Seems like it perfectly combines the disadvantages of a car and a motorcycle into one exotic, disappointing package.
Note that this one has no plate; it’s an unregistered Opa-Locka douchecasserole special.
Author: kg4cyx
PUDDI PUDDI
I may just be the new guy buuuut…
Why? Why does a burned out Evertz VIP multi-viewer card smell like sightly burnt pancake syrup?! The card won’t show any signs of life upon receiving +12vdc power from the Evertz Multiframe. It’s gonna go back for some tender loving care at the factory.
We’ve had a rash of failures on these boards as of late and that makes life interesting when there are a LOT of them in service throughout the facility.
The soundtrack for pondering this nonsense is below.
Thanks to Shane Toven for revealing the likely underlying cause of all the failsauce: cooling!
Evertz 7700 frame: cooling is via two small fans on the back.
Newer 7800FR-QT frame: this is apparently the low noise version. The 7800FR has the same design as above but the -QT gives you this wonderful front panel:
Guess which one I like better? 😉
¡Miami esta la pinga!
There I know enough Spanish to swear in it
Coming home from work, I’m sitting at a long red light wondering how to drink the last bit of coconut water from an irresponsibly tall carton of it because the thing his the ceiling before it tilts enough. I’m sitting there stopped for about ten seconds when… Bang.
The car stalls instantly. No airbags fired but the fucking coconut water is now airborne before landing on my nice red leather trenchcoat. Fuck a duck.
I get out kinda in disbelief, stunned and shaken but unhurt. The first thing I see is the car behind me with the front end totally munched!
The driver gets out and she’s really apologetic and rubbing her forehead. I look at the back of my car and, well…
Look at all that damage! Uh, look hard…. It’s just not there.
We exchange information and the driver goes on and on about how she’d rather pay out of pocket for my repairs because she is on SR-22 insurance. The classic strategy for trying to escape liability in the ghetto….
But there’s no damage to my car and I’m not even mad.
Then she points out she wasn’t wearing her seat belt and her head hit the glass.
No.
I’m mad now damn it.
F=ma, bitch.
I’m an engineer. Trust me. Buckle up.
She’s going on about how her car is brand new (to her) and she just wrecked it…. I didn’t know what sr-22 meant at the time but it apparently means she’s crashed at fault three times in a year??
Now, why did her car pretty much take it up the nose from my rear bumper? It wasn’t the car’s first crash either. Looking in the grille, the metal part of the bumper was crushed back into the AC condenser…. and rusted like that. Someone had just slapped new plastic parts and paint on the car, leaving it with no actual bumper, so it neatly crushed the hood on impact.
Well. Maybe now you’ll stop texting and driving and for fuck’s sake buckle up. You wouldn’t mail fragile items without padding…. Don’t stick yourself in a big metal box unprotected.
My car wouldn’t crank for a couple minutes after the crash but then just reset?! Not sure what to make of that, but I guess it needed time to convince itself it was safe to restart.
Oh Miami, you fabulous jizz whistle.
Phone guy tags are fascinating
It’s not uncommon to find where old Bell System techs have left their mark next to the equipment.
There’s something oddly fascinating seeing it like an old dusty history book. Where are they all now?
See, these guys were classy, and cared about their work, unlike the douchecasserole who did this:
My pokemans, let me show u them
Preparing for renovations of the engineering office here at work. I just got my bench and organized it aaaaand it’s gone– gone to get bigger and better. Oh well. Here, have some random nonsense.
I want to make a little collage of any ICs I find that were made the same week I was born. Some of the Z80 peripheral chips below are close but no cigar. They’re the right quarter, but a few weeks off.
Public service announcement…
E-mail attachments are not your friend, wankstain!!!
Image from virusresearch.org
See this shit? See that banner at the top where Word is inviting you to enable macros but warning of viruses?
Surprise! Shit’s A VIRUS and it will get to work immediately encrypting every file it can get access to, local and network – it’s the Locky ransomware.
The email attack vector is not unique to Locky; it goes all the way back to the 1990s with various random worms and was also a common distribution vector for Cryptolocker. It’s also commonly used in “spear phishing” attacks wherein a particular person or group within an organization is manually targeted using social engineering to trick them into executing malware.
We’ve been hit over and over with it at work. Good backups save our data each time, but dear Eris this is a colossal pain in the ass.
That being said, I’m glad my department runs cables, tames evil robot cameras that are trying to gain sentience, fixes air conditioning towers*, yells about stupid $12,000 derp boards, and makes coffee for the directorial staff.
* actually this should be facility maintenance, but I was the first one to diagnose and fix the problem. If anyone had their doubts about the weird looking new guy in engineering, they’re crumbling quickly…
Engineering coiffure
I call this one the “I just fixed the broken wires to the A phase winding on the cooling tower fan motor”.
This is not a test. This is an actual message from the Broadcast Engineer’s Shitposting System. [FSK data burst]
Kendall votes to push the big red button
Sorry guys, you’re trafFUCKED. Forever. Why? You moved into bullshit like this. Here’s an example of the road structure common in KendHELL:
Developments were intentionally fragmented and designed to make access via anything but motor vehicle impractical to impart an aesthetic sense of distance from the major roadways and create an artificial sense of isolation and security. Many developments are walled in completely and gated.
Yeah… Good luck with that mass transit… It’s nearly impossible. Enjoy your four hour traffic jams.
Might as well just flood it again and return it to the Everglades 😉
Contraband!
Sorry! You’re not allowed to have light bulbs you can actually see by anymore.
Billboard FAIL.
Billboards along I-95… They’ve just kind of always been a thing. Well, now this one isn’t, and I bet it made a bit of noise when it lost the battle.
To say this would have killed anyone in its path would be an understatement. Luckily it just went splat into a field. Seeing how awful the company (likely none other than Clear Channel!) let it get… I’m not walking near one on a windy day ever again.
Nonsense bonus: stainless spot weld failure.
