1988RedT2 said:Gah! I am reduced to buying 40-watt appliance bulbs to get that warm incandescent glow!
#thequalityofLEDlightsucks
Uh, 2700k bulbs.
1988RedT2 said:Gah! I am reduced to buying 40-watt appliance bulbs to get that warm incandescent glow!
#thequalityofLEDlightsucks
Uh, 2700k bulbs.
1988RedT2 said:eastsideTim said:wae said:1988RedT2 said:Gah! I am reduced to buying 40-watt appliance bulbs to get that warm incandescent glow!
#thequalityofLEDlightsucks
I've got a few hundred 100 Watt and 60 Watt old-school incadescents in my basement that I bought right when Congress decided what type of lightbulb I was allowed to have but before they were all gone from stores :)
I just like the incandescent bulbs because they get hot enough to kill the bugs that get in the house. CFLs couldn’t do that. No idea if the heat sink on LEDs will do that job.
Since you mentioned it, I've always been curious. Does the wattage rating on LED bulbs just consider the wattage of the light-emitting diode itself, or does it also include the inefficient Chinesium transformer rectifier circuit that makes the metal base of the bulbs too hot to touch? I was honestly shocked to see how hot those bulbs run.
I did a science fair set-up demo with my daughter. A bicycle powered generator switching between powering incandescents, halogen, and LEDs. The difference was real, startling, and with the incandescent - sweaty.
TheGloriousW said:1988RedT2 said:Gah! I am reduced to buying 40-watt appliance bulbs to get that warm incandescent glow!
#thequalityofLEDlightsucks
Uh, 2700k bulbs.
Allegedly, yes. In actuality, nope. Most LEDs have crappy color rendition and have lots of weird blue undertones, even in the 'warm' ones.
To get good color, you still have to spend $20+ a lamp.
I didn't get a damn thing done this afternoon because I can't find any of my berkeleying vice grips.
JohnInKansas said:I didn't get a damn thing done this afternoon because I can't find any of my berkeleying vice grips.
Vice grips are one of those things I buy every time I see them at an estate sale. Usually less than a dollar, doesn’t matter how crappy I’ll buy them because for as little as I use them, I lose them with frightening regularity.
In reply to mtn :
How the hell do you roll up your windows?
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
You and your frikkin light bulbs!! 
Dusterbd13-michael said:My vape just caught fire in my pocket. berkeleying leg HURTS. pants destroyed. I was praying for the willingness to quit....
No way to get parts/replacement tonight. Guess its time to quit.
That's rough dude. Any clue what caused it to spontaneously combust?
I had a 2015 truck come into work two weeks ago for a noise. Rear end was screaming and it turned out the rear pinion seal had been slinging oil for an indeterminate amount of time and the rear axle had 2 or 3 tablespoons of fluid in it, tops. So I order all the parts I'm going to need, every bearing and a ring and pinion. Two weeks later, still no parts. Ask the parts guys when I'm going to see them, as the guy is in one of our dealership rentals and was supposed to be leaving for Florida. Parts guys call GM and tell me it will be another 2-3 weeks before the parts are even manufactured, with everything still being berkeleyed up from the strike. My boss calls the GM zone rep to get approval to throw a whole axle assembly in it instead, then learns that the GM catalog lists a complete rear axle as being "Discontinued". How the berkeley is the axle discontinued when there are still trucks rolling off the assembly line using that very part?!
In reply to Daylan C :
My inly guess is that somehow the button got stuck on by something in my pocket (keys, pocket knife) and tge saftey cutoff that the thing is supposed to have didn't work.
I want to let everyone know that if i come across as a bigger shiny happy person than usual, its because im legitimately trying to give up nicotene completely fir the first time in 23 years.
nutherjrfan said:JamesMcD said:Incandescent smells better.
for some strange reason it occurred to me that we'd be smarter as a society if we used words like incandescent more often and not the all the corporatist/bureaucratic crap I hear every day like LED or whatever jargon I hear from every back seat/ride. I probably should check this sentence for spelling and grammar.
LED is a proper technical term, short for light emitting diode.
BTW if anyone wants incandescents for their terrariums or whatever, I have a big box of working ones that I'm thinking about throwing in the trash that I'll send for shipping money.
Dusterbd13-michael said:In reply to Daylan C :
I want to let everyone know that if i come across as a bigger shiny happy person than usual, its because im legitimately trying to give up nicotene completely fir the first time in 23 years.
I'll keep that in mind. I can't offer any advice because I never started but I've seen various people close to me try to quit with varying degrees of success so I have a vague understanding of how rough it can be. It's generally considered to be a smart move to quit though.
Now what I came here for, didn't make it 3 weeks in Canada until computer equipment in Barbados failed. A router with no moving parts, to add insult to injury. No idea why it happened, it coincided with the numerous and lengthy power outages over the last couple days but all the equipment is on UPSes.
