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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.
The kid looking at the camera is thinking, "Dad is the geek and he is making us do this!"
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?
Check in 3.
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?
He's got an equal opportunity army: Gold (Black) has two female knights, silver (White) has one male, one female.
I thought so too, until I looked at the rest of his site and saw this:. htm
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/index
BNC2 takes UHF3
I liked his atomic wristwatch.
. htm
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/index
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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.)
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?