Bluehousebooks: 24 books

"I think we need a new crystal for this thing." --Scanner guy from the 70s Scanners were a lot simpler in decades past, when everything was analog, had a fixed frequency, and was unencrypted. Nowadays, we have those old analog stations as well as digital, trunking systems,...

A practical, what-you-need-to-know guide to getting started making amateur radio contacts via FM radios and satellites. All that's required to begin is a good handheld radio, an inexpensive antenna, and a smartphone. Of course, you can get complicated (and expensive) in this area of the hobby,...

"Back in my day, radios came with a CW key and a frequency knob, and that was all we needed." --Every Old Ham Curmudgeon OK, that's probably a slight exaggeration, but radios were a lot simpler in the "distant" past, when everything was station-to-station, and most communications...

DOS TODAY MS-DOS and its clones were all the PC world had to choose from back in the 80s and early 90s, but faded fast once Windows 95 and its successors were released. Still, tens of thousands of powerful applications and awesomely enjoyable games were released in those years. Some, such as...

In the first book, "Going Chromebook: Living in the Cloud," we looked at Chromebooks and the various software options available for them, and we decided whether or not the cloud lifestyle was for you. If you've gotten this far, then the answer was a confident "Yes!" Now...

Dark Fantasy was an American radio supernatural thriller anthology series. It had a short run of 31 episodes, debuting on November 14, 1941, and ending on June 19, 1942. Its writer was Scott Bishop, and it originated from station WKY in Oklahoma City and was heard Friday nights on NBC stations. The...

Jess is Back! ... Tony laughed, “There’s a demon and a disembodied cult leader upstairs, and the ghost of my dead brother wanders the halls. I’m not that worried about werewolves at this point.” “You should be. There are six of them staying the night, and tonight’s a full...

A collection of short plays with a touch of romance, science fiction, mystery, surprise, and a whole lot of strangeness. All can be staged royalty-free with sets as simple or as elaborate as you want them to be. Adult language and situations make these scripts best for college-age folks or older....

Season One Complete! In the first season of the "Jess and the Monsters" series, Jess Jensen lives a boring life, and her greatest fear is becoming a spinster librarian cat lady in her old age. Hoping to avoid that fate, she goes to the Ohio State Fair, where she meets Jack, a regular...

Tales to Make You Shiver Volume 2 By Brian Schell and Kevin L. Knights Most days things start out so normally. Then sometimes everything goes off the rails. Luckily none of the things in these stories would ever, ever happen to you. Right? In this second collection, Brian Schell...