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#31
Off Topic / Re: The Brassgoggles Model Mak...
Last post by chironex - September 17, 2024, 09:54:51 AM #32
Off Topic / Re: GAAAAAHHHHHH Mk.VI: The Re...
Last post by Sir Henry - September 17, 2024, 07:09:59 AMHopefully if they're all very similar, you can update your spam filter to include one of their key words/phrases and scupper the blighters.
However, I'll see your spammers and raise you - medical publishers!
Quite a few months ago one of the cancer research groups I'm patient representative for had a paper published in the British Medical Journal. This meant that my name and email address were published with it and ever since I've been getting 20 - 40 emails a day asking me to publish my research in their journals.
At first they were only asking £3000 per piece (for my first book that's what they paid me as an advance, not vice versa) but after a while it changed to "reduced fees" and finally "free publication". I did try to explain that as my latest research was into the geometry of curved tessellation when applied to 8th and 9th century sacred geometry, they probably wouldn't be interested, but it didn't even slow them down.
Then I started getting invitations to be an editor, or an attendee or speaker at conferences. And the scope of my expertise started to spread; I was now being invited to publish/speak on a glorious range of subjects, from gynaecology to robotics, colonoscopies to elbotics, none of which I know the faintest about.
There is one slight upside - there is a slight (and diminishing) enjoyment to be had starting your day reading emails to "Esteemed Doctor Henry" or "Renowned Professor Henry".
However, I'll see your spammers and raise you - medical publishers!
Quite a few months ago one of the cancer research groups I'm patient representative for had a paper published in the British Medical Journal. This meant that my name and email address were published with it and ever since I've been getting 20 - 40 emails a day asking me to publish my research in their journals.
At first they were only asking £3000 per piece (for my first book that's what they paid me as an advance, not vice versa) but after a while it changed to "reduced fees" and finally "free publication". I did try to explain that as my latest research was into the geometry of curved tessellation when applied to 8th and 9th century sacred geometry, they probably wouldn't be interested, but it didn't even slow them down.
Then I started getting invitations to be an editor, or an attendee or speaker at conferences. And the scope of my expertise started to spread; I was now being invited to publish/speak on a glorious range of subjects, from gynaecology to robotics, colonoscopies to elbotics, none of which I know the faintest about.
There is one slight upside - there is a slight (and diminishing) enjoyment to be had starting your day reading emails to "Esteemed Doctor Henry" or "Renowned Professor Henry".
#33
Off Topic / Re: GAAAAAHHHHHH Mk.VI: The Re...
Last post by Madasasteamfish - September 17, 2024, 06:26:16 AMIn a word SPAMMERS!
In more depth, for the past day or so I've been getting bombarded with spam emails (Over 20 just this morning) that are somehow getting past my spam filter, all in the same vein (my computer is apparently infected with multiple viruses, which of course they've detected but my antivirus hasn't).
Just get some originality
In more depth, for the past day or so I've been getting bombarded with spam emails (Over 20 just this morning) that are somehow getting past my spam filter, all in the same vein (my computer is apparently infected with multiple viruses, which of course they've detected but my antivirus hasn't).
Just get some originality
#34
The Engine Room / Re: ??
Last post by Madasasteamfish - September 16, 2024, 07:35:04 AMI know things are rather quiet as things stand, however I suspect that's because of the way social media (particularly Facebook and this clock app thingamie) have come to dominate online spaces and emerge as the erchins' favoured method for finding like minded people and they're simply not doing the digging that would bring them to our venerable halls here.
Also, the community seems to have become somewhat fragmented and is getting increasingly cliquey as Steampunk has reached a great enough level of awareness that people aren't proselytising in the same way as they were a decade ago and seems to have attracted a lot more of the Pikedevant ("just glue some gears on it") types.
That said, I don't really tend to have all that much to say and am happy enough lurking in a dark corner....
Also, the community seems to have become somewhat fragmented and is getting increasingly cliquey as Steampunk has reached a great enough level of awareness that people aren't proselytising in the same way as they were a decade ago and seems to have attracted a lot more of the Pikedevant ("just glue some gears on it") types.
That said, I don't really tend to have all that much to say and am happy enough lurking in a dark corner....
#35
The Engine Room / Re: ??
Last post by RJBowman - September 15, 2024, 04:17:39 PMSadly, the large social networks have taken all the traffic away from the old message forums, just as the message forums took all the traffic away from Usenet. But Usenet and the forums still exist, and the die-hards will still check in and keep them alive.
#36
The Engine Room / Re: Stand By to Repel Boarders...
Last post by von Corax - September 15, 2024, 02:00:13 PMQuote from: SeVeNeVeS on September 15, 2024, 01:48:53 PMhttps://brassgoggles.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=109060
Reported to mods
Exposed as a spammer, and wrapped up in a ban.
#37
The Engine Room / Re: Expression of Interest
Last post by von Corax - September 15, 2024, 01:59:10 PMQuote from: J. Wilhelm on September 14, 2024, 09:42:12 PMQuote from: von Corax on September 14, 2024, 01:15:56 PMI have had an expression of interest in Brass Goggles' acquisition by a network of hobbyist sites. I have politely declined, as I wish to maintain Tinkergirl's commitment to keeping Brass Goggles advertisement-free.
Network of Hobbyist Sites??
Color me skeptical. Also, make sure they're not confusing the Forum with another venue, like (I believe) a Facebook group of the same name. There's more than one Brassgoggles nowadays.
PS I would also be mindful of any intellectual property rights. Nagy, Herr Döktor, et. al. And last, but not least your humble servant. Though I arranged to retain ownership of the iCog Mercury laptop, this was a contract with Sony America.
No worries; it simply ain't gonna happen.
#38
The Engine Room / Re: Stand By to Repel Boarders...
Last post by SeVeNeVeS - September 15, 2024, 01:48:53 PM #39
Tactile / Re: Carpentopod Walking Table,...
Last post by Sir Henry - September 15, 2024, 10:11:20 AMThanks, but I can't find the drawings or a link to them on that page, just the linkages diagram.
Normally I'd use the photos and videos to reverse engineer it, but he talks about sub-millimeter tolerances, so something a bit more accurate is probably needed (or rather more trial and error than I would like).
Normally I'd use the photos and videos to reverse engineer it, but he talks about sub-millimeter tolerances, so something a bit more accurate is probably needed (or rather more trial and error than I would like).
#40