What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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Have you ever finished a long phone conversation with a family member or a friend, hung up the phone and then immediately realized you forgot to ask them about their recent vacation or thank them for a birthday card? Happens to me all of the time. Which is why today's technology I'd like to see is caller ID with notes (feel free to come up with a better name). Caller ID with notes would work hand-in-hand with your existing caller ID system. The only difference is that rather than just display the name and phone number of the person calling,… Continue reading...
My kids call the car I drive the Noobie van. They call it this because it's a minivan with Noobie vinyl decals on the back side windows. The are yoo a noobie? question spelled out on my minivan has always drawn lots of attention in parking lots, drive-thrus and even while tailgating at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Complete strangers have no problem approaching me to ask me what a noobie is. And I'm more than happy to explain it to them. *wink* A few days ago, I had to take the Noobie van back to my good friend… Continue reading...
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Yesterday, I wrote about a Lego set my son received for his birthday. Today I am going to tell you about "the big gift" that he received from mom & dad. You know, that one gift you save until the end in anticipation of that "this is the coolest gift ever!" reaction from your child? This year's big gift was a digital camera. Not a kid's digital camera, but a full-fledged adult digital camera. My son turned 7 years old so if your wheels have started spinning wondering why we would give a 7 year old an adult digital camera,… Continue reading...
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My son received a pretty cool Lego set for his birthday. He also received about 15 other gifts, including a couple more Lego sets, which made it difficult to keep track of them all. As any good 7 year old would do, my son managed to lose the building instructions to his new Lego set. Well, at least that's the story I'm sticking with. There's actually about a 20% chance that I or my wife threw them away when cleaning up after his birthday party. So there my son sat with a pile of Legos, the box they came in… Continue reading...
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I rented a movie from Blockbuster over the weekend. While I was browsing the rental shelves I became annoyed at all of the extraneous stuff that Blockbuster now sells. Instead of letting this get to me I decided to channel my annoyances and visualize what the perfect Blockbuster store would look like. That is, my own personal Blockbuster. I think it would look like this: The shelves would contain new releases only. I can't remember the last time I went to Blockbuster and rented anything other than a new release. It would only stock new releases that have 5 or… Continue reading...
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