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woodpunk

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Amish rakefighting champion.
Behavioural Scientist.
Convicted hacker.
Former spook.
Day job: Identity Security and Privacy nerd.
Wrote a book about arcade games.
Gen X. Very.
Sometimes makes movie props for money.
Compulsive fixer of stuff.
Advocate for physical media.
Many cassettes.
Friend of dogs.

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woodpunk , to random
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Here's a horror story for you. Before we went away on a break last week, I topped up the washer fluid in my VW T5. I used concentrated screenwash diluted with water from a container I store in the van.

Yesterday, I washed the screen and got hit with the worst rotten eggs/stinkbomb stench I've ever experienced.

I guessed that bacteria had grown in the washer bottle. We have commercial water testing kits, so I captured some in a plastic tray and tested it.

My van had fucking Legionnaires!!!!

sollat ,
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There was an episode of Risky or Not (podcast) about risk of contamination of refillable hand soap dispensers. The risk I remember was from diluting the soap.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/risky-or-not/id1494635006?i=1000494181797

woodpunk , to random
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FREE CASSETTE DECK!

Here's the deal: I have too many decks and I want to give one away, along with 20 cassettes.

Why? I love the format, I love the ritual, I love the analogue warmth, and I love introducing people to what tape sounds like on a really good deck. The fully serviced Sony 3 head Dolby S deck has a headphone socket, so you won't even need an amp or speakers.

only (sorry) and all you need to do is reply with what you want to play on it and I'll pick one.

Easy!

woodpunk , to random
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In 1967 the first radio pulsars were discovered by student Jocelyn Bell.

In 1974, this incredible discovery was finally recognised and Antony Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize for Not Being Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

woodpunk , to random
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This episode of Knight Rider is very different to the ones I remember...

Animated gif of 1970s Cylon from Battlestar Galactica, complete with red light moving back and forth in the visor.

woodpunk , to random
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In 1979, my parents (a nurse and a car factory worker) allowed themselves a rare indulgence and bought a very expensive (£389.99) National Panasonic SG-5070 music centre.

For context, £389 was twice what they paid for their car and 10% of what they paid for their house!

It replaced the TV as their focus and music became their 'thing' at weekends and whenever shift patterns allowed.

It's taken me a decade to build this from many broken donors, but today it's finished.

I could cry right now.

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