Dementia and modelling

[Troy Molitor]

A good martini or a glass of bourbon is how I survived Covid.   All those stupid rules and yet 20 million people perished world wide.  I'm pretty sure a good drink now and then can beat those micro plastic concerns.   When it's your turn to die, it's just your turn to die.  Live your life the best way you can and enjoy it.        

[D.B. Andrus]

11 hours ago, MikeMaben said:

I just hope to go to bed one night and wake up dead the next morning. 

 

I'm sure that can be arranged....

[BiggTim]

17 minutes ago, Troy Molitor said:

A good martini or a glass of bourbon is how I survived Covid.      

Me too, twice. I highly recommend bourbon when sick!!

17 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

Smoke inhalation with nasty things burning is really bad stuff!  Hope it doesn’t haunt you one day later with illnesses.  

As do I, especially when firefighters have a 3x greater likelihood of cancer than the national average.

[DugyB]

I’ve always wondered when those JP-4 fumes were going to catch up to me …… or Testors glue fumes …. I can’t remember though which one comes first … 🤔

[GusM]

Just the latest environmental scare story which is another great example of the difference between observation, correlation and causation. Just because it's in there doesn't mean it's actually causing any harm.

 

If you use aluminium cooking pots, that's a far bigger risk as there's a well proven link between aluminium exposure and dementia. Those of us in the UK of a certain age will remember the Camelford disaster. 

[vvwse4]

I work in the telecom infra busseniss, which means digging in the ground as part of the job, joining fiber optic and copper cables and working with all kinds of stuff that were perfectly safe when I started the job back in the Eighties but are now considered dangerous......

 

Guess I fall apart one day

[ScottsGT]

2 hours ago, vvwse4 said:

I work in the telecom infra busseniss, which means digging in the ground as part of the job, joining fiber optic and copper cables and working with all kinds of stuff that were perfectly safe when I started the job back in the Eighties but are now considered dangerous......

 

Guess I fall apart one day

LOL!  I was a “Television Broadcast Engineer” after my autobody career.  I went to work at a well known university here in SC.  In downtown Columbia to be specific.  USC to be more specific.  But the building I was in had a “plenum” air system.  Dropped ceiling with “egg crate” ceiling tiles. Basically open grids.  The department was established in the early ‘70’s. So by the time I got there, there was already miles of AV cabling run through the ceiling. Of course with technology developing, I had to pull miles of additional cabling as well.  
About 5’ above the dropped ceiling was the hard concrete ceiling.  It was coated with a sprayed on asbestos fire block.  The studio had no dropped ceiling.   Someone had painted the asbestos coating black to reduce light reflections.  
Well sometime about 18 years after working there a low bid contractor was called in to remodel the Presidents house which included asbestos abatement.  Of course the University planners not doing their job watching the process, the contractor buried the abated asbestos under the house in the crawl space instead of paying for proper disposal. 
Well this incident set off a firestorm of panic and new rules, regulations and constant training for everyone from technicians to housekeeping on identifying asbestos. 
Long story made short, all of a sudden we were going to die if we went above our ceiling but it was okay to hire a contractor to come in and go above the ceiling.   When we brought up the subject of the open grid tiles, we had them.  At that point they realized if they pushed the issue they would have to shut the building down and vacate it. 
 

Another issue that was comical and I think a political move to shut down our studio just to get us out of the building was a stunt pulled by the University’s fire marshal.  The

is guy got a hard on for disallowing extension cords.  In the studio we had the typical lighting grid system with about 50 twist lock 30 amp outlets.  All the studio lights had about a 3’ pigtail coming out of it.  The lighting guy set the lights where they were needed and used the 30 amp extension cord of the appropriate length to plug in. 
40 years of doing this, never an incident.  All of a sudden he decides no more extension cords.  We must have light fixtures with long enough cords to plug in directly. Oh, and we were not allowed to rewire our existing light because they were “antiques”.  Yea, no budget to replace all the studio lights.  
Funny thing is, when we were getting moved out I commandeered one of the lights, rewired it for an LED bulb with a dimmer for my office.  When I retired, it came home with me.  

[LSP_K2]