The Blog of Wolfanger. Don't expect anything insightful here (or much in the way of spell checking). It’s more of a demonstration than anything else. And a place to complain… oh, that’s what they’re for, aren’t they?

Thursday, 07 December 2006

CNN News?

CNN is on a LOT when I'm here at work, there's not many stations to choose from. I just realized what it is that makes it sound so annoying. During many stories involving more than one anchor/reporter, they always sound like an infomercial the way one is always "interviewing" the other or prompting for obvious information. "So what SHOULD we do when blah blah blah says that you should blah blah blah..." Now that I mentioned it, it will drive you carzy too.

Saturday, 21 October 2006

Hurray for Captain Obvious

I'll admit that it's possible that the UPI article "may" be taking the person out of context but...

"A University of Washington economic geologist says..."

Oil prices seem high because they use to be much less.

Wow... I'll try not to have an interview with any news media again (I actually had one once).

 

Tuesday, 01 August 2006

Companies I will never deal with again

Companies I will never deal with again (or manufactures who's products I will never buy again):

Tiger Direct (http://www.tigerdirect.com/) Rebate Thief

Soyo (http://www.soyogroup.com/) Rebate Thief

 

Tuesday, 11 July 2006

Phrase number whatever that I'm tired of.

I hop around on E-Bay a lot. I've been running into a phrase often that I'm tired of seeing.... I'm sure there are others and more to come but this particular one has overstayed its welcome.

Good Condition For Its Age.  (Or great or Excellent or whatever)

It's bad enough that conditions are often subjective from one person to the next but to throw in that qualifier simply gives a person a pass in describing something correctly. Decades ago I use to collect comic books, back when the average person could afford to do so. There were strict guidlines as to what constituted Mint, NM, Fine, Good and the rest. There was no Mint for its age. It was either mint or it wasn't.

I guess that depending on the age of something, broken in half could still be considered "good", huh?

I generally skip next to the next item as soon as I see that phrase.

 

Sunday, 16 April 2006

Why I shop online

Ran smack dab into one of the reasons I patronize local stores less and less. Of course I'll run/ride/drive on over if I need something "now" but otherwise it becomes too much of an adventure. Yesterday I went into two different stores, asked for an Ultrasonic Tank Cleaner, the clerk asks me what that is, I tell them, they say they don't have them. I have a problem with this because in both cases it seems they were so sure that they don't carry an item when they didn't know what it was in the first place. They came across as simply saying that they didn't have it so they wouldn't have to actually check.

Friday, 24 March 2006

New Jobless Claims

So for example "only" 302,000 new jobless claims are filed instead of

the expected 305,000 and people are whooping it up?!?!?!?!?!

Tuesday, 28 February 2006

So it DOESN'T work.

Just spent a LOT of time trying to type a message to my phone to post here to try it out. I know I know, nothing new, I know I'm not "discovering" anything, just want to try it out myself. Even my "new" phone was released ages (14 months) ago. But the RAZR V3 is a neat phone and doesn't seem "old" yet. So anyway, I type out this message on my phone and hit send. Some of it tried to work... The message went out, I got acknowledgment that the message went out, my mail server received "a" message and the blog posted "something" unfortunately almost nothing came through. Oh well. Back to the ol' drawing board.

Friday, 03 February 2006

Funny Made-Up Headline...

A Made-Up headline funny to the point were I wanted to put it here so I wouldn't forget it. It was on FARK.com this morning.

NyQuil - The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, how the hell did I end up in Turkey cold medicine

 

Friday, 16 December 2005

Letter I'm now using more and more often...

My phone is on file with you in case BUSINESS needs to be discussed. If there is something wrong with my account. It is NOT for sales pitches.

I have asked to not be called in the past.

If I receive another call that...

A) Is a sales pitch (Especially since I already do business with you). B) Is from someone I can NOT understand. C) Is from someone trying to insult my intelligence by using "Hello, My name is Shawn Michaels" as their first sentence when they can barely pronounce the name (wrestling fan?)..

