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Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)
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Maybe Fitz is building cement from teeth? :eek:Building cement or teeth cement (is there such a thing?)
But yeah mixing cement is graft alright.
I'd feel weird having a shower wearing a watch tbh.No showering with the watch? Tsk tsk... :pac:Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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I'm thinking of this Mr Bean dentist cement (at around 3:47 mark - though the whole thing is worth watching in full I think ) Anyone spot what watch he's wearing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0cZK1c0wpE0 -
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Fitz, you utter prick. I've just snorted tea all over my keyboard. My sinuses have rarely felt so clear, though I'll have to ask Thirdfox on his methods of cleaning keyboards. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Fitz, you utter prick. I've just snorted tea all over my keyboard. My sinuses have rarely felt so clear, though I'll have to ask Thirdfox on his methods of cleaning keyboards.
If you don't often clean keyboards I'd shudder to think what you'd find under yours - break out the black lights for when Wibbs was searching for vintage WWI trench watches :pac: 0 -
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I hit them with a can of air every so often. That's on my Macbooks. Though I deliberately use 2014-16 examples as the later ones have completely shíte keyboards. Loads of failures. Then again IMHO Apple have gone rapidly downhill on their laptops over the last few years(the latest A1 Air is nice enough) Some aspects of their engineering beggar belief. Like placing moisture vulnerable components close to openings or having the backlight power circuit(loads of volts) sitting right beside the processor power circuit. :rolleyes:
I've taken apart and cleaned a few desktop keyboards and the gunk in some... :eek:, though taking apart laptops... Luckily I'm not allergic to anything or I'd need an epi pen for such times. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!Join Date:Posts: 64448
off topic but how does that work ?
The same as it works in any car, diesel, petrol, or EV
I just connected a DC to AC inverter via a fused circuit to the 12V battery. The main difference here is that Teslas are always on. So the 12V will never be drained as the software monitors this battery and keeps it topped up from the high voltage (about 400V) battery via the DC-DC converterMy ads on adverts.ie
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I hit them with a can of air every so often. That's on my Macbooks. Though I deliberately use 2014-16 examples as the later ones have completely shíte keyboards. Loads of failures. Then again IMHO Apple have gone rapidly downhill on their laptops over the last few years(the latest A1 Air is nice enough) Some aspects of their engineering beggar belief. Like placing moisture vulnerable components close to openings or having the backlight power circuit(loads of volts) sitting right beside the processor power circuit. :rolleyes:
I've taken apart and cleaned a few desktop keyboards and the gunk in some... :eek:, though taking apart laptops... Luckily I'm not allergic to anything or I'd need an epi pen for such times.
Macbook keyboards - I feel for you - their butterfly switches are notorious for being "not in line with the rest of premium package" :pac: - my wife even dislikes her Lenovo Thinkpad keyboard (which I'd consider one of the best for laptops) after using a proper mechanical one.I have a straw diffuser attachment for my Dyson that does a fair job of sucking up the gunk.
Keyboards are a dirt trap tho, can only imagine how bad mechanicals get.
If you're not funny like I am about maintaining original stickers etc. - the IBM model M and variants apparently can just be thrown in the dishwasher (after removing the circuit board of course ) - I have seen pretty horrible office keyboards in my time (no-one is going to take the time to clean out the communal keyboard so if you ever do pop off a keycap there is probably enough DNA to restart humanity again :eek: ).Cyclingtourist wrote: »When a cycle path takes me on a bridge over a motorway I experience an intense feeling of superiority, like being in heaven looking down on the poor bastards living in purgatory.
Back when cycling to work was still a thing I certainly enjoyed speeding past the gridlock while in the cycle lane - I would beat cars and perform as well as a bus going in to work (factoring in the shower) - 22km roundtrip - treated it "free gym membership"
Though equally on a wet windy day I look at the poor b*stards stuck on the side of a road with their bicycle fixing their flat tyre and thank myself that I'm being chauffeured by a nice comfy bus.0 -
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I started watching the long way down last night where they are driving from the southern tip of Patagonia all the way up to LA. The difference being they decided to do it using electric bikes and support vehicles. There is basically zero charging infrastructure on route so the first three episodes is just constant range anxiety and bikes failing to charge. It was a seriously dumb idea. The support vehicles are prototype pre production Rivians that basically don't work. Fast forward 10/20 years and it will probably be as easy doing it on petrol bikes now.
