I love grapefruit but it's forbidden because it nullifies one of my meds, maybe the atorvastatin? When I got my stents I was warned I could not eat it. Sometimes I throw all caution to the winds and eat it anyway. I have all the accoutrements--grapefruit knife, grapefruit spoons. Ibuprofen is also f...

Many GTO's are LS powered. Rebuilding Pontiac engines is too expensive. Aluminum radiators replace brass, again, brass is three times what aluminum costs. Buicks, Olds, and Cadillacs run their original drivetrains. Wonder why that is? All in all, a dandy day. Being warm is the price we pay to live ...

It's tough being a celebrity. They seem to have short lives, often filled with unhappiness and addictions.

Chris Campbell

When Eddie introduced me to this album, I had never heard of John Prine. I don't have, nor am I familiar with, any of his other work. I sure do enjoy this album. ;) :D You need to find his first album.It's a stunner. I've got a cassette copy that lives out in the shop. If he had done nothing in lif...

John Prine could sing the phone book and I'd listen. As a songwriter, his prowess was hard to match. He was humane. Without that quality, you can be famous, you can be powerful, but you're still unimportant.

Chris Campbell

After doing some Googling research, and posting some questions on ARF, and experimenting, I've made a few circuit changes. I added .001uF mylars to the base of each driver which killed the oscillation without affecting the frequency response. Ended up replacing both driver transistors, one was nois...

The city had to hire a welder for my water line about 10 years ago. It runs under the street. The street is plowed, which removes the snow that insulates the ground elsewhere. (The area at the snow-ground interface is the "subnivium" and it's usually around 32 deg. even when things are hel...

We had a discussion at work today about which was a bigger mess--'78 or '26.

My truck told me it was way up to 23 deg. by the time I headed home.

Chris Campbell

Loctals also originated the technology that went into "miniature" tubes, with the pins fused into the glass envelope and no phenolic base. I put miniature in quotes because there were various much smaller vacuum tubes, including the Nuvistors.

Chris Campbell

Boss's husband had the day off Tuesday--works at a plumbing supply place and nobody was going to get in--so he got ambitious and cleared the Taco driveway of plow ridges again this a.m. It was off to work for me, an easy trip because the city had been clearing roads full-time. Some of the places inl...

Want your horizons widened just a little? John Adams is a leading 21st century American composer, usually classified as a minimalist. "Meister Eckhardt and Quackie" is a movement from a larger piece that I like. The movement's title? Meister Eckhardt was a 14th century mystic philosopher. ...

16 deg. here at 11:00 p.m. I went out and shoveled the sidewalk from the house to the street. It was 18" deep since this morning. The public sidewalk is too far gone. The city has snowblowers that roam the town and do that eventually. The crews are probably running street plows right now. The p...

Just got this from the county: From Grand Traverse County Emergency Management March 16, 2026, 7:05 pm. Life-threatening winter storm. 3 ft of snow and 40 mph winds causing impassable roads. Travel is strongly discouraged. If stranded, responders may be delayed reaching you. Stay off the roads and s...

I'll trade you some cold for some warmth.

Chris Campbell

Another hour and a half of driveway clearing this afternoon. Lots of drifting, lots of wind, and more snow falling. After I'd shoveled for an hour, a different kind neighbor brought his snow blower over and helped with the deep stuff on the 2nd driveway. We both laughed, knowing that eventually the ...

At home today. Everything is closed because of the extreme weather. We had lots of snow last night and it continues with high winds. I went out to do my front sidewalk and only managed the part between the house & street before heading in for breakfast. The wind was cold and I had to keep stoppi...

So is that band what became the VHF band like some Zenith Transoceanics have? No, the VHF band is the higher-frequency one where the NOAA weather broadcasts, VHF-FM marine bands, and I think the CB frequencies, etc. all lie. I just went and looked--mine covers 161-146 mHz. On my local sailboat, the...

Link? Lots of those online narratives don't bother to link the image with the text. They'll be talking about one thing an showing something unrelated, or speaking of one time with images from a different era.

Chris Campbell

Our public radio request show played "Old Man River," sung by William Warfield, this weekend. It's one of the great American songs, with music by the great Jerome Kern, who gave us another of may favorites, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," and lyrics by the equally great Oscar Hammerst...

The odd FM band was the first one set aside for FM (pre-WW II). Later it was coveted for TV channels and FM got new frequencies. That radio was a transition-period device. I've got a pre-war Philco floor-model radio with the old band only. Long ago when I was young and stupid (as opposed to being ju...