Brett_Murphy said:Some may consider a fire in their pants a sign.
yeah, a sign to wear a rubber next time...
NickD said:I had a 2015 truck come into work two weeks ago for a noise. Rear end was screaming and it turned out the rear pinion seal had been slinging oil for an indeterminate amount of time and the rear axle had 2 or 3 tablespoons of fluid in it, tops. So I order all the parts I'm going to need, every bearing and a ring and pinion. Two weeks later, still no parts. Ask the parts guys when I'm going to see them, as the guy is in one of our dealership rentals and was supposed to be leaving for Florida. Parts guys call GM and tell me it will be another 2-3 weeks before the parts are even manufactured, with everything still being berkeleyed up from the strike. My boss calls the GM zone rep to get approval to throw a whole axle assembly in it instead, then learns that the GM catalog lists a complete rear axle as being "Discontinued". How the berkeley is the axle discontinued when there are still trucks rolling off the assembly line using that very part?!
My guess it got 'discontinued' for the same reason you wanted one. lack for parts. I bet if you check when the backlog from the strike is over you'll find it available again.
Yeah, sure, bump a meeting up an hour and a half earlier than scheduled.
Five minutes prior to the new start time.
Yeah. Sure. Smart.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
corporate and bureaucratic speak is all technical. I'm more confused now than I am by the dozens of conversations I have to listen to every week that are just a long string of meaningless acronyms. My head hurts. 
berkeleying Christ. Now the berkeleying heat in the house failed. Just berkeleying fantastic.
We are up to a berkeleying THOUSAND DOLLARS , and thats WITH warrenty parts....
Jesus tap dancing Christ. There goes the neon restoration this winter. And my hopes to travel to the high school reunion January.
I picked a bad day to quit nicotine
Dusterbd13-michael said:In reply to Daylan C :
I want to let everyone know that if i come across as a bigger shiny happy person than usual, its because im legitimately trying to give up nicotene completely fir the first time in 23 years.
As much as I don't actually WANT to quit, I'm going to have to soon for money reasons. I'm thinking I might just have myself locked(from the OUTSIDE) in a hotel room for a week, because I really don't trust me around the general population without nicotine/during the withdrawals.
Then again, what are camels running in the Carolinas these days? We were taking about moving away from the snow anyway.
In reply to RevRico :
About 4.25 a pack.
Senecas were 32 a carton.
Ive been vaping for the past year, slowly reducing the nicotine amount in the goo. Doesn't seem to make much of a difference going from a 3 to 0. Sucks hardcore
In reply to RevRico :
You need to have a serious heart to heart with the administrators at your daughter's school. Let them know you expect that the child who assaulted your daughter will receive significant punishment - at least suspension and, preferably, expulsion.
The school has to be under the supervision of a school district or county office of education (or it's equivalent where you live). Go talk to the superintendent and fill them in on what happened. Tell them you expect that they will take care of the problem or you will be discussing their lack of response with the local police, the state superintendent of education, and the local newspaper.
I taught middle school for quite a while and had a couple of the 12 year old versions of your daughter's assailant. Parents did not give a berkeley and one kid got his clock cleaned when he started calling a Native American kid twice his size ethnic slurs (kind of a self correcting genetic defect there). The other one ended up in juvenile hall for assaulting yet another student.
If the parents don't get the kid under control (and some help), it is not likely to end well.
I should know better than to misplace a digit on a government form. I get a note that I owe $361 because I was late on my September payroll deductions. Considering that is 8% of the total I submitted that month, it seems like a rather large bit of interest. Phone to whine about it, and as I'm explaining to the person at the other end, I realize I've accidentally submitted payroll deductions for September 2010, not 2019... She claims the dough has been transferred to the proper tax year and the penalties will be waived, but I've fallen for that kinda stuff from the revenuers before.
Check your numbers before you hit the submit button, you halfwit.
GameboyRMH said:Now what I came here for, didn't make it 3 weeks in Canada until computer equipment in Barbados failed. A router with no moving parts, to add insult to injury. No idea why it happened, it coincided with the numerous and lengthy power outages over the last couple days but all the equipment is on UPSes.
Now I am picturing a router WITH moving parts. Like, the mail sorter alien from MIB II, sending data packets everywhere while listening to hair metal.
Rant: I want to be watching a movie, but my brain is all "No, you need to be imagining anthromomorphic computer equipment instead!"
Oh that's not good. I heard a siren about 10-15 seconds ago, and now I hear a truck idling on the street roughly next door.
Last two times I heard a truck idling in the street, it was when the next door neighbor's husband had a heart attack and died in his living room (leaving behind a semi-invalid widow), and when my grandmother had the final incident that landed her in hospice, which was a mercifully short stay for her.
More sirens now.
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