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A new life for the Marine Star/Aquarama?

ByDerek

While out geocaching on Monday, we happened to be near the Marine Star/Aquarama – that big rusting hulk of a ship, moored up next to the grain silos along Route 5. Since I had my camera with me, it seemed like a good chance to try and get up close to the ship. As soon…

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950 Broadway – The Eckhardt Building

ByDerek

A couple weeks ago I mentioned a trip to the East Side to visit the former Sears building on Broadway and Fillmore. Broadway-Fillmore Alive has posted their article on the building which we are now calling the Eckhardt Building after the family it was built for, whom opened Eckhardt’s Department Store in it, and who…

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Geek Inventory

ByDerek

This weekend I’m focusing on unpacking the various boxes of stuff that should go in my office. Being the family geek means I accumulate quite a collection of computer pieces, cables, and other things to hang on my utility belt. So far I’ve uncovered: 8 Keyboards (1 USB, 5 PS2, and 2 AT) 6 Mice…

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Train Show exhausting, but a huge success!

ByDerek

I didn’t think we could have an event bigger than last year’s Oktoberfest, but the train show blew the doors off of that. I’m not sure on the specifics yet as to attendance or money, but I’m guessing based on the number of door prize tickets we handed out there was at least 2000 people….

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Friday Five – March 25, 2011

ByDerek

#1 – AP Stylebook Finally Changes “e-mail” to “email” [Mashable] The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of a simpler time when Internet technology needed to be…

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