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Wrapping Up the T-Mobile Test Drive
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / February 9, 2015The wife and I drove up to Syracuse to return the iPhone 5S that T-Mobile sent me for my Test Drive on Sunday. There was a Winter Storm Warning... but... Subaru. On Saturday we drove around a bit t...
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Testing T-Mobile’s Test Drive
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / February 4, 2015UPDATE: Brought the 5S they sent with me to work to test wifi calling (this will be an important feature in my case). Once I found the WiFi Calls option under Phone in the Settings menu, it worked as ...
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This is Why Nobody Likes You
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / January 2, 2015Back in December we switched internet providers to ditch Time Warner Cable. We ended up switching to Empire Accessd and got some badass fiber service for about the price we were paying TWC for crappy ...
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2014 in Photos, My Favorites
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / December 30, 2014These are a few of my favorite photos from 2014. Not necessarily my "best" but some of the ones that I really like for one reason or another. [caption id="attachment_5817" align="aligncenter" width...
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Cutting the Cord and Streaming ALL the Things!
By ack154 / in The Life of Me / December 11, 2014We’ve officially done it. Our “cord” has been cut. Well… by cord, I mean, satellite connection.
More important than the the cord we cut though, is the cord we had installed! It’s a very small, glass cord that carries LOTS of data. A while back we found out that Empire Access offers fiber in our area (yes, Montour Falls, of all places). I pretty much called up immediately and ordered service.
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Running of the Bulls, Minus the Gore
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / July 18, 2014OK, so we're not in Italy... but when the IMSA Sahlen's 6 Hours at the Glen circus came to town, they brought with them a different beast that would run at Watkins Glen. This was one of the many suppo...
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The Race is Still 6 Hours, But That’s About It
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / July 11, 2014If I didn't have a kind friend that offered two free tickets to this year's Sahlen's 6 Hours at the Glen, I wouldn't have gone. And aside from getting to see the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series, I wou...
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Vintage Festival Flashback
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / June 13, 2014Since I started shooting my photos in RAW, I had been using Apple's Aperture to process them. It worked well enough for most editing, but one thing that bothered me was that there was no easy way to c...
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The Wicked Big Meet Recap
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / June 10, 2014Subaru people are an interesting bunch. Admittedly, I'm less than a fan of the stereotypical Subaru driver. I don't really give two craps about what Ken Block/Travis Pastrana/whoever does (regardless ...
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Another STPR Come and Gone
By ack154 / in Cars & Racing / June 3, 2014It actually feels like I've been a few more times than I have, but this year was only my third time attending STPR - aka, the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally. The first year was a real learning ...
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