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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3d

Ortiz was absolutely loving this sitting between AROD and Jeter

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 3d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 3d

fuck the yankees

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning to the youtube channel that posts unedited Line Cuts of the Gong Show, and no one else.

Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 5d

i’m visiting seattle over the new year and this is my one must-do

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 5d

This is because in the early days of computing, it was too big and heavy to throw it against the wall or out a window. The kids don’t know how good they have it.

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 8d

less thinking, more brewing

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 11d

cleveland radio guy declared there’s going to be a game 3 tomorrow in the 8th inning - and i have no rooting interest in this series - but at that moment i was all in on a tigers 9th inning comeback

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 11d

i’m not sure i believe in the jinx, but the cleveland radio play by play guy declared there’s going to be a game 3 tomorrow IN THE EIGHTH INNING and that should carry the death penalty

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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 11d

“Yoshider.”

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 15d

nothing makes me change the channel faster than dave portnoy’s face on the tv

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 16d

normalize four ounce fair beers 🍺

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 17d

normies don’t even KNOW

Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 25d

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON.

Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 19d

have you watched sunday night baseball lately 😬

Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 19d

would you believe me if i told you the joker who was in here last replaced the #47 bulb with a blinky LED?

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 19d

correction, KG-687.

i’m not surprised to find it has a fault, but i am a little surprised by the failure mode. indicator blinking is not mentioned in troubleshooting documentation. the lamp is on its own tap on a secondary of the power transformer, so this is pretty weird.

time to dig in.

Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20d

what i got at the MIT flea market 🧵

first this sweep generator. i’m going to try my first FM alignment on my grundig console.

it’s a Knight KG-627, built from a kit, but the construction looks very respectable.

unfortunately the included crystal is for TV, not 10.7mhz for FM.

photo of front panel of a vintage sweep/marker generator, grey and silver, with large dials for the sweep and marker frequencies, and many smaller knobs for other functions

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 19d

nuance will not be tolerated

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20d

last, and definitely least: this IDE Corp RS-232 breakout box. what can i say, i’m a Terminal Guy, and when stuff doesn’t work maybe this will come in handy. probably not though.

an RS-232 breakout box, a device for troubleshooting serial connections. with LEDs showing which signals are active, male and female 25 pin connectors, DIP switches to interrupt any signal, and patch pins for connecting signals at each end (i think)

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20d

another catalog: allied radio, 1954. “everything in radio, television, and industrial electronics” - and they weren’t kidding. i guess you’d say they were 1954’s mouser or digikey. TV tubes, phonograph needles, radios and amps, and loads and loads of parts.

cover of allied radio catalog no. 135 for 1954, with a depiction of a giant building, the “new home of allied radio”

two page spread of television replacement tubes for sale

two page spread of cornell-dublier and sprague capacitors

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20d

amusingly, i saw the exact VOM from the cover of the ‘67 catalog being sold by another vendor at the flea. advertised as “restored”, and it wasn’t cheap.

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20d

speaking of kits: heathkit catalogs. one from around xmas 1961, and one from march 1967. if you’re not an old nerd, heath sold kits to build your own stereo, tv, test equipment, or.. an organ, or a “family radiation measurement set” (“measure fallout radiation and survive”)

i was born too late.

a two-page spread for a $995 organ kit from the 1967 catalog

a radiation measurement set (as well as some marine-focused items) from the 1961 catalog

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20d

what i got at the MIT flea market 🧵

first this sweep generator. i’m going to try my first FM alignment on my grundig console.

it’s a Knight KG-627, built from a kit, but the construction looks very respectable.

unfortunately the included crystal is for TV, not 10.7mhz for FM.

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Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 21d

neither of them big hits or punches. comes out way too easy.

Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 21d

how old am i?

four 6.5% ipas at trivia and wished i was dead years old

Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · Sep 10

the latest in a long line of desperate attempts to stay focused at the poker table

a spotify playlist entitled “ADHD Focus Music 2025”