Please share your triumph of the day

[Tasty]

So many things went right for me today that I almost became Catholic. Shortest version of the news is that I was expecting six months in jail and I got 1 day of work service instead because they dropped a charge. Can't exaggerate what this feels like. The closest thing is rebirth.

[toku]

So many things went right for me today that I almost became Catholic. Shortest version of the news is that I was expecting six months in jail and I got 1 day of work service instead because they dropped a charge. Can't exaggerate what this feels like. The closest thing is rebirth.

bless up

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but don't forget how it could be

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[Cerveza mas fina]

Need more info

[Raist]

Didn't he get a charge for DUI not long ago?

[Raist]

I really hope it scared you enough (both hurting someone and the potential jail time) to STOP FUCKING DRIVING AFTER DRINKING.

[Cerveza mas fina]

DUI

 

One of the most stupid things you can do

[Raist]

Good. Hope you're in touch with the victim too.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Its ok man, I've had trouble with alcohol too. Luckily I worked out some issues somewhat and the abuse stopped. But I guess it will always be there around the corner.

[Tasty]

I figured it was a DUI. I think there's a couple people here that have gotten that.

I'm glad you personally beat jail time Shosta, but I also feel like you're getting off light considering the charges. (Edit- If the bodily harm really was a BS charge, I take that back.) But, this is the triumph thread, so I won't rain on your parade.

Really happy to hear you're eight months sober. That's the real triumph.

[TVC15]

So many things went right for me today that I almost became Catholic. Shortest version of the news is that I was expecting six months in jail and I got 1 day of work service instead because they dropped a charge. Can't exaggerate what this feels like. The closest thing is rebirth.

What prevented you from becoming Catholic? Do you still believe in the naive notion that condoms don’t cause AIDS?

[chronovore]

Netbook nostalgia:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/modding-a-netbook.99408/#post-1494873

I can see modding a netbook with a number of things, but that work looks like a train accident.

[Corporal]

Netbook nostalgia:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/modding-a-netbook.99408/#post-1494873

y tho 

 

[team filler]

DUI

 

One of the most stupid things you can do

It's not the Butter Creamer way.

[Nabbis]

Got a new patient with multiple problems(i need to accumulate a certain amount of procedures) and booked him right after vacation week. Hopefully he won't change his mind and run away 

[Rufus]

I can see modding a netbook with a number of things, but that work looks like a train accident.

Yeah, it's pretty sloppy. That soldering on the last picture.
It's the first example (with working images) I found that exemplified the kind of extensive modding. I have seen much cleaner work, though it always looks like they'd have trouble squeezing the enclosure shut again.

[Valkyrie]

I was stuck in a thought loop for an entire month that I should either be dead or in jail for murder. Anyway, obviously I've brought this up a few times, but I've been completely sober for like 8 months now. Lesson was learned in the deepest existential way.

Proud of you! You're a cool dude.

[Valkyrie]

I'd rather play a Pinball machine than play Overwatch, that's for sure

Why are you being all passive aggressive?

[Cerveza mas fina]

I'd rather play a Pinball machine than play Overwatch, that's for sure

Why are you being all passive aggressive?

Its not personal, Dufus is a Blizzard troll

You will see

[TVC15]

I’m watching Little Otto for the weekend. For reference, this guy (old pic):



Hopefully I’ll get some good pics.

[toku]

king

[Transhuman]

I'm nearly done with the Star Wars Episode I pinball. I have:

Replaced alll lights with LEDs
Rebuilt the flippers
Cleaned this... unknown glop from the playfield and even under the playfield. Seriously it was some dark sticky tar that was adhering to anywhere the balll was
Replaced the balls
Added playfield spotlights
Replaced the T molding on the outside trim
Removed the fluorescent light and replaced it with a USB LED strip
Replaced all playfield posts
Replaced all playfield and flipper rubber
Retuned the pop bumper switches to 1/16 of an inch to make them fire more consistently
Cleaned and repaired some side art damage

This game was what is called a reimport. 50% of Williams' business at the time was based on exporting the games to Europe. This particular game went to Norway. Where Williams messed up was exporting the game to countries that didn't have the movie playing yet and wouldn't be playing it for MONTHS. So, yes, the property was kinda bad, but people seriously had no idea who these characters were in a movie that was months away.

If you've never seen a Pinball 2000 game, it uses what's called a Pepper's Ghost illusion where a CRT monitor is mounted in the backbox and the image is reflected onto a mirrored playfield glass, giving the illusion that the playfield is changing and reacting to what is being displayed. It is a convincing illusion and makes the game very interactive.

Anyway when I picked it up the monitor image was awful. Greys were invisible and dark colors were muddy. I was convinced that I would have to replace it which is a little out of my league - I can work on pinball games but CRTs are explody bombs that can act like capacitors and can kill you if you touch the wrong part of the exposed innards.

As an example:

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The green starburst should be bright and cover the playfield. Adding LED lights would just make it worse. I was able to adjust the gain from the neckboard of the CRT carefully and get the picture to be a lot better but at that point I had no where else to go with the picture: 

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It looks good but you can see through the image quite a bit and I had no more adjustments left. Any gain and I would get pink diagonal flyback lines across the screen from over volting the neck.

