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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind - that old stuff is interesting, but I know almost nothing of tube electronics.
I'm an electronics freak too, but with more modern stuff. I spend a lot of time playing with microcontrollers and TTL... fun stuff. I like digital because you can (usually) get out what you're expecting right away. Analog is trickier - got your breadboard too close to that flourescent light and it can do some weeeird stuff. Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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Yeah fluorescent lights do mess up analog... hard to explain to some customer that their radio doesn't work right suddenly because the fluorescent light they intalled somewhere in their house is messing things up...
When it come to audio, nothing beats analog. Much warmer sound.
However, it is funny hearing you talk about digital that way, but I know what you mean... It's just that most of the techies I know like analog... One electrical engineer I know specializes in analog telephone equipment. They are more reliable and are used mainly for the military. Remember how our old dial phones lasted forever??? Okay.. I don't have to remember because I only have analog in my house.
We made an intercom out some old ringer telephones ( I collect phones too). They're fun to use. Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian
The meek don't want it! ~ sticker on a rock band's guitar
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Man, I could really go for a taco right now. Think you can use one of your phones to rustle us up some grub? Just because you have the right, that doesn't mean it is right.
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I totally agree about the analog vs. digital sound quality. If I want to hear richness of music, I'd rather listen to an LP than a CD, on an old stereo instead of all digital, and (preferably) something really old with tubes in it (but a good model from the era - there was crummy tube kit built, too).
Digital is just so... well, pure. You can look at your input, look at the logic, and then (reasonably) predict what's going to happen. I like using microcontrollers because if I mess up my supporting logic, I can just write the program to cover for the mistakes. 
I play around with analog stuff, too - but not nearly to the extent I do digital.
The one big downer about digital is that test equipment for it is a lot more expensive and/or harder to build yourself... Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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Tacos are good food. Did someone order Thai? Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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Oh, sorry, I misheard.
So what do I do with these straps and cuffs now? Just because you have the right, that doesn't mean it is right.
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Go put them on that guy over there - he's almost worked himself free of the other ones... Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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 Originally Posted by Fencergrl Remember how our old dial phones lasted forever??? Yeah, I have an old dial phone in my room. It was funny, I got a call from an automated service- "Please press one to continue." One. *whirr* "Please press one to continue." One. *whirr* "Please press one-" *click* Smile.
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That's cool... I used to dial "0" in the middle of a conversation and pretend there was a gunbattle going on outside. I was a strange kid.  Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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You still are. 
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You know, I can't - hey, look at that, we're out of Doritos!
(shambles towards door) Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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Oh, no, I bought two bags. I've had the other one hidden in my fluffy tail. *pulls out bag of Doritos*
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(shambles back in, with delight in eyes)
Someone at my club said to me the other night after a bout "I got pooned."
I looked at her and said, "what?"
She rolled her eyes and said, "Pooned. I got pooned."
I looked at her and said, "Sorry, I don't understand you there."
She rolled her eyes again and said, "Owned. That girl owned me all through that bout. It's just that instead of saying-"
"Oh, pwn3d! Sorry, I wasn't expecting you to be talking in l337 5pe4k! W00t - that r0xXOrZ!"
She looked at me and said, "Yeah, that's how all the geeks are talking nowadays," and walked away.
My wife laughed... and laughed... and laughed...
That's the last time I try to be cool.  Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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w00t! Aw, you are cool, TRH. You r0x0rz my b0x0rz, as my friend always says.
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Well, thanks...
Hey - looking around in here, I can't help but get the feeling that most of the people are either passed out or hanging around the toilet. This seems to happen pretty much every night.
No matter - I have Doritos, and there's another can of Mountain Dew around here somewhere... Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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I don't have Mountain Dew, but I do have the generic kind: MOUNTAIN MANIA!
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Safeway, Superstore, or IGA? I can never remember which... I think Safeway has "Mountain Cool". Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
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Wasn't that the title of a really cheesy disco song a couple of years ago?
Oh mountain, oh mountain mountain
Cool, oh mountain cool... Why sabre? Because you don't take heads with the point.
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Originally Posted by sabreur Wasn't that the title of a really cheesy disco song a couple of years ago?
Oh mountain, oh mountain mountain
Cool, oh mountain cool... Mountains are interesting. Developed in mere minuites by tectonic plates ramming into each other and forcing one plate skyward, and the other plate below into the earth. Others can be created by volcanic eruption or plates rubbing against another. Which is why California won't sink. It'll be an island. Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.
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Do we really want California on an Island though? I mean think of the pain it would cause to commute....and my damned tail light is out again.....
GRRRR. Theses are evil....VERY evil, someone rescue me pls!
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