Lucius thought deeply for a moment about Clinton’s request to again tell the story of his meeting Hiram Percy Maxim in 1935. He wanted to make his old friend happy, but that encounter was only a small part of a much longer story that played out over more than a decade before actually meeting Maxim, and he knew Clint didn’t want the two-dollar version, he wanted to hear the whole thing. He knew that because...
A large old house sits at the end of Plum Lane. Long-time neighbors believe it has been there at least a hundred years, maybe more. For as long as anyone can remember the same old fellow has lived there alone. No wife, no kids, no family. Lucius Ball seemed nice enough when others meet him out in public, but that’s a rare occurrence. Despite frequent guesses at its age, the 1907 Tudor and Gothic style...
Yesterday was World Amateur Radio Day. Was that a real thing? Yeah, I guess it was, though I was oblivious to the celebration. I heard some hams talking about it on the East Coast Reflector. I access the ECR via my IRLP (4212) node and a handheld. It’s a great group though I’ve noticed all the VoIP “modes” have one thing in common, nine out of ten operators only want a “radio check”....
It’s been raining this morning. I heard it begin in the wee hours and it has been off and on ever since. It’s somewhat cooler this morning too, I like that. The lawn has been mowed three times so far this season and it looks pretty healthy, all the proper weed and feeds having been applied. We don’t normally put out flowers until Mother’s Day though with the noticeably changing seasons summer has been backing...
On this day, April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the largest luxury liner in the world, only four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, struck ice in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic and slipped into eternity. Though records are imprecise, it is believed that of the more than 2,200 souls onboard, more than 1,500 perished that day, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in...