News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Friday, October 30, 2009

Union Leader backs off of Web

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According to Now Hampshire , the Union Leader will no longer post political news and columnists on it's website. You want to read '...

Too big to read

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The health care bill just porked up again. It's now 2000 pages long. Last month it was 1000 pages. Then it hit 1500 pages last week a...

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Too Big to Fail

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Long discussion on the Lehrer News Hour about treatment of businesses "too big to fail" such as AIG or CitiBank/Group/Whatever. N...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

"At little or no cost to you"

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You must have seen those Scooter Store and Hoveround ads on TV. They are right up there with the Gieco Gecko ads on Fox News. I got junk m...

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The well equipped home workshop

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The well equipped shop needs an electric bench grinder to keep tools sharp. So far so good, I got one of those. Then of course you need ...

Photographic film RIP

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Nice big flyer from Hunt's Photo turned up in the mail yesterday. Not a single film camera in the whole thing. All digital now. Some...

Monday, October 26, 2009

American military thinking

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Good article in this month's American Rifleman about trench shotguns. Back in WWI, everyone was looking for more firepower for the inf...

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