BF2S Forums EE Chats 2016

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Been to paris 2x and Dublin once.  Thinking maybe Iceland? I've always wanted to see the Northern Lights.

Probably gonna try to go in Mid March.  I think I'm gonna go to Asia in February...if I'm not already living there by then.

This is the last good winter for northern lights for a decade from what I hear. Apparently their intensity is cyclical.

bummed about leonard cohen.

WOW got hit by a massive earthquake. Biggest I've ever felt, quite a bit of damage to my building and we keep getting sizeable aftershocks. Little shaken up here.

Edit: I would like to request that the ground stop moving please.

Edit: Fucking car alarms! What are they even good for?

Edit: Quite a bit of damage, especially in the north of the South Island. Wellington CBD is a mess and is closed. If I was still employed this would be like a snow day, except with more broken glass.

What music do teens listen to these days? Is my chemical romance, linkin park, and fallout boy still popular?

Doing what news?

Nothing to report really. Still getting aftershocks which is still setting off that fucking car alarm down the road every so often. CBD is going to open again tomorrow but only 1/2 of my flatmates are clear to return to work. Just waiting to see what happens really and hoping we've seen the worst of it.

It was a Hell of a jolt last night. I'm on the first floor of a nine storey apartment building and it felt like it was being ripped apart. It was built with earthquakes in mind so it's very safe but it's also designed to move around a lot in a tremor. Even though it was doing its job in order to stay up from where I was standing it didn't feel like it would have taken much to make it crumble like a stack of Jenga blocks. I don't envy those on the floors above me.

Curious to know how my old office fared. It's in an older building which saw a far bit of damage the last time there was a decent shake here.

Hopefully can get some sleep now. Quake hit just after midnight and not much sleep was achieved afterwards.

AussieReaper wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

What music do teens listen to these days? Is my chemical romance, linkin park, and fallout boy still popular?

It starts with

One thing

I don't know why

When I was

A young boy

My father

Took me into the city

Ty wrote:

Doing what news?

the political stuff

We do suck. It's terrible.

put a new led fixture to replace archaic fluorescent bulbs

pre-1950's apartment doesn't have ground. fuck it, cap it off and stick it aside.

Trotskygrad wrote:

Ty wrote:

Oh I got made redundant. I officially don't have to give a fuck about what's happening in Australia any more. Apparently your cricket team sucks now.

Earthquakes are my main concern now I guess. The science of it is a little concerning. The 7.8 one on Monday morning was a wild ride but if Christchurch is anything to go by it may have been a precursor and a few days, weeks, or months down the line we may be in for a doozy to take out all the pre-weaken'd buildings. A low chance of it happening apparently but Trump was elected so what does probability know about anything? Nothing, that's what.

would it be worse than the one a few years ago?

There was one in 2013 near Wellington that caused a bit of superficial damage. 2011 was the big one in Christchurch that was, as it turns out, quite a bit smaller in magnitude than the one last week. It came after Christchurch had already been hit by a pretty big one a few months prior though and given it was shallow and in the wrong place it absolutely slammed the city. The one last week was the biggest I've experienced but didn't do even close to the damage I saw in Christchurch - at least not in Wellington.

Kaikoura was pretty badly hit. Lot of landslides, the railway line was literally thrown onto the road, and the seabed has been lifted up between 2-6 metres. It's re-shaped the coastline.

As for Wellington the port is cracked up and a number of compromised buildings will be torn down but nothing actually collapsed. The concern is that we'll get another decent sized one in a few weeks/months. Still I hope the country has learned from Christchurch and will be better prepared.

The perils of living on the Shakey Isles.

pirana6 wrote:

Jay wrote:

pirana6 wrote:

put a new led fixture to replace archaic fluorescent bulbs

pre-1950's apartment doesn't have ground. fuck it, cap it off and stick it aside.

Attach the ground wire to the junction box you heathen

No visible jbox. Just two wires coming through the plaster and lathe. I helped rebuild/rewire an entire kitchen a few years back so I'm generally aware of how things are to be done - and this apartment is not that way.

My old pre-war apartment was like that too. Used to love the smell of sizzling wires followed by the pop of a light bulb burning out. I'm pretty sure it was knob and tube.