Happy Valentine’s day

February 14, 2011

To all the readers of Being Frank Happy Valentine’s day. Hopefully you are with the one you love today, and if not hopefully you have found the greatness that is you within your singleness. Never forget though that you are loved by the Creator of the Universe, God all mighty. He has not left you, [...]

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What is wrong with this picture

February 14, 2011

I find it very interesting that a company named CABLES UNLIMITED is making WIRELESS systems.

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The reality of Hell – popular or not

February 1, 2011

The topic and concept of Hell is one that fills volumes and that has been discussed since mankind first left the garden. With that said, I think the modern church has done a in service to the topic. We, the western Christian church, seems to have largely reached a point where we focus so much [...]

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Urban explorer

February 1, 2011

Heard about this online a few days ago. I gave it a watch and found it really interesting. It is called Undercity and is about exploring the sewers. Two urban archaeologist filmed it over a few years. Very interesting watch.

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Wall-E the wire runner

January 21, 2011

Found this interesting story at the NY Times about a wire checking robot which crawls high energy wires searching for issues. The robot eliminates / reduces the need for expensive helicopter examinations, can reach remote places faster then ground based vehicles or employees hiking in and it runs of stray voltage from the line. Very [...]

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Supercharged Hybrid

January 12, 2011

Found a very interesting article online about Ford’s new “supercharged” hybird that could offer a 500 mile range and overnight charging on 120V power. Very interesting stuff. Still waiting for a medium sized to full sized sedan or full sized SUV that is averaged price before my family makes the move, but steps like this [...]

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Darth Hinn

January 12, 2011

Found a GREAT VIDEO at RazorKiss and had to share it.

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I sane voice amongst insanity

January 11, 2011

H/T to Pseudo-Polymath for this one Siris has a great post up about how many in the media are building stories about the AZ shooter without facts. I am tried of there being a rush to attach the acts of the insane to voices of descent on either side or to people that have no [...]

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crazy plates

January 11, 2011

Japolnik has post up about Garth Yeaman, a 30 year old from VA, who has gotten a few “vanity” plates by the DMV. His first one said “EAT THE” on it…to understand the context read the full story here. In the end the VA DMV won out, but Mr. Yeaman did not go down fighting [...]

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Chinese Chess

January 10, 2011

Found a interesting story at the New York Times. It seems that China, not a traditional chess playing nation or chess power house, has been turning out a few masters the last few years. Currently the most promising one is a 16 year girl named Hou Yifan who recently one a chess championship. Full story [...]

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Being Frank Update

January 10, 2011

Well since it has been a long time since I published a update on how life is around the Being Frank world, I thought it would be a good time (as the blog is being rebooted) for that to occur. It seems fitting for the first post back to be about why we have been [...]

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Well Hello There

January 8, 2011

For those that care, or if there are any regular readers from a year or so back when the blogging was regular around here, we plan to be back blogging regularly in 2011. This post should be the first in that process. Currently, the aim is for there to be 3 to 5 postings a [...]

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Bad Romance cover is better then the original

October 4, 2010

I am NOT a lady gaga fan, but this cover is SO SO SO much better then the original.

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Contador Saying He May Retire

October 4, 2010

Those that care probably already know that 3 time TDF (Tour De France) winner Alberto Contador tested positive for having a antibiotic steroid in his blood. (Universal Sports has a nice timeline and story summary here) The drug can be found in trace amounts in meat (which Alberto claims is how he got on the [...]

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OpenOffice now really open

October 4, 2010

Well not sure how I missed it, but the future of Open Office (my personal long time favorite for all those that need an office suite but don’t have $200 to throw away for basic Word / Excel compatibility)is looking brighter. It seems that the very thing that Open Office has needed for awhile, a [...]

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American Religious Knowledge

October 3, 2010

The NY Times as a piece up (here) on the results of a recent Pew Study on religious knowledge in America. I would be lying if I said I was surprised by the results – bottom line few American’s know a lot about their faith or the faiths of others. It turns out that Atheists, [...]

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I’m back

September 29, 2010

Sorry for the over month long break in blogging. My work / home schedule is becoming more routine now. I doubt I will be back to daily blogging soon, but I do plan to blog a few times a week starting soon. As long time readers / visitors know the three C’s (Christ, Computers, and [...]

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The Bendable Bike

September 29, 2010

I found the following link online about a bendable bike that can tie itself to a fixture (link here). This is cool, and as a cyclist I am all about keeping the bike you spend ALOT of money on, but if you are living in a city so bad that you need a bike that [...]

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My next car

August 22, 2010

Found this on You Drive What? (link here) All I know is that if I had this I would drive around with my mastiff every day.

