El fin de las cosas simples
Levantarse a las nueve sin apuro, duchas largas, sentarse con un libro bajo el ciruelo...
Archive for February, 2011
Pluma…
Mañana empiezan los parciales en la facultad, así que aproveché que me quedé sin tinta para limipar la pluma, una paper-mate de quince pesos (hace unos seis años) que no dice nada pero tampoco me falló nunca. Algo de agua tibia y quedó como nueva.
LCD Lightbox
It costed almost nothing but some screws and metal angles. Things I picked up from the street / junk:
- Glass
- Wooden angles
- Old Acer laptop, not worth repairing. For this I took the screen only. Touchpad, drives and some other things left aside for another project.
Things already on hand:
- Scanner (umax 1220p). I used its inverter because the one from the screen was broken. It served me well but the mirrors are very frayed, there's moisture in the ccd and besides that it needs a parallel port, wich I don't have at the moment.
Looks like something from the trash? Why yes! And I like it that way. It runs happily with anything between 7v and 20v (all the power bricks laying around) and as a nice side effect that lets me select the color temperature from a mild pink to a colder white.
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- Inverter with 7v. Some fingerprints…
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- Original inverter. Transformer core was broken among other things.
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- It was very, very, hard to clean the fingerprints. Next time I’ll wear gloves.
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- One of the four prism sheets. It’s really cool to look through them.
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- CCFL light, inverter at 12V.
“Not for student use”
Third time in less than a hour I see this in datasheets and other technical documents. Funny thing is that different manufacturers of the same part disagree about whether we students should use their information.
Noisy neighbour
Fuck it. I'm gonna play baroque music with the flute 'till your head explodes, my lips sore and Bach rises from his grave asking for mercy. Then I'll crank the bass amp all way up to 11 while playing some candombe as if I were Seppälä. Even better, i'll put some records of the original, hope you don't mind the noise. It's really fun when you try to study or sleep and you people are constantly shouting with 'La Champions' at full blast, as if it was enough to cover up your fights. I swear if it wasn't for the rain and the fact that I can barely keep the balance at this hour I'd cut your connection to the power grid.
Para mi son todos chinos
- El otro dia vi en el cable a la pianista esa que te gusta, la Lewis Carroll
- Esteee, cómo? Ese es el de "Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas", y es muy difícil que lo hayas visto en vivo. No será Carol Williams?
- Ahhh si esa, se llaman todos parecido