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| | Who the heck is Grizz? | |
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| | Hello from IOWA (yes, the American state with all | |
| | the corn and pigs!) I am a self-described computer | |
| | nut. I also love electronics, telephone systems, | |
| | lawncare and modern TV shows like Alf and Growing | |
| | Pains. Have you seen the new Columbo series? And, | |
| | of course, I am a big fan of Star Trek- I am not | |
| | sure about The Next Generation yet. Hopefully the | |
| | next season will live up to the original! | |
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| | My own FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site where | |
| | you can download some cool software and even a | |
| | couple programs I wrote. Mine are the ones in the | |
| | GRIZZSOFT folder. Check out the Codename:Arcturus | |
| | BASIC program! There are also some photographs I | |
| | scanned in the Polaroids folders. Here is a link | |
| | to my FTP. | |
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| | If you like fun stuff, maybe you like the same fun | |
| | stuff as me. Just in case you better check out | |
| | the fun stuff page! | |
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| I had a great night Friday getting on-line with the Compaq and |
| browsing the site in the 1.44MB and Hotline webrings. There were |
| so many cool sites and some really weird ones too! We enjoyed |
| visiting our local movie theature on Saturday. I had popcorn and |
| Diet Coke while I took in a buddy cop movie. It was a great time. |
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| Less great, our bathtub is leaking from the overflow pipe. I spent |
| quite a bit of time enlarging the access hole beneath the tub so I can |
| get my fat hands up in there. After cutting through the 3/4" plywood I |
| found cement board on the top side of it. I was able to break that out |
| with a large pair of water pump pliers. By the time I got the access |
| hole cut, I was too tired to do the troubleshooting steps. I guess |
| that will be in my next update. |
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| I got a really cool track and car set that I absolutely love. The |
| track itself is flexible and glows in the dark. Ok, so I actually |
| bought 5 sets and hooked them all together. And then I built a turn |
| and an overpass to go with it. The 1:64 scale cars are basically |
| stompers- you put a battery in and they go. The track does a good job |
| of keeping them contained. Watch for my upcoming review on them. |
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| I am also excited about going to McDonald's for lunch today. I am |
| going to get a nugget happy meal and a double cheeseburger. They have |
| cool toys in the happy meals right now. They are called changables but |
| are basically McDonald's transformers! I wonder which one I |
| will get... |
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: On a whim I bought a glow-in-the-dark flexible race track on clearance. :
: The set, which comes with a single car, had 220 pieces of little :
: plastic track that can pivot once snapped together. If you are :
: imagining a traditional slot racer track where the cars get their power :
: from the track, I assure you that this is a different animal. For :
: starters, instead of track pieces that are several inches long and :
: molded into curves and straight-aways, the track pieces in this set are :
: about 3" wide and maybe 1/2" long. Having each piece able to pivot :
: allows for the track to be re-shaped the way you could a rope laying on :
: the ground. The track not only curves at will, it can also ramp up and :
: down allowing you to make overpasses and more. :
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: The included car runs off of a single AA battery and when you switch it :
: on, it just goes, kind of like a Stomper. There are several lights on :
: the car that flash as it drives. With the flashing lights and the track :
: glowing in four different colors (orange, yellow, green and blue), the :
: track looks great in low light. I had so much fun with the set that I :
: went back and bought four more and hooked them all together into a :
: massive, winding loop. :
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: The only thing that disappointed me is that there only seems to be two :
: colors of car- orange and blue. With my five sets, I got three blue :
: cars and two orange. I have since remedied that with the help of some :
: paint markers. I now have the original orange and blue cars, plus ones :
: that now sport pink, red/black, green paint jobs. This is one of my :
: favourite purchases for the year! :
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01 I finally did it- I bought a co-processor despite not really knowing 01
10 if I will see any benefits from it with the type of software that I 10
01 use. But I will tell you why I did decide to try it- why not? 01
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01 The model I got is the Intel C80287XL, which is very different than 01
10 the standard 287. The main difference is that its actually a 387! 10
01 Supposedly, this means that it has 50% better performance, uses 83% 01
10 less power, and has the extra instructions that a 387 would have. This 10
01 is intriguing. Are there programs that run on a 286 that would take 01
10 advantage of the 387 instruction set? Who knows? But if there are, 10
01 I am ready for them! 01
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