Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[mnementh]

Great White North is more a state... err, Commonwealth of mind.



mnem
Fortunately, we just got back from a COSTCO run a few daze ago. 

[GreyWoolfe]

Or maybe it's just me I'm not sure ?  maybe I should go buy some more bags of toilet paper and pasta.

Especially orzo.  One of my favorites.  I like it in soup.

[Cerebus]

This is all urban legend, we are not that far in the north.

Well of course, from the perspective of a Londoner at about 51º 30' north, a lot of you Canadians are southerners, eh.

Saskatoon's at 52º 15' N is about level with Birmingham, Vancouver at 49º 15' N, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, are all south of Vancouver. Of all the bigger cities that most people outside Canada have heard of only Edmonton at 53º 30' (about level with Manchester) is north of London. You have to get into Yukon, the Northwestern Territories or Nunavut before you pass north of the UK mainland up until where Shetland at around 60º N marks the nearest we get to the Arctic Circle.

Edited to add: I've just realised that Halifax (the faux nouveaux one) is well south of Halifax, Yorkshire. Ditto the ersatz London in Ontario.

Did nobody who headed west from England have the wits to think up some new place names?

[xrunner]

Great White North is more a state... err, Commonwealth of mind.



mnem
Fortunately, we just got back from a COSTCO run a few daze ago. 

[beanflying]

So as I did it I wonder if it has a pulse  it is still however 'cute' if not  eBay auction: #313014244377 From the late 60's before I was born sub 30pS spec Tunnel Diode based https://testequipment.center/Product_Documents/Agilent-1105A-Operations-Manual-C7EB6.pdf

[Kosmic]

Did nobody who headed west from England have the wits to think up some new place names?

There's a city (might be a village) named Berlin in the states. It's not super far from Milan (USA, not Italy) 

[bitseeker]

So as I did it I wonder if it has a pulse  it is still however 'cute' if not  eBay auction: #313014244377 From the late 60's before I was born sub 30pS spec Tunnel Diode based https://testequipment.center/Product_Documents/Agilent-1105A-Operations-Manual-C7EB6.pdf

First time I've seen one. Did you get it?

[beanflying]

Yep. They seem to have been a thing used with the early high frequency scopes for TDR and the recent talk about Pulse Generators here made me do it 

Page 9 https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1966-10.pdf

[worsthorse]

I dropped into the local supermarket today. Only needed a few things but my route to get them took me past the pasta section - looked like locusts had been through, about 3 packets left, all of things that most people have no clue what to do with like orzo. Even the wholewheat pasta was cleaned out.

Was pretty normal over here. But I guess it's a question of time 

Well, in the Great White North you'd expect that folks had some basic preparedness for times you might not be able to get out of the house for a week or so in the winter. Even my sister in law in sleepy urban Kelowna gets snowed in from time to time. So I guess you all won't feel the need to go out and get emergency supplies quite as much as the suburbanites of London or Sydney, some of whom don't have more than 1 or 2 days worth of food on hand at any time. Judging from the number of young people around here who seem to get a takeaway delivered every day there are probably some who'd starve of they had to buy, store and prepare food themselves.

For about ten years, I lived part time in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. It was fifteen minutes just to get to the two line "highway" and about an hour to the nearest town and grocery store. I only had to spend two hours in the truck once or twice because we ran out of toilet paper or rice to get pretty good at stocking the house for six weeks at a go. When we moved to Portland, things got a little easier but old habits die hard, so there's usually a month's worth of necessities tucked away around here. 

In Colorado, that's just what you did.  In Portland, it classifies you as a prepper.     

[edavid]

Yep. They seem to have been a thing used with the early high frequency scopes for TDR and the recent talk about Pulse Generators here made me do it 

Page 9 https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1966-10.pdf

Did it come with a tunnel diode mount?  That is the rare part.

I got an HP 1104A back in 2005, and I'm still looking for a tunnel diode for it

[beanflying]

ETA next week and brought/sold as untested. Worst case it will be a massively overpriced cute case to Fit another modern Pulse Generator into. 

