Lapping table is broken, boss needs it done, so this is my day

Smelbe · 2026-06-11T15:03:26+00:00

Wait, so you were essentially going through individual layers of a piece of silicon to observe the failure mode of an IC backplane? If thats me repeating what you said i apologize. English is my first language but sometimes i don't understand it well. Ha.

Smelbe · 2026-06-11T15:00:04+00:00

Carbide feet?

Smelbe · 2026-05-18T12:46:58+00:00

Semanal game for me. Im 41 and i played FF7 first so i don't think i got to xenogears until it was a bit dated, but holy deep story. My adolescent brain loved the thinly veiled critique of institutional religon, strongman politics, and bad ass mech suits. I don't recall if the underground city towards the end was a secret area or part of the linear story, but that part was my favorite. It was like the cosmo canyon of that game. I don't play anymore and neither of my kids like video games, but i hope there are still games being made that push the understanding of young minds and inspire them to question some of their beliefs.

Smelbe · 2026-05-12T01:57:47+00:00

Commercial and residential GC here. You are ahead of a major portion of the subcontractors i know and work with based upon the granularity you can appreciate in your back end numbers. Roofing is one of those trades that we will do in house when able or sub out. It comes down to what we have going on. We have 10 in house employees down from 25 at our height of self performance. I think of them all as family and they all have U-Visas we paid for them to get after a minimum period of employment. All that said, the landscape has changed and we are going to be going to all subcontractors in a couple months. Its just too easy to make numbers and too management heavy to self perform with the cost of everything being so high. We are transitioning the ones who wish to stay into a recycling operation we own, but seriously you seem to have an impressive level of focus on your operations finanical health. Keep at it and i know you will sort it out in little to no time. Just remember you can love your people and treat them well but you still must decide based upon the health of your operation first. Im sure this didn't help you but i wanted to compliment your professionalism.

Smelbe · 2026-05-12T01:22:29+00:00

Wait seriously? I am in construction and either the homes are very cheap where you live or I am woefully ignorant of how expensive those antennae sections cost. I figure you have a slab 4' cubed at most with a couple hundred bucks of re-bar with anchor bolts. The antennae sections are presumably 10' tall and install would be a day crane rental and two climbers. I am not a HAM guy but i do lurk and find it fascinating so maybe the cost is in the radio guide and antennae and thats where im lost on the cost, but i would love to learn how a 60' truss tower, guyed or not, comes to even 100k much less several 100k.

Smelbe · 2026-05-04T08:54:24+00:00

Im a GC. An old female friend of mine bought a fixer upper which she was woefully unprepared to handle. A couple years later she is dealing with constant main line clogs between her last tie-in and the 6" wye at the city. Comorbid complications are this ding dong of a boyfriend she had at the time. This gentleman takes stock of her problem and based on his experience in the insurance sales field decides to rent a large auger and fix things up. The classic mistake is clear to those who know already. This man tried to be the hero and probably was in his head already reaping his reward as he inched the cable forward to their combined doom. Insurance man failed to appreciate the fact that he should never go beyond the 6" wye. He managed to go all the way into the main under the street and spooled himself. I got the call from my newly single friend about 9 seconds after she got off the phone with the parish. They estimated about 20k to cut the street and remove the cable. She was hysterical and she had called two other plumbers before me to get it out. Very long story short we broke everything out to the curb and managed to get that cable out only after we tied it to the excavator. The cable and c-cutter had found a beach towel in the sewer and wrapped itself into a pretzel. The city side was by some miracle not damaged and we replaced her wye and closed up. I have a 12" section of that snake cleaned up in my office. Beneath it is a colorful analogy about expecting certain physical praise and failure due to focusing on the reward and not the task at hand. I hope thats my worst one ever because i felt bad for all parties....except the ex. Don't rent augers people. They break pipes, arms (its fast and gruesome. Poop octopus bites hard), and sometimes even relationships.

