Random, stupid things on your mind

[KSM]

Fuck. I had a random thought that is driving me into questioning how my brain works...

So, I'm standing there peeing (into a toilet, mind you) and I had a flash thought about a TV movie I saw probably 44 years ago. It was about killer bees. The scene I was remembering was when somebody was in a Volkswagen beetle was under an attack of killer bees surrounding the vehicle. They drove it into the Astrodome and turned on the air conditioning to kill the bees off or stop their attacking at least...

Why in the fuck did I think that?

I think that the Volkswagen was yellow, maybe that was it...
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I think that after 40 men start having random thoughts and flashbacks of meaningless moments in our lives no matter how mundane they may be. Do you not think that @Walks_At_Night doesn't have a wealth of weird random stuff going on inside his head at any given time? I know I do, and some of it is pretty dark. For instance - I just thought about taking a wood planer to your shins and then rolling the skin up like opening a can of spam.  Imagine @Bart Ell 's whacky weird mental shit that he does not dare tell anyone aboot. @ShayP has some weird shit stored up there. The guy actually sings the John Jacob Jingle Heimer song out loud.

  I'll search and watch the aforementioned film and get back to you in 44 years.
 

[KSM]

I read numerous articles online yesterday about solar panel setups and installation. At least four of the six or seven sites I visited talked about the number of yearly deaths due to guys/DIY types falling off of their roofs during installation. One guy actually impaled himself on a sharp fence board - like Vlad, The Solar Impaler would have done to him. It's an actual thing! FALLING TO DEATH! Hopefully it was sunny out for these poor buggers. 

[Bart Ell]

I think that after 40 men start having random thoughts and flashbacks of meaningless moments in our lives no matter how mundane they may be. Do you not think that @Walks_At_Night doesn't have a wealth of weird random stuff going on inside his head at any given time? I know I do, and some of it is pretty dark. For instance - I just thought about taking a wood planer to your shins and then rolling the skin up like opening a can of spam.  Imagine @Bart Ell 's whacky weird mental shit that he does not dare tell anyone aboot. @ShayP has some weird shit stored up there. The guy actually sings the John Jacob Jingle Heimer song out loud.

  I'll search and watch the aforementioned film and get back to you in 44 years.

Every eight months or so I feel the need to poison a homeless person so I hand out tainted coffee.

[TigerLily]

I read numerous articles online yesterday about solar panel setups and installation. At least four of the six or seven sites I visited talked about the number of yearly deaths due to guys/DIY types falling off of their roofs during installation. One guy actually impaled himself on a sharp fence board - like Vlad, The Solar Impaler would have done to him. It's an actual thing! FALLING TO DEATH! Hopefully it was sunny out for these poor buggers. 

I don't think northwest Washington is the ideal place to expect much payback from solar panels. Maybe a rainmill

[KSM]

Every eight months or so I feel the need to poison a homeless person so I hand out tainted coffee.

How quickly you forget. That's how we met! Remember? 

I don't think northwest Washington is the ideal place to expect much payback from solar panels. Maybe a rainmill

You would think so - yes, but we do get 5ish months of sun, sort of. Batteries stay charged up to 75%. Even on cloudy days your panels can still draw some juice. I'm thinking of a 4kW system. That'll do. Bout 4k worth. With all this talk of Rollllling power outages and outages in general I don't want the bodies in my freezers to thaw.

[Bart Ell]

How quickly you forget. That's how we met! Remember? 
You would think so - yes, but we do get 5ish months of sun, sort of. Batteries stay charged up to 75%. Even on cloudy days your panels can still draw some juice. I'm thinking of a 4kW system. That'll do. Bout 4k worth. With all this talk of Rollllling power outages and outages in general I don't want the bodies in my freezers to thaw.

GAF Timberline Solar shingles.

[ShayP]

I think that after 40 men start having random thoughts and flashbacks of meaningless moments in our lives no matter how mundane they may be. Do you not think that @Walks_At_Night doesn't have a wealth of weird random stuff going on inside his head at any given time? I know I do, and some of it is pretty dark. For instance - I just thought about taking a wood planer to your shins and then rolling the skin up like opening a can of spam.  Imagine @Bart Ell 's whacky weird mental shit that he does not dare tell anyone aboot. @ShayP has some weird shit stored up there. The guy actually sings the John Jacob Jingle Heimer song out loud.

