Team USA

[Hamartia Antidote]

That's great, I had the same bike! Got it for my 7th B-day and it was souped up! Same memories of similar TVs with antennas like that, no google of course and no cell phone lmao. BB gun, favorite shows on TV but we obviously never celebrated Christmas being a Muslim family but many of my friends did. My older brothers were into the Beatles at the time. The way that guy narrated with the text was pretty cool.

LOL! Awesome. I'll have to search for my bike.
There was an A&P in Newton Corner and along Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge. The Woolworth's in Brighton Center had a lunch counter (sat there but never ordered). Of course the Dorchester Neponset Drive-in was THE place to go for a movie.

The rabbit ears antennas were a perpetual headache. When we spliced in the Atari 2600 output through the antenna connection "snow" became an even bigger problem. My father hated it.

There's a HUGE list of videos here...lots of great stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwg24RXEUwizpYNvHlG_Jgw/videos

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

1952 Day In The Life Of A 1950's Small Town

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

American Inventors/Inventions

Invention: Cash register (1883)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_register

Inventor: James Jacob Ritty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ritty



Invention: Electric cash register (1906)

Inventor: Charles F. Kettering (at National Cash Register aka NCR)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering

 

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American Inventions/Inventors

Invention: Portable electric vacuum cleaner (1908)

Inventor: James M. Spangler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Spangler

 

[Figaro]

1952 Day In The Life Of A 1950's Small Town

Back in the days when the US was on a steep ascent ... gone are those days now

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

American Inventors/Inventions

Invention: Automatic popup toaster (1919)

Inventor: Charles Strite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Strite

 

[Gomig-21]

Good stuff, Ant. How about this, here? MA is number one.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1276274213528231937

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Great American Inventors/Inventions

Invention: Home Video Game console (released 1972 with "Pong")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

This is funny to watch. Also notice he has to hand rotate the question score.



Inventor: Ralph H. Baer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Baer

 

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Great American Inventions/Inventors

Invention: Post-It Note (1977)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-it_Note

Inventor: Arthur Fry & Spencer Silver at 3M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Fry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Silver

 

[Gomig-21]

Did a small renovation many many years ago for the guy who invented the pop-out cooking thermostat! I think it was the one that went into the frying pan or something like that. Anyway, they lived on Mount Vernon street on Beacon Hill and as you can imagine, it takes a certain financially suited individual to own any of that property loool. And this was almost 30 years ago and they were very old back then, but I'll never forget leaving at the end and loading up and the wife cam out with a stack or hundreds and she gave us all a tip with that stack lool! Good times.

 

[Gomig-21]

So Ant, we lost the GOAT which was an unfathomable event that the cheap bastard that is Robert Kraft was so worried about staying under the salary cap that he let Tom Brady go. TOM BRADY!!!! I think we were all in a state of shock because we certainly didn't anticipate it happening like that at all and figured they would eventually work something out. Then we find out he's going to the Tamp Bay Buccaneers for the next 2 years?!?! That was like WTF!?

So yesterday they signed Super Man in Cam Newton from the Carolina Panthers which I guess is better than Jared Stidham. Defnitely more exciting, anyway. Can he win the Super Bowl under the tutelage of Bill Bellichick? How will Brady make out in Tampa Bay? Should be interesting now, anyway.

BTW,

https://twitter.com/x/status/1277648021514117120

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

So Ant, we lost the GOAT which was an unfathomable event that the cheap bastard that is Robert Kraft was so worried about staying under the salary cap that he let Tom Brady go. TOM BRADY!!!! I think we were all in a state of shock because we certainly didn't anticipate it happening like that at all and figured they would eventually work something out. Then we find out he's going to the Tamp Bay Buccaneers for the next 2 years?!?! That was like WTF!?

So yesterday they signed Super Man in Cam Newton from the Carolina Panthers which I guess is better than Jared Stidham. Defnitely more exciting, anyway. Can he win the Super Bowl under the tutelage of Bill Bellichick? How will Brady make out in Tampa Bay? Should be interesting now, anyway.

BTW,

https://twitter.com/x/status/1277648021514117120

So Cam seems to be Mr. Injury. But to be fair his defensive protection sucked. However so was his offensive running strategy of "getting quickly decked by a hit" instead of "quickly hitting the deck". ugh!

Cam 2-0 against Brady. Lots of him trying to get injured running in this video.

Not sure what to make of it. Maybe if he finally gets protection and skips the midfield sight-seeing he may be very dangerous.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The US electrical system is not 120V

test

Why the U.S. uses a different voltage than some countries ( the electric war )

 

[Gomig-21]

The US electrical system is not 120V

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Even as a builder who's put up a few new structures and done countless renovations where 100 amp services were upgraded to 200 amps as well as adding sub-panels because of the needed additional circuits and all that, and I still get a headache when I try to make sense of half of that crap! lol. But he is right in that 120 is certainly safer than 240. Funny thing is that even though this guy in the video is getting readings higher than 120 and 240 at the breakers, we tend to call them 110 and 220 instead of 120 and 240. All these decades I've never understood why that was. I'll have to ask my electrician.

Speaking of those guys, I feel for them since they came out with arc-fault breakers as code on certain circuits because they're so sensitive they trip constantly because of all the new fixtures and appliances have so much circuitry in them that they create arching of some sort. So they constantly get call-backs because homeowners with fancy microwaves with drawer warmers and things of that sort are constantly tripping these arc-fault breakers. And not only that, the electrical codes are constantly changing because of all these newly introduced appliances and fixtures and people actually getting hurt and fires happening that they constantly have to go and get continued education for their licenses. Things are always changing in the electrical world much more than with plumbing, HVAC or even for us in the building industry and we have much more things to deal with. Most of our stuff is insulation related because of the energy codes changing as well as safety rules. My last class, the first half was all about old safety refreshing material as well as new safety codes and the 2nd half was all about insulation values.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Even as a builder who's put up a few new structures and done countless renovations where 100 amp services were upgraded to 200 amps as well as adding sub-panels because of the needed additional circuits and all that, and I still get a headache when I try to make sense of half of that crap! lol.

So I have a question

Since we both deal with 1880's houses. I assume you only have (or had) a handful of circuits and a small electrical box (I still remember screw in fuses). Your wires are probably stiff heavy gauge but asbestos wrapped leading to 2 pronger outlets (no ground).

Do you recommend ripping it out and replacing with flimsy (but nicely wrapped) wiring with a ground using twice the circuits or just suffer with 3 prong adapters all over the place?