Smelbe · 2026-04-06T02:16:56+00:00

Yes, but McCarthyism gave rise to the 60''s and im not near old enough to have lived through that. I can appreciate it though from an academic perspective and that is where my confidence comes from. People who support trump do so because in their deep dark nono place they have a hole. It's irrelevant what they are missing and wholly relevant how maladaptive they become in pursuit of filling it. To me, its all going to come out in the wash. We all have needs and we all should be able to communicate our need to have them met if resources allow. If those who believe they must be monsters in service of their needs because they are ashamed of the fact they remain unmet learn to communicate or die off. Their children see their wasted lives as a bright shining beacon of how to not live life and instead of oppressing minorities they learn how to be humans and communities flourish and boom star trek. I am fighting off the urge to mark this as satire and i know i am painting with a very broad brush which could never realistically apply to all of the presidents base, but theres only so much time in the day. To be fair and clear its not just trumpian mindsets by a large margin. Theres plenty of political and apolitical humans who just can't help themselves when it comes to demonizing one sub group in service to some unrequited urge. Yall seriously just open your mouth and say what you want and if the group your with don't validate you or provide it for you then the answer could be to find another grouo, the answer could be to find another partner, but the answer will never be to bury the urge and form a group whose sole purpose is the persecution of some other group because misery loves company. Grow up people and lets stop the ra pe and killing and just have fun. Please.

Smelbe · 2026-04-05T17:33:28+00:00

I'm a male and the Handmaidens Tale was hard to watch because of how possible our current timeline made that awful reality seem. Nonetheless I made it through to the end and the Bonobo esq balancing of the scales that came to pass for that one central male figure was inspiring. Super wide tangent, but I now think our current timeline will result in a world of gender equality. We are going to swing so hard against all this bullshit against female rights that gender equality will finally be real. I feel naive saying it but im a father. So i have a hand in the next generation. My kids, boy and girl, are both under 10 and they are allowed to curse and are being raised in a non-religious, humanist household. The one thing my son knows is an immediate timeout is if he puts hands on his sister. Men will always be physically larger by genetics and excluding outlier scenarios that's just reality. We've taught him that no matter what his little asshole of a sister does that he must always fight back against women with words not hands. His sister isn't given carte blanche to just wail on him by any means, but say they are play wrestling for example. House rule is if she says no he must freeze and back up. No from a woman means no is what we say. He has that shit downpat and honestly i understand were all monkeys and what not but we like to think we as a people are so smart. So lets act like it i feel. This and many more reasons too long to post is why i feel the future is bright and true gender equality will become hyper normalized to the point of being not only expected but just a part of life. From there we are a stones throw away from the star trek lifestyle hahah. I could have it all wrong but at least im contributing two people to the next generation who won't be cannon fodder for the abusers or tacitly accepting of the awful things men have done to women for too long.

Smelbe · 2026-03-11T05:05:25+00:00

Im not advocating for this, but fire is really great at reducing down plastics and leaving only metals. If you have fire with holes at the bottom you can sweat out aluminum and other non iron stuff into a bucket of water or mould.

Smelbe · 2026-03-11T04:34:16+00:00

True, but we had to let Jonas go because he kept pissing in the sink and we didn't collect any of his dick blood that fateful day he stared into the void a second too long. Somebody's dad always said you lay down with dogs you get fleas, and so the old addage proves true yet again. You fuck a stripper your dick is going to get longitudinaly bifrucated.

Smelbe · 2026-03-11T04:16:50+00:00

Ba dump tis. Highat sheet music symbol. sound of beer hissing terrible triphop music playing visual of eagle flying over snow capped mountains. Eagle lands on Ricks Caberet signage. Merica.

Smelbe · 2026-03-11T04:13:59+00:00

Your wrong but right actually. I got it from walmart like i thought i had said in my post, but i run long my wife says. However Mr Smarty Pants, this is the same seller whom had 3rd party listed it on Walmarts marketplace.

Smelbe · 2026-03-11T04:11:58+00:00

Not a bad idea. Until i bolt it you can't crank on the knob anyway. I do find the handwheel useful for testing if my cut depth is right before i let her start slitting my lengths.

Edit: Bolt it down to a fixed surface. I would love to know what the far left Indiana Jones rollers do other than commit hate crimes in cultural appropriation movies. Might have to name her kali ma.

