Test Equipment Anonymous

Is a cat without a hunting insect a cat?

A self-propelled thigh-warmer with claws, probably, but a cat...

Just checking they didn't also install a mouse?

How about, you don't get to touch anything beyond a litter-picker, until you've proved some minimal technical competency? Nice idea, but who would be willing to take the responsibility for stating someone is competent? Or not incompetent? Who tests the testers? Who trains the trainers? With gliding...

I guess it's hard to find good technicians whether it's a paid or volunteer environment. Somebody needs to train them. If that isn't possible then have supervision. If that isn't possible (e.g. voluntary organisation) then at least have three people working alongside each other, so that there is a ...

I've seen very high value (100A plus) fuses filled with sand (or something). I assumed it was there for quenching. When it blows you want it to stop conducting, not to continue as an arc. Well, these cigars are 30A, but also "Eaton Bussmann Series Class RK5 fuse, FRS-R, time-delay, dual-elemen...

The eevblog video posted yesterday ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TYtdpbFWuA ) about fuse characteristics being permanently changed by exposure to low temperature was interesting. He was showing fuses in the context of current shunt overcurrent protection in multimeters. They are crude things w...

Robert wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:09 pm And the date is.....

March 31st
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevb ... msg5866735

American Idol (and the Gold Rush" production mentality that ensued thereafter) killed Firefly, not the quality of the program material, which was definitely above-average. If it had been allowed to continue, it would've been as highly regarded as Bab5, for the same reason: Its creator had a fu...

What I find much more telling is how many owners of such animals' appearance is so very much like them. It's as if looking like you were swallowing your face were a cultural value or something. :lol: Yes, there are many examples of how someone grows to look like their SO and/or pet. In some cases I...

mnementh wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 11:37 am

Not only expensive to buy, but also expensive vets bills.

Same is true for dogs, except that boots are used

Yes, I do occasionally mention to people that I don't like dogs with their snouts kicked in.

"I suspect that, as with the BBC, that is because there is no pressure from the advertisers to create ever more episodes until the content becomes homeopathic. Yes M*A*S*H, I'm looking at you" probably why we still praise the quickly canceled "firefly" . if they had killed off &...

gotta' admit that you brits did some limited episode series that were freakin' great. "I Claudius" and "Danger UXB" come to mind. had long given up hope that we would ever do similar.......until "band of brothers" came along. I have I Claudius on DVD :) Never bothered ...

I've never watched Metropolis. There's a restored version available on Youtube with footage believed lost, which was discovered in Agentina. I went to watch it at the world's oldest purpose-built continually working cinema, which opened in 1912. I fell asleep :( Sometimes shorter is better. https:/...

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:50 pm Can't believe you missed out This Island Earth. Didn't you ever wish you could order an interocitor?

T'was OK, but I never really liked it; seemed a bit... obvious and uninteresting.

The Trollenburg Terror had me hiding behind the sofa, when I saw it on TV in the early 60s. I saw it recently, and it wasn't that bad. On Talking Pictures TV in 2hours, at 5:20pm :) Most of these things are of their time, such as Westerns, which were immensely popular for decades, and Hammer Horror...

Plus concisely plotted and no stupidities that ruin the "willing suspension of disbelief".

Remake was, as is traditional, crap. A good story well told doesn't benefit from being "updated", especially where focus groups are involved.

I never really liked Lost in Space; even as a kid it seemed to rely on the same person being idiotic/dangerous every week. Most things which seemed good Back Then seem merely silly now - and good examples of why SF had a bad reputation. Prime examples on TV today include Fireball XL-5 29 Mar 2025 - ...

Ah, but which series? Irwin Allen' "Lost in Space" was a sort of Swiss Family Robinson with the man-sized Robbie the Robot prop left over from the Forbidden Planet movie from the mid 50s. Famous catchphrase: "Danger Will Robinson". Rather a camp tone, cute 8yo boy, sexy teen daug...

I suppose I ought to admit it is far from impossible to get literally bad food in the UK. Such places are usually obvious, e.g. late night joints in town centres catering to people who have left pubs/clubs. Usually there are good places a short walk away. Some places aren't so obvious, and can inclu...

The burgers in the UK must have been real shitty because the burgers at McD's are far from what I would call decent. IIRC there was a worse hamburger chain, but the name mercifully escapes me. Back then much of the food in the UK was .... inspired by 15 years of rationing. Or you could have wonderf...

I've had a few MacDonalds burgers and fries. They were OK, they filled a gap. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one. My mother was extremely happy in the early 70s, when MacDonalds came to the UK. I remember her excitedly going to one that had just opened in Croydon's Whitgift Centre (how times ch...

--- No, that was me! vk6zgo ! I remember in 1971 driving up from Southampton one Sunday, because I wanted to buy some KFC. That's just weird, nobody in their right mind wants Kentucky Fries Mouse. Interestingly, when they first appeared in Oz, "The Colonel" as we called it back then in Pe...

Wow, I knew about the pumping gas and thought NJ was one of two states that still banned that but Sunday shopping laws still, in 2025? I remember the debate about repealing the Lord's Day Act here and legalizing Sunday shopping, and it was surprisingly controversial at the time. I'm trying to remem...

Piccadilly by Night? According to Guinness Time there, the picture was taken at 5:18 PM! Night? Just how early was bedtime back then? Bedtime is one thing, especially in the heart of the West End entertainment and red light districts. Sunset is 3:52 PM in December. "Hours of Darkness" sta...

Tastes change. It used to be that Charlie Chaplin was thought of as the best silent star. Nowadays people have come around to my opinion, Buster Keaton. Of that lot I thought Harold Lloyd was the funniest. Laurel and Hardy were also good. Buster Keaton had his moments. Later he put in an appearance...