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by cbfrench 2y ago
“There's a long drive... way back at center field... way back, back, it is a... Oh my! Caught by Mays!” https://youtu.be/7bLt2xKaNH0?si=I1rvcp67qk2pV5yN
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by cbfrench 2y ago
This Guardian piece does a decent job of explaining the background of the local militias: https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/11/inside-...
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by cbfrench 2y ago
>Ham radio’s time has come and gone I dunno about that. There are more licensed hams today in the US than there ever have been. And as a proportion of the US population, the number of hams is close to an all-time high. https:/&#x2F
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by cbfrench 2y ago
Last night I got a place to stay in Switzerland through a PSK-31 QSO. Didn’t even ask. Mentioned that we would like to visit the country in the next couple of years, and it just so happened the ham I was contacting lives on top of an Alp ne
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by cbfrench 3y ago
Yeah in that case, you’d probably be better off just picking up some decent GMRS handhelds. Spend a little more on some antenna upgrades, and you should have no issues. If you really want to stay on the right side of the law, you can have e
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by cbfrench 3y ago
Yeah, definitely agree 100%. It’s not a popular ham opinion, but the general follow-up to “Is this illegal?” should be “Will anyone care?” Lots of practices in the radio world are, strictly speaking, illegal, but no one cares. See all the g
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by cbfrench 3y ago
I don’t think it would. IIRC, CB radios are type-certified, which means that the transmitter itself is licensed, rather than the operator (similar to FRS). That said, these days the FCC gives absolutely zero shits about what happens on 11m,
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by cbfrench 3y ago
The better question might be: What is your imagined use case for this radio? A VHF/UHF handheld is more or less limited to LOS transmission, so you would either need to be within reliable range of a repeater or another person with an H
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by cbfrench 3y ago
> Solar storms (and following northern lights) are bad news for radio communication. Although it can allow for auroral backscatter propagation on VHF, which is fascinating. https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/
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by cbfrench 3y ago
I’ve found the Itoya Profolio Oasis notebooks to be excellent. They are inexpensive, but the paper is high quality and does not bleed or feather. I’ve been using them for a few years now, and they’re great. https://goldspot.com&#
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by cbfrench 3y ago
Lol, I would doubt Parson Woodforde’s maid resembled Kate Beckinsale—either in an appropriate or an inappropriate outfit. ;) My guess is he probably meant she was a little mouthy and stubborn for his standard of a servant. Both of those ter
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by cbfrench 3y ago
As an eighteenth-centuryist by training and an Anglican priest by vocation, I am sorry to say I had never run across Fr. Woodforde’s diary. But I have dutifully ordered a copy and look forward to digging into it. I did find it interesting
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by cbfrench 3y ago
When I took a bibliography seminar in grad school, the Wise Forgeries were one of my favorite topics. The discovery of the forgeries by Carter and Pollard and the discovery of the thefts by Foxon are true landmarks in bibliography. It’s wor
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by cbfrench 3y ago
If you give a mouse a bookie…
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by cbfrench 3y ago
Would is correct there (i.e., “I don’t think Ted would think”), but my syntax is very convoluted. Thanks for the catch.
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by cbfrench 3y ago
That’s correct. I was insufficiently caffeinated when writing that comment, and clarity suffered accordingly!
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by cbfrench 3y ago
> Like I found a part of a book that explains how to do logical synthesis and I bookmarked it, so I can keep going back to reread it every now and then in order to do stuff. What’s the book? I’ve never developed a good system for note-ta
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by cbfrench 3y ago
I also don’t get the sense that if anything interesting had happened, Ted would think it was worthwhile in any way, lol.
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by cbfrench 3y ago
I’ve always much preferred Dana of the two Gioia brothers, and mostly for this reason. Ted is a great jazz critic and historian, but his constant sense of being impressed with himself is just too much. I had a friend in grad school—an excep
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by cbfrench 3y ago
Everyone buying a copy: “It me.”
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by cbfrench 3y ago
The best class I took in grad school was a course on bibliography. (Few English departments still offer courses in it, alas.) It was magnificent learning the ins-and-outs of how books were manufactured and learning to reconstruct their proc
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by cbfrench 3y ago
I’m disappointed that I only learned about the bloom at IU after the fact; I’m just north of Indy, and I certainly would’ve driven down to see it. I wish there were an app that would notify me when one was blooming within a reasonable dista
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by cbfrench 3y ago
One bloomed in the greenhouse at my alma mater last month: https://www.local3news.com/local-news/rare-corpse-flower-blo... I think its first and previous bloom was three years ago.
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by cbfrench 3y ago
Got 0 mi on my first guess because I thought “That’s [state]” and then picked a random spot on the [other state] side of the state since it had that feel. I feel like I might as well quit at this point, lol. Edited out spoilers.
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by cbfrench 3y ago
I don’t normally, but I can if I’m trying to print clearly. I basically make the shoulder and descender of the a, then come back up the ascender and make the loop, connecting the loop in such a way as to leave the tail. That said, I normall
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by cbfrench 3y ago
> Orcas are orcanizing! You might even say they’re orcastrating these attacks. It’s delphinidaely something worth paying attention to.
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by cbfrench 3y ago
IANAL, but I’m married to a partner in biglaw. Clients routinely refuse to pay for work they perceive (rightly or wrongly) to have been done inefficiently or unnecessarily. For instance, this past week, my wife had an associate who took an
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by cbfrench 3y ago
Yeah, it’s really not clear unless you click through and see that the weight per unit is 37 lbs. Unsurprisingly, purveyors of church goods almost invariably have terrible websites. Ziegler’s is comparatively decent, lol.
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by cbfrench 3y ago
For one thing, that’s the case price, not the price per bottle. And that’s not really a sound analogy, as Cribari isn’t the only sacramental vintner, nor is Ziegler’s the only supplier of said wine. And there are general canonical provision
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by cbfrench 3y ago
His first four novels—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree—are all set in East TN. I’d highly recommend Suttree. It’s superb. Child of God is also quite good, especially for a novel about a necrophiliac serial killer. ;

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