Author Archives: Kevin

About Kevin

Just an old guy with opinions that I like to bounce off other people.

You and Jesus

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Kevin

Yesterday I attended an event and ended up packing food into boxes for the Harvest Hope food bank, an organization in South Carolina that works to relieve hunger in the state. So this morning in church my Pastor said: “There … Continue reading →

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The 5-2 diet

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Kevin

I’ve had this blog for years, but never had a “Health” category before. It seems that as you get older, health is something that you don’t take for granted any more. Personally, I’m on the borderline between overweight and obese, … Continue reading →

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Senator Graham wants crazy people to buy their guns privately

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Kevin

I just listened to a telephonic town hall meeting with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who voted to block a universal background check bill in the Senate. Graham told a story of a woman who was determined to be mentally … Continue reading →

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Stupid Windows tricks: Shaky-Shaky

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Kevin

OK, here’s a trick that works with Windows 7. If you have several Windows open on your desktop, give this a try. Take your mouse and left-click and hold on the title bar (top) of one of the Windows, as … Continue reading →

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Charter fights spam

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Kevin

Usually I’m critical of my Internet service provider when I can’t do what I want to do. In this case I was trying to forward email spam to a spam-reporting service. Charter Internet, who is my provider, blocked my sending … Continue reading →

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Oblomov

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Kevin

I am please to announce completion of my latest audio book, Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov. When I started this project, I thought it would be a fairly uninteresting reading of an unknown work by a little-known author. That’s not how … Continue reading →

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Degen DE32 AM/FM/SW radio/MP3 player

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Kevin

This is an interesting little shirt-pocket radio available on eBay for under $30. It has a few nice features and some drawbacks too. The radio covers the US FM radio band as well as the low FM band (64-87 MHz) … Continue reading →

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