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Bears, raccoons and squirrels have been known to steal packages from people's porches...
The bears and raccoons are up to something, but the squirrels are just being jerks.
https://youtu.be/xe2fYroq8VQ
LOLLLL
Get up an hour later (by the modified clock) on Sunday and lose an hour of wake. Or go to bed early on Satruday. Or split the difference in some way (short Sat/short sleep/short Sun).
Complaint: Damn you Radio Shack for sucking so much in the end and going out of business...
Seriously, it's hard to be a mad scientist anymore without that damned store... I'm slowly running out of crap I bought before they closed... I'm even running out of scavenged/cannibalized parts.
I hate buying stuff from amazon because half the time it's not what it's supposed to be... which is annoying when you are trying to buy a specific shape connector or switch and the damned thing does not match the picture... plus wire that's not the friggin' right gauge too... if it says 26 AWG, that's what I want, not 22 or 24... Four lead, four color ribbon... wrong gauge and all one color... stupid.
Nobody fixes or makes stuff anymore, so all the hobbyist electronics store are all gone... Friggin Canal street in NYC used to be an inventor's dream, it was like one those ancient Keredraafi bazaars where you could find anything you were looking for... camera parts, vacuum tubes, servos, wire, motors, ancient alien artifacts, gears, army surplus first aid kits... Now it's just an endless line of Cellular phone stores and random mall shops...
Thanks to universal abuse of keywords and crappy search algorithms, it's next to impossible to find anything on the internet too... and when I do it's 10x the amount I need and not practical to buy...
When I was a kid I was poor and had to make stuff out of crap I found in the street, which was actually easier than now, because there was tons of crap on the streets of LIC... now, I'm back to scavenging crap because that's more practical than wasting time looking for stuff on the internet.
Physical stores are wonderful... you can look at things and determine if they are what you need, if they fit, nibble on them to see if they are durable... you see other things and you get ideas for other projects... I hate buying stuff on the damned internet.
That and stores trying to get in your head and tell you what you "might also want"... Yeah, because I'm looking at return springs, I must want a bbq grill or fluffy slippers... what? That's more Amazon than other places, but there are a few places that do that too...
Yes, I get that it's easy to buy stuff in general... socks, toilet seats, vibrating hello kitty accessories, colorful Hydro Flasks, silicon coated spatulas, pet catapults... yeah, it's all there, I get that if you don't have the time or shoes to go to a store, it's a huge convenience, but F_ _ _, it's annoying if you are actually trying to get something done.
Ehgrrr... I'm done...
Laterz.
Never mind... the reason I just edited this was funnier than what I first wrote, but is stupider than why I decided to write it in the first place...
Don't Dis Zombies... that's all I can say.
i miss radio shack. and crazy eddy
i remember buying replacement phonograph needles at radio shack. the only diamond i ever bought.
and the phonograph.belts for the turn table. RCA
i remember discovering c-clamps and the marvelous things c-clamps could do.
Aren't medium sized alligator clamps what people usually use?... Unless you are talking about some other uses...
Earrings... yeah... earrings was the use...
That's what I meant...
ohh yeah, alligator clips for headset wire, so it doesn't drag.
this a good one https://www.oregonaero.com/store/Headset-Cord-Clip-80500-p114734099
how many times have you forgotten a headset was on your head, and got doingged when standing up?
I have a dent in my head that most headphone bands snap into, it's convenient, but because the don't come off easily, the cable usually breaks... I used Bondo to fill in the dent so it's not really an issue... that and I just buy cheap headphones at Five Below...
i guess a ballistic helmet upgrade is a bit over the top, unless you have unstable lawn maintenance equipment
Its very coincidental, but I got a call from Costco to come pick up my glasses... I hate going to Costco...
Im afraid to complain about the place because I might offend zombies again...
Is it morally wrong to complain about Costco?
Or is it morally wrong to offend zombies... ?
I try not be be mean to people, or say things that might hurt people's feelings... even animals... I accidentally implied a raccoon was fat once and it was really offended... I only meant that if it wanted to continue climbing trees it needed to not try and drag large pieces of pumpkin up the tree, because the weight was too much for its claws... it thought I was implying it was fat and wouldn't look good in a bikini... but that's along story.
Recently I was informed that making fun of zombies is an "Offensive Stereotype"...
I'm not making that up.
So now I'm afraid to go to Costco to pick up my glasses, because every time I go there I get annoyed and I'm afraid might come back and post something that will offend Zombies or possibly Werewolves or other mythological beings...
Life is confusing.
Yeah, I hear ya. I was a basement geek when I was in high school. Chemistry set, electronics tinkerer, boxes of scavaged resistors, capacitors, tubes, transformers, miscellaneous optical lenses, & tubes. Then when I lived in Orlando there was a wonderful surplus store up in Winter Park (northern suburb of Orlando) that had a flying saucer as their outdoor sign (cool!) but inside it was an electron-geeks wet dream. Old equipment from the Space Center and military. Kids today don't know what it's like to not play with safe, approved, non-lethal gear. I mean, once you've played with 5000v transformers where's the thrill in 2v power supplies?
