-Thursday- ELISE (10:40am) Elise TINO (10:40am) Hey Elise. Im Tino. Where are you? ELISE (11:40am) I'm just leaving class, headed home. TINO (11:40am) Good for you poindexter. Im a self-educated man. I work with my hands, cuz it gives me time to think. You ever build anything? ELISE (11:42am) I built a small entertainment center when i was in high school. I enjoyed it. TINO (11:42am) Ya gotta know how to make stuff. I like working with my hands generally. Steel. The ladies. Ha! Mostly steel. Im a rigger. ELISE (11:44am) That's cool. I grew up on the coast, so i've seen a lot of oil rigs. TINO (11:44am) You know, like oil rigs, skyscrapers, that sort of thing. Dangerous heavy stuff real high up. Gotta know youre alive. ELISE (11:46am) Sounds scary. I don't like heights TINO (11:46am) Anyway... nice to meet you Elise. Enough txting for now, Ill touch base tomorrow. ELISE (11:48am) Okay, talk to you later -Friday- TINO (2:21pm) Met a girl last night - vanessa. Vanessaaaaah. Whaddaya think. Movie or the shore? ELISE (3:42pm) Both. Movie first, them a romantic walk on the shore. TINO (3:42pm) Ya exactly. A dark room and then we have something to talk about. Do you think rocknrolla is any good? ELISE (3:46pm) I think that's an excellent choice. I haven't seen it, but the previews look exciting TINO (3:46pm) Ok. Im good to go then. (3:51pm) Hopefully this girl isnt like eliza. ELISE (3:51pm) Awesome. Enjoy your date :) TINO (3:51pm) The 26.year old psycho. We had some communication problems you could say. But she started me with this texting stuff. ELISE (3:57pm) I'm sure she'll be great. How did eliza the psycho get you into texting? TINO (3:57pm) Enough questions for now. dont really want to talk about it. ELISE (4:03pm) Okay, sorry. -Saturday- TINO (1:42pm) Hey Elise whats up. I cant get out of bed this morning; PAIN. That rigging job in india is catching up to me with a vengeance. (1:44pm) Built a massive building for tiny parts. Semi-conductor facility. Theres a certain satisfaction in that. What do you do for work anyway? ELISE (1:45pm) I'm a bartender TINO (1:45pm) Are you good at it? Like an expert? ELISE (1:47pm) I've been doing it for a year, so i'm good at it, but i wouldn't call myself an expert. I can always use more practice TINO (1:47pm) Lets test it. Grab some object nearby, what is it? ELISE (1:49pm) It's a digital camera TINO (1:49pm) Guy called di staso says that if youre an expert you can see your work in any object. Look at that digital camera, am I right? ELISE (1:52pm) Sure. I can especially see the work i want to do when i finish school. TINO (1:52pm) Ok, lets not get carried away. But you get what I mean. Ive got the icy hot right here and its pretty straightforward. Definitely pulled something. ELISE (1:54pm) Yeah, i get it. Maybe try some aleave, that usually works for my aches and pains. TINO (1:54pm) You want the long story or the short story? ELISE (1:55pm) Long TINO (1:55pm) Working Load Limit is defined as max mass or force a product is authorized to support in general service when pull is applied in-line, unless noted otherwise (1:56pm) i.e. the WLL of a component is specified by the manufacturer. (1:57pm) If you have a 3t sling hook on a single-leg wire rope or chain sling in a general use application, it retains its inherent WLL of 3t as its max load. ELISE (1:57pm) Okay TINO (1:58pm) However, if a two-leg sling consists of two such legs, the WLL for the sling hook in such a configuration is (1.73 x 3 t) / 2 = 2.6 t. ELISE (1:58pm) Got it TINO (1:59pm) If the hook is to be used in a non-general application (e.g. in a mine shaft or in a hazardous situation such as a hot environment), it may be derated further. (2:00pm) You see where this is going. Ill spare you the details. ELISE (2:00pm) Yeah, i follow you (2:06pm) Did you ask vanessa out? -Sunday- TINO (1:06pm) Theres nothing prettier than the sun setting over a plastics factory. The right mix of chemicals can turn the sky the most bizarre shade of impossible. Ya know? (1:08pm) God damn. I love nature and all its wonderments. I can tell you where to find your perfect dream sunset. Whats your favorite color? -Monday- TINO (12:35pm) Do you ever think about all the shit you use everday that has moving parts? -Thursday- TINO (12:16pm) Theres nothing prettier than the sun setting over a plastics factory. The right mix of chemicals can turn the sky the most bizarre shade of impossible. Ya know? (12:18pm) God