One year ago today: May 17, 2024, Caltier grinds to a halt.
Five years ago today: May 17, 2020, testing solar copper.
Nine years ago today: May 17, 2016, WIP
Random years ago today: May 17, 1998x, he’s not a genius.
A perfect Florida morning, will today bring any adventure. I’m most anxious about the event in Tennessee this afternoon. I’m one of the few who has been around long enough to know how hard the Reb has worked for this moment. None of my theories or experience can relate to how this turns out, as I never came close to the big time. The only thing I’m good at is getting up again after the dust clears. To keep my mind from fibrillating, I did a deep study on the MOSFET and its applications, which will not reveal another flaw in my academic scaffolding.
This picture you cannot see so well. It is flat as a pancake but it used to be poly-rope. You know, the kind that slowly rays in the sunlight. Well, this is Florida sunlight, pal, and that role is just over a year old. In shreds, cannot be picked up. Now back to MOSFETS. They take less power than transistors, it says, but static electricity alone can destroy them.
MOSFETS are simple but it takes more wiring to make them work. This follows my ancient philosophy that says make the hardware simple and make the software complex. It’s a pity microcontrollers (Arduino) turned out so finicky to program. Oh, you can code them, but try applying true programming and (like myself), all but the simple “blinky lite” and downloaded (canned) projects quickly overtax the system. The answer is to add more Arduinos, but at $35 a pop, you rapidly move out of the hobby arena.
How I would like to return to building a small amplifier circuit useful for my “acoustic” bass project. Until I finish that floor, we can forget that. The good news is I’m 80% done and it is motivation I’m short on. I also had another stab at finding a free (they should all be free by now) on-line schematic program. They are there, but each one has a major shortcoming right out of the box. The Digi-Key “Scheme-It”, for example, has no symbols for trim pots. How dumb is that?
Seeing a number of new vacuum tube guitar amps (de Cillia), I brought up the schematics and swiftly spotted the Hi-Fi tubes. Look at those prices! Am I happy? Not yet. Of the thousands of tubes here, the larger High Fidelity tubes were the ones most mixed up in the boxes and got left to last. It will take hours to comb through those remaining containers. But at $150 per tube, but at $274 each, I would not have to find very many. Be aware that I am certain most of the tubes left have already been cherry-picked. It is the demand, not the supply that may have changed.
The heavy-sounding motors across the way have been running for three days. What they’ve come up against is beyond me, the motors are mounted on unmarked white trunks, possibly rentals. They are too large to be just compressors. Sometimes, there is a deep, heavy pounding in the ground for a few seconds. I’ve made up the budget for two new A/C units and the new stove. It will be $1,100 unless I find bargains. Both A/C units were fried by lightning while still relatively new. I wish I knew how to rewire these things so they could be set to bypass the circuit board.
The units are still good and would be handy if they could be just set to run full blast with a toggle switch. If I find the right site, I could do much better. How do we just know we are going to run into every millennial AOL on the Internet with this one. I do no want a membership, sales pitch, or advice to call a technician. I just want to know which three wires to connect to bypass an air conditioner circuit board. No Quora or Reddit bullshit artists, no HVAC courses, no safety meetings. Just three wires.
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As proof that DEI hiring is not just an American phenomenon, a Mexican three-master party boat just sailed backwards under the Brooklyn Bridge, crashing into a shore platform. The masts were given a haircut, but amateur videos from proud Mexican bystanders prove that the shigg-booga music audible from across the river, was never interrupted. The shop is operated by the Mexican navy so we are confidant there were no cartel drugs involved.
The best boxes are from hand-picked lumber. Seems obvious, but I was not about to practice on top-grade materials. I have dozens of boxes that are fine make from cull lumber, and some that split, crack, or won’t stay square. Those are fine for storing tubes, nails, and stuff, so nothing goes to waste much. But for sale, the wood has to be flat. Yes, I know, hook up the thickness planer, however my goal is find a way to make consistent product from scrap lumber while minimizing handling and cost.
No word from the guitarist in a week, but no big deal. It’s best if he does try to find alternatives around here and get that out of his system soon. I looked at my ad and the latest crop of musicians are a sorry lot. I say that because the music is electronic and they are just pushing the buttons. If you listen to anything on their song list, you are likely to hear the original is electronic. So you find “musicians” who want to play electronic music on electronic equipment that plays by itself.
There’s a post about 33 nurses who died after getting the vaccine. It makes terrible reading because they were told the shots were “safe and effective”. No records are kept of nurse deaths so nothing was reported until an MIT researcher had three nursing friends die suddenly in one week. This was in August last year. Upon checking further, he found there were others, all previously healthy until the jab. Some had babies born without a heartbeat, other got turbo-cancers, and all died that week.
Oddly, I was expecting the replies to be sympathetic, but I tend to forget how the medical community was complicit if trying to force the vax on everybody. They were grabbing homeless people and injecting them, letting emergency patients die because they were not vaxxed, and that video of them dancing did not evoke much sympathy. The majority of replies lack any compassion, here are some examples:
• They were complicit, let them die.I was unprepared for the backlash to be 100% against them. That would appear that people were far more affected by these nurse’s behavior than I thought. I know of only one person who got the jab, but then, my circle is not exactly composed of people I met in the aisles of Wal*Mart.
• The wages of criminal negligence.
• How many patients died from their jabs?
• You’d think nurses would research a bit.
• Murderers, all of them.
• All White, victims of their own ideology.
• They pushed and shamed people, they are evil.
• We tried to warn them and they said put us in concentration camps.
ADDENDUM
I’m up late, so where is the Sun at 04:16:40 GMT? We have a district or block in India with 117 villages, inland from the east coast. I’m not going to pull up any images, I’ve seen enough temples, the nearest city is Jagdalpur. The area seems to be all temples and waterfalls. The only item in the news filter is this report in a Christian magazine of a women beaten by relatives who practice “traditional religion”.
