K1NSS & Dash!: The Interview
We had the pleasure of speaking with Ted Randall, who has interviewed many an accomplished and distinguished amateur operator on his widely-broadcast and podcast QSO Radio
Radio Show based at www.tedrandall.com. So why us? Aside from taking the opportunity to establish if the dude behind Dash! sounds as dodgy as he looks, you might well find our discussion about hams' sense of humor amusing snack food for thought. And don't miss the interview-long memory lapse of your 'umble Cartoonist who forgets to plug his silly books. Click here for the podcast.
Repeatedly copy Fred Flintstone, Alfred E. Neuman, a gaggle of Don Martin grotesques and Wally Wood caricatures, all the while never opening the manual to your Jon Gnagy Learn to Draw Set and never copying enough comics characters to gain enough facility to use an eraser less than a pencil. Breeze through school without paying attention until it's far too late to get good grades at anything but writing gibberish -- a talent many fine colleges and universities are only too happy to nurture for the price of three blackmarket livers. Now you're cooking with gas.
Early in your meandering, lifelong sleepwalk toward a Masters of Monkey Business Administration, force yourself to learn Morse Code. Everyone needs at least one real skill and this baby's a keeper, right up there with the ability to walk on one's knees and make a funny noise with a blade of grass at the same time. Over a span of fifty years, you won't save a sinking luxury liner, will win a bar bet or two and almost certainly may have some fun with amateur radio.
After that half century, there may well come a harmonica convergence, when everything suddenly grooves as one, like Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats, and you realize it all happened for a reason, including your amassing of one very goofy skill set with extra cheese. Of course, Jerry and his 'Cats got paid real moolah for appearing on the Sullivan Show, while you'll likely pay our own way on the web -- which is almost the same and, uh, well, even if it's not at least you won't be forced into following a plate-spinner.
Finally, be careful what you abandon all hope for.
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This place is crazy swell for any Gyro Gearloose who builds stuff in reality or fantasy -- everything you don't know you're looking for, often in mass quantities and/or heavy gauge and seriously not to be tried at home, just begging to be bought against the day when just one will be worth three dozen eggs and a flame thrower.
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Our Old Pal Ola is a standard wirehaired dachshund going on 2 years at about 20 sturdy pounds. She was acquired from breeders specializing in wounded deer & bear trackers. We don't hunt for much more than our car keys and TV remote, but we did appreciate the puppies' early introduction to field activity, their healthy enthusiasm as well as their curiosity and good temperment, and when Ola showed herself less suited to be a tracker, we jumped at the chance to bring her back to the shack.
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