Random randomness

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:28 pm

I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:03 am

Isgrimnur wrote:I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days.

Uh oh.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:52 am

So, I get my gas cap in today after being told that is what was keeping my check engine light on. That's simple enough to replace. The the service manager tells me that I'll need to bring the car in to turn off the light.
NOTHING FUCKED UP ABOUT THIS AT ALL!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:03 am

Is he charging you? If so just unhook your battery for about 20 min and it will reset all the codes.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:18 am

Daehawk wrote:Is he charging you? If so just unhook your battery for about 20 min and it will reset all the codes.

Yup, that worked for me. You should also stand on the brake pedal for 30 seconds to drain capacitors, whatever that means.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:32 am

Isgrimnur wrote:Nope. But why was Captain left out?

He drove her to the recording sessions!

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:44 am

Smoove_B wrote:Whoa, whoa whoa. How am I just learning tonight that Toni Tennille sang backing vocals on the Pink Floyd Album, The Wall. Did everyone else know this but me?

At the time, I was like 9 years old, I think, so no. By the time I was 14 and bought the album, yep, and it was a surprise to me in 1984. Even more of a surprise, still not having seen the movie, was the lyric liners for songs that weren't included on the album. I so wanted to hear "What Shall We Do Now." A year later, when I turned 15 and saw the movie for the first time, "When the Tigers Broke Free" became one of my favorite songs... which led me The Final Cut and Animals and I never looked back. Even if my ignorant ass actually considers The Wall the best representation of art of the 20th century, I still actually listen to Animals and The Final Cut more.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:27 am

Smoove_B wrote:Whoa, whoa whoa. How am I just learning tonight that Toni Tennille sang backing vocals on the Pink Floyd Album, The Wall. Did everyone else know this but me?

Did you also know Glenn Danzig sang backup on Muskrat Love?

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:31 am

Jaymann wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:Nope. But why was Captain left out?
He was comfortably numb.

He exchanged a walk on part in The Wall for a lead role in a cage.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:31 am

LordMortis wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:Whoa, whoa whoa. How am I just learning tonight that Toni Tennille sang backing vocals on the Pink Floyd Album, The Wall. Did everyone else know this but me?
At the time, I was like 9 years old, I think, so no. By the time I was 14 and bought the album, yep, and it was a surprise to me in 1984. Even more of a surprise, still not having seen the movie, was the lyric liners for songs that weren't included on the album. I so wanted to hear "What Shall We Do Now." A year later, when I turned 15 and saw the movie for the first time, "When the Tigers Broke Free" became one of my favorite songs... which led me The Final Cut and Animals and I never looked back. Even if my ignorant ass actually considers The Wall the best representation of art of the 20th century, I still actually listen to Animals and The Final Cut more.

I'm like you - only I do Meddle over The Final Cut. mowing my lawn to San Tropez

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:46 am

Kraken wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Is he charging you? If so just unhook your battery for about 20 min and it will reset all the codes.
Yup, that worked for me. You should also stand on the brake pedal for 30 seconds to drain capacitors, whatever that means.

That's kind of like shaking it to make sure you don't leave spots on your pants when you're done. This Wiki suggests holding down the horn for 30 seconds, but I imagine it works with anything that normally engages an electrical spark when used. Brake lights, car horn, whatever.

Disconnecting the battery completely can work, and after 100 miles if the light comes back on, then it likely wasn't the gas cap or it's ill-fitting.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:52 am

hepcat wrote:Did you also know Glenn Danzig sang backup on Muskrat Love?

If you're going to be mean, Santa won't bring you the Golden Girls action figures that your heart desires.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:25 pm

Well, stepping on the brakes didn't do it. I'll have to try disconnecting the battery.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:29 pm

dbt1949 wrote:Well, stepping on the brakes didn't do it. I'll have to try disconnecting the battery.

With you, I can't tell if you are joking.

The idea is to disconnect the battery and then step on the brakes to drain any residual electricity in the car. You do the same thing with PCs before opening the case. Disconnect the power and then hold in the power button for five seconds.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:29 pm

The CHECK ENGINE light was on in my car a few months ago and I went the whole gas cap route. After doing more searching online, all evidence suggested it was one of five (?) oxygen sensors that apparently give out between 140 and 150K miles in my model Subaru. Turns out that was 100% correct (I was at 148K), so score one for the Internet.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:30 pm

dbt1949 wrote:Well, stepping on the brakes didn't do it. I'll have to try disconnecting the battery.

It was disconnect the battery and *then* step on the brakes to flush all those spare electrons out of the system (brake lights).

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:34 pm

Smoove_B wrote:The CHECK ENGINE light was on in my car a few months ago and I went the whole gas cap route. After doing more searching online, all evidence suggested it was one of five (?) oxygen sensors that apparently give out between 140 and 150K miles in my model Subaru. Turns out that was 100% correct (I was at 148K), so score one for the Internet.

That seems to be (anecdotally) the most common reason for the engine light to come on, which pisses me the hell right off. It's a total misnomer of the problem at hand. The engineers who decided to tie a fuel efficiency problem with things that will destroy an engine in the immediate future, like overheating or no oil pressure should be dis-engineerified.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:50 pm

Paralyzed man feels touch through mind-controlled robot hand

A paralyzed man is regaining a sense of touch while using a mind-controlled robotic hand, feeling subtle pressure in his own fingers when the artificial ones are touched. The experiment reported Thursday is an early step in the quest to create prosthetics that can feel.

