Happy Birthday, Leon Kowalski!


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Damn it Brain, I came here to post that. Funny as shit lol

Props for blade runner content

That's Istanbul.
I watched one of those tow trucks drop a car several times while trying to load it up once.

not shocked.

Brain's avitar is making me feel

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illest

my son (4.5 yrs) has decided that the phillies shall now be referred to as the "toots"

fair enough.

they boo everything.


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I enjoyed Veterans Stadium.



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So I bought some shelving the other day...

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F. That.

How am I supposed to browse and drive when you've got this crazy thing flashing in my eyes?

It's all fun and games until somebody has a seizure.

Be careful, someone will sue you for that. :hahano:

I don't know why I find this amusing:

It's the repressed Furry in you.

--Ian

good thing he lived to 120...

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--Ian

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this is real:

Skip to 4:10 if you want to just see the commercial spoof

One more kick at the Pepsi can:

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The Prettiest Pissoirs of Bygone Paris

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I had no idea that P.C. Richard was still in business.


Got these photos from a former employee of mine in NYC last night. The lesson here is to make damn sure that you torque the 3/8-16 bolts which hold the head to the pedestal to full-spec. This was Camera 3, which literally fell off of its pedestal in the middle of the 10pm news on WPIX. All told, that's about $80k worth of hardware sitting on the floor:


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I know you can get a video grab of the live broadcast. BOOM!

From the 2nd pic though, not sure what's going on there. Did 4 3/8 bolts shear? that seems extremely unlikely.

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Sadly, Cam 3 wasn't on the air at that exact moment. It's a robot camera, and was moving to its next programmed shot when it fell off.

The bolts didn't shear. What you're seeing in that pic is that the four bolts (which are captive to the pedestal) have simply unthreaded themselves from the head and fallen back into their "removed" position. They are unharmed. IOW, at some point, someone had removed the head from the pedestal for service, and when they re-installed it, they didn't re-tighten the bolts properly. So, over time, they worked themselves loose.

You hear about this kind of stuff happening, but rarely see it. The sad part is that I know exactly who removed Robot #3 from its pedestal for maintenance, and when, and he's exactly the guy I'd have expected to not use a torque-wrench when re installing.

The overnight EIC re-checked the security of the bolts on the other 5 cameras, and they're all tight.


Photos of #3 (to cam-right of anchor desk) back when it was shiny and new, c. early 2014:


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I did 'lol'. Perhaps some blue loctite or equivalent would be a nice addition as well.

The microphones didn't pick up the crash? Anchors expressions of imminent death? Oh well.

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I bet it looked like this when it fell:

or maybe like this?



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All those missiles being launched reminds me of the magic guns used by Schwarzenegger, et al, featuring unlimited ammunition.

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I anticipate some dead teenagers in the next few years.

When we were building our new cameras this past month, I specifically went out and bought Grade 8 bolts for the heads, with about 1" thread engagement, to which we applied a torque wrench.

I know who last serviced cam 3 at PIX, and he's exactly the guy I'd expect not to torque the bolts properly.





Aaaaw, that makes me a sad kitty. I was hoping to find out what my next new hobby was.

Coelacanth:

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Did someone say lots of missiles?



--Ian

There is a site dedicated to public payphones if you are actually interested...
http://www.payphone-project.com/

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@Joe Perez You may enjoy this youtube channel. Cute sometimes redhead knowing about cool old stuff.

We have three dogs.
And a turtle.
And, a cat decided to adopt us lately.

Comes and goes as she pleases, sleeps on the couch, on our bed, or in one of the two "homes" we made for her.
We were pretty apprehensive at first. You know, images of three dogs going nuts, chasing a cat around the house and mayhem all around.
None of that happened. It was instant world peace.

Here:

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This is something else...
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More.

So cool. That's a keeper.

Unrelated sink at a brewery.

Yay! Happy kitties is happy!

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Peasants...

What kind of third-world nation drydocks their ships outdoors? I mean, what if it were to rain? You'd be all, like, wet and stuff...


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I keed... Pretty cool video. I mean, I've seen it done in person, but you never get tired of watching it.