- Supraliminal Message:
- An image in your field of vision that is so long lasting that you cannot see it with the naked eye yet it imprints its information on the subconscious mind.
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QSL from China
Speaking of QSL cards, a SWIARC ham, KQ0J, just received a QSL card from a contact he made in China [1]. I can’t wait to get on the air!
QSL Card
My latest iteration of the QSL card. Getting happier with it by and by. I like the 1864 Johnson map of the area for the historical oddities but it is a little busy even when washed out. If anyone knows where to find a line drawing of the six state area centered along the Missouri River I’d be much obliged. I need the image to be large (>=2000px) because I’m going for 4×6 print-quality image file.
Do not swallow
Odd pastime
I like to make snarky comments to the spam email I receive. It must be some vestigial thing left over from the days before email spam—when every email you received had been laboriously typed by someone you had a reasonable expectation to be corresponding with. Like there’s someone on the other side of this who gives a rat’s ass what I think about whatever intrusion they’re precipitating in my inbox.
Yet it doesn’t stop me.
- Your Secret Hookup is Waiting!
- Good. They can wait. Kept me waiting long enough first.
- Time for a new car?
- Time for you to blow Chunks? Chunks is my goat.
- Redeem Your $100 Walmart Voucher! Expires 08/23/14
- Ah shucks, you shouldn’t have. Seriously. I don’t shop there.
- Meet single MLB fans near you!
- Screw you, MLB. Seriously? I gave you my email address so I could listen to your crappy games. Why the hell do you think I’m single anyway? Awfully damned presumptuous, don’t you think?
And so it goes as I walk through my inbox.
The antenna
My 43′ vertical antenna kit and enough coax to park it at the top of the backyard are whizzing their way to the Tuck as I type this. It’s the final piece of the getting-to-broadcast-on-HF puzzle.
A 43′ vertical is a nice compromise antenna that can be tuned with my radio’s on board antenna matcher to within an SWR of 1.3. 125′ of coax is required to mitigate the impedance mismatch that ginormous aluminum tubes present to the radio’s expected 50Ω out.
Some time next weekend N0FEZ should be on the international airwaves. This is a thing that has been five years in the making and, if you can’t tell, I’m way stoked. I just hope the assembly goes as well as it did for this guy…who is hilarious.
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Cruft
At what point do you unsubscribe from a feed or podcast instead of just bulk deleting the stuff it throws at you because you’re not interested in reading or listening? For me that threshold is remarkably high. I think I delete at least half of the stuff in my feed reader without even skimming these days and the same goes for podcasts too.
Million dollar idea
Overheard in a meeting in re sneaking alcohol onto a plane:
Time release shots
Perhaps I need to talk to my father about putting this together. He needs something to do in his retirement from organic chemistry.
I nominate Courtney Cox
Dumping ice water on your head is good and all but when my Facebook feed is >40% ice water challenge videos I’m going to say this feels a little played out. Let me know when the meme morphs into the bukkake challenge for HIV research.
O’Slution
My favorite typo of the day so far: oslution. Like something you’d find in poetry written by a frustrated chemist…
O, Slut ion
Whence will you bond?
My feelings remain positive
Your affect remains negative
Still alone, we drift in solution