How it works: Tiny chips implanted in Nathan Copeland's brain are bypassing his broken spinal cord, relaying electrical signals that govern movement and sensation to and from that robotic arm.

When University of Pittsburgh researchers blindfolded Copeland, he could correctly identify which robotic finger they touched 84 percent of the time.

"The majority of them, it felt like a pressure or a tingling" in his own corresponding finger, said Copeland, 30, of Dunbar, Pennsylvania. When a researcher touched two fingers at the same time, "I just laughed and I said, 'Are you trying to be tricky or something?"

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:53 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days.

Had to check the time stamp on your post. I thought I had inadvertently clicked on an old thread or page.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:57 pm

Watched it with the wife last night. She enjoyed it.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:10 pm

Smoove_B wrote:
hepcat wrote:Did you also know Glenn Danzig sang backup on Muskrat Love?
If you're going to be mean, Santa won't bring you the Golden Girls action figures that your heart desires.

As I mentioned when this was first brought to my attention, there's not enough points of articulation for these to be useful to me.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:26 pm

Reading glasses are like a drug. Leave 'em on too long and they give you a massive headache that doesn't go away for like 48 hours. Take 'em off to rest your eyes and you find yourself all squinty dry eyed trying to see stuff. And if you just go attempt entirely without at this stage, you can't actually function.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:37 pm

Oh, disconnect the battery and then press the brakes. If I'm going to disconnect the battery anyways why not just leave it that way for 20 minutes and forget about the brakes?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:44 pm

Because capacitors. Think of them as extremely short-term batteries.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:46 pm

dbt1949 wrote:Oh, disconnect the battery and then press the brakes. If I'm going to disconnect the battery anyways why not just leave it that way for 20 minutes and forget about the brakes?

Power stored in the system. The brakes (well, brake lights) use it up. 20 minutes without power probably resets the memory.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:49 pm

You can also buy a diagnostic scan tool for like $15 which you can use to pull the check engine codes and reset the light.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:07 pm

When it rains, it pours. July - $1000 insurance deductible due to leaky pipe in house the caused damage in three rooms. September, $1250 for car ac compressor repair. October - $859 for repair (rather than $1500 for replacement) of household ac evaporator coil. Next month, $750 for new tires on the van.

Christmas is going to be lean this year.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:47 pm

Okay, disconnecting the battery and pressing on the brakes did it.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:48 pm

We did it!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:30 pm

Saw a thing about in the 1700s a scientist discovered a spiral galaxy 23 million light years away. One day someone will be saying.."They thought that was a long way away?" Because they'll go there in 5 minutes or so. Hell 1 light year is beyond us. But one day I can only imagine how it might be.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:36 pm

All summer long, my ABS light was going on and off intermittently. When we came back from the Berkshires in July it stayed on. I couldn't find anyone who would diagnose it for less than $100, so I just lived with it.

Last week I finally decided to defy the water ban and wash my car one last time this year. I hadn't washed it since before the Berkshires trip and it had gotten very dusty with all the dry weather.

Lo and behold, the ABS light went off and stayed off. I had suspected that it was just a sensor. Now I'm fairly sure that's so.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:28 pm

Sidral Mundet. I LOVE apple soda drinks. Ive had only a few but today I found the best tasting one yet...and maybe ever. I picked it up at Walmart and its made in Mexico. Soooo good!

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:17 pm

hepcat wrote:As I mentioned when this was first brought to my attention, there's not enough points of articulation for these to be useful to me.

How about something more wobbly?

Hipolito · Post by **Hipolito** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:32 pm

Daehawk wrote:Saw a thing about in the 1700s a scientist discovered a spiral galaxy 23 million light years away. One day someone will be saying.."They thought that was a long way away?" Because they'll go there in 5 minutes or so. Hell 1 light year is beyond us. But one day I can only imagine how it might be.

That reminds me of something I read about the Large Magellanic Cloud. Or was it the Small one? One of those. Anyway, it said that if there are people living in that cloud, then their night sky is dominated by our Milky Way galaxy. It looks absolutely huge to them.

Kinda makes you think.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:06 am

So my boss asks me for copies of any emails I've been sending to the program developer regarding issues and problems that we keep having. I'm whistling while I work, forwarding email after email, and after maybe 10 emails I get a quick reply of "I have enough now, thanks" ... shucks. I still have a dozen more to go!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:08 pm

Picked up some Martinellis apple juice today. never had it before. Stupid me. It almost made me cry it is SO good . I've never had apple juice this good before.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:39 pm

http://www.trendingly.com/jolene-slowed-down

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:24 pm

LordMortis wrote:http://www.trendingly.com/jolene-slowed-down

Pretty neat. I love her rendition of that song.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:51 pm

People on there writing thats not her. I can hear her twang / lisp / accent so I know its her. She's my wife's cousin.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:55 pm

Daehawk wrote:People on there writing thats not her. I can hear her twang / lisp / accent so I know its her. She's my wife's cousin.

Apparently they don't understand that it isn't a recording of her singing sloooowwwweerrrr. They clearly don't understand how that affects the sound.