memorial event for Hugh Daniel in Pacifica, CA, the town where he was living most recently. Of course, Hugh was a citizen of many communities, so there are other memorials coming up or already happened, in other places ( Read more... )

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I follow the eBook piracy wars, as sometimes eBook distribution sites allow uploads and sometimes enthusiastic fans post books still in copyright for free distribution to other fans. This is sometimes known as piracy and sometimes as copyright infringement ( Read more... )

I've put a six-page article "The Age of Electric Servants" online at http://oldhightech.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-future-of-electricity-as-seen-in.htmlRead more... )

vgqn is in Minnesota and I'm trying to catch up on odd jobs and still have some fun. I've been doing better at the fun than the jobs, which is probably a good thing in the global overview ( Read more... )

The Hidden Knowledge ePub reprint of the 1922 Sears Roebuck Catalog of Electrical Goods and Radio Apparatus is out! This is the first new book we've done in quite a while ( Read more... )