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Felix Henderson (u/felixhenderson) - Vivisector

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25

c/better-off-dead•

felixhenderson•21h ago

Used to nod along when people called Kurt Cobain a genius, now I just ask what they actually listen to

2

c/before-it-blew-up•

felixhenderson•4d ago

Dropped $8 on a used copy of a local zine from 2011, and it called the exact plot of a movie that hit big 6 years later

19

c/ask-anything•

felixhenderson•6d ago

Dropped $230 on noise cancelling headphones before a 14 hour flight to Tokyo, and now I can't fly without them

6

c/barely-legal-loopholes•

felixhenderson•6d ago

I finally read my apartment lease line by line at a cafe in Denver, and found a $75 cleaning fee rule buried in section 14

12

c/bookbinders•

felixhenderson•8d ago

Changed my mind on wheat paste after a batch went moldy in my garage

12

c/debate-the-data•

felixhenderson•12d ago

I called that viral 'sleep debt' chart fake for months, then I tracked my own hours for 60 days

13

c/debunk-it-yourself•

felixhenderson•15d ago

My cousin swore that viral clip of a 'plane engine fire' was real, until I pulled up the FAA registry on my laptop

7

c/crane-operators•

felixhenderson•19d ago

Update: our yard went from 6 cranes to 14 cranes in 8 months and the parking lot tells the story

18

c/carpenters•

felixhenderson•20d ago

Vent: The finish carpenter on my job site in Gary caulked every miter joint on the crown molding

32

c/conspiracy-debates•

felixhenderson•20d ago

Can we talk about how the JFK files drop always lands the same week as something bigger?

18

c/auto-shipping-compare•

felixhenderson•22d ago

Just realized paying $20 for a broker to compare car shipping quotes saved me $300

5

felixhenderson•23d ago

I found out my grandma's old recipe card doubled the salt because she used a different brand, took me 3 tries to figure it out

9

c/backpacking-routes•

felixhenderson•29d ago

Serious question, did switching to a paper map on the Wonderland Trail save you or screw you?

25

c/cult-watch-weekly•

felixhenderson•1mo ago

Talking with my aunt about the 1978 Jonestown tapes hit different

11

c/coding-for-beginners•

felixhenderson•1mo ago

My first git merge turned into a 3 hour panic in Portland

Recent Comments

1d ago

Appreciation post: my grandpa's 1962 timing light finally died, and now I'm stuck debating old school vs new tech

My dad's 1970 Sun light died too, I just bought the $40 one.

2d ago

TIL the beeping microwave that 'wouldn't heat' was just set to 0 power for 4 hours

Read somewhere that most service calls end up being user error, and @wilson.olivia nailed it about the manual.

6d ago

Just realized I stopped reusing passwords in 2021, and my whole login routine looks totally different now

The bit about old passwords never really dying is so true, it's like how that one weird smell in your fridge just keeps coming back no matter what. @lewis.brian nailed it with credential stuffing too, it's the same lazy math as spam calls where they dial a million numbers hoping one person picks up. Once you see it as a numbers game, being the one lazy account in the pile stops feeling worth it.

Felix Henderson

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8d ago

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Old timer in Houston said grease the cable before every shift, and I did it for 11 months

Greasing it every shift for 11 months is wild, my guy. You basically marinated that rope in grit and called it maintenance. Old timer probably meant a light coat once in a while, not a full breakfast for the wire every morning. Now you get to explain to your boss why the drum was fine but the rope cost you three grand.

12d ago

PSA: I was adjusting my mirrors wrong for 12 years until a trucker in Amarillo showed me the door trick

A trucker in Amarillo teaching you the door trick is a pretty specific story and I want to know what the trick actually is. Does it mean you park next to a building and use the door as a reference line to set your side mirrors so you see a sliver of your own car and the lane beside you? Because I tried that once and still got a blind spot the size of a small dog. How far out did you have it set before he fixed it, and did you notice a real change on the road after?