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Rodger Productions Has A New Home
It's glad news to me to hear that Rodger Productions has a new home. Rodger Productions is going to be working out of the Clawson (Michigan)/Troy (Michigan) Elks club for the time being. I was sort of sad when the Heidelberg Restaurant in Mt. Clemens bit the dust. Rodger Productions had been out there since 1984. I started doing shows with Rodger Productions around 1988 or 1989. Of course, it wasn't called Rodger Productions back then. I have a lot of fond memories of playing in shows out there as well as seeing shows out there.

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Breedcentral.com Needs To Learn About How To Foil Spammers
I have a little issue with the person running Breedcentral.com. I've mentioned this to him on the pigeongenetics mailing list but I'm guessing he doesn't actually read the messages posted to the mailing list. I think he just basically mails to the list periodically to promote his website. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I think he's running breedcentral as a "service to the hobby". So, if he reads this...you need to modify your webpage. Having mailto: links is just making it real easy for spammers to harvest e-mail addresses from your webpage.

I would like to put my contact information on his website--I don't mind helping other fanciers with birds when I can and I certainly don't mind helping novices with their questions either. But I refuse to put my contact information on his website only to have it harvested by spammers.

9:13:48 PM  #  
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Linux Installation Blues
I've been trying to install Linux on an old PC that I had given to my father-in-law and which I got back from him.  Wow, what a chore.

First, almost all Linux distributions assume one has a PC with a BIOS that will allow you to boot from the CD-ROM.  No dice in this case.  Luckily one of my friends at work really knows his stuff when it comes to Linux and he asked some folks he knows and they came up with a utility to allow one to boot from the floppy but then have it boot from the CD-ROM.

Then there's the issue of the hard drive.  I had a 500 MB hard drive in the box.  That's way too small for a modern Linux distribution.  So I got a much larger hard drive.  I think it's 20 GB but I honestly can't remember.  At any rate, again, the BIOS can't grok the hard drive geometry. 

Ah well, I guess I didn't want to work with Linux as much as I thought I did anyway.




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Art Too Bad To Be Ignored
Somewhere the spirit of Leonard Pinth-Garnell is laughing.  Thanks to JP at Good Morning Silicon Valley for the link.

9:32:19 PM  #  
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They Have Two Homes Now
I have a pair of racing homers that I had borrowed from a fellow fancier in Mount Clemens, Michigan.  These birds are excellent parents and they had turned out quite a few healthy youngsters in a few months.  However, the male seems to think it's okay to have his own personal harem because he regularly mates with a hen besides the one that he's mated to.

I contacted my friend and told him I planned to return the birds.  He said fine--just let them go, they'll come home.  That's one great thing about homing pigeons. 

So last Wednesday I let them go.  And they looked like they took off in the general direction of Mount Clemens so I thought nothing further of it.  Then on Sunday they reappeared at my loft.  They had decided that my loft was now home.  Or perhaps the male likes having two wives.  At any rate, I was pretty surprised because I thought surely they were back at their old home in Mount Clemens.

So I talked to my buddy last night and he explained to me that in fact the birds had come back to his loft.  Apparently they stayed long enough to eat and rest because they were back there on Saturday and gone on Sunday.

I knew that during World War I and World War II fanciers trained pigeons to fly between multiple lofts.  I always wanted to try that myself to see if I could do it.  I just never knew that the birds would beat me to it.

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Grouse Legged Wild Pigeon

I work in downtown Detroit, Michigan (in the U. S.).  Today I was walking toward my place of business along Michigan Avenue by Cass Avenue when I saw a wild pigeon with grouse legging.  I wish I had a camera with me.  

I couldn't examine him that closely but it was a blue bar and it looked pretty much like wild type other than the presence of grouse legging.  

I always thought that these sorts of mutations must occur naturally but it was still a bit of a surprise to see a wild pigeon with it.

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Draconian Measures Against Pigeon Keepers In Chicago
You know I understand the rights of others not to be imposed upon by pigeon fanciers. Not everyone likes pigeons and that's their right. However, does the city of Chicago really need to resort to such draconian measures to prevent a few pigeon keepers from abusing the privilege?

Doesn't the city of Chicago have public health ordinances under which they can prosecute people who don't properly care for their pigeons?

I know pigeons have a bad reputation. I just wish civic governments wouldn't treat all pigeon keepers and all pigeons as if they were all the same.

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Not So Desultory After All
Hmm...looking at blo.gs, I see that my seemingly original blog title isn't all the original after all.  I guess I should have expected a high level of wordsmithing from bloggers. 

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Considering New Blog Software
I'm considering changing the blogging software that I use to maintain this blog.  The main drawback of Radio Userland is that I can only create and post entries from my home machine.  If I run across something cool at work and I'd like to make an entry at lunchtime, I can't do that.  This is a bit of a drawback (at least to me, anyway).

If anyone is reading this, please feel free to comment and let me know if you have any experience with other blogging systems.

Of course, I guess I shouldn't gripe too much if no one is reading this.  At least I don't get comment spam. 


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