@sean92008  Is it the movie that you thought of called The Swarm?  Anyway, @KSM is correct.  Random thoughts and moments...not necessary meaningless, but there are many...pop in my head.  And I do have some weird shit going on upstairs.  We're in good company.  Now, I will skip down the driveway and sing!

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name too
When ever we go out
The people always shout
There goes
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
YA DA DA DA DA DA DA!

[ShayP]

Every eight months or so I feel the need to poison a homeless person so I hand out tainted coffee.

I do it every six months.  Especially in the winter.  The hot coffee seems to give them more comfort during then, except...

[ShayP]

Oh, and pardon my French, fuck solar panels.

[Walks_At_Night]

@sean92008  Is it the movie that you thought of called The Swarm?

I believe that is the film. I vaguely recall some dude in a protective reflector suit strutting around thinking he was the shit because the bees could not get him, when some other pirate dude was getting just ate up by bees. The pirate was swashbuckling at the bees with his sword when he slashed reflective suit dude across the guts. The bees then made short work of reflective suit dude.

[Walks_At_Night]

Do you not think that @Walks_At_Night doesn't have a wealth of weird random stuff going on inside his head at any given time? I know I do, and some of it is pretty dark.

Just was thinking about how I owe @ShayP that concrete story. At the time I thought it was great but looking back it is pretty messed up.

[HamsterMuscle]

Even on cloudy days your panels can still draw some juice. I'm thinking of a 4kW system. That'll do. Bout 4k worth. With all this talk of Rollllling power outages and outages in general I don't want the bodies in my freezers to thaw.

Nearly everyone in California was surprised to learn, a few years ago in the face of massive blackouts caused by wildfires, that their solar panels do not power their homes.  Rather, the home still draws 100% of their power from the grid.  The panels feed 100% of their output into the grid.

So if it's frozen-body-maintaining that concerns you, buy a generator.  All the best homes in the PNW have one (at least, according to the Zillow property descriptions).

[ShayP]

Just was thinking about how I owe @ShayP that concrete story. At the time I thought it was great but looking back it is pretty messed up.

Don't bail on me @Walks_At_Night .  Looking forward to it.

[KSM]

Nearly everyone in California was surprised to learn, a few years ago in the face of massive blackouts caused by wildfires, that their solar panels do not power their homes.  Rather, the home still draws 100% of their power from the grid.  The panels feed 100% of their output into the grid.

So if it's frozen-body-maintaining that concerns you, buy a generator.  All the best homes in the PNW have one (at least, according to the Zillow property descriptions).

After looking into it up north and down here I am aware that by doing it under government incentive just feeds into the grid. The solar generators that I'm looking at will definitely do the trick for frozen goods and such. Also a few lights and a TV or two.

[sean92008]

After looking into it up north and down here I am aware that by doing it under government incentive just feeds into the grid. The solar generators that I'm looking at will definitely do the trick for frozen goods and such. Also a few lights and a TV or two.

A friend who lives in the back country of San Diego County was expressing to me his frustration with getting solar on his roof. Is area is subjected to blackouts if the winds are high, fires start, etc...

I suggested he do some homework... I looked at getting a solar powered pool pump a few years back and they told me they didn't have to have a permit if they put the panels on a freestanding support and didn't tie in to the home's electrical system.

In his particular community, there is no limitation to putting galvanized steel posts in concrete or owning a solar panel...

Without communicating his name, telephone number, address, etc, to the licensing department, he was able to figure out that he could have a solar system over his garden and run the electricity to, say, his pool pump even though he doesn't have a pool...

The extra benefit of having a shaded garden area allows him to grow some plants that would normally burn in the sun.

A high efficiency extension cord can make a power outage go away...

Pro Tip... There is also a way around the automatic switching in case of a power outage. Solar systems are looking for incoming voltage. Fooling that automatic switching system can allow solar generated voltage to pass through the internal circuits... It can be dangerous to line workers...