h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I blame 2legs for migraine, nausea, and general unwell-ness.

I blame 2legs for breaking a pint glass while I was washing dishes and for stabbing my finger with a sharp bit of broken glass.

I blame 2legs for the weather.... freezing cold since september, adn now its too hot

So, Spring finally made her way over to your place, 2legs? That must explain why it's raining here.

I blame 2legs for combining spinach, green onions, dill, and feta cheese, making bread dough, rolling small blobs of the bread dough out, putting some of the spinach-cheese stuff in the middle of each, pinching them closed, and baking them off.

naa... spring decided to avoid us this year; we've gone straight from winter into summer

I blame 2legs for all the loverly food that arrived today with my grocerys, and my plans for making somethign with some of it tonight having to be scrapped as instead I now have to rush off to the pub, with no dinner

>>> have to rush off to the pub

Oh, dear. Blame 2legs for your busy social schedule. Thank goodness you are keeping brewers employed during these hard times.

I blame 2legs because I am still wide awake, when I should be having an early night. I've promised to meet my friends at 6.15am tomorrow morning, so we can get good places to watch the start of the Lanzarote Ironman, at 7am.

maybe I can sleep later, after they've started?

I blame 2legs for my not knowing of this 'sleep' of which you speath and for my drunkensess ... drukeness... drunkenness... yep that'll do... and for my need to find dinner...

I blame 2legs for Google Pac man. The thief of time.

I blame 2legs for Mr. Nerd brewing beer in our kitchen. It smells so yummy.

every time I make bread, the smell of the yeast makes me crave beer
I blame 2legs for my trying to look to buy somethign when I don't know its exact* name making it impossible to find the thing What are those things called?: kind of bits of metal small, and like with a round hole at one end you can put a cable in, and then kinda close the hole using a pair of pliers, and then like the other end has a sort of flat kinda metal thing and you can like slide that on to some bit of metal and kinda squish it with a pair of pliers so it makes a contact...

D-sub contacts?

http://www.conec.com/catalogs/c1/ioconnector/combination-d-sub-connectors/combination-d-sub-coaxial-contacts.html

Blame 2legs if this is totally wrong.

I blame 2legs for lumps of broken glass in teh road that cause punctures in teh middle of teh night in teh middle of nowhere!

Oo I think those D-sub contacts look like the kind of thing I'm thinking of... though I've now decided, as I need to go to the electronics store to purchase some bannanna-plug binding poasts/sockets, plus suitable recessed plate/dish for accepting bannanna plug sockets, I might as well get the D-sub clip things whilst I'm there, so I can get the right size...

I blame 2legs for my lack of mathmatical ability making it really* tricky for me to work out all the parameters I need to take into account in order to design and build my own PCB-mounted 2-way cross-overs

I blame 2legs that I probably have the math know-how, but not any idea what is meant by PCB-mounted 2-way cross-overs.

PCB: Printed Circuit board.

Cross -over; in a speaker with multiple 'units' (I.E., with a tweeter, mid range unit, and a bass/drive unit), you need to split the incoming signal so each of the units recieves the correct frequencys, you don't want the tweeter recieving lots of bass and you don't want the drive/bass unit getting lots of trebble)

Two-way; a speaker with two units (tweeter and drive/bass), you can have three-way (Bass, mid and tweeter), and then you get 2.5 way cross overs (two bass units, taking slightly difernt frequencys making one more like a subwoofer, plus a tweeter), 3.5 way, 4 way, 3 way, etc., etc.,

Then of course there are second order, first order and I think third order cross overs... at which point my brain stops working

Getting the frequency at which the 'split' or cross-over happens is kinda important... but I think I'll just buy a pre-made cross-over for the eease and it'll be neater than my making one on a bit of card/wood block

I blame 2legs for lofts, which are very* very* hot and very* very* humid, and very* very* dusty...

I blame 2legs for my sudden ability to just about understand the formular necessary to calculate values for the capicitor and coil in a first order butterworth two-way cross-over, all I need to do now is find a data sheet giving the impedance spec and details on my ancient 1974 speakers, if indeed I can find it... or maybe I oughta buy new cones for it I Do however have to further blame 2legs for my not even knowing what a bluddy 'coil' is (in terms of electronics), and much less what 'henry' the unit of measurement for 'coils' actually means

Henry? Isn't he a friend of Greg's?

A coil is an inductance. It acts as a boock to alternating current. Inductance is measured in Henrys. More often as not, milli-Henrys or micro-Henrys....


I bame 2legs for electronic know-how

GT

Yes... I need a .3 or maybe a 0.5 MH one I think... well pair But I'm still not certain I've got the maths correct I blame 2legs for my inaibility to do maths