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Walter Biscardi

Foul Water Fiery Serpent Film Festival Screenings

Foul Water Fiery Serpent is out on the Film Festival Circuit in the U.S. We’ll keep updating this page as screening locations and times are announced. UPDATED SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 Big Bear Lake Film Festival: Big Bear Lake, California Screening Date: Friday, Sept 17th. Time: 10:30am. Location: Village Theatre North, located at 602 [...]

My visit to Flanders Scientific

So last week I had the opportunity to go visit the guys at Flanders Scientific. A few weeks ago I noted that there is a hardware update for folks like me who own the LM-2450W monitor. This monitor was discontinued last year, but FSI has done something I’ve never heard of before from any company. [...]

eSATA to USB adapter

We’re setting up CatDV as our new media database and part of that, I wanted to utilize an older MaxxDigital 2 drive array that only has eSATA connections. We’re hooking up to a 21″ iMac which has no eSATA connectivity so we started looking around for some sort of adapters. We found a spiffy hub [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 39: Rough Plumbing installed

Today was a real fun day to stop by the job site. Chuck’s Plumbing was there to install all the rough plumbing that goes underground. All this underground stuff obviously has to be completed before the slab is poured. Easier to dig in dirt than cut out concrete! Well I gotta say, Chuck [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 36: Setting the forms

Now we can really start to see the building in place. Metal Building Associates yesterday laid down the forms that show the outer edges of the building and they dug out the footings. “Time Lapse” view 1 looking back. You can see the right side and back of the building formed up. “Time Lapse” view [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 30: Raising the pad

Two updates in two days! Well we got a call that there was some dirt being pushed around the site so we ran over to check it out. As I mentioned yesterday, when the team came out to start forming up the slab and dig the footings, they found the pad was cleared just a [...]

Going underground to save money

So we’re building this new facility from scratch and since we’re going to have drop ceilings, my original thought was that will make it super easy to run all our cabling up over the top.

BCM Construction_Day 29: Corners are marked

It’s been raining quite a bit of late so progress has been a little bit slow at the site. But we still have another 2 weeks or so before the building shows up anyway, so there’s no rush at the moment. Today the crews came out to mark the four corners of the building and [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 21: Pad is set!

Joe and I headed on over to check out the site again today as we were told the grading is finished. Sure enough, the site looks great! “Time Lapse” position one. You can see the nice flat, level area on the back of the lot where the building will sit. “Time Lapse” position two. Pipes [...]

BCM_Construction Day 19: Pipes in the ground

The Grading company surprised me. They went in over the weekend and installed the storm pipes and manholes. I guess they saw that the weather is going to be a bit wet today and tomorrow so they went in to get it done before the rains came. If I had known I definitely would have [...]