Recent content by Amoreena

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    Nitrogen chemical?

    Ammonium Nitrate :evil:
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    YELLOW declared the color for 2009!

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...e_us/color_of_the_year NEW YORK ? Enough gloom and doom: There's a prediction from a leading color source that cheerful and sunny yellow will be the influential color of 2009. Pantone, which provides color standards to design industries, specifically...
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    So my gf got me a guitar for Christmas...

    Why can't an internet video do the same as a live instructor?
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    Lions fire Marinelli

    http://www.freep.com/article/20081229/SPORTS01/81229015 The Free Press has confirmed that the Lions fired coach Rod Marinelli this morning. In addition, Tom Lewand has been named club president and Martin Mayhew the team?s general manager, according to a Lions official.
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    Detriot's sucking water from Canada without permission for 44 years.

    HAMILTON, Ontario ? Detroit has possibly been stealing Canadian water for 44 years. Advertisement It seems the Motor City?s drinking-water intake pipe extends about 100 yards across the international boundary in the Detroit River, and it?s been siphoning as much as 32 billion gallons a year...
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    I found some more old cool stuff

    What's Obama doing on that one peso bill? http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/77/img0677qf5.jpg
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    how to destroy the internet.

    You mean energy.
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    Can you help me identify this creature?

    It was caught on live TV during this weather broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZIIryCMUDI
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    Help me pick the LED colors for my hybrid tube headphone amp!

    OK, did you bother to read the post just above yours? it doesn't use power tubes, just MOSFETs on the final stage...
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    Help me pick the LED colors for my hybrid tube headphone amp!

    Go to the link. The tubes are used in the preamp section, the bias stage uses JFET/BJTs and the final is a quasi-complimentary MOSFET. A bit much for a headphone amp IMO.
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    Help me pick the LED colors for my hybrid tube headphone amp!

    I vote purple, these are really cool, but not as bright as white.
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    Gas jumped 22% today!

    $1.44 this morning, $1.75 now. :(
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    Man yells "Just Shoot ME"

    Detroit Police shot a 19-year-old man as he pointed a shotgun at them, yelling ?Just shoot me,? according to investigators. The man was in serious but stable condition at Sinai-Grace Hospital today, a family member told the Free Press. Officers on routine patrol at about 10 p.m. Tuesday...
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    What movie/scene did you cry watching

    When Spock died..
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    Light Bulb Wattage Question.

    Completely false. The dimmer uses a Triac and only sends a portion of the sine wave to the bulb. You are thinking that the dimmer uses a pot as the power controller, which is not true. Look up phase control Triac circuitry FTW.