Ben Behnkendorf
I'm a geek, wanna fight `bout it?
Photos From My Internship in 2007
Feb 3rd
This is a small collection of pictures that I took during my internship with a logistics company during the summer between my Junior and Senior year of college. It was a great learning experience and I had a lot of fun and made a lot of awesome memories. I’ll also never forget running cable in a 316,000 sq.ft. warehouse in the dead of summer two feet from the ceiling. I would be wearing a black shirt and the back would be white from all the salt that I would sweat out. It was insane.
Peach Ring Flaw
Feb 3rd
I opened up a bag of peach rings and found that one of them still had the middle intact. This makes me wonder; where do all the middles go? Is there a market for peach ring holes similar to doughnut holes? I would be all about that. Or do they press the mix out into a sheet and then cut it out with a roller? Someone needs to submit peach rings to How It’s Made.
I’m in the Austin Collie Interview
Feb 3rd
There you have it. That’s my 4 seconds of fame. Hopefully CBS won’t pull down my video for “copyright infringement.”
Another Palindrome Day
Feb 1st
Today is February 1, 2010 or 01 02 2010. 01022010! Makes my OCD happy.
An Open Letter To Motorists
Jan 22nd
To All Motorists:
I have a few things that I would like to get off of my chest. I have cataloged these issues in my head over the last few years and it seemingly is increasing in frequency.
Firstly, lower your headlights and get them aligned. When you’re driving does it help you when your headlights are shining into the back windows of the cars in front of you? No. It’s annoying and puts people in danger. I know that I have the lever on my rear-view mirror to stop this from happening. But this causes a severe loss in detail and I am less aware of my surroundings. Then the side mirrors can’t be adjusted and then come in the side and again blind me unless I lean over and drive that way. Lower your headlights. Angle them down so that they don’t go higher than the very top of my tailgate or other peoples trunk lid. There you go.
Secondly, adjust your headlights so that they are pointing forward and are equal. Nothing makes me angrier then when I’m driving in the other direction and a single headlight is pointing directly in my face. There is no reason for that and just hinders your visibility and makes other drivers angry.
Please take care of these annoyances. Thank you.
Signed,
Ben
Spencer Visits Lucas Oil Stadium Again
Jan 20th
On Martin Luther King Day Wendy, Ryan, and I all had the day off. We had been meaning to get Spencer down to LOS ever since I got hired back with a different company in the same facility but just hadn’t had an opportunity. It ended up working out pretty well actually.
The sky was dark and dreary but thankfully cleaning crews were cleaning the seats after that past Saturday’s playoff Colt’s game which meant the lights were on. They all weren’t on, but it was enough to make picture taking much easier than it would be if they were off and the sky was as dark as it was that day.
Enjoy the pictures.
Christmas 2009
Jan 20th
Here is a collection of photos that were taken on Ryan’s Birthday/Christmas Eve 2009. Enjoy!
Alexis striking a pose.
Hell yeah we had a fire going!
Nice action shot Alexis!
Is this a gift-bomb?
Glorious mint chocolates.
Today is Arthur C. Clarke day!
Jan 20th
All hail Arthur C. Clarke! Two of his major books are entitled 2001 and 2010. If you were to list today’s date as people commonly do over in Europe it would be posted as 20/01/2010. Or 2001 2010. Two of his titles in a single date. This is a once and a lifetime deal. If you haven’t already you need to go out and read as much of his work as possible. Rendezvous With Rama is spectacularly aw inspiring. The next book in the Rama series was co-authored and it lost a lot of the grandeur of the first book in the series.
Monitor Fix
Jan 15th
One of my Dell 22″ monitors was having an issue with the power button. When I would go to press the power button it wouldn’t do anything. It wouldn’t so much as click. This had to be resolved. So I did what I will always do and take it apart! Upon opening it up and unscrewing the button panel from the bezel I could see what the issue was. The main button had a little flap hanging off of it and on this flap there was a little point of plastic that would actually press the button on the PCB. Underneath the exterior button there was an LED to tell you when it’s on or idle so that’s the reason for the flap. The pictures will make this obvious.
Anyway, the little flap had been bent up over time and simply needed to be rebent down towards the button. I started to gently bend it when it just snapped off and flew to the floor. Thankfully I was able to find it. I had to construct a holding aparatis to keep the plastic piece stable while I superglued the flap back on. I used a velcro strap and a pad of Post-it notes to hold it. Then I glued it on and added a bunch of extra.
This was the most tedious part of the fix. I had to gently shave off any excess superglue or else the button wouldn’t depress the button on the PCB. What a headache.
In the end I was able to fix the monitor’s issue and hopefully it won’t happen again.
On a side note. If you ever use Loctite superglue in the package that squeezes on the side and you think that you have ran out. You have not. When I thought I was empty I ripped the package off to see how it worked and found that there was about a quarter of a tube left. I wonder how much superglue goes to the junkyard every year because of this design flaw? Here’s a picture of the bottle that I’m talking about.
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