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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34770
"This guy has a busted, tired old 91 Sega Megadrive, and we is gonna pump that muthu fo him"
"We gonna set him up with 10 more Hz of refresh"
"Now we put in a brand new SPDT switch, dumping the dumb ass Pal and setting him up with full ntsc compatibility"
"Also we have a RGB cable for some sweet video"
"So, here you go man, your pimped Megadrive!"
Queue o1s1n to jump around like a moron....
FYP
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I'd be happy to see everything bar the crotch grabbing.
So we'd have Cribs with Enternow, followed by Pump My Console with Enternow...
"This guy has a busted, tired old 91 Sega Megadrive, and we is gonna pump that muthu fo him"
"We gonna set him up with 10 more Hz of refresh"
"Now we put in a brand new SPDT switch, dumping the dumb ass Pal and setting him up with full ntsc compatibility"
"Also we have a RGB cable for some sweet video"
"So, here you go man, your pimped Megadrive!"
Queue a loser to jump around like a moron....
Ah yes, the tired rantings of someone who doesn't see the difference in 60Hz
You'll learn, you'll learn. I was near Crumlin today, so said I'd pop into Radionics to pick up 4 switches (2 4 U 2 4 O(1s1n)).Do you think I could find the place? Must have drove past it 3/4 times looking for the entrance, I wouldn't mind but I've been in there before! I'll order them off the bay anyway, should be cheaper. 0 -
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Ah yes, the tired rantings of someone who doesn't see the difference in 60Hz You'll learn, you'll learn. I was near Crumlin today, so said I'd pop into Radionics to pick up 4 switches (2 4 U 2 4 O(1s1n)).Do you think I could find the place? Must have drove past it 3/4 times looking for the entrance, I wouldn't mind but I've been in there before! I'll order them off the bay anyway, should be cheaper.
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Some collection of connectors etc !0 -
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I have seen my attic, it is, after all, my attic!
And what of it?
Not necessarily a nerd,
a collector perhaps..
a hobbiest certainly..
a curator of weird and wonderful digital doo dads, a bit
a nerd, feck it, probably!
It's less nerdy to just admit it. Denying it makes you even more nerdy, I'll no doubt have to adopt the same technique when the time comes
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Being a Nerd is the new "Being cool", all these poser nerds everywhere now thinking they are great. I was a NERD before all these people jumped on the nerd bandwagon.
Collected Star Wars Figures - Check
Collect Transformers Comics - Check
Sat in my room alone watching scifi - Check
Play games constantly - Check
Nerds these days arent hardcore! :pac: These days Avril Lavigne et al stick on a pair of nerd glasses and all of a sudden being a nerd is cool!
Amen to that. We are the original dorks You can't become a nerd just by impersonating one, you have to be a nerd. The copius amounts of model starships in the above pics buy me a ticket on the nerd express...what about the rest of you huh? Thougt so....:D 0 -
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Still a virgin... CHECK..Being a Nerd is the new "Being cool", all these poser nerds everywhere now thinking they are great. I was a NERD before all these people jumped on the nerd bandwagon.
Collected Star Wars Figures - Check
Collect Transformers Comics - Check
Sat in my room alone watching scifi - Check
Play games constantly - Check
Nerds these days arent hardcore! :pac: These days Avril Lavigne et al stick on a pair of nerd glasses and all of a sudden being a nerd is cool! 0 -
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34770
I think for something to be truely nerdy it has to have as little cool factor as possible.
Therefore most consoles and cabs really can't count as nerdy. Having a big assed arcade cab in your house is the coolest thing ever..and I think most people would appreciate that. Although the more obscure they get the more nerdyness probably creeps in.
All Star Trek stuff on the other hand definitely counts as nerdy
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Yeh seriously, its in bubble wrap in the attic. Dont get too excited until you see it, honestly the image is slightly washed, which is why its in my attic!
Take note budding nerds, the above it's how it's done. To summarise:
Nerd A - I have cool star wars pics.
Nerd B - Want.
Nerd A - You can have it.
Nerd B - Guilt upon free picture..."I'll modify your electronic console in exchange for the cool Star Wars pic.
Nerd A - Deal.
Ubernerds at work:D
Got a bit more done today, will post pics later or tomorrow. Almost done, it feels like Xmas '95 again with the anticipation of Megadrive & Snes goodness building up.0 -
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ghostchant wrote: »If I'm a theoretical physics postgrad who obsessively collects anything electronic with the phrase 'nintendo' stamped on it, am I a nerd...or god help me...a geek?!
I think it's safe to say, your one of us Don't go too far down the geek road though, it doesn't end well 0 -
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/nerd hat on
Oooh interesting, any particular area?
/nerd hat off
Back on topic, hows the sound proofing in the attic EnterNow? Nice and quiet up there? Actually, can you close back up the ladder from the attic side or would that lock you in?
The difference in sound is immense, it was one of the first things I noticed after the insulation went in. Traffic noise outside is just a quiet hum now, as opposed to being able to identify what cars were going by, by the engine note
The plasterboarding & wooden panelling make it very very comfortable up there from a noise point of view. Regards the door, there's no way of closing it while up there (which is a good thing when there's gonna be an 8 year old gaming up there)...but being locked up there may not be so bad :pac:0 -
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The difference in sound is immense, it was one of the first things I noticed after the insulation went in. Traffic noise outside is just a quiet hum now, as opposed to being able to identify what cars were going by, by the engine note
The plasterboarding & wooden panelling make it very very comfortable up there from a noise point of view. Regards the door, there's no way of closing it while up there (which is a good thing when there's gonna be an 8 year old gaming up there)...but being locked up there may not be so bad :pac:
Ah defo correct there. I was just thinking maybe when the little lad is fast asleep you could entertain a few ladies up there in private! One flick of a button and the room tranforms Austin Powers like into an "entertainment" area. :pac: (Yup, quite a boring day at work today!)ghostchant wrote: »Theoretical/computational biophysics - protein folding simulations basically. Bags o' fun.
