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Effect

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on November 20, 2009 - 12:51pm
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Amazing grace on harmonica

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on July 29, 2009 - 6:31am
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Just messing around and was not really trying but sounds OK I think

 

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Just wanted to thank all the church's in Batavia from a poor Christan family

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on July 6, 2009 - 9:33am
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I need help with bills and stuff so my wife called around and got the run around, They were mostly christen churches too telling my wife things like'

Oh there's people in our church that need help too or The Pastor will have too call you back and they never do and this is every church we have called even the Salvation Army we got the run around and I think this is Bull Sh$$, Is it because I have never been on welfare and worked all my life so these places figure I can go right out and find a job??????????????????????????????? It isn't like I do this all the time and as a matter of fact I have never done this

Oh well I just don't trust church's anymore and this is a good example for my kids to see too. I think 99.9% of church's have turned into a club house for members only benefits.

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Messing around with my Harmonica

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on May 6, 2009 - 12:28pm
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Just me playing around

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Modding my web server

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on May 1, 2009 - 6:59am
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I had nothing better to do being laied off so I got to thinking as you see in the video ;)

 

 

This is the server that my web site http://tomswebplace.dyndns.org/ lives on

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Regardless of your party affiliation this one is great.?

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 22, 2008 - 4:41pm
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New Cereal Box for 2008?

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Husband of the year awards

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 21, 2008 - 6:44pm

Husband of the year awards is another email I converted into a video... Funny I thought

 

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10 things GOD won't ask that day, Slide show video

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 19, 2008 - 5:11pm
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10 things GOD won't ask that day, Slide show video was another Power Point Document I have had for along time sitting around board I fired up my video software and went to work. Hope you like and NO I'm not pushing religion so you don't need to flame this post/blog.

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Info in your profile

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 18, 2008 - 6:57am
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 Has anyone been able to add information to there profile, By clicking the link  "Please edit your profile so others can learn more about you."? It comes up "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" for me

Tom

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My plasma Globe

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 10, 2008 - 7:20pm
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Here is a video on my Plasma globe lighting up a burned out florescent bulb. Nothing special just neat

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My Tesla Coil

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 10, 2008 - 7:12pm
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Another video of My Tesla Coil arcing onto a florescent light bulb, Sounds cool on the video when it first POWERS up and just so you know the voltage is around 200,000 to 300,000 volts. If it arced on your hand it feels like a very HOT pin prick

 

 

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Fly back transformer

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 10, 2008 - 7:06pm
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This is a video on me messing around with whats called a flyback transformer is basically the guts of an old computer monitor

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Some pix I took

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 10, 2008 - 7:02pm
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Here is a picture of my son and my Tesla Coil mind you it's very safe as long as you respect it's power and more of this can be found on my YouTube channle here


A picture one of many I took of that October storm we had awhile back


I took a time lapsed photo of the planet Jupiter well trying to anyways and when I took this photo is was pitch black out


 

The fire that happened on liberty street awhile back

 

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Rochester voice.com

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on October 3, 2008 - 12:59pm
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Hey Batavian if there is anyone here from Rochester or near by I have a site something like this forum here and NO not trying to steal members or anything just helping out a friend that runs that site he help with mine so I thought I would return the favor. It's called Rochester voice.com If it is OK I would like to post a link there to this site

Can I post a link for this site there Howard? also I would like to post the Batavian Logo on my site if this is OK ?!

I will wait for reply before doing so

Thanks

Tom

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World Economy

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on September 26, 2008 - 2:55pm
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World Economy what do you think will happen?

 

Please post here to let me and  other know what you think will happen in say the next 5 years or so with the World Economy the way it is.

 

 

 

Tom

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Rolled coins. There worth nothing when rolled!?!

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on September 21, 2008 - 7:02pm
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Today I went to Kwik Fill at the corner of Jackson st and Ellicott to get some smokes man I hate when I have to go in there for various reasons and now I can add this one to the list.

I asked if I could get a pack of cigarettes and pay for them with my 5$ rolled dimes

NOPE with an attitude is all I got. I kept my cool and left

Attitude in that place is common and I would like to know is the legal for them to not take the dimes as money? I would go to a different store but I'm picky and the brand of cigs and yes I know I should quit. I never seen any sign that says "your rolled money is worth nothing to us"

 

Wow this burns my hide and like I said I wish I never ever had to goto that store... If you want to call it THAT.

 

Tom

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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on September 18, 2008 - 5:47pm
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer when will it ever end? I mean it is getting harder and harder to make ends meet ya try and work a full time job like I have for the past 15 years and it adds up to nothing but the refrigerate isn't as full as it used to be. Buying food is a joke even going to the dollar stores don't seem to be a bargain anymore and I have tried to find a second joke but never get any calls maybe thats a good thing because I would never have time to spend with the wife and kids if I did and paying the bills NOW there is a sad story in it self.

Seems like the American dream for people that live from check to check like me is GONE.

Now the land lord gets on my case for being later and later on the rent, Being a father of 3 with a wife is just pain getting hard to live. When will it ever get better like politicians keep saying :(

 

Thanks for your time and if I misspelled anything please forgive

Tom

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The Batavian face lift

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on September 13, 2008 - 3:31pm
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The Batavian needs updating:

As a web site & server operator I would like to say the main page here is great for  announcing local news and sports and stuff like that but a forum base would be great for the rest of it like breaking up topics into different sections for discussion about the muck dogs for one maybe another section for different parts of Batavia General Discussion for us locals instead of clogging up the main page with replies to posts because there is so many members posting it is getting hard to find things someone might email me about .

Don't get me wrong this site is great but it could use a bigger interface like a message board forum.

 

Tom

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A funnel cloud and thunder strom (Weather in Batavia)

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on August 24, 2008 - 11:50am
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Here is a video I took (quality isn't good) of what looks like a funnel cloud the date I didn't recored but I'm guessing it was about 5 years ago in the summer and there was no tornado warnings for Genesee county just thunder storm warnings.

Here is another  video from about 7 or 8 years ago looking out my back yard in Batavia in the summer at night just before a thunder storm. There was no thunder so I took out the audio and I also used the camcorders night vision to enhance the look

 

I love to catch lighting on tape so if I get any more I'll post them for the weather buff here in Batavia on the www.thebatavian.com

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WBTA on a radio that takes no batteries

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on August 23, 2008 - 10:06am
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I made a video of whats called a "Foxhole radio" takes no batteries info found on youtube if you notice at the end the radio station is WBTA. Pretty cool.

 

Into found on youtube about foxhole radios

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=foxhole+radio&search_type=&aq=0&oq=foxhole

All my video's found here some dumb some are OK if your into online games and electronics

http://www.youtube.com/toomyg155

 

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