[R-390] [SAClist] Staying in your own tree (OT)

[Bill Guyger]

Gee

I thought I was the only one who did stuff like that. When my son was very young I took him to the restroom somewhere where someone had one of those things that turned the water blue. I said to him "looks like Papa Smurf forgot to flush again". He's a PO 1 in the Navy now.

Another time my two daughters and I were out in the backyard. The house two doors down had a huge bug zapper in their yard. It obviously got a June Bug or some other large bug because it went SNAP ..... BUZZZZ
ZZZZ... SNAP ....SNAP.

I said "O my gosh it just got Tinkerbelle". I had to do a lot of explaining about daddy was just joking. One of them is a teacher, the other is a police officer, 

Hope between the three, I haven't warped reality as we know it too badly.

Bill AD5OL 

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> On Sep 21, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Oooh, I have inadvertently been the source of several pieces of technology
> misinformation that took on lives of their own. Mostly because I have a
> smart mouth and will say something almost believable when working on a
> project and nobody is helping. Here are a few examples;
> 
> While cleaning up the things we had out on a radio install I grabbed the
> end of an extension cord and did a few seconds of "crack the whip" with the
> cord to get it straight so I could coil it up. The less than helpful
> technician asked what I was doing so I said that cracking the extension
> cord like that helps realign the excess electrons, otherwise they will
> create an arc the next time the cord is plugged in.
> 
> I helped one individual (an amateur radio operator with a more than a few
> paranoias) in setting up an active antenna for his WEFAX radio receiver.
> While sitting at his bench I took a few little tabs of electric tape and
> covered a few illuminating LED's (out of boredom). He asked what I was
> doing; I informed him that since LED's and photodetectors were both diodes
> the LED's could be reverse biased to act as single pixel cameras and that
> some firmware in computers and consumer electronics are actually cameras so
> the government can spy on you. He did not say anything but it was clear it
> bothered him..  A few weeks later I stopped by to visit and EVERY LED in
> his house was covered with electrical tape.
> 
> I convinced one of my friends that television remotes use ultrasonic to
> change channels and if she whistled just right she could change television
> channels. She spent several hours that evening whistling at the television
> until I finally gained access to the real remote and on 2-3 times whenever
> she whistled I clicked the channel up or down button. From what she told me
> she took that newfound talent back to her college dorm room and spent quite
> a bit of time trying to convince her roommate that she had gained an
> ultrasonic whistling capability.
> 
> *Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA*
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