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Mr. Fidget

Started by KnyeGuy, July 24, 2009, 11:15:49 AM

albrecht

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 13, 2014, 11:52:35 AM
   Good news! I have just accepted an offer to host a one hour radio show, without commercials. It will be internationally available on Tunein, and on air in the particular market of the station(s). Archived for convenient listening, and free speech focused... within FCC guidelines of course. I will make all content and presentation decisions. As this is an unplanned addition to my current endeavors, although certain to happen, it is yet to be decided exactly when. I have other projects underway as well, so it may be some time. Aside from my scheduling, it is a done deal.

Topic, time, and details will be forthcoming... as available.

Rejoicing optional. ;)

Mr. Fidget
Bizarre, but congratulations. Post details later. May I suggest an online portion for the show? Maybe like those City Council meetings and Olympic events? But instead of the odd looking lady signing apparent languages you have a little window on video showing you manipulating various fidgets during the broadcast? It is so crazy, it just might work!
=keep on fidgeting. GNS
-sent from FEMA Region VI

WOTR

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 11, 2014, 05:15:20 AM
Flying cars aren't what they are going to be. ;)
Things never are.
Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 13, 2014, 11:52:35 AM
Rejoicing optional. ;)

Mr. Fidget
Congratulations.  Will the format follow the general format of this thread?

coaster

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 13, 2014, 11:52:35 AM
   Good news! I have just accepted an offer to host a one hour radio show, without commercials. It will be internationally available on Tunein, and on air in the particular market of the station(s). Archived for convenient listening, and free speech focused... within FCC guidelines of course. I will make all content and presentation decisions. As this is an unplanned addition to my current endeavors, although certain to happen, it is yet to be decided exactly when. I have other projects underway as well, so it may be some time. Aside from my scheduling, it is a done deal.

Topic, time, and details will be forthcoming... as available.

Rejoicing optional. ;)

Mr. Fidget
Congrats. I'll make sure to tune in.

Mr. Fidget

   A bit of an update... no more fidgets have shipped yet, I will, as I can. I'm working on real scaling of the Linkey Fidgets, more about that next week.
   I will, even more certainly, have a one hour broadcast radio show... without commercials. It will be on air, streamed, and archived for later listening. Meetings, drafts, revisions, registrations, and clarifications have been flying.

More details will be forthcoming.

Mr. Fidget

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 13, 2014, 11:52:35 AM
   Good news! I have just accepted an offer to host a one hour radio show, without commercials. It will be internationally available on Tunein, and on air in the particular market of the station(s). Archived for convenient listening, and free speech focused... within FCC guidelines of course. I will make all content and presentation decisions. As this is an unplanned addition to my current endeavors, although certain to happen, it is yet to be decided exactly when. I have other projects underway as well, so it may be some time. Aside from my scheduling, it is a done deal.

Never underestimate the power of a "targeted thought experiment" by the Singular Knights Of Clique.

This is only the beginning.

You had better hang on like a zygodactyl bestowed roadrunner hitching a ride on a rabid roller coaster.

It's about to get edgy. Hairy. Gnarly. Off the chain. Loco.

Radio radio radio active.

California dreamin' as you wake up screamin' as Bruce D. would say...

Some believe the SKOC should have stuck with cloud busting and tornado defusing ... that it would have been ... somehow ... safer.

But we voted and you were deemed Apollo flying hat worthy.  We turned on the resonators and had a group sit in.

And now I dip my fingers into the oracle's skin - my Wham-O Magic Window - creating her new ripples of fate:

Propeller beanie rotors,
caduceus ordained.   
Transfigured into heaven,
a fidget unchained.

My Delphic residue coated digits cast a mad rabbit shadow against the wall. It appears hungry.

It's only a shadow. 

But bitch (simulacrum) gotta eat!

(Even if she is a shade rabbit.)

Feed her well, MF.  Perhaps some shadow lettuce, cast by a paper wasps nest.

