7th Mar 2014, 6:25 pm | #121 |
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Using an RPN calculator, much easier (than algerbraic ones), why are they so expensive these days? On the plus side I have never had one 'lost' at work (not for long anyway, probably works out cheaper in the long term).
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7th Mar 2014, 6:45 pm | #122 |
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Bullying off at hockey.
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8th Mar 2014, 12:36 am | #123 |
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I didn't even know you could still get RPN calculators! My HP11Cs are lasting well and my HP45 is stashed away.
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There was a time when people wouldn't go near that new-fangled Electrickery, or tried to use a match. Bring back gas lighting. It's all relative! |
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8th Mar 2014, 7:18 am | #125 |
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Listening to locate the two edit points on a reel to reel tape, marking at the head with a chinagraph pencil, placing tape in edit block, make two cuts, line up and rejoin the two ends with splicing tab, remove from block, respool, listen back to the perfect edit resulting.
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8th Mar 2014, 10:14 am | #126 |
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Ha! My mate Bob was a splicing wizard, invisible edits every time! I always got it slightly out. However, I was the champion with 'pause control edits' and 90% of my efforts were undetectable. I may still have my EMI splicing block somewhere, almost unused.....
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10th Mar 2014, 5:08 pm | #128 | |
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The chap who instructed us 'doctored' an innocuous sounding news bulletin into something completely and utterly different, with a few deft cuts and some splicing, such that one would never quite trust again what was heard on air.
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10th Mar 2014, 8:57 pm | #129 |
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What about driving a TRF receiver? I say driving because you have to do several things at once.
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10th Mar 2014, 10:20 pm | #130 |
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Climbing a mast!
David (and knowing when not to)
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13th Mar 2014, 4:06 pm | #131 |
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Spelling and grammar!
"You will need to spend some time learning this", not "you will need to spend sometime learning this." "With regard to", not "with regards to" "The items are all ready for collection", not "the items are already for collection" Dare I mention split infinitives? No, they are probably too contraversial! |
13th Mar 2014, 5:22 pm | #132 |
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It's controversial.
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13th Mar 2014, 5:51 pm | #133 |
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13th Mar 2014, 11:40 pm | #134 |
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Go on, someone's got to boldly go there.
While I'm at it, never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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14th Mar 2014, 12:53 am | #135 |
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Folks hardly ever seem to brew up with real tea leaves in proper tea pots these days preferring to drown a tea bag in a mug full of warm milky water instead.
One that constantly amazes me considering that we are a nation of tea drinkers Steve.
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14th Mar 2014, 10:42 am | #136 |
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Twinings english breakfast man here, in leaf form, teabags are banished from my house!
It is true though, the majority use tea bags, yuck!
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Coils at the bottom end of the band, capacitors at the top!
From one who prefers horses to cars. David
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14th Mar 2014, 11:26 am | #138 |
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Plugging the iron into the light socket, lighting a paraffin stove, turning a mangle, putting a wet earthenware pot over the milk bottle, rushing into an Anderson shelter .......
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14th Mar 2014, 12:12 pm | #139 |
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Hiring an L.T. accumulator from the local radio shop (and taking it back for recharging).
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One bit of forgotten knowledge was having a "Penmanship" class in junior school. Our headmaster managed to get Osmiroid fountain pens at a reduced price for those who wanted them. Mine needed a left-handed oblique nib as I'm left handed. I was quite decent at calligraphy, but not now! Before the computer era I hand-wrote all my "Television" articles, and JRW was quite impressed that he could read every word.
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