I find the obsessive nintendo collecting side of me to be far more interesting :P
Damn, thought it might have been something around quantum energy levels and Riemann zeros. 0 -
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Ah defo correct there. I was just thinking maybe when the little lad is fast asleep you could entertain a few ladies up there in private! One flick of a button and the room tranforms Austin Powers like into an "entertainment" area. :pac: (Yup, quite a boring day at work today!)
Privacy is a rare thing these days man, especially living at home Nevertheless, it's obtainable but the attic sadly won't provide that kind of fun, well, sometimes maybe Vivienne Large Rice wrote: »Spending time in attic with all machines and games around you-
On the contrary, the sun was blinding up there today being south facing et all 0 -
Ok todays work involved starting the final hurdle, the panelling around the water tank which has a door for maintanence/storage/access.
Before
Because this is a fairly light structure, I'll be relying on the platerboard to hold the wooden panelling, with fewer tacks than normal. In light of that, some bonding adhesive was applied for strenght, particularly because of the door being opened/closed.
Starting from the top, working down
Reaching the top of the door now, however the next lenght of wood will overlap onto the door by about an inch. Two choices, cut the lenght of wood to fit around the door (I would if my measuring skills were better), or cut the door by about an inch. I cut the top of the door down by about in inch, so it's perfectly in line for the next piece, without having to cut wood.
Here you can see, the next piece of wood will sit perfectly on the door & all will be well.
Continuing on, leaving the door covering until last.
Slow and steady...
...wins the race
Onto the door now, the first two lats placed, starting from the top down
Repetition
Finito
Open sesame
That's it for today, I've a handle to put on the door which I'll do at the end along with all the other finishing touches.0 -
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Damn, thought it might have been something around quantum energy levels and Riemann zeros.
Nothing that exotic I'm afraid, but from my undergrad I know a good bit about anything that tickles your fancy in QM. I don't know much beyond popular science about the Riemann hypothesis though!0 -
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Update from a few days ago, I forgot to throw up the pics. Starting now on the other side of the water tank surround, & onto the final hurdle...trigonometry :eek:
Normally I've been working from the top down, but as I'm working into an apex now, I decided to start at the bottom & work up
Now as I'm rapidly running out of wood, I'm gonna use some of the cuttings from previous pieces to save as much full lenghts as possible. Once they were cut straight, they sit together very well
See, there's no noticeable joins between two halves
Speaking of science/physics earlier...it actually turns out that X + Y does infact = Z :eek: I'm as shocked as the rest of you. I never understood the point of adding letters together, until now!
That was one of the trickiest parts of the whole part of putting the wood in. There's no margin for error, as the wood is the finished product. With plasterboard you don't have to be too accurate as yo uknow it's getting covered, but the wood is the covering & you've got to live with whatever way you fit it. Hard part done, the rest is simply working up to the apex.
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Nice and neat man, looking good. In the last pic, top right, is the panelling a different colour or just a trick of the light? Or have you varnished it?
Just noticed that now lol, nah they all came from the same packets so it's a combination of light tricks & not every piece being a replica of the last kind of thing. There's a grain that runs through them, & some pieces are shaded slightly differently, but in a natural way. I guess the light in the pic just emphasises it, but when you see it in person it all blends together nicely
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Cool, not like it makes any difference anyway. Heh another thumbs up is the plug sockets having a good clearance from the floor.
So after the panelling, you mentioned carpet was going down, is there much to do after that? Any ideas on the tv & console setup you want to have or too early to worry about that?0 -
Cool, not like it makes any difference anyway. Heh another thumbs up is the plug sockets having a good clearance from the floor.
So after the panelling, you mentioned carpet was going down, is there much to do after that? Any ideas on the tv & console setup you want to have or too early to worry about that?
Oh I've used enough console psu's to know that sockets too near the floor are a non runner. As I said previously, a huge advantage about doing stuff like this yourself, is you can choose when/how/where to put the things you want without watching someone rubbing their beard & inhaling sharply.
The sockets you see there are mainly gonna be for chargers (psp, dsi, nomad etc) and further down I'll have the main power outlets for the tv's & consoles. Yep I'll finish the wood, maybe touch up the paint again, & lay carpet down. From there I'll start looking at shelving & then it's just a matter of setting what I can up. As to the setup, I've no idea yet. For sure the 16bit kings will have a permanent presence, I'll just have to see how I'm fixed for room etc.0 -
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Ok I finished off the apex wall today, looks better than I hoped it would. I've been dreading that mad angle at the girder since I started the panelling, but it worked out well.
Onto the final wall, in between where the door opens & the recently finished wall. Rather than cutting around the lightswitch, I decided to just remove it & refit it over the wood. I didn't do this with sockets though, as I needed maximum strenght for plugs being constantly plugged in & removed etc.
A quick clean up & on with the first piece.
Switches removed, & piece ready for marking/cutting.
Next piece test fitting, hole cut for wiring, & two holes for remounting the switches.
Sorted, just need to refit the switch
Done, the rest will fly up from here.
Half way up
Almost there
Epic. I'm done.
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