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  2. Posted

    ...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....

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  12. Posted

    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....

  17. Posted

    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).....

  18. Posted

    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......

     

     

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  19. Posted

    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.

  20. Posted

    On 4/27/2022 at 11:21 PM, Coinery said:

    I’ve watched this over and over, shared it over and over…something special about this one, but can’t put my finger on it! It’s sexual, it’s natural, it has equality embedded in it…sounds like I’m a madman, but it has such a fun and healthy ‘feel’ about it! Clearly I can’t describe it, but a great moment…love it!

    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.

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  21. Posted

    I still have trouble with this.

    It's like someone got things muddled up years ago, and everyone since blindly followed.

     

    My problem goes like this:  I realised many many years ago, medals can be lifted, but if you twist them, this will probably damage the pin or the cloth.

    So you mount a medal so that if you want to read the back, you lift it up, like an old-fashioned nurse's watch, not try to rip it off the wearer's jacket.

     

    I then found out the orientation labelling was the opposite of what made sense....!!!!!!!@

    What??    Why?     Medals have a horizontal 'hinge' at the top, intentionally.

    If they were to be twisted, they would hang from a single, rotatable point......

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  23. Posted

    What if?

    If humans realised there would be no human presence on Earth after the next 100 or so, what would they do?

    If the older members started to go crazy and just have wars and stuff, the younger lot would ask for their children to have a future on a planet that

    wasn't a polluted wreck, but would that last generation, when getting old, just stop caring about what the planet would be like in a 1000 years time?

     

    Which aspect of human nature would prevail in the end?

    Good or bad?

  24. Posted

    Yes.....   'Grading'  , in my mind at least, refers to the ridiculous practice of paying people to tell you what you already knew,

    so you can sell to a twat who can't tell and won't believe the seller, and, as such, is an obnoxious word and should be removed or replaced. 🙂

     

    All the other words are are fine with me.

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