They also don’t want people who are too smart:

9/8/2000 (!)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

Wasn’t there also a problem with the music rights?

I was looking for an original to restore but there are problems doing that:

1. They are FULL of paper capacitors. All of which have to be replaced.

2. Once you do that, the set is still black and white and has no modern inputs, coaxial and dipole only.

So in my research, I found a tiny company in Dousman, WI who bought the Philco Predicta license. Not sure if they are still making them, keep in mind this was all 25 years ago. Was $2,500 + freight shipping.

http://predictatv.com/

I think she started with Y-Y-Z. :) Sorry, Rush joke…

https://youtu.be/ftVTWDrtrlc

Yeah, bought them as speaker stands.

Oh, yeah, those lamps are long gone now.

My (now) wife freaked out coming to my apartment the first time. Turns out, she’s a huge Rush fan:

In my living room at the time:

All I hear is “Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

70% sure she just married me for the TV.

Here’s a photo from 2001? 2002?

Problem is it can’t sort by number of there are text values in file name. “11” is a number. “11.” is not. :) Fun with computers!

Oh, that’s the before photo… I’m still waiting on this to… wrap it all up!

https://scalablevideoswitch.com/

Predicta television:

It’s also why stuff like this exists:

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/

Filenames are text, not numbers, so 11 comes before 2. So does 111, 101, etc. Anything starting with 1 is before 2.

In order to sort “properly”, you have to name your files properly.

00
01
02
up to…
99

If you have more than 100 files in the same folder, the you have to go back through and re-name them:

000
001
002
… 099
100

It’s sorting correctly.

11 comes after 1.

The problem is the data needs to be fixed. 01, 02, 03…

So first, learn Greek.

Second, go to the town called “Rosetta”.

Pangolin

It was 144 1 year ago, and 255 now, but that’s just showing it returning to normal after hitting the peak at 479.

The reason it climbed to 479 was because of Elon’s association with the Trump campaign, people thought it would be good for the company, then the bubble popped.

Come hang with us Gen X’ers. We have cookies and booze.