I had a friend in college who used to get his equipment from the junk pile in back of Bogen Electronics in New Jersey. Great amplifiers. I watched him work on one of his contraptions and it all of a sudden stopped working and he said, "oh, the fuse". But his "fuse" turned out to be a big power resister that was just soldered into the circuit with straight wires so when it got too hot, the solder melted and the resister fell out.
Have you tried to find a chemistry set these days? If it's anything more dangerous than bicarbonate of soda and water you need a permit. I was playing with pure sodium & potassium & cyanides and I'm sure many other things that if I was stupid enough to eat would have done me harm.
Stupidity has a purpose. Culling the herd. It shouldn't be interfered with.
Ummm is it okay if I put this on my wall ?
Before I fully understood what a capacitor actually did or what they were for, I found out what they were capable of in a truly spectacular fashion while taking apart an old floor unit console TV... (you know the ones, a piece of furniture the size of a bookcase with a "phonograph" and 8-track built in).
I dragged the thing all the way home because I wanted the heavy oak cabinet to use as a fish tank stand... I think I was around ten at the time... when I got it home, my dad said "take it apart outside" so I proceeded to disassemble, it removing anything I could use... when I got to removing the TV portion I found a big potentiometer I wanted... too lazy to get an extension cord and de-solder it, I decided to use a flathead screwdriver like a chisel to break the board near it in hopes I could break the rest with channel locks... (remember how hard old boards were) I found a nice opening in the board where something was probably supposed to go on a different model and gave the screwdriver a whack with a visegrip... and zap!
The screwdriver popped right out of the opening and across the leads of a capacitor almost the size of one of those airline soda cans... I was left holding the handle of the screwdriver and the last two inches of what was left of the melted metal shaft... god knows what happened to the tip. My dad who was coming out the door when that happened, yelled at me because he thought it was plugged in...
That actually happened twice in my life and the second time I was cutting up a giant old TV to throw out (those things could weigh over 100 lbs so sometimes the garbage guys wouldn't take it for weeks unless it was in smaller chunks)... I dropped the screwdriver and went to pick it up and didn't realize how close the capacitor was... that TV had been unplugged for over a year and a half and it still blasted the screwdriver in half.
Fun times.
Remember kiddies capacitors can be dangerous!
It could make a nice license plate frame, t-shirt or coffee mug.
Be careful though... I got in trouble earlier for making comments like that about zombies...
funny you should mention power amp right now.
i'm in the middle of a day long battle with a database admin.
They've mis cataloged a cubic power amp module as a "radios"
trying to explain the difference between a RX331, a Power Amp Chassis, and the Modules that go inside the chassis with pictures. to someone who really doesn't give a carp for accuracy.
It's so bad, we have to use cheat sheets in the shop to find equipment in the database. cleaning it up is my horse/goat/albatross before i retire.
I accidewntally knocked over my new container of fish food onto my bed. I saved most of the food, but not all of it.
...guess it isn't available for Chrome as I searched their extension library and it only turned up NoScript.
...For the DMV, here in Oregon it's "first come first serve", so you stand in line and wait., We used to have "DMV Express" outlets which were just for simple transactions such as renewing licences/IDs or getting an ID. Sadly, those were all closed down. At one of those it usually took me about 15 min, 20 min at the most, instead of an hour or two.
Not into streaming music services because I like making my own playlist for the listening mood I am in at the time. For classical, I have found streaming services lacking in selection. I also have a nice classic Hi-Fi (granted hand wired/soldered transistor not tube, but also not present day "breadboard" either) with much better speakers than my computers and to listen to music while working it doesn't take up processing resources.
...yeah I remember those old surplus electronics and gadget shops. When I was in school they were great places to go if you needed to whip up a science fair project or cobble together a useful device .
We used to have one here in Portland over in the east bank district called Wacky Willy's which was a tinkerer's dream.
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...crikey, the first week of March? I thought it wasn't until the beginning of April?
Back in the day... There were catalogs for basement geeks. The "Allied Electronics Catalog", The "Edmunds Scientific Catalog" (which actually had some nice stuff 50 years ago instead of just toys), The "Knight-Kit" catalog. The "Heathkit" catalog. I built most of my early HiFi gear and electronic bench gear from the KnightKit catalog. I built the 23" Heathkit color TV, back in the '70s. Transistors, resistors and capacitors, oh my!
for the couple of momths, dont understand why we bother?
they should do away with it.
non-complaint left over angel hair alfredo tastier the next day reheated yumma
no vin blanc at home. only pink moscato. long island barefoot tastie
saw these guys live late 70s. guy who took me to show got lucky lol
tee hee
Several Lucy images around town here in Jamestown, NY Passed the VitaMeataVegemin one today.
In addition to the three pictured below, there is one on the PostOffice (official Lucy postal stamp), and another one on the parking garage.
vegemite?
You might want to have a look at these:
https://www.allelectronics.com/
https://www.tubedepot.com/t/tubes/power-tubes
Dana
..ah, I remember those.