Old Fools Journal: Random Things

Light bulb hatching
Ever wonder what was inside those expensive screw in florescents that don't last near as long as claimed?
Now you know. I'm recovering parts to make a joule thief from this one.
You can spend a lot of money on a bracelet like this or you can make one from an old bicycle brake cable. Most people, even bicycle riders, will have no idea what it is. It's bright, shiny, stainless steel and pretty to a mechanical nerd especially one with bicycle on the brain. For those that don't know it is stranded wire that my camera and the internet doesn't show very well.

Steel is more valuable than gold. Without gold life goes on as we know it since most of us have little or none of it anyway. Without steel we would be in the stone-age.
This is one of the many signs advertising crabs for sale SWMBO loves them but personally they are so small that I think they are a waste of time. You can starve getting the meat out. It's like eating a cucumber in that you use more energy than you take in. I'll take a dungeness thank you. Posted for the street sign laying under it. The crab sign stood through a hurricane but they put up street signs with bubble gum and cellophane tape. When they fall (or are torn down by some mothers darling son) they are never replaced.
I wonder where the rest of it is. People save and store the damnedest things. Like I'm one to talk.