Why I Love Scrubs !
By Tom Alessi | January 4, 2009
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Cop Arrests Fire Captain
By Tom Alessi | November 18, 2008
Can you F%$#ing believe this shit?
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It’s been a while
By Tom Alessi | October 2, 2008
Hi everyone.
Its been a few weeks since I have written anything on the blog here. But it’s been a busy 6 weeks!
I don’t want to get into too much detail, but lets just say my wife had a pretty severe accident and did a bit of damage to herself…. How much damage you say?….. well she has a broken right wrist, broken right elbow, shattered left hand requiring 5 hours of surgery and 7 pins and last but not least 2 broken vertebra in her back. So needless to say, life has been hectic at home… not to mention the fact that I am only 4 months into a new job. But work has been great. My bosses have been very supportive and understanding.
But things are getting better. She is up and around now. She’s able to climb stairs…. The pins were taken out of her hand Monday and she is able to take off the back brace and arm braces now when she is up to it.
Anyway, to those who knew, thanks for all the nice messages.
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Streaming to your Cell
By Tom Alessi | August 30, 2008
Well I waited for a year and it finally was released. KINOMA for the Palm WX700w, an audio video player that allows streaming to your cellphone. KINOMA Player costs $29.95 and has been around for Palm OS as well as other cellphones. It has Services linked directly to Audible.com, Flickr.com, iDisk.com, Live365.com, orb.com, ShoutCAST.com and of course YouTube.com. The ShoutCAST is cool, I went to search, typed in “Police Scanner” and up came a list of online scanner sites (like mine) that I could listen to.
The BEST feature of KINOMA is that it lets you to create “.pls” files that allow you to directly stream from over the internet. I created a PLS file for ScanCT F1 and saved it, started KINOMA and opened the PLS file and BAM ScanCT.com F1 on my cell! No need for a scanner when I have my cell with me now. LOL
I am told that there are THOUSANDS of radio stations available online… Tell you more as I find out more.
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Words to live by.
By Tom Alessi | August 17, 2008
Charles Sykes’ Rules For Life:
- Rule 1: Life is not fair; get used to it.
- Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
- Rule 3: You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.
- Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
- Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
- Rule 6: If you screw up, it’s not your parents’ fault so don’t whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.
- Rule 7: Before you were born your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning your room, and listening to you telling how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest from the bloodsucking parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
- Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades, they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
- Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
- Rule 10: Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
- Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
- Rule 12: Living fast and dying young is romantic - only until you see one of your peers at room temperature.
From the book “50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education” By Charles Sykes
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News-12 Doesn’t have this!
By Tom Alessi | August 14, 2008
Geoff Fox from WTNH-8 is gonna hate me for posting this but it always makes me laugh. Sorry Geoff!
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Motorola Digital failures 7/2008
By Tom Alessi | August 13, 2008
Philadelphia PA - July 23, 2008
Indianapolis police and fire digital P25 radio problems July 18, 2008.
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