(Reading the above, you can easily see why so much (all) of my work was rejected by the greeting card industry. My simplest "get well soon" card effected at best, a mutated lotus blossom ...)

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 16, 2014, 11:22:03 PM
   A bit of an update... no more fidgets have shipped yet, I will, as I can. I'm working on real scaling of the Linkey Fidgets, more about that next week.
   I will, even more certainly, have a one hour broadcast radio show... without commercials. It will be on air, streamed, and archived for later listening. Meetings, drafts, revisions, registrations, and clarifications have been flying.

More details will be forthcoming.

Mr. Fidget


Narcissism really has no bounds. Other than yourself and your self inflicted war on the world and it's heretics; exactly what do you have to broadcast that anyone (other than yourself) cares about?

Mr. Fidget

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on September 17, 2014, 04:46:44 AM
Never underestimate the power of a "targeted thought experiment" by the Singular Knights Of Clique.

This is only the beginning.

You had better hang on like a zygodactyl bestowed roadrunner hitching a ride on a rabid roller coaster.

It's about to get edgy. Hairy. Gnarly. Off the chain. Loco.

Radio radio radio active.

California dreamin' as you wake up screamin' as Bruce D. would say...

Some believe the SKOC should have stuck with cloud busting and tornado defusing ... that it would have been ... somehow ... safer.

But we voted and you were deemed Apollo flying hat worthy.  We turned on the resonators and had a group sit in.

And now I dip my fingers into the oracle's skin - my Wham-O Magic Window - creating her new ripples of fate:

Propeller beanie rotors,
caduceus ordained.   
Transfigured into heaven,
a fidget unchained.

My Delphic residue coated digits cast a mad rabbit shadow against the wall. It appears hungry.

It's only a shadow. 

But bitch (simulacrum) gotta eat!

(Even if she is a shade rabbit.)

Feed her well, MF.  Perhaps some shadow lettuce, cast by a paper wasps nest.

(Reading the above, you can easily see why so much (all) of my work was rejected by the greeting card industry. My simplest "get well soon" card effected at best, a mutated lotus blossom ...)
Goods laughs from the den of your minds-eye Cam, thanks for the positive focus, development is getting interesting. I may have found the secret to dealing with big business... run away, and they will chase you... with gifts, and all manners of manner. They don't rollerskate, so they have not caught up, whew. The deals I have skated away from, I'll always wonder about. :)

albrecht

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 17, 2014, 06:17:57 PM
   Goods laughs from the den of your minds-eye Cam, thanks for the positive focus, development is getting interesting. I may have found the secret to dealing with big business... run away, and they will chase you... with gifts, and all manners of manner. They don't rollerskate, so they have not caught up, whew. The deals I have skated away from, I'll always wonder about. :)
In the olds days its what called  "playing hard to get." Post link or tunein statio  and times and keep on fidgeting. Good to see an original AB caller/guest still around. So many disappeared...

Mr. Fidget

Quote from: albrecht on September 17, 2014, 08:19:44 PM
In the olds days its what called  "playing hard to get." Post link or tunein statio  and times and keep on fidgeting. Good to see an original AB caller/guest still around. So many disappeared...
Will do... I plan to post the station(s), time, topic, and archive address, as it launches.
   I'd differentiate my methodology for "playing hard to get," from the common one, in that I am actually difficult to catch up with while rolling. When/if they do catch up, I make it clear I don't work "for" anybody... I will work "with" other people. This distinction is often not favored by the suits, since they are accustomed to "always getting their way."
   I told Art, in essence, "Real wealth is a wealth of opportunity, if you have a million dollars, there are a million people out to get it." when he asked me on the air "Do you want to get rich off the fidget?"
   My wealth is a "wealth of opportunity," and it can not be usurped by anyone. I need not worry, like millionaires do, about everyone's motive... or "being ripped off." The knockoff fidgets are a good example, no big deal, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and so on.
   It shows a lack of awareness of him to think nobody will connect the dots... and I think it's naive of him not to see the benefits to collaboration. By the time I'm done pushing forward the needed automation for my purposes, he may "come around." The only way I can see to avoid the overseas sweatshop option, is robotics, and it is initially quite costly. He may see that his business can't "scale" domestically without it, as well.

mf

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 17, 2014, 06:20:54 AM
Narcissism really has no bounds. Other than yourself and your self inflicted war on the world and it's heretics; exactly what do you have to broadcast that anyone (other than yourself) cares about?

