Random Babbling Thread 120

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Happy Hangover Day!

 

Well, when making French toast this morning, I managed to crack a container on an egg.
Yes, I meant what I wrote, it's not a transposition error. The container broke, the egg was intact.

Spoiler

The container was over 40 years old that I inherited from my mother last year and was in fact the one she used to teach me how to make French toast with as a child.
I'm wondering if I'm not taking care of the (actual, one of her friends worked for them for a year or two when I was in preschool) Tupperware container properly and caused it to degrade or if it was just the fact that it was over 40 years old and wearing out.
I've been using standard Dawn dish detergent from Costo to clean it.

 

I'm pretty sure no amount of detergent will cause a tupperware container to crack. Most likely it's just wear and tear from 40 years of use. Constant temperature changes and exposure to UV light from the sun will eventually cause plastic to degrade, and there's probably numerous scratches all over it as well.

 

Wow BTA ... as a polymer chemist I'm impressed with your incredibly understandable answer.

 

So I've been doing some gig work for Smart Source, a lot of which is field service tech work for Insight, who does outsourced IT support for various companies like Marriott and Chase.
Yesterday I'm driving to a Chase near to and on the way to a place I used to work 15 years ago and I got a call on my cell asking my ETA. I was still early so I was puzzled, but apparently the other tech had arrived and the bank was eager for us to get started.
They asked "how far away are you" and I said "less than three miles I think". They responded with "Well, what does your GPS say?" and I said I wasn't using the GPS.
They were shocked, especially since it was at least a dozen miles from where I lived (it was between 1 and 3 miles from where I worked 15 years ago which was just shy of 15 miles).

Does nobody know how to navigate without a GPS these days?
I'm capable of finding my way home from just about anywhere on certain major roads in the Chicagoland area since I know if I stay on that road I'll get someplace familiar. My parents made sure I had some idea of the major roads and how to get home from them.
Granted I couldn't find a place without printed directions and/or a map of the area without a GPS, but this was navigating to a place I was familiar with although a lot of businesses had changed in the last 15 years. I'd say that 9 times out of ten I'm using the GPS for these jobs, even if usually I only need it for the last 10% of the journey, but quite a few times I've managed to find my way home without it, or turned it off once I got on a major road.

 

I hate GPS, I'm very well skilled in direction unlike 90% of the human population. It really seems like computers are making us more stupid but I can still get myself out of a paper bag

 

To a certain extent I like the GPS navigation, however the interface on the 2023 Honda Accord I inherited seems against actually showing me meaningful information when trying to choose a route as it doesn't seem to show street names or list the route. I have to disconnect my phone in order to pull up that information as it seems to lock out my phone when trying to do that.

 

I agree for finding an unknown destination. However going home I often turn it off as soon as I reach a major road that will take me to places I'm familiar with.
I occasionally find I like it showing me traffic ahead so I can consider alternate routes, or telling me how much farther it is to home when I'm at some place far away out of my immediate area, but easy to navigate to because it's a straight shot down a major road 99% of the way.

One exception was about a year ago when a heavy fog had set in after I was sent to a place near O'Hare airport.
Normally I could have easily found my way home from O'Hare by following the guide signs, but the fog was so thick I couldn't read the signs until I was almost underneath them and only had about a second or two to read them. Near O'Hare there is a conjunction of I-90, I-94, I-190 and others and it is important to choose the right lane or you wind up going on the wrong road, so I kept my GPS on all the way home because I was having trouble reading the guide signs and the road signs. I'm thankful for the feature they put in around 2018 that tells you what lanes to use.

 

I must admit that I only tried it 15 years ago, I heard that it's much better now. If I'm going to take a long trip that I've never been on before, I might break down and try it again