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I succesfully did a thing. It's the first time I did a thing in a long time.

Right now it runs off an external power supply, since it doesn't retain the time, and the motherboard inerts USB ports on shutdown. But it fits and looks pretty.

True excellence would be getting it to read system time or some other stroke of genius but that's beyond me.

Oh, that's cool. To quote Sir Reginald Pikedevant, Esq., I just adore nixie tubes.

(04-11-2023, 09:30 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

That's because they aren't pool tables. They're billiards tables.

(04-11-2023, 10:16 AM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]That's because they aren't pool tables. They're billiards tables.

Darn. You beat me to it, Rob.

(04-11-2023, 09:30 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Only if you don't pay attention to electrical terminology. AAs and most other cylindrical "batteries" are properly called "cells". A 9-volt is actually a literal battery, which means a set of cells wired together for higher voltage. Lantern batteries are also genuine batteries -- inside them are four cells ("E" cells, IIRC, bigger than D cells) wired in sequence.

(04-10-2023, 03:36 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: [ -> ]Oh, that's cool.  To quote Sir Reginald Pikedevant, Esq., I just adore nixie tubes.

Thanks.

Nixie clocks are fairly common out on the web - in a number of styles. This one just happened to be the right exact size to fit in a drive bay.

It's gotten hard to find PC cases with optical drive bays these days.



Anyway, Guarding Joe Biden's visit from the Air - the Irish Aer Corps

(04-11-2023, 09:30 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

They actually found him last year and he was arrested in February for the incident.
Wikipedia entry for LW Wright

It's been 40 years, there wasn't a statute of limitations?

(04-11-2023, 07:32 PM)hazard Wrote: [ -> ]It's been 40 years, there wasn't a statute of limitations?

There is for state law, but 18 U.S. Code § 1341 is federal law.


Images, images... ah, here's one: Titan in false-colour from infrared. (True-colour in the middle.)



Larger copy here

(04-11-2023, 10:16 AM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]That's because they aren't pool tables. They're billiards tables.

my first thought was 'but billards tables have holes too?' then I read the link you included.  I don't think I've ever heard of that variant before.  Interesting .

Neat to hear that the cops were still looking for (and finally found) L.W. Wright as well.

(04-11-2023, 11:35 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Somebody's been peeking at my notes for My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character. Really, Azu-nyan, your first crush will go as well as mine did... <evil grin>

(04-11-2023, 11:35 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Meh. Small Reference Pools strikes again. I'm pretty sure that Sir Pterry didn't write this, but he could have:

"IT IS TIME FOR ME TO RIDE. WHERE IS BINKY?"

Dr Makenzie Lystrup being sworn in as the new director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Note the book she has her hand on.



Source and background information, on the off-chance you don't recognize the book

(04-13-2023, 08:27 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Well on the one side, you have some tryhard edgelord type, probably just itching to go on and on about his tragic backstory. On the other, you have a regular fella enjoying a quiet pint. I know which one I'd rather share a table with after a long day of travel in monster infested wilderness, and it's not the one who uses wording like "crown of bone and blades."

(04-13-2023, 08:27 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

But... but... He has a name! He must be important!

(04-13-2023, 08:27 AM)Norgarth Wrote: [ -> ]

Meh. You'd never survive a game of NetHack.

first up, a Hippotatomus