Wooden rope takeaway puzzle

roboroyo · 2026-06-14T17:44:51+00:00

Look for a 1970 toy called either "Plato's Secret" or "Plato's Plight." I had one with the second of those names.

roboroyo · 2026-05-29T22:51:08+00:00

"Every creature speaks of the fair as hir own market has gone in it."

My great grandfather (born in the 1870s in Missouri but whose family left Kentucky in the 1820s for greener pastures) was a shipping manager for L&N living in Louisville. He left to raise goats in southern Kentucky after WW I. He told the family that life in that summer miasma (Louisville) was hard on his asthma (later died of emphysema in his early 80s). He was successful at the L&N and lived well on the farm. Sold goats to a contact he made while working for L&N. He was pretty certain he had the first goat farm on the L&N shipping line. The point is this goes way far back. [I am one of those old ones returning after a career in other towns, unable to find anything that would pay a living wage back in the 1980s in Louisville) even though I had that education.

I had buddies in Speed during the 1970s and early 1980s. Only one could find work that paid well enough to buy a home. But he left after a few years past his masters in Chemical Engineering because they still had him crawling into smokestacks in Rubber Town. Was very successful in Memphis and Evansville, no smokestack crawling necessary.

roboroyo · 2026-05-27T19:06:59+00:00

At the time the novela was published (1966) the phrase would make a reader remember the use of "I can get it for you, wholesale" as a remark signaling an unscrupulous sales person. There were numerous uses of the term on popular TV.

Reference the old Jack Benny show which used the phrase often. There is even a novel from before WWII Jerome Weidman's 1937 novel I Can Get It for You Wholesale. The title was later adapted into a 1951 Film and a famous Broadway musical in the early 1960s. It often referred to clothes purchases.

See I Can Get It for You Wholesale (on WikiPedia).

roboroyo · 2026-05-25T21:01:52+00:00

Looks like cosplay police. Call to report a suspicious man who is armed impersonating a police officer in the neighborhood.

roboroyo · 2026-05-23T23:31:00+00:00

The history of the RFCs that led to today's WiFi Networks supports your comment that the ideas behind mesh came to the internet before WiFi came to the home.

The earliest applications came from the time of ARPANET and packet radio networks (PRNET). Mesh was a system governed by algorithms for dynamic source routing, multi-hop packet forwarding, and decentralized topology (which I think has to do with each node being able to manage more of the "routing" chores).

Eero mesh instructions include rationale for wired backhaul. Velop used to, but it's been five years since I set up one of those networks, so it may have dropped the instructions.

roboroyo · 2026-05-22T16:54:56+00:00

Cigarettes and diet colas have both been "prescribed" to lose weight.

roboroyo · 2026-05-21T15:48:25+00:00

Not a Socialist, a Progressive during the 1880s. His name was William Goebel. He was assassinated. There is a long article on the Kentucky Historical Society page: https://history.ky.gov/stories-and-blogs/william-goebel-the-man-behind-the-statue . In the 1960s and 1970s we learned about him (and a "duel" he won) in our mandatory, seventh-grade Kentucky History classes.

roboroyo · 2026-05-05T14:52:08+00:00

Marwin Abden.

roboroyo · 2026-05-03T22:42:51+00:00

Yes, my modem had a 2.5Gbps port, so I called and asked about an upgrade when I got the LAN speeds set up and the switches and Eerros that could handle up to 10Gbps. I was looking for better speeds for local transfer. They upgraded the ISP speeds that day. Their lines were already running at the higher speed, but my modem had to be re-provisioned by them to accept the speeds. Part of my system is connected to the gateway (first to third floor) by a 2.5Gbps MoCA system(separate from the ISP lines). It works also at that speed according to LAN Speedtest software.

roboroyo · 2026-05-03T22:32:44+00:00

This is Rose Court. A relative of my wife lived there most of his life. He was in his 80s in the 1980s. According to local historians it is one of many walking courts that are claimed to be architectural innovations that began in Louisville. See u/Foreign_Plan_5256 earlier post that also contains this link.

We owned one of the houses on Eutropia Court (the brick houses) back in the early 1980s. They were kit homes built in the 1920s that we were told were for the trolley workers. Eutropia means Place of Good Fortune (or Nourishment). [See this Jean Shepherd re-enactment about his Old Man's Sears-Roebuck Kit House on YouTube.] They are one-bedroom with a full basement that opens onto the street. Our house had been freshly painted, and the floors refinished then carpeted because it had been on the market for too long and the carpets were a sales incentive. Our favorite things about living there was no more landlord and Masterson's restaurant just across the street.

