Month: June 2013

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Wedding special event station

As part of the wedding festivities, Connie and I decided it would be fun to get on the radio for a special event the morning of wedding day (July 19).

We don’t have a special event call sign and are just going to operate on the radio using our regular call signs (AB4UG and NR4CB).

We’re only going to be on the radio for a couple hours (band and frequency pending, but anywhere between 40m to 6m but not 30m) from 11AM-1PM EDT (1500-1700 UTC). We’ll be self-spotting ourselves on Twitter, so follow me (@imabug) or Connie (@NR4CB) to find us. We’ll also use the #CQMahWedding and #WATwitter hash tags. We’ll stay in the general portion of 40m-12m and in the tech portion of the 10m band so that everybody will be able to join in the fun. If you’re near the radio, tune in and work us!

We’ll also make some QSL cards using some of the wedding photos so if you’d like to get one, send us a card.

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Rain, rain, rain

It’s been unusually wet and rainy so far this year, a sharp contrast to the drought/near-drought conditions we’ve been having for the past few years.

Yesterday a particularly persistent and strong storm triggered several severe thundrestorm alerts and tornado warnings. Got some pretty torrential rains at the house that went on for around 3 hours, long enough to get some serious water running through the ditch beside the house and turn part of the back yard into a small river.

River through the yard

The tornado warnings were close enough that we spent part of the storm hunkered down in one of our little closets. The official rainfall amount was only a little over 1 cm yesterday, but there was definitely way more than that over James Island and Johns Island. I saw some reports saying there was close to 10 cm of rain in my area.

I hope the rest of the summer isn’t going to be quite this rainy.

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10 years of blogging

This little blog of mine reached a milestone a few days ago and I missed it. Over the weekend, the blog turned 10 years old!

10! That’s like old and decrepit in Internet Time I think.

The past year since the blog turned 9 has been pretty exciting, interesting and fun. Blog got moved and rebooted, and I fired up a second blog for the radio stuff.

I don’t see myself quitting the blog anytime soon and I’ve grown to enjoy the outlet blogging gives me. I think I probably need to post more often though. I’ll try to make myself do more of that.

10!

Go blog!

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E Plebnista

That which you call E Plebnista was not written for the chiefs or the kings or the warriors or the rich or the powerful, but all the people!

Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words “We The People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution“

These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Comms as well. They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!

Star Trek, James T. Kirk, The Omega Glory

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Southeast Linuxfest 2013 photos

It’s taken me a few days to get to, but I finally found some time to go through the nearly 500 photos I took at Southeast Linuxfest 2013. First pass took it down to around 420 photos, and then trimmed it down to 406 photos that I uploaded to my gallery. I’ll make a few more passes to pick out the good ones that will get posted to Flickr eventually.

Shay Walters made a few of these wood SELF 2013 logos using a laser cutter. Pretty cool.

SELF 2013 wood cutting

A group of lock picking enthusiasts had a very popular table this year at SELF

FALE table

Linode guy had a green mowhawk to match the Linode logo

Linode guy

Saturday’s party with MC Frontalot was a fun time.

MC Frontalot

Check out the rest of the photos over in the gallery. A subset of these will end up in the Southeast Linuxfest Flickr group. If you have photos from Southeast Linuxfest you’d like to share, feel free to post them there too.