Grumio posted:

I have my grandmother's set of these from the 50's and about half of them still work!

LimaBiker posted:

I'd kill for those. Hell, i'd be willing to take the effort to make them myself. But i forgot what chemical is in there. Something like dichloromethane?
Edit: indeed, dichloromethane. But they're less expensive than what a bottle of DCM costs in my country. Surprisingly they're only 20 dollar for a set.

axolotl farmer posted:

That coffee cup was designed to be used on boats with a low center of gravity and rubber on the bottom.

They were used on Star Trek DS9 as raktajino cups.

Humphreys posted:

Limp Bizkit on LaserDisc!

https://i.imgur.com/h52dpvI.mp4



The last LD was Feb 2022. So one day I will have a Bom Funk MCees Music Video on LD!

Guy Axlerod posted:

What is this disk? Something for a record store to play?

Guy Axlerod posted:

What is this disk? Something for a record store to play?

quote:

The movie was not sold to a distributor and was released independently by its production company, which has been long out of business. It's unclear who exactly owns the rights to the movie, and it's unknown once the movie will ever see its DVD or Blu-ray release

By popular demand posted:

That is really good, the process not the movie.
AI enhancement has gone a long way toward lately, are there even better tools available on the professional studio level?

Humphreys posted:

Kamrat posted:

For me SD has a certain charm, especially for horror movies. I'm not saying that Hamburger is a horror movie, not that I would know since I've never seen it.

By popular demand posted:

I recently downloaded a version of Halloween that a dude recorded from a computer into a VCR and then back again.
Nostalgia has a definite effect.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

One of my earliest memories is my mom warning me not to touch any of those bulbs or I would get burned, which I never even considered doing.

So I thought about it and decided "I'm gonna touch the forbidden bulb" and I think that was the first time I ever got burned on anything. Pretty striking to realize burns aren't just bad but hurt in a really distinctive way and keep hurting for a while.

Kamrat posted:

Vintage laptops

Lowclock posted:

Does this count? I had one in mint condition with the tape/printer expansion but I think I threw it away a couple years ago. Not even sure where I even got it from, maybe packed in a box of other stuff from an estate sale? I kind of wish I kept it because it's neat, but completely useless. Even though I went to a school with a bunch of them, I don't have a bit of nostalgia for TRS-80s of any flavor.

Kwyndig posted:

Didn't the Italian government specifically spend money so that wouldn't happen? I vaguely remember hearing plans for fortifying the Tower of Pisa's foundation so it would stop continuing to lean.

Humphreys posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ9mNlqgjzo

Varance posted:

Details: https://www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/what-do-civil-engineers-do/stabilising-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/

Dick Trauma posted:

You can take that Easy-Bake oven and stick it in your ear. I'm making PIZZA!

https://twitter.com/blacksab67/status/1603062588824522753?s=20&t=LCjiBKv-T1YKLIkx4y8kmw

Cojawfee posted:

267 people died of Dropsy? That game is dangerous.

Pham Nuwen posted:

i'm the one guy who died of cancer

edit: wait there's also the "cancer and wolf" category... I am very curious about that one

Pham Nuwen posted:

i'm the one guy who died of cancer

edit: wait there's also the "cancer and wolf" category... I am very curious about that one

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Yeah, it's really interesting how things used to be described.

Here's a list of some of the more odd or confusing items, for anyone interested:

Ague = feverish illness, often malaria

Apoplex = stroke (the rupture or clogging of a blood vessel in the brain), paralysis resulting from a stroke - sometimes also refers to other spontaneous causes of internal bleeding like burst aneurysms

Meagrom = migraine, severe headache - this obvious symptom could be deadly if it originated from things like a brain tumor, bleeding within the brain / stroke, concussion / TBI / swelling within the brain...

Bloody flux, scowring, flux = dysentery / bloody diarrhea or otherwise severe diarrhea, often from diseases like cholera

Childbed = death during or shortly after giving birth

Chrisomes = death of unbaptized infant / death of infant less than a month old

Colick, stone, and strangury = severe abdominal pain, bladder/kidney stones, rupture in abdomen (appendicitis, bladder rupture, etc)

Consumption = tuberculosis

Cut of the stone = died during/from the surgery to cut out bladder/kidney stones

Dropsie and swelling = edema, swelling of a body part

Falling sickness = epilepsy, seizures

Flocks and small pox = smallpox, other diseases causing pustules over the body like cowpox and chickenpox

French pox = syphilis

Jaundies = jaundice, yellowing of the skin and eyes often a symptom of liver failure

Jawfain = "jaw fallen" / lockjaw, often tetanus

Impostume = abscess, a deep infection full of pus

King's Evil = scrofula, aka tuberculosis infection of the neck glands. The touch of a king was said to cure this disease.

Lethargie = depression?

Livergrown = unknown, some think it might have been another term for rickets or it could be from diseases which resulted in a swollen, enlarged liver - things like chronic alcoholism, hepatitis, or congestive heart failure.

Made away themselves = suicide

Murthered = murdered

Over-laid = infant that died after being unintentionally smothered / parent rolled onto them while sleeping

Starved at nurse = insufficient breast milk, or the child had a disease that caused them to "fail to thrive" / not gain weight and die even though being fed

Palsie = palsy, paralysis or other muscle difficulties

Piles = hemorrhoids

Planet = aka planet-struck, any very sudden severe illness or paralysis that was thought to result from the "influence" of a planet. Like how the moon (luna) was once thought to cause insanity (creating lunatics).

Pleurisie = swollen, inflamed pleura - the membranous tissue surrounding the lungs

Purples = bruising, especially wide-spread - many causes

Spotted feaver = typhus or meningitis

Quinsie = tonsillitis / inflamed tonsils, especially when abscessed and obstructing breathing

Rising of the lights = as an organ meat, lungs are often called "lights" because they are very light-weight organs. Nobody's sure about what exactly "rising of the lights" was, but it may be related to severe coughing and the perception that during a cough the lungs would rise up in the chest. Perhaps croup, a respiratory disease causing a severe 'barking' cough.

Suddenly = unknown sudden death

Surfet = overeating / gluttony, vomiting from overeating. Aside from direct "death from overeating" it may have been a grouping for many types of death that often went along with being overweight - death from untreated diabetes, cushing's disease, heart failure, etc. "Surfet" also might have been the cause-of-death given if someone over drank, passed out, and died from aspirating their own vomit.

Teeth = dental infection leading to death

Thrush = yeast overgrowth / yeast infection of mouth (or genitals)

Tympany = either abdominal tumor growth, or other bloating/distension of the abdomen - especially when air or gas is caught within the abdomen or intestines, causing a hollow sound when thumped

Tissick = cough, can also refer to the coughing and wasting away of tuberculosis