Interesting Video Finds Part 4

[PhotonWrangler]

We've made some fun of the song :It's a Small World" in the thread about ear worms. Today I learned that one of the co-authors of the song, the late Richard M. Sherman, wrote one last verse to the tune last year as a final gift to it's legacy.

Disney has just released a three minute film about it called The Last Verse. Here it is.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

A crackling fireplace video, NASA style...

 

[Rossymeister]

Man i miss those thanksgiving paul harrell videos. Good way to pass the time during big get togethers.

 

[SCEMan]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/09/entertainment/the-day-after-abc-movie-cec/index.html

I remember watching this on TV with my girlfriend when it aired in '83 and the realistic & frightening story which still resonates today. I recall the controversy it generated and wanted to watch it again with my wife, but couldn't find it streaming anywhere so I picked up a DVD copy on eBay, and we watched it last night.

Today's scary and uncertain international situation makes for an unsettling viewing experience. Living in a rural area similar to the movie's only added to the realism for us.

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

@SCEMan, I remember watching that movie. To say it was unsettling would be an understatement.

Fast forward to today, I live about three miles from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. If the BIG ONE comes, I'll be on the first mushroom cloud to my eternal reward in Heaven. I don't want that to be how I go, but I find it comforting. Pray for peace.

 

[Monocrom]

On the bright side, one day you'll be working outdoors on a project. Hear a siren go off, blink, and suddenly there's Saint Peter opening the book that contains your Life. There are worst ways to go.

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

On the bright side, one day you'll be working outdoors on a project. Hear a siren go off, blink, and suddenly there's Saint Peter opening the book that contains your Life. There are worst ways to go.

Yes, that was my point. Being instantly vaporized would be a preferable demise to languishing for days from radiation poisoning.

 

[Monocrom]

Yes, that was my point. Being instantly vaporized would be a preferable demise to languishing for days from radiation poisoning.

Oh! The ideal next project for you to tackle.... Underground bomb shelter!

 

[Monocrom]

Well, this was definitely interesting....

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

Oh! The ideal next project for you to tackle.... Underground bomb shelter!

That's a hard no.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I've just learned that if you need to couple two RCA audio plugs together and you don't have a barrel adapter on hand, you can use... a carrot. At least until it decomposes.



Now I'm wondering if carrots can also pass video.

 

[bluflaam777]

I've just learned that if you need to couple two RCA audio plugs together and you don't have a barrel adapter on hand, you can use... a carrot. At least until it decomposes.



Now I'm wondering if carrots can also pass video.

At first I thought 'bs', but then he said that he connected the negatives directly. I missed if he said how he did that (I only watch the first half of the vid).
Any connection that will transfer a low voltage (audio) will work as long as you keep the + and the - separated.

When I was a kid I used rca and loose wires to connect my guitar to a Sony 8track player. Then used the Sony as a preamp (distortion pedal) into a Kustom amp. All my friends thought I was a rock-god LOL. I was only 10yrs old.

 

[Monocrom]

Whose hungry for some sinful-tasting treats?....

 

[Monocrom]

So, one of Santa's helpers sent me this, and I decided to share it.
Doubt Santa would mind. An interesting vid., for the little ones.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

When you're playing an arcade claw game, it's actually playing you. The sneaky way they control whether the claw drops the prize before it delivers it to the chute.

 

[Monocrom]

I've actually won a few prizes from those claw machines, ironically.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I've actually won a few prizes from those claw machines, ironically.

You're either very skilled, lucky or both. I am neither. And that was in the days before they came up with the idea of PWM'ming solenoids to vary their grip strength.

 

[Monocrom]

I'd say lucky. Back in the good ole' days, they'd just polish the three bottoms of the claw so the prizes would likely slip out.

 

[Monocrom]

Nearly 50 years ago. A look at how one of the biggest Movie Stars of the past used to live when not on set: