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Things not to do #41.
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After examining your excellent new concrete works, discover that the
flex for the concrete mixer goes through them.
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Lol. Well done!
My last mistake was designing a piece of wood to go where there was
already another bit, and no neither could be removed or omitted. Quite
tame.
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When you've cut out a particularly intricate piece of lining paper
to go around an obstruction, apply paste to the correct side.
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Or when you've designed and etched a printed circuit board with the IC
pins the wrong way round, so that you have to bend all the pins the
other way up.
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I always put a name on the original art work so it's obvious if you've
forgotten to flip at any stage in the process.
Could you not have fitted the IC on the track side?
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Ah,,thats like the classic mistake in model aircraft construction..two
left wings...
My last mistake was in not realising that on a mains pressurised water
system, although turning the mains off stops the water...flushing a
toilet and allowing the ball valve to open will result in a loss of
vaccuum and scalding hot water gushing out of the hot water pipe you
have just cut off to add a new bit onto..until the tank drains down a
bit too..
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Or years ago, built a ZX81 on the wrong side of the pcb !!
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Actually the thing that gets me is the recursive installation problem.
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Is that not just a loop, instead of "recursive"?
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No, because you have to do something before you can do it - in a loop
you'd just do it over and over.
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not necessarily. if tai recursive then it's equivalent to a loop.
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Recursion and looping are different.
Looping is where you just repeat the same thing over and over again.
Recursion is where the thing you are doing causes the thing you are doing to
happen.
...however I am unable to determine whether this part of the discussion is
recursive, or is just becoming repetitive;-)
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Hmmm... sounds like a circular dependency chain, hence a "loop".
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A loop is when you repeat the same sequence of things until the job is done,
the tiling issue was more like a chicken and egg problem which is kind of
recursive.
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I need to install the tiles to put in the basin to establish the vanity
unit height in order to be able to accurately cut the piece of MDF that
sits behind the basin covering the pipes and which has to go in before
the tiles are laid...
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That sort of thing happens far too often for comfort :-(
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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
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Or when you carefully cut a tile to fix around an awkward part of the
sink discover you've cut it from the wrong side.
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After accidentally vacuuming up a vital and unique screw, do not put
it in your holed shorts pocket after carefully going through the
dustbag in the garden.
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Do not dismantle your faulty cesspit pump on the ground next to
the cesspit, then knock it over, causing several vital parts to
fly into the cesspit.
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Then having found the screw after ages spent on hands and knees in the
dirt, remember to put a new bag in the vacuum ready for use next time.
Also when throwing out the old bag and not replacing it with a new
one, remember to retain the bag holder for when it's needed a few
weeks later....
cheers,
Pete.
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LOL you too ?
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Explosive detonating cord.
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It's detonating fuse. A well-known brand is "Cordtex".
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Oh.
But since you've snipped it's out of context and my short term memory isn't
what it was - if I remember corectly.
It will come to you :-)
Mary
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You'll have to set up a video camera, to find out.
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That's an idea.
The coop (an Eglu) is small and unlit, I suspect it must be happening at
night. If I undertake this exercise again I'll bear that in mind, she can
sit somewhere else.
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Oh - I didn't know that. I was thinking of my webcam.
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Mary
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Your webcam probably has an infra red filter on its front. Remove that
and attach some infra red LEDs on the outside to illuminate the hen.
Beware. The hen may demand performing rights and go on strike...
:-)
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I assume your mixer now needs a new flex.
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I predict a long thread ...
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Is that *before* or *after* the concrete has set?
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Thankfully, before.
Last look round the site, to see if there was anything else I needed to
do.
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reckon thats what I'd have done. Whatever you were building needed
mains power.
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