I mean, sure, this is perfectly normal.
I never knew such a cursed 3 phase wall switch existed, but I now know how it ceases to exist when it gets wet and catches fire on 480. Beautiful, no notes.
Dude! You’re…. going to HELL
Electro-sticky?
I found one of these little plasma lamps at Eco Thrift, and while pulling their characteristic messy-ass adhesive paper backed price label off the globe in a dark room, I was treated to the characteristic bright flashes of argon pink light from under the glass where the pressure sensitive adhesive bond was breaking.
Last I recall reading on it, this was kind of an interesting scientific curiosity – no one really understands just what’s going on as the pressure sensitive adhesive is pulled off. Researchers have studied the effects at the business end of a scanning electron microscope, which both allows very precise measurements of what’s happening to the adhesive at a molecular level and also messes up the observation process by throwing a flood of quantum Pokeballs at it.
Unfortunately I have yet to capture this happening on camera so you’re just gonna have to take my word for it I guess, but it looks identical to the streamers you get when one of the beams splashes down on the glass.
On a side note – I swear I’ve seen the same thing happen on an oscilloscope CRT, with added bonus phosphor activation and persistence happening when I pulled an undesirable label off the face. I didn’t realize at the time how interesting the effect I was seeing was at the time.
Considering that whatever was happening was likely pretty high voltage, if low energy, I think it might be worth watching out for this when handling nearby sensitive semiconductor devices like LDMOS RF transistors – if you want to get a sticky label off them, ground the leads and metal package.
8008
Heh heh heh it’s at BOOB miles
Now if only I could figure out where the heck I left my stash of the tiny oil filters for this cute little thing?? It’s time for an oil change. The bike takes 1 1/2 liters of 10W40 (doesn’t actually have to be made for a wet clutch system as this is all a dry type scooter CVT thing) and the little tiny filter the diameter of a poker chip. Dare I say the hardest part of changing the oil is getting it in there because direct access above the fill cap is obstructed. (This, but worse, appears to also be a Harley “feature”.)
You nanocephalic spunk trumpets
Number of times I’ve now had to deal with some absolute tosspot running a gasoline burning generator inside one of my broadcast facilities:
WHO TOLD YOU THIS WAS OKAY BECAUSE IT IS NOT. IT IS NEVER OKAY. YOU WERE TRYING TO KILL US ALL YOU ABSOLUTE WANKPUFFINS.
STOP.
THERE’S A 240 OUTLET LITERALLY TEN FEET FROM THIS.
I am so tired of this entire fucking industry. Please someone else just hire me, take me away from this cesspit of stupid. I’m so done.
When I first heard the engine sound I thought it was just one of those propane powered floor machines like they use to refinish the floors at Walmart, which are actually made to safely run in indoor spaces with adequate air circulation, but I just thought, ya know, that smells a little too much like former octane…… Which it was.
You fucking jizzed cupcake
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They were out of stock of all the caplet/gelcap cold medicine at the store so I had to get an allegedly “honey flavored” liquid and now I’m burping what tastes like old lady perfume
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I dislike it
From the “yes, an entire career change might be refreshing at this point” files
At work we have the decaying remains of an out of support and mostly dead Avaya [it hurts when]IP Office phone system. It’s being replaced by some terrible mix of Zoom soft phones and some newer IP desk sets, though they seem to be really stodgy about who gets the Yealink and who is going to be forced to drag around devices to stay on Zoom.
My work phone is a half decade old iPhone that probably logically shouldn’t even work. It’s starting to show its age with moments of lag, vastly reduced battery life, and failing to play notifications for incoming calls and messages from anything but Microsoft Teams (which of course suggests Teams itself is at fault, in my mind).
As part of an ongoing toxic as fuck (I mean, Amanita phalloides* stewed in a blend of dimethyl mercury and beryllium oxide and served in a jello shit brick toxic) pattern, the boss comes over and tries to make my life even more horribly difficult in retaliation for me missing two phone calls at work on Sunday because the new Zoom crap never even gave me a chance to answer them. I already received a very final warning about this at one point last year then missed another call when the Avayas took a flying shit one morning, and am still suffering consequences of that.
He tries calling me twice while damn near standing on my toes and making sure I’m carrying the phone with me, sure enough it didn’t ring. Eventually after I opened the Zoom app, it did work, with my answering the call first punctuated by a “this call is recorded” message.
I immediately said “what the fuck?”. He looked absolutely horrified and begged me not to use profanity on the BullshitFone again.
This makes me wonder…. The call is being recorded for *who*?
Maybe I’m just extra bitter about this because I was trying to go home because symptoms of a cold were kicking my ass today and my day just kept getting stretched with more and more last minute tasks that I really should have been able to start earlier but couldn’t because everything is absolute dongcopter and we have to keep jumping in to report on the fact that we’re at war again. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*This mushroom is also known as the Destroying Angel; consumption can easily be fatal or cause severe permanent organ damage. It is common in the wild in California and is a look-alike to some common edible species, which makes it especially dangerous. Ensure that any mushrooms you want to consume are safe and DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE ANY AI PRODUCT to identify safe mushrooms. We do have some common species here that are choice edibles with no look alike but that’s outside of the scope of my interest and knowledge of mycology, which is “oooh look at the pretty mushies”
It’s time for cuddles
And how.
Yes, scritch the rump
Blurrgghhhhhlhllbbllhlbl
Oh come on don’t make me play broadcast engineer on my day off
Feeling lucky?
Yeah I guess. I found a working Wavetek 288 though and that’s pretty lucky.
These are pretty fun signal generators. The output has a bunch of options for different impedances on balanced or unbalanced loads, AM/FM/CW modes, sweep, and different waveforms. If you find one where it boots up to a CAL REQUIRED message but will pass the auto calibration to this state you’re good. It will make you wait 20 minutes before the autocal button does anything though. The manual seems to suggest that the lithium coin cell has to be removed before it’s used on naval ships, which seems to suggest that the calibrations beyond what are dialed in using the trim pots inside aren’t exactly load bearing. Either way it’ll do everything I need it to.
I saw this funky video floppy drive at the surplus place too.
I don’t know what the name of the business is now, if it’s Surplus Stuff or PPSP Recycling, but the place is open again in Elk Grove. It’s at 9095 Elk Grove Boulevard on the corner at School Street. It’s behind the fireplace shop and it’s no longer a pitch dark cavern.