damn. I love nature and all its wonderments. I can tell you where to find your perfect dream sunset. Whats your favorite color? ELISE (12:40pm) I like orange TINO (12:40pm) orange comes from polyphenol-formaldehyde. Aint it pretty shimmering over the water? So, we have a nice orange sky stripe. Next. Red highlights or blue? ELISE (12:41pm) Red TINO (12:41pm) AH! Terephthaloyl-chloride in the sky is like uh, a little rouge on the cheek of Gods sleeping girlfriend. One more tone. The final color in your dream sunset? ELISE (12:43pm) Purple TINO (12:43pm) purple is what we call a tertiary color. A mix. Polymethyl methacrylate will provide the perfect hue. checkin my notes and Ill point you towards your spot. (12:45pm) K. Some wine, lil' cheese and vulcanized nylon vapor and you got a dream picnic. Head to Landis Plastics of Solvay, NY in the summer. Pretty. ELISE (12:51pm) Thats so cool that you know all that -Friday- TINO (2:54pm) Hey I got this trick I can do. Just five questions and I can guess what your job is. Seriously, its this weird skill. Want to play? ELISE (3:34pm) Sure, let's play TINO (3:34pm) Ok, first some background. Do you work in a group with two or more people you went to high school with? ELISE (3:41pm) No TINO (3:41pm) No, why would you? At any point in a typical day, can you look down and see the tops of other peoples' heads? ELISE (3:43pm) No TINO (3:43pm) More baldness than youd think. Do you have to wear a uniform? ELISE (3:44pm) Yes TINO (3:44pm) Got it. Uniform. That helps. Getting closer. Have you ever had to fire a pregnant or weeping person? ELISE (3:46pm) No, i've never fired anyone for that matter TINO (3:46pm) Coulda guessed this first thing. Youre obviously a Instrumentation Technician. Am I right? ELISE (3:47pm) No, i'm a bartender TINO (3:47pm) Really? Im never wrong. Maybe you should consider a career change. ELISE (3:50pm) I don't want to be a bartender forever, it just pays the rent while i'm in school. what does an instrumentation tech do? -Saturday- TINO (12:35pm) What are you up to Elise? ELISE (6:27pm) I'm enjoying homecoming weekend. What are you up to? TINO (6:27pm) U wanna trade? The inspectors here. Puts numbers on things that dont need em. Like how you had 50 characters in that message. You txt normal, QWERTY or T9? ELISE (6:29pm) I use t9 TINO (6:29pm) So 50 max key presses, times 6 muscles of the thumb(s) involved, like the flexor pollicis brevis, and four nerves. Do you use a light pressure or heavy? ELISE (6:30pm) Light TINO (6:30pm) You just took 104 seconds to respond, so we're talking 9.78 neural signals/sec per second on your part. (6:32pm) If you were a factory youd get an efficiency rating of 0.23/averg. Notice how you do other basic tasks. Fast or slow? Dont text me now. Itll take too long :-) ELISE (6:37pm) I'll work on increasing my texting efficiency :) -Sunday- TINO (12:16pm) Sorry for bugging. I need a favor. Something just occurred to me. Ok? Im 65 floors up. You got a second? ELISE (12:17pm) Sure TINO (12:17pm) Construction was delayed for the better part of a year. Beams covered in a fine metallic dust. Kinda mysterious but i have a hunch. ELISE (12:18pm) A hunch about what? TINO (12:18pm) Eugene doesnt believe me. He says its old paint. You at a computer? Google 'meteor dust' for me and let me know what it says. Is it possible? ELISE (12:29pm) Maybe. Meteor dust stays in the atmosphere for a whileane can affect rainfall, google says, but noone seems to be sure about how to collect it. TINO (12:29pm) Ive got an amazing job. Do me one more favor? ELISE (12:29pm) Sure TINO (12:29pm) Take a photo of something at work from outer space. Post it on flickr and put 'tino faussone' in the tags. Its all around us, Elise. Gotta run. (3:29pm) Hey Elise. Think. If you slipped and a friend caught your safety rope, the only thing between you and a 70 story fall, who would you want it to be? ELISE (4:02pm) I would want it to be my best friend olivia. She wouldn't let go TINO (4:02pm) Ok, now whos the one standing next to Best, commenting on rope-holding technique? Whats his or her name? ELISE (4:06pm) My brother jason TINO (4:06pm) Yeah, Brother. Whats Brother's phone number? ELISE (4:08pm) I lost it when my phone broke. Why? TINO (4:08pm) Dont worry. Its cool. Trust me. Whats the number? -Monday- TINO (4:08am) Ok, nevermind. Ill see ya, Elise. Off to a job in chongqing, china! ALWAYS keep moving. Most peoples problem is getting stuck.