Something to lighten the mood

Screen lock??????😕
Just drive a thumbtack near some edge, trough screen and image.

Then it won´t rotate, no matter what.
To disable the feature just remove the thumbtack.

Don´t bother to cover the tiny hole, it may be useful later when you need to fix an image against rotation.

IF it causes you OCD, cover it with a piece of transparent tape so dust does not get in.
Almost forgot: works with any Phone operating system.
 
I decided to make me a tin foil hat. In order to protect my brain (what's left) from NASA's 5G death rays, I tried a different design, that I think works better that the ordinary crap people make.
 

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I decided to make me a tin foil hat. In order to protect my brain (what's left) from NASA's 5G death rays, I tried a different design, that I think works better that the ordinary crap people make.

Hey!! That one at least looks GOOD!!!!

As of:
Something was wrong with the board, Atari sent a short message: "Cut out B4". Well some one had litterally CUT OUT the IC at location B4 and attached the a note: "Cut out B4, still doesn't work".

Heathkit, the KINGS of home kit building on everything, from 3 component crystal radios to full functioning Daleks (not kidding), had a page (well, no Internet way back then, more of a file/repository) with "horror stories"

IF you built something and it didn´t work, you could send it home to Momma Heathkit for troubleshooting.
Now and then they would publish some choice bits on Popular Electronics or similar.

One I remember vividly was:

"A guy built some kind of multimeter.
One instruction line read Cement diode to case.

He then proceeded to fill case with cement ... Portland cement!!!"

PS: HeRo1 (Heathkit Robot 1)
The thing has wheels and follows you around the house.

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I was on the frontpage of our local paper issued to us tenents in the commune's houses (3.600 households). This paper was close winning a prestigius journalist award here in Sweden and to celebrate the nomination we (me, the journalist, communication manager from the company) gathered in a restaurant and I decided to make me a new better hat and knew exactly how to do it. The inspiration came from French officers caps.

However, I forgot to put it on when I went to the stores a minute ago and now I am starting to think that the Earth is a globe. And still I tried to avoid the 5G antennas out there.
 
The last time I employed a metal foil hat, the ham came out nice and juicy.
I thought you had to wear a metal hat when you served in the miltary.

Did just see a documentary about Patrick Swayze and then A-ha. Funny ... Interesting actually how ones views of someone can change.

Listening to Marc Almond, had to get his Tenement Symphony album. Great album and I love it, though it is "not my kind of music".

(My original hat)