[beanflying]

And as the first Beer of the Afternoon is sipped. Some 4 lots of shellacking topped off with some Mr Miyagi Wax on Wax Off action and my little cutting bench is now way to pretty to use The first scratch or slip with the Saw will hurt more than just a bit 

Nice to finally 'finish' one 

[mansaxel]

Just for the heads up (somebody asked me to do so, have forgotten who it was, sorry | Disclaimer: I have no affiliations with that seller):

Just to let you know.

That was me, thanks!

[bd139]

So today’s task is to find some toilet paper  . Down to three rolls. I usually have about 45-60 in but my stocking has been pretty lax recently. Not panic buying, 9 rolls will do.

I am actually more worried about protecting myself from my fellow citizens than any natural or biological disasters if I’m honest. There are a lot of barely evolved morons being influenced by the Daily Mail and Sun at the moment who are panic stricken after being programmed for years into fearing everything because it sells

Edit: so I got toilet roll. Turns out that the early bird catches the worm. Within ten minutes of the store doors opening there were people fighting over the last two packs. Also to note only the cheap shit is all gone. For example there is no pasta other than expensive brand stuff. Fucking morons

[med6753]

I will do what I do most days. Shun the human race as much as possible. It's best for my blood pressure and mood. For while we all have assholes there are those many who speak with there's. And others who are just plain stupid.

And stay away from the toilet paper in the stores. It's contaminated. 

[bd139]

Hahaha. That’s hilarious.

There are people now literally fighting over the last few rolls. I’m waiting in the queue until the checkouts open at the moment.

[med6753]

Oh...and the Apple Fan Boys are lining up at the stores for these....

[nfmax]

So today’s task is to find some toilet paper  . Down to three rolls. I usually have about 45-60 in but my stocking has been pretty lax recently. Not panic buying, 9 rolls will do.

'My stocking has been pretty lax recently' - that's a euphemism I hadn't heard before!

[beanflying]

We are all class here in Oz it even comes with action video 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-08/coronavirus-toilet-paper-fight-at-woolworths-leads-to-charges/12037046

[bd139]

Oh...and the Apple Fan Boys are lining up at the stores for these....

The memes are good with this disease so far 

[grizewald]

The world has truly gone mad!

 

[bd139]

We are all class here in Oz it even comes with action video 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-08/coronavirus-toilet-paper-fight-at-woolworths-leads-to-charges/12037046

 

[Specmaster]

So today’s task is to find some toilet paper  . Down to three rolls. I usually have about 45-60 in but my stocking has been pretty lax recently. Not panic buying, 9 rolls will do.

I am actually more worried about protecting myself from my fellow citizens than any natural or biological disasters if I’m honest. There are a lot of barely evolved morons being influenced by the Daily Mail and Sun at the moment who are panic stricken after being programmed for years into fearing everything because it sells

Edit: so I got toilet roll. Turns out that the early bird catches the worm. Within ten minutes of the store doors opening there were people fighting over the last two packs. Also to note only the cheap shit is all gone. For example there is no pasta other than expensive brand stuff. Fucking morons

Thanks for that encouraging news, I'm just about to pop and get a bit of shopping but nothing like that, just some coke, milk, grapes some steak to make a casserole with but lets see what those morons are up to in my neck of the woods then, let battle commence 

[Specmaster]

We are all class here in Oz it even comes with action video 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-08/coronavirus-toilet-paper-fight-at-woolworths-leads-to-charges/12037046

 

Yeh, saw that on Twitter already

[McBryce]

Did nobody who headed west from England have the wits to think up some new place names?

It's not limited to westward travellers. Take a look at South Africa: Aberdeen, Llandudno, Dundee, Motherwell, Scarborough, East London, Ramsgate, Belfast, Margate, Worcester, Sutherland, Newcastle, York and Dublin.

Interestingly, Belfast and Dublin are approximately the same distance apart as their counterparts in Ireland, but tend to get on better with each other.

McBryce.