What first world problem did you have today?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

My Microwave is toast. It was a GE, 7 years old. It keeps tripping the breaker when I turn it on. Not sure how a microwave, which is no moving parts and has just one function, all of a sudden just dies.

Cooking vapors get everywhere inside. Take one apart someday and you'll see goop. I have one flat fizz out not too long ago. Press the start button and pzzztt fsssttt, pop. Then the clock sort of faded in an out a few times as what was supposed to be the buzzer/beeper stating wheezzing like an asthmatic canary.

 

[Ajay]

They're gonna use a Da Vinci Robot to tie my guts back together.

Damn, hope the software doesn't run on Windows. Would add new meaning to 'crash'

 

[Red Squirrel]

Damn, hope the software doesn't run on Windows. Would add new meaning to 'crash'

Or the whole system force reboots for an update and all the tools reset to their default stow away position mid operation.

 

[pmv]

My Microwave is toast. It was a GE, 7 years old. It keeps tripping the breaker when I turn it on. Not sure how a microwave, which is no moving parts and has just one function, all of a sudden just dies.

I've gone through, I think, four microwaves in the last 20 years. The last one seemed to be done in by the same stifling heatwave that killed one of the hard drives on the computer. Usually it seems to be the electronics/control circuitry that snuffs it - though the first one just corroded inside because I was too slovenly about cleaning it regularly.

 

[Red Squirrel]

When I lived with my parents they had a Panasonic The Genius microwave, that thing must have been over 30 years old when it died. I kind of wish my mom had not thrown it out so fast as I would have been curious to try to fix it. That thing was a relic. I actually do recall my mom sending it in for repair a few times when I was a kid too, back when we used to fix stuff instead of throwing it out.

I seem to remember ours having a wood handle on it though, that one does not seem to have a handle. But basically the same microwave.

 

[lxskllr]

My microwave's older than dirt. Montgomery Wards brand. It can be no newer than 22 years old, but I think it's from the early 90s.

 

[pete6032]

Got the new one installed. Complete PITA to mount over my range. Even though the replacement microwave was the same brand and model number, just 7 years newer, the replacement microwave had a completely different mounting system, so I couldn't use the existing mounting brackets or holes in my wall.

 

[Ajay]

Massive comcast out in the north east. Bummer. I only have a 3GB data plan on my phone because I’m cheap and rarely use half of it. So I can’t use it much as a hotspot. No idea what happened.

 

[sdifox]

Massive comcast out in the north east. Bummer. I only have a 3GB data plan on my phone because I’m cheap and rarely use half of it. So I can’t use it much as a hotspot. No idea what happened.

Your phone crashed their system. I hope you are happy

 

[Ajay]

Your phone crashed their system. I hope you are happy

IDK, I don't know why experimental hacking of comcast's networks can bring down the whole networks. They need to get gud.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lost a microwave link last night, didn't think much of it since 99% of time it's a management issue and not actually down. Well this time it was down. Thieves stole like 50m worth of coax from the tower and shelter building. Hope the scumbags got RF burn in the process.

 

[sdifox]

You mean you don't keep polar bears as guards?

 

[Ajay]

Lost a microwave link last night, didn't think much of it since 99% of time it's a management issue and not actually down. Well this time it was down. Thieves stole like 50m worth of coax from the tower and shelter building. Hope the scumbags got RF burn in the process.

So, how much does 50m of coax fetch? Asking for a friend.

 

[VirtualLarry]

So, how much does 50m of coax fetch? Asking for a friend.

Is it Extra Virgin? How many times has it been screwed?

 

[Red Squirrel]

So, how much does 50m of coax fetch? Asking for a friend.

Probably not a lot actually, and turns out it was actually elliptical waveguide and not coax. Waveguide is sorta similar except the RF is traveling in air instead of electrically, so it's basically a hollow tube. It may even be made out of something else than copper since it just needs to be able to contain RF. All the pics I'm finding do seem to show it made of copper though.

 

[pete6032]

The amount of house projects on my to-do list is too big. Feel like I keep doing crap that adds little to no value - fixing microwave, fix the gutters, replace sump pump. No time to focus on the fun projects.

 

[IronWing]

The first time one fixes plumbing, one thinks, "I should have stayed a renter."

 

[Red Squirrel]

The first time one fixes plumbing, one thinks, "I should have stayed a renter."

I always dread plumbing projects. I can do electrical with my eyes closed, but plumbing scares me. I've never flooded my basement with electrons if I had a loose wire.

 

[HomerJS]

Watching the Phillies kick the collective ass of baseball

 

[Fenixgoon]

I am waffling on spending (even) more money on photography to get a flash setup for studio work and starting a side business

 

[sdifox]

I am waffling on spending (even) more money on photography to get a flash setup for studio work and starting a side business

wait until you get to the backdrops

 

[IronWing]

wait until you get to the backdrops

Chocolate brown bed sheets from Walmart are pretty standard and only $12.

 

[sdifox]

Chocolate brown bed sheets from Walmart are pretty standard and only $12.

poop photos it is then

 

[IronWing]

poop photos it is then

Many years ago, we rented a house where the previous tenants had left behind several photo backdrop setups in the basement. We weren't sure if they were doing product photography or porn. All the backdrops were chocolate brown. Maybe they were selling poop.

 

[MrSquished]

I always dread plumbing projects. I can do electrical with my eyes closed, but plumbing scares me. I've never flooded my basement with electrons if I had a loose wire.

Very true, but those random electrical shocks to your cranium haven't helped either apparently.