Useless Conversation

[schild]

You are not the only person to get excited by a fridge. Our KitchenAid is insane.

[calapine]

That's the biggest fridge I have ever seen. (Outside gastronomy)

[Merusk]

That fridge looks like the one my sister has. Fantastic fridge, tons of room, but I miss the through-the-door ice and water. Does it have the icemaker in the chest freezer?

[Khaldun]

I love fridges with the bottom freezer cabinet. Such a good thing.

[schild]

I'm too lazy to upload an actual pic



Thing is stupid. Filling it up is daunting.

[ghost]

Having owned almost every sort of configuration of refrigerator possible, they all suck, in some manner.

[schild]

The big flaw with the current French door fridges (that have water dispensers in the door) is the doors are no longer adequate for tall bottles. Given all the weird retractable shelves and shit, it hadn't been an issue. I haven't found anything wrong otherwise thus far.

[Morat20]

To save myself a 30 minute trip, I tried to talk my Mom through fixing what sounded like a minor internet problem. I thought "router probably needs to be rebooted, that's the end of it".

It ended up requiring resetting the TCP/IP stack and winsock via command line. (I have no idea what happened that broke it that badly).

I should have just driven over there.

(I keep forgetting that "normal people" can't locate a router at a glance, can't bring up your WiFi adapter settings nor access the command line without detailed instructions. Including "Right click, left click" instructions).

[Abagadro]

Actual discussion with my 12 year old about his electives for next year:

Him: "I signed up for clarinet."

Me: "Oh ya, why's that."

Him: "I'm going to be like Squidward. He's cynical and plays the clarinet. I'm halfway there."

Me: 

[Ard]

At least he has goals.

[Sky]

Clarinet can be amazing, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuqLocca4Gs

[Yegolev]

Saw this.  Thought of you.   

That's awesome.

I'm going to try to not look so damn happy but maybe I can start a revolution of optimism in Paris and points north.

[Sky]

My kitchen is pretty awesome (for an old 50s kitchen), but the main prep surface is between the stove and fridge, a little l-shaped spot. So my main constraint for a new fridge is depth (there's just enough room to open the door if I'm doing prep at the counter). I normally don't keep anything but beverages and apples in the fridge, so I don't need a huge one. But it's a pain finding a shallow depth but otherwise full sized fridge (also, no water line so don't want to pay for ice maker etc).

But I do need an upgrade because it's the old fridge that came with the house and it suuuucks. I've spent almost 4 grand between the stove, otr microwave and dishwasher...but I have the shittiest builder-grade fridge known to man. Damned thing had rust on it when I got it!

[WayAbvPar]

Actual discussion with my 12 year old about his electives for next year:

Him: "I signed up for clarinet."

Me: "Oh ya, why's that."

Him: "I'm going to be like Squidward. He's cynical and plays the clarinet. I'm halfway there."

Me: 

I just got to choose my first elective of my resumed college career. You know you are really getting old when you are genuinely excited to take an investment class. I am managing my own IRA and learning new shit every day, so this will definitely help fill in some of the gaps.

[apocrypha]

I signed up for a free course on Architecture on edX the other week. Starts in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to it.

[Teleku]

Actual discussion with my 12 year old about his electives for next year:

Him: "I signed up for clarinet."

Me: "Oh ya, why's that."

Him: "I'm going to be like Squidward. He's cynical and plays the clarinet. I'm halfway there."

Me: 

I just got to choose my first elective of my resumed college career. You know you are really getting old when you are genuinely excited to take an investment class. I am managing my own IRA and learning new shit every day, so this will definitely help fill in some of the gaps.

Always bet on black.

[Yegolev]

My fridge is 14 years old and the worst trait it has is that the icemaker doesn't work.

[Abagadro]

My fridge is 14 years old and the worst trait it has is that the icemaker doesn't work.

Replace it. It isn't very difficult for most of them, particularly of that era.  For most models it is basically two bolts holding it to the frame and a wiring harness that just plugs in.  I replaced mine for 40 bucks after watching a Youtube on it and buying it on amazon.  Just google the model and "how to replace ice maker" and you have a decent shot of finding both a how-to and the part to order. Hardest thing was accessing the space with my catcher's mitt hands.

[Yegolev]

Yeah, I'll add "icemaker" to the honedew list.  I've recently decided to stop building things in games and start building in real life, so this will be a fine addition to the list.  Then I'll get a new fridge because the second-worst trait of this fridge is that I only have one.

We custom-built a firepit and a week ago we discovered that the pipes had gotten rainwater inside.  We (includes a PhD in Mechanical Eng) didn't see that coming, so I partially disassembled it, blew the water out with an air compressor, turned the burner pipes such that the holes face downward (guessing rain fell into the holes, although seems unlikely), and put a few rocks UNDER the pipes so that they were not sitting on the pan.  Also drilled a couple drain holes, during which I learned that my "all purpose" drill bits were only intended to drill aluminum, not 18 stainless.

Later my friend is showing me the refrigeration system that he built in ARK.

