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Written By: Rick Haaland on December 30, 2009 No Comment

I am writing this blog on December 30th. There is still a bit of turkey in the fridge, including some turnip, cranberry sauce, half an apple and pumpkin pie as well as a few buns. We had a feast. I was a glutton, and I’m scared to step on the bathroom scale. And so the [...]

Written By: Rick Haaland on December 26, 2009 No Comment

Pat and myself thought it would be a great idea to drive up to Whistler for a few days on December 19th. First, it helped us to really get into the Christmas mood, and to see the village just before the Olympics begin in January of 2010. It snowed over 8 inches while we were [...]

Written By: Rick Haaland on December 26, 2009 One Comment

Well, Christmas was wonderful as usual. Lot’s of visits with friends, relatives and some folks we hadn’t even met before. We bar-b-qued the turkeys with a combination of apple juiced soaked cherry wood chips and some tender loving care. We will put some videos up so you can see how we did it. My wife [...]

Written By: Rick Haaland on December 17, 2009 One Comment

In one of our last video podcasts, I had mentioned that I was putting together a special home theater computer that is going to be hooked up to our Plasma television. It has all of the latest technology, Antec fusion remote black case, a Terra-byte hard drive, Intel Core i7 920 [...]

Written By: Rick Haaland on December 10, 2009 No Comment

Well, it’s done. Our new broadcast studio is completely setup, cleaned, teched-out and ready to go. It took wayyyyy too long, and we thought it would be just a simple matter of buying some furniture, connecting up the PC to a couple of microphones, install some lights and viola, you’ve arrived. However, in our case [...]

Written By: Rick Haaland on December 9, 2009 No Comment

So, I love to tear apart printers and plotters. As a matter of fact, its how I used to feed my family. If your a road tech, and you need to work on a variety of machines, then there is something that you really need to have in your tool kit. Its crazy glue. And [...]

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