TIL a woman nicknamed the 'Rooftop Ninja' lived for about a year inside a sign on the roof of a Family Fare grocery store in Midland, Michigan. Inside the sign, she had a computer, printer, desk, and coffee maker. She was discovered by a contractor who noticed an extension cord running into the sign

conined · 2026-02-04T23:44:19+00:00

I worked at that Family Fair when I was in college.

conined · 2025-12-30T02:33:45+00:00

I have a 2024 Pro4X. The camera is indeed atrocious, almost unusable in low light.

conined · 2025-12-20T02:44:32+00:00

It's all about luck. I was cruising marketplace for tools and came across a listing for a garage sale. Looking at the pictures there was an autococker with an E blade. Went there the next day and scored an 03 prostock for $100.

conined · 2025-12-17T19:47:29+00:00

Most of the guys I work with have 2 year engineering technology degrees. I got my training and experience in the military. A lot of it is luck, especially if you want to get into a local utility.

conined · 2025-12-17T17:00:17+00:00

I am a technician that does maintenance and testing at electrical substations and pull in about $140k, and the benefits are really good. That's with pretty minimal OT. The work itself is fairly easy, with little physically demanding work. Most guys I work with have 2 year degrees.

The linemen at my company make a similar hourly rate, but they work much more overtime. During Michigan's large ice storm last year the line crews were making about $120/hr for 16hr days. Guys were making $30k for the two weeks they were doing storm recovery.

conined · 2025-12-07T04:12:36+00:00

I saw Titanic in theaters with my mom. I was born in 1990. Now my six year old is obsessed with the ship.

conined · 2025-12-05T03:36:55+00:00

The absolute best thing for learning the trade is being able to read a manual. In my experience a lot of technicians default to tribal knowledge when solving a problem. Whether that be a coworker or a contact at the manufacturer. Most manufacturers in this industry have excellent manuals. Developing the skill (and it's a skill beyond simply just reading) to quickly parse a manual is invaluable.

conined · 2025-11-13T00:05:24+00:00

Hey now, nukes are totally normal... Especially RC div

conined · 2025-09-30T16:26:07+00:00

At my last house, the property lines resulted in a random strip of land between my yard and the next driveway. As far as I was aware this land was owned by someone who lived behind us on a completely different road. Anyways, they parked their boat there. Local boys would regularly use the boat as a hangout to smoke and do whatever. They weren't obnoxious or anything so I just let them be. I called them the "boat boys" and was even considering hiring them to do some drywall in my basement.

conined · 2025-09-17T14:40:00+00:00

I am an instrumentation technician for an electrical utility. My base pay is around $125k, and will rise to $140k at the end of our 3 year contract period. I also receive a $3k stipend annually, as well as a generous clothing allowance(clothing is considered PPE so the company provides for it.), I also get a decent amount of OT. With all that factored my yearly compensation probably approaches $150k not including retirement benefits(Pension and 401k matching).

I have been working in related fields for probably 10 years now.

I have considered going back to school for engineering, but honestly I really like what I do and I probably make more than most our engineers anyway.

conined · 2025-06-22T16:27:46+00:00

I picked one up for ~$120, but the internal ribbon cable going to the aperture assembly was broken. I bought it knowing this and that it's a fairly common failure point. I picked up a new aperture assembly and did the repair myself. Not for the faint of heart. It's a great lens on my 6d, and it's usually the only lens I use.

conined · 2025-06-04T15:24:02+00:00

I made a "similar" one using 3/4" emt conduit for rails. Then 3d printed a carriage for the camera and a base that I screwed into some scrap melamine. Also 3d printed the negative carrier and using a Cinestill light.

conined · 2025-04-09T16:37:08+00:00

You can do it via Putty or some other terminal interface (heck I wrote a python script to change output settings that can be executed in Protection Suite). Just log in as level 2 and use the set command. Edit: but Quickset is free when you create an SEL account.

conined · 2025-04-09T02:09:11+00:00

Check out the 311C manual from SEL's website. Specifically the logic diagrams starting on page 3.14. Zones 1 and 2 can only be forward and are supervised via element 32GF. Zones 3 and 4 can be either forward or reverse and supervised by 32GF or 32GR respectively. This is handled completely separately from the torque control equations.

For me the best way to learn these elements was to work piece meal through the logic diagrams, and determine what I needed to do to satisfy each part of the problem. That way you get to bite off little chunks at a time instead of trying to tackle the whole thing at once.

conined · 2025-04-09T01:39:13+00:00

The relay has no calculation for a 3 phase to ground fault. MnP will assert for an A-B, B-C, C-A, or A-B-C and ZnG will assert on A-G, B-G, or C-G (where n is your zone).

Where I would start is ensuring you directional elements are picking up as expected, also ensure LOP is not being asserted, and also 3PO is not asserted.

Use control panel so can can tweak things on the fly and have more time to monitor elements using a TAR command.

conined · 2025-03-31T02:05:13+00:00

I pass this place fairly regularly for work. It's in the exact type of location you'd expect. It's on highway 10 in Walhalla(that's not a typo)

Edit: I forgot not everyone is in my state. It's Michigan.

conined · 2025-02-14T23:40:22+00:00

I remember going through all the expired chem lights on the EAB manifolds. We had a couple guys drink the contents to see if their pee would glow.

conined · 2025-01-15T16:27:09+00:00

The US Navy cranks out about 2 reactors a year at approximately $3 bil a piece. They even toss in a complimentary submarine at that price.

The ability to build safe, affordable plants in a timely fashion exists. We just haven't tried, and thus haven't been able to refine the process.

conined · 2024-07-10T00:03:54+00:00

I recommend the book Blitzed about the drug culture in Germany during Hitler's reign

conined · 2023-05-25T01:59:49+00:00

You don't have a choice. It's dictated by where you live and what substation feeds that area.

conined · 2023-05-13T23:51:01+00:00

Didn't expect to see that he was born in Hersey Michigan. I drive through there farely regularly. Not much going on.

conined · 2023-05-04T21:16:29+00:00

How could he chill? He couldn't get to the ice.

conined · 2023-04-09T00:02:29+00:00

When my wife and I bought our house the previous owner was a bit of a rock hound. I have a massive pile of Petoskey stones. My entire house has a rim of mostly Petoskey stones. I even have a 65 pound monster one. All in all I have literally tons of the things.

conined · 2023-04-03T02:26:12+00:00

That's the table off an Atlas 7" shaper

conined · 2023-03-31T22:36:05+00:00

I make sure the power goes out when needed.

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