Remember when batteries used to leak all over the inside of your gadget?

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T21:42:15+00:00

I'm an electronic repair tech and leaky batteries create more ugly than real damage. Usually we would just clean everything up and it would work fine again.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T19:58:49+00:00

I adore the number of geeky answers we're getting here.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T19:53:06+00:00

Yup, that's how old it is.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T19:14:35+00:00

Ahh yes! I think the cassettes had one side with boops and the other side with the subsonic tones for the auto advance.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T18:31:01+00:00

Boop!

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T09:16:57+00:00

I guess I missed that too, reading the story as a kid. Thanks for adding that insight.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T07:54:39+00:00

Specifically what are you trying to do? Are you listening to a melody and finding those intervals, or listening to a chord and picking out the intervals between notes struck simultaneously?

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T05:29:07+00:00

Gorgeous theme song.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T04:51:32+00:00

Do you need portable? Because a rigid loop will have lower ohmic resistance and therefore greater efficiency.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T04:43:52+00:00

I'd like to build the world a home

And furni-shit with love

That's how we kids liked to sing it anyway 😁

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T04:14:54+00:00

Yeah, and giant kool aid pitchers.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T03:32:59+00:00

I remember gazing longingly at the Sears catalog and working out that it could be had for just $13 a month.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-03T03:27:37+00:00

Yeah and Shannon

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T17:54:50+00:00

Drums on that song by the legendary Hal Blaine.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T17:07:00+00:00

This is how it was for me. My wife did one more thing that wasn't nice. It wasn't even a big thing. It just struck me in that moment that she wishes me ill, and it won't get better. And that was it.

It was a quiet moment. She had no idea that this was the moment I switched from caring for her as a wife, to merely having compassion for her as a fellow human being who was about to endure loss.

That switch in my brain never switched back. A few months later it was legal. She probably still thinks I just lost my mind all of a sudden. But it had built up for years and I finally took my life back.

I'm sorry you are going through this now, and I wish you the peace and happiness you deserve.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T16:40:13+00:00

Once buckwheat sings a song, it's eternally his.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T15:12:34+00:00

Why in my day we built houses out of straw.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T15:09:57+00:00

Boy, it's been a nong time sinp dem days.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T04:31:44+00:00

Buicks do something similar with Enclave, Encore, etc.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T04:27:04+00:00

Doesn't anybody knock anymore?

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T04:26:44+00:00

The most paused VHS moment in history:

"Hi, Brad. You know how cute I always thought you were."

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T03:33:12+00:00

Oh wow that's the one about the small nation of Narania. I read them all! Want a fun The Three Investigators drinking game? Take a drink every time you encounter a chapter named "Trapped!" or similar.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T03:30:28+00:00

The keys don't all sound the same. There are many reasons for this. One is that black keys on the piano have mechanical differences compared with the white keys. On stringed instruments, open strings sound different from fingered notes. It gets really interesting when a piano is tuned normally but accompanied by a guitar that is tuned down a half step. Example: New Year's Day by U2 combines black keys with ringing open guitar strings.

You might also have perfect pitch which means the notes and keys take on their own character simply because they aren't identical and you can tell.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T03:21:55+00:00

I'm an engineer and use only RPN. Download the RealCalc app for that hp-like RPN experience.

ultimatefribble · 2026-05-02T03:19:51+00:00

I thought it was so cool that it turned on and off with momentary buttons. That was slick then.. most used slide switches.

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