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The Magnetic Monster is a 1953 movie:  https://archive.org/details/magnetic-monster The Wiki:      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnetic_Monster I'm not crazy about colorized movies but this one is kookie and fun.  The characters are so serious !  There are many actors everyone has seen before in small roles but in this one they get bumped up to more important roles.  Also, a brief appearance by Strother Martin as an airline pilot !!: what we have here is fictional communication  :) Richard Carlson is the hero, Dr. Jeffrey Stewart.  King Donovan (aka Mr. Imogene Coca) was the assistant, Dr. Dan Forbes.  The producer was Ivan Tors who later became known for many 1960s shows on TV like Flipper , Daktari and Gentle Ben (I watched them all). Richard Carlson also played the writer in three of Frank Capra's science films with Dr. Frank Baxter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_System_Science_Series There was a brief blog mention o...

see those triangular chevron'd areas ?  that's the start of this whole deal Remember the Tony Romo incident in Milwaukee: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/07/tony-tony-tony.html I happened to see another article on the citations: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/former-cowboys-star-tony-romo-hit-with-3-new-citations-after-arrest-in-wisconsin/ar-AA2b8q8N But the thing that caught me eye was this: So the reason why Tony Romo was pulled over was that he crossed the gore.  I'll be honest, I had never heard gore used in this context before.  The only gore I remember from drivers ed were those scare you to death accident movies that we saw ("did you see that one guy ?  were those his brains ?").  Here is what the wiki says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_(road) So basically just don't cross a solid white line to save a little time in Milwaukee, the time savings will go "poof".  Also in Tony Romo's case, it gives CBS an excuse to get out from un...

The Brewers had a day off on Monday, August 24, 2026.  So why not listen to game one from the Braves - Yankees 1957 World Series ? https://dn720003.ca.archive.org/0/items/yankeesclassicradio/1957%2010%2002%20Braves%20at%20Yankees%20World%20Series%20Game%201%20Radio%20Broadcast.mp3 (BTW if you don't like the usage of serious for series then don't read the book, You Know Me Al , by Holden Caufield's favorite author: Ring Lardner - OK, Lardner was his favorite author other than his brother D.B.): https://archive.org/details/youknowmealbushe00larduoft/page/n7/mode/2up . Here is the story that Holden mentions: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ring-lardner/short-fiction/text/there-are-smiles     A few thoughts on the game: Earl Gillespie did the intro !! Earl was a local sportscaster at WITI channel 6 in Milwaukee when I was a kid.  He gives Tony Kubek a shoutout as being from Milwaukee of course.  AND he doesn't say HANK Aaron, he says Henry Aaron !  .322 batti...

source:  https://youtu.be/uD-uyGWdXyE first a doe: but then a spike steps in and does the scarfing up of the pile: finally this doe appears to be saying: "Hey Man, where are my apples ?": WHERE ARE THEY ?: Also there was this, yikes: I still find these pictures fascinating, another day, another pile of apples (but I'll move them next time). Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

I heard about two deaths today, first Dolly Parton, I knew something was up when I saw this thumbnail from Dave Letterman: Dave Letterman's thumbnails on Youtube, signposts of death ! As a boy growing up in the 1960s, none of us tuned into The Porter Wagoner Show  to listen to guys with high hair and spangly suits: We tuned in to see Dolly: I imagine the ratings went UP when Dolly joined the show.  We are all mammalians after all :)  And I was 12 years old in 1967.  But she didn't just sing songs and be on TV and in the movies - she created her own music - those songs will live on. Second, a trivial death but a death of something I used every day: The various Nitter instances allowed users to look at twitter without having to sign in or endure the ads or engage in the endless scroll.  It was nice to just check the tweets of accounts you liked and you are done after seeing their new stuff. I don't get why someone would buy twitter, then ditch the name (which was ...

The experiment with alternate bait didn't work out, at least as far as the cam was concerned.  I had set out the fat trimmings from a meat canning session but got no takers.  Later a dead mouse was added, which was taken but the fat remained: So the cam was moved over to another apple pile and voila, both the fat and the apples are gone Monday AM.  Here is the resulting "movie": source:  https://youtu.be/tr8gofIDzFA The actors appear in evening light instead of the ghostly gray of night, here is a female red fox ? (no, it's probably a gray fox): And our now trained apple eater doe, Spotty ?: The gravel by the roadside tree shows evidence of deer hoofs but I think they prefer to be away from the side of the road so I'm doing them a favor with the bait piles ?  :) Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm 

I have blogged on this idea before in passing but it's worth repeating: when building an electronic project be sure to use a Sharpie on either the inside of the case (or on the circuit board) to record the date. Then, enter that date and as many notes as you can think of about the project into a lab notebook ! If you are like me your memory was never that good, but even if you HAD a good memory, it will probably get worse as time goes by.  With the written date it will be easy to refresh your memory on the project.  And in that notebook, remember 5 Ws and an H: An excerpt from the Kipling poem: Keep Six Honest Serving Men I keep six honest serving-men    (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When     And How and Where and Who. source:  https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_serving.htm In other words, consider yourself a reporter trying to explain the project to someone who is unaware of this project (probably YOU in t...