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Trisonic Universal Adapter: Amazon Review

Posted: November 26, 2009 by datechguy in amazon reviews, local stuff, oddities
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My review of the Trisonic Universal Adapter for use with well just about anything electric is available at Amazon.com here.

The way I ended up with it was slightly amusing. Because my son’s car was going in the shop again (I hate power windows) I had picked him and Amanda at College (not a girlfriend just a best friend which is a shame because I think she would be PERFECT for him.) and the thought hit me that I needed a power supply for the Ipod speaker that he had picked me up when he got his job. They were very nice at the Shack but when I got home I found that she had given me the wrong device (not really her fault the package was mislabeled).

I decided to exchange it at once and on the way had a sudden urge to check out a store called NY BLING BLING. It is an interesting little place run by two fellows who seem to be of mixed Spanish and Indian origin. It has almost everything from earmuffs, to cell phones to a lot of jeans and of course bling. It caters primarily to the large Central/South American population in town, how large a Uruguayan Consulate just opened in town that makes two consulates (Finnish and Uruguayan) in a city of 35,000.

I have found over the years that it tends to have basic things I can’t find elsewhere, plus I’m partial to any secular business that sell framed pictures of the Madonna and Child, Our Lady of Guadalupe and other pictures that would have matched the religious portraits on my grandmother’s bedroom wall. Sure enough they had this device that exactly met my needs for a 1/3 of the price.

It’s bulky but right now cheap is a big selling point.

And trouble at Romano’s too…

Posted: November 20, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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I mentioned the drug bust yesterday but it turns out that Romano’s 7 doors down is also having troubles:

Romano’s Market at 138 Harvard St. had never been robbed before this week, according to owner Mike Romano.

But police arrested a would-be robber on Thursday afternoon and another person tried and failed to rob the market on Wednesday, he said.

“This is the first time it’s ever happened,” he said. “We’ve had break-ins before, but we’ve never had anyone attempt to rob us or anything. It happened two days in a row and it kind of concerns me.”

If they are going after Mike that is a very bad move on their part, he is from a different generation and his son’s are not going to take kindly to it, particularly the one just back from Iraq and Gitmo. Then again the employees didn’t care for it either to wit:

A female cashier chased a would-be robber out of the store and across the Arthur DiTommaso Memorial Bridge before he outran her Thursday about 1:25 p.m., Romano said.

“She couldn’t catch him, he was too fast,” Romano said.

That would likely be Katey. The guy is very lucky that the Cops caught him and she didn’t.

All of this happening within a 72 hour period does not bode well for my neighborhood.

Big Drug Bust three doors down…

Posted: November 19, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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Had to dodge police cars paddy wagons and the K9 unit to park the car after the grocery store.

Fitchburg, gotta love it.

Update: The cars and the police were every which way across the street I had to dodge them to get to the front of my house. The neighbors poured out to see what was going on. The rest of the folk in my house had not been interested in going to pick up the milk. I made it a point however to leave most of the groceries and inform the people in the house about the bust.

It’s amazing how fast people will move when there is something interesting to see.

Now I know times are tough…

Posted: November 14, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, oddities
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…because on Tuesday I went to pick up my car from John after some minor repairs (yes Apple customer service pays!)and noticed something odd across the street.

Fitchburg’s only x-rated video store sits across the street between Parrot Pizza and Dippin’ Donuts (they are just about the only non-auto business in that area) and it blared out two huge signs on the side. One said “under new management” and the other announced that the porn star Belladonna would be appearing live.

As Fitchburg’s last video store closed this year and with the amount of free porn available on the net the idea that someone decided to buy the place was odd enough but the idea that a nationally known porn actress would be there was even odder.

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Fitchburg but you might recall it is in such bad shape that it can’t even afford to keep our street lights on.

So that’s how bad times are, times are so bad that a porn actress has to come to a city that can’t afford street lights to make a buck.

Suddenly I don’t feel so bad about my own situation.

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