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by lb1lf 9y ago
I know a spelling corrector is not the same thing as a spelling checker, but this is too good an opportunity to pass to promote Martha Snow's hilarious poem 'Spell Chequer': Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea se
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Fun (to me, at least) and perhaps tangentially related - I spent A LOT of time in Vigo, Spain (Well, Vigo, Galicia, as the locals would say) a few years ago - my employer had a major delivery at one of the shipyards, and I volunteered to st
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Oh, don’t knock the Seiko - Seiko is a true manufacture - they do EVERYTHING in-house - movements, cases, dials, mainsprings - even lubricants. This in stark contrast to some of their Swiss, in general more prestigeous counterparts. (Do you
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by lb1lf 9y ago
As has already been suggested - high-end watches; Grand Seiko and Credor. Fountain pens - Sailor, Nakaya, Namiki for instance. Oh, and knives. Definitely knives. In their higher end items, they tend to employ traditional craft techniques (z
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-Hundreds or thousands may be exaggerating a bit; IIRC the deepest commercial dive took place at some 600m/2000ft/60bar/850psi or so. In the Buford Dolphin accident, the pressure differential was 9 bar/130psi.
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by lb1lf 9y ago
To the best of my knowledge (not a sailor, but my work has netted me several hundred days on vessels offshore), 'Abandon Ship' is always an explicit, verbal order from the captain (or whoever follows him in authority if he is inca
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by lb1lf 9y ago
I remember poring over the C64 schematic for hours on end back in the eighties. I believe it was printed as a fold-out at the back of the programmer's reference guide. That schematic probably more than anything else influenced my later
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by lb1lf 9y ago
There is cause for concern when hearing seven short and one long blast, though. (General alarm; something has happened. Better head for the muster station to find out what...)
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by lb1lf 9y ago
And Kraftwerk’s «Radioaktivität / Radio-activity» - the title is tapped out in (not very good!) morse code.
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-They make lenses for the H system (oh, and XPan - in that case, I believe they made the camera, too). The V system (what pops into most people’s minds when ‘Hasselblad’ is mentioned) was largely supplied with Carl Zeiss lenses.
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by lb1lf 9y ago
It is not a dumb question. Depending on where you're embarking from, equipment like this may already be available - though not with a 15-minute supply, more like a minute, perhaps. When I've flown from Norway in latter years, our
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Mea culpa, I should have added '...in my jurisdiction'. (Norway) I haven't looked into the legal background, but my guess is that offshore workers' unions have lobbied for it - and, most likely, it only applies to flight
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-I've done this in simulator a few dozen times (mandatory training for anyone boarding a helicopter for going offshore, refresher courses every four years.) It is difficult enough in the simulator - which, as you say, simplify matters
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Yup, same story here in Norway - the smaller a population the paper covers, the better it does (generally speaking) I can think of a few reasons why - a) Local papers have gotten much of their revenue from subscriptions for a long time; the
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Speaking of rhyme, I mutilated it, didn’t I? It should be «So Israel’s getting tense, wants one for self defense...» I haven’t listened to that song in months; think I’ll put it on now. (My absolute Lehrer favourite, together with Wernher v
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Eee-eegypt wants to get one, too - just to use on you-know-who. So Israel’s getting one for self defense - «The Lord’s our shepherd, says the psalm - but just in case - we’d better get a bomb!» Tom Lehrer still makes me laugh until I cry af
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Just a little nit-pick - «When in doubt, quick glance in rear-view mirror, then slam brake.»
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-Unless I am much mistaken, a 2x teleconverter will cost you two stops - meaning 1/4 of the light. (I’ve mostly used a rangefinder in later years; they do not lend themselves well to teleconverters. :-)
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Oh, it definitely is a Speedy Pro - I believe (it is quite a few years since I last looked at this in detail) we’re looking at a c.861; my display back (c.1863) Speedmaster is very similar, but I believe there are a couple of minor differen
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-That would be pretty good watches - the requirement for being labelled a chronometer by the Swiss is +6/-4/day (with some further requirements - positions and temperatures) Seiko tune their top-of-the-line Grand Seikos a bit tigh
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by lb1lf 9y ago
AZ gets dark at night. The workaround is for cars to have headlights. Not knowing the law as it applies for (semi-)autonomous vehicle testing in Arizona, I am very curious how this one turns out. Based on my experience driving at night (In
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-Agreed that the clauses are most often presented by someone not authorized to waive them. However, I've found on the couple of occasions where (non-reasonable) NCAs were presented to me that simply claiming that the terms as stated ar
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-I would guess (mind, guess, I don't know the first thing about gas drilling) that as they needed to take great care retrieving the core samples slowly to allow the hydrogen to evaporate without damaging the sample (as per @abcd_f&#x27
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Obviously, the plural of anecdote is not data, but I've been using a Lamy (Logo; fine nib) for years now, and I've yet to have more than the (very occasional) weak smudge of ink on the part of my pinky and ring fingers resting aga
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by lb1lf 9y ago
DCF77 surely cannot be that bad indoors on the Continent? When living at what was then often quoted as the extreme fringe of the coverage area - Trondheim, Norway, on 63,5 degrees of latitude - I had reliable coverage as long as the clocks
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by lb1lf 9y ago
I would be surprised if they did; this just seemed like an excellent opportunity to share a fun anecdote. :-)
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by lb1lf 9y ago
Things were a lot simpler back in the day. When Bela Lugosi died during filming of 'Plan 9 from outer space', Ed Wood simply had some other actor step in for him, even though there's no likeness whatsoever. (Then again, who l
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by lb1lf 9y ago
I'll recycle a comment I made in another thread a year ago: When clearing out my grandmother's house a few years ago, my uncle and I almost broke our backs trying to get the freezer out. It felt like it weighed a ton, even empty.
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by lb1lf 9y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data, but around here (Scandinavia) I've seen lots and lots of Miele and ASKO appliances which are way, way beyond 10 years old. My 13 year old Miele washer and 9 year old ASKO dryer are still going strong
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by lb1lf 9y ago
-Agreed; there was something about the aesthetics of the scooter which just looked... ...right, with those twin turbines attached. Looks like a Jetsons prop. Absolutely, positively beautiful. Here in Scandinavia, some people have taken a mo

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