Who says nose piercings are useless?

 

 

 

Star Wars:





Raiders of the Lost Ark:






Batman:

 

Porkins! I always wondered how he fit into the cockpit of an X-Wing.

 

Carefully.


Much as a toilet was fitted to an ordinance rack on an A-1H Skyraider flown by Commander Clarence W. Stoddard on a bombing run over Vietnam in October 1965.

And subsequently dropped on the enemy.

Somewhere in a jungle in North Vietnam, to this day, there are shards of porcelain which defy explanation.





Reports from the wingman indicate that the toilet was not aerodynamically stable, and nearly struck the aircraft upon release.

 

 

 

 

We have a PM that tells someone to do a PM...

I'm contemplating creating a PM that tells somebody to do the PM that tells somebody to do the PM.

 

Are you guys ISO-9000 certified?

If so, there should be a procedure describing the steps for creating the PM instructing someone to do the PM.

 

As someone who really loved this game in the 90s, I find this video interesting:

 

 

 

As much as I hate being told how to do things, I miss being in an ISO 9001 certified shop.

 

 

Going through the actual process of becoming ISO-9001 certified was one of the most taxing experiences of my career. For basically a whole month, we got nothing at all designed or manufactured, and instead spent the whole time either sitting in conference rooms being taught how to properly a written document describing every single goddamned procedure in the whole building, INCLUDING the procedure for how to document procedures (which, of course was written before we had a procedure for documenting procedures), and then actually cranking out thousands of procedure for everything from how to assemble racks to how to drop your pants and take a ****.

I'm serious, towards the end of the process, I actually wrote the "how to take a ****" procedure, and submitted it just to see if anyone was actually paying attention to what they were approving. I gave it a dry, boring-sounding title so it blended in with the rest of the sanitation & waste-removal procedures, and apparently nobody was really paying much attention to what they were signing off on, because it got approved, had a process-control number assigned to it, and became an actual, official part of The Harris Corporation, Broadcast Division's ISO certification.

So far as I know, it's probably still sitting, untouched, in a binder somewhere in the factory, along with all the rest of them.

 

Life imitating art:

 

Yeah we are. We have tons and tons of ISO documents. Shockingly, none about the creation of an ISO approved document. We do have an issue change form which is used to create new documents. We also have SPLs which are instructions for stupid **** that doesn't need to be ISO approved. (Wipe until you don't see any brown) or how to make coffee.



Edit* you have to audit that stuff yearly. Somebody had to of seen it by now, Joe.

 

We had to go through the ISO certification process to continue supplying the big D contractors. The product development process I wrote (OK FINE adapted from a previous company) required virtually no mods to get us through certification. We're coming up on our recertification audit soon. They don't usually have much to say about things here, just keep up the good work.

Still, nobody thinks a SOP for making coffee was a good idea. I think about this every time I make afternoon coffee and dump out a half pot of late morning coffee.

SO I SAID F IT and made an automatic coffee freshness meter.




It's a raspberry pi
a neopixel (knockoff) strip
a gutted plantronics usb headset
and a small button for UI

It listens for the specific frequency and duration of the "coffee done" beeps and illuminates a bar graph that counts down over time and changes color to indicate the freshness of the coffee.

Turns out the raspberry pi has no audio input capability natively so the usb headset was key as it is essentially two speakers and a mic joined to a small usb sound card. That's the usb plug for it exiting and rentering itself. My plastic box was too small but also readily available and I did not G A F.

It works sometimes. The beeps are not exactly pure frequency sound but sort of a dual-frequency beep-buzz. The code I found is for smoke alarms (though can be tuned for frequency and number and duration of beeps). It's "meh" code but I don't have time to code better, I just want fresh coffee!