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istic dx 440 a radio shack rebrand of sangean s ats 803a it may have not been the highest rated portable radio of its era that belonged to sony s icf 2010 but it was fairly well regarded and could easily be found at the thousands of radio shack stores across the country oh look the dx 440 on the top of the right hand page later editions of the passport to world band radio revised the rating upward to 3 1 2 stars from the 1989 passport to world band radio all i had to do was scrape up 200 to buy one that actually didn t turn out to be as big of a problem as i thought it would be since i worked about 15 20 hours a week for the physics department as a lab instructor and a lab assistant and the radio went on sale a lot one week in october i found it on sale for 179 and i somehow managed to scrape together the money got to the closest radio shack to campus i think i borrowed a friend s car and bought it before they closed for the night i still have the radio it s sitting behind me atop the bookshelf the strap is in storage but i have it too the box is long since gone however the clock is set to utc time i listened to shortwave religiously in the mornings before class and when i was in the dorm on the weekends and in less than a month later i was eternally grateful for blowing a month s worth of pay on the dx 440 because i had a ringside seat listening to the warsaw pact implode from wikipedia by sue ream cc by 3 0 https commons wikimedia org w index php curid 8377443 the day the berlin wall fell november 9th was just one of a series of events that proved to me anyway the relevancy of shortwave radio getting to hear the news reports at the berlin wall from radio deutsche welle the velvet revolution from the newly independent journalists of radio prague the broadcasts from the invasion of kuwait by the bbc world service in 1990 and the failed soviet coup of 1991 from radio moscow who defied the communist party and began reporting without the official state bias were all ingrained into my mind this is the version i remember this was back when the reds were the best team in baseball kind of hard to imagine that now but the 1975 and 1976 teams were two of the best baseball teams of all time it s weird really but if you re of the right age when a sports team was dominant you just accepted that things were always going to be that way the reds playing in the world series manchester united winning the premier league the new england patriots winning the super bowl the detroit red wings winning nhl s stanley cup it had long since been decommissioned and no it wasn t the sort that would create a nuclear accident akin to three mile island the isotopes used were very tame but the reactor did provide some power so no i m not gonna get cancer at least from that about a year later i was in that same classroom with a professor and two grad students talking about something and one of the grad students noticed the wire i d tied to a corner of the window what is that wire there for he asked looks like someone put that wire there as an antenna the professor replied with a look at me i feigned innocence but i knew i d been found out i still miss our classes together dr graham i m still not sure how that happened but while i did request a single i assumed that i was going to get stuck with a roommate i mean that happened for my sophomore year when the person i was to room with decided to not return to ud and that meant i was grouped with a freshman that was an interesting experience that day was also quite important because that was the day that my now wife and i started dating that was before i got back to my dorm and turned on the radio to find the reports about the berlin wall i was a wee bit distracted you know blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 adventures over the airwaves radio shortwave monday august 25 2025 meme monday dad joke memes yes dad jokes because i m a dad and there s plenty of jokes abound i m here till thursday try the veal from imgflip from memebase and punhub ah star trek and dad jokes you never know if worf actually got the joke from imgur although my wife is usually a bit better sport than this but yeah been there from pinata farms my kids do make me proud about their dad joke prowess from reddit and mematic sometimes the dad joke is visual can t remember where i found this one and yes i was a proud dad when the kids started making these jokes from reddit blaugust2025 eta added the reference for the last meme posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 meme monday memes sunday august 24 2025 time marches on my wife and i met our son and his partner for lunch today at our local bookstore and afterward we wandered the stacks i espied a few boardgames that the store had for sale and i immediately felt a bit wistful it reminded me that the first boardgame store i visited here boardwalk hobby shop had closed during the pandemic the owners had decided to retire and like i said in a previous post i couldn t begrudge them that the day before i was out as an advanced scouting party for getting my youngest a new laptop as her current one is far too old and slow to handle windows 11 and i needed to reacquaint myself with how the various brands and models handled naturally i went to microcenter and afterward i stopped by my nearby friendly local game store flgs yottaquest i wasn t there to buy anything because laptop you know but it was good to simply roam the store and watch the steady flow of customers into the place those included a couple easily old enough to be my parents and they weren t there just because their grandkids wanted to visit but to actually buy something themselves i took this pic last fall when there were leaves everywhere even on a nose or two time marches on but i hope that some things continue such as good bookstores and game stores having spent the last 12 years buying laptops for the kids i ve seen a lot of trends such as the decline of hp in terms of quality holy hell are those laptops flimsy and the rise of acer as a viable brand i remember when acer s aspire line used to be nicknamed expire because of how poorly powered and built they were but hp has certainly passed them on the way to the bottom in terms of consumer grade stuff i still refuse to touch dell because of my own personal experience with the brand courtesy of a work laptop that refused to have it s fan spin unless it sat perfectly flat tilt it just a hair and the fan would simply stop working and i won t get into the overheating problems with that laptop either that was my experience as a kid when i d drag my grandparents to a video game arcade or a bookstore blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 3 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 boardgames books family musings self saturday august 23 2025 wait what was considered beautiful in 2004 okay i ll admit that i wasn t expecting to be writing this post when i sat down on friday morning before work but things happen well this happened i ve been watching angelika s videos for over a year now and her focus on items such as clothing art style and other things in mmos and rpgs mainly elder scrolls and wow are interesting to me so when she decided to focus on the standards of beauty in wow primarily wow classic i was interested in her take on it the biggest takeaway for me was how she viewed vanilla wow through the lens of what was considered attractive and stylish in 2004 which was when the game released i ll be honest in that i couldn t tell you much of what was considered in at the time because our youngest was a year old and overall the years 1998 2005 were a bit of a sleep deprived blur then this morning this dropped i haven t watched the trailer either i haven t watched a retail wow trailer except for dragonflight since mists back in 2012 so i can t speak to it myself but i found her critique very interesting in that blizzard is basically going generic as far as the blood elf look if you looked at liadrin you d not know it was a blood elf from wow she just looks like an elf not a warcraft elf of course that s not enough because apparently there s a big divide on the reaction to the trailer people either adore or despise it with not that many opinions in the meh middle which is pretty much standard for anything in retail but a lot of the hate is focused on liadrin s look and how masculine she looks the pictures i ve seen of her simply don t look like her masculine or not liadrin has a specific look to her that dates back to tbc like angelika pointed out and blizz moved away from that oh well nothing i can do about that but yes the videos are worth a watch blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 4 10 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 elder scrolls online retail video game art videos wow classic friday august 22 2025 that was annoying as a matter of course i don t have my video settings to automatically play there have been plenty of times in the past when i ve been doing some research or prepping for something and a video automatically plays on either my phone or my computer disrupting everything and everyone of course advertisements are the worst offenders so i very rarely open youtube on my phone because i won t pay for youtube premium and adblockers don t work on youtube s mobile phone app so imagine my surprise when i got the battle net alert last evening on my phone that said something along the lines of adventure is calling you home and before i basically swiped left and ignored it i thought you know what i might as well see what ad they re sticking on people s phones first it was this i took this after i stopped the video yeah i was not pleased the trailer started playing straight away ignoring my settings and i was definitely not a happy camper the only thing that would have made this more annoying was that there were video ads before the trailer played which i m surprised wasn t the case you know i should have known better but given that the battle net app tends to be pretty well behaved overall i was thinking it wasn t going to go full google on me but nope not the case oh well live and learn blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 blizzard retail newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred and other junk we have to talk about 7 hours ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 1 week ago twisted nether blogcast 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