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Most complex clock in the world

August 12, 2010

Wired has a story up about the most complex clock in the world, built by Jaquet-Droz to celebrate the 1774 “robot” built with clock works by Pierre Jaquet-Droz. The new creations writes the time and cost about $371K to build. Full Piece Here

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New Ansel Adams Prints?

July 28, 2010

CNN.com has a nice piece up about some new Ansel Adams prints that may (big MAY) have been discovered. It seems that a guy bought some glass negatives at a yard sale, kept them around for a few years (under his pool table), and then realized they may be pretty valuable. A LA art dealers [...]

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Value and Worth

July 26, 2010

As I was driving home today, I was noticing all the political signs in yards. Don’t worry, I am not going to try to sway anyones votes, I just was noticing them as I was driving. Anyway, it made me think about how every election we seem to be ask if we want to raise [...]

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The Daily Kos / The Angry Mouse on Guns

July 11, 2010

On July 4th, The Daily Kos had a very interesting post up by the Angry Mouse on why liberals should support the Second Amendment. Full Post here

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Light Saber Knockoff’s or Just Light Fun

July 8, 2010

Lucas films is requesting that a Hong Kong based firm called Pro Arctic Laser pull their product series called “Wicked Lasers” from the market due to their resemblance to lightsabers used in the Star Wars movies. Lucas Films holds the trademark to the design, look and name of the lightsaber. Pro Arctic Laser’s claim that [...]

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Cheater, cheater

July 8, 2010

The NY Times had an article on the trends / steps in high school and college – focusing on Central Florida University and turnitin.com – to stop cheating (full story here). Since I have not seen a classroom in almost 20 years this kind of stuff was really interesting to me. I knew cheating was [...]

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30 second theories

July 8, 2010

The Daily Mail had a nice post up on June 26th that summarized 10 theories (Quantum Field Theory and The Finite Universe just to name two) in just a few paragraphs. This is a nice way to get a jump start on understanding some relatively complex ideas. Even if you don’t agree with, or even [...]

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USA Vs Ghana in Lego’s

June 27, 2010

Found this online and wanted to share it. A German speaking blog where the world cup games are done in Lego’s. The USA vs Ghana (from earlier today) is here. Very cool record for a very sad event.

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The Gospel Filled Wallet – A review

June 24, 2010

Jeff Weddle of anti-itch meditation recently completed his first book – The Gospel Filled Wallet – for Transforming Publishing. Milton Stanley, one of the bloggers I read / respect most, of Transforming Sermons is the owner of Transforming Publishing and sent me a copy of Jeff’s book to review. I was honored to do so [...]

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A BIG MOVE

June 18, 2010

I first heard about this big move this AM on the radio, tonight I found a story on WBIR about it. It seems that a 23 foot wide and 250+ long steam generator,and a cadre of support vehicles, is moving from the Forks of The River to a St Paul, Virginia. That is a 170 [...]

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Photoshop’n the news

June 8, 2010

Reuters has been busted again for photoshop’n a image. It is becoming harder and harder to believe the news and what we are seen. This time they took a knife and a blood pool out of a picture showing “peaceful” Palestinian’s confronting and holding Israeli Security Forces hostage. Full story at Little Green Footballs here.

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Why Facebook is killing the world’s soul

June 7, 2010

Today, I logged into Facebook (FB) to only be offered the following – Understand I don’t play trumpet, I don’t have anything about Trumpet’s on my facebook page, heck I am not even sure I have even said the word trumpet out loud since going to a concert where a friend’s girlfriend played trumpet in [...]

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Crop Circles

May 16, 2010

White Trash Repairs has a picture up of an idea I wish I had had for mowing. Post here

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Worst Jersey’s of All Times

May 13, 2010

Bleach Reports has a little story up with a slide show of the worst sport uniforms of all times. Overall I agree with their picks, though in my view nothing is as bad as the TN Titans (the Oilers in bad uniforms – still are, always will be). Really 5 shades of blue on ONE [...]

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Hold On, Hold Out

May 12, 2010

Over the last year I have been laid off, been subpoenaed three times (two different cases, fortunately neither involve anything I have done), had to testify in front of a grand jury, drawn unemployment, found a job when jobs were hard to find and in the process taken a job for 10K less then I [...]

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Nerds V Facebook

May 12, 2010

The New York Times has a post up today about 4 nerds, a bit of funding, a dream and possibly the first serious volley against centralized social networks like Facebook. Bottomline, 4 nerds heard a talk about how centralized social networks basically are opt in spy for free services which allow volume’s of private information [...]

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Docs instead of Office 2010

May 11, 2010

PC World has a interesting piece up discussing Google’s idea to suggest Enterprises / Corporations stay on their current version of Office (instead of upgrading to Office 2010) and begin to use / integrate Google Docs into their infrastructure as a means of web / cloud / shared components. Google’s idea is centered around the [...]

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