Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Look, the Mark I 'Rock' can opener was perfectly fine, soldiers just weren't using it right! same issue with all the other can openers, its always user error
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  2. what a terribly janky and yet creative way to do background colors, I thought those were colored gels with white backlighting
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  3. what's better than 40s xmas lights? 40s xmas lights with bits of flammable liquid on top! also I had bubble lights with replaceable bulbs
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  4. "1990 silly mobile." Hey, at least japan made some cool stuff when they were in their massive money splurge phase, the middle east just built a bunch of crappy buildings
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  5. seems like you could glue a neodymium magnet onto the side of it to catch the little slivers. as it is, all food products have an 'acceptable' amount of iron, just look at people confusing iron dust in their cereal for the iron content on the box. I've worked in food packaging and uh ya you're good on iron.
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  6. eh, my appartment didn't have any windows that could take a portable window unit being at ground level, and it was twice the size of what the room needed to be you're right about these things being crappy but window airconditioners seemingly have not gotten any better
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  7. you want to talk about light pillution, my college dorm had a soccer field in the middle of the campus, and they ran the field lights from twilight, to about 4 AM because they had a 3AM soccer league for some inexplicable reason it was like having a spotlight pointed directly into your window every night for 6 months straight.
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  8. when I worked in a mill that had iffy wiring, every plug in the mill was a 240 plug and every 120v plug had to be adapted to plug in, then again at another job an older fellow there was running a space heater off a full 240v 30 amp circuit
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  9. no you didn't find wacky steerable lamps, those were outlawed by these very regulations (actually side mounted spotlights were, but those were casualties too)
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  10. acrylic ink is what you want for dying the lights
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  11. sodium vapor is much better than LEDs for streetlighting. except when you're my former campus and make the whole damn place glow bright orange at night
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  12. it was the selfie camera of the day!
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  13. I've got a 150 watt photographic bulb around my office, that thing is painful to be around the few times I've run it
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  14. I never had a use for powdered detergent for laundry until I worked at a metal recycler, that's the only thing that gets most of the oil out
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  15. gasometer, meters the pressure of the gas, its not measuring its setting the pressure of the gas, which is a function of the diameter of the gasometer and the weight of the cover
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  16. "Assume a standard can in a frictionless vacuum" Ok but my can just slid away from me
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  17. oh I was wondering what you were on about, my new car has individual lights for both braking and turning as did my honda. in fact I can't think of anything but high end cars that do this
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  18. Funny enough, for a while they made electric lamps in the style of that Aladdin lamp with fake oil tanks and useless glass chimneys. I have a pair of them from my grandmother's old house. they weren't a conversion, they were from that 40s-50s era when those lamps were still in style but rapidly on decline
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  19. these things are actually quite clever, but after having to pull out about 2 dozen of these things before cutting the yard for YEARS, I also hate them. I don't even see the kind you use for in ground irrigation systems anymore as they've all been replaced by popout systems
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  20. This made me remember V-chips used to be a threat too
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  21. doc brown might have actually been able to build a nuclear bomb out of pinball parts
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  22. seeing the construction and hearing the sound again, its very clear its like a cymbal you hear on an orchestra. As the thing spins the vibrations cause a sort of resonance that causes the edges to vibrate very loudly
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  23. hate those little lamp extension cords, I find family members hooking a bunch of high powered stuff to them
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  24. I have a locking extension cord that uses these holes, I only use it for running an electric lawnmower so the cord doesn't become separated and melt the insulation while mowing, something that has happened before.
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  25. thorium really made them glow as well
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  26. Off, High, Neuchacho
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  27. seems like a QC issue, this is unacceptable, there must be less than a 2 mS variance!
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  28. automatic toasters have been a thing for toast aficionados for decades, quietly existing in the back pages of obscure catalogues, something to be marveled at but not for all.
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  29. we used to have these everywhere in our house, but ya these seem to come in and out of fashion kind of like the clapper. the ones we had were extensions you screwed into the socket and were vibration based, they just went bad eventually and they didn't work well with CFLs and LEDs. basically when the modules died we just never replaced them
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  30. the problem with heat pumps is they're generally not great past 0 C or 32 F. one tech to supplement this is geothermal heating systems that provide the thermal energy to supplement that but those systems aren't practical in tight neighborhoods or suburbia so we're back to using furnaces or resistive heat but the tech for geothermal is getting smaller and geology requirements opening up so its possible
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  31. talked with a hvac installer at a home show recently and they have installed dual fuel systems now here in the north east where there's 3-4 months where heat pumps alone just won't cut it, its just few people are buying them yet but they at least know about them and have familiarity with the systems. they even have the thermostat setup such that it can pick the cheapest system by programming in your energy costs
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  32. boo coppertop sucks. I also work for Big Battery
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  33. I think a lot of hatred for these things came from another dated technology, the radio, specifically one station on the radio, where they were dubbed Obama-bulbs
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  34. i wonder if we made sockets slightly recessed we could at least avoid the issues with the plug falling out and add some kind of detent in the prongs to grip the holes in the plug blades
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  35. ​ @eDoc2020  they sell them around here to the amish, either for buisness or for personal use idk
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  36. there's a place that sells appliances to the amish in southern ohio and its like a divergent timeline there. full size gas fridges, sterling engines for your wood stoves, composting toilets for your house, browngas stoves
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  37. I have a little Thermaltake USB fan that while was a bit expensive, has a little control nob and plugs into my keyboard and sits just behind it, it works wonders better than these things
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