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Hazel_1914

Hazel_1914

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  • Hazel_1914
    Going waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay sounds like an awesome vacation if you don't know what that is. End legalized torture.
    oregano
    oregano
    I read earlier today that the US spy thriller TV show "24", which was created to push the War on Terror, got so rah-rah about how wonderful, justified, and useful torture was that the commanders of West Point had to send a few guys to Los Angeles to get the producers to tone down the scripts.
    Hazel_1914
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    Greatshield17
    Just think of how many taxpayer dollars could’ve gone to helping your fellow-Autistic Americans as opposed to supporting the oh, so successful War on Terror…
    Hazel_1914
    Went to the radio museum, studying repairs, white supremacists thought I was new recruit. Jackass.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I didn't say 9/11. I mean some group of "Concerned Citizens" meeting next week, and whatever they're doing,they're too chickenlivered to mention publicly. The guy clearly wasnt talking about honoring 9/11 victims, but some winger gathering next week.
    How do I know he's a winger? He opened his mouth and admitted as much.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Big difference between truly honoring those from 9/11 and waiting until a week after 9/11 to hold a half-secret gathering of people united by ignorance, hatred of "liberals", and that sort.
    Crossbreed
    Crossbreed
    I didn't realize all of that was involved. I just heard "Patriots" and thought that it was a reference to "Patriot's Day."
    Hazel_1914
    And now The Inner Sanctum over WBCQ from Maine-- now it sounds like a sci-fi show is starting up. Old radios are FUN.
    oregano
    oregano
    WBCQ can play some really cool stuff. The guy who founded it was originally a SW pirate broadcaster during the golden age of SW piracy in the mid/late 90s. For a while WBCQ had to play extreme conspiracy shows to pay the bills. The founder would personally sign off over the air back then.
    Hazel_1914
    Sorry, it was Schubert. Now they are playing Beethoven's 5th. Lo-fi broadcast, antique radio, 1000s miles distancce but still way cool.
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    oregano
    oregano
    Thought you were listening to BCB (AM broadcast band) and not SW. WRMI is a brokered station-people pay them money to air whatever recording the payor provides. WRMI is located at the old Family Radio transmitting site in Lake Okeechobee, FL. They have a full square MILE antenna farm! You probably heard a direct broadcast.
    oregano
    oregano
    It sounds great on tube radios because they are using old Gates transmitters from the 1970s with vacuum tubes for final output and drivers.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    The static was pretty intense but the announcer mentioned that WRMI & another station were both simulcasting the program--and then static took over. I turned to WRMI known frequencies & got something else. Then back. Not sure yet but the music was sure good.
    Didn't know that about the old transmitters there!
    Hazel_1914
    The old 1936 vacuum-tube radio here managed to pull in some Renaissance polyphonic choir somewhere and this is absolutely awesome.
    Hazel_1914
    The more I see & hear loud people the more I hate them. If you walk on sidewalks shouting a lot, and get beat up, I am not helping you.
    Hazel_1914
    I want to go back to restoring & trying to reprint old books. That was an actually fun hobby.
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    Greatshield17
    I love leather bound books.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    @Greatshield17 Same. However I was working on some paperbacks--I was taking and trying to get old ones back into print, ones that don't have good editions currently extant. I'll have to use paperbacks but still.
    Hazel_1914
    Putting electric washer in my apartment. Finally, clean clothes. With high cost of coin wash, it will pay in 2 months for itself!
    Hazel_1914
    Trying to escape web contact--temp. deactivated Facebook, etc. I want my focus back. Web & Autism feels like ADHD & I cannot focus.
    Hazel_1914
    Currently panicking about moving out the dam ghetto. The landlady isn't answering calls. Hope this works or I'm stuck in trash neighborhood
    Yeshuasdaughter
    Yeshuasdaughter
    I understand where you're coming from. I've been trying to move into a nicer place for a couple years now, but I don't really have anyone to help me move.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    @Yeshuasdaughter where do you live & where are you trying to go? I wonder if the Knights of Columbus or the Elks could help you with the actual moving.
    Hazel_1914
    Girlfriend turned me down today, all friendly/honest of course. Nice of her really. How to find a girlfriend? LOL
    All-Rounder
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Mostly the little parts are all still in there, but if they're missing I have to either make them myself (ballpoint pen springs, shoelaces, bicycle inner tubes, etc.) or scavenge from completely "dead" typewriters of that same model.
    All-Rounder
    All-Rounder
    That's some epic tinkering. I enjoy repairing things with parts. I accidentally broke a mouse, not knowing that it requires the light to actually function, i was trying to make it dark, then i fixed it back up, I fixed an electric shaver and usually things don't make a link well somewhere but I love making them work.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Rexi, I am really impressed you do your own electric/electronic repairing. That's pretty neat! It's a perfect Aspie hobby--take something, make it new again.
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