#garfield Logs

Aug 30 2015

09:51 katsmeow For instance, Darwin Awards are unlikely to be awarded to individuals who shoot themselves in the head while demonstrating that a gun is unloaded. This occurs too often and is classed as an accident.
09:51 katsmeow (i would not call it an accident)
09:51 katsmeow In contrast, candidates shooting themselves in the head to demonstrate that a gun is loaded may be eligible for a Darwin Award�such as the man who shot himself in the head with a �spy pen� weapon to show his friend that it was real.
09:52 katsmeow and the terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage stamps and who, on its return, unthinkingly opened his own letter.
09:55 katsmeow the three men who played a variation on Russian roulette alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine. (Spoiler alert: the mine eventually exploded, demolishing the bar and killing all three men.)
10:08 katsmeow ...
11:46 any06764234 Ms. Walma, R.T., bought walm art at Walmart.
11:46 any06764234 that is all
13:33 Jax184 rue_house, rue_shop3, any chance I've caught you in reach of those boards this time?
20:47 zhanx Evening
21:37 x184 pokes rue_sc
22:24 rue_school oh drat
22:24 rue_school I almost remmeber about the motherboard
22:26 rue_school I had a lot of distractions
22:26 rue_school power failures and the phone system didn't come back up
22:27 rue_school its now gone thru 2 motherbaords, 2 power supplies and 5 hard drives
22:28 rue_school this time I replaced everything but the T1 card and the hard drives
22:44 katsmeow how can i pause a download in FF, to resume later?
22:45 rue_school I dont thik yo ucan
22:46 rue_school you have to use a downloader with more brains
22:46 katsmeow me too
22:46 rue_school did you get a wind storm?
22:46 katsmeow no, but lite rain satrted yesterday and kept on till late today
22:47 katsmeow ground is soaked, i have too much water in my outside pool-tank, and the inside one is full too
22:52 rue_school cool
23:12 Jax184 rue_house: is this the kat you figured might be able to help identify my weird old board?
23:12 Jax184 err, rue_school
23:12 katsmeow <blink>
23:12 tsmeow keeps an eye on the cold
23:13 Jax184 woof
23:13 katsmeow "woof" is undefined
23:14 Jax184 what, don't you speak dog?
23:14 katsmeow no
23:14 rue_school maybe
23:14 katsmeow and wolves don't speak dog either, i've known both
23:14 Jax184 some of them are bi-lingual
23:15 katsmeow k
23:15 Jax184 or if the furry fandom is to be believed, bi-sexual
23:15 katsmeow that's a separate thread
23:16 katsmeow ...
23:16 katsmeow rue, praps you should say it louder, or it's not important any more
23:18 rue_school katsmeow, I was just telling Jax184 that you have lots of experience with older hardware
23:18 katsmeow ok
23:18 rue_school admit it you DO seem to know almost everything
23:18 tsmeow tries to be hel
23:18 rue_school did I tell you I got the 2nd trace to come up on the heathkit scope
23:18 katsmeow no
23:19 katsmeow what was it's problem?
23:19 rue_school and that it seems to have so much electromatnetic interfearence that it cant produce a round spot
23:19 Jax184 I have a huge old unmarked board that came into the shop which I would simply enjoy knowing that the hell it's from
23:19 rue_school and xy mode dosn't work
23:19 rue_school oh, if I wrap the transformer in a copper loop...
23:19 katsmeow how do you know it's electromagnetic interference?
23:20 rue_school all the power supplies are stable within .001V
23:20 rue_school and the spot is all / in the top/corners
23:21 tsmeow w
23:21 rue_school Jax184, good time to post a photo
23:21 tsmeow waits on rue
23:22 Jax184 rue_house: It would be!
23:22 Jax184 too bad I didn't take one
23:22 rue_school heh
23:22 katsmeow :-/
23:22 Jax184 I'll have to get it tomorrow
23:22 rue_school kats a rare bird
23:22 Jax184 so I noticed
23:22 rue_school that it so say, shes not always around
23:23 katsmeow sometimes i'm asquare
23:23 rue_school katsmeow, wait, are yo uall round?
23:23 rue_school ok
23:23 Jax184 I'm roughly oval myself
23:24 rue_school I wonder if I can take out a wrench from the tool locker at the school tommorow and fix this !@#$ chair
23:24 katsmeow if they catch you, they'll charge you with theft
23:24 rue_school I dont know how long you get the stuff for
23:24 Jax184 bring the chair to the tool locker?
23:25 rue_school I'm sure I saw an instructor taking out a hammerdrill for the night
23:25 Jax184 a friend of mine found a chair in an alley out by my house
23:25 rue_school its the chair at bcit housing
23:25 Jax184 he rode it down the sidewalk, onto a bus, out to the skytrain station, up the elevator, onto the train, down another elevator, and down the hill to his house
23:25 Jax184 all with a heavy backpack full of electronic parts in his lap
23:26 Jax184 guy's nuts
23:28 katsmeow sonds interesting
23:31 tsmeow ponders baking a
23:31 rue_school once upon a time I saw a broken tv by the side of the road, I walked past it for a few days thinking about if there was anything in it I might be interested in taking, then wondering if I should pull the horizontal transistor out
23:32 rue_school but itt clicked into me that I was so alone I didn't even have to compete for the parts in the tv, I could walk past it every day and have the same chance of picking it up when I decided
23:33 katsmeow i remember when a big color set would have a 6x6x6 inch transformer, 600v or more, several filament windings of 5 or 6 amps each, and some lower volt windings
23:34 rue_school to this day I have a basket of transformers I dont have any use for
23:34 Jax184 now if someone puts a CRT out in the alley here, 30 seconds later a meth addict smashes the back of it and steals the copper deflection coil
23:34 katsmeow after the 20th mot, i quit
23:35 rue_school it made me wonder what life would be like in a world where I would have to compete for that transsistor
23:35 rue_school but it just slides off, iirc most of them have THUMB screws
23:36 Jax184 but the sort of person who steals copper to sell is likely not in possession of an astounding intellect
23:37 rue_school there could be a day I snagged a tube neck, for the wire to make transformers and for the neck, to make an electron microscope