Things I find interesting: "googie architecture"

https://cheddar.com/media/how-los-an...itecture-style

Here, it's free now. Legally: https://ew.com/tv/star-trek-picard-episodes-free-online

Yiss

In my world of quotable quotes, as I study measurement uncertainty quantification:

In most empirical sciences, the penumbra is at first prominent, and becomes less important and thinner as the accuracy of physical measurement is increased. In mechanics, for example, the penumbra is at first like a thick obscuring veil at the stage where we measure forces only by our muscular sensations, and gradually is attenuated, as the precision of measurements increases. — Bridgman (1927, Page 36), quoted by Luce (1996)

Interesting quote. I guess the obverse observation would be that the more accurately you measure things, the more squishy they appear.

I feel an impending Heisenberg mention here

No, this is more Churchill Eisenhart.

DNM

It's a sign of our times that when good2go mentioned Heisenberg, the physicist was not the first person who came to mind. And I was trying to figure out the relevance of that reference.

You were thinking: Broadway play, Breaking Bad, or what?

I was not aware of the Broadway play. But yes, the one who knocks was the first image which came to mind.

Amusing anecdote: I tend to lag somewhat behind in watching major TV series. Typically, I'll wait until a show is either finished or into the final season, and then it'll be pretty much all I watch for a few months. Some exceptions, of course. Picard, for instance. But that's been my trend.

So, for several years, I had no idea what this rather crudely-drawn image meant, or why I'd been seeing a lot of it:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...80114ae197.png


And then, one day:

https://external-content.duckduckgo....jpg&f=1&nofb=1

Son in law just got laid off. He's a programmer who writes phone/handheld device apps for inventory/ordering for businesses. Was working with beverage distributor account. Anyone know of a job?

He's got a bachelor's degree from a large university in something computers something.

My older brother might be getting laid off with United Airlines since flights are way down. He just started with them not even a year ago after he flew for the Army for 24 years.

Tell them him to take a look here. Pay and benefits are great. Not at all positions have to be onsite, for the right candidate they will hire full-time remote. We are looking for 4 software devs just in OKC alone.

https://oracle.taleo.net/careersecti...ch.ftl?lang=en

Actual excerpt from a work-related email which I just sent a few minutes ago:The context is that we're dealing with a proposed set design that involves multiple large LED-monitor arrays which slide back and forth, and pivot. The "set designers" are obviously art-school grads with no comprehension of the fact that things have mass.

I'm going back and forth with the VP on this project. We're both on the same page, just trying to figure out the best way to say "Uhm, excuse me, but you are all insane" in the context of a conference call.

The subcontractor for the monitor array just came back to us with an estimate that this monitor array will weigh 16,000 lbs. Yes, you read that correctly. And, yes, they expect it all to hang from the ceiling of this 1950s vintage building, and be perfectly rigid and stable to hundreds-of-an-inch tolerance as these car-weighing monitors are sliding around.

He made a comparison to the fact that that's as much as the max gross load of six Cessna 182s at full takeoff weight. (We're both former recreational pilots.) I retorted that most people have never even seen a Cessna, but the Ford F-150 is a good common point of reference, since everyone has seen one, and that we're basically proposing to hang four Ford F-150s from the ceiling of the studio, and then swing them back and forth, a foot or two away from high-priced talent, live on national TV, every single day. There are so very many ways in which this could go horribly wrong.

The P.E. we have working the project, after having shit a few kittens, replied very calmly to the effect of "We will have to consider structural reinforcements not just to the studio ceiling, but to the building as a whole." Did I mention that we're talking about 8 tons of mass which moves rapidly both left-to-right and also in rotation, a foot or two away from high-priced talent, live on national TV?

My response was: Has anyone contacted our insurer about this?

I have not yet heard a reply.

Art school grads....

A picture is worth a thousand words. We put a picture of a nice Ferrari on the dust covers for our biz class seats with a sign that says: "This costs as much as this" so people treat them with kid gloves in production.

Maybe a cheezy shopped photo of several trucks hanging over the talent unscrupulously left somewhere where they will find it will make this problem solve itself.

​​​​​​​Did I mention that each of these several-hundred-pound 120" monitors is motorized in two axis?

Yes, they will slide side to side, and also pivot along the vertical axis. So, apparently they're well beyond caring about the fact that anyone standing near them will lose an arm (at best) if they are too close to the array when it executes a move, because absolutely no mention whatsoever has been made by the art-school folks of a safety-lockout system (optical-beam, floorplate sensor, etc) to date.

But it gets better.

I just got the spec for power consumption:

100a at 208v.

There are relatively few industrial machines which consume that kind of power. Mostly, they are the sort of things used to weld submarine hulls. And, as a broad generalization, they tend to be located in, how shall I say this... shipyards. Which are not exactly TV studios, where people mind the fact that there is a Saturn V rocket lifting off next to their head while they're on the air.

Did I fail to mention that? Yeah. The plans are for this thing that weighs 50% more than a killer whale to operate seamlessly during on-air shots.

I've done a number of renderings, but to be quite honest, am not posting any of them anywhere owing to the concern that anything I say in this matter may be subpoenaed in the future.


But I like the dust cover thing. Seriously, that's an ace move.

Joe I know you're not scared of a little challenge like this. :party:

I am however waiting for you to shut down the whole operation some small detail that nobody has thought of yet.
That's my specialty.

I don't think our largest electroforming tank uses that, including the pump motors.