Dewd!
This is so NOT going to happen...Christmas is coming...Kids need presents and Durachko-san needs Burbon and Winter Fest -(non jello based) hot tubbing!

Plus, the Hydroponic units in the basement need cleaning...( and Drying!)

Spirit of Blue Frog predicts maddened debauchery and drunken silliness. Many fire burn in his Kitchen and the the spirit of the land will giggle...

We make comedic stand here!

Now...someone lick my back!

ok. ok. you can have my third born.

oh, yea. Nice Job !!! (to you too, HF !!)

Can it be?
Yes....It is....

Samuraijack got up slowly from his computer realizing that the floor was unbearably cold and that his feet were sticking to the carpet which had turned into frosty grass-like cornflakes. There were small crunches beneath his feet as he crossed the room to look at the wall mounted thermostat.
It all made sense now.

The Sox had won the series...
The Canadian dollar was now worth more than the American dollar...
...and the Spice Girls were touring again.


Samuraijack walked slowly back over to his computer and sat down. Durachko being so close to finishing his projector had sealed the world's fate.

Hell had indeed frozen over.

Hmmm . . .

I think you've already played this scenario out in my ploD. If I weren't so dang lazy I'd search back and find it. Have we finally managed to deplete your repertoire and forced you to resort to recycling? Or has memory failed me?

Anyway, thanks for the kind words.

(And it ain't quite frozen . . . yet.)

Im assuming that it may have had long enought to go through the complete thaw cycle...Its been that long...

We don't have a long enough study time to reach any definite conclusions but I think I'm operating on a seasonal cycle regarding my projector.

Actually the Study " Seasonal Affective influences in the Near Northeast American Region and Projector Building Progress - McM DC et SG, was proven a good basis for the lack of projector progress during the Holidays.

So when are we going to publish the results of " The Relationship between Lime Jello and lowered inhibitions in Nubile College Women: An Opportunistic Study."?

A lot of work went into that...

I'm still not happy with the error bars on Figure 69: Climax Intensity versus Seat Position. Need more research (larger sample population and more replicates)!!!!!

Edit: The spare case of filters should arrive before Christmas.

True, that one bears a good revisit, Its too bad they denied us the funding on the retrofitted hanging basket. I guess they didnt really care if we wanted to make it an international study.

BTW, they came back with a few more questions on our study for "Potential Interaction between Breast Implanted women and Non-Virgin Olive Oil". I replied that the viscosity rating for the oil was a control factor and that the variable would continue to be the weighed mass of the silicon with variablity factors assigned to the combined mass within a ten foot container at an air temperature of 82.1 degrees F. They were concerned about possible immersion issues until I explained that the Olive oil would be applied manually both by the subjects and by the monitors. They also had a lot of questions about why we needed so many different "types" of women. I gave them the standard reply about how we needed to have a broad sample range to correct for regional and body type differences etc etc...

Some people have no vision...


PS. Just got word from the Approval Board, they suggested that the variablity of pressure and fabric makep of the bathing suits could throw off our measurements, so we should probably remove that variable. Oddly enough they insisted on UV eye protection so they will have to wear sunglasses.

You know, one of these days I would like to do a really Interesting study...

Some people maybe. But yours is way better than 20/20!!!!!!

Durachko be finished soon?

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me tink no. wot soon mean? BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Edit: What's Animal been into anyway?

Edit 2: Or is that Mrs. Animal? And in that case the above question still stands!!!

Edit 3: I can't stop giggling over this. Purely happenstance I assure you.

your PLOD has reached a new low... that pic is disturbing...

Thanks GS. I appreciate the kind words. Hmmmm . . . I'm experiencing deja vu.

Edit: Scout's honor I did a Google Image for muppet and that popped up. I snagged it. Posted it. And

Edit 2: I always blame everything on SJ.

Edit 3: My curiousity peaked so I went and checked. Here's where it came from (no pun intended). http://www.fxdeco.com/

Edit 4: Okay, okay . . . pun intended.

Haha thats hillarious Durachko

It might be a "new low" but who cares when it's funny

Cheers

Yee-aah, like the past ice age! I would nominate this as the oldest plog...dam even older than dirt!

Hmmmm . . .

1. SJ
2. GS
3. SIM

Wonder what my enemies are going to start saying?

Actually I'm just enjoying all the attention.

Edit: This ain't no ploD. It's a malignancy on the heart of Lumenlab!!!

And we wonder how, where or WHOM it all started from Dam D, don't you have any morales? Some of us humans do read this you know?

Mod EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!....aahh better
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I thought I did a good job of keeping up the morale around here? As far as morals are concerned I think it's a prerequisite to being on the moderating team that one have none! All this alphabetic nitpicking has made me hungry for some morels.

