Well, another random update, since I really don't feel like doing a calc packet of torture.
My phone's phone chain hook is annoying. There are two type of phone hooks, the actual hook, and the bridge type. Bridge type you spend an hour trying to thread the string through and then you loop through itself and it stays. Hook type you just hook the string on, and it stays, or it's supposed to.
Clarice bought me a flying pig. Connie got me a Totoro bunny thing with a leaf umbrella, and a mushroom that Eric thinks looks like... things, lets leave it at that.
Well my S500i happens to be a hook type. Plus side is I don't need a sharp object or infinite patience to attach the phone chain. Downside? It falls off, easily. Just tug on the chain a few times and it detaches. Go figure, it's a hook, one side is open. Well, normally, when I just attached one chain, it wasn't too much of a problem, since it stayed on fairly well, because it actually fit on the hook. It would only fall off when it got caught onto something.
Well recently, I thought that, well, since I have two chains, lets put both on there.For the bridge type hooks, you would just string one chain through, then attach the 2nd chain to the 1st chain's knot. Well, for the hook types, you would think, oh. just put them both on the hook. I thought that too.
No. Doesn't work that way. Hook designed for one chain. Attach one only. No more. Realistically designed for less.
The hook just isn't long enough to fit both chains. Chains falling off was annoying enough as it is when there was only one chain that fell off occasionally. Having both on the same hook just meant that they would both fall off, often.
Since I wanted both chains on there. It was time to use my wonderful engineering mind to use.
I threw out super glue, since I actually wanted to be able to detach it.
So I tried a variety of things. Some worked, until I couldn't put the cover back on, or fell when I moved my phone, or fell when I tugged on one or both of the chains, or made one chain fall, or seemed good in theory but didn't fit because the hook was too small, etc.
Well the one solution that worked for a bit was that I used a 3rd piece of string to hold the two chains together then tie the string to the hook, and since the string is tied on, it wouldn't fall off as easily, and tugging on the string didn't cause it to fall off the hook because it was tied tightly enough to not move off the hook. If I wanted to remove the chains, I would just break the 3rd piece of string. Well thats exactly what happened, the string broke.
So then I went back to the drawing board. Which gave me the great idea that branched off the old idea. Knots. So I went through various knots attempts to make both chains stay on. Most of the knots were too big, and wouldn't fit into the little gap.
Except the reef knot. It's wonderful. Now both chains won't separate from each other, and it's thin enough for me to stab into the gap with a paper clip, yet too fat to remove by tugging at the normal angel, as tugging only pulls on the other chain, and causes the knot to get fatter and less likely to pop out.
That probably was too in depth and made little sense without picture illustrations and diagrams. Many many diagrams, that I'm way too lazy to draw.
Hope my phone chains stay attached.
Plus, this wasted a good 10 minutes that I otherwise spent on calculus, which I think now I just won't do because it's late.
