Category: General

As an lowest person on the IT totem poll, I usually don’t get called out to the workplace late at night.  However, since my supervisor lives an hour and a half away, and the phone system is my specialty, tonight I got called because the PBX had apparantly gone down. When I got in, the…

Especailly since 9/11, railfanning has ocassionally come under scrutiny from the police. There have been stories of Police bring the FBI in on railfans, confiscating film, cards and camera. For me, it wasn’t that much; however, today as I was railfanning the BNSF Emporia Sub near Ottawa, I did draw attention from a Franklin County…

I blogged a couple weeks ago about my new Digital Command Control system for my model railroad.  I now have 3 more units wired up for DCC. The first unit is a Norfolk Southern C44-9W.  I had tinkered with it for some time to get it running for DCC, but the first decoder got messed…

I figured that this would be what would happen… Radio Rich and Louann (who officially left a competing station a month ago) began at US 103 at 7:30. They also debut a new slogan “The Capital City’s Best Country,” and basically drop the “classic” from their format. The Website has now been updated as well:…

I’m sure you’ve heard the joke about stations with tight playlists being derided as “playing the same three songs over and over.” Right now, KQTP (“US 103”), licenced to St. Marys but serving the Topeka market, is doing just that, specifically “Gone” by Montgomery Gentry, “Kiss This” by Aaron Tippin, and “Gone Country” by Alan…

While out and about last night, I saw two seperate vehicles (a Lexus SUV and a minivan) both carrying Kansas vanity tags reading “HUSKERS” In addition to the fact that we clearly have Nebraska fans in northeast Kansas along side the K-Staters, It also demonstrated the fact that vanity plates are issued by county, and…

At the end of the KU-Nevada game, KU made a last-second attempt to tie the score with Nevada. There was some physicality in the lane as time expired, but no foul call. Coach Self was very animated toward one of the officials. The Crowd also had their say with an very audible call of “bull$hit.”…

More from the “Sports related people getting into trouble” department… Kurt Busch, driver of the #97 car for Roush Racing, was taken in for reckless driving this weekend in Phoenix, sit of today’s race. In response, car owner Jack Roush “suspended” him for the two remaing races he would have been in for Roush. He…

According to The Smoking Gun and WKMG-TV, the two Cheerleaders involve in a Bar Fight early Sunday were cut from the squad for “Actions Detramental”. The teammate that was “impersonated” has been suspended pending an investigation into how her DL got into the possession of the other girls. WKMG is also reporting that Penthouse is…