The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post

[nikongod]

 

He was doing it before it was mainstream too. 

[MoonShine]

Knuckles is back!! 

[jgazal]

 

 

[mikeymad]

 

Newspaper dampening base makes sound so nice.... 

[Knuckledragger]

Dinne has got yr "selfie" righ cheer.

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[Grahame]

[Hopstretch]

Quite clever! I'm not entirely sure why I'm going the other way? Perhaps Grahame can explain.

 

[Grahame]

https://mobile.twitter.com/SoVeryBritish

[blessingx]

^ "Being unable to say 'good for you' without sounding sarcastic."

[Knuckledragger]

For all the things I hate about Faecesbook, it amuses me to no end to see John Carter make a post about a DAT deck, and get answers from Darren Emerson, J Saul Kane, Jagz Kooner, and Mixmaster Morris. Maybe this Information Age thing has some merit after all.

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[grawk]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That poster is hanging up in my guest bathroom.

[Grahame]

Kids Today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk

[Wmcmanus]

[blessingx]

http://youtu.be/GtP3ls9_VhU

[blessingx]

Edited May 28, 2014 by blessingx

[blessingx]

Not jet packs, but...

http://youtu.be/CqSDWoAhvLU

[Voltron]

So the second to last Silicon Valley episode was on point apparently.

[Knuckledragger]

lol, search engine.  Five years ago, I that the famous house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off was for sale.  It finally sold for $1M, well below the original $2.35M asking price.  Turns out it was a bit of a high falutin' fixer-upper.  

 

The man behind @gselevator

A rack mounted TR-808. Ya don't see one of those every day.

Lisa Baker, 1966.

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[blessingx]

Tonight's inspirational message...   

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VPcPCwK_G0

[aardvark baguette]

[Wmcmanus]

Review on Amazon about a hammock I'm thinking about buying.  I've provided some highlights to prevent your boredom:
 

This review is from: Vivere Double Hammock with Space Saving Steel Stand, Desert Moon (Lawn & Patio)

"It came with a bag, a couple poles, bends, and twistable knobs and was easy to assemble without tools (5 minutes).

I bet my dad I would sleep 1 week using the hanging hammock as a permanent bed for $10.

I slept in it by myself for a few days and loved it. Then with my girlfriend. She disliked sleeping together in the hammock since it felt smooshed. It also forced her to lay on her back- another unnatural position. But we really wanted to both love it. So I made it tighter, in order to reduce the curvature in the center which was causing hip/back pain when we were in spoon position. I felt better using the hammock as a bed. I felt more awake and could start the day. Having fun in it was also challenging AND interesting. But we broke it on the 5th night.

We turned on the lights to see our rumps had been dangling half an inch above the metal floor pole. We had bent and collapsed in one side's bend of the erect staffs. Despite our combined weight of 300lbs (well-below the safety specification of 440lbs). I have to return it now, or ask for a replacement bend. Have not decided. $140 back would be helpful.

I'm actually an Industrial Engineer graduate, I understand the hammock bed can handle constant weight. But repetitive, vigorous, and fun activities in the hammock will rapidly cause it to flex inwards... even at "safe" weights (We lasted 5 days @ 300lbs).

My recommendation: Mainly use for just one person. It isn't comfortable for two people. Also, don't even think about sex on it! I know it is tempting to try it... and it was fun... but choose a stronger design if you want to try it too!

Edit 8/15/2013
I got the replacement! Not much of a choice- I called for a refund but because I threw the box away with premature excitement, it was near impossible to refund. My father, a USPS Regional Postmaster, spent two weeks looking for this quirky sized box ~(110 X 47 X 43 inches). He was unsuccessful. I asked if Amazon would kindly ship us the box to return, they said no. Well, what can you do? Short of making a custom corrugated cardboard package myself, I had my hands cuffed.

I have been enjoying sleep since my girlfriend is currently on week-vacation. Normally, I am forced on IKEA when she is home, but for the last few days I can enjoy my hammock. In fact, she is hanging with pillow and blanket in my living room space as my permanent single bed while my IKEA full-sized foam mattress lays stripped in the other room.

Also, I assembled my ex-hammock outside for the family to use. (How chivalrous I am to give my family a hammock that is ready to collapse?).

Conclusion: Although this hammock is awesome for one person, its lifetime may be severely reduced with two persons. (If you do it in this hammock you were warned!) Great for relaxing, sleeping, thinking, swaying, zzzz....
I fantasize about using a hammock for my future kid/teenager's beds (It's unique, space-saving, ultra-comfortable, improves blood flow to brain to improve development, plus they won't be able to share the bed easily say if they hang out with the opposite sex.) or for ultra-comfort while reading a novel in a future book room.

I hope this is helpful!"

Edited May 31, 2014 by Wmcmanus

[blessingx]

http://www.1week1project.org/2014/05/19/architecture-animee/

[jgazal]

The Pyramid of North Dakota, used for 3 days at a cost of $6B.

 

 

 

In the 1980s the Department of Energy started to design what would have been the biggest science experiment in the world, theSuperconducting Super Collider. Waxahachie, Texas was all set to host a particle accelerator that would have dwarfed Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, today's reigning champ. Construction began in 1991, then was abruptly canceled in 1993.

The SSC was designed to collide protons and anti-protons at energies of 40 TeV, today the LHC can only ever hope to reach 14 TeV. The LHC has tunnels 17 miles in circumference; the SSC would have been more than 54 miles.

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http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=6659555448783718990

 

 

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(...) Congress officially canceled the project October 21, 1993 after $2 billion had been spent. (...)

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The SSC cost was due largely to the massive civil engineering project of digging a huge tunnel underground. The LHC, in contrast, took over the pre-existing engineering infrastructure and 27 km long underground cavern of the Large Electron–Positron Collider, and used innovative magnet designs to bend the higher energy particles into the available tunnel.[21] The LHC eventually cost the equivalent of about 5 billion US dollars to build.

 

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider}

 

 

(...)

Of all the challenges Brazil faces, cleaning up Guanabara Bay may be the toughest.

Officials vowed to tackle the problem after the United Nations Earth Summit here in 1992 drew scrutiny of Rio’s foul waters. The Rio state government secured more than $1 billion in loans from Japan’s government and the Inter-American Development Bank for cleanup projects, but they have not been even remotely successful, according to environmental experts. The State Environmental Institute in Rio de Janeiro estimates that more than 10 percent of the trash here is not collected, much of it flowing into the bay through canals and degraded rivers.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/world/americas/memo-to-olympic-sailors-in-rio-dont-touch-the-water.html?_r=0

Edited June 1, 2014 by jgazal

[VPI]

[Voltron]

I like the way Larry changed his name for the wanted ad.