So, we need 20% more compressed air than we have, for the emergency replacement jetmill (the old one went boom). So we disconnect the power feed to #2 6' ball mill, string 200 feet of cable for 480VAC/220 amps to the supplementary compressor until Building K's new motor control center comes online next week (then switch over and reinstall the 6' ball mill), THEN run 2 air driers in parallel to make up for the fact that I don't have any driers that are big enough, MEANWHILE cutting steel to make the new jetmill PHYSICALLY fit where it has to go, AND THE WHOLE TIME, I have Japanese engineers all over the kiln Filthy Assistant trashed, because AFTER the repair, burner #9 skin temperature shot to 600 Centigrade, burned through, cooked the gas line, which in turn flashed the conduit next to it, and shorted out the entire kiln MEANING that the temperature crashed, and the refractory brick marched 3 feet out the ass end of the kiln WHICH IN TURN tore the conveyor to bitty pieces.
All of this has to be operational by Tuesday at 2PM.
But that's okay, BECAUSE
*pant, pant, wheeze*
WE'RE GODDAMN MAINTENANCE APES, AND WE CAN DO FUCKING ANYTHING.
TGRR,
Back to work! WARP FACTOR 9, JACKASSES!
Whoa.
This sounds LIKE SO MUCH FUN.
Sometimes I wish we could have video feed of your madness. :lulz:
:eek:
Also, a live video feed of your plant would be so epic!
MORE FUN THAN YOU REALLY WANTED
Your workplace is a madhouse. I know you know this. I'm just thinking outloud.
Quote from: Queef Erisson on April 19, 2013, 07:41:45 PM
Your workplace is a madhouse. I know you know this. I'm just thinking outloud.
My workplace is like 24 acres of MAINTENANCE GEEK HEAVEN.
And contained explosions
BUT MOST OF ALL
PILLZ HERE!
OH, SO ACCOUNTING HAS ISSUES WITH $230,000 WORTH OF MAD SCIENCE.
Email sent to Rod in AFE-land:
QuoteDear Mongoloid Bean Counter:
I have read the email you sent listing your concerns and objectives to a measly quarter-million bucks. Given that the loss of customers resulting from the failure to produce on time/in spec will only cost us a few million this year alone, along with COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE LOSS OF MARKET SHARE, meaning that the $450 million dollar project in Germany is DEAD IN THE WATER, MONEY ALREADY SPENT. I am sure, as you must be sure, that you don't want to explain this to your boss, as you both walk out to your cars for the last time.
I have a proposal, though, that could make everyone happy. We don't run the second compressor, and instead you and your department come down to Tucson and blow into the end of the pipe. As full of wind as You People are, I expect we can easily maintain 1000 SCFM at 100 PSI indefinitely, if you work in shifts.
Up the revolution, you yammering gasbag,
Roger
PS: If this email hurt your feelings enough to contact HR, I assure you that I still have those pictures of your little "incident" at the strip joint in Lafayette last July, you naughty little monkey. No, this isn't "putting the arm on you", it's outright fucking extortion. Love & kisses, Rod, love & kisses.
Yowza.
That's fucking awesome.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 19, 2013, 08:44:43 PM
Yowza.
That's fucking awesome.
The best addition to technology EVER was the cell phone camera. I shit you not.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2013, 08:41:28 PM
OH, SO ACCOUNTING HAS ISSUES WITH $230,000 WORTH OF MAD SCIENCE.
Email sent to Rod in AFE-land:
QuoteDear Mongoloid Bean Counter:
I have read the email you sent listing your concerns and objectives to a measly quarter-million bucks. Given that the loss of customers resulting from the failure to produce on time/in spec will only cost us a few million this year alone, along with COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE LOSS OF MARKET SHARE, meaning that the $450 million dollar project in Germany is DEAD IN THE WATER, MONEY ALREADY SPENT. I am sure, as you must be sure, that you don't want to explain this to your boss, as you both walk out to your cars for the last time.
