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Weekly Ramblecast 196: Sbarro Breakfast
🕑 Added 2025-03-11 18:00:09 +0000 UTCBrad's trip to the South Bay electronics flea market yielded treasures of all categories and eras, and we ramble about that, Vinny's triumph over his underground fiber optic run, the tyranny of daylight savings time, some early Watchcast selections for documentary month, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:34) Abolish daylight savings time please
(00:09:13) Let's all switch to Coordinated Universal Time
(00:10:31) Great Sunday at the electronics flea market
(00:13:19) Brad's mystery score from the flea market
(00:18:30) Attack of the Clones mousepads
(00:19:47) The biggest Gateway 2000 PC ever made
(00:23:22) Cylindrical industrial metals for sale
(00:26:25) The Anal-o-scope!
(00:32:38) Some serious Unix greybeards at the flea market
(00:34:14) Whole lot of classic computers
(00:35:47) PVM CRTs are getting pricey out there
(00:37:26) Anyone want a homemade 240V power converter in a hollowed-out Mac Pro case?
(00:44:32) Vinny triumps over the fiber
(00:57:36) Hey companies, pay for RMA shipping
(01:02:54) Some Watchcast documentary housekeeping
(01:07:16) Content and bye!
Comments
rogbrte
When I shop for boxed Valentine's Day candy, I'm always on the lookout for a good Dooku assortment.
Graeme Hobbs
Car accidents go up in Fall when DST ends due to reduced visibility. https://www.scartelli.com/daylight-savings-time-fall-back-causes-more-accidents/
William Neil Scott
Throwing this out there for a wild documentary. We loved it. Wild story. From wiki: Finders Keepers is a 2015 documentary film by Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel.[1] The story details John Wood's attempts to recover his mummified leg from Shannon Whisnant, after Whisnant found the leg in a grill purchased at a storage unit auction.
Steve Kaminczak
Hey Brad. If you haven't seen it, check a documentary called Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father. Just don't read the synopsis.
Jason Suetter
You can not have it rise earlier and set later. That is physically impossible. The sun rises and sets on its path through the heavens regardless of us. We adjust our time to "save" an hour of daylight in the evening. But we give it up in the morning. If the sun rose at 6 a.m., it now rises at 7 a.m., and if it had set at 5 p.m., it now sets at 6 p.m.
Nathan
Halcyon! One of my favorite UPFs learning about Rick Dyer. Fantastic episode today!
Kenneth Jones
Am I wrong but do they have this backwards? Now that we went ahead the sun rises earlier and sets later correct?
Harith
Here in Ontario, Canada we passed a law in 2020 to observe DST permanently, but Quebec and NY State need to agree to do it too for it to come into effect.
