Posts by saxicola 44 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jul 2015
I did a stint as a bowling alley mechanic. Venerable old 82-70's for those that care. I had to explain several times to various managers why a two minute weld on a part would take a day to do as I could not weld it while in situ. It had to removed and welded in the workshop, which was in another site.
Let alone the stray currents and EMF that could damage the computers in adjacent lanes, which I could have removed and moved somewhere safe, all ten of them. There was also the considerable risk of fire. A dialy task was cleaning oily dust from the machines, applying new oil as required and polishing all the slidy parts.
After carefully explaining the risks they'd agree with my assessment.
Not that they has a choice as I'd point-blank refuse to weld in situ. no matter what their opinion was.
I forgot to de-register my boat radio when I sold the boat. Six months later the new owner "pressed the red button" prompting a call from the UK coastguard.
They were very nice about it and sorted the de-registration for me right then.
For those who don't know: The "red button" on the radio transmits a mayday along with the current location when pressed. It's connected to the GPS.
For a while at university I used to be able to cancel the print queue for a printer, quickly press print and logout. By the time I'd walked to the printer at the front of the room my printout was ready. Until I couldn't any more. I was rumbled! So it was off to Staples to buy the cheapest printer they had.
To be fair, the amount of garbage the printer was spewing out, and with the "LOAD LETTER" (the printer was loaded with A4 obviously), errors constantly displayed assuaged my guilt a little as I was probably doing the other students a favour by allowing them to review their page settings before then resubmitting the print.
A friend of mine only found out he had early stage prostate cancer because of a routine test, as he lives mostly in France, rather than the UK. It's a routine test there. Back here I have to ask, repeatedly for a reluctantly given PSA test. All clear, but my father died of it and I don't want to.
Title should be Toaster-oven sized, which means an oven the size of a toaster. Toaster oven-sized means a toaster the size of an oven. Now, not sure about you guys, but in the UK ovens a bigger than toasters and the title gives a misleading impression about the size of the toast. Maybe it's a USA UK thing because we all know everything is bigger in the US. Except for gallons, miles, shoe sizes...
I can't beat 19 years but the games in the Crystal Maze in Pembrokeshire ran for 15 years on 386's with 4MB of RAM and 40MB HDD's. I spent 5 years coaxing then into life every morning. The non-booting ones mostly needed to be left on, warming up for a while, then rebooted again. At the end getting HDDs that those 386's would recognise was getting to be a real problem and when I could get one it was expensive compared to the current GB drives. The OS was MSDOS 5.2.
There were 20 in total. So 20 x 15 = 300 years, no?
UK Temperatures are very much influenced by the Atlantic Conveyor or "gulf stream" are not in any way indicative of global temperatures. Melting Arctic ice is fresh water and influences the conveyor and may possibly slow it down so leading to cooling in the UK. We are of a similar latitude to Newfoundland and I've heard it get pretty cold there. Without a north Atlantic Ocean, warmed by the conveyor, keeping us warm we'd be freezing our cojones off in the winter with much cooler summers. These are local effects, do not confuse weather with climate.
Mike E
UK Temperatures are very much influenced by the Atlantic Conveyor or "Gulf stream" are not indicative of global temperatures. Melting Arctic ice influences the conveyor and may possibly slow it down so leading to cooling in the UK. These local effect are entirely expected. The UK will get wetter and colder if the conveyer slows or stops. We are the same latitude as Newfoundland, I've heard it gets pretty cold there too. These are local effects, do not confuse weather with climate.
Mike E
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