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Get a million fans to give Joss $40 to produce 13 episodes.
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/06/more_on_firefly_and_the_long_t.html
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/06/more_on_firefly_and_the_long_t.html
Jul. 7th, 2006
It would hurt my brain if everyone started spelling in print like the article discusses. I'm glad that I never had to correspond with Andrew Carnegie.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2006/07/06/ap/strange/d8im2s5o1.txt
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http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2006/07/06/ap/strange/d8im2s5o1.txt
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I did a bad, bad thing!
Jul. 7th, 2006 11:32 amI went down to Las Cruces a couple of weeks ago for Amateur Radio Field Day. I wanted to take my handheld radio with me (called a HT for handheld transciever) but I couldn't find the battery charger. About a week ago I called Ham Radio Outlet (HRO) in Phoenix to see if they could set me up with a charger for my Yaesu FT-530. No dice. I didn't understand it, I mean, the radio is only 15 years old! What's up with not having a charger for it? ;-)
So I went to Radio Shack last night and bought a charger with the proper tip. There was only one problem: I didn't know the polarity of the battery, should the tip be positive or negative? So I called HRO back just now (after posting a message on a ham radio news group without getting a response) and they told me that tip was positive. So my radio is now charging away. I might have to replace a secondary battery, it's sort of a watch battery that maintains the radio's memory and settings, I'll have to wait until it's charged to see if it'll need replacing.
Here's where the bad, bad thing comes in....
Since I was already at the HRO web site, I decided to see how much dual-band (VHF/UHF, also known as 2 meters (144 MHz) and 70cm (440MHz)) radios were going for now, IIRC my FT-530 cost me about $350 some 15 years ago.
BIIIIIG mistake.
They now have tri-band radios. They're VHF/UHF, the third band is either 220 MHz or 6 meters (50ish MHz) depending on the model that you buy. And you can get them for around $250.
They had tri-band HTs when I was first getting into radio, but they were pretty expensive. Well, it looks like the price has come way down!
I'm glad I'm broke.
So I went to Radio Shack last night and bought a charger with the proper tip. There was only one problem: I didn't know the polarity of the battery, should the tip be positive or negative? So I called HRO back just now (after posting a message on a ham radio news group without getting a response) and they told me that tip was positive. So my radio is now charging away. I might have to replace a secondary battery, it's sort of a watch battery that maintains the radio's memory and settings, I'll have to wait until it's charged to see if it'll need replacing.
Here's where the bad, bad thing comes in....
Since I was already at the HRO web site, I decided to see how much dual-band (VHF/UHF, also known as 2 meters (144 MHz) and 70cm (440MHz)) radios were going for now, IIRC my FT-530 cost me about $350 some 15 years ago.
BIIIIIG mistake.
They now have tri-band radios. They're VHF/UHF, the third band is either 220 MHz or 6 meters (50ish MHz) depending on the model that you buy. And you can get them for around $250.
They had tri-band HTs when I was first getting into radio, but they were pretty expensive. Well, it looks like the price has come way down!
I'm glad I'm broke.
I don't think so.
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=entertainment_home&articleID=2314389&lid=e3
I didn't start as a Buffy/Joss fan, I quickly became one. We have a mostly complete run of Buffy on DVD, I think a complete run of Angel (we might be missing one season), and both Firefly and Serenity, and I now pick up an RSS feed of Whedon's blog on my LJ flist. I think Joss is an excellent creative source, I definitely do not think Buffy ever jumped the shark. Perhaps an argument could have been made that Angel jumped if it had gone beyond its final season, but we'll never know as that is a totally hypothetical situation.
True story -- Joss went to the same university that Russet went to, but they were not in the same class, much less the same degree program. I think Jonathan Frakes was the other celeb who went to her uni at about the same time.
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=entertainment_home&articleID=2314389&lid=e3
I didn't start as a Buffy/Joss fan, I quickly became one. We have a mostly complete run of Buffy on DVD, I think a complete run of Angel (we might be missing one season), and both Firefly and Serenity, and I now pick up an RSS feed of Whedon's blog on my LJ flist. I think Joss is an excellent creative source, I definitely do not think Buffy ever jumped the shark. Perhaps an argument could have been made that Angel jumped if it had gone beyond its final season, but we'll never know as that is a totally hypothetical situation.
True story -- Joss went to the same university that Russet went to, but they were not in the same class, much less the same degree program. I think Jonathan Frakes was the other celeb who went to her uni at about the same time.
Her LiveJournal, which has one story on it right now, is ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quasar273. So, all you fic and slashers, have at her!
Update: it is not my wife, regardless of any allegations that may have been made regarding her identity.
quasar273. So, all you fic and slashers, have at her!Update: it is not my wife, regardless of any allegations that may have been made regarding her identity.