Month: July 2006

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When I learned the sign of the beast 666 is really 616…

This is a must listen! (click that link)

On June 6, 2006 I posted that the Devil’s number has changed. What I really wanted to post was the link to when I personally heard about this the first time. My favorite radio show on NPR right now is undeniably Wait wait don’t tell me.. When I could not find the reference to their show educating that 666 has been changed to 616, I sent an email.

From: Doug McCaughan
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:45 AM
To: WaitWait
Subject: Did you have a commentary on 616 and 666?

Hello Wait Wait!

Your program is so exceptionally done! I usually catch it in the car and I recall listening not long ago to a reference to 666 and the Wisconsin area code. The speaker mentioned {…}

Am I confusing this with another npr show? If not, do you recall the air date?

Thank you!
Doug McCaughan
Wait Wait fan

I was very pleased to receive a fairly prompt reply.

From: WaitWait
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 2:57 PM
To: Doug McCaughan
Subject: RE: Did you have a commentary on 616 and 666?

Hi,
That was us! You can listen to the segment explaining everything in our archive — it’s on the “Best of” show that aired on January 7, 2006. The segment is titled “The Wait Wait Show Introduction Debacle.”
Thanks for listening!
Emily

Emily Ecton
Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

I implore you to take a couple of minutes and listen to The Wait Wait Show Introduction Debacle!

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Call me a sentimentalist but developing Chimney Rock is WRONG

This could be sad (well…unless I win the lottery and could buy an estate up there..nonono!) I was born in North Carolina and have been through much of its great remaining wilderness. As Roosevelt and the Davis’ recognized, some things should be preserved.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Chimney Rock Park, the popular private park set in the cliffs overlooking Lake Lure in western North Carolina, is being offered for private sale, with an asking price of $55 million, owner Todd Morse said Tuesday.

With its dramatic views, elevator ride to the top of the signature Chimney Rock and sheer rock faces, the park has been a tourist destination since it opened in 1902 after it was first developed by Morse’s great-great uncle Lucius B. Morse.

The park’s trails and cliffs were a site for filming of the 1992 movie “Last of the Mohicans,” and it has been featured in numerous other productions.

Maybe I can get the kids to see it before things change. Thank you Michael Silence for the link.

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Things I do

Yesterday I had the pleasure of building a form on website A that used javascript to create an encoded url which was then sent along with the form data to website B which processed the data then landed the customer at website C to complete the product purchase.

Today, unrelated to yesterday’s mail work, I had to get a Windows server using IIS’ SMTP to resend mail caught in the badmail folder. If you end up with mail in the badmail folder (typically c:\inetpub\mailroot\badmail\ ) follow these steps:

  1. Move the contents of your inetpub/mailroot/badmail folder to a temporary location (I chose c:\temp\reprocessmail\)
  2. Remove the .bad extension from all of the files (resulting in no extension for these files) (the other files *.bdp and *.bdr can be discarded. For good measure I put them into c:\temp\reprocessmail\brd\ The bdr files contain the reason the mail failed to process.)
  3. Move the contents of your temporary folder to the inetpub/mailroot/pickup folder
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Things I do

I get "whatever Doug does" a lot. I am that computer mystic. To my children, I "fix computers" although I think they are beginning to come around to "he makes web pages."

This morning, I configured a server located either in the United Kingdom or New York (I really don’t know where it physically sits) to no longer send email through a Linux server in Holland but instead to securely send email through a Windows server located somewhere else. I did this without leaving my basement and without physically laying hands on the servers. They are well secured against intrusion by spammers or denial of service attacks. My client is in London. I woke at 3am to be on their time. I invoice them electronically and they pay through Paypal. People in Knoxville will never see me working with my clients and assume I do nothing.

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Adding a definition of marriage to the state constitution is stupid

For those of you about to vote to add the definition of marriage as "a man and a woman" should look at these other marriage situations from culture and history.

As you vote about making changes to your state’s constitution, you should consider the definition of constitution:

constitution – The system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of a government or another institution.

Having considered the definition, ask yourself does defining marriage within the constitution have anything whatsoever to do with the "nature, function or limits" of our government? Of course not! It has to do with trying to force your moral beliefs on others. Government has no business trying to legislate morals! As you place your vote, recognize that your decisions today determine the future of our country. Are you making decisions that keep this country a free, democratic society or are you making decisions that move us toward an autocratic, Orwellian society?

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Anyone familiar with Knox County building codes?

Does anyone know the minimum distances a wood stove needs to sit from walls? The stove is already in place so the backside with the pipe into the wall does not concern me. I need to know how close a wall can be to the side of the stove.

The city seems to imply that I should use the manufacturer specification so this may be my answer.

Question
Just purchased a used fischer woodstove, approximately 32″ long x 22″ wide x 37″ high, with double doors. No tags attached to indicated placement distance from wall. Any idea? What is the best material to put behind the stove to protect the wall? Stove has 8″ hole in back of stove for pipe. Is it okay to reduce the pipe to 6″? Should we install the fire proof rope on the inside of the doors?
Answer
Answers to all these questions are located in the database at http://chi.hearth.com/search.html, but here’s a quickie.

  1. Do not reduce from 8 to 6
  2. 36″ clearances to combustibles with no protection
  3. That stove did not use a gasket on the door, however, you can place one there if you like. You should use a flat gasket for this (available at stove stores)
  4. Wall protection – sheet metal, cement board, brick, stone, etc. with proper air spaces.
Check the Q and A and the document http://hearth.com/what/installstove.html for more.

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