Recent content by Borzak

Using a non digital camera in film astrophotography was actually the easy part. The part that took the time and such was the mount and the telescope. You focused the telescope after you learned how to make sure you were actually taking a pic over time of something you really couldn't see with...

I'm a nerd. This one isn't that old. But normally the older the better the book is on this topic. Amazing what was normal 75 years ago that went away and is now back. https://www.abebooks.com/Better-Diagnosis-Prescription-Southern-Forest-Management/32461633071/bd

Got my bill for an ambulance ride to the ER in the mail today. This was the week before July 4th. I was at my parents house and my girlfriend was visiting her brother who lives an hour away. In the poorest state in the union they came and picked me up, hauled me in the ambulance on a stretcher...

It was either that or a polaroid back in the day. Kids now days have it easy. You also most likely used a reflector telescope. Slow refractors that were ED Enhanced Low Dispertion of light were like the price of a house or more (flourite scopes were in the NASA price range) and even expensive...

I no longer do it. That was before digital, before a lot of goto mounts. You found your target and use a guide scope adjacent to your main scope with a lighted crosshair you looked through and opened the shutter (OM-1 ollympus camera would stay open manually) and self guided your mount to keep...

We're still trying to define spacemen.

Not playing. But watched a few minutes of some of the streams. Was kinda nostalgic seeing all the old character stuff running around, mostly ogres lol. Someone linked this class picker questionaire lol. https://eqltools.com/picker

When I sold auto parts we would have a shitload of belts without packaging but only the part number on the belt. We had a deal that you placed the belt on and it slid and and gave the exact length. Long shot but some hardware stores have one, only handy if you know the length you need.

All that crap and the FCC and the AARL (amatuer radio league that does the FCC stuff for a fee) sent me an email this morning on a Saturday at 9am that they fixed the problem effective today. Thanks, my license was set to expire today. Good now till 2034. Had problems when I first got the...

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Looking at him I would have never guessed.

I measured for a replacement large exhaust duct at an electric arc furnace at a steel mill. Guy told me not to let the tape measure stay against it too long or it would warp/melt. Guys standing all day working for 8 hours just fee away. Yeah fuck that. When I first started 35+ years ago there...

Dealing with the federal government/FCC. My license is now listed as expired but active which makes zero sense. I contacted the FCC and they said my address was not valid. I sent them a scan of my license (which they no longer provide) that they sent years ago and I received with the address...

I have a well and a softener at the well house. When I first moved here in the middle of nowhere the people who built the house had dug up a lot of large chunks of iron and had them spread around, some the size of a car. But otherwise it's sand. But with the softener it's pretty good. Better...

I haven't played EQ in 20 years or so. Had a FoH group for a short time back then. Now way back in the day one day there was a patch and as a ranger I could shoot my bow across the zone and get no aggro. I killed Sont (dragon) kinda fuzzy on names of zones from the zone in solo with no aggro...