those pictures !

 You know how it is, a funny picture comes to your attention and you need to share it with others.  In the olden days of the 20th century it might get stapled to a mailing list and routed around the office.

I sent this picture (uncredited from Facebook, of course) to some people I used to work with, all test engineers:

source: https://www.kg4cyx.net/img_20190918_144116_dro/

So I then get this picture in return:

source: https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0324090507_10.jpg

Which reminded me of when I was a kid taking a couple of D cells apart (modern kids must be disappointed with alkaline cells, no carbon rod).  Unfortunately I took off the metal terminals while cleaning the carbon electrodes.   So I sawed a groove in each of the rods and then tried to solder some copper wire to them (which didn't work).

I then plugged the wires into the wall socket.  I touched the two carbon rods together (holding the wires by the insulation, for safety !).  I was hoping for a carbon arc but what happened was that the solder melted and the rods fell off the wires and I can't remember if the fusestat blew or not but that was the end of that experiment !

Reddy missed me that day:

source: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/22811703-remember-kids-electricity-will-kill-you

It's amazing to me that any of us below the median in intelligence ever make it to collect social security.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm