Blowout soon fellow Stalker
No I'm about 225 last I checked. Might have put on a few since then, I've been eating poorly and doing nothing these past few months.
Oh really when?
Then you'd be contributing to the average being below 233.
I don't look it, but I'm usually at least 410 pounds.
Fresh-eyed movie blog
Lost in Space
The Monty Python reference in the first Alt Text had me in stitches.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lost in Space
New xkcd: Screws
. I am, unfortunately, quite familiar with the "cursed -1 Phillips head". Also, what's Phillip's head doing in there? You were supposed to get rid of it!
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LOL I have encountered a cursed -1 flat head, where you can use a Phillips to unscrew it.
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
My screwdrivers are the ones in the -1 configs. I think I should get screwdrivers that suck less.
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I can't really think of any way to improve screws other than more standard and more durable but they can get really annoying.
I will never forget the time I ended up stuck in a locked room (the lock was jammed. Disassembling it would have worked) with a screwdriver that didn't fit the screws on the handle/lock mechanism. The eventual solution was to loosen the screws with a pair of tweezers then use the screwdriver to pry the mechanism off.
edited 16th Jan '15 7:26:30 AM by TenebrousGaze
The Phillips head design is actually designed to lose grip between the head and the driver. The idea was that when using a power driver, once the screw was tight the driver would slip out harmlessly rather than stripping the screw. Torx-head is designed to tighten the grip between head and driver, so it's a lot better for tightening by hand.
Fresh-eyed movie blog
What about Pozidriv?
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Lost in Space
It may have been Pozidriv, not Torx.
Fresh-eyed movie blog
Absolutely no relation to NLK
Goddamn cursed Phillips...
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Well, the problem with straight heads is that the screwdriver never fits perfectly in them, so instead of spreading the force evenly, it exerts all force at two points. This results in losing the grip very easily, damaging both the screw and the driver (it is therefore more likely to encounter a cursed straight head than any other time, relative to the total number of such heads at least). PH and PZ (which are very similar, particularly you can use PH drivers on PZ heads, but not vice versa) have not only perfect fit, but they have a conical shape so only 3 sizes of drivers can be used for all sizes of screws. Torx has a higher grip but it requires a different driver for each size of screw.
Reading the alt text I think that Randall probably drew this comic after he hurt himself trying something stupid just because he forgot to bring a wrench with him.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
...although for some reason, Final Fantasy VI character Celes came to mind, despite having an L instead of an R.
edited 20th Jan '15 9:27:23 PM by ShadowHog
Moon◊I'm not sure I get the "Inspected by No. 6" part. ^_^;;
I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue.
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didn't get it either.but!
one could always count on explainXKCD to explain the joke.
Did you ever watch The Adventures of Pete & Pete? It seems like early 90s America had a pre-internet meme about prolific inspectors.
Anyway, new comic- "omg, I'm get older because pop culture thing is in the past..." yadda yadda.
Lost in Space
Who wants to go to space today? Well, you'll need lots of butter.
literary masochist
Or a motorcycle, but that's the boring option.
The bit about the slinky confused me. How does it help you get to orbit?
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
At this point in time, I've read only one word of the article -"Stairs"- and since this is What-If I'm imagining some kind of super-stairs so I guess that the Slinky doesn't help you go into space, that's not the point, the point is that if you have a super staircase, you're putting a slinky on it. 'Cuz science.
Having now read the article, several terrifying thoughts pop into my mind.
1) So is the amount of butter you need growing exponential, to account for the energy spent bringing up the butter?
2) Could you take a horse instead of a motorcycle?[1]
3) Horses can go up stairs but not down them so the horses either get thrown off at the end or the stairway gets littered with horses corpses.
4) * Oh god, the people going up the stairs will have to poop.
- ...on an all butter diet.
...You're in the 400 pounds range? O.o