Monthly Archives: May 2011

Before and After: GE Musaphonic T-210B Radio

Posted on May 31, 2011 by jwk

I recently got around to fixing up my GE Musaphonic T-210B, a relatively nice tabletop tube radio from 1963. It has two medium-sized speakers, AM and FM with automatic frequency correction with 8 tubes. When I was a very young … Continue reading →

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Don’t like 3D, but still want to watch 3D movies in the theater?

Posted on May 30, 2011 by jwk

There’s a fix for that! I don’t like 3D movies. I can feel the amount of work my eyes are doing to focus on the movie the instant I put them on, and it gets tiring after only a few … Continue reading →

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Newest Old Radio: a 1920s Battery Set, the Dayfan OEM-7

Posted on May 27, 2011 by jwk

A new addition to my collection arrived today. I’ve been reading the Elements of Radio to learn radio theory the way it was taught in the 1930s and 1940s, and many of the reference circuits in the book are the … Continue reading →

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Gmail Aliases for Better Email Organization

Posted on May 24, 2011 by jwk

Gmail has an interesting characteristic that falls somewhere between “really cool feature” and “strange parsing bug”, depending on how you want to look at it. Whatever the underlying cause, the end result is that you can create custom aliases to … Continue reading →

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Fire at the Seattle Housing Authority

Posted on May 12, 2011 by jwk

Around 1:30PM today, the top floor of the Seattle Housing Authority’s senior housing building Green Lake Plaza caught fire. Smoke was pouring from two windows and from the top of the stairwell, the green building behind the church. Firefighters quickly … Continue reading →

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Don’t Bother Buying a Verizon MiFi.

Posted on May 10, 2011 by jwk

You’ll just be disappointed. Very, very disappointed. My job responsibilities include managing a cloud of about 50 servers that host an enterprise SaaS application. Naturally, this requires that I be available to take emergency calls and deal with them from … Continue reading →

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Repairing Antique Radio Electrics from Start to Finish (5) – Grunow 589

Posted on May 7, 2011 by jwk

Update: The series is complete. For more articles and information, visit these other posts: Part 1: Identification and Task List Part 2: Intake Checks Part 3: Capacitor Replacement Part 4: Resistors and Controls Part 5: First Power-Up Part 6: Socket … Continue reading →

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Government Censorship on the Internet

Posted on May 6, 2011 by jwk

It’s important that speech on the Internet be afforded the same protections offered to speech in other venues. Freedom of speech is protected by our Constitution, and includes the right to publish software that is in compliance with the law. … Continue reading →

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Repairing Antique Radio Electrics from Start to Finish (4) – Grunow 589

Posted on May 3, 2011 by jwk

Update: The series is complete. For more articles and information, visit these other posts: Part 1: Identification and Task List Part 2: Intake Checks Part 3: Capacitor Replacement Part 4: Resistors and Controls Part 5: First Power-Up Part 6: Socket … Continue reading →

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“Freecycle” or Hazardous Waste?

Posted on May 1, 2011 by jwk

Spotted while out walking on the second beautiful day of the spring: Three boxes of half-used antifreeze, various spray cans and lubricants, wood finishing products, car fluids and gasoline additives. I guess whether it’s dumping or a legitimate altruistic gesture … Continue reading →

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