Check out Cranky Geeks

I'm not getting paid for this but if you want to see one helluva
vidcast (or, if you're bandwidth inpaired, the podcast) check out this site:

http://www.crankygeeks.com

Interesting stuff!

Memories of the ‘67 Blizzard

Ah, what memories.

I was 14 at the time and living on the Southeast side (86th and East
End area). At the time, I was a freshman at Mt. Carmel HS at 64th and Dante.

I remember Fr. Vernon making the announcement that we were going to
be released early because of the snow but that we would have to walk
to Stony to catch the buses as they could not get down 64th
street. The years have clouded the memories somewhat but I remember
it taking about 20 minutes to go three blocks from Dante to Stony and
then another hour to go from 64th and Stony to 86th and Stony. Then,
another half hour to go from Stony to East End and home. Nearly 2
hours to make a trip that, normally, would have been about a half hour.

My little sister was going to St. Felicitas and my mother, in her '59
Chevy tank, went and got her and came home a little bit after I had
gotten there. By then, the streets were just a wreck and Mom was
lucky to be able to park the car in front of the apartment building
where we lived. There it sat until two days later when I dug that sucker out.

My older brother was working at the Juvenile Court building at
Roosevelt and Ogden at this time. He left there around 2 PM. He
could only get as far as the Ike before he had to give up and leave
his car. What he did do that was sheer genius was that he left the
car unlocked. His reason: make it easy for the plow crew to get his
car out of the way so they could plow and not bury his car. He did
not get home until 9 PM that night after doing the CTA shuffle, going
from busses to trains to busses and finally walking home.

Once the storm left, the city plowed out the island on Stony so that
folks who had to go get their cars could park somewhere close to
their houses. We had three feet of snow on 86th street and east
end. All the kids on the block, and some adults too, shoveled out
the alley so that the garbage trucks could get down them. That took
all day. I remember there was a Jewel close by and a Stineway's drug
store. We made numerous trips to both for us and for our neighbors.

My brother finally got his car three days later. One of his buddies
was in the Guard and stopped by driving a 2-1/2 truck. He asked
where the car was and told my brother to put on his fatigues. Off
they went to get the car, which they found sitting free and clear by
the entrance ramp to the Ike. They caravanned back home with the
2-1/2 in the lead and my bro following in the truck's tracks. They
were the ONLY vehicles on the expressway. Eventually, they got back
and the car was parked on the island. That was a strange sight,
seeing a Guard truck in the street. I'll never forget that one.

I think it took the city two weeks to finally get all the snow off
the streets around where we lived.

Jury Duty Scam Is For Real

THIS IS *NOT* PHONY. Check the links at the bottom of the post!

This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed below) and by the FBI

(their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in

your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you

get this call. Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously,

but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous

kind of scam has surfaced.

Fall for it and your identity could be stolen, reports CBS. In this

con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who threateningly

says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you didn't show

up for jury duty. The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you

protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer

asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she

can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any

of this information and bingo! Your! identity just got stolen.

The scam has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma,

Illinois, and Colorado. This (scam) is particularly insidious because

they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving

information by pretending they're with the court system. The FBI and

the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web

sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

Check it out here:

<http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp>http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/092805.htm

New Addition

I’m trying to get AdSense stuff in here that’s NOT too obtrusive but makes the point anyhow.

If you see something that interests you, click on it to get more info.

Duffy

Agloco

On my web site, there is a page for "Agloco". This is a very good
program, that when officially launched, will have the possibility and
capability of making money for you by just you surfing the
web. Right now, they are building the network so that they can
present it to advertisers.

The folks behind this are Stanford grads. Oh heck, just go to this
page: http://dduffner.home.comcast.net/agloco.htm
All the info is there.

Duffy

Pointer about Audacity

On Audicity’s website, there are two versions available: 1.26 and 1.30.

I’ve used both and I like 1.30 better. One thing that it still can
do, which can drive you nuts, is losing your edits.

The rule is Save Early, Save Often.

Give it a shot.

New Additions

As I get more comfortable with this, I’m adding things.

In the sidebar, you’ll see a TON of links for podcasters and podcasting.

If you have ever thought that you could do a podcast on whatever you love, I hope that these links will get you going.

Also, there **IS** a link there to show you how to use both Blogger AND Feedburner for your podcast.

Enjoy

Duffy

Welcome to My Socalled Life

Just warming up.

When I got something to say (and I can keep my fingers from inventing new spellings of words!) I’ll be back.