Anyone at work? If so, post items that are sunburned by shitty lighting

"EL_ULY" (uly)
12/22/2016 at 10:13 • Filed to: None

lol how does this even happen? Also, I can’t England very good today so apologies if I misspell a bunch of replies today. Zombie mode is in full swing this 13 hour a day/6 day work week.

lol how did just the key pad fail on this?

Besides our huge library of Egyptian scrolls service books, you can also look up things with this new state of the art !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! system.

DISCUSSION (38)

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:24

It’s the bromine escaping from the plastic. It’s put in there as a flame retardant.

http://www.retrofixes.com/2013/10/how-to-clean-whiten-yellowed-plastics.html

CalzoneGolem > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:26

Also, I can’t England very good today...

U wot m8?

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:27

We don’t have sunburnt stuff, but we do have little “projector style” bulbs that fall out when they fail, showering hot broken glass on unsuspecting coworkers.

jimz > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
12/22/2016 at 10:29

Yep.

http://www.tested.com/tech/2505-why-your-old-super-nintendo-looks-super-yellow/

EL_ULY > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
12/22/2016 at 10:31

lol oh wow! Yay learning!

EL_ULY > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
12/22/2016 at 10:36

that seems fun. Knowing any second you could be bleeding. WTF!!!

EL_ULY > CalzoneGolem
12/22/2016 at 10:36

My England is bad as of late. No sleep sucks dogs for quarters

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:39

Luckily they’re only in our conference room and hallways.

CalzoneGolem > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:39

Well the ears of corn are growing restless in the noonday son.

E92M3 > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:39

When I first started in IT, everyone’s CRT monitor and keyboard was this color. I still see black plastic keyboards of people who don’t wash their hands (and eat at their desk everyday) that gross me out, I can only imagine what they would look like if this type of plastic was still used.

Frenchlicker > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:44

The stuff tinged at my work isn’t because of light but due to the organic bits in the air. Oh the fun of working on a farm.

TysMagic > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:45

I chucked all the stuff on my desk that looked like that and we just got a new printer...it’s black. The break room microwave recently got jacked, the paintor whatever it is came off the bottom of it exposing raw metal.
YOU SHOULD SEE THE SPARKS IT MAKES!

EL_ULY > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
12/22/2016 at 10:50

those bulb get hot also

EL_ULY > CalzoneGolem
12/22/2016 at 10:50

are you trying to seduce me?

EL_ULY > E92M3
12/22/2016 at 10:51

ewww yuck!!!!! I know a bunch of dinosaurs here that have those gross keyboards, yuck!

EL_ULY > Frenchlicker
12/22/2016 at 10:52

at least it’s an organic and natural coating instead of mega cancer causing sheeeet

EL_ULY > TysMagic
12/22/2016 at 10:53

lol I bet. We had a surge protector fail once and it was a damn fireworks show

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 10:55

Yep, but at least our workspaces are “safe”.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 11:00

Kinja'd!!!

Here is a high grade archival box that has probably been around the department for a decade or two. The discoloration is present even though the box has spent it’s life in a climate controlled space with no exterior light, overhead lights that only come on when activated by motion and that have UV filters on the flourecent tube. More lighting, or an absence of UV filters on flourecent tubes would accelerate this process, as does higher or fluctuating temperatures. Document housing is important.

That microfisce is awesome. It is actually a tremendously stable storage medium. If you keep it away from light and heat so that the binding agent in the film doesn’t break down, it essentially has a lifespan of from now on.

user314 > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 11:19

Yeah, yellowing (or photodegredation ) is one of the banes of Tranformer collectors.

Frenchlicker > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 11:23

There’s probably some of that in there too. However most of our chemicals are fairly safe. People don’t want dangerous ones in meat until it reaches McDonalds and other restaurants right?

EL_ULY > Frenchlicker
12/22/2016 at 11:34

lol correct :]

EL_ULY > user314
12/22/2016 at 11:35

oh wow, didn’t know those had the same issue

EL_ULY > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
12/22/2016 at 11:41

didn’t know there was a such thing as UV filters. We def don’t got those lol.

CalzoneGolem > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 11:47

Of course eye yam isn’t it obfuscating?

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 12:07

They’re just plastic tubes that slide over the fluorescent tubes. They usually fliter 90 some-odd percent of UV radiation from fluorescent lights. Given that they cost $7 or $8 per tube (and I want the say the lifespan is about that of the bulb), I would not expect them to be present in too many places that are not an archive. Even within the University Library, they are only present in our department.

EL_ULY > CalzoneGolem
12/22/2016 at 12:10

that is some good England

user314 > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 12:33

Even worse is GPS : Gold Plastic Syndrome. Basically, there are some toys from late in Generation 1 (87-88) through to the 2007 movie that will crumble due to faulty chemistry of metalic gold or brown plastic. Unlike yellowed toys, there’s nothing you can do about GPS-aflicted toys, either to prevent it or correct it.

EL_ULY > user314
12/22/2016 at 12:47

helps with value if not affected though right?

E92M3 > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 13:04

It’s disgusting! One in particular LOVED fried chicken, but not napkins. One day I finally brought my own keyboard with me to troubleshoot her PC, to give her a hint. Thank god I no longer have to deal with her.

EL_ULY > E92M3
12/22/2016 at 13:14

YUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!

user314 > EL_ULY
12/22/2016 at 13:52

Yeah, within reason. Since it’s a chemistry problem, there’s no way to say 100% something won’t ever fall vicitim to GPS (no matter what precautions you take), you’re taking a gamble even with MISB toys. I had a Beast Wars Grimlock that suffered so bad I wound up buying a junker Dinobot off eBay, painting the donor parts gold, and doing a major transplant. I haven’t transformed my BW Transmetal Megatron for years for fear of it snapping in half .

EL_ULY > user314
12/22/2016 at 14:04

Dang dude I had no idea about this issue. I had a whole heap of Beast Wars figures, I wonder if they are still in my box of many things and my folk’s house

pip bip - choose Corrour > EL_ULY
12/23/2016 at 06:24

i haven’t used microfiche in years!

EL_ULY > pip bip - choose Corrour
12/23/2016 at 08:20

All of ours still function perfect (we have a criminal amount of these here)

pip bip - choose Corrour > EL_ULY
12/23/2016 at 08:22

GM have done away with the need for them , which brand(s) still use them?

i’m genuinely surprised the data on them hasn’t gone to digital.

EL_ULY > pip bip - choose Corrour
12/23/2016 at 08:36

we haven’t used them in ages but our owner doesn’t want to chunk them in the trash. They just sit there collecting Everest amounts of dust. He have card catalogs for Volvo, Aston, Lotus, Mercedes and I believe SAAB also

pip bip - choose Corrour > EL_ULY
12/23/2016 at 08:43

o_O

so so many