That mohawk just shouts out, "I'm such a manila-flavored, prematurely balding nerd, I've just got to do something to demonstrate to people I'm actually kinda creative and cool."
In any case, I see him for what he is: he's a nerd. Ergo, he's credible in my book.
It's those neatly-dressed, perfectly-groomed "conformist-looking" types I'm always suspicious of.
He probably moved them there from the front so as not to bang or scrape against the microphone he's wearing.
-Phil
Phil, that has got to be the most prosaic answer you've ever provided on this forum. You need something to snap out of it.
Heater, pour Phil a glass of rum!
What worries me is that we need a guy on a youtube video to explain stuff that any kid should have learned age 12 or so at school anyway.
Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of relays. What you don't know is that I didn't choose relays. Relays chose me at the formative age of about 12. A weather balloon/radiosonde landed not far from my house in northern Virginia and I brought it home. A beautiful white plastic box with hygrometer, aneroid barometer, temp sensors, battery and transmitter. And a beautiful SPDT relay which was the start of my hacking career. That got used in numerous projects, including an automated cassette tape player-based automatic CW keyer, "CQ CQ de WN4CIK". The rest is history.
Erco said Relays chose me at the formative age of about 12. A weather balloon/radiosonde landed not far from my house in northern Virginia and I brought it home. A beautiful white plastic box with hygrometer, aneroid barometer, temp sensors, battery and transmitter. And a beautiful SPDT relay which was the start of my hacking career.
Exactly the same thing happened to me. I can envisage Dr Evil in his moon base saying "Hey, watch what happens when we drop boxes of electronic goodies on nerds." *grin*
And I approve of the mohawk. Maybe he could add a safety pin through the nose?
The mohawk is fine, and when you wear a T shirt the back is the best place to hang the sunglasses, but I have to agree with Heater that needing a guy on a youtube video to explain stuff that any kid should have learned age 12 or so at school is worrisome.
...but I have to agree with Heater that needing a guy on a youtube video to explain stuff that any kid should have learned age 12 or so at school is worrisome.
Age 12? Seriously? What planet did you guys say you're from again?
I think 12 is a good age to be understanding a relay to the level of that video presentation. By that age a lot of us already had a little understanding of electronics having had things like Philips Electronics kits and having been dismantling pretty much everything for years already.
By age 12, I think I had already electrocuted myself several times and burnt up an AC outlet finding out that DC charges a capacitor in parallel while AC will treat it as a short circuit. I also had a 20 amp 120VAC to 12VAC transformer that I was using with the carbon poles from D cell batteries to make a nice electric arc lamp and to do a bit of light arc welding.
But fortunately I did not burn the house down or put myself in the hospital.
Scientific American Amature Scientist section had an article on building your own DIY X-ray machine that I was keen on. But a friend put me off it by mentioning radiation burns and their long lasting effects.
12 years old is a hazardous age.. just because you are suddenly aware of science.
16 years old used to be a hazardous age .. just because you got your driver's license.
23-29 years old is an extremely hazardous age .. just because you think you are an adult and can do and handle anything.
Fashion and peer pressure always drives kids to do stupid things. In my generation we had huge afros, giant bell bottom pants and platform shoes. The only thing that really bothers me about the current batch of children is the fondness for tattoos. They will not be able to grow out of those easily.
RDL2004... you are right about tattoos. What I told my daughter was this... "eventually we are going to be using free radical traps to pinpoint the modified nano sized buckyballs causing your cancer."
Or possibly we will be monitoring oxygen concentrations in your body with buckyballs harvested from char products...and tattoos totally screw up electron spin signatures... sort of like taking an iron pipe into the MRI with you."
It didn't work.
On the other hand... someday someone will make a device to remotely screen a crowd for tattoos based on electron spin resonance... just like we screen RFID tags.
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-Phil
In any case, I see him for what he is: he's a nerd. Ergo, he's credible in my book.
It's those neatly-dressed, perfectly-groomed "conformist-looking" types I'm always suspicious of.
-Phil
Phil, that has got to be the most prosaic answer you've ever provided on this forum. You need something to snap out of it.
Heater, pour Phil a glass of rum!
What worries me is that we need a guy on a youtube video to explain stuff that any kid should have learned age 12 or so at school anyway.
-Phil
Everyone knows I'm a huge fan of relays. What you don't know is that I didn't choose relays. Relays chose me at the formative age of about 12. A weather balloon/radiosonde landed not far from my house in northern Virginia and I brought it home. A beautiful white plastic box with hygrometer, aneroid barometer, temp sensors, battery and transmitter. And a beautiful SPDT relay which was the start of my hacking career. That got used in numerous projects, including an automated cassette tape player-based automatic CW keyer, "CQ CQ de WN4CIK". The rest is history.
Hard to believe one has not already picked you out..
Exactly the same thing happened to me. I can envisage Dr Evil in his moon base saying "Hey, watch what happens when we drop boxes of electronic goodies on nerds." *grin*
And I approve of the mohawk. Maybe he could add a safety pin through the nose?
Age 12? Seriously? What planet did you guys say you're from again?
Are you implying kids should know that at an earlier or later age?
Not only don't twelve year olds know this stuff... their teachers don't either. Imagine google directing your average matron to this video:)
No idea but I was brought up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_the_Damned_(1960_film)
We looked quite normal, that's me on the left:
I think 12 is a good age to be understanding a relay to the level of that video presentation. By that age a lot of us already had a little understanding of electronics having had things like Philips Electronics kits and having been dismantling pretty much everything for years already.
But fortunately I did not burn the house down or put myself in the hospital.
Scientific American Amature Scientist section had an article on building your own DIY X-ray machine that I was keen on. But a friend put me off it by mentioning radiation burns and their long lasting effects.
12 years old is a hazardous age.. just because you are suddenly aware of science.
16 years old used to be a hazardous age .. just because you got your driver's license.
23-29 years old is an extremely hazardous age .. just because you think you are an adult and can do and handle anything.
Or possibly we will be monitoring oxygen concentrations in your body with buckyballs harvested from char products...and tattoos totally screw up electron spin signatures... sort of like taking an iron pipe into the MRI with you."
It didn't work.
On the other hand... someday someone will make a device to remotely screen a crowd for tattoos based on electron spin resonance... just like we screen RFID tags.