Test Equipment Anonymous

I bought the radio series on six CDs on the same day I bought my first CD player. The original radio series was by far the best and the television version was a severe disappointment for the reasons you mentioned. I didn't like the TV Marvin either. No idea what Marvin should have looked like, but ...

I loved the radio plays, and the TV show... Loved the radio show; the aural and mental pictures are unrivalled. Disappointed with the TV show. The graphics were superb, but distracted from the pictures. Zaphod's animatronic second head was laughable. Liked Ken Cambell's stage play. He was appropria...

I've discovered a version of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" in early Middle English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHspDQZKvwg&list=RDDHspDQZKvwg&start_radio=1 I find it fascinating and hypnotically lyrical. Not better than the original but it stands in its own right. Amusin...

Telecoms hacking for fun and profit, 1836 style.

https://nowiknow.beehiiv.com/p/hackers- ... et-edition

Do you have a book shelf next to your toilet? No; my books aren't allowed in rooms having plumbing. Quite right too :) I've just had another browse (p209), "The above formula is a sentence representing, of course, the commutativity of addition." Of course. When I looked at it, it reminded...

A quick browse was summarised by, "I'm glad I didn't pay full price for this". There are a few interesting things in there, but the author is too keen to show how clever he is. I would have a hard time arguing against that. There is interesting stuff there, but some of it is as penetrable...

Zenith wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 9:53 pm I've dipped into it sometimes, but never made a serious attempt to read it all through.

That about sums it up. Interesting, but not sufficiently interesting/accessible.

Have you read the classic "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" ?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%2C_Escher%2C_Bach Copy arrived today with a thump. It isn't a book I could read from end-to-end: too detailed, convoluted (deliberately!), and abstruse (chosen style, difficu...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 7:33 pm Man you software guys are weird.

Have you read the classic "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" ?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6de ... er%2C_Bach

EC8010 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 7:54 pm Has grug been eating shaman's mushrooms?

They do say some shrooms allow reality to be seen. I think that, although his mode of expression is primitive, grug has glimpsed reality in all its "glory".

At last: a name for people like me: grug. https://grugbrain.dev/ many many likes between grug brained programmer and me can't copy all so just en-belittle tablets of stone... --- grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly ...

Yeah, the blue is delicious

Our cats are the only domesticated mammal that isn't "domesticated". Case in point. About a month ago one evening I came into the kitchen and found Harley laying on the floor next to a dead mouse. Harley is an indoor cat and has never seen a mouse and in the 2.5 years we lived here we've ...

Daughter's friends have learned not to wear open toed shoes; dog has decided toes are fair game. Dog has learned mine aren't

My landlady's cat treated my thighs as a pin cushion - for a short time.

Zenith wrote: ↑Wed Oct 22, 2025 1:26 pm There's always a need for better catalysts and a better understanding of catalytic processes.

I remember school chemistry lessons, which repeatedly avoided discussions of how catalysts work.

In the succeeding decades the reason teachers avoided that subject have become clearer.

I didn't step through it, but if it's real, then that cat moved pretty quickly. Mind you, they do. As for the "Blue Peter" clip, thank you for finding that. Presenters were made of sterner stuff than they are today. All hail Valerie Singleton! And as for John Noakes climbing Nelson's Colu...

This guy also found out the hard way. Supposedly the tiger was just giving him a "love bite" :roll: https://abcnews.go.com/US/oklahoma-animal-handler-attacked-killed-tiger-performance-sheriff/story?id=125792975#:~:text=Oklahoma%20animal%20handler%20attacked%20and%20killed%20by,demonstrati...

But if you look closely, the cat is magically flying head first immediately after take-off; I think it's been fiddled. Stepping through it using /usr/bin/gifview, frames 20: on cushion, eye visible 21: on cushion 22: moving blur mostly invisible 23: legs pointing backwards, head/shoulders moving in...

On the subject of cats (albeit large ones), I had breakfast at "The Shack" https://www.communityad.co.uk/exclusives/100-years-shack-cafe-hook/ on Saturday. There was a poster above our table telling of a little history. Apparently, the owners of The Shack also ran a fairground where one o...

I'm glad it has bought a little pleasure into this hard life! I dislike animal cruelty, but came to the same conclusion as MED w.r.t. landing on its feet. I was a little concerned that cat lovers would find it cruel, and thought about my caption for a while. Animate gifs : youtoob == haiku : poems. ...

Small and light electrons tunnelling through barriers is ... old and boring. So how about hydrogen atoms tunnelling through barriers? https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00943 and an easier exposition at https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/tunnel-away Any practical applications? Did...

Small and light electrons tunnelling through barriers is ... old and boring.

So how about hydrogen atoms tunnelling through barriers?
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00943
and an easier exposition at
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/tunnel-away

I had a problem on the trigger board that wasn't a TD. Can't remember what, but I suspect I documented it here or at the other place.

Here's one of the functional 485's on top of a 2235. The later series of portable TEK scopes tend to be much easier to service with the advent of LSI circuitry. Those 465/475/485's were still packed with discrete components. IMHO the 4[6,7,8]x semiconductors and ICs are all pretty similar. Sometime...

Here's one of the functional 485's on top of a 2235. The later series of portable TEK scopes tend to be much easier to service with the advent of LSI circuitry. Those 465/475/485's were still packed with discrete components. IMHO the 4[6,7,8]x semiconductors and ICs are all pretty similar. Sometime...