1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Slightly better?




Hard to look up meme stories drunk

 

Can't beat tree revenge

 

We have a couple big sycamores in our backyard, the roots on those things are crazy long and close to the surface

 

Reminds me of when someone tried to poison the Treaty Oak in Austin. They saved it, but it took a heck of a lot of work.

Good listen:
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-36-perfect-specimen/

 

@eon_blue @Kwikvette
Looks like they grow pretty well here.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wr...eigh-wilson-chapel-hill/19195428/?version=amp

 

@eon_blue Are you watching any of the Stanley cup playoffs? Flury and Price are having a pretty good goile battle in the Vegas Montreal series

 

Been watching highlights but not the games, still need to figure out a platform I can watch sports on since we don't use cable

 

Free hockey
https://www.caststreams.com/
It works great. I have been using it for about 4 years

 

Because... hockey teeth

 

Along those same lines - have you ran into many issues with brittle plastic? Like the widgets that hold wires, or the split loom, or anything like that? Growing up that was always a problem on our various cars, but my taco is still fine (although it spent most of its life in the North. ), and my Nissan seems good as well. Curious if plastics have improved.

 

Just looks experienced! I'm sure it would fetch a high price at an auction due to patina and other stuff those guys go for

 

I think it has to do with the Ph of the owner's body salts and enzymes. I've seen some car's leather appear to be untouched when the same make and model's leather disintegrated early on.

Body oils and perspiration are made up with lots of salts, enzymes and fatty acids, which can amount for a pH level that is adamantly not leather’s style. Chemical reaction ensues any time your sweat and fingerprints touch your leather. Unfriendly pH oils penetrate and build up, and leather fibers weaken as it keeps building. Eventually, body oils affect leather by destroying it completely. Adding to your woes, you probably won’t even notice this is happening until a lot of oils have already soaked in. The first symptoms you’re likely to observe are flaking or a darkening spot. If you let body oils affect leather over a long time, your leather will start to crack, at which point irreparable damage can occur.

https://leathermilk.com/how-body-oils-affect-leather

 

That makes a lot of sense. I've seen the same thing with musical instruments. My trombone looked awful where I was gripping it in high school.

So many things to find out the hard way

 

I think it has to do with the amount of exposure to heat. When the plasticizer leaves the plastics, they become brittle. Heat increases that transfer. I remember when we would get new Fiats that had been sitting at the port of Houston. The plasticizer would leave an oily film on the inside of the windshield. It was a bitch to clean off. The plasticizer they used in vinyl and handles would escape quickly. Plastics and vinyl would go down fast.

 

When I first got into IT, there was a shortage of people much worse than today. So the company got the idea to hire music majors and train them to program. It worked. Most programmers that I came up with had played musical instruments in their youth -- present company included.

 

Yep, agreed. I've seen that film on windows too. I'll have to go tear apart something on the nissan then, its got almost 14 years on it, most of them in Texas. I guess its a good sign that I haven't taken enough apart on it to know whether or not the plastic is failing.

 

Music has rules and patterns much the same way programming does. And anyone thats suffered through playing bass line knows what a loop is.

Pretty cool how that works.

 

Can anecdotally confirm. Lots of my computer science classmates were also in instrumental music, and I've got a CS major/music minor.