I think if I get tired of computers, I might build firepits.  I can think of a few improvements to this design.

[Chimpy]

Burner holes to the side!

[Yegolev]

They came in a V shape so I can't make them horizontal.

I need to see what sort of brass fittings are available.  Thinking of installing some sort of blowout, in case this doesn't keep out the water.

[schild]

The theme of the donation drive is going to be pay to play.

[Mandella]

(also, no water line so don't want to pay for ice maker etc).

Why not just run a simple and cheap low diameter plastic line? You can run one from your sink.

Ice makers really are one of the crowning achievements of Western Civilization...

[01101010]

(also, no water line so don't want to pay for ice maker etc).

Why not just run a simple and cheap low diameter plastic line? You can run one from your sink.

Ice makers really are one of the crowning achievements of Western Civilization...

Those cheap plastic lines tend to crack over time which leads to leaking in unseen places until you have water pooling up and dripping into the basement. Not fun trying to dry out floor joists and subflooring. Might be a rare occurrence, but it can happen.

[Chimpy]

(also, no water line so don't want to pay for ice maker etc).

Why not just run a simple and cheap low diameter plastic line? You can run one from your sink.

Ice makers really are one of the crowning achievements of Western Civilization...

Those cheap plastic lines tend to crack over time which leads to leaking in unseen places until you have water pooling up and dripping into the basement. Not fun trying to dry out floor joists and subflooring. Might be a rare occurrence, but it can happen.

They also make the kits with a copper line.

[01101010]

(also, no water line so don't want to pay for ice maker etc).

Why not just run a simple and cheap low diameter plastic line? You can run one from your sink.

Ice makers really are one of the crowning achievements of Western Civilization...

Those cheap plastic lines tend to crack over time which leads to leaking in unseen places until you have water pooling up and dripping into the basement. Not fun trying to dry out floor joists and subflooring. Might be a rare occurrence, but it can happen.

They also make the kits with a copper line.

Which is precisely what we went with after replacing the subflooring.   

Might cost more, but you never have to worry about it.

[Rasix]

Finally back to feeling somewhat normal a week after sinus surgery. First couple of days aren't so bad once you get past the initial post surgery blood fest. Then comes the internal swelling, which is an absolutely fantastic form of torture.

Seems to be that I'm sensitive to both oxycodone and hydrocodone. I get about a day or two out of those before they give me a massive headache. Switched me to tramadol. The dreams on that stuff. You close your eyes and it's like the tunnel from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, although more abstract. I think I gave birth to a new Elder God in my mind when I actually managed to sleep. (If a giant, rotting, black dragon appears out of the sand in the Sahara and starts turning people into amorphous slug-people that gather humans for his mass consumption, while breathing insanity inducing plagues from his mouth: I'm sorry.)

Anyhow, the foam (instead of packing) is out and it feels great. Like the best nose blowing ever. Not the process though, that was having a mini-vaccuum crammed really far up my nose.

[Sky]

(also, no water line so don't want to pay for ice maker etc).

Why not just run a simple and cheap low diameter plastic line? You can run one from your sink.

Ice makers really are one of the crowning achievements of Western Civilization...

Not worth what it would take to run a line over to the fridge. Kitchen is on a slab with an unheated crawlspace over it, on an outside masonry wall with panels on furring strips. It's a perfectly awful spot to run plumbing to.

[Mandella]

(also, no water line so don't want to pay for ice maker etc).

Why not just run a simple and cheap low diameter plastic line? You can run one from your sink.

Ice makers really are one of the crowning achievements of Western Civilization...

Not worth what it would take to run a line over to the fridge. Kitchen is on a slab with an unheated crawlspace over it, on an outside masonry wall with panels on furring strips. It's a perfectly awful spot to run plumbing to.

Ouch. I owned a house like that once -- with the added bonus that the original plumbing was actually *encased* in the slab. 

I learned my lesson from that one.

You could still run a low diameter pipe along molding behind some tack on channeling, but yeah, the job is going from simple to a serious project. Can't blame you for just using old fashioned ice trays now...

[MahrinSkel]

For $150-200 you can get a countertop ice maker, the better ones have built in dispensers. Probably cheaper and less painful than home renovations.

--Dave

[Yegolev]

I'm sure the name Project Janus looks cook in PowerPoint but when you put it into text like "projectjanus", some people need to read this 2 or 3 times.

[Sky]

Classic Hugh.

[Furiously]

Nowhere else to really put this, but our new fridge was delivered today.



So damn happy!  Am I weird getting so excited about this?

I love my counter depth fridge, it would annoy me forever having it stick out like that.  Ikea actually offers affordable counter depth options.

[RhyssaFireheart]

The original fridge stuck out like that as well, just not quite as much.

It's not even been a week and we love the fridge so much!  I have to keep reminding myself that it's right there though and that I don't have to go out into the garage any longer.  Funny out a few months can form a habit so quickly.

[Abagadro]

Holy Shit. Just learned that Norm MacDonald owns the Salt Lake Indoor Football League team (which is an even shittier version of Arena Football) and was doing color commentary on the opening game tonight.