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'Xtreme' Equipment That You Have Borrowed?
djupedal asks: "What's the most extreme type of equipment you've used from the lab/office/university, etc. for your own projects, etc.? Have you ever taken a piece of unknown lint into work just to check it out under the nuclear microscope? Ever used the UV curing oven on the production line to make custom wheels for an R/C car? Ever used the 100,000 ton press in the lab to meld a dime into a nickel just to have a present for your gf/bf on Valentine's Day?"
"Ever drop by the house on the way home from work and use your company's nuclear density gauge to check for hardpan in the backyard?
Was that you I saw driving a 50 ton crane into the sub-division just to have a platform to install a 3 meter dish on the roof of the garage?
Ever hog a T-3 so you could loop-logon on to your own box....after networking thru a minimum of 25 repeaters near the equator...just to see how much delay there is when going around the planet?
To get you started -- we used to work the night shift at a ski area - and when we found spare time, we would fire up a few of the $200,000.00 Kässbohrer PistenBully's and run off into the trees and play hide & seek in the dark, when it was snowing heavy and your tracks would be covered quickly. All lights out and nothing but iPods online, we would play tag until we either got lost, stuck, bored or the sun came up.
What's your best example of trivial use of some very expensive gear that wasn't yours?"
Was that you I saw driving a 50 ton crane into the sub-division just to have a platform to install a 3 meter dish on the roof of the garage?
Ever hog a T-3 so you could loop-logon on to your own box....after networking thru a minimum of 25 repeaters near the equator...just to see how much delay there is when going around the planet?
To get you started -- we used to work the night shift at a ski area - and when we found spare time, we would fire up a few of the $200,000.00 Kässbohrer PistenBully's and run off into the trees and play hide & seek in the dark, when it was snowing heavy and your tracks would be covered quickly. All lights out and nothing but iPods online, we would play tag until we either got lost, stuck, bored or the sun came up.
What's your best example of trivial use of some very expensive gear that wasn't yours?"
Do you like your doughnuts Krispy? Or your beverages "Clean?" Then you have fallen for nonsensical marketing terms. (What's in there? Mud? It'd better be clean...)
Those words, like "Xtreme" are purely "sensual activators," but as terms descriptive of the object they are just nonsense.
Xtreme is a marketing tactic that attempts to raise your adrenaline level while you're reading the ad so you are more likely to remember the product as something out of the ordinary, but it really describes nothing special in most places it is used, just like "Advanced" has come to mean nothing, (other than that it is being advanced by the marketers) and so, that part of the lexicon now being polluted, marketing people have begun abandoning it and chosen a different word to pollute.
Obligatory ontopic: That being said, no, I haven't used someone else's expensive facilities for my own research. Except maybe using large meetings to ask questions to find out how clueless a department director might be about the work going on. That's about the most fun you can have...
I totally do not understand what the word "Xtreme" means here? Do you mean expensive? Do you mean "extreme"?
Wait, I know, you're a marketing person???
(Posting anonymously for obvious reasons)
There was this guy who didn't like my dad and threatened him.
To deal with him I borrowed some election commissioners in Florida and got myself appointed President.
Then I borrowed the military (very much against the wishes of most of the American people, but who cares?) and sent them overseas to take over a whole country and find that guy.