Well , that does not mean that you are not strange. My wife has always said that I am strange, but then I just consider the source. NYUK, NYUK
What part of Alaska are you from. I was at Fort Wainwright (Fairbanks 63-66), during the Good Friday earthquake. Did the Shake, Rattle, & Roll that day, don't ya know!moved here in matsu valley in 2008.Well , that does not mean that you are not strange. My wife has always said that I am strange, but then I just consider the source. NYUK, NYUK
Me too... I learn to recognize my mistakes when I make them again.
That large robot I talked about had it's quirks also. I had one fault, showing a blocked sensor. I opened the cabinet door, and saw that the robot had moved all the way up, and deposited the disks into a tray on top of the drive stacks. This did not normally happen, and one of the disks was hanging over the edge, blocking the sensor. I could not reach it from inside the cabinet, FORTUNATELY, so I got a step ladder and climbed to the top. The cabinet was open at the top, for cooling, so I reached over and picked up the disk. Yes, you guessed it, the robot moved all the way down, again with the covers open. This robot ran on a 3 inch diameter screw drive, with a monster motor moving it, and I had seen it crush (like stepping on an empty coke can) a large spray can of lubricant which was left inside the cabinet by a tech, so I shudder to think what it would have done to me. I went to lunch and shook for 30 minutes.I can believe that, mate. When I was working for Verbatim, back in the 90's I was working on one of the robots which certified 3.5 inch floppy disks. The drives formatted both sides at the same time at 4 times normal speed. With 18 drives in 6 stages, the robot was busy!
It gave a fault that the product (disk) from one of the drives did not make it to the outfeed conveyor. I opened the cover, and saw that the disk was hanging over the edge of the conveyor. Keep in mind that the cover had a safety switch on it that stopped, OR WAS SUPPOSED TO STOP, the robot from moving while the cover was open. Normally I would have used a long screw driver to move the disk onto the conveyor, but my roll around box was 3 machines away, and I got lazy.
I reached my left hand in and knocked the disk onto the conveyor. Immediately, the robot moved down across my left index finger tip like a guillotine, taking off about 3/8 of an inch. When I pulled out my hand the tip was hanging on by a bit of skin, and there was blood everywhere. This was in a class 1 clean room too!
Being an EMT at the time, I calmly wrapped it up and went to the ER and got it sewed back on. It took a while to get the feeling back to the finger tip, and it is narrower than my right index finger, but it works fine.
Again, lesson learned. There was an investigation, and even the manufacturer's engineering rep could not explain why it moved, but I never really trusted that robot after that (can you say Christine?). That was one of the small robots, had it been one of the big ones, it might have taken my hand.
Yeah, man to really do a number on your thumb, you need a really big hammer (also known as a BFH), eh?
My "Skull Candy" bluetooth Headset uses USBC charging cable, but the other end of the cable has a usb connector which works no matter how you plug it into standard USB. It is simply a tab with contacts on both sides, and it slips into a standard USB socket. You literally cannot screw it up. Whoda thunk it was possible?
I can believe that, mate. I remember standing quarter deck watch on a destroyer in Newport Rhode island in winter. That wind would come up under my Pea coat, and blow up the pant legs of my dress blues. Frozen jewels!!!!
Frozen jewels!!!!
Ditto!
Pain is a good teacher:-I can relate. When we bought our current home, we did a great deal of renovating before moving in. We completely stripped the Kitchen, den, family room, and both bathrooms down to the bare studs, and started over. I pulled the electrical permit and did all the wiring myself. I was stapling some 14-3 Romex between 2 studs that were too close together to use my 16 oz curved claw hammer "normally" so I used the side of the head (genius move, eh?). Got that sucker really moving too! I hit my left thumb 4 times before I could stop the hammer from moving.
I once inadvertently created a log file in /bin and when I went to move it to my home directory, I must have put an extraneous space into the command 'cause I ended up moving /bin into my home directory. Things started to stop working really quickly when I did that. Production UNIX server - mission critical - a dozen or so customers logged in. Moving it back fixed things up with no lasting harm done (except to my self confidence, which was pretty well trashed) but we took a few minutes for an unscheduled reboot just to make sure all was well. I'm much carefuller now, except, apparently, with my USB cables - nothing like a couple of decades to help you get sloppy again.
What was that old saying? Oh, yeah..."Familiarity breeds contempt", just human nature. It is why we have a financial meltdown periodically, we just can't help ourselves. Oh wait, that is just plain GREED!!! Yeah, that's the ticket!
I remember back when I was traveling as a tech rep for NATO, I got a call from a client in a panic state. He said that his secretary was deleting files, and used the DOS command "delete*.* " . The problem was the secretary was in the root directory of drive "C" when she issued that infamous command..
. I slapped my forehead, and told him to shut it down, and I would be there in a week. Using my "Witchdoctor disk" (Norton Utilities) I restored DOS and all the files, and showed the secretary what had been done wrong. The panic was because none of the files had EVER been backed up. That problem was also corrected. Ah yes, the memories.That is what I keep telling my wife, but she would rather live in the Mohave desert, because "it's warm there".
Yeah, my home town is northeast of you, Eastport, the "eastern most city in the US.(really, really cool).
Greed - it's what makes the world go 'round. Unlike alcohol, which just makes the world -seem- to go 'round.
"Air conditioned by nature" according to the sign approaching Perry Corner, from the south, on route 1.
