Dear Coinmach…

Your machines are bad and you should feel bad for this.

This machine caught fire while trying to wash my laundry. I’m not sure just what happened, just that it filled, never agitated, drained, and caught fire. I found it with smoke still seeping out, and my laundry sitting wet inside, now with an added horrendous smell of burnt plastic.

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Speed Queen smoke. Don’t breathe this. No, really, don’t– it gave me a really bad headache that just won’t go away.

With a little help from my friends.

This is just a post of shout outs and appreciation for all the wonderful times we’ve shared.

Thank you…….

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To Elyse, the coolest librarian ever, Pablo KJ4PAP, Kyle and Brennan [no call yet, we need to fix this], Peter, Merritt, Kenn Marshall, Dean W2WDW….

KI4LJM, for reminding me to never give up

Ron W1XBS, for helping me just be myself, now drifting off with the skywaves…

Miguel, Ryan, Frank, and all the others who shared my crazy idea of throwing a freaking hamfest and activation of the TCFW link

Sean Dream, Marishka, and Erica, for being generally amazing artistic badasses

Sergio, who truly shares my insane passion for radio broadcasting

Shane, for being such an inspiration, and Leo, for smiling puppeh support

Josh, who shares my same goofy sense of humor

Jorge, drawing lines in the digital sands

The Radiate family, for all the great times.

Mikey, the RF magician. Seriously….

And to everyone else… You know who you are 😉

Philips, You just went full Funai. You never go full Funai.

Public service announcement:
Do not buy any new “Philips” brand consumer electronics products. Philips has just exited the consumer electronics business, and what you’ll be getting is Funai corporation garbage with the Philips brand name on it. See also: Brand name necrophilia. Sorry, this means even less good options in the nearly completed race to the bottom that is the light bulb market. I’d stick with Cree LED bulbs for now.

Via Wall Street Journal. 

As an added bonus, here’s a Funai TV on fire. It’s supposed to be flame retardant, but the only thing that finally stopped it was a blast from the garden hose. Yeah I’m sure it met the specifications it got UL listed under….. if it ever actually was and didn’t just have a UL logo stamped on it in utter fraud. 😉

Meeewww

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These boxes made me mad and very sore today. 16,000 pounds and none of them fit through the doors.

But this box never manages to make me mad. It’s full of pixel kitteh. And look, I managed to get a picture of Joe DiMeowgio! He’d been visiting but I hadn’t caught him there yet.

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The dude in the pyramid tent is Ramses The Great and he seems to really like my virtual yard here.

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This is from the Neko Atsume game, which is just ridiculously silly and cute.

This guy

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Another event using it, another time I’m reminded of how happy I’ll be when this lighting board gets replaced. Programming the lights for a show requires using a hair pin to move the broken faders, and knocking on the desk near it fires lights at random.

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February 2016 Ham Radio Class + Exam in West Palm Beach

Anyone in the Palm Beach area or nearby interested in becoming a ham? Come on, join us, it’s fun!

As posted to the HelloRadio list:

Announcement!

Attached you will find the February Ham Radio Class/exam sessions scheduled for 2016 at the American Red Cross in WPB, Fla.

This is a weekend class with the exam on Sunday morning.
The class is free, the exam is $15.00 and the ARRL study manuals are $30.00 and are available at the ARRL.
If you know of someone who would like to earn their Ham Radio license,
feel free to forward, copy, post the attachments and help to mentor a
new Ham into the hobby of Amateur Radio.

Albert Moreschi AG4BV
ARRL Instructor/VE
aug77@att.net
561 714-6673
American Red Cross Disaster Services

Click the preview below for the PDF.

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