Recent content by jwpretd

What branpureza noted is especially true of cue balls, and one-balls where rotation games are played a lot.

That's amazing. It must make the room feel a whole light brighter. Your customers must love the difference, especially women.

Most casual ocular dominance tests ignore the known fact that it can shift depending on the angle of the target in the vision field. This may or may not have implications for some users of Stan Shuffett's basic CTE and Pro One system, or of other systems. Not everyone has a dominant eye. Some...

Well, this really isn't the place for this discussion, but it would be difficult to do, and I have my doubts about anybody really being willing to spend several years developing a display mechanism for a moribund graphics technology. People capable of doing that kind of work would better serve...

Damn! I hadn't realized that this thread had turned into something worth reading. I gotta start paying more attention. Anyway.... And before that we had 78s. 78s were better because they went faster. :) One virtue of 45s was that as a record wore and the tone arm started to skip, you could...

In the video, it looks like you're using a normal carom ball set. Is that correct? If so, has the difference in cushion height and profile caused any differences in behavior between your table and a normal carom table?

While playing for the 14.1 world championship against Luther Lassiter, Babe Cranfield committed a foul that neither Lassiter nor the referee saw. Cranfield called the foul on himself and sat down. So at least one professional has been known to call a foul on himself in a game that mattered...

Went hill-hill. Joey came up a little short on a safety. It looked like his opponent (Bill somebody) was out, but he botched position for the 7 (I think), leaving a tough shot that he missed. That left Joey with a fairly easy out, which he handled with aplomb. Though it did look like maybe he...

Of course they are; and you don't have carpeting, right? Actually, larryt gave you the answer: sound deadening floor covering, which, as he noted, is usually lead impregnated into, or covered with, something. You may have an issue with its thickness making the table too high, depending on how...

He won the next one and is through to the final 16.

Are the neighbors above you, below you, or to the side with a common wall in between?

Because there isn't any info to share beyond what you've already been given several times. Ah! That explains every thing. By the way... You know they've fired the brewmaster at Coors, right? Guy's been there something like 35-40 years and wham! - right out on his butt. : : : : : : : : : : : ...

So that means 141-degree cut angles on the corner pockets (as the WPA specs loot at it)? What's the standard pocket shelf depth? Sorry to ask this here, but I don't think there's a Diamond anywhere in the area for me to measure.

Yes, but then at least you could get decent games to run :). Macromedia won't ever support Shockwave on Unix-like machines. The cost would be horrendous for no noticeable gain. They wouldn't even get good will out of it... I can already imagine the posts on Slashdot....

I think so. Left over cornbread broken up in Foremost Bulgarian buttermilk. It's one of my favorite treats. I can only get the buttermilk in Austin or San Antonio - about a hundred mile round trip so I only get it when I have to go to one of them, and I haven't been able to make it...