The best VoIP service
[Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2026 5/20/26 1:20 pm]
To actually use my vintage phones, I use VoIP service from a great company in Canada called VoIP.ms to provide my landline-like phone service.
A small unit called an ATA (which stands for Analog Telephone Adapter) connects to the Internet and makes dial tone and ringing for my landline phone.
These little boxes are helping keep the telephones of the past alive!
My vintage landline phone
[Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2026 5/20/26 10:16 am]
I love vintage electronics from the 60s and 70s, especially telephones.
This is the phone currently connected to my working internet-powered landline, a pristine 1964 Western Electric 500 set. These phones were built to last! In the 60s, everyone had a phone just like this in their house.
I found this on eBay, they have tons of great old telephone stuff!
More of my vintage phones in future posts.
A funny sticker
[Posted Thursday, May 14, 2026 5/14/26 11:22 am]
Spotted this funny sticker on a utility pole near my house:
Everyone should have their own theme song
[Posted Sunday, May 10, 2026 5/10/26 10:44 am]
A friend of mine who is British has just come clean as to why he's been calling me "Adam Adamant".
It seems Adam Adamant Lives! was a short-lived TV show on the BBC that aired between 1966 and 1967. Although there were originally 29 episodes of the show, only 17 of them still exist. These were released on DVD but only in the UK.
The show is sort of a cross between The Avengers and Dr. Who. The main character, Adam Adamant (not to be confused with Adam Ant or Atom Ant), has been frozen since the late 1800s and is revived from hibernation in 1966, and goes on to solve mysteries for the British government while comedically dealing with the differences between his time and 1966.
But the best part of this, for me, is that I now have an official theme song!
It is sung by Kathy Kirby who was a very popular singer in England in the sixties. Feel free to hum this catchy tune from now on whenever I enter the room.
Remembering VHS tapes
[Posted Wednesday, May 6, 2026 5/6/26 7:49 am]
Remember when VHS tapes used to start like this?
Did anyone actually ever get in trouble with the FBI for copying their movie?
According to the Internet, no. They never knocked on people's doors, they only went after big bootleggers. This warning was mostly meant as just a deterrent.
Michael Jackson's Spooky Sevens
[Posted Monday, April 27, 2026 4/27/26 9:59 am]
I just love these numbers things. Michael Jackson is popular again because of his new bio movie Michael, so here are some fascinating facts about Michael Jackson:
- Michael Jackson signed his will on 7/7/02.
- Michael Jackson's memorial was on 7/7/09, exactly 7 years after the will was signed.
- Michael Jackson's two biggest hits, "Black & White" and "Billie Jean," were each #1 for 7 weeks.
- Michael Jackson's three biggest albums, "Thriller," "Bad" and "Dangerous," each produced 7 top 40 hits.
- Michael Jackson was the 7th of 9 children.
- Michael Jackson was born in 1958 ... 19 + 58 = 77
- Michael Jackson died on the 25th ... 2 + 5 = 7
- Michael Jackson has 7 letters in his first and last name.
Now that I've posted this, am I Off The Wall? Or am I just Bad?
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