As it turns out, there is a design flaw from Williams that needs fixed - the voltage coming from the CGA video card is about 1/3 where it needs to be to give the CRT a good signal. The picture may have never looked good. I could replace the CRT with an LED/LCD monitor but this takes some serious retrofitting and also loses some of the 3D effect. A company called Ultimarc makes an amplifier addion though, that can be added to many arcade games and it works in this case - it boosts the signal from a VGA/CGA source and give the CRT the correct RGB values to a clear picture.

One Ultimarc amp later:

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And it looks much, much better. I made a new wiring harness with Molex trifurcon connectors - my first time doing this and I'll never do it differently. Now the picture looks like this:

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And while it may not look like much, there is a big difference. The star field around the inset video frame is actually visible and much less of the rear plastics and playfield is visible through the image. The white of the sky is bright with plenty of saturation, and the LED lights don't blow out the reflection. Also, I could turn the gain WAY down as well as the manual brightness and contrast controls - I have someplace I can adjust the picture to in the future! Really happy with how this turned out.

How many boards you got? I went to a pinball tourney last week and the guy had 25-30 machines in his garage, which seemed like it could have needed it's own generator to support so many machines at once.

[zomgee]

I have 6 games and a Hyperspin MAME cocktail table.

Firepower
Baby Pac Man
The Simpsons
Hurricane
Who Dunnit
Star Wars: Episode I

I'm currently restoring Firepower.

And yeah, I'd take 30 pinball machines, sure.  I'd find a way.

[Mupepe]

I bought a decently collectible/rare revolver last year. I got a great deal on it and I assumed it was because the front sight was aftermarket. I was talking to someone today about it and they informed me that it is a special order front sight from the factory that actually makes my revolver even more rare and desirable. At this point it’s the crown jewel of my collection so to find out that it actually is even more special made my day!

[TVC15]

I bought a decently collectible/rare revolver last year. I got a great deal on it and I assumed it was because the front sight was aftermarket. I was talking to someone today about it and they informed me that it is a special order front sight from the factory that actually makes my revolver even more rare and desirable. At this point it’s the crown jewel of my collection so to find out that it actually is even more special made my day!

Pic plz. I love revolvers.

[Tasty]

I bought a decently collectible/rare revolver last year. I got a great deal on it and I assumed it was because the front sight was aftermarket. I was talking to someone today about it and they informed me that it is a special order front sight from the factory that actually makes my revolver even more rare and desirable. At this point it’s the crown jewel of my collection so to find out that it actually is even more special made my day!

Pic plz. I love revolvers.

[Mupepe]

https://imgur.com/a/8rgLJ

[TVC15]

https://imgur.com/a/8rgLJ

How big is your collection?

[Mupepe]

I have 17 guns at the moment. 

[chronovore]

Had a good two-week trip to the USA and am now back in Japan after a 13-hour flight, 2-hour layover, and another 3-hour flight. I am jetlagged but so happy to come home and be with my kids.

[Cerveza mas fina]

After two weeks of frost I took the car to the car wash today. So shiny 

[SmokyDave]

I was discussing the liar’s paradox and the chicken and the egg mutual recursion with my daughter this morning. On the way to preschool. I have created a being of such ferocious intelligence, it terrifies and elates me in equal measure.

[SmokyDave]

Also, I’m incapable of hitting the edit button accurately.

[Raist]

Also, I’m incapable of hitting the edit button accurately.

Told you to stop drinking in the morning FFS.

[SmokyDave]

Also, I’m incapable of hitting the edit button accurately.

Told you to stop drinking in the morning FFS.

I’m ‘working’ from home today. Working on getting a little loose this morning, and then cleaning myself up before the wife and kid get home and I have to be a grown up again.

You can take that to mean drink, drugs, or wanking. Or all three.

Fuck, I might even play one of those video games that I bought on Steam four years ago.

[chronovore]

Also, I’m incapable of hitting the edit button accurately.

Told you to stop drinking in the morning FFS.

I’m ‘working’ from home today. Working on getting a little loose this morning, and then cleaning myself up before the wife and kid get home and I have to be a grown up again.

You can take that to mean drink, drugs, or wanking. Or all three.

Fuck, I might even play one of those video games that I bought on Steam four years ago.

At a certain point, one's backlog gains its own momentum.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Friend asked me to fly over to London to Arsenal vs AC Milan as its his birthday that week.

Flight: 25 euro
Game Tickets: 25 euro
Public Transport connections to and from airport: 55 euro
Sleeping at my mates: free

Maybe spend another 50-100 on drinks and food.

150-200 euro for a two night getaway to my mate and seeing the Arsenal

[Raist]

Public Transport connections to and from airport: 55 euro

Where the fuck are you flying to and what kind of "public transport" are you going to use? A private Jaguar cab?

[team filler]

Friend asked me to fly over to London to Arsenal vs AC Milan as its his birthday that week.

