Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[Enigman]

Caffeine will make each quadrant pull harder.

...until the binding rope breaks setting each free.

 

[drizzle]

*un-follows all staff members*

 

[Lisa!]

*un-follows all the PF rules*

 

[nuuskur]

Anarchy!

 

[JorisL]

Anarchy...

...in the UK!

 

[Psinter]

1000. :w It only took 5 1/2 years.

For a while there, I thought you said you had made 1000 crunches until others replied to you. Silly me.

In middle school:

Friends: You are in love? We are so happy for you. Wait until we tell the whole school, the whole internet, the FBI, the Russian military, and whoever else we find on our way. Even thought you explicitly told us it was a secret.

And in a week or so even the European Union knows you are in love.

 

[nuuskur]

Rumors spread even faster :D

 

[Borg]

For a while there, I thought you said you had made 1000 crunches until others replied to you. Silly me.

The closest that I've been to that is once when I was watching a strong man contest on TV. I got motivated to do 300 pushups (sets of 25). It didn't take years.

 

[nuuskur]

Bought account upgrade for a year, can I play in the same sandbox with yous now? :D

 

[WWGD]

Weird new trend for TV programming around here : TV shows starting at unusual times and with unusual duration. Example: George Lopez' show sometimes starts at 2:13 a.m and ends at 2:51 a.m. Other shows will start at, e.g., 1:07 a.m until 1:45 a.m. Must be just more commercials I guess.

 

[dlgoff]

... can I play in the same sandbox with yous now?

Sure. But be aware of Evo.

 

[JorisL]

Does @jim hardy get a notification each time dlgoff posts, with the tag in his signature?

 

[jim hardy]

Does @jim hardy get a notification each time dlgoff posts, with the tag in his signature?

@JorisL nope, but your post gave me an alert...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Weird new trend for TV programming around here : TV shows starting at unusual times and with unusual duration. Example: George Lopez' show sometimes starts at 2:13 a.m and ends at 2:51 a.m. Other shows will start at, e.g., 1:07 a.m until 1:45 a.m. Must be just more commercials I guess.

There's been some of that going on here, too. I don't like it. You can miss the start of the next thing you want to watch.

 

[dlgoff]

@JorisL nope, but your post gave me an alert...

 

[dlgoff]

Does @jim hardy get a notification each time dlgoff posts, with the tag in his signature?

BTW Thanks for reminding me that I need to add Jim's quote to my special/meaningful list.

The context of a measurement involves multiple points in spacetime which are apparently linked without the constraint of the arrow of time, ...

We live in an observer dependent universe.

Owner Greg Bernhardt started Physics Forums as a high school extra credit project for a physics class in 2001.

I explained that the known laws of physics rule out such devices ...

http://www.orientalsportscenterdenver.com/

edit: and this one which is really important to me:
The Physics Forums Way

 

[JorisL]

6AM still killing Riemann tensors, dammit I shouldn't have forgotten this deadline :-(

 

[WWGD]

Wonder what would happen if a poorly-trained robot read the sign in the Runner's store: " never stop running".
Seems like a good Turing test to tell appart people from machines.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wonder what would happen if a poorly-trained robot read the sign in the Runner's store: " never stop running".
Seems like a good Turing test to tell appart people from machines.

Yeah, no. There are people with various neurological and psychiatric disorders who would take that sign literally.

 

[WWGD]

Yeah, no. There are people with various neurological and psychiatric disorders who would take that sign literally.

I guess that is why the have the joke: my mom has been running 2 miles every day. We have no idea where she is.

 

[WWGD]

Wonder when the day will come where strings , shoelaces and any loose objects coming out of clothing will disappear. It seems like loose clothing and other loose objects (e.g., chains, watches, shoelaces) getting caught in machinery is one of the main reasons for accidents. I myself will soon change towards Velcro and will aim to buy clothes without "appendages".

