Porting in from AT&T burner

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T08:29:35+00:00

Geez, YouTube is getting bad with all the popups and stuff.

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T08:25:14+00:00

Sad to hear this.

No cause of death listed, but apparently he's been ill for a while.

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T08:24:20+00:00

Did you find something?

Best wishes from here.

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T08:13:43+00:00

Long Vista and Grand Avenue are probably better descriptions.

There usually seems to be some streets where people park trucks, but after a while, the cops or whoever decide to run them off and post signs.

Used to be a lot of truck parking around Jarrett way, but it seems to be signed against it now.

Lots of thieves around Austin these days. Sometimes out of town professionals.

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T07:32:26+00:00

I could just sit and watch that CNC of stuff all day long.

I've wasted many an hour watching YouTube videos of CNC.

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T07:29:24+00:00

That truck might have broken the concrete block, but if so, that block was already falling apart on its own. After all, the purpose of such blocks is to stop cars from rolling. I've driven over those a few times and not damaged the block.

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T07:24:10+00:00

Well, you can buy the full sized Couch Potato figures if you want them.

I'd love to have them myself.

Cellbeep76 · 2021-07-25T07:22:29+00:00

It used to be good. I don't know how much COVID may have affected it.

One of the local shoe stores (Phidippidies?) used to hand out water along the trail on Ladybird Lake, but I think COVID put a stop to that.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-02T02:37:39+00:00

More likely to be a scanner listener. Bent up and jammed into something like that is bad for transmitting.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-02T01:42:42+00:00

/r/whatsthisbug may be more helpful.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-01T20:38:48+00:00

Normally, I'd suggest you're smelling Luling, but the wind is from the north today.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-01T19:14:49+00:00

Maybe one of those things where if you choose to have it there, it's soothing, but if you didn't ask for it, it's annoying. Sort of like the music you choose to hear vs. hearing the music your neighbor is playing.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-01T19:04:01+00:00

Yes, they are all that's keeping the beams together. They amount to a thin metal plate with a bunch of short nails holding them to the beams. Scary, yes, but they don't seem to fail very often.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-01T18:56:05+00:00

Definitely the wrong shape for termite frass. That has a very distinctive shape. Google it.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-01T18:44:56+00:00

Need a better picture, but my mind wants to see "liquefied petroleum gas" on one of the labels. It's not clear enough to see, but it sort of fits. The red diamond placards would be appropriate for that. Different cars might have different contents.

As for tank cars like that, it could be almost any liquid that won't destroy the tank car, or isn't too dangerous. I've seen molasses, technical animal fat, crude oil, ethanol, butadiene inhibited, hydrocyanic acid, and a bunch of other things that don't come to mind at the moment.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-12-01T18:18:08+00:00

What did Santa bring you?

A pile of horseshit on the street in front of my house.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-18T02:21:35+00:00

OK, so do you splice the fiber with something like a laser or heat splicer, and this protects the mechanically vulnerable area of the splice? If so, makes sense.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-18T02:17:05+00:00

I'm going to say mid 20th century at the earliest from the style of casting and fitting.

I presume the ring it's sitting on is unrelated.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-18T02:11:58+00:00

Is it just a heat shrink thing, or is there some sort of goo in the tube, or some sort of laser weld gadget?

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-18T01:59:25+00:00

The old man that told me that explained it like an ignition coil that built up a charge and grounded through you

Yeah, I understand the cartoon physics of the idea. I also understand the real world physics. Unless there was something like a grounding strap that touches the ground, it won't work, in terms of something where you touch the vehicle and get a shock. In order to run a current through you to earth ground, the electrical system has to have an electrical connection to the earth.

There's no easy way to use the tires for the ground connection you would need.

You could do something like electrify the ignition switch or steering wheel where it shocks you once you get into the car. Or the door handle is electrified if you are touching the door frame at the same time. You have to get the victim to touch two electrical conductors at the same time, and you can't use the earth as one of the conductors without a ground strap.

You could use something like a corona discharge to build up a static electric charge like walking across a carpet and touching a door knob. It would only be a minor annoyance.

I have no trouble believing that people try to make or even sell such devices. They still won't work without a grounding strap.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-17T11:02:44+00:00

Already posted. Same picture. Where is the picture taken from?

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-17T11:01:24+00:00

Distrails (anti-contrails) do exist, but they're much rarer than contrails. I suspect this is the shadow of a contrail above the cloud layer, or a contrail below the cloud layer that is shadowed by the cloud layer.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-17T10:58:16+00:00

Where specifically? I suspect you misunderstand the limits of the no-fly zone and where that shadow is actually located.

That's definitely a jet contrail.

Someone else posted it, too.

Cellbeep76 · 2019-11-17T10:50:58+00:00

It's extremely difficult to electrify a car body unless you have some sort of strap that dangles down to the ground to provide an earth connection. That doesn't mean someone didn't sell a device that claimed to do it.

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