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Steampunk
what the fuck is this bullshit?
I can understand the steam part of steampunk, old things running off steam? punk though… whats punk about it? certainly not dressing up in old Victorian clothes, or attaching non functional brass/leather/gears/pipes/dials on everything
I almost understood this stuff back in the deeps of time when I read Sterling/Gibson's The Difference Engine. I mean, it was never that cool, putting pipes and gears into my sleek chromed technology, but Gibson at least made it seem semi-interesting. But this shit just goes way too far now. Yo dawg, we herd you like steampunk in your steampunk. Steampunk watches? Steampunk steam engines? Just stupid shit.
haha
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:11,
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Steampunk
what the fuck is this bullshit?
I can understand the steam part of steampunk, old things running off steam? punk though… whats punk about it? certainly not dressing up in old Victorian clothes, or attaching non functional brass/leather/gears/pipes/dials on everything
I almost understood this stuff back in the deeps of time when I read Sterling/Gibson's The Difference Engine. I mean, it was never that cool, putting pipes and gears into my sleek chromed technology, but Gibson at least made it seem semi-interesting. But this shit just goes way too far now. Yo dawg, we herd you like steampunk in your steampunk. Steampunk watches? Steampunk steam engines? Just stupid shit.
haha
How about a wallpaper of a steampunk computer with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer, with a monitor displaying a wallpaper of a steampunnk computer...

Glue a few gears on your pencil case and grin madly while you soil knickers.
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:29,
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:D
actually if someone makes a real steam powered thing I'll be fucking impressed
where's my steampowered airship, you cads!
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:31,
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actually if someone makes a real steam powered thing I'll be fucking impressed
where's my steampowered airship, you cads!

Take a treadle sowing machine and connect permanent magnets discs that spin
inside lowered coils of wire connected to paper horns. One for each key/note.
Sort of like a glass harmonium, but using the electro generative effect.
We figured it would sound stupid and horrid enough to fit the steampunk ethos.
No reason you couldn't use a small steam engine to power it instead of foot power.
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:40,
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inside lowered coils of wire connected to paper horns. One for each key/note.
Sort of like a glass harmonium, but using the electro generative effect.
We figured it would sound stupid and horrid enough to fit the steampunk ethos.
No reason you couldn't use a small steam engine to power it instead of foot power.

a steam driven shaft
with cogs on it that have magnets at what effectively becomes harmonic intervals
you'd have some sort of arrangement of keys that would either enable the magnetic pulses to be output to a speaker
thus, an steam powered electric musical instrument would be created
edit: infact, have both, for that full on Dr Phibes experience :D
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:57,
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with cogs on it that have magnets at what effectively becomes harmonic intervals
you'd have some sort of arrangement of keys that would either enable the magnetic pulses to be output to a speaker
thus, an steam powered electric musical instrument would be created
edit: infact, have both, for that full on Dr Phibes experience :D

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I thought about it later and realized that the magnets could be in fixed discs and
the key, when pressed, brings a second interrupting disc between that makes
the connection to the drive shaft. Magnets could be set in the disc at right angle
to the spindle axle and the coils would be fixed around the axle beside the
magnet disc. Reduces the actuated parts to little tandem wheels in the key
end. Big O drive shaft, little o upper magnet disc, and the keyed disc.
oO
o___v
^
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:12,
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the key, when pressed, brings a second interrupting disc between that makes
the connection to the drive shaft. Magnets could be set in the disc at right angle
to the spindle axle and the coils would be fixed around the axle beside the
magnet disc. Reduces the actuated parts to little tandem wheels in the key
end. Big O drive shaft, little o upper magnet disc, and the keyed disc.
oO
o___v
^

but it could be a funny instrument to make
and some mad bastard is going to want to perform with it.
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:15,
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and some mad bastard is going to want to perform with it.

Small beads of steel in plastic discs, same actuating method, but use
standard guitar pickups fed to a conventional amplifier. If you used
beads of the same mass as the part of a string inside the pickup's
capture zone the result would sound pretty close to a normal guitar.
edit: BTW for any geeks out there.
Tone-Wheel organs use a variation on that idea.
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:28,
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standard guitar pickups fed to a conventional amplifier. If you used
beads of the same mass as the part of a string inside the pickup's
capture zone the result would sound pretty close to a normal guitar.
edit: BTW for any geeks out there.
Tone-Wheel organs use a variation on that idea.

guitar
OF COURSE!
this simply didn't occur to me
oh..
multiple guitar/violin type instruments
ahhh yeah
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 3:32,
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OF COURSE!
this simply didn't occur to me
oh..
multiple guitar/violin type instruments
ahhh yeah

All right, a truck driver walks into a bar.
A hooker cozies up to the truck driver and stands up and says "For a quarter I'll do anything you want, as many times as you want." The truck driver says "Where's the bathroom?" The bartender says "We don't see many truck drivers in here."
The truck driver shouts "What? They sold me a chihuahua?"
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:32,
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A hooker cozies up to the truck driver and stands up and says "For a quarter I'll do anything you want, as many times as you want." The truck driver says "Where's the bathroom?" The bartender says "We don't see many truck drivers in here."
The truck driver shouts "What? They sold me a chihuahua?"

until I realised I could get more power from the radiation emitting from it.
Imagine the consternation when peoples arms exploded in a nuclear fireball!
AH-HA HA!!! Back to the drawing board!
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:34,
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Imagine the consternation when peoples arms exploded in a nuclear fireball!
AH-HA HA!!! Back to the drawing board!

So this string walks into a bar. The bartender says "We don't see many strings in here." The string says "I'll bet anyone a hundred bucks I can grant three wishes to the next person who walks through that door!" The bartender stands up and says "See that hooker over there? If you recite the Carmina Burana from memory that hooker will take you home and make love to you all night."
The string tosses back a gin and tonic and says "Moo."
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:38,
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The string tosses back a gin and tonic and says "Moo."

Okay, so a blonde walks into a bar. The bartender says "Hey. Why don't you get up on the bar and do the Hokey-Pokey?" The blonde says "I'd love to do anything you want, as many times as you want." A monkey pounds on the bar and yells "I'm gonna do the mattress Macarena with you all night long!"
The blonde holds the monkey over her tequila shot and yells "Spit it out you bastard!"
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 1:59,
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The blonde holds the monkey over her tequila shot and yells "Spit it out you bastard!"