Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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OldVolMan said:
Does it have white leather interior?
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I dont remember honestly. Havent been in it since I was a kid. He won't sell it though, after 50 years I think he's gonna leave it rather than ever letting it leave him. Will be a sad day for me, he is a great man. He's not actually my blood uncle lol...he and my Dad have been best buds since 3rd grade when they met. It nearly killed him when my cancer took my Dad.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
I dont remember honestly. Havent been in it since I was a kid. He won't sell it though, after 50 years I think he's gonna leave it rather than ever letting it leave him. Will be a sad day for me, he is a great man. He's not actually my blood uncle lol...he and my Dad have been best buds since 3rd grade when they met. It nearly killed him when my cancer took my Dad.
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i dont blame him, good for him
 
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AM64 said:
Since it's trashed, I have a question you may be able to answer. New TVs don't necessarily have analog audio out - just toslink optical. Most D/A converters I'm looking at say the TV has to be set to PCM out for the D/A to work. I have an old Bose audio system (two channel RCA inputs) here and through my Cambridge DacMagic A/D and with the TV set to PCM, the Bose does appear to "decode" Dolby signals - I have surround sound in any case when I set a Roku or Firestick to a Dolby format. So the question: is Dolby encoding simply passed through on a PCM signal and then handled the way it was always done in analog decoding? And are people somewhat confusing the description by claiming that an A/D only does Dolby surround sound if it has discrete 5 channel outputs because it can only pass the Dolby encoding but it cannot process the Dolby encoding? I get the difference in synthesized surround sound that older systems used to do vs discretely encoded 5 channel sound - whether PCM passes or affects the encoding isn't clear in the literature I'm finding.
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Sorry but you've already gotten advice which is better than I could give you. My version of dolby sound a high pitched whine in both ears also known as Dolby Tinnitus.
 
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VolStrom said:
Sorry but you've already gotten advice which is better than I could give you. My version of dolby sound a high pitched whine in both ears also known as Dolby Tinnitus.
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Every now and then mine gets creative and does something more like crickets rather than just the normal whine. I asked an ENT doc about that, and he said that's normal, too ... if you consider tinnitus normal, I suppose. Funny thing is that I have high frequency hearing loss and have to be turned just right to hear the beeps from a microwave or other appliance, but I swear the tinnitus is at a higher frequency and comes through loud and clear.
 
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AM64 said:
Every now and then mine gets creative and does something more like crickets rather than just the normal whine. I asked an ENT doc about that, and he said that's normal, too ... if you consider tinnitus normal, I suppose. Funny thing is that I have high frequency hearing loss and have to be turned just right to hear the beeps from a microwave or other appliance, but I swear the tinnitus is at a higher frequency and comes through loud and clear.
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When I was working I had to get a hearing test every year. When I first started I would get a "you have great hearing", by the time I retired it was "you have significant hearing loss in the higher frequencies", but we only have to report the lower frequencies so you're okay. I find it interesting that we went in the 80's from not having any hearing protection, then it went to recommended to required in the space of a few years.
 
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VolStrom said:
When I was working I had to get a hearing test every year. When I first started I would get a "you have great hearing", by the time I retired it was "you have significant hearing loss in the higher frequencies", but we only have to report the lower frequencies so you're okay. I find it interesting that we went in the 80's from not having any hearing protection, then it went to recommended to required in the space of a few years.
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You remember the discussion about repairs - today was one of those days. My Bose noise cancelling headphones quit working, so I decided today to figure it out knowing it was almost certainly a battery connection issue. Turns out they have a very small wire going from inside the headphones to the little latch that holds a AAA in place - it breaks. So first problem besides the fact it's tiny is that some tools here and some tools at the other house - no soldering iron here. However, got the little bit of wire stripped and then crimped a piece of a twist tie wire around it and then around the spring that holds the negative end of the battery in place. It worked - sometimes we win against the machines.
 
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Had my first physical therapy on my shoulder today. The therapist started moving it around and had me passively raise it above my head using a pulley and my other arm. Couldn’t move it much at first but after a few minutes I was actually getting some extension over my head. But... as I asked the therapist is my shoulder supposed to sound like a damn bowl of rice crispies! 😳 made all kinds of popping and creaking sounds. Now it’s sore, I took a pain pill, and I’m going to bed.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Had my first physical therapy on my shoulder today. The therapist started moving it around and had me passively raise it above my head using a pulley and my other arm. Couldn’t move it much at first but after a few minutes I was actually getting some extension over my head. But... as I asked the therapist is my shoulder supposed to sound like a damn bowl of rice crispies! 😳 made all kinds of popping and creaking sounds. Now it’s sore, I took a pain pill, and I’m going to bed.
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Way to go!

Did they put ice on it after the therapy? It helps.
 
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hog88 said:
That he was. I never knew he never went to college.
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One of the reasons he wasn't selected for Project Mercury. Let's face it, he certainly would have brought massive amounts of credibility to them starting out.

If I remember correctly, he really took that as a personal slight and actively worked against NASA when they were recruiting test pilots for the Astronaut corps.
 
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Grand Vol said:
One of the reasons he wasn't selected for Project Mercury. Let's face it, he certainly would have brought massive amounts of credibility to them starting out.

If I remember correctly, he really took that as a personal slight and actively worked against NASA when they were recruiting test pilots for the Astronaut corps.
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I read an interview in Forbes where he said he didn't want to be in the Mercury project because those guys had no control and weren't flying. So I don't know, he deserved to be included if he wanted to be in it.
 
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Yeager was a hard living fighter pilot cut from the old cloth. He and others in the test pilot program that didn’t clean up enough we’re wrongly passed over for the astronaut program but they managed to get a good crew of people in spite of that.

Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover. Two of a kind.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
Joined F * * king right out of HS & green as grass at 17 or so. He even flew missions in the VietNam war too.
Shooting down German planes was a hoot for him back then....
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Yep. Saw combat in three different eras of conflict. Only other one that comes to mind is Robin Olds but I’m sure there are others.
 
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