Rant: My experiment with $1 frozen burritos for a whole week was a terrible idea

My first time using a multimeter on a live bird - almost fried my hand

Last Tuesday I was troubleshooting a faulty position light on a King Air at work. Had the multimeter probes all ready, but forgot to double check that the breaker was pulled. Touched the terminal and got a nice zap through my glove. Lessons learned: always confirm the power is off, and invest in those fancy insulated probes. Anyone else have a close call they won't forget?

Comparing Crunchyroll and Hulu for anime streaming really opened my eyes

I finally got around to watching season 2 of that show everyone talks about. I tried it on Crunchyroll first because that's what my buddy uses, but the ads were driving me nuts, about 3 minutes every 10 minutes. Then I checked Hulu and the same episodes had way fewer breaks and better video quality. Has anyone else found that Hulu handles older anime libraries better than the dedicated streaming services?

Why nobody talks about snapping a crane cable at 60 feet up

I was skeptical when my coworker kept harping on checking our cables every single morning. Dude seemed paranoid about something that never happened to us in 5 years. Then last Tuesday on a job in downtown Phoenix, a frayed spot I barely noticed caught and snapped during a pick. If I hadn't double-checked it that morning, might've dropped a 2-ton steel beam on a busy street. Has anyone else had a close call with cable wear that snuck up on you?

Hit 500 board batches in a row this morning without a single tape joint crack...

I've been hanging drywall in the Portland area for about 6 years now, and I keep a little notebook with my board counts. This morning I hit 500 batches without a single tape joint crack coming back on me. It's a small thing, but it means I'm finally getting my mudding consistency right every time. Does anyone else keep a personal record of their work stats, or am I weird for tracking this stuff?

Heard a guy at the hostel say hostels are just 'shared anxiety' now

I was checking into a place in Portland last week and this guy said hostels used to be about swapping tips, now everyone's just glued to their phones comparing Booking.com prices. It made me realize I miss the days when you'd trade a bus schedule for a good restaurant lead, you know?

Warning: That brand audit tool I tried pulled up 34 outdated links I missed

I used a popular automated brand audit tool last month to scan my small business website and it flagged 34 outdated links and 12 broken redirects I had no idea about. Turns out the tool was scraping old sitemaps and not my live site, so half those issues were already fixed or never existed. Has anyone else gotten burned by automated audit tools giving false flags like this?

Was dead set against drone mapping on small sites but tried it on a 2 acre job last month

My foreman kept pushing us to use a drone for topo on this little 2 acre commercial lot out in Bakersfield. I thought it was overkill since we could just run a transit in 3 hours. But he insisted so I let him fly it. The drone had the whole site mapped in 12 minutes with like 10x the data points we would have gotten. When we staked it out everything lined up perfect on the first pass. Has anyone else had luck with small scale drone work or is it still mostly for big developments?

Just realized I was an idiot about box graters for 20 years

I always used the big side of a box grater for everything. Cheese, zucchini, whatever. Then last month my wife brought home one of those flat microplane style graters, the $15 one from Target. I tried it on a block of Parmigiano-Reggiano and it took half the time and made way less mess. Now I'm kicking myself for all those years of shredded knuckles. Anyone else stuck in a grater rut?

Hit 1000 lines of code in my first month and felt like a genius until I realized half of it was mistakes