On the flip side, doing the sensory deprivation "dead-man float" is one of my favorite meditation experiences.
The "dwowned dwagon" surely?
*snerk*
No, I said the FLIP side so I can keep my snout above water. Tits upward, not tits up.Not much to show for the "purchase" today in real terms but sort of satisfying from the TEA viewpoint
Down the rabbit hole of volt-nuttery I go
*waves bye-bye*
mnem
I have plenty of crazy already, thanks.
Yeah.... you'll probably be better with just a huge regular tub; one of the ones with relatively low sides for easy in/out. I've seen a few really nice setups with a sunken tub; you just sit on the floor and there's a ladder attached to the wall to help you pull yourself vertical. Not sure she could do that with her arthritis, though.
mnem
“On a scale of 1 to 'Stepping on a Lego’; how much pain are you in?”
On the flip side, doing the sensory deprivation "dead-man float" is one of my favorite meditation experiences.The "dwowned dwagon" surely?*snerk* No, I said the FLIP side so I can keep my snout above water. Tits upward, not tits up.
mnem
I have plenty of crazy already, thanks.A dwagon whose fire has been doused ceases to be a dwagon, just a rather large reptile then
Yeah.... you'll probably be better with just a huge regular tub; one of the ones with relatively low sides for easy in/out. I've seen a few really nice setups with a sunken tub; you just sit on the floor and there's a ladder attached to the wall to help you pull yourself vertical. Not sure she could do that with her arthritis, though.
mnem
“On a scale of 1 to 'Stepping on a Lego’; how much pain are you in?”We actually have a fairly deep but short soaker tub. She is 5'3" so the tub is a truly immersive experience for her. Besides the arthritis, she has back issues that the Dr believes may be part of her foot pain, they are exploring treatment avenues. She gets in the tub fine, sometimes she needs some help getting out. Unfortunately, she has a fair level of pain all the time but there are times that her feet hurt so bad, it is past stepping on a Lego, it's stepping on a bag full of loose legos with punji sticks sticking out of them.
Not much to show for the "purchase" today in real terms but sort of satisfying from the TEA viewpoint
Down the rabbit hole of volt-nuttery I go
Yeah.... you'll probably be better with just a huge regular tub; one of the ones with relatively low sides for easy in/out. I've seen a few really nice setups with a sunken tub; you just sit on the floor and there's a ladder attached to the wall to help you pull yourself vertical. Not sure she could do that with her arthritis, though.
mnem
“On a scale of 1 to 'Stepping on a Lego’; how much pain are you in?”We actually have a fairly deep but short soaker tub. She is 5'3" so the tub is a truly immersive experience for her. Besides the arthritis, she has back issues that the Dr believes may be part of her foot pain, they are exploring treatment avenues. She gets in the tub fine, sometimes she needs some help getting out. Unfortunately, she has a fair level of pain all the time but there are times that her feet hurt so bad, it is past stepping on a Lego, it's stepping on a bag full of loose legos with punji sticks sticking out of them.
*cringes*
I had bone spurs in both heels and one arch caused by a growth spurt as a juvenile; the accompanying tendonitis was pure unadulterated evil. I lived on Motrin and Tylenol for almost a year; took up a PT regimen revolving around bicycling for exercise too, because walking more than a few minutes at a time was excruciating but the different pressure points made cycling not hurt at all. Eventually normal bone growth engulfed the spurs, but man... for the first couple months I was ready to go under the knife.
On the flip side, I got pretty trim... could bench 250 and leg press a ton. I remember getting stranded with my little VW Rabbit up on jackstands when the guy whose jack I borrowed went home without telling me... I leg-crunched the thing off onto the ground.
Of course, stupidity like that probably contributed to the lower back injury that had me bedridden for 6 months in my 30s...
mnem
Remember when you were young and strong and 10 feet tall and bulletproof?
Dude... you're drooling so hard, it's getting all over MY keyboard... cut it out!!!
mnem
Fortunately I follow the advice of the HHGttG, and I ALWAYS know where my towel is.
Edit: reading some glorious revk goodness though at the same time: https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html
Edit: reading some glorious revk goodness though at the same time: https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html
Why am I completely unsurprised that it was Adrian who brought this to the world's attention?
Although the forum software has been well behaved with UTF8 since the server move, it doesn't seem to cope with Unicode characters that high in the code table. I was going to post some hieroglyphs, but it broke.
Plugged headphones in and the sound is crystal clear so I reckon its down to those caps in the power supply as headphones don't draw as much current so the caps manage that till the blow wide open.
If there was ever a place for this product, it would be here - so I thought I'd share this with you....
Seriously .... even the font for the ETi runs true to one of the variants that was used for the magazine.
eBay strikes again, with sellers that overclaim and embroider the truth when writing descriptions. My 2nd TEAC CR-240 receiver arrived today, described as being in full working order apart from the volume sometimes adjusts itself. Ok, I thought, the photos look respectable, comes in its original box with manual and remote, so I went for it.
Arrived today, plugged it in and tried it out, volume seems to be OK, but the sound is awfully distorted, CD tray opens and promptly closes again, FM and AM work and DAB, nah its fecked.
Popped top off and looked at power supply, bulging and leaking caps abound, checked all connections, plugged in and switched on sound still distorted, cd and DAB still fecked, some major work there then. Contacted the seller and told him that the unit was NOT as described, told him what was wrong and promptly got the reply that it must have been damaged in transit as it all worked before, yeh like hell it did.
Explained that it was doubtful that it happened during transporting it as the cardbox and also the unit self has zero external damage done to it so it must have been like it before sending it. At the point I was fully expecting that I'd have to raise an official claim but the seller came back and asked me what I thought was a reasonable price to pay for it then, so I told him.
Many hours later I get a message asking for my paypal address and he agreed to my price and I promptly got a refund so I ended up paying just half the original price, so now I'm ordering up a load of capacitors ready to re-cap the power supply at least and now it seems that I'm again looking for DAB module to fit but this time I require 2 of them, the other for the Tuner unit I repaired
Plugged headphones in and the sound is crystal clear so I reckon its down to those caps in the power supply as headphones don't draw as much current so the caps manage that till the blow wide open.
"THOOOOM!!!" is the sound I want on my doorbell.
Well penis fingers strikes again. I have just blown the fucking power supply up
Dropped a probe on it. Large bang! Think it may have just cost me a new bridge rectifier or twoSad news.
The lesson here is not to work on low impedance circuits late in the day !
My latest cockup was when working on a solartron 7075 7.25 digit DVM. I wanted to use my Solartron 7081 8.25 digit DMM to measure the stability of the 7075's reference.
No problems - except that I left the cable connected to the 7075's input, thus shorting out the reference. Swear words were emitted.
.......
Well penis fingers strikes again. I have just blown the fucking power supply up
Dropped a probe on it. Large bang! Think it may have just cost me a new bridge rectifier or twoSad news.
The lesson here is not to work on low impedance circuits late in the day !
The Lab deserted.
Ka-Zap! No witness for
The death of a probe.