I will cancel my account.

Monday, 31 October 2005

No More Rebates!

Hey [fill in name of company]. If you want me to buy your product for $80, then sell it to me for $80. Do NOT tell me I have to give you $150 first with the promise of eventually maybe sorta kinda get $70 back. If it's $80 to begin with, I might even get two.

Wednesday, 26 October 2005

The time for sugar has ended.

I'm making sure this Halloween we have nothing but Candy Bars made with Splenda. As far as I'm concerned ANYTHING that can be made with splenda instead of sugar should be. Here's something to try: equal parts of splenda and bakers cocoa in coffee. I use a 20 oz mug so I have my mix pre-mixed in a container. 2 heaping tablespoons of this mix in the coffee tastes great and it's good for you too . (I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV).

Monday, 26 September 2005

Just so there's a picture of some sort here...

Other pics of the bike can be found somewhere in http://harley.wolfcrews.com. Too bad I plan on my next bike being an Ultra Classic, I may not be able to get the tank to look the same on something like that.


Monday, 19 September 2005

Done as much as I can

Still woRking on getting months before 2005 to show in the archives. but I got everything ordered correctly now. Then again most people wouldn't try to do what I did by entering a bunch of old info.

 

Still trying to reset counters

Test test

Monday, 12 September 2005

My dumb space thoughts 5

OK, here I am with another of my wildly inaccurate thoughts. Was reading an article about a distant gamma burst that they think happened "soon" after the big bang.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/09/12/space.explosion.reut/index.html

They say it's 13 B LY away. So obviously happened 13 B years ago, And that it happened 1/2 to 1 B years after big bang. And that they estimate the universe at 13.7 B years old.

OK

Here's my problem

If the big bang started off the size of this dot . And it took 13 B years for the light of this gamma pulkse to get here...  for the object to be 13 B LY away, it would need that long to to create the distance between here and there before bursting so the light can get to here. Am I confused enough yet? Not to m

Thursday, 08 September 2005

Keep me away from thinking

That whole schroeders cat thing or whatever. only heard the basics about it so this may not be valid. what if you can't see it but hear it?

Monday, 04 July 2005

My dumb space thoughts 4

Just watched the impacter hit a comet. They were talking about how the pic was being degraded but sand blasting. A rotating shielded lens cover could help with that.

Duh

Under the heading of Duh.
I've spent way too much time looking for a battery for my cordless screwdriver. The OEM one is 22 bucks from sears. Can't really find it for less anywhere else.

A new Black & Decker is 20 bucks.

I finally threw the Craftsman in the garbage.

Sunday, 15 May 2005

Tritium isotopes for a battery

Stupid question, just reading a science article about using tritium to make a sorta nuclear solar battery and the trouble they had in the past is that the isotopes scatter in different directions making it hard to capture them for transfer....

Why not sphere shapped collectors with the gas on the inside?

 

 

Saturday, 30 April 2005

My dumb space thoughts 3

Just reading about an einstein ring. Sounds like a desert ..... ummmm.... what's that thing where you see something bounced off the atmosphere? I really hate having my memory go away. 

Months later, oh yeah, a mirage.

Monday, 18 April 2005

My dumb space thoughts 2

Can you imagine how often people will be telling me to go away if I actually thought of things like this for a living... then again I'll be told that anyway since I'm probably wrong all the time.

ime can not end as long as the tiniest particle still moves.

Grade school reletivity: the light of a star a thousand light years away takes a thousand years to get here therfor when we see it we are seeing something that happened a thousand years ago. We saw the past.

