still bulb

hello there


i do find it quite remarkable, look you see, to see what posts here gather more "reads" or "hits" than others. as per previous confessions i never, to be sure, actively hunt huge reading numbers, but it is always splendid when something what i do or muse upon reaches a significant audience.

and what an audience i reached, ladies and gentlemen, with a humble post on a £1 light bulb off of Pounldand. here is the link to it, although at time of going to press some 1500 of you have already had a gander.

whereas i suspect such high reading figures shall not be repeated, i thought or maybe felt that some of you that took the time to read the first post may well want an update. and here it is.

yes, indeed, quite. as you can see in the glory of Commodore 64 mode, the bulb is still performing. this is not so much not bad as it is really rather good. we are, after all, some 15 months down the road with it and still it works. splendid value for £1, excluding the operational electricity supply costs, which i cannot imagine being very much at all.

the latest thing to amuse me is the ability to make a "gif" in Commodore 64 mode. which is why the above image should be all animated for you; illustrating the vagaries of the bulb at work.

how much longer do i anticipate this bulb working for? well, i am quite pleased that it has made it this far. no doubt it shall be a sad day when it pops, but also a somewhat good one. the light emanating off of it is, shall we say, dim, and makes reading by it quite an eye straining thing. as and when it pops it shall take me some time to adapt to a brighter bulb being in, but it will be all win thereafter.

and it shall be a regular bulb installed next, for it seems these "vintage" ones are no longer available to buy. that said, i have seen some fancy "disco" ones, but i suspect they will be far too distracting to read the words of certain, or if you like several, novelists by. we shall see.

for some reason a number of you prefer pictures in non-Commodore 64 mode, so there you go. yes, indeed, i do appreciate that i could have dusted the bulb prior to taking this picture, but it was around midnight when the thought came to me to take an image, and i could not be bothered, frankly.

well, anyway, that's that, or we will call it as such. i am pretty sure that over the years, and in this post, i have said all that i possibly could on this particular subject.



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