Random Thought Thread v2

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Locke

Hmmm....I'm no 'Refrigerant Expert' but I dont think so.

Isnt it a Chemical Gas? Unless you're living in 'Alert' or something I dont think we get anywhere near cold enough for that.

Theres gotta be an HVAC guy on CP who knows the answer.

But I've had a freezer in my attached but unheated Garage in Calgary for 7 years and never had a problem. For whatever thats worth.

It's a liquid and gas. The liquid phase is cool, as the refrigerant warms, it turns to a gas, and this phase change is what cools stuff. The compressor runs, re-compressing the gas causing it to phase change to a liquid(releasing heat, which is why your coils on the back are warm), and the refrigerant circulates through the system going through phase changes. Is an Alberta winter garage enough to freeze the refrigerant? No idea!

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Shazam

If Back to the Future was set in present day Marty would go back to 1994.

He would go on and play some dub step. I guess y'all arent ready for that yet...

[surferguy]

What do I need to get this to run via USB?

A link would be super helpful.

Thanks

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Looking at all the stuff my 6-year old daughter has done in school this year showed me that she already has much nicer handwriting than I've ever had. That's a weird mixture of pride and embarrassment on my part

My oldest has incredible cursive. I can't believe how beautiful it is.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Shazam

If Back to the Future was set in present day Marty would go back to 1994.

It'd be a brilliant movie! But they should make it more like 'Forrest Gump.'

Marty's wandering around and bumps into a guy with a crow-bar and makes him drop it and Nancy Kerrigan wins Gold!

He wanders into the midst of a Domestic Dispute and makes Courtney Love put down the shotgun (lets be honest, we all know she did it) and Kurt Cobain lives a long and happy life.

Stumbles into a house and sees some cash, the keys and a pair of driving gloves and 'borrows' the White Bronco allowing OJ to be caught! Nicole Brown survives and OJ is incarcerated.

He hits up a coffee shop and meets this guy who wants to sell books on the...interwebs? Anyways, he takes the cash he found at OJ's house and gives it to this 'Jeff' guy for what he thinks is a cruise in Brazil down the Amazon?

He goes to Canada and was at a stand buying a newspaper when all of a sudden a giant gust of wind blows it out of his hands and it covers the windshield of an oncoming car, the driver can't see! The car then inadvertently crashes into a baby carriage and thus...Justin Bieber was no more.

Thanks Marty!

I'll write and direct if someone crowd-funds a budget. I know a guy with a DeLorean and I think Michael and Chris would do it for scale!

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by surferguy

What do I need to get this to run via USB?

A link would be super helpful.

Thanks

Just an adaptor would do

https://a.co/d/5h1d6ID

Good luck with your onlyfan!

[White Out 403]

What are people doing with their deep freezers? I'm just looking around to see if I can find one that's in good shape on Kijiji and I even went into a used furniture store, and I swear to God it seems like people are using their deep freezers to shoot hockey pucks at or take pot shots at with a BB gun

[calf]

Originally Posted by Locke

It'd be a brilliant movie! But they should make it more like 'Forrest Gump.'

Marty's wandering around and bumps into a guy with a crow-bar and makes him drop it and Nancy Kerrigan wins Gold!

He wanders into the midst of a Domestic Dispute and makes Courtney Love put down the shotgun (lets be honest, we all know she did it) and Kurt Cobain lives a long and happy life.

Stumbles into a house and sees some cash, the keys and a pair of driving gloves and 'borrows' the White Bronco allowing OJ to be caught! Nicole Brown survives and OJ is incarcerated.

He hits up a coffee shop and meets this guy who wants to sell books on the...interwebs? Anyways, he takes the cash he found at OJ's house and gives it to this 'Jeff' guy for what he thinks is a cruise in Brazil down the Amazon?

He goes to Canada and was at a stand buying a newspaper when all of a sudden a giant gust of wind blows it out of his hands and it covers the windshield of an oncoming car, the driver can't see! The car then inadvertently crashes into a baby carriage and thus...Justin Bieber was no more.

Thanks Marty!

I'll write and direct if someone crowd-funds a budget. I know a guy with a DeLorean and I think Michael and Chris would do it for scale!

Walking around New York, he finds a bankrupt former casino owner.

"Hey, I know you, you're going to be president".

"I could be president! I'm going to clean up this country and make it great again"

wait...

[Locke]

Originally Posted by calf

Walking around New York, he finds a bankrupt former casino owner.

"Hey, I know you, you're going to be president".

"I could be president! I'm going to clean up this country and make it great again"

wait...

Haha! This would be such a great movie!

"Flies the DeLorean to Rwanda and offers a stranger some shrimp... Juvénal Habyarimana dies of anaphylactic shock. Rwandan Genocide averted."

[timun]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

He would go on and play some dub step. I guess y'all arent ready for that yet...

"... but your kids'll love it."

[Locke]

Originally Posted by calf

Walking around New York, he finds a bankrupt former casino owner.

"Hey, I know you, you're going to be president".

"I could be president! I'm going to clean up this country and make it great again"

wait...

Or...

"Hey I dropped my keys in this pool here, could you help me look? *grabs back of head* Its okay Donald...just relax...its okay...everything will be fine when the bubbles stop..."