Let's look at things a little closer now. You look across the room. Something happens on the TV "now" (I'm not even talking about broadcast time, just the visual on the TV in front of you). What you're seeing happened in the past, the same as the star a thousand light years away only on a much tinier scale. The same rules apply (uless they are all null because of what I wrote yesterday h

Sunday, 17 April 2005

My dumb space thoughts

I was reading about Einstein and there was something that popped into my mind. It has probably been thought of before since there are so many that do that for a living but I was wondering:

I can explain this better with a picture but I'll try to explain it so I remember later...

OK so the light of an exploding star gets here thousands of years after it happened... we see it from here but it happened long ago...

IF we were to look into the sky with the naked eye we have a fixed distance we can see, I have NO idea what that is off-hand so I'm making up these numbers, say 20 light years.

When we're given stats of how long ago something happened that we just saw, that would be based on the distance and how long it took for the light to make it to earth for us to see it. ...

So lets imagine a line representing how far we can see and th

Tuesday, 15 February 2005

And kicking

Yes I am still alive as of this writing.

Saturday, 15 May 2004

I'm apparantly NOT a blogger

Did I say Once a year? Bwahhh hah ha ha ha ha ha... A blogger I'm NOT!

Wednesday, 19 June 2002

Stupid Saying Rant

That stupid statement; "It takes 44 muscles to frown, but only 4 to smile" or some such rot. That must be why so many smiling people look like slack jawed simpletons. Their faces get no exercise.

Sunday, 25 November 2001

Nov 2001 Stuff

I guess this is turning into a once a year thing. For anyone nuts enough to actually read this... I'm still maintaining sites kinda sorta. One year on the bike and I've put somewhat more than the average number of miles on it. The 9/11 happenings put a kaboosh on the trip to Biketoberfest this year so me and the ol' lady will do a quick trip to Philly next month. I go to the shooting range with the toys now and then, ride the bike when the roads have no snow or ice on them, still work at the college (hope to retire here), Ronnie is 16 now, etc etc.

Wednesday, 25 October 2000

New Bike Again Again

October already?!?!? See how long I can ignore this page? The above mentioned link is now known as http://harley.wolfcrews.com  Da Bike Is In

Tuesday, 25 January 2000

Almost New Bike

Well I ordered the Harley, it'll be a while before it's in but I'm starting a site for it anyway. http://harley.wolfcrews.com

Monday, 25 October 1999

ABATE Stuff

See? I'm still around. Short Note. More MC stuff. Join ABATE. For our local chapter see http://www.abate-niagara.org/ .

Also for some reason the first Novel from one of my favorite writers has become public domain, so here it is.

Wednesday, 25 November 1998

Old VRA Stuff

Sheeesh, it's November already. I started hearing the Christmas music before Holloween, need ear plugs. The VRA is starting to open up chapters all over the world (think of them like the Gold Wingers) and not to be out done there is one for Western New York as well. So if you have any model of the Vulcan Motorcycle and want to join in hop on over to our local site at http://vra.wolfcrews.com/chapters/wny_chapter/  (9-20-2002 Never mind, it's closed)

John Featherlin: The VRA is active. The website is now http----vulcanriders.us

Thursday, 25 June 1998

New Bike Again

Awwwww, forget that Vulcan 750... it turned out to be too small for me. I found this out at the beginning of the month when I rode over to Americade at Lake George. So now I went and got one with an engine TWICE as big. A 1997 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500A.


Friday, 19 June 1998

Nena Rant

It's EITHER Ninety-nine Red Balloons OR Neun und Neunzig Luftballons. IT IS NOT Ninety-nine Luft Balloons!!! And Listen Up MTV... LUFT DOES NOT MEAN RED!!!  http://nena.com  ... still touring in '99 .... this one has bugged me for years ... pretty trivial huh?

Friday, 15 May 1998

Wolfanger Family

Much earlier I wrote that I was going for my CNA... well I never finished that, I was too busy doing the job instead of being taught how to do it <G>. Besides, I'm no longer there working with Novell, I'm over at Buffalo State College working with their UNIX servers now.


