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I don’t possess any pics of Dad any more, so some stories:
Dad built our first color TV on the kitchen table from a Heathkit box of parts. He also used his Heathkit oscilloscope for the fine tuning.
I inherited my penchant for reusing things from work in home projects came from him (and my grandfathers, as well, to be fair). Dad worked at the phone company planning cable installation projects and he knew of the conduit that was being tossed at the end of jobs. He brough a bunch of it home, cut it down to footlong or so pieces, and laid them together in the basement for wine racks.
Once he brought home a big transformer (about a foot cubed). He took it apart, broke a tab off of each plate of steel, rewound it and made an arc welder out of it.
We had a laboratory variable transformer called a Variac. I am pretty sure it was kind of expensive, we used it every year as a dimmer for the christmas tree lights.
He was great at finding loopholes. He said that in any system of rules, there were ways to work within them to get unexpected things. I’ll share his airplane ticket hack. In the days of paper tickets, it was pretty standard that the best rate for a plan flight was if you bought the ticket 3 weeks out, but if you needed to fly tomorrow, it was much more expensive, but the ticket was full refundable. So if there was a need to fly suddenly, he’d buy two tickets - the one for the day, and the identical ticket for the same flight three weeks out. When he got to the airport, he would present the cheaper ticket. The attendent would type furiously and tell him that it was the wrong ticket. He’d make some lame excuse about the admin giving him the wrong ticket, and they would almost always take it. The other ticket was the ace in the hole - if they wouldn’t let his ticket fly, he would suddenly remember that he had the other ticket. I ran this one a few times.
he flew to Chicago a lot because the phone company had a training facility there, so he had lots of time to think about all of this. Chicago had alcohol prices which were competitive, while in Michigan, the prices were set by the state, down to the penny. He would tell his boss he didn’t need a plane flight, he’d drive, so he would drive from Detroit to Chicago (getting mileage) and would shop for the booze for the house. One year, he came back with a carload of cases of bottles because he was getting it for our house, mom’s office party as well as his own office party. I guess this makes my dad a low-level bootlegger. When I was 17, he asked me if I wanted him to bring anything back, i asked for some peppermint schnapps. He brought me a handle of it.
once he wanted a workbench for his basement projects. Grampa Strope had all the tools, we had a VW Beetle, so he wanted something that could be broken down and carried in the Bug. Grampa was a tool and die maker, Dad was an engineer. I still remember the arguments from the basement because Grampa wanted to make it accurate down to the smallest dimension, Dad said it’s a workbench! That bench is still in the basement, I think it’s only been disassembled twice in almost 60 years.
I miss how smart he was about getting by in the world doing things no one else had thought of. When someone would push back, saying you can’t do that, his response was “What are they going to do?”
Happy Father’s Day, Dad!
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Sun Jun 16 09:44:36 2024
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a guide to my internal translator
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Sat Jun 15 19:19:25 2024
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This has the best version of Here Comes the Flood
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Sat Jun 15 19:10:35 2024
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When I was about 3, I was in NYC for the big blackout. We ended up using all the candles and one was an angel candle that ended up not much different than this one will. I was heartbroken the next morning.
I still remember , we were watching The Munsters and the repairing voice for a little bit before we lost power “we are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by”
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Sat Jun 15 19:02:10 2024
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I was just at a “celebration of life”, a non-religious memorial service. There were snacks, people mingled at first (how did we all get so old? who are these adults that look a little bit like kids we knew?) and then there was a part where people told stories about the deceased. I’ve often considered, at such events, that if everyone is gonna tell stories about me, I want to hear them too. We could speculate on the metaphysical possibilities of attending one’s own memorial service but that’s not what I am talking about.
If someone were to hold a “memorial service: a rehearsal” that included all of the things above, except that the guest of honor is still sitting there able to talk, would you consider going if they were a friend or relative?
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Sat Jun 15 18:39:20 2024
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I cry at the dumbest stuff sometimes.
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Sat Jun 15 17:56:41 2024
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https://grmdaily.com/england-fans-german-police-smoke-weed/
It’s come to this.
https://grmdaily.com/england-fans-german-police-smoke-weed/
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Sat Jun 15 13:28:50 2024
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Something to color.
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Sat Jun 15 11:48:19 2024
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In The Matrix, the machines only knew “send more” as a strategy. Kind of like what the Federalist Society has been doing to our courts with their influence.
Cleverness can win, relying on trends works until it doesn’t
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Sat Jun 15 01:51:07 2024
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https://youtube.com/shorts/LbAIR5ZxfqU
This lady has a whole bunch of funny bits with unique instrumentation.
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Fri Jun 14 09:44:55 2024
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I tasted the kool aid for a bit a while back. I think it’s a good idea to establish ourselves on other rocks, also, but this guy might not be the one to do it, at least not in the way I might like to see.
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Thu Jun 13 22:09:52 2024
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it be like that
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Thu Jun 13 21:53:29 2024
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psssst!! “sinful” is now a compliment, particulaly as a description of someone’s outfit.
Tell the others!
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1dfd6vm/my_outfit_was_sinful_poor_boomer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1dfd6vm/my_outfit_was_sinful_poor_boomer/
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Where I worked last time I was in North Carolina, Lowes corporate HQ
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I don’t understand.
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https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/06/427851/feeling-rough-after-your-covid-shot-congrats-its-working
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/06/427851/feeling-rough-after-your-covid-shot-congrats-its-working
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https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/06/427851/feeling-rough-after-your-covid-shot-congrats-its-working
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https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1dfd6vm/my_outfit_was_sinful_poor_boomer/
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https://grmdaily.com/england-fans-german-police-smoke-weed/
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Spend a day exploring the famous Penny Arcade in Manitou Springs, Colorado. From vintage pinball machines to shooting galleries, the Penny Arcade is a magical walk back in time for everyone.
This indoor/outdoor arcade features over 400 vintage games and outdoor rides, 20 different pinball machines (both new and old) and 30 different racing games.
And the Penny Arcade is (mostly) true to its name with plenty of games indeed costing only a penny. But there are many more that cost anywhere from 5¢ up to $1.50.
Join us as we walk-thru the neon lights and enjoy the sounds of this vintage amusement park located in beautiful Manitou Springs near Pike’s Peak and Colorado Springs.
00:00 Intro to the Penny Arcade 0:48 Penny Arcade Walking Tour 1:26 Patsy’s Chocolates & Gifts 1:41 Vintage Indoor Arcade Games 2:14 Playing Games in Manitou Springs 2:42 Earning Tickets for Prizes 3:16 Visiting the Arcade Amusements 4:04 Parking in Manitou Springs 4:23 Outro
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Manitou Springs, Colorado Walking Tour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_vH_yh9WiM
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Four years ago my brother Connor and I were exploring the Rocky Mountain town of Manitou Springs, Colorado. We stumbled upon a number of active natural springs that people regularly drink from scattered throughout town. So we thought, let’s taste them all! And that’s exactly what we did and I filmed a video for Youtube documenting our spring water taste test journey…but we missed a couple.
So now we have returned to Manitou Springs on a mission to taste test all eight natural mineral springs throughout the town, and let you know which one we think is the best tasting and the worst tasting spring water in town!
Intro: 0:00 Wheeler Spring: 1:20 Cheyenne Spring: 2:50 Navajo Spring: 3:49 Shoshone Spring: 4:54 Old Clock Tower: 6:36 7 Minute Spring: 7:25 The Fountain of Youth: 9:22 Stratton Spring: 10:17 Twin Spring: 11:55 Iron Spring: 13:26 Outro Song: 16:44
Outro Song - Explorer’s Theme - written and performed by me on piano.
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