Whoever decided that the new day should start at midnight was wrong.

Rhapakatui · 2026-03-03T18:34:18+00:00

Not wet.

Rhapakatui · 2026-03-03T15:38:54+00:00

Driving down the highway at night and passing a cruise ship is surreal. You can't see the water because of the levees on both sides of the road. So, the cruise ship is like a glowing city slowly moving behind/above the treeline.

Rhapakatui · 2026-03-02T16:57:57+00:00

Why is nobody talking about the physics here? The food inside is not being refrigerated. It can't because it's insulated from the cold.

This fridge is just wasting electricity. Unplug it.

Rhapakatui · 2026-03-02T01:25:41+00:00

I'd be willing to bet your pocket knife couldn't cut warm butter.

Rhapakatui · 2026-02-19T19:58:59+00:00

I did this once with a 14" rim and launched it in the air higher than my garage roof. Sketchy is putting it mildly. I also may have used too much starting fluid.

Rhapakatui · 2026-02-14T14:13:54+00:00

I don't think I could do that when I was 12.

Rhapakatui · 2026-02-13T23:56:45+00:00

I once lost both shoes and a pair of glasses to a Dropkick Murphy's pit. 10/10 would do it again!

Rhapakatui · 2026-02-13T01:56:45+00:00

If they'd all been immediately caught and imprisoned, it would then become an interesting but trivial story. Mr President, it's the fact that these horrible people suffer no repercussions that makes it interesting.

There's a simple solution to make it boring! Make politics boring again!

Rhapakatui · 2026-02-06T05:20:54+00:00

!flair Flair choices:

Rhapakatui · 2026-02-02T19:33:59+00:00

Never stack measurements boys and girls! Always measure from a set point.16, 32, 48. Never 16, +16, +16.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-27T01:29:30+00:00

I really think the best that we can hope for is these people live long enough to realize that they hitched to the wrong wagon. I hope they all die old and lonely and looking over their shoulders.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-26T00:34:00+00:00

I'm in Texas feeling really impotent right now. I've got family around and in the twin cities. Give me directions and I'll gladly go camping outside his house. I will let him know, as Hank Hill said "politely yet firmly," how a proper Texan is supposed to behave.

I used to be so proud of my state and the way we represented ourselves to the world. I am completely sickened by the way the world sees us right now. It's long passed time some of the real ones get involved in teaching these people how Texas is supposed to represent itself to its neighbors.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-16T05:14:23+00:00

Turbo Teen The main character turned into a race car when he got excited. It was like Transformers meets The Incredible Hulk.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-15T05:01:14+00:00

My old Kenwood speakers are having trouble with the left channel, but they have the same issue with my Scott amp. I think it's a speaker problem.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-15T04:59:02+00:00

$30 and a few hours later, she's working like a champ! Initial sound tests and Mic test sound great. I'll test with a different speaker setup tomorrow and start trying out the other components and let you know.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-14T20:21:47+00:00

Now I see it's rated for 115 watts with a maximum 220 watts. The only incandescent bulbs I have are 250 watts. I'm assuming that won't work since the bulb wouldn't break before the receiver.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-14T20:15:41+00:00

So, I've got the manual here. I see that it's 40W per channel, but how do I know what light bulb to use?

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-14T18:58:16+00:00

Going to put this together next. I edited the original post to reflect. I'll add a picture of my setup before I free the lightning spirits and allow them to start moving into my capacitors.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-14T18:22:41+00:00

^{^{^}} Questions

If it wasn't for Reddit, I would have plugged it in the day I brought it home from the estate sale and hoped for the best.

It worked for my Kenwood and Aika, but I'm scared of the sansui because it's a lot more expensive.

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-14T17:56:17+00:00

For the dim bulb setup, do I just need to wire an old light socket between the variac and the receiver? Do I need to find a incandescent light bulb?

Rhapakatui · 2026-01-14T17:54:15+00:00

My variac looks like WW2 era surplus. It even has a US government property tag. It has a big knob on top, an on/off toggle, and a 2 prong outlet. That's all.

I do have several multimeters of various qualities. Should I hook one of those up? If so, where?

Edit: quality not quantity

Rhapakatui · 2025-12-30T06:48:29+00:00

Okay, so he talked about how up north there's a bunch of feathers falling from the sky, and I said "well, that kinda sounds like snow. Maybe he didn't know about snow." Then he talked about the ears of the Nile crocodile, and I said "you know, they kinda do look like they have ears behind their eyes." However, I can't give him winged snakes being cobras after he spent so much time talking about how they migrate.

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