• What is this thing called?

    From Hactar@21:1/5 to Kerr Mudd-John on Mon Feb 22 15:51:22 2016
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    In article <op.yc8283hymsr2db@dell3100.dlink.com>,
    Kerr Mudd-John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:48:46 -0000, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> wrote:

    In article <op.yc8nsod1msr2db@anyhost.anywhere>,
    Kerr Mudd-John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 03:41:11 -0100, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net>
    wrote:

    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not
    its

    I failed to do a FWSE on "Space Dildo"

    Yeah, it's probably an invention of her twisted mind. Creative Writing
    majors come up with the weirdest stuff.

    "Firewall something else"... no. And it's probably not "Frequency-Wavenumber Spectrum Estimation" or "Frequency Weighted Squared Error". So what's it mean?

    Google. aka Famous Web Search Engine

    Ah, so in this case GInotYF.

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  • From Hactar@21:1/5 to Lesmond on Mon Feb 22 15:48:10 2016
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    In article <yrfzbaqirevmbaarg.o2ysbk7.pminews@192.168.0.6>,
    Lesmond <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 07:34:31 -0700, Greg Goss wrote:

    "Lesmond" <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:41:11 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not its >>>real name. I had it taped and ziptied to the top of my monitor, and >>>tonight the tape failed and it fell ~19" to the desk and something broke >>>(not the bulb) on the inside.

    I'm uncertain of what it's original purpose was and how you acquired it.

    Soothing motion in the background of your vision is calming. In my >twenties, I had a bedroom lamp that had silvery flecks in fluid. A
    small bulb in the base lit the fluid and the flecks sending dots of
    light around randomly and slowly.

    But did you have it zip-tied to your computer? That was the part confusing me. He made it sound as though it performed a function.

    No, I just wanted it in my field of vision, but off my desk.

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    What is this? http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc 19 cm/7.5"
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  • From Kerr Mudd-John@21:1/5 to Hactar on Mon Feb 22 21:29:32 2016
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    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:51:22 -0000, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> wrote:

    In article <op.yc8283hymsr2db@dell3100.dlink.com>,
    Kerr Mudd-John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:48:46 -0000, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net>
    wrote:

    In article <op.yc8nsod1msr2db@anyhost.anywhere>,
    Kerr Mudd-John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 03:41:11 -0100, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net>
    wrote:

    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not
    its

    I failed to do a FWSE on "Space Dildo"

    Yeah, it's probably an invention of her twisted mind. Creative Writing majors come up with the weirdest stuff.

    "Firewall something else"... no. And it's probably not
    "Frequency-Wavenumber Spectrum Estimation" or "Frequency Weighted
    Squared
    Error". So what's it mean?

    Google. aka Famous Web Search Engine

    Ah, so in this case GInotYF.

    It's not that I didn't find one. I didn't wish to look. Just stopped
    myself in time!

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  • From Hactar@21:1/5 to catwheezel@operamail.com on Mon Feb 22 18:10:31 2016
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    In article <slrnncn112.15v.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net>,
    Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:
    On 2016-02-22, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> wrote:
    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not its real name. I had it taped and ziptied to the top of my monitor, and tonight the tape failed and it fell ~19" to the desk and something broke (not the bulb) on the inside. You can see liquid where it probably shouldn't be. It's about 19 cm / 7.5" tall and its light is powered by USB. In better times (aka before today), the heat from the light bulb would cause the blue liquid to ascend up the helix to the top, then
    bubbles would rise at about 1/second. It's similar to a hand boiler, except USB instead of people. I bought it a while ago; I may have been searching for USB lava lamps when I found it.

    I think I'd call it 'a USB lava lamp' although it might not be a product
    of the actual Lava Lamp company.

    That's probably how I found it, or some weird direction in which that
    search took me. Either Ebay and Amazon's searches disagree, or it
    doesn't exist and I'm having a rather extensive hallucination. Also,
    Amazon's search sucks.

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    "God does not play dice" -- Einstein
    "Not only does God play dice, he sometimes throws
    them where they can't be seen." -- Stephen Hawking

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  • From Lesmond@21:1/5 to Hactar on Tue Feb 23 00:32:59 2016
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    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:48:10 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    In article <yrfzbaqirevmbaarg.o2ysbk7.pminews@192.168.0.6>,
    Lesmond <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 07:34:31 -0700, Greg Goss wrote:

    "Lesmond" <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:41:11 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not its >> >>>real name. I had it taped and ziptied to the top of my monitor, and
    tonight the tape failed and it fell ~19" to the desk and something broke >> >>>(not the bulb) on the inside.

    I'm uncertain of what it's original purpose was and how you acquired it. >> >
    Soothing motion in the background of your vision is calming. In my
    twenties, I had a bedroom lamp that had silvery flecks in fluid. A
    small bulb in the base lit the fluid and the flecks sending dots of
    light around randomly and slowly.