Flight: 25 euro
Game Tickets: 25 euro
Public Transport connections to and from airport: 55 euro
Sleeping with my mates: free 

Maybe spend another 50-100 on drinks and food.

150-200 euro for a two night getaway to my mate and seeing the Arsenal

ftfy

[Cerveza mas fina]

Public Transport connections to and from airport: 55 euro

Where the fuck are you flying to and what kind of "public transport" are you going to use? A private Jaguar cab?

Train to and from Stansted : 27 quid
Bus to and from Aarhus Airport: 27 quid

Yes the journey to the airport by public transport is more expansive then flying across 

[Mupepe]

Technically it's a triumph from yesterday but...

I heard about some reorg stuff going on in my group about a month ago that seemed like it was putting someone in a position that I was pretty sure was mine.  It agitated me so much that I couldn't resist calling my VP an hour before I went to the airport to go to Russia.  I told her I wanted to have a talk with her about my future in the organization and we set up a meeting.  The meeting happened yesterday and went better than I ever would have thought.  She started off by telling me that she had made up her mind some time ago that whatever I decided I wanted to do in the organization she felt that I had earned my right to it already and that I only needed to tell her and she would get me on the path that would put me there and then she sat there for a minute and asked "So what do you want to do?"

It felt great.  I ended up telling her what I thought I should be doing for the group, why I like it and how that ties in with our strategic goals.  The conversation ended with a broad stroke plan to quickly do some reorgs and create a position that we discussed.  I also got the chance to offload a bunch of random responsibilities I've either inherited or held onto due to the downturn we went through.  Also up until now I've kind of sat back and let promotions and other changes be offered to me, but this pushed me out of that mode as well.  All in all I'm pretty darn happy.

[zomgee]

Avoid the polonium

[Raist]

Public Transport connections to and from airport: 55 euro

Where the fuck are you flying to and what kind of "public transport" are you going to use? A private Jaguar cab?

Train to and from Stansted : 27 quid
Bus to and from Aarhus Airport: 27 quid

Yes the journey to the airport by public transport is more expansive then flying across 

Train to/from Stansted is a fucking tourist trap (like the Heathrow """Express"""). Just get a bus to/from Liverpool Street or Stratford (there may be a couple more).

[Cerveza mas fina]

Tourist trap? Its 27 quid for a return, bus is 18 and takes an hour longer each way...

You know I lived in Brighton and been there many times 

Thanks luv anyway

[Cerveza mas fina]

Bleh im tipsy

[Raist]

Buses are about as quick as the train. And cost half or less.

https://www.checkmybus.co.uk/london/london-stansted-airport


Lurn2london kiddo.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Not the times im going

Kiddo :p

[Raist]

I took a bus to/from Stansted to/from Stratford like 20 times. 6-7quid one way at worst, takes ~50mins.

Stansted "Express" is like 45mins.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Last time i took the bus i “lost” my wallet

I spent the night there with no cash

[jorma]

So i just gave my three month notice.

Early june i will retire from working life. Or at least the next 10 years or so.
 

This is what's going to keep me from spending the rest of my life shitposting on the internet:

[I'm a Puppy!]

So I make playlists on my spotify, mainly for me to keep track of pieces I might want to perform someday and I made a playlist of classical guitar duets. I was looking at it today, and despite the fact that I haven't really added any friends or anything on Spotify the playlist has 4 followers. I'm internet famous y'all!

[Raist]

So I make playlists on my spotify, mainly for me to keep track of pieces I might want to perform someday and I made a playlist of classical guitar duets. I was looking at it today, and despite the fact that I haven't really added any friends or anything on Spotify the playlist has 4 followers. I'm internet famous y'all!

That's your other 4 personalities breh.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Damn it raist! Let me at least have this.

[nudemacusers]

Snow day today plus taking off Friday = impromptu 4 day weekend 

[Mupepe]

I started a 23 lap endurance race in Forza. It took 14 laps to get to 1st place. On lap 17 I realized I needed a pit stop and I should have taken it like 5 laps earlier. Came out of the pit in 19th place and my only goal to get to at least 3rd but I figured I had just wasted an hour of my time. Managed to nab 1st place halfway through the final lap. It was at that time my wife started yelling “go go go!!!” and I realized that not only was she watching but that she was invested. It was a damn good race.

[toku]

wow, the post above me is so blessed, tears

[jorma]

Snow day today plus taking off Friday = impromptu 4 day weekend 

It's so unfair that Scandinavians have all the snow in the world but never any snow days.
We should get a sun day just to compensate, but nooooo.

[desert punk]

Since it's gotten warmer here, I pulled my leather jacket out of the closet.

Going through the pockets, I found 50 bucks in there 

[Huff]

Eating an entire pizza last night was certainly a triumph last night after a 14 hr day

Although I am afraid it will turn into a struggle post digestion

[Cerveza mas fina]

Made my daugther a ryebread sandwich with chicken pate and roasted onions for breakfast and she just ate it without a word after weeks of only wanting to eat oatmeal with raisins. Thank god that phase is over.

[Raist]

a ryebread sandwich with chicken pate and roasted onions for breakfast

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