WMcD
-
Posts
7540 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
47
Content Type
Forums
Events
Gallery
Posts posted by WMcD
-
-
Fred Flintstone feet? I love it.
That must be my problem. I have only three toes!
WMcD
-
2
-
-
Yup, everyone is being helpful in tell us to wash our hands. When I go from the kitchen to the couch I must wash my hands. Nuts.
I've seen suggestions to sing The Birthday Song as a measure of duration. I've heard some suggestions to use The Alphabet Song. No need to invoke Zeppelin - Wha Wha -Wha WHA, wha. Smile.
This is a good time to investigate musical history.
The Alphabet Song; Ba Ba Black Sheep; and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are all the same melody as memorialize by Mozart from an ancient French song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Variations_on_"Ah_vous_dirai-je,_Maman"
Therefore, let me suggest you sing Mozart and astound your friends.
WMcD
-
1
-
-
I have very wide feet and so wear New Balance high end walking shoes in black. These pass business casual requirements so far. In thepast I wore less than black athletic shoes with business atire and a street person mocked me. A mendicant fashion authority.
For socks I like Thorlos. There is a lot of padding. Under them I've worn mostly cotton booties. I don't quite believe the Thorlo's claim that they wick moisture. The cotton helps.
The combination is particularly good in winter. My theory is that keeping the outside of the shoes cold prevents snow from melting and getting them wet. Good in summer too.
In college it was always Frye boots. Later in business I had Florscheim double welt wingtips which my wife called gunboats. I learned, upon purchase, to have a cobbler put on rubber half soles and a rubber heel peg. I later bought two pair and they are flexible as iron.
Story: I worked in a carpeted office and wore boots for the commute and then Florscheim penny loafers at work. They only saw carpet and no pavement After six months the stitching at the instep pulled out (probably a width issue). I brought them back to the Florscheim store and asked whether they could repair them at my cost. The salesman got very excited looking them over and said, "This is terrible, you've hardly worn them at all (looking at the soles). I'll give you a new pair." He would not take my money.
WMcD
WMcD
-
3
-
1
-
-
FWIW.
Here in Chicago the streets are pretty much empty. We have some fog which contibutes to the effect. Like Sherlock and Watson.
My employer has finally gotten the work at home system working after some exasperating problems. The person writing instructions really mess up. IT response is very delayed. I'm told that having a working work at home system up and running for our crew attracts enterprise customers.
I visited the local Walmart grocery. Yes there are voids in some staples. Only generic tuna is left. But canned chicken, bread, peanut butter, and jelly are on the shelf. There seems to be no problem with milk. I'm going back tomorrow to see if I can buy a sack of potatoes.
Walgreens is similar but there is no lack of milk, beer and wine. I suppose people could survive for weeks on a few cases of beer.
I'm cynical about the politicos using this as an excuse to get their pusses on the tube.
WMcD
-
3
-
-
I agree with Glens about protecting the amp.
I'm not smart enough to figure it out. One of our moderators long ago pointed out that we often have a high pass (or low pass) second order filter in the cross over. If the speaker burns out, it forms a series RL across the amp. Thus at some freq there is a dead short to ground and potentially the inductor (probably) fails if the amp doesn't fail first.
This may account for gross failure of crossovers. The tech doing a post mordem will see the crossover in a burned out condition and announce that the crossover failed and then failed the amp and or driver. Actually the driver failed first. Then there was a cascade of failures.
An open polyswitch could do the same unless there is resistor in parallel.
At least that is my read.
WMcD
-
1
-
-
I was almost mentioned on The Puzzler. They wanted to know what was special about the word facetious. I told them of course it is vowels in a row. There are many.
I said they should ask what word has the vowels in reverse order. There is only one exept for a very odd medical term.
They disussed that I had written a little computer program to find the reverse vowel as I described.
Ray told Tom not to say the word on the air and they would use it in another The Puzzler. But they never did. I didn't even get a pair of fuzzy dice. Maybe I should have written my message to them on a $20 bill as they requested.
-
1
-
-
There is a special circle in hell for people who undermine a perfectly good point of humor.
The supply of hand cleaner is coming with the millions of test kits the federal government has promised.
In the mean time we need an easily dispensed conglamoration of soap and water.
Watch for for the run on Barbisol.
The Stooges had it right. "Shaaaving Cream, Shaaving Cream."
WMcD
-
2
-
-
I think we're missing a creative solution.
As you may know, shaking hands is dicouraged. What we should do is put a squirt of Purelle on our hand and then shake hands. We'd be speading decontamination rather than contamination.
Now, what we need is anti-viral lipstick so we can smooch away the contamination.
Yup, we're going to lick this problem.
WMcD
-
2
-
1
-
-
It occurred to me that the largest source of transmission at SBux is the handles on the milk/cream pitchers. Everyone touches them.
This moring at Sbux I pointed this out to the fellow who dutifully wiped down the service tables with the pitchers, stirrers, and sugar.
He said that management told him not to wipe down the handles because customers don't like using the wet handles.
IMHO this criminal idiocy.
WMcD
-
2
-
-
It is a bit OT.
Penguin or the like publishes this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journal_of_the_Plague_Year
There are 100s of caviates that it is actually drawn from DeFoe's uncle's eperiences. As you might know, Defoe wrote extensively including Robinson Caruso. (sp).
Still it is chilling. The city fathers were as intelligent as anyone these days. Still they did not know what to do.
Interestingly, some people survived the plague by living on boats anchored in the Thames and bought shipped in food a la Peapod.
WMcD
-
2
-
-
Here is a question.
If you're pretty healthy and get exposed to a virus, does your body form an imune respose, sort of like getting vacinated?
If so, it is good to beexposed.
WMcD
-
1
-
-
I'd hate working from home. The apartment becomes a prison cell.
At work we have a suite of offices with almost 100 people working at computers. Everyone goes through the front door with a door knob used after a security card swipe. And there are a mens room and a ladies room with doorknobs out in the hall. And an elevator call button.
I might try just washing the doorknobs with hand cleaner every 15 minutes until some manager tells me to stop.
It seems like good science to me though others may disagree and think it can't be worthwhile.
OTOH I probably have a reputation for being a nut case anyway so there is little to lose.
Smile,
WMcD
-
1
-
-
Here is a question.
If you're pretty healthy and get exposed to a virus, does your body form an imune respose, sort of like getting vacinated?
If so, it is good to beexposed.
WMcD
-
1
-
-
Here is a question.
If you're pretty healthy and get exposed to a virus, does your body form an imune respose, sort of like getting vacinated?
If so, it is good to be exposed.
WMcD
-
1
-
-
FWIW the two St Patrick Day parades in Chicago have be "postponed." So to the dyein (bright green) of the Chicago River.
My employer is going to a work at home mode.
WMcD
-
2
-
-
I liked the British blokes video.
Today I got a lecture from the girlfriend of an MD. He had impressed her on the importance of washing one's hands extensively. There was no explanation of how this would help anything.
Anyway. Per the Chinese study, when I ride the bus to work I can be infected by a passenger's sneeze from12 feet away. What good is hand washing?
What import should I put to adomintions by such handwashing mavins?
WMcD
WMcD
-
2
-
-
PWK had something to say on this. Sort of.
He quoted some PhD who said, "You can't make what you can't measure because you don't know when you've got it made." This was of course a reference to PWK's extensive testing facilities which would tell him when his speakers had met specifications.
IMHO, until the USA has about 1.0 million test kits available, authorities will quarantine healthy people and sick people together and claim they are controlling the spread. In reality they are guessing about the situation (unless there is testing) and can not make any informed response to it.
Am I missing something?
Yup, we've got the sucker penned up in northern Italy by gum.
WMcD
-
2
-
-
I'm sorry to hear about all this.
I know I'm spending your money. I think you should buy some Crites woofers for use on both bass bins and just abandon the salvage effort. Clean up things. Make sure you have gasket material between the motor board and the slot. Check the assembly manual.
The guys at Speakerlab were a bit of hippy types and said there is no problem so big that RTV can't solve it. Comments like that invite sloppiness as you've found out.
OTOH my friends who built SKs were very careful craftsmen as I'm sure were many others.
WMcD
-
2
-
-
I had to double check that this wasn't published on April 1st. But apparently it is true.
-
1
-
-
How abour air in the tires of automobiles from China.
Dangerous stuff !!!!!
-
1
-
-
Listing to several Die Moudau on YouTube Von Kajan's seems brighter (and a faster tempo).
I wonder what concert pitch he used. I'm sure I could not detect A=443 vs 440 but maybe the higher tunings? What do people with perfect pitch detect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch
-
1
-
-
-
1
-
-
Nope on telephone number or cloud service. I did have OneDrive but it was out of space and this was not mentioned. Gotta fix that.
H-D Rider? Did you have such issues?
The Forbes instructions did not mention any such complications.
-
1
-
-
FWIW.
I had some apps which were designed for XP, where this o.s. was, naturally, 32-bit. The app had a driver for a security dongle which was 32-bit. I also had a camera with a cable transfer utility which was 32-bit. None worked with Win7 Home. This was apparently because that Win7 operating system was 64-bit.
I purchased ($$$) and installed 32-bit Win7 Pro and things worked. I think there is Win10 Pro 32-bit.
It is my dim understanding that most recent Windows application software is actually 32-bit but designed to run on 64-bit operating systems. (So maybe you're not getting 64-bit performance out of apps except for some memory intensive applications. The 64-bits allow more effective access to more memory.)
Apparently some drivers, particularly old ones designed for XP can not run on a 64-bit system even though its app can run. For this reason you are forced to run 32-bit operating system.
Maybe someone here can clarify. Help!!!
-
1
-
What do you put on your feet?
in Lounge
Posted
We should find the photograph of PWK standing next to the plexiglas K-Horn. He is wearing socks with sandals.
I guess it is okay if you're the boss . . . and in Arkansas.
WMcD