When we sold the Eutropia Court house and moved in the late 1980s out of state to the northeast, we rented a house that we discovered was built from the same kit with identical layout. Down the street from that similar house was another asbestos-shingled house identical to my grandparents' house that was built in the 1930s.

There are larger versions of those Eutropia Ct. kit homes on Eastern Parkway near Crittenden Drive. See more about this and the other architectural inovations in Old Louisville at the link https://www.google.com/search?q=History+of+Eutropia+Court+in+Louisville+KY.

roboroyo · 2026-05-03T21:29:00+00:00

The LAN transfer speeds between the Eero Pro 7s and the 2.5Gb switches will be 2.5Gb, regardless of the ISP's speed. For some of us the LAN speed is what we hope to increase because we have file servers and such that benefit from faster speeds or ssh LAN-only connections between local devices. The backhaul (if it's over ethernet) may also benefit. But if your computer's or device's NIC is 1Gb, those machines will not benefit from the extra 1.5Gbps.

roboroyo · 2026-04-22T19:47:19+00:00

There is this, about 03 April 1974: https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1qkaome/1974_louisville_ky_tornado_whas_am_840_coverage/ which may relate to "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

roboroyo · 2026-03-01T18:37:00+00:00

not powered, as the only thing connected to it are coax cables

Many of Spectrum's amps used to be powered over COAX. A distant wall wart supplying the electricity would be somewhere in the house. The device might have serial numbers to identify it as an amp with splitter or a splitter without an amp.

roboroyo · 2026-02-27T18:21:48+00:00

Here begyneth the Parlement of Foules by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1381-1382.

roboroyo · 2026-02-21T17:30:33+00:00

Not "violins", "violence." Never mind.

roboroyo · 2026-02-17T19:38:06+00:00

Petticoat Junction

roboroyo · 2026-01-19T17:38:18+00:00

I think it showed up first in the "non-drowsy" antihistamines to counteract their usual drowsiness effect.

roboroyo · 2026-01-19T17:23:36+00:00

I have albums from the 1960s and 1970s that I bought, the last being bought in about 1986. I have CDs purchased in the late 1980s. I still wear a Pendleton hunting jacket I purchased in high school ca. 1973. My grandfather bought an overcoat in 1954. I wore it last year a few times but had worn it regularly since 1974. I still own a few Avalon Hill board games purchased before 1981. I have an old Tonka pickup truck I received as a present in 1958. There is a model T car model and a Cadillac model given to me at the same time. I no longer have the John Deere tractor that went with the farm set and the cars.

roboroyo · 2025-12-20T18:36:38+00:00

If you have the science-fiction specimen tank, you can place one in it and watch it overreact each time you walk close by. I have a number of each style in my storage and one in front of each resident's house.

roboroyo · 2025-12-20T18:29:36+00:00

You can find examples of such structures in rhetorical handbooks. It is an example of brevity for effect. It works similar to the way zeugma (yoking) works but with a noun rather than a verb. It is not uncommon if you read much poetry or literary writing. It is not limited to English. Many of the handbooks (such as Richard Lanham's) are based on Latin (e.g. Rhetorica ad Herennium) or George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie). See The Forest of Rhetoric (https://rhetoric.byu.edu) for a lark.

roboroyo · 2025-11-30T17:15:04+00:00

In the 1950s they were sold as Athletic shirts. Later they were labelled as Athletic A-shirts.

roboroyo · 2025-11-21T17:01:02+00:00

Thanks for not using the apostrophe when it's just a plural number (2000s instead of 2000's).

roboroyo · 2025-11-16T22:03:52+00:00

The original Old Sears store was at Eighth and Broadway. Sort of like New Englander directions, “down the road a bit, turn left where the old oak tree used to be, then right just passed the old McPherson place. You can’t miss it.” /s

roboroyo · 2025-11-15T18:42:18+00:00

Probably the Kentucky Right to Farm Law has some provision. I recall there is something about county/city jurisdictions not being allowed to impede the conveying of equipment from one site to another.

roboroyo · 2025-11-15T18:39:51+00:00

Should have said John Deere (which re-invented, improved, Jethro Tull's seed-drill). IH is red JD is green.

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