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A Labor of Love – Doc Savage
I recently posted about finally finding a workflow to properly convert a cache of old Doc Savage books to ePub files. In the last installment, I used Calibre to convert the original BBeB format (Sony) files into rich text files. Then I was using Nisus Writer Pro to clean them up, and then finally copy…
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Doc Savage eBook Fun
When I got my first eBook “Reader,” a Sony PRS-700, in 2008, I went stumbling around for books. One of the things I stumbled on was an archive of the 180+ Doc Savage books, in .lrf format, for the Sony Reader series. (yes, I am aware that they were not “legal” to download, so if…
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Amazon Music – A review
I have in the past blogged extensively around the streaming music services, and my waffling back and forth until I chose my current preferences – Apple Music for the on demand streaming, and Pandora for ‘radio’. Both have a place in my dock, and I don’t mind paying for them. Along the way, I compared…
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Diet Update
Update – 1/15 Continuing on the thread of finally losing some of this weight I gained that I wrote about first on 1/8, today is the weekly update. On 1/2, I kicked the effort off. That day, I stepped on the scale, and it was an eye-boggling 263.2 pounds. I will be honest, I had…
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Crap, time for another Raspberry Pi
It seems like yesterday that I just got my Raspberry Pi II, and now there is a 3rd generation that is out there. Dag nabbit, I guess I will have to get with the program. And, also, get back on my project of creating a remote weather station, and a camera to mount to my…
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Gee, you think the other automakers are cheating?
With the accusation leveled at Fiat-Chrysler cheating on the diesel emissions test, it is likely that all automakers game the system. Duh
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Why Republicans aren’t pushing to investigate the Russian Hacking
A well written analysis as to why the congressional Republicans prefer to ignore the ramifications of Russian interference in our election last year. That seems like a catastrophically bad idea to me. The CIA’s assessment that the Russian government probably had a hand in the hacking the Democratic National Committee servers and the subsequent release…
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Waking up in a Libertarian USA
A dream sequence of waking up in a Libertarian USA Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to…
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Showergate
Yesterday1, a cryptic message came across my phone. The NY Times flashed a headline that last week both Donald Trump and President Obama were briefed on an unsubstantiated, but deemed credible report that Russian officials had a dossier on President-Elect Trump that was potentially damaging. Reading the article, it was quite clear that it was un…
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I’m so Ronery…
Circa 2005 – Oliver dreams when his Daddy is not home