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6d ago
inMy neighbor's kid asked me why elevator doors have those little rubber fingers
That's a really good point about the dog leash, @the_alice. It makes you see how a solid bar would just slide right over something thin like that. The rubber fingers are basically a mechanical backup for the light beam, feeling for stuff the light might not break. It's a clever way to make the door sensitive to both big and small things. I guess the design had to solve for a kid's arm and a purse strap at the same time.
6d ago
inA random comment at the Portland anime con totally changed how I see 'Your Lie in April'
Honestly, that take sounds kind of pretentious and misses the point. The show is obviously about the music itself, the technical struggle to play it, and the literal notes on the page. Focusing only on the silence between them ignores the huge effort of actually creating the sound in the first place. That conversation might have added a layer for you, but it feels like reading way too much into something pretty straightforward. The core story is about playing music again, not some deep metaphor about quiet gaps.
8d ago
inMy old dive partner in Seattle called me out on my umbilical routing
Had a close call like that on a pier job in Tacoma. My umbilical got hooked on a submerged cable tray. Now I run it over my left shoulder and under my right arm, making an X on my back. I use a carabiner on my chest D-ring to take up any extra slack. It keeps the hose high and tight, away from anything that could grab it. Took a few dives to feel normal but it's second nature now.
9d ago
inI just hit 500 sourdough loaves and the number shocked me
Congrats on the 500, that's wild. I kept a list of my pizza attempts on my phone and hit 100 last month, which felt unreal. The muscle memory you build up after that many reps is no joke.
9d ago
inCan we talk about that job at the old theater on 4th Street?
Totally get what you mean about the old methods having a different kind of smart. My grandpa was a carpenter and he built a shed in the 50s that's still standing solid. We tried to add a new workbench inside last year and just bolted it right into the original beams. That wood is so dense and true, nothing we buy today even comes close. It's wild how they built things to last forever back then, not just to pass an inspection. Makes you wonder what we're building now that will still be that solid in seventy years.