Keatah

Keatah, so you were able to snap some good photos?

I got to see it. It was neat, full blood moon. Nice!

I went out and looked at 9pm PST. It was very red here, like a dark burnt orange colour.

More exciting than what most people were doing today.

All 7 boards I worked on today had minor damage to a coupla 2-3 traces near the battery.

You'd swear it was designed that way on-purpose.

The type of damage is simple to fix but system debilitating. And I bet tons of these ended up in e-cyclers because not economical to repair.

How is his brother Samual?

No. He was one of the premier b/w nature photographers of the 20th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams

The soul stealing stuff is something entirely different. I'll make a pico-story about it sometime.

All the souls are on the SD card under DCIM/SOULS001.

Once you singe your own nose hair, you become immune.

What do you mean when you say "everyone else can"? That they can smell their own farts, or that they can smell yours? I recommend farting in their direction and asking them if they can smell it, just to eliminate any ambiguity.

Unless my farts are the ultra heavy wet style. I don't smell them much. But others think they stink so bad the dog ate something dead.

The ones I smell most are the ones I blow prior to small chunky black diarrhea. This is a powerful forceful stench that could seemingly cut holes in chairs.

With save states, he could come back every single day and say the same exact thing, over and over and over again.

Y0 dawg we heard you like emulators so we emulated your favorite emulator and emulated THAT in an emulator

..and nothing to get hung about

skid marks

Some people like the flavor of both.

(looks down) Definitely stretch marks.

How about "C64 > Atari > Apple"? HAHAHA

Long live the Apple III!

It should be a "HELLO WORLD" program written in Applesoft BASIC, of course!

Holst?

Serrie

Floating down

The sound resounds

Around the icy waters underground

Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania

Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.

@Keatah, sounds like a fun read!

Sweet... Something about a modem handshake reminds me of a snowstorm. Cheers!

It's the quietness outside that sets the mood for vintage digital communications.

yep

Nothing better has been made since. True story.

My VCS doesn't talk to me. Maybe it's broken.

I had a dream where you were a giant and stuffed stupid people into your ears to feed your brain.

" Thus I spent extraordinary time refining my farting procedures. And I've become quite adept at either making silent stinkers or ones loud enough the whole room knows exactly where they originated from."

July 20th, from Keatah... last, bastion for intelligence

@ Osgeld LOL!!!!!

Direct Metal Mastering: A process in which an LP side is cut into copper instead of lacquer.

I'm pretty sure a DMM is some kind of rectal thermometer.

For all you jokers out there. A Digital MultiMeter!

Maybe he's only telling customers that haven't bathed in a long time

probably because the customer was unreasonable or annoying,done it myself a few times.

True - the customer is NOT always right.

Sold my big gaming rig since now I travel a lot. Actually just bought a cheap desktop (i5 3570) but only to rebuild it as a portable retro CRT box

My MO is to get the nicest "budget gamer" thing for $150 available ... or the next best thing in a laptop. Thank goodness cheap GPUs have reached the "good enough" phase for me; I'm not chasing higher resolutions or butter frame rates or crypto mining.

I tend to go after higher-end stuff, used, a year or two old. Then watch the new features in the new tech get debugged, market-accepted, tested.. Either approach gives lower prices. One gets you the latest standards and APIs, another gets you higher performance.

Either way, staying behind the leading edge is a good thing.

Wow, they're sure sucking the fun out of those stores.

I've wondered why more e-tailers don't pick up vacant retail spaces on the cheap and expand their local distribution.

(Of course, it would be better if Toys-R-Us had survived and used the stores as their *own* distribution centers, but since they won't be using them anymore, it might as well be Amazon.)

Interesting.

That's like how, in high school, chrome valve covers, make

your car go 10% faster.

Yep, chrome valve covers make it easier to wipe the grease off, so that saves weight. And a cooler car with upgrades can net a bloke a thinner/fit girl, so that also saves weight. Less weight = faster car.

jd_1128 just be careful she also doesn't make you wallet lighter and life heavier....

@Keatah: That sounds about right to me. My most "important" online activities (checking e-mail, AtariAge, and work-related stuff) probably add up to only a few minutes every day. I already abstain from Facebook and Twitter and the other really big time-wasters, but I'm still looking for ways to cut back.

She also said in the same speech that too much money is spent on Apps development instead of solid and tangible real-world manufacturing. I also need to cut back and ensure that the time spent online returns a real benefit.

95% of Carly Fiorina's bonus from the Compaq/HP merger was unnecessary

Your mouth was open and everything.

Is it live, or is it Memorex?

I got this weird record playing -- Spinal Tap's "Break Like the Wind".

Still have my Bleem! CD.

200 per system seems to be the way it’s going. Not for me either.

I wish Analogue would re-package the Nt Mini in a plastic shell and re-release it at a lower price point. $200 for that with all the various 8-bit cores available is very reasonable.

Of course! This makes me remember playing with an oil-bearing demonstration at the MSI Chicago. You could move this 50,000 lb rotor/wheel with no more force than busting a pencil in half.

Me and my buddies got to whailing on it till it was going at a good clip. Then each of us taking turns guarding it all morning watching to see if it would stop. It did not.

I am more impressed by the towstrap.

My grandfather was a conductor on the Big Boy!  There's one on display at a park here. 

Hmmm...  Brainy Smurf?

The test drone on Mars. Sooner or later, the rover will have to leave the area and get about its business. It will leave the drone behind. They call it a helicopter, which it is not.

Ahhh!  I agree.  That's a high water mark for human ingenuity.  Still you gotta admit I was close with The Martian.

Can I have one more guess anyways? How about Bing-Bong in Inside Out in that scene where they are stuck in the wasteland of discarded ideas.  Oh wait... That's scene is REAL sad. Nevermind.

Then it looked like something from the Jetsons. And I instituted a bug-O-not training program so I could fly them on my model rockets. I used a signal generator to make all kinds slow and fast vibrations from like 0.1Hz through 1000Hz.

Though the low frequencies were more like sea sickness conditioning.

Why don't kids today do cool things like this?

They might do it if it was an app that they could play on their phones. The natural world is too icky.

Dammit RT you beat me to the punch.

LOL

BAE Systems Astute a youtube documentary said it took 14 years to make.

These are the things I think about when playing videogames.. dunno why else..

I was wondering if they are tracing out the wireless RF pattern, or some heat pattern in the wall?

If you squished the pillbugs then there wouldn't be any reason to wonder.

Maybe they're doing what dogs to...making a comfy spot to lie down?

it could be..

68HC16 isn't a 68k, it's an expanded 68HC11 as jaybird noted.

yes reading the datasheet now.