Morse code key

What’s todays prize?

Blowjob. 

From dimmer.

That’s no prize.

Sorry dimmer.

They are all ancient sex toys.

That’s no prize. Sorry dimmer.

Hey, when I put on my wig and a nice dress, I get by. Top of one head looks much like another. Glovey, I am NOT ancient, I’m matured, got that?

What is it?

Better than a cold bath with someone you dislike?

Technically of course Hydrated is only partly correct: the hardware is for a telegraphy code device, which may or may not use Morse encoding (Morse was kinda the big hit of it’s day, but plenty of others existed, and most were patented by their owning companies so that while it was easy to intercept and decrypt messages, a competitor who did so could be taken to court and given a damn rough time).

Akin to the QWERTY typewriter, Morse is a really, really shitty encoding mechanic, designed to minimize the flaws in the hardware of the time at the expense of being usable. This built-in-fuckedupedness led to the creation of shorthands such as “SOS” ("SOS" by the way does not stand for “Save our souls” any more than it does “Sold our Sundays”—it’s just a simple pattern that implies some form of life that some wisealex later decided was an acronym.) One very simple way to improve upon Morse is to use prisoners code, wherein each letter is indicated on a 5x5 grid, tap out row, tap out column. Simply removing the issue of “Was that a dit or a daah?” leads to a high 30% accuracy between the two.

Wow, it’s 2:21 AM, and I’m blathering about shit that no longer matters and no-one cares about. Must find that doll.

Well I just put the ‘Morse” in there as people are more familiar with “Morse code’ then any other type of code. I never considered prison code so you got some splaining to do there dimmer, how do you know prison code?

Tesla’s the man!

Tesla is indeed the man. I probably own more books about him that any other inventor (I used to have a collection of his patents, but I gave that away as a meaningful gift.)

I wasn’t really riping you a new on over the Morse code deal: it’s just that since you didn’t want the BJ I had to make it look like you didn’t deserve it.

Prison code is really, really old. Fyodor references it in Crime and Punishment, Notes From Underground, Chekhov in Lady with Lapdog, and others. My personal exposure was in the Koestler novel/autobio “Darkness at Noon”. Gd I wish we had a few more people in power who read that rather than watch this weeks “24”.

One of his many inventions, the Tesla coil, has a sort of cult following and is a popular ‘make one at home’ project for maladjusted engineering students, professionals and other mis-wired individuals with fetishes for extremely high-voltage electricity.  Tesla coils don’t really do too much but they look insanely cool. One variant, the ‘Eye of Sauron’, is particularly spectacular.

Some examples here and here.

The Tesla Coil does rock: especially in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 when you can build them as base defenses that will shock the living snot out of anything enemty-like in their space. Because it’s a computer game, they can make the “pretty” also very, very unhealthy for your enemies troops.

His xfer for power sans wires is also both incredibly cool, yet also worrysome: a weapon that could kill everything of a DNA base within a 1,000 mile radius? That’s terrifying.

Nerds!
(in a beautiful way of course)

Dimmer, I wouldn’t mind a reading list in my inbox if you’re so inclined.

as for the rest of it, i think the key think looks like something that would open the torture chamber you so often se that looks like a crypt, as you close it, spikes protrude and slowly penetrate you all over. or if you are wesley snipes somehow you become a vampire/human hero.