Amazon Kildle Pouch

Spool Queen posted a photo:

I used a durable, gray nylon for the exterior panels, and a soft padding of fleece between them. Also coordinated a cool green zipper. Also nice for other electronics and cords.

Amazon Kindle Pouch

Spool Queen posted a photo:

I made this for my Dad for his birthday last month, he loves his present. Love you Dad!

B-7971 Alphanumeric Display Tube, 1965

samwibatt posted a photo:

These large tubes are not, strictly speaking, nixies. I think. They are neon tubes, but instead of number-shaped electrodes which I believe define nixies, they have fourteen wires arranged like alphanumeric LED displays'. I got four of them sort of by accident - I put in a bid on an eBay auction for them, expecting to get sniped, and I didn't. Weird!

This type of tube was used for the big stock-ticker displays in the New York Stock Exchange around the early 1970s. I don't know if the ones I got were used there, but just for fun let's say they were.

The obligatory thing to build out of nixies, for the nixie geek set today, is a clock. With these tubes, it's the FLW - a device which shows Four Letter Words. The original FLW was built in 1973 by Raymond Weisling, and he has a page about their history. (Note: his site advertises FLWs for sale still, but don't order any - apparently even paid orders have gone unfilled for a couple years and no one can reach the seller for comment).

I will at some point at least make a FLW circuit with these tubes and post shots of it here; not sure if I'll make a permanent version.

CIMG0020

HazQue posted a photo:

The Boulevard des Sources Interchange facade of Les Galeries des Sources shopping centre.

Steve Brandon posted a photo:

The Galeries des Sources shopping centre straddles the municipal border between the Montreal "West Island" suburbs of Dorval, to the south, and Dollard-des-Ormeaux, to the north. It is also within spitting distance of the eastern border of Pointe-Claire. It sits on land at the northeast corner of the des Sources exit on Highway 40, with the Highway 40 north service road to the south, Sources Boulevard to the west, and Brunswick Boulevard to the north.

It was opened in 1966 as the West Island Mall, and was part of Steinberg's Ivanhoe chain of shopping centres. The major tenants were a Steinberg's supermarket, a Miracle Mart, Steinberg's discount department store chain, and Consumer's Distributing (a store with a cumbersome system where you had to fill out a little form to order stuff from a catalogue, and, if it was in stock, it would be brought to the counter; it was very similar to Argos in Britain).

The mall was hit very hard by the closure of Steinberg's and Miracle Mart in the early 1990's, and by the closure of Consumer's Distributing in the mid-1990s, but it was brought back to life in the late 1990s as an "outlet mall", where several big box stores, restaurants, and the Guzzo des Sources 10 multiplex, were opened along the outside of the mall. The inside of the mall beyond the Super C supermarket and Bureau en Gros (Staples Office Depot) was really struggling for years, with a lot of vacant storefronts, but, when I visited the mall for the first time in at least half a decade in May 2008, the interior mall seemed to be much healthier than I remember in the late 1990s, with most storefronts occupied and plenty of customers.

This side of the mall is the side facing the interchange from Highway 40 to Boulevard des Sources.

Pantech Duo

nosie54 posted a photo:

Slow processor
3G internet is slow
Camera has poor quality
One speaker in the back which makes the ringtone horrible when someone calls. It sounds very distorted if the phone is on the table or something.

Check out www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ktw_ZS-iWM to see performance.
I'm going to return this for an AT&T Tilt.