True.
TPBM has some valuable first editions in his library.
TPBM has some valuable first editions in his library.
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False.
TPBM has watched "Soylent Green" two or even more times.
TPBM has watched "Soylent Green" two or even more times.
False.
TPBM has never watched the movie "Silent Movie".
TPBM has never watched the movie "Silent Movie".
True (and I have seen "Silent Movie" including Anne Bancroft doing "googly eyes" during the credits).
TPBM thinks "Young Doctor Frankenstein" is Mel Brooks' funniest.
TPBM thinks "Young Doctor Frankenstein" is Mel Brooks' funniest.
mulester7
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FALSE--we understand you better than you think, Tyler. Get off your back.
TPBM, at one time, owned a Sony Walkman TV with a 2.7 inch diagonal screen.
mulester7
LIVE from Lake Ouachita
DNU
I was 13 or so and built a weathervane and anemometer and then proceeded to set it on top of our 100 year old house. This house had slate roof tiles on a steep grade that were not well fastened, and I was four stories above the back yard.
Yikes
So, out I went from an attic window, made a hard left around the gable and up to the top- I really needed four hands to do this as I was carrying that weather station up with me but two is all that I have. I then went to the west end of the roof and nailed that assemblage into the roof. It remained there at least 8 years. We moved after six. Many years later, as I recollected it, my mother was shocked to her core that I had done it.
DNU
I was 13 or so and built a weathervane and anemometer and then proceeded to set it on top of our 100 year old house. This house had slate roof tiles on a steep grade that were not well fastened, and I was four stories above the back yard.
Yikes So, out I went from an attic window, made a hard left around the gable and up to the top- I really needed four hands to do this as I was carrying that weather station up with me but two is all that I have. I then went to the west end of the roof and nailed that assemblage into the roof. It remained there at least 8 years. We moved after six. Many years later, as I recollected it, my mother was shocked to her core that I had done it.
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Well, I did like to build things with it. In 7th grade I built a scanning disk TV simulator using the motor. Since I had no electronics ability, I just passed light through two cardboard Nipkow discs on opposite ends of the motor shaft, and conducted the light from one to the other through a plastic rod that was roughed up on the output end to simulate a large area modulated light source. Shining a bright light in the input side and wiggling your finger in front of the disc produced a crude silhouette at the output disk. The whole thing was pretty flimsy and barely lasted long enough for one show and tell session at school.
TPBM began reading science fiction at an early age.
TPBM began reading science fiction at an early age.
(interesting OTVN 
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True - I liked fiction more when I was younger.
TPBM does not know that Peter Falk was a good painter.
TPBM does not know that Peter Falk was a good painter.
Not usually, but yes, when I think about it.
TPBM generally knows "what THAT bright star is called" when somebody points to one.
TPBM generally knows "what THAT bright star is called" when somebody points to one.