The rest of the story . . .

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I donut know wot anyone has been thinking . . .

He got it from Cookie Monster.

A wise decision in almost any circumstance...

Al Gore declares Durachko's Projector could...

"...Accelerate the Polar Meltdown and Contribute to Global Warming!"

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"You can take that to the bank, Mister!"

Patriotic Porn Star Declares...

"Durachko has a HUGE PJ!"

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"Trust me boys...size DOES matter!"

Frustrated Heather Locklear declares:

"Durachko never wants to do anything horizontal!!"

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OMG!!! I sneak out to serve pizza at my son's school, do some Christmas shopping, and return to this!!!!!!!!!

I should do that more often!!!!

Hmmmm . . . Heather vertical . . .

HUBBA, HUBBA!!!!!!

Holy crap, this is a perfect example of the slippery slope phenomenon...

Haha

I think he should have a screenie snap of that locklear picture....

I can do that. Have a higher res version for my WUXGA babeh???

Gotta LOVE those slippery slopes!!!

And some screen wipes for shortly after you recieve said high res pic..........

Arent you done building this monster yet?? that must be an old pic of Heather, almost looks photoshoped. ah who cares she looks hot any way.
that muppet shot is a little disturbing though.

"Muppet shot"? Was that another pun attempt? (Blurry) GusF - it's always nice to see you again. You should stop in more often! Screen wipes? I have (slightly) more control than THAT! But better safe than sorry I suppose.

"broad sample" - SJ

such a pun

Yep, you made me backtrack to find it. Good catch.

"muppet shot" I guess you caught the pun. sorry couldnt help it.

Just thank you for NOT showing said "muppet shot". That really would have been over-the-top!

Well . . . actually . . . if it HAD gone "over-the-top" I suspect this whole debacle would never have started in the first place.

Active cooling for the Kontron and a power supply circuit at the upper left.

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More cooling circuit holes.

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Work continues but as usual not as much was accomplished this weekend as planned.

Working on it right now in fact.

Marilyn Monroe Declares:

Oh Durachko! Leave that silly old thing be and come here!

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"Get to work DC....get to work...."

Are you generating that much heat to require so much cooling?

The genesis chips run hot, especially when running at that high a res and pixel clock freq. That’s why Kontron heat sinked them. With active cooling they stay just warm to the touch, and the life of the whole controller is extended.

What's better?

1. Too much cooling.
2. Not enough cooling.

Depends.... Because...

Some Like It HOT HOT HOT !!!!

OMG! Now we've done it. Even jonjandran has been sucked deep down into the depths which we frequent.

Hmmmm . . . someone's been taking liberties with my subject line. I need only one guess.

I fired up the projector tonight and it looks great; however, I have some confounding issue with my DIY power supply circuit for the Kontron. Nothing ebay couldn't handle though. I just hope the guy complies with my request to ship my purchase out ASAP. Heck, he's in PA and hopefully he is in the holiday spirit and gets it in the mail tomorrow.

I think maybe I've got one little niggling more thing to do which is widen the opening of my fresnel sandwich. I think it's a wee bit narrow and I'm losing some edge light. Remains to be seen and won't happen all that soon. I'm sure I won't notice it watching movies and playing games but you know how it is - once you know it's there it's hard to ignore.

With any luck I'll be projecting by Christmas and can post some WUXGA screenies. Weeee-haaawwww!!!

Was at Wally World the other day and dropped $20 on the $5 video bin. What a splurge. The Matrix, The Pelican Brief, First Knight, and A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

Now I wait for my ebay purchase to come through . . .

Ahh yes.... and some of us (by that I mean ME) have to ascend several sublevels just to get our (my) minds UP TO the gutter!

Hotter is better for certain things...

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My monitor just melted!!!

<stepping outside to cool down a bit>

Yeah I had to work my way through hundreds of pictures before I found just the right one...

Okay so the Kontrol unit needs/desires active cooling. What do you think are the chances of a post production heatsink enlargement are? Has anyone removed the sink yet?

Yeah, yeah. I know just what you're thinking. "Tough job but someone had to do it."


Actually, I'd venture to say no active cooling is required. But for our purposes it's so easy to get a little air over it. The factory sinks are quite nice. I'm not even going to consider removing the ones on my chips.

Edit: Geez . . . "anyone"? . . . I think it's just me and HitesFiero thus far!!!

It's getting hot in here so take off all your clothes......

I am getting so hot I want to take my clothes off....

Oh yea we're talking about heatsinks....right?

Then again....some like to play in the cold!