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I was running out of room on a USB drive that I use for sneaker-netting files from machine to machine.  But looking at the prices of SD cards, they have doubled in price since last year ! Current Price, tax not included year ago price, same vendor, price includes tax I can't make my own SD cards but I do have tons of old USB drives.  It took me a long time but I finally realized that a lot of the trouble I had with backups and PVR recording were due to USB drives being SLOW.  The class 10 SD cards are just faster. So here is the plan, dig out the old USB drives (or SD cards) that have PVR recordings.  Then move those PVR recordings to rotating disk drives.  Finally reformat the USB drives or SD cards and bingo: almost new media for no out of pocket expense.  There is a lot of time involved but I got time (I hope :). And actually, maybe I'll just delete those old shows, they are mostly from PBS - after already viewing a murder show does anyone really need to...

Pa (rising) "You wouldn't think jus' reachin' up an' pickin'd get you in the back." I was picking some apples - just a few "gallons": https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/09/lamest-invention-of-2026.html but afterwards I was reminded of this from The Grapes Of Wrath : I hadn't been working as hard as the Joads but I'm older than Russell Simpson (Pa Joad) was in 1940 per the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Simpson_(actor) Old Russ would have been 60 (or maybe 63 ?) and I'm 71  :) Charley Grapewin (Grampa Joad) was my age in 1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Grapewin But Grampa Joad didn't make it as far as the peach orchards :( BTW a contemporary Tom Joad would just have to substitute Socialists for Reds: source:  https://clip.cafe/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940/every-time-ya-turn-around/ It's a different name but it allows our contemporary government story tellers to sell fear with their fiction :( Best Regards, Ch...

Previously noted that cowbells are popular in the CFL: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/11/cfl.html But one thing noticed when the World Serious moved to FL for the 3rd game was cowbell.  Per AI this is apparently a thing with rules: the shortened original:  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mtOXAIODnGc    the whole original:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s Here's an example of cowbell from Tropicana Field in 2013: source:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfuyFRRj5pQ But what else would you expect from a Florida team, normalcy ?  Tropicana Field appears to be a spaceship: There are little tufts of sand or coconut shells or ? kicked up when a ball hits in the outfield: Oh yeah => the Brewers WON the 2026 series in 5: It was inevitable, the Brewers 2026 season reminded me of one of the Kilauea eruptions on the big island of Hawaii.  A video of lava coming down a road - not super fast or red hot but just an unstoppable wall: ...

This was an interesting video about Milwaukee: source:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkAOA1wQEVQ   I remember that smell, it was sort of funky but not really horrible like alewives on the beach,  it was just a strong smell.  The area near Ambrosia chocolate smelled nice.  And there was a distant burning smell I remember from the ever burning dump fire in Germantown.  I didn't spend much time near 27th street and the Menominee river valley.  It's kinda in between Marquette University and American Family Field.  I remember seeing a Marquette student on TV once mentioning the smells around the university as the winds changed.  I always thought that yeasty smell was from the breweries but I'll take this fellow's word that it was Red Star yeast accounting for the smell.   John Gurda had an interesting article on Red Star closing: https://archive.jsonline.com/news/opinion/red-star-era-ends-at-valley-complex-d24o0ri-145232185.html...

Yet another actor from the 1960s dies: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walter-koenig-dies-age-90-chekov-star-trek Last mention of Walter Koenig in the blog: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/09/questor-meet-mr-trent.html He was listed as being in The Questor Tapes but ?  If it had been bought as a TV series he would probably have had a bigger role. Of course Chekov was supposed to be of Russian extraction - remember that the mid-60s was amidst the cold war versus the Soviet Union.  So in that way, Star Trek forecast the thaw in relations with the post-Soviet Russian government.  Then with the Ukraine war Russia was back as the bad guys.  Now who knows what el orange has in mind for the Russians ?   Orwell mentioned this in 1984 , that there are no forever friends or enemies amongst nations. I think the biggest episode for  Walter Koenig as Chekov was the one where all the Star Trek crew are aging rapidly except for Chekov: that time adrenaline saved Che...

I thought this was quite a picture: Who knew that John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Alice Cooper and Mickey Dolenz hung out together ?  And the young woman, who is she (supposed to be Mackenzie Phillips or Jenny Agutter)?  Here is what one of the all knowing oracles proclaimed: Sometimes a picture is interesting and the technical quality, composition and lighting are insignificant - it's the subject matter that makes the picture.  Kind of like this previously referenced picture: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/10/clint-eastwood-buddy-ebsen-danny-kaye.html or the picture of Dizzy Gillespie looking at Ella Fitzgerald (although it's excellent technically): https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/12/summertime.html Celebrity and Novelty are the driving force behind the internet. Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb5F-DB7m5g This video transfer is of excellent quality (no colorization horror, colorization was the precursor of AI slop IMO) although it's not perfect, the uploader puts their marks on the presentation, briefly but persistently :(    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_and_the_Voice_of_Terror Holmes enlists his contacts in the London underworld of 1942 to fight Nazi sabotage and the "voice of terror" who gloats after every successful 3rd column attack on England.  But Holmes has a 'scope and the ability to glean whether a broadcast is live or recorded just by doing some plots: Holmes also has an ingenious light cane: That guy thinks of everything ! But for me the definitive fictional London detective during WWII would have to be Michael Kitchen of Foyle's War along with his "Watson", Anthony Howell as Sgt. Milner and Honeysuckle Weeks as his driver, Sam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foyle's_War ...