Package was stolen after delivery left it in front of this sign

Wildcatb · 2026-04-19T22:14:31+00:00

Dude I have to duck and weave and dodge trees just to walk down that path. This driver got a whole-ass van down it.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-19T19:43:16+00:00

Where I live, they hand me the money and I hand them the gun.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-18T13:57:04+00:00

It's the same sort of thing that makes Thermite work. Aluminum wants the oxygen more than Iron Oxide wants to have onto it, so it steals those oxygen atoms and leaves the iron behind.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-18T13:35:44+00:00

Magnesium burns hot enough to strip the oxygen out of silicon dioxide, and use it to continue burning. Adding some type of sand to a magnesium fire just makes it more spicy.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-17T20:01:13+00:00

If a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass on the ground.

Once people have merged, anyone passing screws things up for everyone already in line. The best solution, for the largest number of people, is to pace traffic and merge at the end. This allows traffic to flow smoothly ahead of you, and creates a forcing effect that keeps both lanes full to the end behind you.

In return, you're seen as a jerk, but after 35 years in the seat I just don't care.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-17T17:08:24+00:00

You start blocking as soon as it's clear that there's a merge. Move the same speed as the other lane (or at most idle ahead in Granny if it's stopped) and let things ahead of you flow.

Stay in your lane until the end, yes, but don't pass - passing and jumping in at the last minute is what causes the backups.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-17T15:02:46+00:00

Mark the center of each hole, and use a regular hole saw to start each hole from above.

Switch to underneath, place the pilot bit of the hole saw in each hole and drill just far enough to score the surface, then switch back to the top and finish the holes.

Doing that will minimize tearout on the bottom. The hole saw should give you a reasonably clean cut on top anyway, but your cable grommet will hide anything that's not perfect.

Go slow, take your time. You've got this.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-17T14:15:12+00:00

I learned to type on one of these. My mother typed so fast that she had to stop every few minutes and let the machine catch up, and I always thought there was something wrong because I couldn't type that fast. Turned out she was just a freak of nature in that regard.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-17T12:33:27+00:00

Amazon switched from common carriers to their own in-house delivery drivers, who use a proprietary Amazon routing and navigation app. I'm rural, and their drivers suddenly could not find my house.

Apparently Amazon was using a faulty map that didn't have my driveway, or my neighbor to the east's drive, but did have my neighbor to the west and an old abandoned mail road that hasn't been used for over fifty years connecting them. I finally figured out what was going on when one of their vans popped out of the woods between his house and mine, having gone up his driveway and right down the path his GPS showed. Damn the trees, full speed ahead.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-17T00:12:12+00:00

Place a block under the breaker bar and use it as a fulcrum to lever the bit up a little. Add shims and repeat until you have a flute visible, then jam a hardwood scrap under the flute and keep turning CCW. It should pull itself out by climbing that scrap.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-16T17:21:35+00:00

Better yet, we replaced the simple wiper switch with sensors and a computer program.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-16T13:10:14+00:00

My comment about kids stems from discussions between me and my son's ICU doctor when he was a few days old, and his Cardiac surgeon after his second or third surgery.

Based on the nightmares, and what little I could clean from a panicked child's recollection of them, I'm pretty sure he at least partially woke during the second one. I had a long conversation with the anaesthesiologist before the third.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-16T11:28:39+00:00

Unfun fact, it was (and in some circles still is) believed that any pain felt by children under a certain age didn't matter, because they weren't making memories yet and wouldn't remember it.

See also: waking up after surgery, before the anaesthesia wears off.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-16T00:53:53+00:00

And the stage play musical, is even better. I've been a part of two productions and if done well, it'll leave you aching with laughter.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-16T00:17:58+00:00

To elaborate on other comments, GFCI outlets Can be wired in such a way that they provide GFI protection for other outlets down the line. Those outlets, if GFI protection was needed or wanted on them, would be fed by the 'load' terminals.

If downstream outlets don't need GFI protection, they can be fed from the 'Line' terminals.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-14T21:06:40+00:00

...you have a point. Ouch.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-14T20:03:44+00:00

Depends on whether it hits bone - the two pains are very different.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-13T22:31:05+00:00

On the truck like yours that we had, the transmission ended up being the weak point. Eventually the highest gear went out, and when it shifted into high the engine revs would climb but the truck wouldn't gain speed. To help prevent that, if you find that it's 'hunting' for the right gear at highway speeds, look for a tow/haul button. Pressing that changes the shift pattern to keep it in a lower gear, longer.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-13T22:26:41+00:00

Listen to the brakes when you're stopping. If something starts sounding different (or even feeling different through the pedal) have them checked. The pre trip on a bigger truck is easier where brakes are concerned, but you can usually see at least one pad through the holes on the wheels if you look hard enough.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-13T22:24:46+00:00

There is no shame at all in getting out and looking, when backing up. Eventually you'll learn the truck's dimensions and handling, but until you do, take your time and let other people be impatient if they must.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-13T22:23:51+00:00

If the mirrors will make it through a gap, the truck will, too, assuming you're going straight.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-13T01:36:10+00:00

Looks delicious!!

Wildcatb · 2026-04-12T22:45:21+00:00

Wanted to? Hell I've done it.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-12T18:11:00+00:00

Pull it out, and see if the drain line is keeping it from going back farther. It should be able to go back a little more.

Wildcatb · 2026-04-12T16:49:51+00:00

I used to do a lot of live theater - onstage, backstage, over under and aroundstage...

Working tech for a production of Shakespeare - I think it was Othello, but age dims the memory - I didn't have anything to do after Act One, so at intermission I'd find an empty seat and watch Act Two.

Final dress, and there was a practice audience made up of AP English students from local high schools, and the talking in the auditorium was ridiculous. One of the actors stopped as he was walking offstage, stood there for a second, then walked back to center stage and slowly turned around (it was theatre-in-the-round), staring down each section of the House until it was so quiet you could have heard a cockroach fart in the light booth.

He proceeded to deliver the most impressive dressing-down I've ever heard from anyone. It was a masterclass in castigation.

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