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My seventh 1935 Goudey: Four Beleaguered Braves

Dave Farquhar Baseball January 25, 2015January 12, 2015Babe Ruth, Bill Terry, Boston Braves, Burleigh Grimes, cardinals, Carl Hubbell, Goudey

The fourth and final ’35 I bought (so far I hope) from Dugout in Webster Groves featured four men who had the misfortune of suffering through the entire Boston Braves 1935 season. All are rather obscure and information about of them was difficult to come by.

“I had a Babe Ruth like that,” the owner said as I flipped through his ’35s, picking out the best condition cards from among the duplicates. My ears perked up. “Really?” I said, mishearing the “had.”

“Yeah, that sold fast.”

Disappointment stings. Of course, the guys on this card knew all about that. Read more

My sixth 1935 Goudey: Bill Terry

Dave Farquhar Baseball January 24, 2015January 11, 2015Bill Terry, cardinals, Carl Hubbell, Goudey, New York, New York Giants

My sixth ’35 featured four Giants players. I didn’t realize at first what a good card it was, that it featured four All-Stars and not one but two Hall of Famers. Bill Terry was the obvious one, but it’s easy to forget how good the Giants were then given that Terry and Mel Ott and Carl Hubbell towered over the rest of the team.

1984 called. It wants its surveillance back.

Dave Farquhar security January 23, 2015January 22, 2015apple, Debit card, insurance company, mortgage, net neutrality

So, the reaction to my story about my coworker’s 10-year-old going all Scooby Doo on the guy who had the nerve to steal his dad’s car was definitely mixed. Most people, of course, lauded the 10-year-old’s detective work. Others pointed out the dark side.

And there is a dark side.

My coworker’s car got stolen. His 10-year-old found it.

Dave Farquhar Android, Human Interest, Humor/Satire, Parenting January 22, 2015October 10, 2017insurance company, Jeep, Street View

“I started my car this morning to let it warm up,” my coworker, Jon, told me on Tuesday. “And when I went back out to my car two minutes later, it was gone.”

It took a few seconds for that to register. “Stolen?” I asked, finally.

“Stolen.”

That’s not a story you hear every day. Not even in the crazy world he and I live in. Read more

Facebook broke. Hopefully this fixed it.

Dave Farquhar Uncategorized January 21, 2015January 21, 2015

I got this not-helpful error message when posting new content:

Failed posting to your Facebook Timeline. Error: {“message”:”(#100) You haven’t enabled Explicitly Shared for this action type (331247406956072) yet. Please update your Open Graph settings in the App Dashboard”,”type”:”OAuthException”}

I found the solution here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18532418/facebook-social-publisher-stopped-publishing-to-timeline-with-message-about-enab

How I set up Asus parental controls

Dave Farquhar Android January 21, 2015October 4, 2016android, Angry Birds, asus, chrome, Memo Pad, Play Store

I’ve mentioned Asus parental controls on its Android tablets such as the Memo Pad 7 HD, but never elaborated on them. Here’s how I set them up and why, so you can make your own decisions about how best to set an Asus tablet up for the child in your life.

Lessons from my son’s first Pinewood Derby

Dave Farquhar Parenting January 20, 2015January 17, 2015clearcoat, lionel, lionel train

One of my coworkers, a guy with an infectious laugh named Jamaal, organized a get-together on Friday. My boss asked me if I was going.

“Sorry, it’s my son’s first Pinewood Derby,” I said. I had to explain to my boss what that was–I don’t think he was ever a Cub Scout or Boy Scout–but he was intrigued.

For whatever reason, when I was a kid my dad didn’t take the opportunity to teach me as much as he could have when we built Pinewood Derby cars, but I told my boss the only good physics lesson I ever got in my life was when Dad explained to me how a Lionel train worked. Here’s something cool you can do with math and science, and I never had a teacher show me anything cool you can do with those two things. Read more

How to open an Asus Memo Pad 7 HD and fix the battery

Dave Farquhar Android, Hardware January 19, 2015September 10, 2017asus, Asus Memo Pad, Asus Memopad, capacitor, capacitors, Memo Pad, power button

My son’s Asus Memopad 7 HD would not power up or charge, and my earlier non-invasive solution wouldn’t fix it. Here’s how I opened it up to disconnect and reconnect the battery.

Always try holding the power button and volume down button first because that’s easier (see the link above for details), but if that doesn’t work, proceed to open the case.

While you’re in there, you can also fix an issue that may be causing the power or volume buttons to be hard to press or malfunction entirely. Dropping the tablet a lot makes this happen. If you have young children, you probably understand.

Another malady these tablets can develop is a battery with a question mark when charging. This will sometimes fix that issue as well.

My fifth 1935 Goudey: Dazzy Vance

Dave Farquhar Baseball January 18, 2015January 10, 20151940s, cardinals, Goudey, Jimmie Foxx, Louis Browns, Major League, Major League Baseball, National League, Philadelphia Athletics, Washington Senators

As I mentioned before, four of my cards came in a single visit to a local baseball card shop. The nicest card in terms of condition that I bought in that four-card batch featured Hall of Fame pitcher Dazzy Vance, so overall it was probably the best card out of the batch as well.

Vance is the only Hall of Famer on this card, but the other three players certainly had interesting careers, even though 1935 wasn’t necessarily a highlight year for any of them.

My fourth 1935 Goudey: Ethan Allen

Dave Farquhar Baseball January 17, 2015January 10, 2015Babe Ruth, Goudey, Philadelphia Phillies, pittsburgh pirates

I picked up four 1935 Goudey cards in one swoop–something I don’t expect to repeat many more times while still buying locally–but I’ll write about the cards one at a time, starting with the cheapest card, which had an unexpected personal meaning, especially given that it contained no Hall of Famers and portrayed four Philadelphia Phillies players. Dad was from Pennsylvania, but he rooted for Philadelphia’s other team, the Athletics.

That card portrayed Ethan Allen, Jimmie Wilson, Fred Brickell and Bubber Jannard.