 

[WWGD]

I feel kind of petty; MLK had a dream of the brotherhood of humanity and people being judged by the
content of their character. Me, I just want to be able to watch any show on TV whenever I want . That is my big dream.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Wonder when the day will come where strings , shoelaces and any loose objects coming out of clothing will disappear. It seems like loose clothing and other loose objects (e.g., chains, watches, shoelaces) getting caught in machinery is one of the main reasons for accidents. I myself will soon change towards Velcro and will aim to buy clothes without "appendages".

Actually inexperienced and too careless, causes for the accidents.

 

[DennisN]

Nice pictures...
http://smashingpicture.com/23-stunning-opera-houses/

example:

 

[Enigman]

This is accurate. (warning: strong language and some latin)

 

[WWGD]

Actually inexperienced and too careless, causes for the accidents.

Of course, but you cannot keep track of everything that happens around you all the time, so it seems like a good idea to remove
causes of problems that you can remove.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Today I tried to remove the rear axle nut from my car. It was really torqued on there, I couldn't break it with a 1/2 drive breaker bar 2 feet long. So I supplemented that with an eight foot cheater bar. All I accomplished was to sheer off the 1/2 lug where the breaker enters the socket.

A look at an auto forum taught me that people have broken even 3/4 breaker bars trying to loosen this nut. You need an impact wrench or a dedicated tool. It's supposed to be torqued to 250 ft lbs, but some shops go overboard and people have found their axle nut torqued up to 400 ft lbs.

 

[WWGD]

Today I tried to remove the rear axle nut from my car. It was really torqued on there, I couldn't break it with a 1/2 drive breaker bar 2 feet long. So I supplemented that with an eight foot cheater bar. All I accomplished was to sheer off the 1/2 lug where the breaker enters the socket.

A look at an auto forum taught me that people have broken even 3/4 breaker bars trying to loosen this nut. You need an impact wrench or a dedicated tool. It's supposed to be torqued to 250 ft lbs, but some shops go overboard and people have found their axle nut torqued up to 400 ft lbs.

If you are anywhere as big as your avatar it should be a breeze to "Detorque" the rear axle.

 

[jim hardy]

It's supposed to be torqued to 250 ft lbs, but some shops go overboard and people have found their axle nut torqued up to 400 ft lbs.

impact wrench and air compressor is a good investment.
I just replaced all twenty of my wheel lug nuts because some bonehead laid on his tire shop mega-impact wrench hard enough to deform the threads.
Thank goodness the nuts yielded before the lugs...
I started asking at the tire shops how they torque lugnuts. I trade now at a place where he lubricates and torques them to 80 ft lbs, which is plenty.
Lubrication assures i'll be able to loosen them with my lug wrench on a dark snowy night alongside a boondocks road.

 

[zoobyshoe]

If you are anywhere as big as your avatar it should be a breeze to "Detorque" the rear axle.

The trouble is I don't have tools as big as my avatar.

impact wrench and air compressor is a good investment.
I just replaced all twenty of my wheel lug nuts because some bonehead laid on his tire shop mega-impact wrench hard enough to deform the threads.
Thank goodness the nuts yielded before the lugs...
I started asking at the tire shops how they torque lugnuts. I trade now at a place where he lubricates and torques them to 80 ft lbs, which is plenty.
Lubrication assures i'll be able to loosen them with my lug wrench on a dark snowy night alongside a boondocks road.

80 ft lbs sounds about right for where I found my lug nuts the first time I undid them. I had to stand on the lug wrench and bounce. This axle nut is on the big side, 36mm, torqued to hell and back, and every do-it-yourselfer who tackles it has problems breaking their tools on it. There's one dedicated gizmo that's less than $15 which everyone whose tried it has said worked. I'll try that first.

I tend to think most of those guys go overboard with their impact wrenches. Possibly, possibly to force you to take your car back there to be serviced when you find you can't undo any of your fasteners. That's bogus that they deformed your nuts. I mean the threads on your nuts. Your wheel nuts. I mean.