Microwaves and Microswitches . . .
After putting the new site online last night, I spent this morning picking at it some more, changing a few colors here and repositioning a couple of things there.
Today I added a Favicon to the site, and then configured the Mobile version that shows up on your phone.
Favicons are those little pictures you see on the tabs in your browser.
You only have a 16 x 16 pixel area to work with, so it can be hard to get a good representation. I started out using the entire Texas Flag Sunglasses Logo,
but it was so small it was just a red, white and blue blob. So I switched to just using the left lens and that seem to work a lot better.
Later in the afternoon I removed the control panel from the microwave oven to take a look at the intermittent heating problem we’ve been having the last month or so
I suspected a microswitch problem, but I didn’t see any sign of that. In fact it looked like the problem might be due to a broken flange on the control panel itself. So I cut out a new retaining bracket from a piece of heavy plastic and used it to lock down the panel a lot tighter.
Since the problem only happens intermittently, we’ll just have to see if it reoccurs or not.
With the new TV season ramping up, Jan and I watched another new show a couple of nights ago, and like Timeless, the new one we watched last week, this one, called Frequency, is kind about time travel also. Or at least time travel by radio.
A police officer finds that she can communicate with her father over his ham radio, an undercover police officer who died 20 years ago, killed under circumstances that made it look like he was on the take.
His daughter gives him info that allows him to survive and clear himself. But like in Timeless, changing the past even slightly can have unintended consequences in the present.
When I was telling my friend Nick Russell about the show, he said it sounded familiar. Turns out there was a movie by the same name that came out in 2000, starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. The premise was pretty much the same, except the father was a firefighter killed in a warehouse fire. So I guess what goes around, come around.
Tomorrow, who knows. But I imagine we’ll find something to do.
Thought for the Day:
“My advice to you is get married: If you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” — Socrates
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