Engineering Humor

[GAD]

 

[chazmo]

Nothing like burying a switch in your floor. It would be funny if it weren't so completely cringe-worthy!

 

[davismanLV]

maybe.... unless you smell gas..... then....

 

[GGJaguar]

Yeesh, that photo sets off my allergies just looking at it.

 

[JohnW63]

I didn't have that sort of discovery, but back in 93 our district built a new school. We told the contractor we used coax cable " thin-net " for networking. So... the guy installing the cable did it like TV. I had a 2000 foot run in one location. But, even better, he used a cable splitter to feed multiple classrooms and hid it behind a panel in a built in closet in one of the classrooms. I think I used some sort of tv coax cable tester to find the distance and did some testing of length in various classrooms to figure out where to look.

 

[GAD]

I didn't have that sort of discovery, but back in 93 our district built a new school. We told the contractor we used coax cable " thin-net " for networking. So... the guy installing the cable did it like TV. I had a 2000 foot run in one location. But, even better, he used a cable splitter to feed multiple classrooms and hid it behind a panel in a built in closet in one of the classrooms. I think I used some sort of tv coax cable tester to find the distance and did some testing of length in various classrooms to figure out where to look.

Delightful. I guess no one explained to him how thin-net worked.

 

[WaltW]

Omg, that makes me itchy all over kind of like exposure to spun glass house insulation

 

[GAD]

Busy busy. Very busy.

 

[GGJaguar]

Busy busy. Very busy.

How do you know where to look?

 

[GAD]

How do you know where to look?

Maybe he has some sort of implant from the wireless monitor company.

 

[chazmo]

He talks to the echo puck...

"Make it so." "Engage." "Porn in 3D."

 

[gjmalcyon]

Maybe he has some sort of implant from the wireless monitor company.

Friggin' art directors. Should never be allowed on shoots.

 

[GAD]

 

[WaltW]

Nice bike rack!!

 

[Prince of Darkness]

 

[GGJaguar]

 

[GGJaguar]

 

[davidbeinct]

What? That’s where it was before I replaced the pipe.

 

[GAD]

What? That’s where it was before I replaced the pipe.

I'm guessing that's exactly what happened.

I had lally columns replaced with a beam in my basement. I told them "don't touch the fiber. They apparently didn't know what that meant. The fiber had been placed (by me) such that it was in pieces of conduit and the pieces of conduit were attached to the joists to that the fiber was unconstrained anywhere in the run. This was admittedly sub-par, but it worked. They ignored the conduit and zip-tied all the fiber to the joists:

They also managed to run the beam over the heating oil pipe (required because it was run under the wooden bean - since corrected) and destroyed the dropped ceiling in the process. Story here.

 

[GAD]

Despite my irritation at the lack of capitalization along with my thoughts about how much a roll of solder costs these days, I still found it funny.