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…my experience before ‘high-efficiency incandescent’ halogens was the same: i have thirty-year-old proper halogen lamps either still going strong or which have been replaced only once over that period…these little A19 halogens, though, have an such absurdly-short duty cycle that they’re viable only by virtue of stocking up dozens of cases for pennies on the dollar when they were phased out a couple of years ago…

…i do hope that we have respectable consumer bulbs available in perhaps five years after those few hundred halogen bulbs are gone, but i’m not optimistic as poor spectra appear inherent to LED technology and the market seems to have settled on ‘good-enough’…proper incandescent bulbs are of course still available for specialty applications, but they’re not easy to get…

…the contractor-grade FEIT incandescents installed when we built our house enjoyed a MTBF of about five years; the FEIT halogens (‘high-efficiency incandescent’) i stocked up to replace them after traditional incandescents phased out are on the order of six months MTBF…

…while i question whether the manufacturing and distribution of ten fourty-watt halogen bulbs really emits less carbon than one sixty-watt incandescent running for the same duration, at least the spectra are unchanged: i’ve yet to find any LEDs which offer acceptable black-body spectra and i specify the things professionally…

hormones

…it’s clearly a recently-filmed parody…

…if you don’t want to be called a facist, maybe stop being such a f*cking fascist, fascist…

…know what they called people who supported the nazi party despite disagreeing with some of its policies?..nazis…

…always there are two: a master and an apprentice…

…i think we explored this place in our call of cthulhu campaign; poor henry was reduced to black ooze…

…but you do need to be rich-enough to afford time not spent preparing for work, working, nor recovering from work…

…you should mock anyone who links to xitter; it only succeeds on the basis of their patronage…

…i get his correspondence via email…

…my game gear did fine with the external rechargeable battery pack, which was admittedly cumbersome but wasn’t to extend battery life so much as it was to save the expense of buying batteries, but even using AAs i never had a problem with them not lasting through a full play session…

…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…

…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…

…no, cartridges hadn’t yet been invented for my first console and my first NES was actually the mid-nineties redesign, so i never experienced blowing dust off the contacts…

…i did get to play with ROM-swap developer cartridges on my atari 2600, though…

(i still have my original four grey controllers with rumble packs for the lot)

…pilotwings 64 and a quiet night home alone…

…that’s some clever gastroetymology…

…they’re called bollards, and you’d be surprised how robustly they must be constructed to stop large trucks…

Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy.