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Upload your prescription to 1-800-CONTACTS

Saturday, 2015.10.31 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Recently I ordered a couple boxes of daily wear contact lenses from 1-800-CONTACTS. So far the process has not been very smooth: Problem 1 – all the “order codes” or “coupon codes” I tried, even the codes listed on their own site, failed to work on my order 🙁 Problem 2 – despite updating my doctor information and submitting a copy of my prescription online, they still had trouble processing my prescription 🙁 To help expedite the order I planned on re-uploading

Branson’s Nantucket waterfall

Thursday, 2015.10.15 J.D. H. Leave a comment

This was my first visit to Branson’s Nantucket since they started the waterfall running. Very cool and quite scenic! Here is a photo of the waterfall that my wife took with her Moto X Pure Edition:

How long does it take to format a 5TB drive? [ANSWERED]

Friday, 2015.10.09 J.D. H. 2 comments

Question: How long does it take to fully format a 5TB external hard drive via USB 3.0? Answer: It takes about 9.5 hours to fully format! Details: This was an external “Seagate Expansion Unit” 5TB drive connected via USB 3.0 to a docked Dell E5450. I started the format (NTFS format, via Windows 10) at 9:30AM and it finished at 7PM.

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What is the #LLAP hashtag? Live long and prosper

Friday, 2015.02.27 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Rest in peace Leonard Nemoy, you will be missed. LLAP stands for live long and prosper. Vulcan salute – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_saluteThe accompanying spoken blessing, “live long and prosper”, (“dif tor heh smusma” in the Vulcan language as spoken in Star Trek: The Motion Picture) also appeared for the first time in “Amok Time”,…

Best Oscars 2015 Predictions – Academy Awards Winners

Sunday, 2015.02.22 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Here are the best Oscars predictions I can find, in a nice easy format for you 🙂 BEST PICTURE Boyhood DIRECTOR Richard Linklater ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Eddie Redmayne ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Julianne Moore ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE J.K. Simmons ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Patricia Arquette ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Grand Budapest Hotel ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Whiplash ANIMATED FEATURE How to Train Your Dragon 2 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Ida DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Citizenfour CINEMATOGRAPHY Birdman COSTUME DESIGN The

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How to FORMAT my Dish network screen to NOT zoom for HD?

Friday, 2015.02.20 J.D. H. 15 comments

Q. I have a Dish receiver that makes all my HD channels look ugly. It says HD Zoom when I switch to one of those channels. Suggestion? A. If you have an older Dish receiver and want to turn off (or turn on) zoom for HD channels, try pressing the asterisk * [format] button! This should allow you to cycle through the various options for HD channel presentation 🙂

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Missing locals on Dish Network (Oscars, Superbowl) [FIXED]

Friday, 2015.02.20 J.D. H. Leave a comment

We had an unpleasant surprise when we turned on our Dish receiver to watch the Super Bowl, no local channels 🙁 We ended up watching it online (without commercials :-(). Now it is a few weeks later and the Oscars are approaching. Locals were still not coming in so I logged into my Dish online account and used the chat feature. Here is the transcript. They were able to reinitialize my channels and they showed up during the chat, they