Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@hayden_seek94 The use of "slay" was pretty common in the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s. I used the term myself back then.

As far as the expression "yass", it was a trademark expression of a Hollywood actor of the 40s and 50s, whose name escapes me just now. I've continued to use it all my life in certain situations.

How ever people wish to use words is fine with me but claiming ownership of words is presumptuous at best.

@TruthSandwich@toad.social I hear you.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes Hmm. There are lots of engineering plastics. Hard to guess. But if resistance to solvents like acetone was required, ABS wasn't it. Lol.

I like ABS because when you weld it with acetone, if you do it right, it's really welded.

@ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @smellsofbikes ABS welds pretty good using heat or acetone.

@TruthSandwich@toad.social In the entryway, eh?

Roxanne,
you don't have to put on the red light.
Those days are over,
you don't have to sell your body to the night.

Sorry, I couldn't help it. It's okay if you throw mayonnaise at me.

@ekelseya Typical cat: "Here's my butt. Check it out."

@TruthSandwich@toad.social Understood. Hmm, that could work in the cafe/bar because the light fixtures are such that you can't see the bulb. There are wall sconces and four large hanging lamps that are around 100 years old with huge milk glass globes. (Your elementary school may have had such lamps. The older part of my junior high did.) Those are lamps with conventional type bulbs

The dining room is a problem because it's chandeliers lamped with small visible filament candelabra type bulbs that used to be 60 watt incandescents. When "visible filament" LEDs in candelabra style began to appear is when I started to consider replacing them all with LEDs and then did about 3 years ago. Those were the ones that burned out constantly and you have to replace them right away because burnouts look shabby. The spare LED bulbs I bought are still sitting on the shelf. No burnouts yet.

@darkcarnivaleric @onthisday You're welcome. It was Al Gore's promotion of the ARPANET to Congress that kept the project funded. He was the only Congresscritter who understoiod it, saw the value of it, the only computer geek. Through that period he was the go-to guy in Congress where fellow members from both parties went with tech questions as computers proliferated into Congress's offices.

No, he did not invent the Internet. Lol.

@TruthSandwich@toad.social I'll check it out.

@TruthSandwich@toad.social Hah. If it were my restaurant I'd do that but that's way too much technology for the rest of the crew. It's provincial here. Computers are onerous things best left unused and they are left unused. An electronic thermostat is already too much complexity. "Can't we get a regular thermostat with a knob?"

@TruthSandwich@toad.social Oh yeah, LEDs are the only way to go these days. All incandescents are gone except in the cafe/bar where we are used to being able to set the mood. (Dimming an incandescent lowers the color temperature). We had to give that up in the dining room and we got complaints but they got over it. Some still find it creepy that when you dim the lights the color stays the same. And I admit that even the warmest LEDs still clash with candlelight and an open fire.

In the cafe I switched to 43 watt halogens which behave normally. When you dim them, color gets warmer.

@TruthSandwich@toad.social Could be. The line voltage here is steady between 126 and 127V, which certainly made life hard on incandescents.

A few are in high-heat locations over stoves, etc., but even they last far longer than incandescents did.

Oh, another nice thing about LEDs are they like the cold. We had CFLs in refrigerated locations and in back rooms/ Turn them on and they barely glow, producing little useful light. LEDs have no trouble with cold.

@cobalt Yeah, roasting is my favorite way to "fix" them. Lol.

@TruthSandwich@toad.social I should add that in the dining room before that, in addition to the higher power consumption, I was replacing bulbs just about weekly. With the LEDs there hasn't been a single burnout yet

@TruthSandwich@toad.social I too was an early adopter of LEDs. Replaced all 40 some odd bulbs in the house. The very first one was in 2013, a light over a stairwell that's on 24/7. It's still going. They do burn out though just far far less frequently. Between the house and the restaurant I've probably had 20 burnouts so far. But that's nothing compared to the energy savings. When I redid the restaurant dining room and replaced the dimmer with a modern one power consumption dropped from 1500 to 180 watts to light the whole damn dining room. Bahaha.