Weirdness: Round three

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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:44 am

http://electronbunker.ca/eb/AM_StereoXMTR.html — AM stereo transmitter with all of three valves/tubes in it.
And it looks right neat, too.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sun Aug 23, 2020 7:44 am

Went to textfiles.com and had a look at the Art Scene section. I'm sure you can imagine chibi-me rubbing his tiny little hands in glee. Well rewarded glee, at that.

http://artscene.textfiles.com/music/mods/MODS/ — ALL TEH MODS (well, may be not all…)

http://artscene.textfiles.com/music/mods/MODS/MODLAND/-%20unknown/holocaust.mod
http://artscene.textfiles.com/music/mods/MODS/MODLAND/-%20unknown/startreksymphony.mod
http://artscene.textfiles.com/music/mods/MODS/MODLAND/Jogeir%20Liljedahl/guitar%20slinger.mod
The modules above are old favourites of mine. VLC and qmmt can play modules. WinAmp, too, IIRC.

I'm also in the habit of scraping the browser cache with Nirsoft's MZCacheView if something caught my attention during a session.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:42 pm

I have, for the last few days, been scripting more and more elaborate stream player pages for my browser. For once I'm glad that web browsers are so massively object-oriented these days. It makes it so much easier to cobble up something useful.

Of course, that tends to result in luxury problems: Which of the twelve streams https://www.best-of-rock.fm offers do I listen to while testing the latest (and greatest?) stream player page? Maybe none because it's time to upgrade the other pages with the test results from this one?
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Spica75 » Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:49 am

Té Rowan wrote:http://electronbunker.ca/eb/AM_StereoXMTR.html — AM stereo transmitter with all of three valves/tubes in it.
And it looks right neat, too.


The writer there also states something extremely important that i think a LOT of chip designers today would need to know or relearn:
"I like vacuum tubes because it's fun and challenging to build circuits using this old technology. It forces the designer to analyse the circuit requirements carefully, and to come up with a minimal optimum design. With solid state, you can throw a few hundred transistors at almost any problem in order to solve it. You can't do that with vacuum tubes, so you have to come up with a good basic design. Therein lies the challenge."

Intel's last decade of fail and before that, AMDs attempt to use AI to design a new chip architechture(Bulldozer series) are good showings of getting complacent about "we can always throw more transistors at the problem".

It's a bit similar to how physicists have started "solving" problems by throwing dimensions at them. Sure, they come up with ways of making the math work, but who cares when the way they do it is unlikely to have anything to do with reality.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Thu Aug 27, 2020 9:59 am

I, too, saw the designer's statement, and most emph agree on its importance. But since Marketing has already jumped the gun, and wants something marketable yesterday, I suppose R&D will be railroaded (again!) into taking the quick route.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:33 am

https://worldradiohistory.com/Practical_Wireless_Magazine.htm
https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical/Wireless/80s/PW-1987-04.pdf — Practical Wireless, April 1987 issue.
Here presented in case someone does want to build the Vin Plonk Special, a loaded(!) aerial/antenna for the 20 metre ham band.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:48 pm

http://web.archive.org/web/20080926185020/http://www.anifics.com/hosted/ladycosmos/x-over/red.html — Redheads
Yes, that Redheads, the one where Ranma and Akane wind up in the Slayersverse. Three chapters.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080930144857/http://www.anifics.com/hosted/ladycosmos/x-over/paragon.html — Paragon
Another Kenko fic. A new magical girl — "MONSTER NO BAKA!" — who is very clearly of mammalian descent.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Ellen Kuhfeld » Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:02 pm

I've read both those stories. They are GOOD. :D
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:39 pm

I have certainly had a laughs galore from them. And Girl Days. Can't forget Girl Days.

Any Kenko virgins should begin here: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/90351/Kenko. You can't get Redheads from there, but Girl Days and Paragon are there. Warning: If you want ypur fanfic diet all angsty with angst, forget about reading Kenko. His angst fields are so barren, they make Antarctica look verdant in comparison.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080216191546/http://www.knology.net/~kenjiko2/ — Kenko's Page of Classic Literature
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Spica75 » Sat Aug 29, 2020 1:00 pm

Té Rowan wrote:I have certainly had a laughs galore from them. And Girl Days. Can't forget Girl Days.

