[Nuke]

if she hasn't let you in her pants yet its probibly time to find someone else.

[Nuke]

i have failed to redneck my gpu into a functional device. after rummaging through my junk i found a cpu cooler from back when computers were space heaters, on it was a rather powerful fan that had the airflow to have worked. it was a 3 pin fan, and i figure the best thing would be to run it full blast (and the fact that im out of 3 pin connectors on my mobo), so i built an adapter to connected to the 12v line. everything worked fine, at least until i realized that the fan was way too small and would get in the way of the pcie1x network card. i cant move the card because its a reduced sized micro atx board and only has one 1x slot. also it turns out that my gpu fan is actually a 110mm fan, and so my 85mm fan just wouldnt cut it. damn, looks like im stuck playing ancient games for a few weeks. i cant use the integrated either because i dont have any hdmi cables (i was cheap and up to my eyeballs in dvi cables) because the mobo lacks a dvi port. my only other option is to try to cram in the gargantuan gtx 220 from my older rig into a mini tower.

[Colonol Dekker]

Just found out my gf is with another guy. Says just friends but puts up romantic sunset boardwalk photos on her instagram and didn't talk to me all day, ignoring.

When just yesterday we talked on the phone (I'm away on a trip) and we planned a phone date for today..

I feel very weird..

Take no **** and #dumpfirst


Being an affluent adult I'm getting a black taxi home today, mainly to beat my girlfriend (who is driving home having been at a work course all day) and I went to the pub after work for two hours.  I am feeling quite childish after annoying the driver by playing with the electric windows and intercom.  But I'm paying. And customers always be right aight?

[Aardwolf]

(the following is a duplicate of something I posted to my FB wall)



Science question for y'all...

What happens if you let a microwave run with nothing in it?

Even though the microwave's frame is a Faraday cage which will keep the microwaves from escaping, the energy has to go somewhere, right? So in theory the increase in heat in the system will be the same regardless of whether the magnetron has any load. Does it self-regulate somehow?

Could leaving a microwave on with nothing in it be as much of a fire danger as, say, microwaving a mason jar full of grass clippings?

Would it be possible to make a microwave that "recycles" the microwaves that don't hit anything, instead of letting as much of it get turned into waste heat?

[z64555]

Nah, there's still a load in there, the water vapor in the air.

Also, what damages the magnetron is microwaves that bounce back into it. The metal cavity of the microwave is designed *just* right so that the microwaves will bounce evenly all around the walls, thereby behaving similar to a black body cavity and will increase the temperature of the case.There's a thermostat attached to the waveguide that controls how long the magnetron is activated to prevent overheating, it also doubles as a safety device once the case starts to get too hot (well, in theory at least).

[Aardwolf]

Ah right, I suppose liquid and gaseous water indeed ought to react the same way to microwave radiation.

Damage to the magnetron? I hadn't even considered that. I was just thinking "something catches fire".

The "mason jar full of grass clippings" is a personal anecdote from when I was a kid, an event which thankfully didn't cause a house fire, but sure made a stink. I'm pretty sure what happened is the metal rim of the mason jar created sparks which ignited the dry grass. Of course, a mason jar is probably actually safer than if the grass were loose in the microwave , since (unless it shatters) it's going to choke the fire with its own CO₂. I wonder, how airtight is a microwave? They usually have fans in them, so presumably the answer is "not airtight at all".

What about my "recycling the microwaves" idea? Using photoelectrics (does it count as photoelectric if the photons are microwaves?), either to actually recover some of the wasted energy, or just to detect how much is going to waste, perhaps using that information to shut off the magnetron, or to somehow intelligently change how the microwaves it emits are distributed?

[Nuke]

when i was a kid i liked to put snowglobes in the microwave. ive turned many a trinket into a bomb that way. scare the **** out of my sister.

microwaves are still em radiation which means its all photons. you can charge up glow in the dark plastic items in the microwave. i dont think you can recycle microwaves, the easiest solution is to not run the microwave while empty. they say microwaves are more energy efficient than electric ranges, though i think microwave food is garbage.

did you know: you can smelt metal in a microwave.

http://hackaday.com/2011/12/19/smelting-metal-in-your-microwave-oven/

[Aardwolf]

Getting some helpful(ish) responses to the topic I posted about my FPS dev on gamedev.net!

Surprisingly(?), the topic I posted about it here on HLP is a ghost town

[deathfun]

What would happen if you put your own fecal matter into a microwave

[Mongoose]

Surprisingly(?), the topic I posted about it here on HLP is a ghost town

Again, I don't think anyone around here has the specific expertise that would be able to help you out.  Fortunately posting it somewhere where people who do have that sort of expertise hang out seems to be generating some ideas for you.

[z64555]

What would happen if you put your own fecal matter into a microwave

Exactly what you would think.

[Nuke]

my therapist flaked on me. i feel like shooting up a school or a church or something. hey deathfun, can i borrow a duffel bag full of guns? i had to sell all mine to buy crack.

[FireSpawn]

What would happen if you put your own fecal matter into a microwave

A rather ****ty situation by all accounts.

[deathfun]

my therapist flaked on me. i feel like shooting up a school or a church or something. hey deathfun, can i borrow a duffel bag full of guns? i had to sell all mine to buy crack.

No, but you can always hire me and rent another
Two is always better than one

[Klaustrophobia]

fighting back another emotional crisis.  goddamnit i'm not old enough to be reflecting on an empty life yet.

[An4ximandros]

You'll always be old enough. Young? not so much.

[FireSpawn]

fighting back another emotional crisis.  goddamnit i'm not old enough to be reflecting on an empty life yet.

I know just how you feel, I was in a place like that a few months ago. But then one day I just thought to myself, 'Life is like an unbroken colt, always bucking you off onto the ground. It's down to you to gouge out it's left eyeball and skull **** it into submission.'

Since putting that into practice, I'm no longer allowed within 1000 yards of a farm or livery.

[deathfun]

I like unbroken Colts
That means I can still shoot people/things with it

I am also loving this 18yr Glenfiddich I bought

[Aardwolf]

Surprisingly(?), the topic I posted about it here on HLP is a ghost town

Again, I don't think anyone around here has the specific expertise that would be able to help you out.  Fortunately posting it somewhere where people who do have that sort of expertise hang out seems to be generating some ideas for you.

Have you looked at the last page of the thread? There's really nothing that requires any technical expertise whatsoever. And as I said last time you raised this point, I think people are severely overestimating how technical the help I was looking for would've been. Yes, experts can tell me about existing solutions, but I was trying to "roll my own", and as such what I needed was not expertise, so much as a second set of eyes and a second brain, to be inventive and assist with general problem-solving.

And I'm not even griping about the lack of help here, I'm griping about the fact that I posted two progress videos over two and a half months ago, and nobody said anything.

Gripe gripe gripe.

[Mongoose]

Well the videos are nice, but most of your other posts over the last two pages were well above my pay grade.  At the end of the day, though, you can't force people to be interested in what you're doing.  If they are, that's great, but if not...well, such is life.  That's the point where you have to stop and ask yourself if what you're doing is for the approval of other people, or because it's something you yourself genuinely want.