government lies

I heard on the news that a study released today indicates that gas consumption is down significantly from one year ago. However, Bush's bullsitters say that this is not going to affect gas prices because demand is up. So, according to the US Ministry of Propaganda, although demand is down, demand is up.

If you believe that, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn that you might be interested in purchasing.

we have met the enemy and the enemy is us

This morning, Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, (the "father of APRS") posted these wise words on the APRSSIG:

At the ARRL Technical Challenge Forum at Dayton, the ARRL
technology leaders were lamenting that HAM radio needs something
for youth to get excited about. Something like: "Look at how
kids have taken text-messaging as the be-all-end-all excitement
of communications! We need something like that in ham radio!
Why aren't we developing things like this?"

To which I jumped up from the audience and could not contain
myself and exclaimed! "We have! We have had local/global text
messaging and text email from a handheld since 1998 in APRS! It
is exactly what kids are doing today, but we have been doing it
for 10 years! But you know what? All the old fuds in ham radio
say 'How crude.  We need a keyboard.  No one is ever going to
communicate by punching buttons on the front of an HT'!" SO
still, only 1% of ham radio is even aware of this routine global
connectivity from a handheld that we have had for 10 years.

As pogo said, "we have met the enemy and the enemy is us."
Everyone keeps waiting for the "perfect dream" solution and then
they dream of all the things they could do. But you know what?
The perfect dream solution is always in the future. The few
instances in ham radio that really excell in actual needed
practical communications are those that ALWAYS take what they
have and just do the MOST with it, NOW!

Red Sox 13, Rockies 1

What can I say?

why I like Senator Dodd

Dodd got my vote when he ran for Senator and he gets my vote in his run for the Presidency. He is fighting for people like you and me as you can see by his recent blog and what other people are writing.

"I've seen these marks in these parts."

"I've seen these marks in these parts," said Dr. Doskil after examining the neck of a vampire victim in the film Mark of the Vampire.