Test Equipment Anonymous

mnementh wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:35 am Her ghost will stalk the halls of power long after I'm gone, I have little doubt.

As a kid I enjoyed coming across ghosts of Victoria in my pocket.

The oldest, which I still have, was a 1d coin from 1863.

I did notice in Naples the parking was insane. Literally just like someone had just rolled their car into the parking space. Every single car was smashed to bits! Now you are beginning to appreciate the north-south divide in Italy. In Palermo a numerical majority of cars had noticeable damage, up t...

I did notice in Naples the parking was insane. Literally just like someone had just rolled their car into the parking space. Every single car was smashed to bits! Now you are beginning to appreciate the north-south divide in Italy. In Palermo a numerical majority of cars had noticeable damage, up t...

vk6zgo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:59 am ... I'm from a very large island ...

Everybody lives on an island (and is an island )

If one hemisphere was water and the other land, would there be an island in the sea or a lake in the land?

took me 10 minutes to figure out that you guys like to rhyme things. ginger beer apparently equals engineer? what's next....videos of morris dancing? guess that's what happens when you are isolated on a little island. too bad the roman empire pulled out and left you to alone to develop your strange...

took me 10 minutes to figure out that you guys like to rhyme things. ginger beer apparently equals engineer? Haven't heard that, but Cockney rhyming slang continually mutates. If it is that, then you would only ever say "ginger"; the "beer" must be omitted. Hence "I'm going...

From the mailing list that will be 40yo this year, and which everyone should read[1], I give you a pointer to a database that AIn't going to be getting smaller: the AI Incident Database https://incidentdatabase.ai/summaries/incidents/ [1] Originally usenet, SNR>>1, low frequency. I spot what's chang...

Correctly guessed. It is the Pompeii archaeological site. Currently lying in bed in Naples. Off to the archeological museum in an hour. Hopefully the rain stops by then. Yes it’s bloody raining. Do try some local excessively sensual fresh fruit, but don't gorge on them. Ficus carica, of course. You...

Civilisation comes in waves I suspect. People who lived through wars tell stories. Eventually they wear off and new people demand more wars. Civilisations rot from within. A classic warning sign is when an unnecessarily high proportion of the total wealth is held in too few hands, and too many peop...

History doesn't repeat itself, but does rhyme. I can't remember which TV/film it was, but a doctor was testing an elderly patient for dementia. One of the questions was "when did WW2 start?" . The patient said 1919. After a pregnant pause she added "Because of the treaty of Versaille&...

I'd buy black Christmas lights :lol: They are difficult to find in the shops, but I'll sell you my spare set for £50. :roll: I expect hipsters will have a kickstarter for a half-hearted gray version in 2025 Beige is the new grey which was the new beige which was an improvement of the previous brown...

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:17 am I'd buy black Christmas lights

They are difficult to find in the shops, but I'll sell you my spare set for £50.

I expect hipsters will have a kickstarter for a half-hearted gray version in 2025

but what if you need more than 16 million colors? don't we all need 20 to 30 million colors in our holiday display? Wasted on 8% of men and 0.1% of women. Besides, who wants almost-but-not-quite black lights outside a house :) (Unless you are designing a black control panel front door bell illumina...

Plus it means we don't have to accumulate and store a very boring collection of shit single use PSUs.

bd139 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 11:10 am People will buy anything these days

'Twas ever thus Or perhaps

... which is all rational, and therefore is orthogonal to the audiophile market

Hells teeth, I long long ago heard the comment that if a luxury item isn't selling, take it off the market and put it back on the market at twice the price.

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:09 pm I'm selling/have been trying to sell an Aerialite TV signal booster.

Relist it, but mark it as "rare, valve/tube, audiophile" - with an increased price, of course.

teadmin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:34 am Here's hoping 2025 is bigger and better for everyone. May you find TEAlight in all your endeavors (test equipment-related or otherwise).

Perhaps a good generic T-shirt slogan or Christmas Card slogan might be along the lines of "Hope you can reverse entropy in 2025".

Specmaster wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 12:35 pm Where would that watt hour meter have been designed / used for then at just 25Hz, I always thought the standard was for either 50 or 60Hz?

Niagara Falls?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_f ... Hz_origins

Manually operated knitting machines had manual row counters like such. My mother has one of those when I was a kid, but I don't remember her using it in anger. I remember playing with it an bit, but it seemed to require careful use to avoid dropping a stitch. ISTR learning to knit during a long bor...

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tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:52 am

BU508A wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:37 amxbox_xboxbox.jpeg

I don't know about Germany, but in the UK a traditional "joke" is that young kids spend longer playing with the box than the present.

Yes, it is the same here.

Mensch ist mensch - the whole world over

xbox_xboxbox.jpeg I don't know about Germany, but in the UK a traditional "joke" is that young kids spend longer playing with the box than the present. I had a colleague whose brother wanted a bike for Christmas when they were kids. The parents were hard up but made the effort to buy him ...

Do cartoon pictures count? According to one last minute present list... "We buy Exploding Kittens or Wreck this Journal for all the children we know. Exploding Kittens keeps my three kids (12, 10 and 7) entertained on train journeys, holidays and trips to the dentist. The game is reasonably sim...

BU508A wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:37 amxbox_xboxbox.jpeg

I don't know about Germany, but in the UK a traditional "joke" is that young kids spend longer playing with the box than the present.

I don't think I can see any way to set that up other than width-wise which means working on anything on the far side of the plugin while it's seated in the extender is going to be difficult, particularly taking measurements from anything on that side while it's running and live. Not forgetting turn...