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No. THEY are clearly putting things in our water. Diffraction is not a thing at all. Now be quiet, or THEY will take us to a concentration camp.
 
One of the nice things about walking The Dog is when my mind gets to wander. Thinking about perception of time and, for lack of a better word, relativity.

The ECTO-1 in Ghostbusters. 1959 Cadillac conversion ambulance-hearse. The movie came out in 1984. So the ECTO-1 was a 25 year old car. Wouldn't even have qualified for antique/collector plates in a lot of states. If the movie came out this year and everything stayed relative, it would be a 2000 car. Go have a look at what a 2000 Cadillac looks like.

Or Dukes of Hazzard. Came out in 1979. The General Lee was a '69 Charger. They didn't use it because it was an iconic classic car, they used it because there were a shit-ton of '69 Chargers out there that could be had cheap. Go have a look at what a 10 year old Charger (or Challenger or Mustang or Camaro) looks like.

"Oldies" radio stations in the '70s. Played stuff like "Rock Around the Clock" or "Peggy Sue". But again, those songs were only 25 years old or so. Like if an "Oldies" station today was playing Ricky Martin and Jesus Jones. Green Day.

Speaking of nostalgia/retro--and coming back to television, you have "Happy Days." On in the '70s. Set in the '50s. Or "That '70s" show. Started in the '90s, set in the '70s. 20 year gap. So a similar retro sitcom, if it aired today, would be set in 2005 or so--Dubya's 2nd term/Obama's 1st term.

I don't know if I have a point to this. Just weird how before say, 35 years ago, 25 years ago was Ancient History and now a half a century doesn't seem that far back. Or maybe it's just me. Like I said, when I was staying with my friend while he recovered from hip replacement I picked his daughter up from school a couple times in my '09 Mustang. When she asked what year it was she said "Oh, that's the year I was born." But I bought it new off the lot--it was the first new car I ever owned--so in my mind it is still a "new" car.
 
For various reasons I have been watching reruns of "Dog, Bounty Hunter," and for various reasons I Googled a line from the theme song. While it sounds like something he'd write, I was surprised to learn that Ozzy Osborne wrote it. He seems a little important for composing themes to cable reality shows--even if he did have a cable reality show. Anyway, now I've got it in my fucking head. And...y'know how you get a song in your head and it drives you crazy because you only know a couple lines? This is like that--in that there only ARE a couple lines. And it isn't a particularly good song. Maybe I need to go watch that Skullshaver commercial or something.
 
I keep getting the new peacemaker theme in my head
 
Things I love about having Irish ancestry: I'm watching The Traitors Ireland, and of course being Irish, the players are having some of the most polite Roundtables I've seen in any franchise. Even their 'heated' arguments end politely. It's hilarious.
 
My brother has a bar, nicknamed "The Club." I tried to convince him he should serve a club sandwich with a Canadian Club & soda and call it the Club Club and Club Club & Club.
 
Volpone said:
My brother has a bar, nicknamed "The Club." I tried to convince him he should serve a club sandwich with a Canadian Club & soda and call it the Club Club and Club Club & Club.
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I have this vague memory of pouring a bottle of Canadian Club into one of those ultrasonic humidifiers and trying to get drunk by inhaling the vapors. It didn't work, but it did end up breaking the humidifier.
 
I've always meant to make Kool-Aid with vodka instead of water.
 
Volpone said:
I've always meant to make Kool-Aid with vodka instead of water.
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Make some old school booboo punch. You get one of those cans of Tropical Punch Kool-aid that you're supposed to add 12 quarts of water to, but instead you add a liter of 151, a liter of 100 proof vodka, a liter of gin, two liters of Sprite, and then make up the difference with water. Guaranteed crowd pleaser, but be prepared for projectile vomiting.

Also, I like life's little challenges. Somehow my garage door was opened overnight, and I know I didn't do it. Nothing was stolen as far as I can tell, but the whole mechanism was jammed up and it took me a bit to get the damn thing closed again. Weird.
 
Damn. Now that intrigues me. Older kind, where it has a simple signal or a newer model that has some sort of encryption? My '97 Avenger had a remote built into the sun visor and my first apartment, you pointed the remote at it and held down both buttons (did something blink? I forget) and then you could open the garage door by flipping down the sun visor and pushing the little button. But the next place I lived had a fancier system that couldn't be programmed to the car.

6-7 years ago there was a news story about people stealing cars with some kind of RF repeater. Usually a person's remote is close enough to where the car is parked that the signal reaches and thieves had some kind of dingus that would cause the remote to transmit a signal and unlock the car. The work around was to put your car keys in metal box to block the signal.

Or it could be some random RF signal--drone, whatever.

Actually it could just be a short or something. That would jibe with having problems getting it to close in the morning. If there was some kind of power surge or a loose wire that sparked or something, that would fit with the idea of it being finicky in the morning--the normal opening process didn't work and it caused things to get out of sync.

Now I gotta wonder about the failsafes that keep you from getting squashed by the door. Some, if there's resistance, the door will go back up. Some have an electric eye and if you break the signal the door will go back up. I wonder if you could use either to trick a closed door into opening. Probably not. I suspect that once the open/close cycle stops, power cuts to the safety sensor.
 
Volpone said:
Damn. Now that intrigues me. Older kind, where it has a simple signal or a newer model that has some sort of encryption? My '97 Avenger had a remote built into the sun visor and my first apartment, you pointed the remote at it and held down both buttons (did something blink? I forget) and then you could open the garage door by flipping down the sun visor and pushing the little button. But the next place I lived had a fancier system that couldn't be programmed to the car.

6-7 years ago there was a news story about people stealing cars with some kind of RF repeater. Usually a person's remote is close enough to where the car is parked that the signal reaches and thieves had some kind of dingus that would cause the remote to transmit a signal and unlock the car. The work around was to put your car keys in metal box to block the signal.

Or it could be some random RF signal--drone, whatever.

Actually it could just be a short or something. That would jibe with having problems getting it to close in the morning. If there was some kind of power surge or a loose wire that sparked or something, that would fit with the idea of it being finicky in the morning--the normal opening process didn't work and it caused things to get out of sync.

Now I gotta wonder about the failsafes that keep you from getting squashed by the door. Some, if there's resistance, the door will go back up. Some have an electric eye and if you break the signal the door will go back up. I wonder if you could use either to trick a closed door into opening. Probably not. I suspect that once the open/close cycle stops, power cuts to the safety sensor.
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Rolling code, almost impossible to hack. Entirely possible the door opener mechanism went wacko, somehow.
 
Yup. That's the most probable in that case. Mechanical/electrical failure. Power surge, short, dust, moisture, a literal bug. Something inside the casing. The speaker on my ancient laptop is increasingly dying. Started watching long YouTube videos and now just about anything will kill it. I can bring it back by blowing canned air in the speaker grille. Overheating? Dust? Failing wiring? Entropy sucks. On top of that I can't even find a decent pair of headphones to plug into the jack. I know I've got some laying around. Already wore out 2 cheap pairs from when they used to have music channels on airliners.
 
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