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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
Blog Archive
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- [stevenwrightvoice]Hooray, There Is A Budget Deal[...
- The Phone Rang At 1:40 This Morning
- Insight
- How Difficult Could It Be?
- The Moon Is A Hoax
- Tinfoil Hats At The Ready!
- Two Books
- Worth It For The Headline
- But, Ruth....
- New Robot Nature Takin' Over
- Thinking Of Charity
- Sure, It's A Bad World
- Out Of The Mouths Of, Well, Presidents...
- The Triumph Of The Will
- Stopping A Mad Dog Isn't Political
- TSA Supports Dick Lugar
- On The Norwegian Shooter
- The Stupidification Of America
- "..."
- Officer Goofus And Officer Gallant
- Irony? Guilt?
- Atlantis Final
- Like Fingernails On A Blackboqrd
- Painting/Surprised/Etc.
- Britain's Empty Quarter
- Indiana!
- Cat Physics In Photos
- Quick Takes
- Grumpy
- National Moto+Cycle
- Ask, Tell...Psych!
- New Content, Retro And Science-Adventurific
- Serving Up A Raw Deal
- This Just In
- I'm A Genius
- New Old Bicycles From The Home Front
- Fail! (Plus Non-Failing Books And Geekery)
- I Know It Goes To 11
- The Great FedGov Budget Debacle Of _____
- Humid Enough Fer Ya?
- Free Reading!
- Whisky Tango Foxtrot, Over?
- Goooood Morning!
- "I Will Never Smoke Or Chew...."
- "The End Of The Manned Space Program In The U. S."
- Dinner, Wheels
- Painting: Will It Commence Today?
- Indiana Supreme Extreme Court: Vote 'Em Out.
- Housepainting Update: Okay, Now I'm Scared
- Before Kings Of The High Frontier
- Pugsly Immune To Irony
- Gee, Mister, I'm Skeered
- Arrgh!
- Pome.
- Four For The Fourth
- The Biggest Solid-Fuel Rocket Engine Ever Built
- Breakfast Sunday, -- No, Lunch
- Lunch In SoBro (Saturday)
- Greening Roseholme Cottage
- IMPD vs. Useful Actions
- New Chemex User:
- Eyeglasses Update
- "Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another?"
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On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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10 comments:
Man, that's a lot of D cells.
Wait! They sell the Vibrator of Death over at.... Never mind!
What an odd story!
"She is known for her personal magnetism," responded Flocon.
"Yesterday the steel-workers in Nevers went back, to a man, after she had sung and spoken to them."
Like reading one of those contemporaneous Tom Swift stories: "Anne, look out!" Tom ejaculated.
WV: ditanine - a chemical made from condensed Morse code characters.
I'm a little concerned Keads knows where to get that...
Has no-one here ever thump-started a tube car radio?
Ritchie: What's a tube? And why is it in a radio?
The "tube," as it was known, was a glass container, filled with nothing (or a "vacuum," as our primitive ancestors called it, as if such a thing could actually exist) and claimed to have amplifying properties. Similar to homeopathy, it was merely superstition.
;)
I may be the only other person here who knows why old car radios required the occasional sharp rap to start up and what relationship that might have to the linked story.
That's cool! I didn't know about thump-starting old car radios; I knew they used electronic vibrators to boost 6vdc battery voltage to power the tubes. I know what the electronic vibrators do, and how they do it - am I safe in guessing that they didn't take kindly to early automotive use, due to humidity, temperature changes, questionable suspensions, etc., and needed the occasional gentle "manual reset" to unstick them when turned on? I'm 39 (honest!) - but I like electronics, and I read a LOT. :)
Man, that's some doorbell buzzer.
Given the names I assume the action takes place in Paris, which had several areas wired for DC, so no giant rectifier would be needed.
But it would be a bit hard on the head of the dude in chair at the end of the clapper.
Oh, code words in reverse order.
Mallory. Yaxley. The buffer is a paper .001 at 1600v.
Stranger
NYEMT: Bingo!
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