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

What are people doing with their deep freezers? I'm just looking around to see if I can find one that's in good shape on Kijiji and I even went into a used furniture store, and I swear to God it seems like people are using their deep freezers to shoot hockey pucks at or take pot shots at with a BB gun

My guess is they last forever so they get moved multiple times and don't get protected like wood furniture. Mine is going on 30 years old.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

What are people doing with their deep freezers? I'm just looking around to see if I can find one that's in good shape on Kijiji and I even went into a used furniture store, and I swear to God it seems like people are using their deep freezers to shoot hockey pucks at or take pot shots at with a BB gun

If it’s in the garage, it’s a primary or secondary workbench

[Minnie]

My brother died last week. Biological half-brother on bio dad's side. They don't know why yet, he just went to sleep and didn't wake up. He was living with my bio sister, since he moved back to Wa from Indiana about 3 years ago. Last couple of years had been rough for him health wise - he ended up having to go on dialysis about 18 months ago and had 2 stents placed this past June. He was able to have his dialysis done at home, I assume something to do with the VA (he was in the military at one point & I know a bunch of his other care has been through them). My sister thought she heard someone pulling in the drive & assumed it was the dialysis people, went to wake him up and he was just gone. They didn't know how long but sometime in the night. Given the 2 biggest health issues he's had of late, I'm assuming 1 of those caused it. He was 2 years younger than me. I hadn't met him in person yet, but we'd talked on the phone/messenger/facetime.

He was a funny guy, even after death. Before his stent surgery, he'd gotten his "affairs" in order, so my sister knew where to find his final wishes, etc. He was a big Harley fan, had a beautiful bike. He didn't want a funeral, just to be cremated & then someone was supposed to put some of his ashes in his bike tank & "take him for one last rip." Told my sister she best check with a mechanic on that, because I figure it might gum up some stuff and wreck something. So, she will & figure out some way to honor his last wishes that way, without wrecking the bike. Then she'll have the urn interred on their mom's headstone if she's allowed to. They'll do a memorial BBQ this summer, sounds like. Won't be able to go to that, unfortunately.


I knew something would happen at some point, to someone on my dad's side, assumed it would be Pop first though, given his age, etc. Wasn't expecting this. I don't quite know how I feel, numb I suppose. Sad. Just not quite myself/don't know what to do with myself.

[RichieRich]

Originally Posted by Minnie

My brother died last week. Biological half-brother on bio dad's side. They don't know why yet, he just went to sleep and didn't wake up. He was living with my bio sister, since he moved back to Wa from Indiana about 3 years ago. Last couple of years had been rough for him health wise - he ended up having to go on dialysis about 18 months ago and had 2 stents placed this past June. He was able to have his dialysis done at home, I assume something to do with the VA (he was in the military at one point & I know a bunch of his other care has been through them). My sister thought she heard someone pulling in the drive & assumed it was the dialysis people, went to wake him up and he was just gone. They didn't know how long but sometime in the night. Given the 2 biggest health issues he's had of late, I'm assuming 1 of those caused it. He was 2 years younger than me. I hadn't met him in person yet, but we'd talked on the phone/messenger/facetime.

He was a funny guy, even after death. Before his stent surgery, he'd gotten his "affairs" in order, so my sister knew where to find his final wishes, etc. He was a big Harley fan, had a beautiful bike. He didn't want a funeral, just to be cremated & then someone was supposed to put some of his ashes in his bike tank & "take him for one last rip." Told my sister she best check with a mechanic on that, because I figure it might gum up some stuff and wreck something. So, she will & figure out some way to honor his last wishes that way, without wrecking the bike. Then she'll have the urn interred on their mom's headstone if she's allowed to. They'll do a memorial BBQ this summer, sounds like. Won't be able to go to that, unfortunately.

I knew something would happen at some point, to someone on my dad's side, assumed it would be Pop first though, given his age, etc. Wasn't expecting this. I don't quite know how I feel, numb I suppose. Sad. Just not quite myself/don't know what to do with myself.

Thanks for sharing. Try to focus on the positives from his life... like actually connecting with him, and appreciating what he was able to do, and to be there for the rest of the family even if it's just to listen...

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

My guess is they last forever so they get moved multiple times and don't get protected like wood furniture. Mine is going on 30 years old.

I see a lot of them in storage rooms. I bet people haphazardly store big things around them that fall over and start denting and marking them?

[DownInFlames]

The veronika_iscool Instagram account is better than any show on TV or streaming.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

The veronika_iscool Instagram account is better than any show on TV or streaming.

She was in some pretty mid Christmas movie this year, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where I knew her from. Was on Instagram a few days later and she came up on my feed and it clicked. She’s great.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

She was in some pretty mid Christmas movie this year, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where I knew her from. Was on Instagram a few days later and she came up on my feed and it clicked. She’s great.

She was in What We Do in the Shadows. Because of her and mr.kitters.the.cat I continue to have the will to live.

[Sylvanfan]

Had a double slip on some ice in front of my house which resulted in me using my left hand to brace myself from falling face first into the cultured stone on my house. Gouged up my knuckles pretty good doing this.

Made me think of my younger days when the bar closed and you would always see some roid muncher
angry at his girl punch a brick wall full force and lick the blood off his knuckles. This is annoying and on my non-dominant hand and it's annoying. Those guys were even dumber thsn I thought they were.