Eggs Faux-Benedict: English Muffin Toasting Bread, toasted (of course). Buttered. Spread with Garden Veggie Cream Cheese (any variety you prefer, of course). Over Easy Fried Egg. Sprinkle of Slap Ya Mama. Sprinkle of Bac-o-bits.
Category: Reviews
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.
Celebratory Meals and Traditional Habits
I’d heard the joking term “meat sweats” many times over the decades. But friend, I’m hear to tell you, the meat sweats are a real thing. As I was taking off my sleep shirt this morning, I swear that thing smelled like gravy, and I tossed it in the laundry pile with conviction.
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.
GridTracker WSJT-x and CQRlog
How to use CQRlog for overall log management, yet still also use GridTracker, and have them cooperate.
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.
I opened a ticket with their help system 6/15/23 8:02 AM with the following:
Xfinity internet had been dropping 2-4x/day briefly the past couple weeks. Then yesterday morning, it was out first thing, and this time the outage really was on their outage map. Outage ended on time, and everything came back online except my Cisco SPA525G with three lines (voip.ms, hamsoverip, hamshackhotline).
I have had to MANUALLY edit some things in the web UI for each of voip.ms and hamsoverip, and they both came back to working.
I need to MANUALLY edit whatever’s wrong with hamshackhotline, but because you guys do this auto-magical provisioning script thing, I’m unable to find plain instructions/screenshots of what fields need to say what. I don’t even know what my SIP account’s password is. If I’d ever been told, it’d be in my 1Password – it is not. Was only ever known by someone on your crew who did stuff remotely.
Where can I get the details necessary to MANUALLY re-configure SPA525G for HsH 11079?
This was their response…
Bill Lewis posted 6/15/23 8:32 AM
Hello Kelvin D. Olson,
As requested, here is your password: a3869(obfuscatedBitsForReasons)5903b728
Please be advised that because you will now be modifying settings in your endpoint, you are now transitioning from “Full Service Support” to “Self Service Support”. This basically means that it might be possible for you to accidentally change a setting in your phone and disrupt your service with us.
Because we won’t know what you changed, there will be no way for us to effectively help you.
If you find your phone in a condition where it does not operate as it should anymore, you will be required to perform a full factory reset on your phone, and then perform a re-provision to restore your phone to the settings we recommend for optimal performance.
Regards,
Closed by Bill Lewis with status of Closed 6/15/23 8:32 AM
Kelvin D. Olson posted 6/15/23 8:44 AM
Well… aren’t you just awful?
Please close my account.
So… these guys work from the assumption that if you’re getting a VOIP phone, you’re getting it to do one and only one thing. They have you point your VOIP phone at an automated provisioning script which wipes out anything ELSE you’ve got going on that phone. When you instead sign up with HamsOverIP.com, you get access to a Wiki wherein the left menu contains…
Configuration Guides
..Endpoints
….Hard Phones
……Cisco
……..Cisco 525g
…and there you find step-by-step instructions, and screenshots of all the settings on the web UI for the phone.
NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENT from giving me the password (one of MANY things I needed to know), closing the issue, telling me there’s “no way for us to effectively help you.” Uhm, fuck you, I can show you a great example of a way to effectively help me. You’re just an Alpha Hotel and a LID, Bill.
Minnesota Drivers Are So Dumb
There have been times when my vehicle has been the fastest one on a given stretch of road. e.g. Late for something urgent, someone in the vehicle badly needs the bathroom, just in an aggressive mood, etc. There have been times when my vehicle has been the slowest one on a given stretch of road.… Continue reading Minnesota Drivers Are So Dumb