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rv_bass

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New Use for LEDs
« on: February 03, 2023, 04:16:41 AM »



“Don’t believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.” - Lou Reed


https://news.mit.edu/2023/vertical-stacked-color-microscopic-leds-0201



lbpesq

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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2023, 09:31:02 AM »
Don’t believe Lou Reed.” - Edgar Allan Poe


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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2023, 10:29:22 AM »
Not sure I follow you on that one, Bill

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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2023, 10:54:54 AM »
I rather enjoyed that little quip.

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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2023, 10:57:55 AM »
Not sure I follow you on that one, Bill

The quote is not Lou Reed’s.  It’s from Poe’s short story: The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.

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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2023, 01:02:58 PM »
Not sure I follow you on that one, Bill

The quote is not Lou Reed’s.  It’s from Poe’s short story: The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.

Bill, tgo

That’s great, I did not realize that, and I shall read it tonight, thanks!  :)


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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2023, 06:37:19 PM »

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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2023, 03:38:51 AM »
Stevie Nicks read Poe, voraciously. Which kinda' explains a few things.

I never could dig it... just too dark. I tried to like Dickens, and did a little. I still refer to a few people I know as certain Dickens characters. Our IT guy at work for instance, that's Mister Fezziwig. There are others. Sometimes in a contentious meeting, I'll say something like; "please sir, may I have some more?" to break the tension. Or at least get me excused from the meeting.

I've always been a James Thurber type. Which also explains a lot.

*the article in the original post is fascinating. I'm sending it to someone else now. (who in turn, will claim to have already seen it, and wonder what what took meeeee so long) ::)
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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2023, 07:04:35 AM »
While I do have, and have enjoyed several times over the decades, a collection of essays by Thurber, I also have a The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe; he was my favorite writer until I discovered Vonnegut.

Peter (who would also recommend Christopher Moore, Tim Dorsey, and Sir Terry Pratchett)
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

"If I could explain it in prose, i wouldn't have had to write the song."
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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2023, 11:02:38 AM »
I am just now reading Steppinwolf for the first time. Not at all what I expected, but it really makes me think in my senior years.

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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2023, 12:04:48 PM »
I am just now reading Steppinwolf for the first time. Not at all what I expected, but it really makes me think in my senior years.

It's 50 years or so since I read that one; I recall it being pretty good.  Maybe I should revisit it.

Peter
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

"If I could explain it in prose, i wouldn't have had to write the song."
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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2023, 12:21:22 PM »
My favorite when I got into Hesse in High School was Demian.    Lately, I’ve been thinking of revisiting it 50 years later.   Other early favorites were D.H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald.   Later, the same dudes as mentioned by Peter.   For multiple series, my all time favorites are the wonderful Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser - GREAT historical fiction with a comic twist - and the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald (gotta love the MacDonalds!).    These days I grab everything as it gets released by Michael Connelly (Lincoln Lawyer, Harry Bosch) and John Lescroart (Dismas Hardy and friends).

Bill, tgo

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« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2023, 02:43:57 PM »
That's a big 10-4 on Flashman!  As an historian with a twisted streak, I found those books an absolute delight.  Bill, I just picked up a new Connelly (having read everything velse he wrote) a week or 2 ago, but haven't gotten to it yet.  Next time I'm upstairs I'll check the title.

Peter
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

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« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2023, 08:54:23 PM »
The new Connelly is Desert Star; a Harry Bosch/Renee Ballard novel.

Peter
"Is not Hypnocracy no other than the aspiration to discover the meaning of Hypnocracy?  Have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?"
St. Dilbert

"If I could explain it in prose, i wouldn't have had to write the song."
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Re: New Use for LEDs
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2023, 10:20:24 PM »
Finished it last week.   Up to Connelly’s usual high standards.

Bill, tgo