I have a proposal, though, that could make everyone happy. We don't run the second compressor, and instead you and your department come down to Tucson and blow into the end of the pipe. As full of wind as You People are, I expect we can easily maintain 1000 SCFM at 100 PSI indefinitely, if you work in shifts.
Up the revolution, you yammering gasbag,
Roger
PS: If this email hurt your feelings enough to contact HR, I assure you that I still have those pictures of your little "incident" at the strip joint in Lafayette last July, you naughty little monkey. No, this isn't "putting the arm on you", it's outright fucking extortion. Love & kisses, Rod, love & kisses.
:lulz: This was AMAZING.
I need to put you in charge of my love life immediately.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on April 19, 2013, 08:59:08 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2013, 08:41:28 PM
OH, SO ACCOUNTING HAS ISSUES WITH $230,000 WORTH OF MAD SCIENCE.
Email sent to Rod in AFE-land:
QuoteDear Mongoloid Bean Counter:
I have read the email you sent listing your concerns and objectives to a measly quarter-million bucks. Given that the loss of customers resulting from the failure to produce on time/in spec will only cost us a few million this year alone, along with COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE LOSS OF MARKET SHARE, meaning that the $450 million dollar project in Germany is DEAD IN THE WATER, MONEY ALREADY SPENT. I am sure, as you must be sure, that you don't want to explain this to your boss, as you both walk out to your cars for the last time.
I have a proposal, though, that could make everyone happy. We don't run the second compressor, and instead you and your department come down to Tucson and blow into the end of the pipe. As full of wind as You People are, I expect we can easily maintain 1000 SCFM at 100 PSI indefinitely, if you work in shifts.
Up the revolution, you yammering gasbag,
Roger
PS: If this email hurt your feelings enough to contact HR, I assure you that I still have those pictures of your little "incident" at the strip joint in Lafayette last July, you naughty little monkey. No, this isn't "putting the arm on you", it's outright fucking extortion. Love & kisses, Rod, love & kisses.
:lulz: This was AMAZING.
I need to put you in charge of my love life immediately.
It's beauteous, isn't it? :lulz:
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on April 19, 2013, 08:59:08 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2013, 08:41:28 PM
OH, SO ACCOUNTING HAS ISSUES WITH $230,000 WORTH OF MAD SCIENCE.
Email sent to Rod in AFE-land:
QuoteDear Mongoloid Bean Counter:
I have read the email you sent listing your concerns and objectives to a measly quarter-million bucks. Given that the loss of customers resulting from the failure to produce on time/in spec will only cost us a few million this year alone, along with COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE LOSS OF MARKET SHARE, meaning that the $450 million dollar project in Germany is DEAD IN THE WATER, MONEY ALREADY SPENT. I am sure, as you must be sure, that you don't want to explain this to your boss, as you both walk out to your cars for the last time.
I have a proposal, though, that could make everyone happy. We don't run the second compressor, and instead you and your department come down to Tucson and blow into the end of the pipe. As full of wind as You People are, I expect we can easily maintain 1000 SCFM at 100 PSI indefinitely, if you work in shifts.
Up the revolution, you yammering gasbag,
Roger
PS: If this email hurt your feelings enough to contact HR, I assure you that I still have those pictures of your little "incident" at the strip joint in Lafayette last July, you naughty little monkey. No, this isn't "putting the arm on you", it's outright fucking extortion. Love & kisses, Rod, love & kisses.
:lulz: This was AMAZING.
I need to put you in charge of my love life immediately.
Love letters are my speciality.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2013, 09:01:08 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on April 19, 2013, 08:59:08 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2013, 08:41:28 PM
OH, SO ACCOUNTING HAS ISSUES WITH $230,000 WORTH OF MAD SCIENCE.
Email sent to Rod in AFE-land:
QuoteDear Mongoloid Bean Counter:
I have read the email you sent listing your concerns and objectives to a measly quarter-million bucks. Given that the loss of customers resulting from the failure to produce on time/in spec will only cost us a few million this year alone, along with COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE LOSS OF MARKET SHARE, meaning that the $450 million dollar project in Germany is DEAD IN THE WATER, MONEY ALREADY SPENT. I am sure, as you must be sure, that you don't want to explain this to your boss, as you both walk out to your cars for the last time.