Any Kenko virgins should begin here: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/90351/Kenko. You can't get Redheads from there, but Girl Days and Paragon are there. Warning: If you want ypur fanfic diet all angsty with angst, forget about reading Kenko. His angst fields are so barren, they make Antarctica look verdant in comparison.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080216191546/http://www.knology.net/~kenjiko2/ — Kenko's Page of Classic Literature
For a few more stories.


Reality has all the angst we could ever NOT want, so i'll pass on grimderp authors.

Was a while since i read Girl days, but IIRC it was fun and pretty good.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sat Aug 29, 2020 1:38 pm

I would say it is. For those that come here in the future and wonder what's up, it is a "Ranma Saotome is forced to be a girl" story with the usual angst replaced with humour, hi-jinks and the occasional big mallet. It features Chinese Vikings, the worst martial artist OC ever, and the Mercury Ice Mallet.

Synopsis from Ranma-chan Fanfics: "Nodoka decides Ranma needs to get in touch with his feminine side, so she wants Ranma to stay in girl form for a while. Ranma gets girl training, and starts to enjoy several aspects of being a girl like sunbathing, ice cream, and fighting in a shocking leather outfit that makes all girls green with envy. Very funny story, especially Ranma's views on what a pervert is, she doesn't even like cheeze whiz."
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Ellen Kuhfeld » Sat Aug 29, 2020 2:47 pm

Té Rowan wrote:I would say it is. For those that come here in the future and wonder what's up, it is a "Ranma Saotome is forced to be a girl" story with the usual angst replaced with humour, hi-jinks and the occasional big mallet. It features Chinese Vikings, the worst martial artist OC ever, and the Mercury Ice Mallet.

I should read Girl Days again. I was remembering Norwegian Amazons. But you have the right of it. Still, those enormous blond(e) people look Norwegian. And since French Vikings existed (William the Conqueror) and Irish Vikings (founders of Dublin), Chinese Vikings of Norwegian descent are far from impossible.

Of course, there's Obelix the Gaul. But he involves magic potion.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sat Aug 29, 2020 3:18 pm

And the Chinese Vikings are constantly feuding with the Chinese Amazon elders. The former are as non-traditional as the latter are traditional. Except Helga. She is built, stacked… and very very traditional. She is also fixated on Mousse.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:29 pm

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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Spica75 » Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:38 am

Ellen Kuhfeld wrote:I should read Girl Days again. I was remembering Norwegian Amazons. But you have the right of it. Still, those enormous blond(e) people look Norwegian. And since French Vikings existed (William the Conqueror) and Irish Vikings (founders of Dublin), Chinese Vikings of Norwegian descent are far from impossible.

Of course, there's Obelix the Gaul. But he involves magic potion.


The French vikings were very real indeed yes, as vikings were "paid" with titles and land in return for protecting the lands they settled and it's where the name Normandie originates from, ~the place of the northmen.

Chinese Vikings of Norwegian descent are far from impossible.


There's even some potential realism in that! Even if it probably wouldn't have been Norwegian, as they tended to travel west or south(along the west coast of Europe and down into the mediterranean), but more likely Swedish vikings, who traded a lot eastwards and southwards across the continents.
Looking at how far east it has been PROVEN that vikings went, well, they're actually more than halfway to China so no surprise if there were some being extra adventurous and just keep going.

Then of course, there's the speculated and unproven travels that would simply feel perfectly at home in a fiction based on a slightly more "fantastic" version of reality. For example, the combination of "maybes" that claims Chinese naval exploration may have travelled to North America(mostly based on a few words in the few surviving Chinese documents about it(the emperor that stopped the naval travels tried to have all records destroyed) and finding what appears to be Chinese ballast stones of the ancient style in a couple of places along the N. American western coastline.) and how vikings MAY have travelled far enough down along the northeastern coastline of America(as well as into the depths of the mainland) to reach the meso-American civilisations(based on legends among several north and central american populations as well as a rare few otherwise unexplainable irregular DNA finds among same populations(the little evidence possible to gain suggesting that the DNA had to have come there before the 15th century)), which could in theory have allowed Norwegian vikings to interact with the very early Chinese navy.

It might even have happened for real! :D
The existing evidence is very shaky and rather minimal, but the primary opposition is the sad old "it couldn't have happened" rather than any actual evidence, so it's quite impossible to say.
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