RedNeckGeek
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Mr. King, my high school electronics teacher, was a Roy G. Biv fan. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. He also liked to leave a very large capacitor out of an old TV all charged up on his desk. Wouldn't take long for one of the students that hadn't paid attention in class to pick it up and shock himself silly. That may have been the only lesson learned, unless perhaps it was the Tesla coil he made and had us all hold hands, with the last two separated by a 4' fluorescent tube. Mr. King held a steel rod up so one of the arcs hit it, we'd all feel sparks jump from the soles of our feet into the nails in the wooden floor, and the tube would light up. Some of the trendier types with long hair would find it standing on end, too.:laughing: Glad I went to high school when I did; I bet all the neat stuff we used to do has now been sanitized into computer simulations...
They say they've caught an arsonist that started the Minerva fire, which nearly burned down the town of Quincy up the Feather River canyon from here. Then yesterday another series of fires broke out in the same area, so now I wonder if they got the right guy, or maybe he had a partner in crime?
Thanks to Eric, I'll be hanging onto those spare capacitors I ordered, just in case the new one goes bad in another thirty years.:laughing: I'll be sure to put them someplace they won't get lost!:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:
Mr. King, my high school electronics teacher, was a Roy G. Biv fan. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. He also liked to leave a very large capacitor out of an old TV all charged up on his desk. Wouldn't take long for one of the students that hadn't paid attention in class to pick it up and shock himself silly. That may have been the only lesson learned, unless perhaps it was the Tesla coil he made and had us all hold hands, with the last two separated by a 4' fluorescent tube. Mr. King held a steel rod up so one of the arcs hit it, we'd all feel sparks jump from the soles of our feet into the nails in the wooden floor, and the tube would light up. Some of the trendier types with long hair would find it standing on end, too.:laughing: Glad I went to high school when I did; I bet all the neat stuff we used to do has now been sanitized into computer simulations...
They say they've caught an arsonist that started the Minerva fire, which nearly burned down the town of Quincy up the Feather River canyon from here. Then yesterday another series of fires broke out in the same area, so now I wonder if they got the right guy, or maybe he had a partner in crime?
Thanks to Eric, I'll be hanging onto those spare capacitors I ordered, just in case the new one goes bad in another thirty years.:laughing: I'll be sure to put them someplace they won't get lost!:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:
