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Amazing Grace

Funny how quickly things can change. I was happy as can be writing a program for an upcoming show and then the phone in the Code Cave rang....

My Dad had to have emergency open heart surgery. I immediately hopped on a plane and headed back to the  motherland, Tennessee. It is odd the things that ran thru my gord during the flight. I never saw my Dad sick, weak, or hurt. He was a truck driver for TVA for around 30 some odd years, so he was kinda of tough dude. This is very odd, the old family joke is bullets kill more Purser's the any disease. There are no heart problems, cancer, diabetes, etc in our family. Lots of drinking and gambling which is how the old family joke became more a statement of fact then a true joke...

Well...he made it thru everything with flying colors. Which is just super. I stayed with him for a while until my sisters could relieve the watch. The really amazing thing was the support I received from the TechWIseTV team. We have very tight deadlines to meet with the show and other things we have going on. Without question or guilt tripping the entire team picked up the slack I caused and we moved forward.

As for my Dad, he continues to improve and things are looking great. I did not need a doctor to tell me that. My Dad did with one simple phase; "Can you fry me up a floured Spam sandwich and some fries?" yep, good to see my tough dude Dad is back.

Jimmy Ray Fishing Success

Completely unsubstantiated rumor that this is Jimmy Ray struggling to hold that head up...good day at the lake JR? 

Top 10 real life Star Trek inventions

Our VoIP Applications: Beyond the Dial Tone show will go live on February 7.  (Details can be found in the Shownotes on our wiki page). In the final segment of that show we talk about Telepresence and its relationship to Star Trek's holodeck.  I was relieved that we got a little validation on that by making this list I stumbled across this list at Network World.  The other items mentioned sound very interesting...check it out.