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ART X-15 Ultrafoot

Sun 2009 Nov 22

The ART X-15 Ultrafoot is one of the absolute ugliest electronic music items you will ever lay eyes on. It is, unfortunately, the world's most popular MIDI foot controller. Fortunately today it looks a whole lot better, but for years the above photo is what it looked like. It's also fortunate there are new MIDI foot controllers that are much, much better and cheaper than the X-15 ever was.

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New England and Florida phone area code geekery

Thu 2009 Oct 1

For whatever reason I've always been really good at remembering just about every phone number I've ever had, even though I'm allergic to mathematics (I sincerely suck at that.)

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smokey and the bandit part 3

Wed 2009 Aug 26

A few weeks ago I was walking through Wal-Mart and I saw this "Pursuit Pack" which was all three Smokey and the Bandit movies for $10.50. Heck, I couldn't pass that up so I bought it.

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Garmin nuvi 255W crapola part 2

Wed 2009 Aug 5

(part 1) nuvi 255W #2 arrived today from Dell. This time it wasn't from UPS but from FedEx. One corner of the box was a little crunched but the unit is fine and in A-OK condition. Works perfectly.

Before getting into that, here's my experience with the return process.

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Garmin nuvi 255W crapola

Wed 2009 Aug 5

My brand spankin' new Garmin nuvi 255W arrived from Dell (yes I ordered it from Dell). The first thing I noticed is that the packing box looked like it had been stepped on.

Not cool.

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