I have a proposal, though, that could make everyone happy. We don't run the second compressor, and instead you and your department come down to Tucson and blow into the end of the pipe. As full of wind as You People are, I expect we can easily maintain 1000 SCFM at 100 PSI indefinitely, if you work in shifts.
Up the revolution, you yammering gasbag,
Roger
PS: If this email hurt your feelings enough to contact HR, I assure you that I still have those pictures of your little "incident" at the strip joint in Lafayette last July, you naughty little monkey. No, this isn't "putting the arm on you", it's outright fucking extortion. Love & kisses, Rod, love & kisses.
:lulz: This was AMAZING.
I need to put you in charge of my love life immediately.
Love letters are my speciality.
I feel like my strategy should be posting the messages I get from men on OKC, and having you draft my responses.
What could go wrong?
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on April 19, 2013, 09:44:13 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2013, 09:01:08 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on April 19, 2013, 08:59:08 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 19, 2013, 08:41:28 PM
OH, SO ACCOUNTING HAS ISSUES WITH $230,000 WORTH OF MAD SCIENCE.
Email sent to Rod in AFE-land:
QuoteDear Mongoloid Bean Counter:
I have read the email you sent listing your concerns and objectives to a measly quarter-million bucks. Given that the loss of customers resulting from the failure to produce on time/in spec will only cost us a few million this year alone, along with COMPLETE AND IRREVERSIBLE LOSS OF MARKET SHARE, meaning that the $450 million dollar project in Germany is DEAD IN THE WATER, MONEY ALREADY SPENT. I am sure, as you must be sure, that you don't want to explain this to your boss, as you both walk out to your cars for the last time.
I have a proposal, though, that could make everyone happy. We don't run the second compressor, and instead you and your department come down to Tucson and blow into the end of the pipe. As full of wind as You People are, I expect we can easily maintain 1000 SCFM at 100 PSI indefinitely, if you work in shifts.
Up the revolution, you yammering gasbag,
Roger
PS: If this email hurt your feelings enough to contact HR, I assure you that I still have those pictures of your little "incident" at the strip joint in Lafayette last July, you naughty little monkey. No, this isn't "putting the arm on you", it's outright fucking extortion. Love & kisses, Rod, love & kisses.
:lulz: This was AMAZING.
I need to put you in charge of my love life immediately.
Love letters are my speciality.
I feel like my strategy should be posting the messages I get from men on OKC, and having you draft my responses.
What could go wrong?
I'm down.
So...Only one air dryer available, and it WOULD be enough, if we were at sea level.
Since I can't bring it to sea level, I brought sea level to it.
:hammer:
Have vacuum pumps, will travel.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 20, 2013, 02:13:45 AM
So...Only one air dryer available, and it WOULD be enough, if we were at sea level.
Since I can't bring it to sea level, I brought sea level to it.
:hammer:
Have vacuum pumps, will travel.
SCIENCE.
Quote from: Suu on April 20, 2013, 02:26:00 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 20, 2013, 02:13:45 AM
So...Only one air dryer available, and it WOULD be enough, if we were at sea level.
Since I can't bring it to sea level, I brought sea level to it.
:hammer:
Have vacuum pumps, will travel.
SCIENCE.
:science:
:peedee:
I don't see how any of this can fail.
I think I remember from somewhere else that your plant makes aluminum oxide? This strongly implies that either your jet and ball mills are made out of SOLID DIAMOND, or holes are periodically worn through them that shoot streams of powdered sapphire at an abrasive bazillion PSI.
Either way, fabulousness.
Who needs cyberpunk? The Future is right here!
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on April 20, 2013, 06:02:21 PM
Who needs cyberpunk? The Future is right here!
Fact: William Gibson TOTALLY missed the idea of CELL PHONES.
