Today I Learned...

**Frownland** · 11-14-2018, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT]

Third person narration is when the narrator doesn't speak from their own perspective, but rather from an (often) omnipresent perspective of the situation as opposed to the first person where the narrator is speaking from their point of view. So saying that you've switched to third person suggests that when you made that particular remark, you were actually talking about yourself.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 11-14-2018, 08:30 PM

I know what third person narration is. But I would characterize my post more as "Breaking the fourth wall," which is why your reply confused me.

BassoonPlatoon · 11-19-2018, 12:36 AM

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was one of the first plastics discovered and it is generally what pipes are made of.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 11-19-2018, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by BassoonPlatoon

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was one of the first plastics discovered and it is generally what pipes are made of.

Not my pipes.

DwnWthVwls · 11-19-2018, 03:38 PM

You got a peer reviewed source for that spam?

BassoonPlatoon · 11-19-2018, 11:44 PM

At least neither of us is talking about windpipes.

DwnWthVwls · 11-20-2018, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

its learning to convert a depth micrometer reading into a decimal number. im in college fam, we learn things everyday bro

that is the info graph i found of what a mircometer. stop worrying about my sources and focus more on what you didnt learn or did learn today.

Looks like a dog dick to me..

Can you find an infograph about red rocket conversions?

Plankton · 11-20-2018, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

today i learned more about micrometers and calipers. thats what we measure stuff with in machining

Yup. I wasn't a fan of all that when doing mech. design, but it paid the bills. If the ****ing US would just go metric I could eliminate the 25.4 conversion on some of the drawings I get. Dammit. Way too much legacy data out there though. Ad nauseam.

Plankton · 11-20-2018, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

im in a class called "key principles of manufacturing" and the second half of the semester is on quality audit, so we are learning this stuff. i find it actually a bit difficult to read and convert into a decimal but i can do it. just slow

for now at least. i get catch up reading the thimble scale. i guess the more i study it and mess around ill convert the numbers faster.

so you'd rather have a metric one? because the professor had one of those today and put it aside said we weren't messing with those.

Metric is easier. It's all increments of 10, whereas Imperial is 16th's/12th's and extremely antiquated.

I mostly used micrometers for 'As-Built' drawings, which is where you go measure a part and draw it up using CAD (or on a board if you're still working in the 1970's).

DwnWthVwls · 11-21-2018, 03:48 AM

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thats interesting, i have to learn the way im going to be tested on though on the final probably. i messed around with cad in high school and then google sketchup. but this school im at now is going to be teaching me a program called mastercam? sounds fun

If youre into CAD you should look into GIS(what i do). Not sure what kind of degree or job youre aiming for but you may find it interesting.

11-14-2018, 08:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,823	I know what third person narration is. But I would characterize my post more as "Breaking the fourth wall," which is why your reply confused me.