There’s a great Lower Decks episode that mocks/celebrates the Green Orions and the Blue Or-ee-ons and sort of retcons it to make sense - but I don’t think I’ve seen the Blue Or-ee-ons in any other series.

I think I’d prefer him jogging or swimming, or doing one of those other “had a heart attack whilst doing it” sports.

I assume you tried “giving it a good ol’ slap”?

I’m not familiar with the specific model, but most CRT TVs used to have a secret “slap-activated self-repair mechanism”, normally installed in one of the top corners. You just give it a good slap and it magically starts working again.

Ah, bugger. I wish you success with your troubleshooting.

You’ve probably checked everything already, but if not, check if it’s just the power supply that’s gone. I’ve had this happen to a couple of Raspberry Pis - the machine itself turned out to be fine.

I’m not sure if you explain the specifics in the video, but I worry that you’re overcomplicating things?

Unless there’s a reason for doing it like this to learn about something, if it’s actually working like a doorbell, then start by looking at a doorbell.

You need the chimes (bit that makes noise or light when electricity is added), wired through the power source (i.e. batteries) in a continual circuit that plays constantly - then you interrupt that circuit with a leaf switch (a push-button).

When the leaf switch is off, there is no circuit and no noise is made.

When the leaf switch is pressed, there is a circuit and the noise is played.

At the most basic level, a leaf switch is a thin bit of metal hovering a few millimetres above another bit of metal - the wire goes into the top bit of metal, and out of the bottom bit of metal (or reverse). A tiny bit of pressure joins the two bits of metal and completes the circuit, making the electric flow. When released, the two pieces of metal separate and the circuit is broken. You may need springs to move them apart.

From that point, you’re inventing a pressure plate for a cat. Something which will press together with a cat’s weight, then spring back up when the cat is no longer on it.

You then refine or calibrate that mechanism so it always goes off with a cat, but not with a gust of wind or spider etc.

Happy birthday to you, and good luck with your wishlist campaign!

I have previously wishlisted your game, so can’t add any new wishlists for you, sorry.

Not certain of the intention, but if you’re doing a multi-camera edit, and you’ve cut all the crap video footage out and your video track is full of holes, but your audio track continues beneath, then you might want to mark all the gaps for where you need to add cutaways or 2nd camera shots?

I’ve never really seen the advantage over a standard hone.

It possibly depends on hair type - my solution was “don’t use shampoo with Sodium Laureth Sulphate” in it.

I did not expect spontaneous Larkin on Lemmy!

Ooh, a sci-fi point-and-click adventure genre? Yes please!

Wishlisted

Workphone and not-work phone?

Main-life phone and secret-life phone?

In case anyone wondered, one piece ends up in the top right, as a piece of sky and the other ends up in the bottom left as a piece of water.

I had no idea it was called a Rabbit in the US/Canada! Makes a lot more sense really, compared to “Golf” :)

I never owned one, but I still want the same Volkswagen Golf MK2 (wiki link) that I wanted 30 years ago. There has never been a more beautiful car (to my tastes).

What I didn’t realise, until a quick wiki search just now, was how (relatively) young Tiffany is. She’s only early-mid fifties now. She was only 15 or 16 when that song came out.

P.S. that song is one of my “guilty pleasure” songs I secretly like, not to be mixed up with my normal “cool, high-brow, critically acclaimed muso taste” that I have in front of other people.

Star Trek 55? Have they released a whole load of films without me realising?

Wow. That’s a big project. I admire your determination. It’s a beautiful map, by the way. Thank you for sharing :)

How did you decide which ones were notable?

(Also known as “why didn’t you include these two insignificant villages near where I live that nobody else has heard of”) :)