I remember we once installed something on a beam 40’ feet up. While waking through an inspection of many such things, the engineer stops, cocks his head for a second, and says “that’s not quite straight”
And then it wasn’t. Like a cast of manual breathing, the thing I had been frequently walking past for weeks was suddenly wrong, ever so slightly
I worked on an industrial robot once, and we parked it such that the middle section of the arm was up above the robot and supposed to be level. I could tell from 50 feet away and a glance that it wasn’t, so we checked. It was off by literally 1 degree.
Degrees are bigger than we think, but also our eyes are incredible instruments.
See, I live in an old apartment. The corners aren’t 90°, the wall a picture is hanging on is convex. When I’m lying in bed and look at the picture it looks like it’s crooked but I used a level several times on it and it’s as straight as can be. It’s driving me insane.
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Another one is levelling.
A lot of people can see a picture frame is about 0.5° out of level and their fucking eye twitches until they fix it
Me included
That’s nuts when you think about it
I remember we once installed something on a beam 40’ feet up. While waking through an inspection of many such things, the engineer stops, cocks his head for a second, and says “that’s not quite straight”
And then it wasn’t. Like a cast of manual breathing, the thing I had been frequently walking past for weeks was suddenly wrong, ever so slightly
Leave it up to a civil engineer to ruin your day.
I worked on an industrial robot once, and we parked it such that the middle section of the arm was up above the robot and supposed to be level. I could tell from 50 feet away and a glance that it wasn’t, so we checked. It was off by literally 1 degree.
Degrees are bigger than we think, but also our eyes are incredible instruments.
See, I live in an old apartment. The corners aren’t 90°, the wall a picture is hanging on is convex. When I’m lying in bed and look at the picture it looks like it’s crooked but I used a level several times on it and it’s as straight as can be. It’s driving me insane.
This is when you set it relative to the rest of the unleveled stuff in your view to make it look level.
The tiles in my kitchen were installed slightly rotated so I had to do that with all my shelves
But “level isn’t what you need. If the floor and ceiling aren’t level, it’ll look wrong.
I purposefully slightly tilt most my wall hangings. I like watching guests squirm when they mention it and I do nothing
I respect and hate this. I could never
That’s a game that would be hilarious. But yeah, i wouldn’t be able to do it.
Sorry cousin, unfortunately I will get the flu this Christmas and won’t be able to come visit.
We would probably fist fight then, because I’d level it without saying anything, and if you set it back crooked, I would throw it on the ground.
Madlad
When my wife was pissed at me she would go to my office before I got to work and tilt every picture/award and move my books about.
She knows what buttons to push and my sous chefs just let her do it… ungrateful pricks
/S
You have multiple sauce cooks and they’re in charge of office security?
…sous