slippyferret

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You've got 5mins hide 10k in 100 dollar bills in your home. If searchers can't find it after 2 hours searching you can keep it. Where do you hide it? in c/ask@lemm.ee
[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Slip them into some ziplock baggies and bury them inside the mass of leaves clogging my gutters and downspouts.

Whats your favourite four letter word? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Am I a psychopath for preferring to use a pen, even if it means I have to cross things out every now and then?

Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If this was filmed in the late sixties using an older orthicon camera it might be an artifact of the way that the image is produced.

I'm just going from memory, but I believe the tubes used a brightness-amplifying screen kept charged with electrons that, when struck by light, would result in a brighter image that could be scanned by a beam. The downside of this technique is that a very bright area would suck up electrons from around it faster than they could recharge, resulting in a dark halo.

I think I remember some of the oldest classic Doctor Who episodes has this visual artifact, as well as some old Beatles TV recordings.