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The reason won't come through yet.

Pigeon flasher works, control circuits don't.  It will be hard to debug because of the very high impedences.  I may have to give in and spend a few more microamps.

I may have a better layout for the undervolt detector.  Five devices, three with two terminals, two with three, a total of three circut nodes (not counting the power rails), including the output terminal--and I must have spent fifty hours seeing how to lay it out.  I should try that in the morrning.

Mwahh-hahh-HAHH-HAHH-HAHH!

If you were it would increase your chances of winning to 100%.

Okay, I'll publish then.  Okay if it's a chapter and not a standalone?

The contest publicity blurb specifies publication, which was not part of the original contest specification.

Oh, 'indicate' is pronounced 'signal' and no, most of us are inconsiderate boors who only signal a turn for form AFTER we've begun to brake or even come to a stop.  Nor do we know to take our cars out of reverse and shut the backup lights off when we are waiting for someone else to cross behind us.

You have a splendid chance to instruct the teeming millions by example every time you set out on the roads.  Please take it.

In many states, when you are driving (car in gear) with the wipers on, your headlights must be on.

Know that many American drivers will tend to lock speed with you in other lanes, blocking others from passing, and even drive alongside of you, preventing you (or them) from escaping in an emergency as well as blocking others from passing.  Your defensive driving should be one step ahead of these insensate and dangerous louts--about 40% of  the drivers on the road.  People who would never let a spring-loaded door close in someone else's face can't transfer this awareness to the highway.

Never make the other driver react to you if you can help it.  Always make his choice easy and obvious.  We 'mericans need it.  We drive the way we handle carts in the supermarket--and vice versa.

I don't know if Australia uses the UK term 'High Street'.  The US term is 'Main Street', notwithstanding that the most common street name is actually 'Broad Street'.

Okay, the modified detector works.  I had to diddle a few of the resistor values, including one that was there for a while.  The hysteresis on the upper threshold is 3%, a little low.  But changing that would mean tinkering with almost every resistor in the detector.  The thresholds are: low-middle transition: on: 2.7v, off: 2.4 v, middle-to-high transition: on: 27.2v, off: 25.6v.

Low means no signal on the line.  Mid is off-hook, high is on-hook.

Back to the pigeon flasher.

Oh, for the other title look to Hogarth.

Use a large window, with satellite view (and take the 45 degree view off!)

This is the interchange that Amy was talking about.  If you count carefully, you get 13 different levels, with helical ramps of opposite handedness. https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.8450 … h&z=17

A mile or so west, past the  Trans-Manhattan Expressway ('Under the Apartments') we have the eastern approaches to the GWB, too large to fit on the screen at an amplification that allows you to see the individual ramps: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.8487 … h&z=17

Interchange 14A on the NJTurnpike.  Follow the road roughly northwest, and then around the outside of Newark Airport.  Try to follow all the individual ramps and carriageways as you go around: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6683 … m&z=16

The Kew Gardens Interchange to which 'sprawling' is affixed like 'damn' on 'yankee': https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166 … h&z=17

It's hard to find an image that captures any of the real character of the Pulaski skyway.  Here's one: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt … MygUMBQ4ZA

The Garden State Parkway/Rte440/US9 interchange: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.5190 … m&z=16   Just for fun, trace the ramps from 440 eastbound to US 9 south.  440 is at the top of the stack, but the exit ramp makes 7/8 of a circle, crossing over 440, then descending rapidly.  It goes UNDER US9, which is UNDER the GSP, which is UNDER 440--which you just left and went over.

Here's an intersection with two jughandles for left and U turns off the main road (NJ 36): https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.4369 … m&z=18

Erevain's upcoming chapter is starting to take form.  I tell you, I don't know how TV writers do it, especially when they are doing a mystery show.

There's a lot of detail to fit into place, and I don't yet know how completely I'll work out the backstory.  I may move the battle and return into another chapter, and there will be a few edits to make on the previous chapter.

I've had some distractions, but I'll get back to the mods to the level detector in the next 36 hours.  Then I want to try a big change to the way the sections are laid out, so I'll put a new example together.  I'll need to buy more of some parts, web-order.

What you call roundabouts are either true roundabouts or traffic circles.  A traffic circle has traffic already in the circle yield.  A roundabout has the yield on entry.  We've been slow in going to roundabouts.

Note that every region has its own traffic patterns.  In New Jersey, for example, many roads have left and U turns from the right lane, via ramps called jughandles (because they look like it).  There are different lingos for roads, too: freeway, expressway, parkway.

Off-ramps are also called exit ramps.

Don't know if the Pac NW has any SPUIs.  (Look it up on Wikipedia.)

It is very illegal to pass a schoolbus stopped with its red lights flashing.  In many areas a similar law requires you to stop when an ice cream truck has its stop sign swung out.  Unless there is a sign forbidding it, you can turn right on red after a full stop.  (Except in NYC, where it's occasionally permitted by sign.)

In many cases the cheapest pharmacies are in the supermarkets.  If the places you shop offer discount card/tags, get them.  They can save you a bunch, but you'll have to put up with a bit more junk mail.  If you need a prescription specially compounded, the chains and supermarkets can do simple stuff (like flavoring) but you'll need a specialty pharmacy for anything else.

If your area is blighted by a chain called White Castle, stay away.  The food won't make you sick but the oddities of the, er, cuisine may/put you off your feed.

Find out what station carries Mariners games.  There may be one or two more afternoon spring training games on the radio.

No takers?  Hint: the story is in mixed visual and verbal form.

I'm starting to make some progress on Erevain (and Nikkano his master).  I've got another take on his tinfoil hat.  I'm going to play with it a little.

Dagnee, I think the issue is fantasy in the story sense versus fantasy in the sense of what we might wish for.

Not sure if I want to dive into a group -meant- for these issues.  All I was trying to do was clarify the questions, not wrangle them.