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So I’m sitting at lunch, and on the table is a flyer for a benefit 5k run. Nothing too unusual and I make my usual crack about doing the run while smoking…until I read what the charity was for.

It was a charity that promotes “pro-social behavior in our children”. I went on to read that the primary mission for this group is to essentially squash any creative spirit in children and teach them how to conform to what their group sees as ‘acceptable behavior’. A truly disgusting premise.

What is going through people’s minds with this concept? We, on a grand scale are designing educational systems and media agendas to teach children to essentially keep their heads down and not to stand out from the herd.

This began years ago with the pro-socialist political agenda I had to suffer through as early as the 80’s in public schools. Things like “US History” were used to disguise various Marxist and Socialist agendas with revisionist concepts of the actual historical facts. It has now metamorphosed into this anti-creativity agenda designed to pretty much break the spirit of any creative personalities or squash any self image for those who are natural achievers or free thinkers.

Things have degenerated to the point where score keeping in any sort of intramural events is prohibited because the psyche of the losing team might be harmed by the thought that they have failed. If students aren’t all wearing the same uniform or listening to the same music, they are now profiled as though they are terrorists. We are churning out a raft of non-thinkers, afraid to express themselves for fear they may stand out from the herd and be ridiculed.

Those who ’succeed’ in the new plan, will be zeros when it comes to any contribution to our society. We are raising a destiny of failure and self-loathing mediocrity with these methods. People will be living lives, hating themselves because they are not mediocre enough to fit in, rather than realizing that they are the ones the herd should be following.

We are stifling innovation with this system and the way our current domestic economy is heading, the only thing we have left to bank on is the very innovative spirit that we are programming out of people.

A little light reading…now WAKE UP!

ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: DREAMing Big at Dayton.

The Hamvention, where all the major vendors for ham radio make their annual product release showcases and announcements.  It’s the CES for ham radio.

Didn’t make it again this year, but one of these years I’ll get out there.

In amateur radio there are many modes of operation. Modes where you use your voice, modes where you work behind a keyboard, modes where you drive a code key. There are options for anyone.

I work many of them but my favorite mode is simply ‘phone’, using my voice to speak to others. Meeting the different personalities and hearing the different voices is the primary reason I enjoy this hobby.

The Marconi Net is a structured round-table discussion with a central moderator or “net control station” (generally Fred, KB2IXT). The net runs most evenings at 9pm on 3.872MHz. The way it works is simply the net control asks for check-ins and people from around the region give their call signs and get added to the role call. The net control station simply calls the role and each person gets their turn to toss their own comments into the ring.

What makes this net interesting is the coverage of many topics, from current events to hobby related technical topics. Almost anything goes. One meets people from many backgrounds so the topics can vary wildly from night to night. The participants almost always take the discussions to a more elevated level than the general “sitting around the pub” level of conversations that are much more prevalent on the bands.

I encourage anyone in the hobby in the north east region to stop by and see if it is something that would appeal to you. All are welcome.

Fridays are always good.  Hopefully the weather isn’t too awful this weekend.

I’ll be poking about on Saturday doing the charity thing and volunteering some time for event support forThe MS170 charity bike ride. I mostly sit around and smoke as it’s exhausting watching so many people exercise at once.

Heh, well not so funny having to fix it, but sorry for the spam I pushed out there briefly. A plugin for Wordpress called Twitter Poster masks spamming with all sorts of nonsensical ‘opt out’ check boxes that don’t work and hidden code in base64 format.

Amazing how unethical people can be.

So avoid using Twitter Poster with Wordpress.

SDR Software Defined Radio – KINGSQUEAK.ORG.

I’ve started fleshing out a bit about SDR and how I’m involved in it and what it actually means and does.  If you are a radio nerd like me, a ham or an SWLer,  I encourage you to look into SDR.  It is amazing stuff.

Excellent start to the Friday.

Projects with seemingly little organization. Equipment that magically appears without any back story on it.

Tracked back and I find it is process FAIL.

It must be an inside out Friday….again.

Hooray weekend.

Playing with Wordpress plugins…is this thing on?

I did a bit of a bio on the how and why I got started with amateur radio. It’s the tale of ultimate nerddom.

KC2RGW How it all started

Yes it must be true because they are saying it is so, General Mills is drugging us with their latest creation, Cheerios.

FDA says Cheerios is a drug.

Some lawyer I bet retired off of this one….our country sucks more and more often lately