    But did you have it zip-tied to your computer? That was the part confusing >> me. He made it sound as though it performed a function.

    No, I just wanted it in my field of vision, but off my desk.

    Why did it need to be off your desk?


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  • From Whiskers@21:1/5 to Hactar on Mon Feb 22 21:56:50 2016
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    On 2016-02-22, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> wrote:
    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not its
    real name. I had it taped and ziptied to the top of my monitor, and
    tonight the tape failed and it fell ~19" to the desk and something broke
    (not the bulb) on the inside. You can see liquid where it probably
    shouldn't be. It's about 19 cm / 7.5" tall and its light is powered by
    USB. In better times (aka before today), the heat from the light bulb
    would cause the blue liquid to ascend up the helix to the top, then
    bubbles would rise at about 1/second. It's similar to a hand boiler,
    except USB instead of people. I bought it a while ago; I may have been searching for USB lava lamps when I found it.

    I think I'd call it 'a USB lava lamp' although it might not be a product
    of the actual Lava Lamp company.

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    -- ^^^^^^^^^^
    -- Whiskers
    -- ~~~~~~~~~~

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  • From Hactar@21:1/5 to Lesmond on Tue Feb 23 12:50:54 2016
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    In article <yrfzbaqirevmbaarg.o2zjezc.pminews@192.168.0.6>,
    Lesmond <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:48:10 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    In article <yrfzbaqirevmbaarg.o2ysbk7.pminews@192.168.0.6>,
    Lesmond <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 07:34:31 -0700, Greg Goss wrote:

    "Lesmond" <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:41:11 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not its >> >>>real name. I had it taped and ziptied to the top of my monitor, and
    tonight the tape failed and it fell ~19" to the desk and something broke
    (not the bulb) on the inside.

    I'm uncertain of what it's original purpose was and how you acquired it. >> >
    Soothing motion in the background of your vision is calming. In my
    twenties, I had a bedroom lamp that had silvery flecks in fluid. A
    small bulb in the base lit the fluid and the flecks sending dots of
    light around randomly and slowly.

    But did you have it zip-tied to your computer? That was the part confusing
    me. He made it sound as though it performed a function.

    No, I just wanted it in my field of vision, but off my desk.

    Why did it need to be off your desk?

    The desk was cluttered, what with two monitors, two speakers, a NAS,
    assorted external HDs, a bunch of papers, and miscellanea. If it were
    there it might be hidden and probably would be knocked over. When I had
    a CRT, I had a bunch of squeeze toys and whatnot across the front edge.
    LCDs are too thin for that to work reliably (and thankfully for cats), so that's why I used tape and zipties.

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    The powers in charge keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic
    fervor with the cry of national emergency. Always there has been some
    terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not furnish the sums demanded.

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  • From Lesmond@21:1/5 to Hactar on Tue Feb 23 16:26:20 2016
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    On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:50:54 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    In article <yrfzbaqirevmbaarg.o2zjezc.pminews@192.168.0.6>,
    Lesmond <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:48:10 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    In article <yrfzbaqirevmbaarg.o2ysbk7.pminews@192.168.0.6>,
    Lesmond <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 07:34:31 -0700, Greg Goss wrote:

    "Lesmond" <lesmond@verizon.net> wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:41:11 -0500, Hactar wrote:

    http://imgur.com/c6bHOCc

    My wife calls it "The Space Dildo", but I highly suspect that's not its
    real name. I had it taped and ziptied to the top of my monitor, and >> >> >>>tonight the tape failed and it fell ~19" to the desk and something broke
    (not the bulb) on the inside.

    I'm uncertain of what it's original purpose was and how you acquired it.

    Soothing motion in the background of your vision is calming. In my
    twenties, I had a bedroom lamp that had silvery flecks in fluid. A
    small bulb in the base lit the fluid and the flecks sending dots of
    light around randomly and slowly.

    But did you have it zip-tied to your computer? That was the part confusing
    me. He made it sound as though it performed a function.

    No, I just wanted it in my field of vision, but off my desk.

    Why did it need to be off your desk?

    The desk was cluttered, what with two monitors, two speakers, a NAS,
    assorted external HDs, a bunch of papers, and miscellanea. If it were
    there it might be hidden and probably would be knocked over. When I had
    a CRT, I had a bunch of squeeze toys and whatnot across the front edge.
    LCDs are too thin for that to work reliably (and thankfully for cats), so >that's why I used tape and zipties.

    I understand. I look at this desk and wonder how it could be more
    cluttered.

    It's the only thing off limits to my cleaning lady.

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  • From Kerr Mudd-John@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 24 10:31:40 2016
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    love?

    --
    Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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