blakeyboy

If you really mean no, send them this:

About what, exactly?

Nicely made. For scale, the top of box 12cm square. Maybe a sighting cross staff? The base is just a tapering hole as if it just sits on a pole....

Dr Heisenberg might have been a member of this forum.....

Remember when you used to look at a pile of ED v11 pennies and could pull out the 1909 ones just by the colour? Were they renowned as a weak strike?

...or maybe the annealing process was different, so the metal was harder before being struck, or work hardened differently in the fraction of a millisecond while being struck, thus flowing differently....

This, I've realised, heavily influenced me. The music is where the Human League were when they started.....amazing for it's era....

he has a certain 'something'....right on the edge, and he goes right up to it, but not over.....a very very difficult thing to pull off. Telling Simon McCoy that he's done really well for himself even though he is a man with 'limited skills' made me spit my coffee out....

I can post a link to a video, but I see people posting a video, and the post shows the video picture, rather than just a strip of text, and I cannot see how to do this.....

Ahh...I tried to post it from twitter and it gave me a 403. I don't 'do' Twitter or Facebook, I'll hasten to point out.... this clip isn't on Youtube for some reason. I must experiment....

I put a link to it on the 'laugh' thread...:-)

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/cbbcs-hacker-t-dog-on-bbc-news/347436952467709/

I've tried this and it all worked thank you! Unfortunately, I get the forbidden 403 again...what is going on...

Jerry, you might be able to afford to use petrol for this, but some people will have to stick to using a good Macallan as usual.....

.....isn't that the brew that is true?.....

I have some wooden tools I've made for straightening aluminium panels on recording consoles. If you got a lump of hardwood with a depression in it, on a solid surface, and you put the coin on that, and you took a piece of round hardwood , like the end of a broom handle, and whacked it, you would get a near-perfect dished coin with no marks on the surfaces whatsoever....

I'm sorry, I was busy and forgot to check the posting. I'm sorry I let everybody down. Thank you, Copper123, for stepping in and saving the situation!

I've just started a thread 'lighting with colour etc' in the 'anything not coins area'.....

Coloured light is wonderful....this is a wedding I lit last year...

My father had an old YashikaMat 66 that took good pictures inside the cathedral. I have very nice family memories from the'70s of staring at those wonderful windows. I do like the pic of the colours projected on the walls that Dave took. Reminds me of the colour projections in the Sagrada Familia I've seen ( and yet to visit).....

What could possibly be 'disturbing' about this cover??? It's a nice use of pleasant images of a beautiful place. I have friends with stereos, on which they play music at social events and dinner parties and barbecues etc. None of the systems sound amazing, most are passable, a few are bad. This thread has given me an idea: What I'm going to do is to point out everything that I think is wrong with the sound I hear at friend's events, and tell them "Can I just point out I have 45 years experience in professional audio so I can say all this." I wonder how I'd look? Would I be offered a beer and a burger again? I put up with the sound quality - It helps the functions along and oils the wheels- my friends know my background, and know they can ask me for advice if they wish to improve their systems. I don't say a word about it, and all is well, I get drunk and stuff my face. If I were in a position to have 35 years experience in publishing, I would have said something like "Oh- nice one- I didn't know about the poetry book- if you are doing another, I'd love to help with the cover design, since that's rather what I do" etc etc.... Even me, weird crazy Blake, with his Aspergers, has realised that you don't shout: "Ooh look the King's got no clothes on" ...even though that may be correct..... instead, you either let it go, or look around the crowd, to see who _also_ looks shocked, and have a drink with them after the procession has gone past......

The shadow sharpness is a function of the distance from the light source and the angular size of the light source. A very small light source will cast as sharp a shadow as bright sunlight.....it doesn't have to be bright at all.... That shadow is the shape I expect, and the fact that it is the same when the coin is either way up shows me the coin isn't bent either.... The shadow's thickness would only be a concern if this coin is usually thin.

Absolutely agree now that I've dived into the world of Hacker bloopers on You Tube. She's wonderful, and he's very quick. Well worth looking into.