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Author Archives: Charlie
Escaping Cellular Hell or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Early Termination Fee
Good evening, dear readers of Sector 930! Thank you for joining us for yet another exciting adventure.
Tonight’s story begins with a man. A nerdy man. A man who loves technology, gadgets, and telecommunications. A man who happens to be me. You see, for the past several years, this man had been living in “Cellular Hell.” Not because he didn’t have good coverage, no — in fact his coverage was very satisfactory. Not because he didn’t have access to some of the latest “smartphones” — he had the original iPhone and a BlackBerry Curve 8900. So, what could I possibly have to complain about? I’m glad you asked!
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How-To Create an MS-DOS Bootable Flash Drive with Windows 7
This will be a quick post, but I recently wasted far too much time trying to get a bootable USB drive set up so I could update my fracking BIOS (the Windows-based updater didn’t work, nor did the ISO based updater. Thanks for a quality product, Intel!).
It was incredibly hard to actually find an easy method that works, but I finally did: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/46707-ms-dos-bootable-flash-drive-create.html
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How-To: Delicious, Easy Pancakes on the Cheap!
With the crappy economy taking its toll on many aspects of every day life these days, there’s one thing that it doesn’t have to affect: your ability to make delicious, fluffy pancakes on the cheap!
Here’s how:
- Go to your local market and procure a box of “JIFFY” buttermilk biscuit mix. The average price for a box of this versatile goodness is typically $0.50-$0.65 — an incredible deal!
- Follow the instructions for making pancake/waffle batter on the back of your box of “JIFFY,” except:
- Instead of using 1 cup of water or milk as the directions suggest, use 1 cup of half-and-half.
Recipe: Charlie’s Black-Eyed Peas
While it won’t do you readers any good at this point, some of you may know that eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is said to give you good luck for the remainder of the year. Here’s my freshly-developed and delicious recipe for a New Year’s delicacy:
Charlie’s Black-Eyed Peas
Ingredients:
- 1 Can black eyed peas
- 4 Strips bacon
- 1 Clove garlic
- 1 Stalk celery
- 1/2 Green bell pepper
- 100% pure maple syrup
- Crushed red pepper (dried)
- Black pepper
How to Give Your Cellular Provider the Gift You’ve Always Wanted!
Howdy loyal 930 readers! Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings to all! Charlie here, the undercover redneck, about to tell you how to give your cellular provider the gift you’ve always wanted: free unlimited SMS text messaging! I’m talking 100% free (as in beer).
“That’s impossible!” you’re must be saying. “Not in this country!”
Folks, behold the power of Google! Some may argue that Google is becoming the new Microsoft, or worse, an even more powerful entity with access to unfathomable terabytes of the world’s personal information. But who cares, with a corporate motto like “don’t be evil,” how can you not trust them? Especially when they offer free text messaging!
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Tagged blackberry, cellular, google voice, sms, text messaging
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