Science fiction FAIL.
Fact: William Gibson had no idea how (then) current technology worked, so his extrapolations were built on a pretty fucking shakey foundation. What he wrote was actually an aesthetic, based on having seen bladerunner a couple of times, crossed with abstract corporate politics.
Worst Scifi author since Shakespeare :argh!:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 31, 2014, 08:05:11 AM
Fact: William Gibson had no idea how (then) current technology worked, so his extrapolations were built on a pretty fucking shakey foundation. What he wrote was actually an aesthetic, based on having seen bladerunner a couple of times, crossed with abstract corporate politics.
Worst Scifi author since Shakespeare :argh!:
Whatever, I took like half a semester on personal leave just to smoke weed and consume Neuromancer at the most leisurely possible rate I could muster. A learning experience second only to thesis completion, for me. All future technology will suck his dick, in perpetuity.
My experience of Neuromancer was under similar conditions. I reckon I gained more insight from the weed, personally.
After reading "all tomorrows parties" I think of him more as a cross between a walt disney futurist and an anthropologist.
He did see runaway missuse of the google glass coming though.
Is it bad that I am not at all sure who the hell William Gibson is? Some kind of science fiction writer, I have gathered. Is he the guy who wrote Generation X?
he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 31, 2014, 11:17:56 AM
My experience of Neuromancer was under similar conditions. I reckon I gained more insight from the weed, personally.
Granted, that whole Wintergreen thing was confusing, still, it was more engaging that my pre-req's :lulz:
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 31, 2014, 10:52:15 PM
he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.
I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on June 01, 2014, 04:22:58 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 31, 2014, 10:52:15 PM
he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.
I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.
Miseryguts dystopianism. Doom porn.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 01, 2014, 05:11:41 AM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on June 01, 2014, 04:22:58 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 31, 2014, 10:52:15 PM
he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.
I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.
Miseryguts dystopianism. Doom porn.
Ooooh, I bet that was popular in the 1990's!
"Gibson-esque" became the cyberpunk equivalent of "Orwellian" it was depressing. Dude was like the luddite version of Charlie Stross or Corey Doctorow
Yea, not really summer beach reading material.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on June 01, 2014, 06:08:17 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 01, 2014, 05:11:41 AM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on June 01, 2014, 04:22:58 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 31, 2014, 10:52:15 PM
he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.
I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.
Miseryguts dystopianism. Doom porn.
Ooooh, I bet that was popular in the 1990's!
We had, you may recall, that fucked up guy from Seattle singing about how fucked everything was. We spent the first half of the decade fapping to Victorious War Porn, and the second half worrying about a blue dress and where the cigar goes. It was a decade that DESERVED Gibson.
I don't remember how any of this came up in the first place, but Snow Crash is the only cyberpunk anyone needs to read ever. Well, maybe Phillip K Dick too, but if it's a one book thing then Snow Crash.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 02, 2014, 01:32:32 AM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on June 01, 2014, 06:08:17 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 01, 2014, 05:11:41 AM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on June 01, 2014, 04:22:58 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 31, 2014, 10:52:15 PM
he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.
I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.
Miseryguts dystopianism. Doom porn.
Ooooh, I bet that was popular in the 1990's!
We had, you may recall, that fucked up guy from Seattle singing about how fucked everything was. We spent the first half of the decade fapping to Victorious War Porn, and the second half worrying about a blue dress and where the cigar goes. It was a decade that DESERVED Gibson.
Ah, it all makes sense! The era of Alternative Rock, a time when youth was all about showing off how jaded you were by watching Faces of Death without flinching.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 02, 2014, 02:32:13 AM
I don't remember how any of this came up in the first place, but Snow Crash is the only cyberpunk anyone needs to read ever. Well, maybe Phillip K Dick too, but if it's a one book thing then Snow Crash.
