How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
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But that's using all 3 poles right(into a power supply)? Getting 100a out of the 208 system is going to be fun. Honestly I wouldn't even do it because of balancing issues... But heck, I'm not the electrical engineer.
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But yeah, it's getting a bit silly around here. Heck, we just ran another 400A 3-phase distribution panel off the UPS to service the new racks I'm installing to hold all of the new storage arrays and graphics engine. Each rack is getting two 30a 208v power strips, as opposed to the older racks which have two 20a 120v strips each. The air conditioners in the machine room are starting to feel some strain.
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There's a conference call on Monday with the engineers, to determine whether or not the building is going to collapse. The set designers kind of forgot to do that step before spec'ing this monstrosity.
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It isn't.
Neither is the 12 foot long piece of frosted glass that they want to install in the 2nd floor newsroom. You know, the one that won't fit into the freight elevator? They're gonna have to knock out a window on the 2nd floor and hoist it in with a crane.
But they want everything to be shiny and pretty and amazing. I don't come up with this ****, I just figure out how to turn it into reality.
We wrote $2.5m worth of POs today. Rleete's pen is smoking.
Neither is the 12 foot long piece of frosted glass that they want to install in the 2nd floor newsroom. You know, the one that won't fit into the freight elevator? They're gonna have to knock out a window on the 2nd floor and hoist it in with a crane.
But they want everything to be shiny and pretty and amazing. I don't come up with this ****, I just figure out how to turn it into reality.
We wrote $2.5m worth of POs today. Rleete's pen is smoking.
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Actual excerpt from an email which I just sent:
How do we ensure that people are not maimed / killed by movement of the motorized monitor array, including possible inadvertent movement?
TV is weird. I'm doing all of this **** to compete for viewership against a gay polygamist from Oklahoma who owns cats.
How do we ensure that people are not maimed / killed by movement of the motorized monitor array, including possible inadvertent movement?
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Actual excerpt from an email which I just sent:
How do we ensure that people are not maimed / killed by movement of the motorized monitor array, including possible inadvertent movement?
TV is weird. I'm doing all of this **** to compete for viewership against a gay polygamist from Oklahoma who owns cats.
How do we ensure that people are not maimed / killed by movement of the motorized monitor array, including possible inadvertent movement?
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So we finally got the dedicated 7 ghz wireless video / data link between Tom Skilling's condo and the Hancock building working this morning.
Actual excerpt from an email which I sent this evening, in response to one of the Newscenter techs thanking us for getting this dedicated link established, thus freeing up one of their steerable antennas which are used to receive signals from the news trucks and helicopter:
I'm waiting to hear word that the condo board at Skilling's place has taken issue with the fact that he has a TV transmitter on his balcony. If that were to happen (and a sick, twisted part of me really hopes that it does), the morning show will make them wish that they'd never been born.
Actual excerpt from an email which I sent this evening, in response to one of the Newscenter techs thanking us for getting this dedicated link established, thus freeing up one of their steerable antennas which are used to receive signals from the news trucks and helicopter:
I'm waiting to hear word that the condo board at Skilling's place has taken issue with the fact that he has a TV transmitter on his balcony. If that were to happen (and a sick, twisted part of me really hopes that it does), the morning show will make them wish that they'd never been born.
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While you accomplish the mundane task of keeping news shows on the air, I am performing an essential function.
I, by virtue of exposing myself (and therefore my family), perform the absolutely vital service of keeping up the manufacturing of highway signs, tractor/trailer safety reflective tape and can return machines. I designed the lens that allows one to put a can in the return machine, without having to turn the bar code to a specific location. I have, by this earth-shattering innovation, saved countless hours of can return time. Because of this, it is imperative that I stay on the front lines, exposing myself to the hazards of the kung flu to keep America's can return services operating at peak efficiency.
You'd think that as a CAD operator, I could easily work from home. Nope, gotta be in the building, just in case. Of course, the boss is working from home...
I, by virtue of exposing myself (and therefore my family), perform the absolutely vital service of keeping up the manufacturing of highway signs, tractor/trailer safety reflective tape and can return machines. I designed the lens that allows one to put a can in the return machine, without having to turn the bar code to a specific location. I have, by this earth-shattering innovation, saved countless hours of can return time. Because of this, it is imperative that I stay on the front lines, exposing myself to the hazards of the kung flu to keep America's can return services operating at peak efficiency.
You'd think that as a CAD operator, I could easily work from home. Nope, gotta be in the building, just in case. Of course, the boss is working from home...
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There is a company right down the street from work that makes backyard products, called backyard products.
These guys are still working. I can only assume that sheds are essential because that's what everyone is going to be living in when they keep people locked in their homes all summer.
These guys are still working. I can only assume that sheds are essential because that's what everyone is going to be living in when they keep people locked in their homes all summer.
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The listing of Essential Businesses is weird.
I mean, I get it to a certain extent. People expect there to be TV when they turn on their TVs. And because of the national EAS network, we're all considered to be First Informers™. And everyone would freak out and lose their **** if they didn't get to learn whether or not he is the father. We also occasionally deliver 14 hours a day of actual, relevant news, for @Braineack to deride as being somehow fake or the byproduct of cronyism.
And yes, I understand that groceries, fresh water, ******, and electrical power are genuinely essential to, you know, maintaining some basic semblance of normal life and not dying either from starvation or the violence inherent in riots.
But I am honestly amazed by the fact that we are continuing to do demolition and construction work in the building, complete with really cool remotely operated demolishing robots.
Not my video, just stock footage of a unit slightly smaller than the one we have:
I mean, I get it to a certain extent. People expect there to be TV when they turn on their TVs. And because of the national EAS network, we're all considered to be First Informers™. And everyone would freak out and lose their **** if they didn't get to learn whether or not he is the father. We also occasionally deliver 14 hours a day of actual, relevant news, for @Braineack to deride as being somehow fake or the byproduct of cronyism.
And yes, I understand that groceries, fresh water, ******, and electrical power are genuinely essential to, you know, maintaining some basic semblance of normal life and not dying either from starvation or the violence inherent in riots.
But I am honestly amazed by the fact that we are continuing to do demolition and construction work in the building, complete with really cool remotely operated demolishing robots.
Not my video, just stock footage of a unit slightly smaller than the one we have:
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I was so depressed last night thinking about the pandemic, economy, jobs, my savings, the future, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Afghanistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.
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I was so depressed last night thinking about the pandemic, economy, jobs, my savings, the future, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Afghanistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.
I sat in a 2006 C-series Mercedes today. W203 chassis. I don't fit. Legroom is there, but laterally, shoulders are against the B-pillar and right leg jammed against the radio console. It was a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be... WAY smaller than our 2006 Mazdaspeed6, which had inches more room in every dimension. I could stretch out in the Mazda, which has 2" less wheelbase for comparison. Granted, transverse vs longitudinal, but it honestly wasn't close. There goes my plan for a low-mileage C55.
So, looks like I gotta step it up to an E-class... E55 or E63... YT has convinced me that I'm not a real man if I don't have a 500hp rear-drive sedan to commute in.
TOO SMALL!
JUST RIGHT?
EVEN BETTER?
So, looks like I gotta step it up to an E-class... E55 or E63... YT has convinced me that I'm not a real man if I don't have a 500hp rear-drive sedan to commute in.
TOO SMALL!
JUST RIGHT?
EVEN BETTER?
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