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#91

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Reasons to be cheerful!

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - April 10, 2024, 01:36:39 PM

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Geez, maybe I should reconsider my cheer, there's is so much woe going on...
Na, the woe of others only adds piquance to my cheer. 

Back in December I got a thing in the letterbox, fabulous fabulous fibre to your home now available.
Stick with it a year and there's no installation cost.
I decided to embrace the fabulous, The Internet said it'd take about two weeks.
I told my old internet people I wouldn't be requiring their service past December 31.
The date for the fabulous installation was set, Monday the 15ish of January.
Four weeks instead of two, that's OK, I'll cope with mobile data.
It's a work day, I get daughter (with baby) to attend.
"They couldn't do it today" she told me, big job, they'd have to requisition a shovel or something.
They didn't turn up for the next appointment mid February.
Next appointment mid March they installed a modem and an exterior box but holes would have to be dug and subterranean made to go aerial.

Today the subterranean was made to go aerial for a hundred metres and I have my fabulous fabulous fibre connection. 

#92

Laid Back Lounge / Re: eclipse

Last post by Tank - April 09, 2024, 01:57:03 PM

Pin prick in aluminium foil works very indeed.

#93

Laid Back Lounge / Re: eclipse

Last post by billy rubin - April 09, 2024, 12:00:02 PM

i was not impresssd by the colander either

but watching day turn into twilight in a fewd seconds was worth it

#94

Laid Back Lounge / Re: eclipse

Last post by Dark Lightning - April 09, 2024, 02:31:01 AM

We got a pic with a colander in 2017, but it's enough out of focus so as to be useless to post.

#95

Laid Back Lounge / Re: eclipse

Last post by Icarus - April 09, 2024, 01:06:39 AM

Billy is practicing Appalachian creativity with that colander. 

#96

Laid Back Lounge / Re: eclipse

Last post by billy rubin - April 08, 2024, 11:55:53 PM

no

if you hold a colander under an eclipse, it acts like a multihole pinhole camera and projects lots of little eclipse images on a flat surface. my wife wanted to see it.

you can do the same thing by poking a hole in a piece of cardboard.

#97

Laid Back Lounge / Re: eclipse

Last post by Dark Lightning - April 08, 2024, 10:08:39 PM

Cool! Only a scoop out of an edge here; I didn't even bother to look. Are you looking to convert to Pastafarianism, with that colander as an accoutrement? 

#98

Laid Back Lounge / Re: eclipse

Last post by billy rubin - April 08, 2024, 09:58:02 PM

luckily i was prepared

#99

Laid Back Lounge / eclipse

Last post by billy rubin - April 08, 2024, 09:56:11 PM

went right over my head

#100

Current Events / Re: oldest book in the world f...

Last post by billy rubin - April 08, 2024, 04:28:40 PM

yes.

the next step is to see whether there is any way to test that hypothesis.