Driver to drive?

"College graduates working in fast food preparation isn't much of a
disgrace."

No honest work is a disgrace.

"One of my many jobs during early college was manager at a
local 24hr coffee shop."

I saw a sign at a local grocery that said they were hiring a general manger for $ 20.25 an hour. There is definitely no disgrace in that kind of money, I mean you can almost live on it.

>"The prime purpose of the restaurant was to
launder money from illicit operations for the local criminal
organizations."

And you get your tickets fixed.

>" Later,
my perfect timing had me graduating college directly into a small
recession, where the aerospace industry was in the process of
collapsing due to the cancellation of the space race."

Actually that was an extension of the cold war scam. See, none of these rich MFs who have it made for life and for the next few generations of their family want to upset the apple cart. They don't WANT to blow off a nuke. The scam of the red menace and the decadent Americans all was all a ruse to get popular support for a military buildup which resulted in the co-conspirators of the scam becoming the 2 preeminent super powers in the world.

>"Assembling hamburgers is not really cooking."

It can be.

"Somewhere along the line, I forgot to learn how to cook. Every attempt was a failure because I don't read the instructions and wouldn't follow the
instructions anyway."

You didn't "feel" it. Once you get that "feel" you need only occasional instruction, there are places ion the net to get it. But if you don't have that "feel" you are doomed to follow directions.

>"...which is why I'm self-employed. "

Me too kinda, but I can't call this being in business.

 

"You make none of them work? It's rather difficult to stay in business
with a batting average of zero. "

No you sarcastic non-pork eating MF. LOL I made many things work with no service info, and not even good part numbers on the frikken transistors n shit, even without markings on resistors. Even without silkscreen on the board, and components with like 5 wires, some kind of bandpass filter with no good numbers on it.

There are only so many ways it CAN work, so it MUST work one of those ways. Now to find out.

That thinking kept me pretty close to batting 1,000. Close enough that I could write my own ticket.

 

On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 23:46:45 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
<fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote:

krw@notreal.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:17:10 -0700 (PDT), jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:

"> Not sure about the US, but schools in the UK are teaching kids
*what* to think rather than how to.

One wonders how Cursitor Doom found this out?

He's presumably echoing something he read in the Daily Mail "

You piece of fucking garbage, get off our planet.

He is. Oh, he's *far* off this planet.

He's human, and humans are an infection in the body of the living
planet.

Not likely in Slowman's case but I can go with "infection".

 

On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 12:13:47 PM UTC+10, k...@notreal.com wrote:

On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 23:46:45 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote:
krw@notreal.com wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:17:10 -0700 (PDT), jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:

"> Not sure about the US, but schools in the UK are teaching kids
*what* to think rather than how to.

One wonders how Cursitor Doom found this out?

He's presumably echoing something he read in the Daily Mail.

You piece of fucking garbage, get off our planet.

He is. Oh, he's *far* off this planet.

Not as remote from it as jurb, of course.

He's human, and humans are an infection in the body of the living
planet.

Not likely in Sloman's case but I can go with "infection".

I may be mildly superhuman, if krw is an example of what passes for human, but "infection" is just saying that humans live on the planet and that there have been a lot more of them living here in recent years than in earlier centuries.

The word is mostly used by medical people to cover bacteria living in higher animals, but extending the class of entities infected to include this (or any other) planet is a legitimate rhetorical device, if mostly used by lunatics.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT), terrypingm@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks all, mains leakage sounds the culprit. I’ll get on it today. It’s a long run, with an intermediate outdooor mains socket, then a (supposedly) waterproof case with the relay.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Maybe something underground is full of water or ants or something.
Possibly the wire insulation got nicked.

There are some fun instrumentation possibilities, like probing the
soil at the surface and measuring/listening for AC potentials.

A map of the surface potentials of some chunk of land, color coded by
frequency, would be fun.

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.




--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[George Herold]

On Friday, August 24, 2018 at 11:41:24 AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT), terrypingm@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks all, mains leakage sounds the culprit. I’ll get on it today. It’s a long run, with an intermediate outdooor mains socket, then a (supposedly) waterproof case with the relay.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Maybe something underground is full of water or ants or something.
Possibly the wire insulation got nicked.

There are some fun instrumentation possibilities, like probing the
soil at the surface and measuring/listening for AC potentials.

A map of the surface potentials of some chunk of land, color coded by
frequency, would be fun.

