Fupjack

Happy cake is happy.

Hello, turkey buzzard.

Found in the basement : some sort of typeface selector?  It’s a notched plastic wheel, with different sigils all around the outside edge.  It’s one of many.  It looks like a sort of rotary punch card.  I’m not sure what you would do with it.

Found in the basement: Iomega Bernoulli drives.  I’ve never seen a reader for these, at least not here.

“Anal Lust Manager”.  My best job title ever.

You can always tell when there’s been water infiltration in a building at the mine, after it dries up.

This was in a porta-potty, which makes “excessive use” and “unsatisfactory conditions” seem a lot more threatening.

Belt assemblies can look a lot more mysterious just because of where they happen to be positioned, plus the lighting is somehow always dramatic.

These power stations were making a humming noise punctuated by a repeated chirp noise.  I’ve never heard that from them before… I didn’t get too close.

This is brattice.  You can tell which side has higher air pressure.

For some reason I keep thinking this netting is what’s called brattice, through brattice is actually the air curtains that block off certain passageways.  This is … ceiling nets?

Mine roof supports: It’s like Jenga, except if you pull out one of the pieces and it collapses, everybody loses.

A closeup of a roof fragment.  It’s slate with bits of salt water having infiltrated into the cracks and having dried there from a now-gone ocean millions of years ago.  There’s an orange tint that I think is from iron.

Note that I’m not a geologist and am mostly guessing.  I took the picture using just my headlamp light, which gives an idea of the focused view you get when there’s no other lights around.

This is the giant electromagnet that pulls metal off of the conveyor belt, so that only rock goes into the rock crushers, and not metal fragments.  If you look closely, you can see that the metal drill bits are aligning themselves with the magnetic fields put out by the magnet assembly, to the point where they are forming a sort of ‘flower’ shape.  Science!

This dish sat for a few years near the mine production shaft.  It was about 60 feet off the ground and vertical, so there’s no buildup.  Just the salt dust in the air was enough to corrode the paint off.  It’s hard to see, but the dipole in the center is about to snap off, from corrosion around the retaining ring.