Reported, and . . .

Objection, your honor. It is Mr. Fidget's right - his duty some might contend - to say anything he wishes about himself in a thread named after him! The prosecutor's comments are distasteful, unprofessional, & reek of a jealousy undeserved to be recognized as pertinent.

We request all charges to be dropped and the case dismissed due to the lack of any evidence of a crime being committed by my client.

In lieu of a list of damages â€" which are being tabulated - we request the bailiff restrain the prosecutor with large fidget-styled handcuffs, and that he be escorted to the nearest agony booth.

Immediately.

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Ozzy Osbourne - Perry Mason [Official Video]


Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on September 21, 2014, 11:15:44 AM
Reported, and . . .

Objection, your honor. It is Mr. Fidget's right - his duty some might contend - to say anything he wishes about himself in a thread named after him! The prosecutor's comments are distasteful, unprofessional, & reek of a jealousy undeserved to be recognized as pertinent.

We request all charges to be dropped and the case dismissed due to the lack of any evidence of a crime being committed by my client.

In lieu of a list of damages â€" which are being tabulated - we request the bailiff restrain the prosecutor with large fidget-styled handcuffs, and that he be escorted to the nearest agony booth.

Immediately.

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Ozzy Osbourne - Perry Mason [Official Video]


You got me bang to rights and no mistake, I'll come quietly.

Quote from: WildCard on September 21, 2014, 11:35:38 AM
What a brilliant idea! Let's build that.
http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/medieval-torture/

Somebody in a parallel evil universe is already working on that, but unfortunately it won't be operational for another couple of hundred years.

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Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on September 21, 2014, 12:37:49 PM
Somebody in a parallel evil universe is already working on that, but unfortunately it won't be operational for another couple of hundred years.

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That's always been your problem; excuses and lack of ambition. If you really wanted to build it, you would.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 21, 2014, 12:44:08 PM
That's always been your problem; excuses and lack of ambition. If you really wanted to build it, you would.

Thank you!  That's just the pep talk I needed to get me up off my lazy arse and into the workshop.  And I have a pretty good idea who the first test subject will be once the prototype is finished. 

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on September 21, 2014, 12:37:49 PM
Somebody in a parallel evil universe is already working on that, but unfortunately it won't be operational for another couple of hundred years.

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Be honest.  You got that photo from a FEMA camp.

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on September 21, 2014, 01:11:41 PM
Thank you!  That's just the pep talk I needed to get me up off my lazy arse and into the workshop.  And I have a pretty good idea who the first test subject will be once the prototype is finished.

You do? Hot damn; Pm me who it is, and I'll promise to keep schtum. Oh boy are they in for a surprise!! I can't wait to see the look on his face...Oh man, I take back every negative thing I said about you...brilliant.

Quote from: Georgie For President 2216 on September 21, 2014, 01:22:07 PM
Be honest.  You got that photo from a FEMA camp.

And you might just be a little too clever for your own good.  You should be hearing the helicopters any minute now.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on September 21, 2014, 01:30:28 PM
You do? Hot damn; Pm me who it is, and I'll promise to keep schtum. Oh boy are they in for a surprise!! I can't wait to see the look on his face...Oh man, I take back every negative thing I said about you...brilliant.

I can't tell you that, but I just realized the tests will have to be considerably more extensive than originally calculated.

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on September 21, 2014, 01:37:51 PM
I can't tell you that, but I just realized the tests will have to be considerably more extensive than originally calculated.

Well, if it hurts, he probably deserves it.  8)

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on September 21, 2014, 01:33:51 PM
And you might just be a little too clever for your own good.  You should be hearing the helicopters any minute now.

Well played, my friend.  Well played.  You won this round.

Mr. Fidget

   I heard from Jaz, the Linkey Fidgets have arrived in Australia. That was nice of MV to do. Thanks MV!

mf

ps. Other (as of yet unshipped) Linkey Fidgets will be shipped as possible.

WildCard

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 22, 2014, 10:34:31 PM
   I heard from Jaz, the Linkey Fidgets have arrived in Australia. That was nice of MV to do. Thanks MV!

mf

ps. Other (as of yet unshipped) Linkey Fidgets will be shipped as possible.
Very cool. Today, I'm pro-fidget. Tomorrow's another day.

Mr. Fidget

Original "Linkey Fidget" prototype packaging:
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Unboxed, yet capsuled:
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Of course, there will be a book with lots of fun, too.

mf

Mr. Fidget

   Shown below are the stages of spring-loading an Original LinkeyFidget. In picture 2, the ring-split has been lifted over the edge of the chain. If you turn the ring further, until it is about to come out of one side of the chain... it would look like picture 3. When you then "cycle" the LinkeyFidget there will be spring resistance at a certain point shown in picture 4. By putting both links (that are not pressuring the keyring) in a straight line, spring tension charge is accomplished. Pressing where the purple dot is will do it easily.
   Once spring tension is stored, the Original LinkeyFidget can be made to bounce (drop so it lands like picture 5), jump (tap like arrow in picture 6), and hurdle with a consistent method not illustrated below, basicly you balance the two straight links and snap it backwards... then it leaps forward. Spring resistance does vary in keyrings. Some will leap more than a foot high.

Spring-load at your own risk, be careful not to scratch the table, don't pinch your fingers!
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MV/Liberace!

Quote from: Mr. Fidget on September 22, 2014, 10:34:31 PM
   I heard from Jaz, the Linkey Fidgets have arrived in Australia. That was nice of MV to do. Thanks MV!

mf

ps. Other (as of yet unshipped) Linkey Fidgets will be shipped as possible.

Believe me when I tell you, I considered saying "screw him" and keeping all the fidgets for myself. Just a big pile of fidgets, all for me.

jazmunda

Quote from: MV on October 17, 2014, 09:15:23 PM
Believe me when I tell you, I considered saying "screw him" and keeping all the fidgets for myself. Just a big pile of fidgets, all for me.

But how would you have slept at night?

Quote from: jazmunda on November 18, 2014, 04:14:52 PM
But how would you have slept at night?

Comfortably on a boxspring made from fidgets.


Mr. Fidget

Quote from: MV on October 17, 2014, 09:15:23 PM
Believe me when I tell you, I considered saying "screw him" and keeping all the fidgets for myself. Just a big pile of fidgets, all for me.
I think it's good karma to help out a down underer.

   I'm curious what your (& Jaz, & General's) appraisal/opinion of them is? The only one you have that Art didn't get is the spinning top, I hadn't figured out that configuration yet. Just so you know... you can flip that one in the air like a coin and it'll make a "clickety clickety click" sound as it rotates... if you get enough of a spin.
   The "loops of chain" one can make a great hand exerciser by putting a rubber band around it and squeezing the other way. The tighter the rubber band, the harder to squeeze. I think that design (perhaps in another material than chain) could be good for physical therapy people, since the tension is adjustable and the clicking noise lets them know that they accomplish the task. This is perhaps better than traditional hand exercisers such as a rubber ball that they often squeeze in physical therapy now.

Also, I could answer any questions you three might have.

mf
ps. To the other few BG'rs that have requested fidgets: I apologize I haven't been able to send them, I've had a lot going on.
pps. And Coaster... whom said he wanted a fidget, didn't ever bother contacting me. Way to go Coaster.

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