LarryD

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• Commented on How to tap the wisdom of the crowd in your head
  This isn't wisdom of crowds. This is not being stupid and actually thinking before you speak. Perhaps in that sense it does capture some wisdom, but this is not a revolutionary find. It's the difference between a guess and an...
• Commented on Guess what the Big Ass Fans corporation manufactures?
  Found some photos and saw that it was actually a school sticker placed on the fan. http://www.hockmansata.com/Picture%20008.jpg http://www.hockmansata.com/Picture%20005.jpg http://www.hockmansata.com/Picture%20019.jpg...
• Commented on Guess what the Big Ass Fans corporation manufactures?
  Our local TaeKwonDo school has one of these... it moves a lot of air at a lower speed and only requires the single fan. Incidentally, they've put duct tape over the Ass so it's just a Big *** Fan now....
• Commented on Why "dial 9 for outside line" may go away
  I used to do support for Procomm Plus (modem software for all you young-uns)... inside the software you could define the outside line number. Occasionally someone would put in 9 and 1 because they knew they were dialing long distance......
• Commented on Things On My Desk: My Grandpa's "Lemonaid Loader"
  Joel: No, my last name is Dorman... though I know Larry Davidson also. :) I'm trying to recall the circumstances... I would have been a young teenager at the time; 13-15. I believe I was doing a school project where...
• Commented on Things On My Desk: My Grandpa's "Lemonaid Loader"
  Wow... never thought I'd see one of these again. I personally knew the inventor/creator of these things! He made one just for me for my TRS-80 Color Computer. I remember Wayne showing me on his oscilloscope exactly what the problem...
• Commented on About those lynch mobs on the campaign trail.
  I grew up about 100 miles NW of West Plains and was raised as quite the little white supremacist. Black families were not allowed to live in the county and it really wasn't even safe for them to be present...
• Commented on Chargeback database protects merchants--unless you pay to be removed from it
  Most of the comments seem to be thinking of chargebacks as simply occurring in cases of theft. My use of chargebacks has been when I receive particularly sub-par products or services and the merchant refuses any good-faith efforts to remedy...
• Commented on Siemens Touch Sensitive Stovetops
  Although the location of the controls might not be great (close to a heat source and prone to accidental activation), the concept in principle is a good one. I have a ceramic top stove and absolutely love it. It is...
• Commented on Mass. State Treasurer detained at airport for carrying peaches
  My family and I (two children, wife) recently drove from Seattle to Vancouver for a day trip. We did our research and knew we would need our driver's licenses and birth certificates. On the way in to Canada the boarder...