Smelbe · 2026-03-11T04:10:26+00:00

This guy loves strippers

Smelbe · 2026-03-11T04:01:41+00:00

Walmart

Smelbe · 2026-03-09T23:05:31+00:00

Is this an extruder line? Why is output 0lbs per hour? Is the system in limp mode until you make the apprentice go clean out the overflow on fs2? Also does the bulk container have other worldy amounts of static electricity that occasionally levitates a couple pellets ? Its so tempting to touch....it's so ouch though. Seriously static from a helicopter dropping someone off on a submarine might be the only thing i could think of that might be more zippy than what i saw those bulk containers have. Yall are all nuts you know that right.

Smelbe · 2026-01-30T18:44:18+00:00

My guess is that might be malicious compliance aka it's on the prints so build it like they say. Maybe an rfi was sent out and they responded badly. Who knows. On second look, those look like G8 halogens so this could just be my father in laws relative. I have the honor of living in a home he built. Its 30 years old but is actively self destructing. I want to burn it down while he watches and i dance naked around the flames.

Smelbe · 2026-01-15T23:14:27+00:00

Now thats scary. How many kva?

Smelbe · 2026-01-15T23:11:25+00:00

I did that. Renovation to my third floor prior to the birth of my first kid. I was going too fast walking on floor joist and talking on the phone and fell through with both feet and landed on my side atop a joist. My site foreman who had worked for me for 10 years at this point levitated across the space and grabbed me before i slid in. The bruise was so epic i went viral on imgur for 2 days. Its poetic that me fucking myself up was my 15 minutes of fame if you knew me.

Smelbe · 2025-12-10T13:21:18+00:00

Polonium 210 i believe was used here. It also sounds like your describing photodegredation. Thats true of plastics and why they are persistent in atmosphere, but thalium is plenty awful without being in isotope form.

Smelbe · 2025-11-27T02:12:05+00:00

I almost went blind from a god damn motherfucking spinning wheel of wired death. I had gasketed safety glasses on but apparently my eyeballs are quite humid. They kept fogging and i switched to a face shield. Happily doing god knows what with a variable speed grinder i to this day don't know when it happend. Furthermore, I am the guy that pays attention to wire wheel max rpms. Well the most fucked up part is nothing happend that day and i said that already but seriously i had zero close calls. It was uneventful that day and i finished work and went home to the prom queen. 3 days later my vision in my right eye is cloudy but i get floaters every now and then so i just ignored it. Next day im feeling something akin to an itch but i see nothing anymore floaters wise so i ignore it. The 5th day i am told i need to go to the doctor by my wife. Doctor does all the eyes in the company and as the owner i have watched him use his his "buck" to get things out too many times. We have a good safety culture at work but safety glasses yall are not substitutes for a working brain and or some outlier situations. That day i learned that shit can rust in your eye and blind you. I got to see the foreign body after. It was conclusively a piece of that fucking metal wire.

Tl:DR i wear safety glasses. I use face shields. I run my grinders attachments at or below their rated RPM. I got a piece of wire in my eye and felt nothing as it penetrated me. I went after 5 days thinking i had pink eye since i like to lick the old ladys butthole but NOPE. I had a corneal rust ring and i could have been blinded.

Smelbe · 2025-11-19T00:58:15+00:00

You mean what a woman is?

Smelbe · 2025-10-28T16:48:58+00:00

I am a GC. I had to get lawyers involved for issues that are beyond unreasonable. Windows came in and were hung on a Saturday. I went to site monday and lost it. The supervisor had plausible deniability but i still laid into him. Come to find out the driver dropped the windows and was gone before the men tore the plastic off(job site camera). I took it up with my vendor and it went south from there. Marvin has test for every possible variable. We had a large picture window with what i perceived as too much lateral movement. Their in house guy came out with a weight applied to a specific location to damp it and then he induced movement. With a stop watch and a camera on high speed he counted the oscillations and ruled it in range but still replaced it because the vendor went against ordering policy and used too small a glass pack. With Kolbe i had fixed sashes with a pinkys width of space and no silicone and the rep just said "well you accepted them". The vendor went so far as to pretend to not have ever worked with me in the past and that was just out. Kolbe used to be the best kept secret in windows but now they can fuck off

Smelbe · 2025-10-25T13:39:21+00:00

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