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Happy indeed!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Happy birthday! and a pat on the back from me (also for the cat) 
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Thank you!
I got a chair from Herself, which is revolting to look at: somebody painted a Victorian Captains Chair white and covered it in "patchwork" velvet very, very badly. I'm really looking forward to ripping that cr@p off and seeing what is underneath it all ... then recovering it sympathetically, and reworking it to be my new office chair! It's really comfortable, but hideous to look at! This is the original advert picture: Please don't vomit over your keyboard[^] All the studs are fake, the "Buttons" in the back are plastic "crystal", the colours are vile, and the upholstery itself is pretty amateur. The cat likes it though: I think it's the feel of the velvet under his claws!
But ... it's a heavy, solid frame, with a spring and horsehair seat, so I'm hopeful there is a good chair under that lot ... only time will tell ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Sadly Nitromors is not what it once was but even so a liquid / gel based stripper will be kinder than a heat gun, after which a progressive rub down with finer and finer wire wool (to at least 000 or even 0000) and finally a good application of wax will bring the wood up beautifully.
I'd, be tempted to re-upholster in leather although that wouldn't be cheap.
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White spirit to start with, it looks like domestic wall paint rather than anything proper. Nitromors is a bit heavy duty if there is still any patina under that.
Leather is what I was thinking - I've got about a hide and a half left in Burgundy but I've never tried to do the traditional "Button back" work and I suspect it'll be a challenge!
It depends what I find when I take the base fabric off - it'd be really nice to find mahogany or oak under there and the weight plus the original looking castors makes me suspect I might.
But anything has to be better than that velvet! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I bet he'd have preferred a "stripper" if herself would have let him...
Mardi Gras!
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My God that is an ugly looking chair, with decent upholstery it would look quite good.
I am never surprised by the lack of good taste that people have.
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 The things that people do to an innocent chair!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Happy birthday, mr. Chairman!
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Happy birthday, Paul.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I have a feeling that those are healing crystals strategically placed to align your chakras!
Thanks for the trigger warning! And the subdued lighting.
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Happy birthday Griff and many more
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Happy Birthday Griff! (chiming in late from the left side).
The chair: Sometimes ugly is really beautiful. Keep it like it is, maybe
just spill some tea on it.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Yes. Happy birthday to a good guy 
ed
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Indeed, have a happy birthday!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) may your flesh be as eternal as your spotless mind !
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Little known fact about me: I actually hate computers. They are cantankerous, finicky and way too literal. And when I build them they inevitably bleed me with their sheet metal.
Yesterday I undertook a chassis transplant, gutting the fans (the ones that still worked anyway) and everything else and putting it in a beautiful new all glass thermaltake case - one of the trendy partially open chassis designs, which I'm questioning the wisdom of given I have cats. However, the completely enclosed cases get cat hair too all up in the fans so I figure I'm in for it either way.
I was swearing like a sailor. My man was appalled.
All of this because my 2080TI GPU I bought seemed to be overheating when doing 4k stuff.
After I ordered the new case, I realized it was probably the brand new platinum PSU, not the video card.
So I switched off that dodgy "eco mode" that kills the fan on the PSU and I haven't had the thing shut down on me since. Also it has a ten year warranty so I'm not so worried about killing it with my tests.
I have yet to do 4k with all the glass on the case. Keeping my fingers crossed, because if it goes sideways there will be a lot more swearing.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I've found that it's not the 4 letter words you use or the order, it's the intensity and volume.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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In Italian we have an entire separate set of swearings, that are "insults against God, holy entities, the Church and religion in general".
Assembling my own PCs always gets the best out of me.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sure, the Jedi light sabers look cool but without the sound you just have a glow stick.
"The lightsaber sound effect was developed by Burtt as a combination of the hum of idling interlock motors in aged movie projectors and interference caused by a television set on a shieldless microphone. "
Now that's a good combination! 
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raddevus wrote: a combination of the hum of idling interlock motors in aged movie projectors and interference caused by a television set on a shieldless microphone.
I think they forgot some words in that description.
Missing portion: as well as some hallucinogenics.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I've been searching back and forth, mostly in Wikipedia - for googling, I am apparently unable to find the right search terms; all my attempts produce millions of hits of which the first 200+ are irrelevant  So I am hoping for some more knowledgeable advice that "Just F google it!"
My problem: At what (approximate) time did newspapers get technology letting them transfer a photograph (or for that sake, any flat image such as a painting) to a press more or less "automatically", in the sense that there was no need for a graphic worker / artist to copy the image by hand to some traditional technology such as lithography?
For all I know, maybe the actual printing used lithographic techniques, which is quite old. The problem is transferring a photograph to this plate. Or some other technology. When did it appear, and what was the technology called?
(Background for asking: Reading a 'historic' children's book taking place in the 1800s, written by a well known author. I strongly suspect that the author is taking historic liberties when he tells about the photograph that was published on the front page of the local newspaper. I'd like to have some more facts before holding this against the author )
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Maybe look into the history of offset printing?
modified 23-Feb-22 15:45pm.
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