Bluehost is cheap. That’s why I have this site hosted here. But this sort of shit is why IT folk gain a reputation for being dicks. Because all too often, they ARE.
Category: Consumer Complaints
New Fear Unlocked
A wasp or hornet (I’m not good at identifying them, but it wasn’t a honey bee nor bumble bee, it was smooth, shiny, black & yellow & stingy) was clinging to the shorts. WHY it had crawled between shorts and underwear in the first place, I cannot begin to fathom. But in the cool, pre-dawn basement, it was nearly motionless.
Took the shorts over to the patio door, opened it, flicked ’em outside.
But this has now unlocked a new fear – of being stung in the balls.
How far into autumn/winter will it be before the risk of stingy fuckers hiding in my underwear basket has returned to effectively zero?
RTTY-like Birdie Every 25kHz Across Entire HF Spectrum And Beyond
Found a birdie this morning. Started as what looked like a RTTY “stuck diddle” in the FT8 waterfall on 10m. So I switched to fldigi to go RTTY eavesdropping to see what’s out there. Every 5 turns of the big knob, I’d find another one. So I did some further investigating.
Well, it’s insane. From the lowest freq to the highest freq I can receive with my Yaesu FTdx3000, it’s there at extremely regular intervals.
Eclipse – My Best Few Shots
What I would do differently, in hindsight.
Firstly, I wouldn’t use the supplied tripod. Way too flimsy and wiggly. I mean, stupid as it is, to take a photo, you have to touch the iPhone with your finger.
Rude Awakening
In the wee dark hours this morning, the recliner decided it’d had just about enough of my bullshit, and dumped me like Graham Norton’s Big Red Chair. And I didn’t even get to tell a story.
Sexism In The Age Of Cholera… or is it Covid?
Anytime I’m going to be within 10 feet of people other than my wife, I wear a 3m 8210 N95 mask. It has two real straps that go around my head, holding it tightly to my face all the way around. Does it mess up my hair? Sure. I don’t fucking care. I need to not get Covid-19, so STFU.
The ARRL And What They Think Of As Political
Would it not be considerate to be intentionally inclusive of people who are different from ourselves? Would it not be friendly to be welcoming and supportive of people who don’t happen to share our political or religious beliefs?
Python Monitor For APRS Gateway
The short story: my APRS 2-way Gateway has sometimes gone offline for several days without my noticing. This checks it
and sends email to alert me of a problem.
The long story: I had a TYT DMR dual-band radio for sale on CraigsList, & someone was low-balling me on it.
I Get That Nets Don’t Own The Freq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36W0t1iXp-4
K8MRD wants you to think that if you’re doing POTA, and some other station informs you that you’re causing QRM on the Maritime Mobile Service Net, that the Net should move ‘cuz you were there first.
MPR the Current KCMP
It’s Pledge-Drive time, so they’re playing far less music and doing a ton more talking, begging listeners to contact them, pleading for interaction, suggesting support. But on their website, all the ways they interact with the public are… distasteful. So I emailed them.