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Very impressive!
I was watching a special not long ago on Ben Franklin and he liked this kind of music so much he invented a Glass Harmonica[^].
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A glass harmonica[^] would be much more portable, albeit not quite as impressive.
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One day in class, the teacher brought a bag full of fruit and said, "Now class, I'm going to reach into the bag and describe a piece of fruit and you tell me which fruit I'm talking about.
Alright, the first one is round, plump, and red. 
Little Johnny raised his hand high but the teacher ignored him and picked Deborah who promptly answered, "Apple."
The teacher replied, "No Deborah, it's a beet, but I like your thinking.
Now the second one is soft, fuzzy and colored red and brown." 
Johnny is hopping up and down in his seat trying to get the teacher to call on him but she calls on Billy. "Is it a peach?" Billy asks.
"No, it's a potato, but I like your thinking," the teacher replies.
"Okay the next one is long, yellow, and fairly hard." 
Johnny is about to explode as he waves his hand frantically but the teacher calls on Sally who say, "A banana."
The teacher responds, "No, it's a squash, but I like your thinking."
Johnny is irritated now so he speaks up loudly, "Hey, I've got one for you teacher. Let me put my hand in my pocket.
Okay, I've got it. It's round, hard, and it's got a head on it."
"Johnny!" she cries, "That's disgusting!"
"Nope," answers Johnny, "It's a quarter, but I like your thinking!" 
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Isn't that for The Soapbox ? :wondering:
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Neither beets nor potatoes are fruit, so this must ne a really bad teacher (and I've never seen or held a fuzzy, soft potato!).
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Try leaving one at the back of your cupboard for a few months.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Well you do that and you well on your way to growing some more potatoes
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Chris Quinn wrote: I've never seen or held a fuzzy, soft potato!
You've never kept one as long as I often do... They smell peculiar, too!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Also, how can the teacher infer the color just from reaching into the bag (and without looking into it)?
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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What chance do the kids have when the teacher tells them to guess a fruit, and then produces vegetables?
There is nothing to see here, move along
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musefan wrote: ... the teacher ... produces vegetables
That's as much as most teachers are capable of.
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Awesome teacher I would say, next week they will be learning numbers, North, East, South, West and everything in between
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Oh no, not again... 
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What I am wondering, given the young man's tragic means of death, as reported, is how ... shirtless ... in bed ... he could possibly be grounded enough to be shocked. And, wouldn't the voltage be a low DC voltage, at a small current ? Roger Wright ... are you listening ?
One thing for sure is that things in Amazing Thailand are often ... literally ... shockingly un-grounded, electric-wise.
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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I don't see why anyone would design a transformer to become a wire if it fails (except to save money, of course, which is probably also why the chargers fail in the first place).
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Well I guessing the charger like most modern phone charger would be a switch mode rather than a linear meaning it would fail safe, even so the phone should be insulated against that. Am I alone in thinking Thailand, no shirt, dodgy going on 
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Most cheap chargers are a barely-regulated transformer rather than the cost of a switch mode design. Think about it: a transformer, a couple of cheap caps and a few diodes: stick it in a box and "ship it Danno"!
If it fails, the company has probably changed name by then anyway.
(Some of the really nasty ones don't even bother with a PCB... )
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I was going buy the chargers I had seen/open up when they stopped working for friends (most Motorla, and a Nokia I think) also the charger for my S3 I doubt you could get anything more than an isolation transformer and a regulator...
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OriginalGriff wrote: If it fails, the company has probably changed name by then anyway.
Added "Cr" in front of its existing name, and truncated the last three characters, maybe?
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Technically, this way, the name remains the same.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Most cheap chargers are a barely-regulated transformer rather than the cost of a switch mode design. Think about it: a transformer, a couple of cheap caps and a few diodes: stick it in a box and "ship it Danno"!
I know that was the case years ago; but IIRC a few years back enough jurisdictions started pushing energy efficiency requirements that even at the very low power end that the simpler logistics of only having one model had largely resulted in global power ready (100-240V, 47-63hz) switched mode supplies becoming ubiquitous. I can't remember the last time I looked at a power brick that didn't have the extremely wide voltage range that requires a switched mode supply.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Something else not reported was going on, DC volts are more dangerous that AC volt as it causes the suffocation. Suffice to say if I go there I will be taking an isolation transformer and a set of RCD's ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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