There seems to be a strong correlation between electric cars and luxury watches here. I came very close to pulling the trigger on ordering an ID4 before Christmas but didn't in the end. Was leaning more towards a model 3 but the trade in I was offered was taking the p1ss. 30 percent less than VW on a two year old car.
I've a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. What's the equivalent of a hybrid car in watches... hope its not a Hublot 0 -
The GFX/processor stickers usually come of my gear within a couple of months.
Other stickers...
Well now that I'm a student
I gotta be cool!
Another Dune fan.....the sleeper has awakened. ! Cant wait for the new movie, looks great.
Cars and Watches go hand in hand I think, all middle aged middle class male interests for the mechanically minded. I dont know that EV's in particular go with watches, Ev's are kinda the quartz of cars....sparrowcar wrote: »I've a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. What's the equivalent of a hybrid car in watches... hope its not a Hublot
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sparrowcar wrote: »I've a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. What's the equivalent of a hybrid car in watches... hope its not a Hublot
Clearly a Breitling Aerospace AniDigi
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Turns out I was a middle aged man at 15. :eek:
I'd agree that for urban driving an EV is pretty much a no brainer really. And on a small island like we live on pretty much fine for most journeys most people take too. I'd be on the road often enough and would regularly drive to various bits of Wicklow from Dublin and I don't think there's an EV on sale, or used that wouldn't accommodate me as far as range goes.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!Join Date:Posts: 64448
I'd agree that for urban driving an EV is pretty much a no brainer really. And on a small island like we live on pretty much fine for most journeys most people take too. I'd be on the road often enough and would regularly drive to various bits of Wicklow from Dublin and I don't think there's an EV on sale, or used that wouldn't accommodate me as far as range goes.
Many EVs on sale now can go from nearly anywhere in Ireland to anywhere else without charging (real life range of 400km). My own 7 year old car can nearly do that.
Newest Tesla will do 800km. Does anybody in Ireland do more than 800km over here in a day, ever? My ads on adverts.ie
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Sorted for ya. Ahhh the winged hourglass. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Just sorted that for you too. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Dune would likely need a lot more than an Expanse budget. It's a fairly "cheap" a series to shoot. One season had location stuff, which was all in one place so that cuts costs, but it's mostly small sets and internals, with some location shooting, but even there quite small. To build the world of Dune would be pricey even with current CGI(which can get pricey enough too). Desert locations alone can be a nightmare. For me about the best looking and feeling desert on screen was Lawrence of Arabia. Then again the size and quality of the cameras and film stock they were using...But have to say something along the budget of the Expanse would be good and could go through the books.
+1. As far as I recall didn't he renounce the film afterwards? Lynch is a great director, but to give him a flic of that budget and size and of an "unflimable" book on the back of experience that was much much smaller in budget...I dunno what the studio were thinking. You need a blockbuster type director like Scott or Spielberg at the helm of something like that. Though I'd say they'd see the project as somewhat of a poison chalice.The Lynch movie was all very mystical and magical which the books are not in any way.
There was that failed attempt to shoot it in the 70's by kinda crazy director Jodorowsky. The documentary of that is well worth a watch. It was going to feature music by Pink Floyd, a cast that included Salvador Dali as the Emperor. Orson Welles was in the mix too. It was doomed to failure, but the team of designers and FX guys he rounded up who came up with set, costume and ship designs certainly influenced a load of later flics. Many of his team ended up doing the designs for the Alien series of films and because Jodorowsky had hawked the project across Hollywood and wasn't secretive at all about his thoughts other films stole a look over his shoulder. Here's a design for the Harkonnen palace.
Spot the Alien. Well it was the same guy(Giger) who designed the Alien and the look of the alien craft in the flic of the same name.
+1000 I did not get the hype over that at all.Tenet was the last thing I saw in the cinema and it was a load of crap really with the worst sound mixing ever.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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