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  1. JB

    Happy Birthday, tommays!

    Hippo birdy two ewe, Tom. :)
  2. JB

    Happy Birthday, Deck Swabber!!

    Wishing you a great day! :)
  3. JB

    So they come in bunches, huh? How big is a bunch?

    A couple of months ago the iboats gang helped me select a replacement for my dead big screen TV. Got a good one. Buck$. About a week after that my DVD player started intermittently rejecting disks as invalid. Then my microwave starting dying in the middle of a nuke, the non-stick on my Geo...
  4. JB

    F1

    I am really bored by NASCAR. If it weren't for Danica I wouldn't watch at all. Now F1 is REAL racing. Good opener in OZ. Kimi is back. :) No crashes, none, just good clean racing. Extraordinary drive by Sutil. There were 7 World Championships on the podium at the end.
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    This is embarrassing.

    When I retired sixteen years ago I was a state of the art technician and instructor in a Tech College. That was before we called it IT, it was just electronics then. Now I have a desk top 'puter with a broadband wireless internet connection in one room and a nice, new "Smart" big screen TV in...
  6. JB

    Snowing

    Daughter #2 just Emailed me this C&P: Just got off the phone with a friend who lives in northern Newfoundland . She said that since early this morning the snow has been falling and is nearly waist high. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale...
  7. JB

    Happy Birthday, WIMUSKY!

    I hope that this is a memorable one. :)
  8. JB

    Happy Birthday, mphy98!

    Have a great day. :)
  9. JB

    This RATZAKRATZA keyboard doesn't work correctly

    Sometimes I type 20 or 30 characters. When I look at the screen maybe 12 to 15 characters are displayed. I changed the batteries (HP wireless) and went through the troubleshooting for the USB port. It claimed "device is working properly". I updated the driver. Said driver is the best one. Now...
  10. JB

    Happy Birthday, Summer fun!

    Have a great day. :)
  11. JB

    Happy Birthday, marcoalza

    Have a great day! :)
  12. JB

    Welcome

    Welcome to iboats fora, Lehr. :) Nice to see leading edge technology in the mix.
  13. JB

    Pearl Harbor

    Seventy one years ago today, on a Sunday evening, I sat in the living room of our Carolina Beach, NC home with my family listening to The Jack Benny Show on the big Philco console radio. The show was interrupted to announce the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew us into the greatest war ever. I...
  14. JB

    Anyone know the Dragon?

    I have seen a software package called Dragon advertised on TV. It claims to convert speech into printed text. Anyone have experience with this? What is the format of finished files? How about vocabulary? It is becoming increasingly painful for me to type. Could I use Dragon to moderate and to...
  15. JB

    Pop-ups

    Really annoying. Admin has been notified, so hang in there.
  16. JB

    Happy Birthday BruceB58!

    Have a great day, Bruce. :)
  17. JB

    Eastern bluebirds in the Fall

    I have a nice population of eastern bluebirds that use the four nest boxes I have mounted around my yard. I have noticed the past few days that they are "investigating" all of the boxes. . .looking inside but not entering. I wonder if they are looking for roosting places to spend nights and...
  18. JB

    jack plates/what is their purpose/

    Re: jack plates/what is their purpose/ Jack plates are for fine tuning the height of the outboard for peak performance without porpoising or ventilation. They generally don't have much effect on initial acceleration or minimum planing speed, that is something that hydrofoils are for if...
  19. JB

    Happy Birthday, QC!

    Have a great day, my friend. :)
  20. JB

    Happy Birthday, waterinthefuel!

    Getting along there, aren't you? Have a wonderful day. :)
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