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

I wanna see B-fields, from DC to maybe 60 Hz.
Maybe from whomever sells x-ray glasses :^)

George H.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

On Friday, August 24, 2018 at 12:41:44 PM UTC-4, George Herold wrote:

On Friday, August 24, 2018 at 11:41:24 AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT), terrypingm@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks all, mains leakage sounds the culprit. I’ll get on it today. It’s a long run, with an intermediate outdooor mains socket, then a (supposedly) waterproof case with the relay.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Maybe something underground is full of water or ants or something.
Possibly the wire insulation got nicked.

There are some fun instrumentation possibilities, like probing the
soil at the surface and measuring/listening for AC potentials.

A map of the surface potentials of some chunk of land, color coded by
frequency, would be fun.

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

I wanna see B-fields, from DC to maybe 60 Hz.
Maybe from whomever sells x-ray glasses :^)

George H.

https://hackaday.com/2018/02/15/high-speed-imaging-of-magnetic-fields/

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

John Larkin wrote:

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

I've often thought of that. You'd need eyes bigger than Zoey Daschanel
and Irene Bordoni combined.

You know that famous chaotic function that can be modelled with a
circuit of 2 multipliers and fed into a scope in XY mode to produce a
pair of spirals? There's a complete circuit on Paul Horowitz's website.
I might have made one for fun if the multipliers weren't $20 each.

Well, it would also be neat to put one in the cabinet under that old
scope in your lobby.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT), terrypingm@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks all, mains leakage sounds the culprit. I’ll get on it today. It’s a long run, with an intermediate outdooor mains socket, then a (supposedly) waterproof case with the relay.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Maybe something underground is full of water or ants or something.
Possibly the wire insulation got nicked.

There are some fun instrumentation possibilities, like probing the
soil at the surface and measuring/listening for AC potentials.

A map of the surface potentials of some chunk of land, color coded by
frequency, would be fun.

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

To my surprise the mains cabling seemed OK, giving readings outside my
DMM's 200Mohm at various points.

A side issue arose has me puzzled. I found about 1V DC across a twisted
pair cable, disconnected at both ends, buried in several places. How
does that come about? Even the short section I've cut out, with gaffer
tape around connector blocks, has about 0.5V DC.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 25/08/18 08:32, Terry Pinnell wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT), terrypingm@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks all, mains leakage sounds the culprit. I’ll get on it today. It’s a long run, with an intermediate outdooor mains socket, then a (supposedly) waterproof case with the relay.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Maybe something underground is full of water or ants or something.
Possibly the wire insulation got nicked.

There are some fun instrumentation possibilities, like probing the
soil at the surface and measuring/listening for AC potentials.

A map of the surface potentials of some chunk of land, color coded by
frequency, would be fun.

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

To my surprise the mains cabling seemed OK, giving readings outside my
DMM's 200Mohm at various points.

A side issue arose has me puzzled. I found about 1V DC across a twisted
pair cable, disconnected at both ends, buried in several places. How
does that come about? Even the short section I've cut out, with gaffer
tape around connector blocks, has about 0.5V DC.

What are you using to measure the potential difference?
A high input impedance meter?

What's the reading if you have a, say, 10kohm resistor
between the conductors?

 

Tom Del Rosso wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

I've often thought of that. You'd need eyes bigger than Zoey Daschanel
and Irene Bordoni combined.

You know that famous chaotic function that can be modelled with a
circuit of 2 multipliers and fed into a scope in XY mode to produce a
pair of spirals? There's a complete circuit on Paul Horowitz's website.
I might have made one for fun if the multipliers weren't $20 each.

Well, it would also be neat to put one in the cabinet under that old
scope in your lobby.

You can display anything you want on a XYZ scope:
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/scope_tv/index.html
with just a few transistors, even TV.

 

George H wrote

On Friday, August 24, 2018 at 11:41:24 AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT), terrypingm@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks all, mains leakage sounds the culprit. I=E2=80=99ll get on it today.
It=E2=80=99s a long run, with an intermediate outdooor mains socket, then
a (supposedly) waterproof case with the relay.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Maybe something underground is full of water or ants or something.
Possibly the wire insulation got nicked.

There are some fun instrumentation possibilities, like probing the
soil at the surface and measuring/listening for AC potentials.

A map of the surface potentials of some chunk of land, color coded by
frequency, would be fun.

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

I wanna see B-fields, from DC to maybe 60 Hz.
Maybe from whomever sells x-ray glasses :^)

Long ago, in the TV media center there was a periodic interference in the video.
It turned out to be induction by the electric trains from the train station next to it
into the miles and miles long coax cables in studios.

That studio complex had, IIRC, a metal roof just against RFI,
but that did not help against the trains.
But basically I would prefer a metal roof in the lab.. over seeing
all sorts of RF stuff interfering.


https://www.aerophotostock.com/-/galleries/all/page/113
train track on the right, low flat buildings studios.

