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 I’m a fan of the oriel window, not so much the rest. It’s presumably been standing since the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Ninety‐five, though, and it looks to be in good shape, so I have to give it credit for that.
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Platystemon posted:
I have a very irrational love of turrets. Even on that stupid thing it kind of looks interesting.
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Sep 20, 2016 10:11
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Man, the budget cuts hit Hogwarts hard.
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Nice piece of fish posted:I have a very irrational love of turrets. Even on that stupid thing it kind of looks interesting. That one at least looks functional, rather than those big stupid ones that only produce wasted airspace in a building.
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This house is Brazil is like an "I Spy" of construction nightmares.
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Platystemon posted:
Would be pretty badass with a matching oriel on the other corner. I mean, if you're gonna be a castle, be a castle, right?
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But why leave the card there? If you've got the knowledge to unplug the card, surely you know that you can remove the cable from the card without breaking the network? ...I'm giving them too much credit, aren't ?
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spog posted:surely you know that you can remove the cable from the card without breaking the network? No, I don't think that's the case. I'm not 100% up on ancient network technologies but removing that card without replacing it with the special terminator plug probably would break the entire network. IIRC you couldn't leave a single jack disconnected or the entire network stopped working. A cable break or an intermittent connection could ruin everybody's day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2 
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I think the real crappy construction tale is that someone somewhere is still using a coax network.
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MisterOblivious posted:No, I don't think that's the case. Not quite right: you can disconnect the NIC from the T-piece and the network will still work. If you disconnect either of the cables from the T-piece, it will indeed break, as you say.
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spog posted:Not quite right: you can disconnect the NIC from the T-piece and the network will still work. Regardless, the terminators can be purchased at 5 for a a couple bucks. The female to female BNC connectors are 15 for around $5. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Sep 21, 2016 |
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It's an art installation.
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GreenNight posted:It's an art installation. You have no idea. 
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My wild guess is that the network guy had enough of people asking for the thousandth time: "What is this silly cable loop hanging from the corner of my ceiling?" Solution: show, don't tell. And if someone is both illiterate and non-tech-savvy, it just might look enough like "mysterious high technology" to discourage fiddling with it. With a more tech-savvy audience, it might work in another way:  : "Why is there a network card hanging from a cable loop?" : "Oh, that's how we set up wireless network. Please don't touch it, or it will stop working and that makes people angry."And if someone disbelieves the explanation and disconnects the cables from the T connector... the wireless network stops working. Because the coax network is used to feed the hidden old crappy wireless AP that provides wireless network for guests/first-year students/other peons. The network admins have their own shiny 5 GHz wireless network elsewhere.
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Looks like a hotel bathroom? I don't think they ever hire anyone who actually knows what they are doing.
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You are the wind beneath my wings.
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Nice piece of fish posted:I have a very irrational love of turrets. Even on that stupid thing it kind of looks interesting.  One of my more pointless life goals is to own a house with at least one turret.
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I'd settle for 
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Did it become detached and tilt or built that way? I don't see any water staining under the scupper so it seems like it doesn't really get any flow anyways.
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Baronjutter posted:Did it become detached and tilt or built that way? I don't see any water staining under the scupper so it seems like it doesn't really get any flow anyways. Judging from how parallel it still is to the corner, I'd say it was installed that far away. Also, thanks for the Scrabble word.
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Apologies for the lovely picture. I live in a ground-floor apartment, and tilers came this morning to re-tile the bottom of our shower, to fix loose tiles. They ripped up the tiles, and began to remove the screed/concrete beneath... only to find out it wasn't concrete. The cheap oval office who'd re-tiled this bathroom before had used loving dirt to build up the shower, and laid the thinnest, shittiest screed on top of that. Some lucky tree had even managed to get its roots in there. So now the new tilers have removed all the dirt, but they have to wait a week for the material beneath to dry out properly before they put in an actual waterproof concrete floor, and I need to find somewhere else I can shower before I go to work Monday morning 
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Sep 24, 2016 11:27
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Thats what a damp cloth and the sink is for.
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Sep 24, 2016 11:30
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or a gym, or a friend's house... lol
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Sep 24, 2016 14:37
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Actually I've got a friend who runs a backpacker hostel not too far from my workplace, but it's still a huge loving hassle given that I walk to work and will have to find somewhere to stash my dirty clothes and wet towel.
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Sep 24, 2016 14:57
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I'm all the cheese being shot out of a cannon.
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Those may look like delicious cheese wheels but they're actually bags of gunpowder. A battleship-sized gun doesn't have the propellant built into the shell, it'd be both ridiculously unsafe and even more unwieldy than it already is. So every shell fired is paired up with three or four big cylindrical bags of powder.
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Sep 24, 2016 17:09
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i myself am the bendynose shell of power.
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Redeye Flight posted:Those may look like delicious cheese wheels but they're actually bags of gunpowder. A battleship-sized gun doesn't have the propellant built into the shell, it'd be both ridiculously unsafe and even more unwieldy than it already is. I served in the coastal artillery so I think I know a cheese load when I see it thank you very much.
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Ah, I apologize. I didn't recognize you were a professional cheesethrower, my bad.
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Crappy Crawlspace Tales: 400+ gallons of literal poo poo. From /r/WTF, "Toilet drain pipe fell off, toilet has been flushing into crawl space for an indeterminate amount of time."
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I'm pretty sure those are grounds to burn the house down.
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wolrah posted:Crappy Crawlspace Tales: 400+ gallons of literal poo poo. 400 gallons sounds like at least 200 toilet flushes, more if it's a water saver. how do you not notice the smell before flushing the toilet 200 times?
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Was the toilet draining through 1½" pipe laying on the ground? Time to call your local public adjuster. Sewage remediation is not cheap if done properly
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