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Originally posted by BR14 View Post
What proportion of the Welsh speak Welsh.
A. 19%
B. 39%
C. 59%
I got it wrong.....Comment
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Clouding over a bit now, though not in a rainy way.
No sign of a new satellite dish anywhere out the back, so maybe he was just replacing the cable. It looks fairly shiny where it runs along the wall. Or maybe he forgot to bring the dish. Can you run two cables off one dish? If so, maybe he's done that.
In a startling break with tradition, the bins have been emptied
I suspect somebody has complained to the council about them not having been done for nearly three weeks, meaning they were well past full to overflowing, and had them come out specially. I've remembered that they can't actually use the excuse of the gate being locked when they come, as the Residents' Association that owns/controls the gate provided the council with a key to be issued to the binfolk. So if they can't get in either they've not brought the key, they've not been told about it, somebody has lost it, or they couldn't be bothered; all of which are on them.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThey've just reissued it in HD. The Blu-ray is in my "to-watch" pile
I'm planning a special evening, as I've also got The War Game and the American one, The Day After. The three of them should make for a good night's viewingWhen the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post... and are billable..
When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostNo sign of a new satellite dish anywhere out the back, so maybe he was just replacing the cable. It looks fairly shiny where it runs along the wall. Or maybe he forgot to bring the dish. Can you run two cables off one dish? If so, maybe he's done that.
For the really enterprising, there's octo LNBs and for the even more enterprising, there's quattro LNBs but you need a magic switch box for those.
What is the difference between Quad LNB and Quattro LNB? | Satellite Dish
Though the magic box is termed a multiswitch these days.
Then again, with Sky Q it's all so odd that feck nose what's going on.
Complicated ain't the word for it, the Sky Q lnb can have 6 outputs, the 4 usual ones and two more for the Sky Q box.
In other news, I've been tidying the place up a bit.
And have selected a fine selection of application notes & circuit ideas for donation to the waste paper dump.
They've been there since the early 80s through to the late 90s.
The only few I've kept were extracted from "Freelance Informer" and are all about ancient computer systems, Enigma, and Colossus.
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Tea/dinner this evening was yet more of that fecking turkey.
The cat is having the rest whether it wants it or not.
Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostI suspect this evening's televisual epic is likely to be "The Hunchback of Notre Dame( 1939)" with Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - IMDb
It the 1923 version, with Lon Chaney Snr:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - IMDb
I wondered why it said "Silent" on the rear cover.
Now I'll have to look out for the 1939 version.
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Well that seemed rather longer than its 96 minutes run time.
Now watching the Alien nutjobs on "Blaze".
Madder than a box of frogs or a bag of hammers.
Enough of which when von Daniken appeared like an eminence grise.
On to "Car SOS" on More 4, which details how to repair an Aston Martin DB6.
When it's got terminal rust and an engine that "just stopped".
Turns out that it "just stopped" because of a wiring fault which they found after completely rebuilding the fecking thing & attempting to start it.
I'd have thunk that checking for 12V on the top of the coil might have been a bit of a giveaway really.
I remember a GT6 with an open circuit ballast resistor that foxed us for a while.
It would start then stop as soon as you let the key go.
Feck me, that was 40 years ago.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 17 April 2019, 22:07.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Tea tonight has been a roast smoked gammon joint (well, not all of it) with chips, beans, fried egg, and pineapple. Exceedingly nice, and very filling with that lot thrown inComment
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Of tonight's rewatch, I previously said:
Originally posted by NickFitz View PostTonight's movie spectacular was K-19: the Widowmaker, based (very loosely according to the surviving crew members) on the true story of the USSR's first nuclear missile submarine, which broke down in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage. It was interesting enough, but not as exciting as, say The Hunt for Red October or Morning Departure
Goodnight allComment
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