On 14/10/20 9:22 pm, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk
(via tml list) wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 07:08, <xxxxxx@gmail.com
> <mailto:xxxxxx@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     WHOOMP! You have just described about 4 bins full of cabling I have.
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>     Do you have clairvoyance, Thomas?
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> I think he's seen my attic too.
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> I suspect that it's more that a (large?) proportion of us on TML would
> tend towards either the slightly geeky collection of such gear OR the
> hoarding tendency to keep stuff beyond reasonable use dates OR both. 
> And that those participating in this thread are a subset of TML even
> more likely to show either or both those tendencies!
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> In any case, I'm not keeping up with all the contributions, so let me
> get back to the slave pits and quit lallygagging...
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> tc
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Another couple of things to add to the bitz box:

An unused sticker with "CAUTION: DO NOT LOOK INTO LASER {illegible}",

The magic/more magic switch from the MIT AI Lab (double lulz if its
single wire is hooked up, triple lulz if frobbing it to "magic" makes
your engineer go puce),

A plush drop bear, fangs, black fur and all,

A holodisc/other read-only memory copy of an album by a band called
Veedback - but not the real famous ones,

(I slammed into that one personally - the east-coast Pendulum and
west-coast Pendulum are two _very_ different groups)

A bag of some sort of powder labelled "Used dynamite".

Alex