Test Equipment Anonymous

An older video from the slowmo guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705OzYq7cXU How elegant she's jumping on top of the fence! Very beautiful! It always amazes me how perfectly in tune with themselves they are - they’ll jump juuuuust hard enough to get where they want to go, but no harder. My old ...

The Three Amigos turned NINE today :shock: :shock: :shock: https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/1508-08-New-critters/i-78SPkGq/0/CTLSNwSCJQSTS68KV4zhrzF27XnCjtnv9fqQq4zZh/X2/IMG_0093-X2.jpg L-R Pixel, Gilmore and Beaker https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/1508-08-New-critters/i-Dt5FcLK/0/t5h7v68hR87tHB...

Just so. Arsine AsF 3 being another. My father was quite happy to bring home some conc HCl and iron sulphide in his coat pocket, and for me to stink out the kitchen by mixing them. He said he was frightened by HF, and wouldn't go near it, even at work. The "things I wouldn't work with" su...

Definitely not. There was a lot of hydrofluoric acid used at National Semi and the treatment just for being exposed to it was miserable - the affected area was to be coated in cold calcium gluconate for I forget how long, and if you were exposed badly enough that it got near bone you’d need to go fo...

I'm with Mike in this - I prefer an odd number of pedals (unless it's a flying machine, then they should be in multiples of two), and knobs & levers to control things. 'Soft' controls and touch screens have no place in a vehicle (certainly not beyond the radio, where I'll grudgingly accept them ...

Nixie and Faraday love the one I have here, and believe it or not began using it entirely on their own. Faraday will jump up towards the one o'clock part where it's curving back overhead and wrap his front paws around the rim to really get it going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4h-LaUgCc The 'O...

Crummy iPhone photo of my friend Stacey's cat Cocoa Bean - she has the most stunningly beautiful sapphire blue eyes: https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2102-21-Kittehs/i-B8vbF6x/0/DHvh8NnkQ3MTNbDHTJnFCVK2m4n74hnFZqdXfHvmb/X2/2023071021494925-6727920285383670149--X2.jpg Some one of these years I need...

When they first started, Discovery and The History Channel were both excellent. Somewhere along the line they devolved into that ‘hunting for the ghost of ancient Bigfoot's buried treasure' nonsense. Can’t stand it - they stretch fifteen minutes of questionable dreck into an hour including commercia...

mnem
You should see what they do while you're in the shower. Well, actually, don't think aboot that too much.

Like these two? (They sound like they've been chain smoking Marlboro Reds their whole lives)

-Pat

Looks like that shelf could do with some bracing! Glad to hear the receiver recovered!

-Pat

https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2402-15-Kittehs/i-nsKDCgX/0/DB4ZPDQvR5LVM5fnjZqDg2m7Dt7mqhs3CpK22FXvq/X2/24_04-09%20Faraday%2002-X2.jpg <YAWN> https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2402-15-Kittehs/i-csXmfCC/0/bfRph6MFC7XZFsQbdvFZRrXvDffSTvFZw5CCvKXh/X2/24_04-09%20Faraday%2003-X2.jpg https://photos....

Nixie, earlier tonight:


-Pat

I was beginning to think this would never arrive - spotted and instantly ordered it on March 6th from our favorite wallet depletion site. It was shipped that very day from Boston via USPS. Made it to Shrewsbury, MA the next day, then inexplicably went to Chicago. On Saturday the 9th it was processed...

dl6lr wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:07 pm Since Saturday I am now owner of a Tek 575 in good condition accompanied with a 175. Haven't tested it yet. Was a trip to Heidelberg over the weekend. And as a by-catch: I got CoViD

Great score on the Tek, not so much on the Coof. Hope it’s a very mild case.

-Pat

bd139 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:41 pm Oh no bought another Fluke

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I hate it when that happens!

-Pat

mnementh wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:10 pm

mnem
the orange tabby mafia is watching your house.

This is why us cat people put the TP on the holder mullet-style.

-Pat

Cats are weird (though you doubtless already know this). Some just like to curl up in sinks - I suppose because it’s like a little den, depressed below the surroundings and thus a 'safe' spot to snooze.

-Pat

I saw that, but at this point I'm afraid to count my counters. Seriously.

-Pat

<edit to add 'point' I need to proofread! Sheesh.>

Verrah nice! Good score - congrats!

-Pat

I'll certainly not argue that good sleep isn't essential, but the cross section listing for that mattress reminds me of audiophoolery wank. From the top: 1) FR chemical free wool and viscose cover 2) British wool blend 3) Cashmere, silk and British wool blend 4) British wool, hemp and linen blend 5)...