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I've probably soldered 5,000 connections, and desoldered maybe 800, and I've never had to put a fire out.

Part of the credit goes to the electronics industry and the safety standards they meet with self-extinguishing and flame-retardent materials, but the point is made.  Landlords should forbid deep-frying chicken, not low-energy hobby electronics.

What I'd like to argue is that nothing I have or do is as dangerous as frying chicken.

I just looked at Rosebud Lives by Adrian Langford.  I opened the first inline review (mobile interface).  About the first half of the items showed up with expansions.  The others I had to click on.

What, you never saw Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House?

Nice.  'X' for eXpanded?  I think I'll take off my request to others not to inline their reviews.

Have the problems with overlapping comment zones been fixed?

Now, can we have a setting to put the X-display up as a personal default?

Followup thought on the last review you did for me: When you find a logic bomb or plot hole, treat it like a lemon and make lemonade.  Or make it an error a character must learn from.

Kickstarter is already used for publishing.  The Girl Genuis people (Professor and Professora Foglio of Transylvania Polygnostic U ) use it to finance their print collections.  They've got a vid out on the GG site now for their next volume ("We must buy great big barrels of Perfect!").

I've heard of something called something like MacKinson Triple Stout.  The fellow who described it said it was a bit thicker than motor oil.

Another problem.  I thought the lower brightness from the yellow Platinum Dragon was due (via the workings of the LED) to the higher energy of the wavelength.

Well, the flasher on the compact, first-try-at-real-life-packaging board isn't putting out pulses.  It's trying to hold the LED on for the full 7+ milliseconds, which it cannot do because of the high-pass filter which ensures that the LED isn't held on for too long.

And I have no time to fix it now.  I have to put together a variable-voltage power supply driven off little batteries.  It can be done with one or two transistors in a voltage follower, but if you set up the resistances to prevent overload well you limit your voltage range.  I have a design that switches one of the transistors to its complementary polarity and adds two transistors in a current mirror.  It -should- work but it needs to be assembled and tested and the topology makes a decent layout hard.

I haven't finished going through the financial papers.  I'm about two-thirds through, and I'm getting about 20% that I have to keep because it's IRA/401K.  Of my own papers, I've declared so far that I'm going to keep an inch or so of the two and a half feet I've gone through.  I should have taken the electrical and electronics parts to recycling today, but I got a late start.

The cavernous fire-hazard-in-the-farmland used book store that I hope will take a lot of stuff that I'm comfortable parting with is closed on Monday and Tuesday.  I may need to rent a minivan.  I figure I'll have at least 300lbs of stuff to take--all stuff that I don't mind giving away (except on the principle that I shouldn't have to).  But I'll probably face a demand to dump another 200 volumes, including hardcovers.  I've probably got another 600 lbs of stuff to carry out, and I haven't even looked at clothing I have to move to make room in my closets.

Tuesday I have to paint 15 shelves.  They'll get one coat of gloss black spray, top and bottom, and the knots will stay as they are.  (White pine is cheap and strong enough.)  The electrical recyclables have to go to the township.  The stuff the super recommended to get the soap scum off the plastic tub sort of worked.  It will need at least two more passes, and I'll have to use a brush.

Read the last verses of Burns's To a Mouse.

If you're ever in south-central NJ, you should find Book Garden Florists in Cream Ridge on Rte 537.  (It's southwest of Great Adventure, and in the vicinity of Fort Dix/Naval AS Lakehurst/McGuire AFB.)  My rough estimate is over half a million volumes, categorized but uncatalogued, on homemade shelves in a huge space with many narrow aisles.

I've dropped off the face of the earth because of two pressures.  One I'll keep to myself.  The other is my landlord, who is afraid of upcoming county and state inspections and believes that having a good library of books and a collection of interesting technology is a threat to them.

In fairness, there are some overdue things to be done, but nothing I can say seems to convince them that my little electronics lab isn't going to set the whole township on fire.  If I have to move that completely out of sight, I may have to rent storage for it.  That I have a four-year degree, that electronic parts are among the most fire-retardent things made, and that the UL-listed power supplies are protected against short-circuit seem to make no difference.

There is a discredited approach in programming called Brute Force and Ignorance.  It has a much bigger cousin called Brute Force and Bloody Ignorance.

And they would call the Hope Diamond and the Magna Carta 'clutter' if they were in their living rooms ....

The new site lets you write a second review.

It would be nice if, when reading an ILR, the ESC key would banish the box so you didn't have to click on that tiny X.  Of course, touchscreens, which suffer most of all, don't have an ESC key.   Having the 'present' or 'next' block highlighted so you could move with arrow keys or tab/backtab and open the comment with a space would help, too.