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wkosmann · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:15 am Post subject:

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Ok folks, I can't hold my meat forever! Who is in?

wallace

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Mr. Green · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:29 am Post subject:

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wkosmann · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:04 pm Post subject:

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:50 pm Post subject:

Assuming work doesn't screw me with travel or something, I'm in for coming over the 26th!

OK, what's the story with the Diventix, guys? Are you seriously going to send one those to electronics hell? What did it do to you? Wink

SC

wkosmann · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:46 pm Post subject: The History of Life

Dear SC;

Well, see, it was like this:

Once Upon A Time, long long ago (2006, December), in a state far far away, when God was knee high to a grasshopper, and the last of the dinosaurs still roamed the Great Midwest, a young Cliffy fast talked a "shouldda known better" BlendMaster (TM) Tim Martin into loaning him a Diventix blender. See, young Cliffy was still deciding between an evil stack Twisted Evil

or a wholesome blend Very Happy

for his new Home Theater.

Older, wiser Tim shipped young Cliffy the loaner Diventix. You know, the box that spent most of its life in a shipping container, bounced around by USPS, FedEx, and/or UPS loading dock knuckle draggers. Young Cliffy received said POS Diventix, roughly the day before the Blend Meet (TM), and proceeded to spend all night guessing at polynomial values for soft edge blending curves, barely getting a watchable picture about the time the first Blend Meet (TM) attendees begin to appear the next afternoon. Of course the poor Diventix was just wasted, having been up all night with Cliffy, after just having been slammed around on its cross-country journey to Indiana. The POS Diventix did not exactly shine that weekend..........

Young Cliffy swore off any future blending, and that's when he opted for the easy way out, and was seduced to the evil stack dark side. Evil or Very Mad

And this, Virginia, is how, first the double stack, and then later, the triple stack, came into being.

Any time I want to scare young Cliffy, I email him an image of a Diventix. Works every time. Nightmares for weeks...... Bringing a Diventix to Cliffy's Last Meet (TM) for target practice is simply upping the ante!

Unbiased William

PS: There is a happy ending to Young Cliffy's sad tale of woe. The next year (2007), Slightly-Older (SO) William decides to embark on the research project known as blending CRT projectors. SO William also contacts BlendMaster Tim, and arranges for the POS loaner Diventix to be shipped to his Home Theater, for an "Unveiling Meet" (TM). The POS Diventix performs no better for SO William than it performed for Young Cliffy. But, the slightly wiser, slightly older William had the foresight to have had the loaner shipped a couple of weeks before the Meet. So, there was time to adjust.

SO William then talks BlendMaster Tim into sending him a new Diventix. The new Diventix has none of the problems of the POS Diventix. SO William (with the help of Mike Parker, Terry F., JBJR, and others) successfully sets up the new Diventix, using no Soft Edge Blend Curve adjustments. The new Diventix has remained on SO William's equipment rack, ever since, performing its job admirably, with no hiccups whatsoever. In point of fact, Young Cliffy has visited SO William's HT numerous times, remarking that watching in SO William's HT reminds Young Cliffy of his own HT. The moral of the story: soft edge blending is not for everyone.

ecrabb · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:01 pm Post subject:

OMG, that was hilarious, William. Thanks for taking the time to bring us up to speed on the inside joke. Great story.

Having been in A/V and production in some capacity for most of the last twenty years, I really related to this part about Cliffy's plight getting ready for the meet:

wkosmann · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:15 pm Post subject:

Dear SC;

You are most welcome. I expect Slightly Older Cliffy to chime in just about any time, with some minor "corrections" to the story. I did provide the Reader's Digest version.

Who knows? He might make both me and the Diventix "dance" with his sawed off shotgun, loaded with slugs............

Slightly Older, Possibly Wiser, Probably Not Much Longer For This Earth
William

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**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:46 am Post subject:

An oath will be taken though to NEVER talk about the midget strippers.

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Wait wait wait......TRIPLE STACK! G90'S.....?!?!?!?!?!?....HOLY f*ck!!!! NOW I WANNA GO!!!! GOT PICS OF THIS THEATER?

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Mr. Green · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:07 am Post subject: