I’ve had to surrender to this because she just won’t accept it.
I honestly never knew how those things worked. I always thought it was a weight issue. When the weight of a car went over the octagon looking thing it tripped something that told the light to change. I had no idea it was a technical as magnetic waves and such.
I’ve also heard a rumor that if the light has a camera on it, you can flash your brights and it will turn as well (something to use in the middle of the night).
This made me literally lol at my desk. Well played
When your mother yells at you to close the refrigerator, you’re wasting electricity, tell her that, because of the wafting effect, it is more efficient to leave it open for a couple of minutes to make a sandwich, than to open and close it a half a dozen times.
Once your pot of water is boiling, turning up the heat won’t make it boil any hotter. The added turbulence of a good rolling boil may help transfer heat faster to things like eggs, but it won’t make pasta cook any faster.
The sensors used to be weight activated, but those are long gone now.
I know of at least one intersection like that. You could be stuck there for minutes, or pull up and flash your lights and the cross traffic would suddenly have a yellow light.
I assume it was designed to see headlights and just didn’t work well so the people that used it regularly knew to flash their high-beams as they were approaching it.
I hope you’ll accept this as a friendly amendment. The surface doesn’t even have to be below freezing. The liquid raindrops themselves are supercooled, meaning they’ve dropped below the freezing point of water (potentially even to well below 0F) but haven’t crystallized because they don’t have a nucleation point. Once they hit a surface, whether it’s below freezing or not, the water immediately crystallizes.
The flashing your brights thing shouldn’t ever work but I’ll stop short of saying never. If it does work, it’s probably just coincidence. That being said, there are emergency beacon detectors installed at many intersections. They are are on top of the mast arms and aimed and calibrated so that the frequency of emergency vehicle strobe lights will activate them to send a signal to the controller which gives the emergency vehicle a green light. (You’ve probably noticed a little white light flashing slowly when an emergency vehicle magically gets the green light; that’s an indicator light that the system has been activated) Over the counter flashing/strobe lights won’t activate it so don’t bother trying. Traffic signal contractors do have a hand held strobe light with the proper frequency so that they can test the detection system. Those strobes are registered and guarded very closely to prevent mis-use.
the stars are still “out” during the day; you just can’t see them (usually)
Gravity is even stranger in some parts of the world! Peter Ustinov, in a documentary, demonstrated the same thing. Off the balcony of an observatory some 50+ feet in the air he dropped a rock and a feather. The rock went straight down and the feather went straight sideways!
Probably not so well known or obvious, but helpful: You do NOT need a huge pot of boiling water to cook pasta in. In fact, you are better off using a frying pan and cold water: Place the pasta in the pan with some salt, cover with cold water (which will prevent it sticking together), bring to a boil and cook for required time. Faster, more efficient, and no sticking.
You haven’t tried fresh, field-ripened Hawaiian pineapples. The juice will take the plaque off your teeth, and probably the enamel too. You can use it on your car’s chrome for rust remover. NASA makes rocket fuel out of it.
Do they even grow any significant amount of pineapple in Hawaii these days? I was under the impression cultivation had been moved elsewhere.
I hope so, but I don’t know. I was last there in 1984. I know that the sugar-cane fields were all being replaced by condominium plantations. I don’t know about the pineapple fields.
There was a pineapple field in the interior area of the island (Oahu) with a famous farm stand. The pineapples might be harvested a few days before being perfectly ripe, but they people there knew exactly how a pineapple ripens. You could say “I’m having a party this Sunday” and they would thump their fingers on several pineapples, and pick out one for you that would be just perfectly ripe on Sunday.
ETA: There was a little air strip nearby, and a rather large circular cleared-out area in the middle of one of those pineapple fields. The local skydiving club did their skydiving there. I stopped by to watch one day. There was a guy taking lessons, getting prepared for his first jump.
There’s a wooden platform a few feet off the ground with steps leading up to it, like the platform for a gallows. The student would stand at the edge of the platform, with his back to the edge. When the trainer calls out “Land!”, the student falls off the platform backward and lands on his back in a pile of straw.
I watched him do his first jump. He didn’t manage to land in the circle. He landed in the middle of all the pineapples. I hope his jumpsuit was well padded. Pineapple leaves are like daggers.
Every exporting producer has shut down. A few small plantings on Oahu, with all the production being sold locally to Hawaiian consumers. Mostly roadside and farmers market sales.
That pineapple do not grow on trees is hardly obviously, unless you happen to live where they are cultivated. It’s something you have to look up.
WRT Pineapple, I think (nearly?) all the pineapples I see coming through my store are from Costa Rica.
Also, there also all the ‘golden ripe’ kind. No more having to explain to people how to pick out a ripe one. They’re all ready to eat.
There’s a half-circle metal flange inside most gas-fill covers that is there for holding your gas cap while you fill. You can’t close the cover when the cap is there, and you can’t leave your cap on the trunk lid. I have told countless people about this. My car has one. My husband’s car has one. Every car I’ve owned has one. The only car I’ve driven that didn’t have one was my uncle’s 72 Chevelle with the locking gas cap hidden under the license plate.
Yeah, but whose right? aka Which right?
The quoted Rule is for cars travelling i in intersecting directions, not opposite. There’s no solution for the opposite course pair other other than a few seconds of mutual hesitation until someone takes the bull by the horns.