For anyone who is looking for such information I put on-line the Wolfanger Family History, as much of it that I have anyway. It starts in 1750 in Germany and goes to around when I was born in 1963. My son is a teenager now so my rate of aging has just gone up <BG>.

Chuck Adams: My great grandfather is George Wolfanger. I was looking up the church where John Jacob was baptised and came across your site. I looked at the geneology info I had and it matched. I have additional info to send to you but do not have an email address. My mother is a Wolfanger. cadams4444@yahoo.com

Shawn Griese: I do not know if you have continued with your research as it has been a couple of years now. I believe I descend from the same line as you but branch off at whom you call Chris (I have documentation that it was Christian) and down the line. I would like to know if you have further or updated information to make this cross reference. You can e-mail me back at the address I have provided. I have found other sites where they list the graves as being in Perkinsville, South Dansville, New York. Any help is much appreciated.

David B. Wolfanger: Shawn : Christian Wolfanger is buried in Perkinsville cemetery. He was my great grandfather. Have more information at my home address. Am presently on vacation and unable to access it from this computer. Contact my e-mail address and I'll be happy to share what I have collected when I return after the first week of March.

David B. Wolfanger: Shawn : Christian Wolfanger is buried in Perkinsville cemetery. He was my great grandfather. Have more information at my home address. Am presently on vacation and unable to access it from this computer. Contact my e-mail address and I'll be happy to share what I have collected when I return after the first week of March.

Sunday, 15 March 1998

March '98

Still can't say <BG>
OK, now I can say, but you wouldn't be interested <G>

Sunday, 15 February 1998

Feb '98

Can't say yet <G>

Tuesday, 15 July 1997

Mead and Melomel

Something else I like to try and do now and then is make Mead, my specialty is Pineapple Melomel. For those that don't know what mead is; it can easiest be described as honey wine. It an old Viking drink that predates about any other fermented beverage you'll find.Here's my recipe for Mead and for Pineapple Melomel.

Monday, 30 June 1997

New Bike

Yesterday (6-29-97, since "yesterday" won't be the same once today is over) I went and finally got me a new (sorta) motorcycle. I had one back 15 years ago but I haven't had the circumstances together to get one again till now. Here it is... (see note about motorcyle later)

Sunday, 15 June 1997

Some Writings

Many a year ago I did some writing now and then, just for fun, didn't really try to do anything with it (of course you can sit back and say "GOOD!" or some other not so nice things. Here's one such short story called A Cat O' Mine Tale. Once over ten years ago as of this writing someone bet me that I couldn't write a story less than a page long, so I sat down at her typewriter and belted out All The World's A Bakery (And we are merely dough).

Sunday, 19 January 1997

Small Intro

Since this is more of a place holder than anything else at the moment you're not going to see much. I'll just tack things on to the end as I feel like it.

I live in Niagara Falls, NY, work in Buffalo and I'm starting on this in a hotel room in Rochester since there's not much else to do while not in class (NetWare CNA). Surprise, Surprise I work with computers.

My name? The Wolfanger part came from my ancestors from the town of Kannesweiller, Germany (Anyone know where that is? Can't find it on a map). Heinrech Wolfanger was born in 1750 and came to Western New York in 1789 so that's as far back as I can go.

Oh, you mean the Sick part. Well it's German, what can I say, it's much more common there than it is here.

I was born in '63 so that makes me old enough to have a twelve year old son who can't get past playing Wolfenstein on the computer instead of "really" learning how to use the thing. OK OK so things change fast and he's doing DOOM2 now and trying out publishing making small newsletters with some of his friends at school. Then again I remember teaching him originally how to boot an XT with a floppy.

Over the years I've worked at a 7-11 (at 15), an auto-shop, shot photos, did auditing, worked at a steel shop, played in a German Band for 12 years, fenced, and finally work now as an IS Network Technician. I get to play with (and fix) a whole bunch of computers on a network.