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Category Archives: The dumbing of America

Belated. . .

I’d make a horrible Dad. I know it. Know why? Got any clues? Well, in 2006 on 10-25 at 9:57 P.M. I posted my first article here on Brickblog. Why, I remember when this blog was still in diapers, I was excited to get 1 visit after posting oh so many articles. To date, I’m [...]

Swat this Fly or Why Registerfly Should be avoided at ALL costs

A long time ago, there once was a good, helpful, and inexpensive way to register domain names at cheap prices. It was an era when folks were jumping on the HTML band wagon. This is before the myspace kids, the youtube phenomenon and well, before google was as big as it is now. In that [...]

The Replacements

DANDASKA! After a little deliberation, I decided that it if I did not replace my stolen Christmas ornaments, I would be in essence letting the turd rockets win. So here is the first of the replacements. It arrived on the doorstep sometime yesterday. I ordered it through my Amazon Store As my wife put it, [...]

I’ve hit it big!

Ish. Well, I hate to do this, but I’ve had 4 spam comments in the last 3 days. I’d rather nip it in the bud before I have a lot to clean up. I’ve added the requirement to register to comment, and anyone can register. We’ll see if this stops it before it gets out [...]

Let Wile E Coyote Have this one. . .

Warning: Angry Rant follows
This Thanksgiving, we finally moved my parents on to a ‘high-speed’ cable connection. The only option available in Maine is Time-Warner, which uses Roadrunner (rr.com).
Now for a long time, I always thought that Comcast was a miserable company to deal with, at times with questionable practices. I was wrong, or rather, Comcast [...]

The fence is in!

Today we installed the electric fence. Amanda and I worked on driving the 3 6’ ground rods into the ground and I put in a post for the feeder and surrounded it in electric fence. Like any good project, we ended up running to Agway, and Home Depot, AKA The Po, AKA The place that [...]