Something to lighten the mood

[tonyEE]

In my younger days I remember a watch shop advertising a watch that ran for 7 days (and nights) without having to be wound up, so I went inside and asked for how long it would run if I wound it up.

Depends, is it an European or African swallow watch?

 

[chrisb]

It’s official, folks.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Martha Stewart told us that because the embossing of the roll took place from one side only that the roll should be placed so it unwinds over the top like you show.

 

[Bigun]

thx - i need to send this to my mum, every time i visit my parents house I have to correct the roll to the proper orientation!

 

[Bigun]

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[chrisb]

I guess I’m one of those lucky enough that caffeine doesn’t affect me enough not to say “decaf., what’s the point?” Of course, I rarely do more than 3 cups a day, and never after dinner with my cheesecake.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

One plus for the "backside" TP roll: It makes it slightly more difficult for the cat to unravel it all over the room/house/neighborhood. (Key word being "slightly," although "temporarily" is likely more accurate - he'll figure it out soon enough.)

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

...I miss my old Centronix printer cables...

I miss my old Centronix printer. Sure, it weighed half a ton, and it was upper-case only, and I paid like THREE HUNDRED BUCKS for it in 1980, but it was a printer! In my house! What a concept.

It was easy enough to wire to a parallel port on my SD Systems Z80 Starter Kit. But when I upgraded to a Commodore 64, I had to buy this little DIN-to-Cen parallel adapter dongle. It didn't work. After much head scratching, I figured out that the dongle was sending the LF before the CR, or maybe vice versa, can't remember; whichever the sequence, it was not what the printer wanted to see. Of course the printer logic was all discrete TTL stuff, so I just fly-wired the output of the LF decoder to the CR driver, and vice-versa. Problem solved, heh. We sure can't do stuff like that anymore.

 

[invaderzim]

 

[AllenB]

 

[invaderzim]

 

[soundbrigade]

@invaderswim: at what speed is this guy driving?? 0.9c???

 

[AllenB]

 

[soundchaser]

Martha Stewart told us that because the embossing of the roll took place from one side only that the roll should be placed so it unwinds over the top like you show.

Archie told me!!

 

[Cal Weldon]

Cheers Carroll. RIP you grumpy old bastard. Character actor and lead extraordinaire.

 

[Mr_Zenith]

Yeah, I thought so too.

While I was gone, I got my first check from Social Security... I guess I'll have to return it.

The biggest problem now is my wife retired. She has that nice 77" LG OLED in the den and she has a habit of watching it.... so I can't quite play the stereo in the living room. Before she was working in her home office and that meant I could play about 2 hours of music in the living room daily.

Honestly, I don't know why I did it... but the job is interesting and I'm an expert at it.

My kind of people... this was on the fridge in the coffee room at the office..

Well now that the toilet paper issue is finally settled and we have our basic engineering toolkit established, perhaps it’s time we delve into proper tool use. A recent excursion into the realm of home improvement has reminded me of the old saying, “When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail!”

 

[soundbrigade]

That's what we call an American Screwdriver.

 

[AllenB]

 

[Cal Weldon]

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[Galu]

She could be barking up the wrong tree!