Random Rants
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@popvulture My wife and I can compromise on ambient temperature, but my frustration is she seems to think that the thermostat in cars is different than the thermostat in homes. I'm on team "set it and forget it" for thermostats in homes and cars, and she is just for homes. So after she's driven I may find the thermostat set to 62 or 98 with the fan turned up all the way.
It is truly a mild annoyance and beyond trivial, but it just baffles me.
Think it, be it.
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@mclaincausey I think it stems from basic likes and dislikes about the test product. I totally think/believe/agree that we are pre disposed to liking certain smells and associating them with positive attributes that we want a product to have. I can’t have any fragrance/scent in my laundry detergent and run an extra rinse in the dishwasher to minimize the dishwasher pod scent. It never occurred to me the issues that you have,and I don’t remember that kind of stuff happening when my son was that age.
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@Jett129 yep. The case studies in that book are compelling. Scent is a very powerful thing and there really aren’t too many other levers on a product like dishwasher detergent to form an identity on, and no others that I can think of that can potentially form a habit trigger. But for practical purposes in our house, it has the opposite effect, and perhaps the brand I use is exploiting that non-attribute for folks like us.
While I’m in software, we do similar testing of user preferences so I find it all fascinating. I didn’t know you and your wife were in that domain—very cool.
Tonight I’m looking to experience some scents I brought back in bottles from MX
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@mclaincausey said in Random Rants:
@popvulture My wife and I can compromise on ambient temperature, but my frustration is she seems to think that the thermostat in cars is different than the thermostat in homes. I'm on team "set it and forget it" for thermostats in homes and cars, and she is just for homes. So after she's driven I may find the thermostat set to 62 or 98 with the fan turned up all the way.
It is truly a mild annoyance and beyond trivial, but it just baffles me.
@mclaincausey don't get me started.
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@steelworker right?? Like wtf haha
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@EdH Mom gets mad because the room is never clean and the clothes are never put away...oldest daughter gets mad because she can't find any of her stuff because mom and youngest put everything away...oldest yells at youngest not to touch her stuff but is really yelling at mom...youngest doesn't care...I sit in the corner drinking coffee.
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
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@goosehd said in Random Rants:
I sit in the corner drinking
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Started a new project over the last couple weeks. My concrete sub was pouring footings yesterday, and I told the lead guy to make sure the concrete trucks washed out in an area the infrastructure contractor had already trashed with alleyway pours, not a designated washout, but obviously already a big uneven slab of over pour.
What I didn’t do was mention it to the pump truck operator. So he took it upon himself to spray the leftover yardage in his pump over a giant dirt pile that was clearly being protected with a layer of wheat straw. Didn’t hit the whole thing, but iced it like he was frosting the side of a giant cake.
I probably would’ve told him wear to wash out., but he was asleep in the cab when I walked by…
Welcome to homebuilding/GC 101: a masterclass in how unbelievably dumb people can be sometimes.
Edit: not that anybody cares but the pump operator works for the same concrete/foundation company. They own the pump so in my mind, they all work together and should tell each other what the heck to do.
@selveldgesteps
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I use a small Garmin Edge on my road bike. I basically only use it as a speedometer, for which it is hugely overpriced, but hell, at least it does that well. It has a gps functionality which comes in handy once in a while.
I also ride with Bontrager Flare lights. These I don’t go without, even in the middle of the day they increase my visibility tremendously.
However I’ve made a grave mistake. The Garmin (I believe it’s called an edge 130) is small and has buttons on three of four sides, so when prompted to connect with the lights I accidentally said “yes”.
So now my Garmin considers itself the boss of my front light. According to how the Garmin considers the conditions to be the front light will either flash or be on constantly. But most annoyingly, when I charge the Garmin, it turns on, and turns on the front light.
Obviously I’ve tried disconnecting them, but I can’t figure out how. And the extraordinary hassle of switching a light on that Garmin saves me from is really a lot less annoying than needing my light, only to find out that the battery is flat, because I made the mistake of charging the light before the Garmin.
I’m at the point where I’m considering fixing it by taking my heaviest hammer to the Garmin….
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@northsouthdenimguy oof.. that's frustrating.
I always hold out hope that communication from the office to field will happen but it usually bites me in the end. I've got a similar one that will hopefully help ease the frustration.The current project I'm assigned to as a commercial GC is a pretty sizeable greenhouse expansion with several acres of botanical garden expansion (main event of the project). The concrete sub was pouring their last stretch of exposed aggregate pathways at the same time the landscape architect is doing their punch walk. Sure enough it's a new pump truck driver who simply wasn't aware of the designated wash out area... Washed literally into one of the new specialty soil planting beds, new hedges and all planted. You can imagine the incident was detailed thoroughly in the punch list...
