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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #150 on: April 05, 2016, 06:30:42 am »
Oh course. There has been a long tradition at least in past electronic magazines of the past era to publish a realistic sounding story that was not so outlandish as to be totally unbelievable, but if true a real zinger of a story. This tradition has spread to the internet as magazines are pretty much a thing of the past.

My favourite was the mercury filled speaker cables!
I should try and dig that one out of the archives...
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #151 on: April 05, 2016, 08:00:33 am »
Glad it's just an April fools. The dumpster dive videos would have become very boring :)

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #152 on: April 05, 2016, 08:05:29 am »
With Sydney house prices at bargain basement prices how could Dave not afford that?    ;)  ;)  ;)

For the benefit of our overseas visitors, this is mostly sarcasm. Sydney's house prices are amongst the most expensive in the world, relative to local income.
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #153 on: April 05, 2016, 01:55:50 pm »
posting the video on the 31st of March makes this an ultimate fail.  :palm: :palm: :palm:

Go learn some geography  :palm:

ie time zones

FYI you can set your forum "clock" under your profile to be the same time as Dave's.  I found this to be more useful (maybe not fall for a date fool) than my own local time, so I just re-set mine to Sidney time.

I live in Sydney, furthermore, I live within 20 minutes driving distance of the old Altium building in the video.

At the time of posting the video, Sydney was still in AEDT so UTC+11 which is only beaten by a few other countries, with the highest being UTC+14. So, posting this on the 31st of March UTC+11, it would have been live on the 30th of March in other countries.

Why do you say for me to go and learn geography?
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #154 on: April 06, 2016, 11:23:44 am »
Why do you say for me to go and learn geography?

It was already past midnight in Kiritimati when I posted, way past in fact. I'm very careful about such things because I know the anal retentives like to complain about it.
Kiritimati is currently 4 hours ahead of Sydney (3 back when we had DS)

 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #155 on: April 06, 2016, 12:25:47 pm »
All your Kiritimati fans will be pleased to hear that.... If you have any :)

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #156 on: April 06, 2016, 01:02:29 pm »
This Forum is global.  Date and time issues between members is not a mystery.

The original post was made at a time when the date was April 1, somewhere on the planet, which would seem to be valid for a global forum.



Just my 2 cents.
 
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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #157 on: April 06, 2016, 01:20:11 pm »
Yes I agree, with a global audience you have to start somewhere.


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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #158 on: April 06, 2016, 01:32:20 pm »
I don't know if I'm uniquely prescient, but around the last week in March I was strongly expecting April to occur soon.  So when I saw unlikely-looking statements I definitely considered the possibility of April fool jokes.  Anyone who didn't was proper fooled, and shouldn't complain!
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #159 on: April 06, 2016, 01:54:24 pm »
Why do you say for me to go and learn geography?

It was already past midnight in Kiritimati when I posted, way past in fact. I'm very careful about such things because I know the anal retentives like to complain about it.
Kiritimati is currently 4 hours ahead of Sydney (3 back when we had DS)



Your near Sydney tho?
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #160 on: April 06, 2016, 02:07:11 pm »
Dave is about 25km (give or take) from the Sydney CBD.
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #161 on: April 06, 2016, 02:33:46 pm »
Does it really matter when it was posted with respect to your local timezone?  Friday was the 1st here in the UK, so it appeared a few days before, but you know that somewhere it will already be the 1st!  :palm:
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #162 on: April 06, 2016, 02:40:19 pm »
It wasn't days before, just hours - and how many hours depended on where in the world you are.  From minus a couple (for those east of NZ) to plus 20 or so for Hawaii.

(It's late here - so apologies for not being more precise.)
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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #163 on: April 06, 2016, 05:43:19 pm »
Glass building. Fill with water. Place chicks swimming inside and let it be big april pool :-)

all chicks named april - of course!  :palm:
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #164 on: April 06, 2016, 05:52:49 pm »
There:



interesting shot - "EEVblog" spells "Altium" when looked at it in a mirror... thats like vampires being invisible in mirrors? during the last 4 or more years i am following and loving the sydney messiah of the magic smoke, i always thought, there's something spooky about dave - now i know for sure! :-)

anyway - i'll keep being stuck to this...

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #165 on: April 07, 2016, 12:14:49 am »
I think your computer might have the Vampire Virus....

That picture looks ok to me:

 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #166 on: April 07, 2016, 12:39:18 am »
I think your computer might have the Vampire Virus....

That picture looks ok to me:
Spooky!

Did Dave just use the 'magic' within his finger to change the reflection? (perhaps he has absorbed too much of the released 'magic' smoke over the years!)  :wtf:

Perhaps Herr R aus B was right?  :scared:
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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #167 on: April 07, 2016, 08:46:34 am »
Everyone knows that glass can be used as a delay line. It just took a bit longer for the text in the glass to catch up!

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #168 on: April 08, 2016, 12:49:34 pm »
There:



LOL the reflection on the windows is nearly perfect
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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #169 on: April 09, 2016, 06:04:37 pm »
Nice try Dave, First thing what gave it away is it was to good to be true.

Second, Below!:

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How do you see the tags of youtube videos?? I don't see tags there!  ???

I knows this thread is now old, but I use a Chrome extension called "Tags for YouTube™". You can also find them in the page's source code under keywords.
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #170 on: April 09, 2016, 09:24:07 pm »
I think your computer might have the Vampire Virus....

That picture looks ok to me:



fraud!!!  :-DD
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #171 on: April 09, 2016, 09:44:18 pm »
fraud!!!  :-DD

It's NOT a fraud.

He has had to cancel the order/contract for the building, because he discovered that the height of the building is TOO low, for his later planned, equipment survivability from being thrown from the top of the building, test videos.
A rumor is floating about, that he is trying to acquire a new, 300 metre high skyscraper, for later test videos. (N.B. this post may be a joke).
 

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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #172 on: April 09, 2016, 10:23:57 pm »
I would have renamed it to "Dave Tower" instead of an EEVBlog logo.... ;)
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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #173 on: April 10, 2016, 01:24:22 am »
I would have renamed it to "Dave Tower" instead of an EEVBlog logo.... ;)

Too close to "Trump Tower"   :--  or   :-+        or    :-+ or  :--
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Re: New EEVblog Lab!
« Reply #174 on: April 10, 2016, 04:48:56 am »
I would have renamed it to "Dave Tower" instead of an EEVBlog logo.... ;)

Too close to "Trump Tower"   :--  or   :-+        or    :-+ or  :--
Why not "Davey Jones's Locker"?
 


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