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“Steroids are as American as apple pie”.

I was on vacation in London, Ontario last week so I watched a pretty cool documentary about anabolic steroids, “Bigger, stronger, faster*”. The film maker is the middle of three brothers. He shows some old footage of them growing up pudgy and weak (something I can definitely empathize with). Then they all buy into “the [...]

Posted 05 October 2008 † Dmitry § movies § reviews ‡ Comments (0) °

Retro Beauty: Nixie Tubes and Nixie Clocks

Retro stuff is cool. I’m convinced that if we lived in Artzybasheff ’s future, zeppelins would still roam the skies and all of our “business machines” would be Nixie tube based.
Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of what Nixie tubes are. Basically, nixie tube consists of a conductor suspended in some gas in a glass [...]

Posted 10 July 2006 † Dmitry § geek § misc ‡ Comments (0) °