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I have never sworn so profusely and so colourfully at a piece of hardware as I have at the Aoyue 2901...

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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012

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An older laser arrived in the shop this week, with this alarming-looking label on top. 400 mJ in 5 ns is 80 megawatts.

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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012

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This is a lame solution to a dumb problem. I use a pair of cheap Harbor Freight multimeters to display...

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Uploaded on Feb 5, 2012

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The Festoon type dome light in our car burned out. I happen to have a 100-lumen LED handy. In she goes. Yep, that's pretty grotty soldering.

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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2012

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One of my cycling photos was chosen for this year's provincial Quest for Gold lottery tickets. Never mind...

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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2012

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The e-reader I recently bought, seen for sale here for 19,800 yen, more than double what I paid for it,...

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Uploaded on Dec 19, 2011

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A Pentax F/1.2 50 mm lens seen at Yodobashi. Heh What? Pentax F/1.2 lens? Hens teeth. Platinum plated...

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Uploaded on Dec 19, 2011

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Boeing Dreamlifter seen at Nagoya airport. Biggest cargo aircraft (by volume) in the world, sez Boeing....

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Uploaded on Dec 19, 2011  |  Map

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Rare bird seen at Yodobashi Camera, next to the Kyoto central station. Pentax's medium formal digital...

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Uploaded on Dec 15, 2011

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In case you just HAD to know what this contraption does.

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Uploaded on Dec 14, 2011

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Go ahead, drink yourself blind: The beer can has braille on it. Apparently this says "alcohol"...

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Uploaded on Dec 13, 2011

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As seen from the University of Kyoyo (the campus on the west side of the city)

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Uploaded on Dec 13, 2011

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Somebody actually sat down and thought about what an alarm clock should be. Then they built it. I'm impressed.

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011

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It doesn't come with an instruction manual either.

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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2011

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The high speed train I rode from Nagoya to Kyoto. Germans do it. French do it. Japanese do it. China...

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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2011

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I have a left over blank (never populated) printed circuit board from our last test run. All gold and...

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Uploaded on Nov 16, 2011

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The e-reader I just bought has an interesting infrared "touchless" multi-touch touchscreen. ...

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Uploaded on Nov 12, 2011

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I picked up a Sony PRS-T1 e-reader this week. Nice and light, and holds more text than I will ever need...

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Uploaded on Nov 12, 2011

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