Weirdness: Round three

[Té Rowan]

Which again reminds me of the tale that the turbochargers in the German Class 232 locomotives came straight out of scrapped fighter jets. It should suffice to say that those units are no wallflowers, and certainly not with the old Kolomna prime movers.


Hoary Old Fic Time:
https://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/s/love-hina-fan-fiction/ring-hina/94578 by hawker_748.
Author's summary: An unspeakable horror has been unleashed upon the unsuspecting Hinata House. The lives of the residents will never again be the same.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/435276/1/Red-Moon by Fire.
Sailor Moon is political, very political, right from square zero.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14051039/1/Renascence by sakurademonalchemist. HP/P, nine chapters.
HP is reborn as fem!Ash, daughter of Dahlia and Giovanni. What else can go wrong?

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/Programm1959 — From RCA: Programmer with Magic Memory.
It's a TV set with a clock-operated on/off and channel selection. Do today's fancy TVs have a veg-out device like that?

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/waam-newark-nj-edison-transcription-test for WAAM in 1928.
Probably the oldest extant pre-recorded radio programme.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2022/05/24/japans-northernmost-brewery-on-the-mainland-is-a-temple/
Reminds me of the various abbey-brewed beers and ales.

[Té Rowan]

"Neither more nor more onerous causes are to be assumed, than are necessary to account for the phenomena." — William of Occam.

This variant of Occam's Razor is from the book "Investigations on the Theory of the Photographic Process".

[Té Rowan]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2210522/12/The-Ranma-Omake-Files-Innortal-Style
Somewhere in here Ranma has to suffer an entire loop… of magic girl fiancées. As in, a line of Serenities.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2022/05/30/convenience-store-robot-pilots-wanted-wages-start-at-1450-yen-per-hour/
Finally! A mecha pilot job! (Even if it's only for a stockroom labor.)

[Té Rowan]

NIST TechNote 1540: Propagation and detection of radio signals before, during, and after the implosion of a 13-story apartment building
NIST TechNote 1541: Propagation and detection of radio signals before, during, and after the implosion of a large sports stadium
NIST TechNote 1542: Propagation and detection of radio signals before, during, and after the implosion of a large convention center

Ever wonder how radio waves behave around a building when it's being demolished? Nope, neither had I.

[Té Rowan]

Hoary Old Fic Time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010124060300/http://www.sofaspud.org/couch/Ranma/GirlDays/ by Kenko. Seventeen chapters.
One of two fics that survive of the Sofaspud archive. Ranma-stuck-as-a-girl done with humour, looniness and the occasional Ran-mallet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010124060300/http://www.sofaspud.org/couch/Ranma/Redheads/ by Kenko. Three chapters.
The other Sofaspud survivor and a follow-up to Girl Days. Ranma and Akane end up in the Slayersverse.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Both worth reading!

[Té Rowan]

As far as I know, this is also the only remaining instance of Redheads on the Interwebz.


https://soranews24.com/2019/09/03/japanese-survey-finds-top-10-emoji-that-make-you-look-like-an-old-man/
Now we know. Those of us that still use smileys and 'face-words' are a bunch of old farts.

[Té Rowan]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/38698398 — "Madness, Magic, and Martial Arts" by Wyrmraker. Multi-cross. Twelve chapters.
After much adventuring (described in previous fics), Harry Potter is in Tokyo, studying medicine, learning martial arts from the NWC, making friends with Usagi – and snogging Minako.

[Té Rowan]

https://worldradiohistory.com/Electronics_Catalogs.htm
Y'know... I had all-out forgot how much fun browsing through catalogues could be.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

There were advantages to working in a museum/library. They had old catalogs up the wazoo. I present, for your delectation, the cover of the 1902 Sears Roebuck catalog of electrical this'n'that: