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Written By: Randy on April 28, 2010. Posted in: Found on the Intarweb, What We're Up To 6 Comments

We’ve had a lot going on lately.

In February we refinanced our duplex.
A the end of February we bought a new car.
In March our offer on a new house was accepted.
We close on the new house May 10th.
We’re in the process of finishing work on our apartment.
We’re in the process of renting out our [...]

Written By: Randy on April 16, 2010. Posted in: Found on the Intarweb, Tech Talk No Comments Yet
Vintage Computers

Just saw a slideshow by TIME titled ‘Core Memory: Photographs of Vintage Computers‘. This stuff is immensely interesting to me, both as a Photographer and a computer geek.

My favorite (pictured below) is the picture of Core Memory.  You can essentially picture this as the grandfather of flash memory today (the stuff you stick [...]

Written By: Randy on March 2, 2010. Posted in: Adirondack Life, Found on the Intarweb No Comments Yet

Man, the APA can be some real jerks sometimes…  Looks like the formation of the Diamond Sportsmen Club got off to a rocky start.  Found an article detailing some of the things they had to agree to which went well above and beyond standard APA guidelines.  One of the more interesting bits I found is [...]

Written By: Randy on February 25, 2010. Posted in: Found on the Intarweb, Humor No Comments Yet

Ricky Gervais was on The Daily Show Monday night and they showed a short clip from the new HBO show ‘The Ricky Gervais Show.’  It looked hilarious so I took a look around the net and was able to find some of the videos.  The Space Monkey Monkey News video was [...]

Written By: Randy on February 23, 2010. Posted in: Adirondack Life, Found on the Intarweb, Snowmobiling 2 Comments
The Lone Grave of Benj Miller

Ran into a strange site while snowmobiling last weekend.  The Lone Grave of Benj Miller.  At least that’s what I’m calling it…

It’s a single grave surrounded by a chain link fence on the top of a small hill along route 56.  The snowmobile trail goes right by it (2 ft away).  There’s a small [...]

Written By: Randy on February 5, 2010. Posted in: Adirondack Life, Found on the Intarweb 2 Comments
Eddie & Jack “Legs” Diamond

Looking for possible reasons why the Diamond Sportsmen Club was renamed from the Barney Pond Club I stumbled across the story of Eddie & Jack “Legs” Diamond.  It probably has no correlation with the Diamond Sportsmen club but it’s an interesting story from the Adirondacks so I thought I’d share it.

Apparently Saranac [...]

Written By: Randy on February 1, 2010. Posted in: Family Matters, Found on the Intarweb, Friends, Humor 2 Comments

Thanks to Greg I now know I have one real job to do as a father.

Just one, hopefully I can get this one right…

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