That'd be fantastic! thank you very much! On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:23 PM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:
> Gil - > > I have both e-mails and will ping you next time I expect to come to town > and make a plan to drop off then... maybe as early as next Tuesday? > > - Steve > On 8/25/22 1:42 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > Wowie zowie 😁 thank you so much steve! that would be fantastic! > Ironically CRTs were kind of a head of their time. LEDs have run into a > wall with black colors of all things that the GPU has to work hard to > figure out where to place. Tech YouTubers talk about it something to do > with color space that you or the other steve probably know a lot more how > that works then I do. and yeah I'm also sometimes not as nice to my > electronics as I really should be. > Do you have either my or Owens email? that way we figure out how make > arrangements for pickups or drop offs. > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 1:28 PM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > >> Gil - >> >> I have gone past the use of external computer monitors in my own >> life/work and have a total of 3 re-homeable units I could offer you. I >> don't have the specs on them in front of me, and I can't guarantee their >> ruggedness, though I am not easy on most of my gear and I have not damaged >> any of these beyond some surface scratches. >> >> I would be happy (ecstatic?) to gift forward one or more of them to you, >> even it you go through them in a year or two's time the same way the others >> gave out, as long as you made some effort to push them forward into the >> appropriate recycling stream (not even sure where old LCD monitors go to >> rot/recycle)? >> >> A decade or more ago I used to cringe everytime I would see another CRT >> TV or Monitor in an arroyo "shot up" by my neighbors.... it has been years >> since I saw a fresh one... and to think we all used to sit inches (feet) >> in front of them staring at them all day (esp. for those boomers who were >> babysat as children by Captain Kangaroo and his ilk) as a high-energy >> electron beam was directed straight toward their third-eye, depending on >> the layer of phosphors (I don't know how carcinogenic those where when >> released during wild target practice sessions) and *leaded* glass to >> protect our precious little neuronal mass known as our brain. Oh well, >> most of us are "OK" and of course, it may well be the *idea* flux coming >> out of them that was the most dangerous. >> >> https://thehappyphilosopher.com/kill-your-television >> >> >> Lemme know! >> >> - Steve >> On 8/25/22 12:49 PM, glen wrote: >> >> https://www.eizorugged.com/products/rugged-monitors/ >> >> On 8/25/22 11:32, Gillian Densmore wrote: >> >> I have no had 3 hp monitors crack in the same way. Basically something >> about how I get behind it. Usually to reboot my stupid cable modem, the the >> dam things left, or right side cracks. >> I think the problem is between my size and the thin fragility of it is >> the problem. Best hunch I have so far. >> Where do I find the good and propper computer monitors that ignore this >> asinine industry delusion that paper thin=good? >> Do really have to go as far back to CRTs to something that doesn't fall >> over from just a fart? or is their something more in at least this decade >> that's not a thin fragile POS? >> >> >> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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