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mnementh:


Pork Loin roast for dinner:

Meat's been tenderized with a Jaccard, then Teryaki rubbed in and seared under the broiler on top of a bed of carrots. Add chopped veggies, my favorite red seasoning (Red bell pepper, garlic, onions) and a few onion rings for looks, and time for the ol' Texas crutch: cover everything with tented aluminum foil and crimp tight around the edges of the pan, then in the oven at 250° Funkenstort until internal temp hits 180-190°.

mnem
Happy COLONIAL REVOLT DAY everybody!!!   :-DD

mnementh:
Just finished 3rd coat on the Anniversary Project table. This was a heavy "pour coat" to get some "self-leveling" action. I'm not exactly sure how it will work out; I've seen videos with mixed results.

Now I just have to ignore the damned thing til tomorrow.

mnem
*wibble*   

tggzzz:

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Damp shed victim. Layer of ultra-crunk on it... only starting at £42 inc delivery  :palm: :palm: :palm:



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OK, the display and multimeter parts have different model numbers, but it doesn't look like they are modular???

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They are actually modular. You pull two plastic strips out from the bum end and it splits into two. I think there’s a centronics connector in there.

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Wasn't there a advert calling them "snap-on" modules or something, posted recently?

I've got a broken pair of these, currently thinking that might be too much for spares, but I do know that just the shipping cost from the USA by regular post, is more than that one would cost.  :horse:

David

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Yes, but those 1990-0325 dot displays are so much nicer (and rarer) than these grossly overpriced displays https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255612224623 ::)

bd139:
 :-DD :-DD :-DD

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Specmaster:

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It's not a luxury in 2022. It's one of the main interaction points of society and an expectation.

I'd rather have a newer phone (under 4 years old iPhone) than a better car if I had the choice.

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Well how can I put this delicately, you claimed many times here in this thread that you're a cheapskate, well that would seem from the above that you're a cheapskate by choice when it suits you. For many people, they don't have that choice, they are cheapskates through necessity, so a newer phone is a luxury for them.

Many need a car and also need that car to be reliable if they live in the sticks, whereas you are living in perhaps the best city in the UK for public transport options and best fares, so you could, as you have said before, manage without a car at all. That is far from being a reality across most of the UK, where public transport is not seen as a public service, but a profit generator for the wealthy owners. If a service is not being profitable, it suffers a drastically reduced service, even down to sometimes a single service a day or even weekly with the local authority subsidizing it.

That situation was bad enough for some really rural areas when it was the National Bus Company, like it was when I worked on the buses, but since deregulation and subsequent privatisation, the only thing that matters is pure profit and that really was the time when it became far cheaper for most people, especially those with families, even those in large towns, to convert to becoming car owners.

With the UK's track record for deregulation and then eventual privatisation, that even gave a massive boost to mobile phone uptake as when they sold off the British Telecom, it was the death for loads of public boxes (something I remember only too well) I used to have to phone in to H/O at times during the working day while out on the road to reply to pager messages. That caused the company to drop pagers and go with car phones, so we could be conducted directly by either H/O or customers because it was not always possible to find either a phone box that worked or one that didn't already have a massive queue of other sales reps / customer service engineers all waiting to use it to respond to their pages, all while keeping a beady eye open for the dreaded yellow jackets (traffic wardens) or the Police who would regularly move us on because we were causing obstruction to the flow of traffic. :palm:

If you didn't work in an industry where that was the normal practise, then you really have zero idea just how fraught those times were.

If companies also perceive that Android is a serious threat to their security, then let them issue iPhones / Blackberries to their staff. I have never known a company that actually expected their staff to provide a mobile phone, it was always a company asset and had to be handed back upon leaving their employment and strictly NO private calls were allowed.

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