 

happened fredbloggs wrote

>https://hackaday.com/2018/02/15/high-speed-imaging-of-magnetic-fields/

mm,
using paper and metal filings is much higher resolution,
put a camera on it.

 

On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 08:32:50 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<me@somewhere.invalid> wrote:

A side issue arose has me puzzled. I found about 1V DC across a twisted
pair cable, disconnected at both ends, buried in several places. How
does that come about? Even the short section I've cut out, with gaffer
tape around connector blocks, has about 0.5V DC.

DC voltages below 1 V could indicate some electrochemical pair between
dissimilar metals, such as the multimeter probes and the actual wire.
If the conductors were supposed to be separated, a well conducting
fluid could cause such phenomenon.

Did the multimeter show anything on the AC range ? Some multimeters
show some DC reading even with a symmetric AC voltage. Asymmetric AC
(even harmonics) could also cause a DC indication.

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

698839253X6D445TD@nospam.org wrote:

Tom Del Rosso wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

I've often thought of that. You'd need eyes bigger than Zoey
Daschanel and Irene Bordoni combined.

You know that famous chaotic function that can be modelled with a
circuit of 2 multipliers and fed into a scope in XY mode to produce a
pair of spirals? There's a complete circuit on Paul Horowitz's
website. I might have made one for fun if the multipliers weren't
$20 each.

Well, it would also be neat to put one in the cabinet under that old
scope in your lobby.

You can display anything you want on a XYZ scope:
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/scope_tv/index.html
with just a few transistors, even TV.

That's great but for an old scope on display it might be more
appropriate to have a presentation that is more vector and less raster.

Of course you don't want to burn it in so have it come on when a motion
sensor detects someone.

 

[Sjouke Burry]

On 25-8-2018 9:32, Terry Pinnell wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:52:26 -0700 (PDT), terrypingm@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks all, mains leakage sounds the culprit. I’ll get on it today. It’s a long run, with an intermediate outdooor mains socket, then a (supposedly) waterproof case with the relay.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Maybe something underground is full of water or ants or something.
Possibly the wire insulation got nicked.

There are some fun instrumentation possibilities, like probing the
soil at the surface and measuring/listening for AC potentials.

A map of the surface potentials of some chunk of land, color coded by
frequency, would be fun.

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

To my surprise the mains cabling seemed OK, giving readings outside my
DMM's 200Mohm at various points.

A side issue arose has me puzzled. I found about 1V DC across a twisted
pair cable, disconnected at both ends, buried in several places. How
does that come about? Even the short section I've cut out, with gaffer
tape around connector blocks, has about 0.5V DC.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Jou just re-invented the battery, two different metals with a bit of
groundwater.

 

[David Lesher]

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> writes:

We were on the roof yesterday and speculated how cool it would be if
we could see RF, all the microwaves and cell phones and wifis and
transmitters. That's not possible. But a surface potential map is.

Ask Geordi La Forge...


--
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

 

On Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 11:55:01 AM UTC+10, k...@notreal.com wrote:

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:15:05 -0700 (PDT),
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, September 10, 2018 at 9:47:26 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:40:02 GMT, Jan Panteltje
pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote:


The brits are good in inventing very useful things.
Their planes were not bad either, spitfire ...

But had no fuel for them. The best airplane in the world is useless
with empty tanks.

I guess the Brits threw the planes at the Germans. lol

You really are the idiot you pretend to be. The fuel came from Texas,
moron.

Quite a lot of it did, but by no means all. There was even a tiny domestic oil field in Nottingham

https://www.quora.com/Where-did-Britain-get-fuel-from-during-WWII

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:15:05 -0700 (PDT),
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, September 10, 2018 at 9:47:26 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:40:02 GMT, Jan Panteltje
pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote:


The brits are good in inventing very useful things.
Their planes were not bad either, spitfire ...

But had no fuel for them. The best airplane in the world is useless
with empty tanks.

I guess the Brits threw the planes at the Germans. lol

You really are the idiot you pretend to be. The fuel came from Texas,
moron.

 

On Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 9:55:01 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:15:05 -0700 (PDT),
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, September 10, 2018 at 9:47:26 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:40:02 GMT, Jan Panteltje
pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote:


The brits are good in inventing very useful things.
Their planes were not bad either, spitfire ...

But had no fuel for them. The best airplane in the world is useless
with empty tanks.

I guess the Brits threw the planes at the Germans. lol

You really are the idiot you pretend to be. The fuel came from Texas,
moron.

Yeah, we made a lot of money selling them fuel. I seem to recall we sold a lot of war materials to the Germans too...

Rick C.