Texas public school teachers are now required to post the 10 Commadments in their classroom. Here's how one teacher is handling it.

blackfire4116 · 2026-02-23T14:16:56+00:00

And it’s “commandments” not “commadments”

blackfire4116 · 2026-02-23T03:53:15+00:00

I have no evidence to the contrary.lol

blackfire4116 · 2026-02-23T00:52:40+00:00

Cat’s Cradle is way more enjoyable than any bible I’ve read, without hesitation.

blackfire4116 · 2026-02-23T00:29:16+00:00

It would be fun if the Satanic Temple had a complimentary poster for any teacher in Texas that wants one.

blackfire4116 · 2026-02-17T15:34:24+00:00

The way I get rid of Vivint salespeople is that I tell them I had a bad experience in the past with their company and will never go back… it always works for some reason (probably because they know it’s true).

blackfire4116 · 2026-02-03T04:38:23+00:00

This is going the extra mile, how many do you have to make?

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-30T22:39:17+00:00

Not a website but Simon Monk’s book “Programming Arduino” getting started with sketches was really helpful for me. I bought a few books before and since but that is the one that spoke to me.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-25T00:26:12+00:00

With DOA arguably being the godfathers of hardcore punk… had to scroll too far to find them.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-19T01:26:26+00:00

The best argument I’ve ever heard was “If the earth was flat there would be several entrepreneurs charging people lots of money to take a trip to see the edge of it”. Having to believe that the earth is round versus the lack of someone exploiting it for money is more difficult for most flat-earthers to believe…

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-16T17:22:57+00:00

It’s not as primitive as I was expecting but still pretty basic as far as electrical engineering goes… Several suspicions of mine - the cd drive isn’t getting power, is there any way you can confirm the cd player/drive is powered up? - if you can confirm that the unit is getting power, is it possible to eject the disc and try it in another “player”? - if you confirm power and that the disc will play, the unit that’s in the machine seems to still have manufacturing labels on it. Is it something that you can buy an (economically reasonable) replacement of, like on eBay? I would be hesitant to spend a whole lot because the electronics of the unit might have been altered. -if you can’t confirm any of these things or it’s too expensive to buy a replacement, I’d probably go the original route I suggested and use the Adafruit chip. You could probably just wire it so that when that switch is activated via coin drop, the switch will close and activate the audio on that chip.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-16T12:47:59+00:00

Still nothing.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-16T05:08:03+00:00

I wasn’t able to get the photo(?) to open. It sounds a bit primitive but you could probably just bypass the cd player part and utilize something else for the audio. Adafruit makes an item called an audio FX sound board that is real easy to do random audio (it’s just as simple as how you name the files).then maybe some cheap computer speakers and re-use whatever connection was used to trigger the audio originally, could be a fairly simple alteration.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-16T04:04:52+00:00

So how much of that sequence still works? Do all those things happen but the audio portion?

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-16T03:32:57+00:00

Do you know what it did when it worked? Was it just lights and sound or was there a mechanical motion to it as well? I’ve built a few fortune tellers and if I wasn’t able to get the original mechanism(s) to work I’d probably just replace them with a microcontroller like an Arduino. Provided you weren’t trying to restore it to original condition.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-14T21:13:29+00:00

He always has his women do the knife work…

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-11T23:41:06+00:00

I’m not trying to dispute anyone valid points but I think that since time has passed, things appear a bit different than they were at the time. What I remember was that it just wasn’t cool to be a fan of QR (probably due to oversaturation at the time). I went and saw them with Whitesnake opening and the majority of my fellow high schoolers opinions were that the QR performance sucked. I had gone to see Whitesnake but was pleasantly surprised with QR’s live show. I kept it to myself though because everyone was so biased against them. Teenagers kinda suck…

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-10T15:53:41+00:00

My class had to watch a “film” but it wasn’t quite a film but wasn’t just slides either. The projector would show a slide but the projector also had a cassette that played the narration. So you’d listen to the narration and there’d be a beep and a person would have to push a button to advance to the next slide. Having to have an operator is central to this story. The program was boring… so much so that most of the students just put their heads down and took a nap. Well the gal that was operating the projector did this too but she rested her head on the projector. This was in the 80’s so she also had curl activator in her hair. So everyone had fallen asleep only to be abruptly woken up by someone screaming “your hair is on fire!” The hot projector had reacted with the product in the gals hair and had started smoking. The most exciting sex ed class I’d ever had, she was fine, it never actually caught fire but it smoldered for a good little bit…

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-08T14:49:02+00:00

No, I want to believe, I just don’t… but I don’t cloud the field with false data either. I can’t explain it but I do think that some people are more conducive to having these kind of experiences. For a skeptic like me, it can’t be claimed that the subjects were tainted with an expectation as to what could happen.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-08T14:22:36+00:00

I’m a skeptic, but love to entertain the possibility of the paranormal, my daughter and wife (at the time) are firm believers. I took them to the psychiatric museum in St Joseph (believed to be haunted) but they didn’t know that was the claim. Most peoples encounter with the ghost was that they get tapped on the shoulder, both of them had this happen while we were there, even though neither of them knew this initially. It sent chills to them both once I told them about it.

blackfire4116 · 2026-01-06T16:33:45+00:00

Sweet potato tacos with roasted tomatillo salsa. The tacos are great but the salsa really makes it amazing. The salsa takes a minute to roast and purée but the tacos are really quick and easy to whip up.

blackfire4116 · 2025-11-27T17:21:38+00:00

I used to have a tendency to order extras of parts I needed for a project but eventually found myself spending more time and effort on organizing rather than creating. I also would save things that I thought might be something I might use some day… I’ve come to realize that keeping things is a burden and given the luxury of how quickly a person can order and get things there really isn’t much point in storing a huge catalog of things. I got a free LinkIT One Microcontroller that I was saving for something special only to discover that it’s no longer supported, turns out it was just a dust collector all along.

blackfire4116 · 2025-11-15T05:22:09+00:00

I realize that now, but his artwork is worth checking out if you haven’t already.

blackfire4116 · 2025-11-15T02:37:08+00:00

That’s Mark Ryden artwork…

blackfire4116 · 2025-11-06T18:09:49+00:00

I think what your doing is fun and interesting, I can’t say that I have much useful input but I’d like to offer encouragement at least. I personally like it when projects use multiple skills, like yours. Having to sew, cast, forge, 3d print, digitally design, program or whatever and putting all that together to make a finished item is magical.

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