I thought Snow Crash was John Krakauer's retelling of that plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972, where they had to eat the dead passengers in order to survive.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on June 02, 2014, 02:39:40 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 02, 2014, 02:32:13 AM
I don't remember how any of this came up in the first place, but Snow Crash is the only cyberpunk anyone needs to read ever. Well, maybe Phillip K Dick too, but if it's a one book thing then Snow Crash.
I thought Snow Crash was John Krakauer's retelling of that plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972, where they had to eat the dead passengers in order to survive.
And there I was thinking it was the second installment of an Iceberg Slim trilogy.
Nigel and Lucifer, I can't tell if you are serious.
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_CrashThe book presents the Sumerian language as the firmware programming language for the brainstem, which is supposedly functioning as the BIOS for the human brain. According to characters in the book, the goddess Asherah is the personification of a linguistic virus, similar to a computer virus. The god Enki created a counter-program which he called a nam-shub that caused all of humanity to speak different languages as a protection against Asherah (a re-interpretation of the ancient Near Eastern story of the Tower of Babel).
Though I think Nigel may prefer Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller.
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_%28novel%29In the novel, Taylor is a chemist working for GEE, a fictional environmental activism group which stages both protests and direct actions plugging toxic waste pipes. Taylor becomes involved with Basco Industries, a fictional corporation which produced Agent Orange and is a major supplier of organic chlorine compounds. Basco experiments with genetic engineering to develop chemical producing microbes, driving Taylor's efforts to expose their crimes and preserve Boston Harbor.
A number of the later events of the novel take place on Boston Harbor's Spectacle Island which at the time of publication was almost entirely composed of garbage. In the story it is frequented by drugged-out and reputedly Satanic groupies of the "two-umlaut" heavy metal music band, Pöyzen Böyzen, who are too intoxicated with angel dust to realize they are poisoning themselves with the toxic waste that was dumped there.
Well, one thing for sure, is that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with airplane crashes or cannibalism.
Interest lost.
D.D.O.S. To counter linguistic virus infiltration and side-step the plots requirement for weaponized SDA/RI's leveraged toward human exploitation... I might just have to stay up and read that.
[it had me at Deliverator]
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 02, 2014, 02:20:15 PM
Well, one thing for sure, is that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with airplane crashes or cannibalism.
Interest lost.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 05, 2014, 02:07:08 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 02, 2014, 02:20:15 PM
Well, one thing for sure, is that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with airplane crashes or cannibalism.
Interest lost.
:lulz:
There's a guy with a Nuke on a deadman's switch... Everybody is really friendly to him.
Okay, so I'm like 1/4 through lite-reading snow crash, and I'm kinda waiting for something to happen... So turns out he also wrote Necronomicon, and I feel a little late to the party. Thanks, you know who you are :oops:
Cryptonomicon.
And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.
Quote from: LuciferX on June 10, 2014, 06:27:58 AM
Okay, so I'm like 1/4 through lite-reading snow crash, and I'm kinda waiting for something to happen... So turns out he also wrote Necronomicon, and I feel a little late to the party. Thanks, you know who you are :oops:
Snow Crash sucked, really.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 10, 2014, 12:02:11 PM
Cryptonomicon.
And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.
Cryptonomicon was amazing.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2014, 04:02:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 10, 2014, 12:02:11 PM
Cryptonomicon.
And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.
Cryptonomicon was amazing.
Thanks for all the re-points. Snow Crash was all playing like it had a great grip on this story, and it was failing to Deliverate. :rbtg:
[I was not expecting the emoticon gape, eh, now I feel conflicted: Disclaimer: see what happens when you don't see things through :lol:]
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on June 10, 2014, 12:02:11 PM
Cryptonomicon.
And he also wrote "Anathem", which is one hell of a book.
Is it? I'll have to pick it back up again at some point. After nearly 200 pages of what amounted to gobbledygook, I decided I was not in the right mood for it. That was about a year ago. I haven't quite given up on it though.
Not to give away too much of the plot, but it's basically the best "show, don't tell" example of the Multiple Universes theory going.
A lot of other stuff happens, too. And words. Many, many words. It's Hard SciFi at it's best, IMO.