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RF Connector Chess Set
*no comment* writes "Some clever bloke has come up with his own chess set using a standard chess board and RF connectors." This sort of thing pleases me greatly.
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But yeah, it is really neat.
"These are not the Chess pieces you are looking for.. Move along.."
The kid looking at the camera is thinking, "Dad is the geek and he is making us do this!"
Some front page news we can all talk about.
early post?
would make a damn fine geek christmas present!
*looks through box of old bits*
While cool to look at, I always hated playing chess with
non-normal pieces.
*IF* I ever did let my son wear a cape (see article pictures), I certainly wouldn't plaster his picture up on the internet. How bad is that kid going to feel in 10 years when his friends google him and find that picture. Not only will be be labeled a chess geek, but he'll be cape boy forever. Sad.
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in a world without bounderies or fences, who needs Gates anyway?
In other news: area man puts corks and beer bottle caps onto a chessboard, cleverly sorted by their sizes and colors to evocate actual chess piece, thereby creating an astonishingly surprising post-modern chess game!
It is rumored our clever friend is doing some rummage in the attic to find bits and piece to create more chess games. News at 11...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"I can't see it."
"Here, let me help you. Ow, my goddamn hand!"
*is run over by rotten tomatoes*
Check in 3.
Compared to my Go set made from RF connectors.
"I am not a number! I am a free man!"-- The Prisoner
This is officially the dorkiest thing ever made. I expect this to stay on top until someone comes up with a way to make a ham radio boot FreeBSD.
I had a friend in the Navy who would make his own chess sets using lead figurines. He always won because I'd forget which pieces were which.
At least this set it doesn't seem that it would be too difficult to keep track of who was what.
I hated it when I'd move my 'orc w/wolves' piece and he'd say - 'You can't do that with a bishop.'-- 'A bishop?! I thought that was a knight!!' -- 'It doesn't matter you'll be in check mate in a minute anyway.'--'How?'-- 'You left your king wide open in that corner.'--'My king? That elf is my king?'-- and so on.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
http://www.shotglasschess.com/
DeviantArt Page
NSFWI have not seen such a geeky prank since the dude who made his own Tron costume. But, this is a close second. Play this board game at the mall and pretty women will be repelled for hundreds of meters. It would be interesting to compare this to the repel range of the Tron costume. We could then put the bar graphs up at the mall, and measure their repel range also.
Table-ized A.I.
He's got an equal opportunity army: Gold (Black) has two female knights, silver (White) has one male, one female.
*picks brick from the ground*
*aims carefully*
*throw*
BNC2 takes UHF3
While cool to look at
I always hated chess with
non-normal pieces
Yes, I -am- bored at work waiting for this last 30min to be done with..
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
I on the other hand, could unpossibly care less.
I would unhit the submit button so fast if I were you...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I liked his atomic wristwatch.
. htm
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/index
/* oops I accidentally made a comment, sorry */
And your server don't know what your server is getting
(The creme de la creme of the geek world
In a show with everything but Natalie Portman.)
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since your hosting company had your web site in it?
All change, don't you know that when you
play at this level, there's no ordinary venue
It's on somebody's blog, then Fark... or... or this place!
One night on Slashdot and the world's your oyster,
The blades are temples, but the bits ain't free,
You'll find a God in every cached site pointer,
If you're unlucky it goes to goat-se.
(He can fit an angel - and the Christmas tree.)
One box's very like another,
When your server's fallen to pieces, brother.
(It's a drag, I'm a whore, it's really such a pity
To see a site 404, not lookin' at the piccies)
"Whaddya mean? You've seen one set of polished BNC connectors..."
(T-1 lines, smokin' with heat - heat!
Some are set up in the server room's bomb suite)
"Get farked, you're talkin' to a tourist,
whose every click's among the purest.
I get my hits above the bandwidth limit, sunshine..."
One night on Slashdot makes your host site humble,
Not much between hot grits and ecstasy,
One night on Slashdot and your server crumbles,
Can't be too careful with your company.
(I can feel Ms. Portman walkin' next to me.)
Chessboard's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of server room fitness
This grips me more than would a Slashvertisement or duplicate posting.
Thank God I'm only posting on here, trolling it.
I don't see you guys rating
The kind of posts I'm contemplating.
I'd let you mod, I would invite you,
But the links we use would not excite you.
So you'd better go back to your Fark, your Onion, your BBSpot, your autopr0n...
One night on Slashdot and the world's your oyster,
The blades are temples, but the bits ain't free,
You'll find a God in every cached site pointer,
A little chess, a little history.
(I can get the hot grits, where's my Natalie?)
One night on Slashdot makes your host site humble,
Not much between hot grits and ecstasy,
One night on Slashdot and your server crumbles,
Can't be too careful with your company.
(I can feel Ms. Portman trollin' next to me.)
*picks brick from the ground*
*aims carefully*
*throw*
*misses*
*hits his chess game*
Check out his whole website. This guy has atomic clocks that rival those in national laboratories! But we're Slashdotting him and congratulating him for building a chess set. Slashdot hurts my brain.
I have a shiny spoon, should I post a story?
Shouldn't you have a *rolls twenty sided dice* in there somewhere?
Let's do a story on his nixie tube clocks... Gotta love the tubes...
Anyone else notice that the kid in the blue cape doesn't seem to like the idea of his picture being taken (it's the picture where they're actually playing chess on the floor). I think it's the look of a child who is just starting to understand the concept of public education "coolness" and having your picture displayed on Slashdot in a blue cape while playing RF connector chess with your Dad is not very high on the list of "cool" right now. My heart goes out to you little buddy.
The pieces are kinda subject to some artistic interpretation, but on the whole this is pretty cool. Especially if you have a lot of electronics crap lying around like I do.
I thought the knurling on the pieces was a great touch for power players. During a hot and heavy chess game, you don't want to lose your grip during a move. :)
It's a CHESSBOARD!
Yeah It's pretty cool. Would I want one, sure. But is this news worthy of 180 (181 now that I've joined the fray) nerds chattering about it?
The days of the digital watch are numbered.