Ever bury one?
We hid one in our dorm at the end of my junior year. It just contained a few items that summed up our year together on that hall. We popped a ceiling tile in the center of the hallway and attached it to a pipe or some conduit.
Is it still there all these years later? A friend's daughter now lives in that very dorm, so maybe that's my in for checking it out.
Anyone else ever planted one?
I wrote a note detailing what was going on in my house at the exact moment of writing, then stuck it through a crack in the kitchen cabinets. Basically, I wrote a note to whoever remodeled the kitchen years later.
In reply to Sarah Young :
I'm imagining a future where lol has lost the current meaning.
j_tso said:In reply to Sarah Young :
I'm imagining a future where lol has lost the current meaning.
Leave [the floors] O Lone!
I'm bummed that we (er, I) got too Kermit-arms during the latter stages to put together a note and/or pics to stick in the wall before drywall in the new shop. It'd be a neat way for someone decades later to find out some of the story of what used to happen there.
I plan on burying a Halloween skeleton under my patio when we pour it next spring.
j_tso said:In reply to Sarah Young :
I'm imagining a future where lol has lost the current meaning.
Reminds me of an article in a car magazine where a guy was restoring an all-original '71 Mach 1. He peeled the seat cover off, and written on the foam by an assembly line worker was "Put your fat ass here, Bob."
Appleseed said:I plan on burying a Halloween skeleton under my patio when we pour it next spring.
Not exactly a time capsule, but it does remind me that when pouring a footing for a post at the old shop, I chucked in a friend's misbehaving bass pickup that'd been giving me grief. I suppose it may eventually be discovered and cause some puzzling.
We found one on a submarine of all places. It was pretty cool. It was just a piece of paper that had been used by multiple sailors to document a little of what they did at a given date. One was about unloading on Iraq and heading to reload. Another was an "I LOVE the Navy!" as an April Fool's. It spanned about 12 years.
I also found a diarama (sp?) depicting a battle between green and tan army men. It was pretty cool.
My brothers roommate put a packed bowl and a lighter beneath one of the floorboards in their frat house. His plan is to go back there at some homecoming, walk in without saying anything, pull up the floorboard, and light up.
I question whether the lighter will still work and whether the product will still be consumable, but kinda funny to me.
I'm friends with a retired Grumman engineer and he told me technicians had placed cartoon pron underneath the gold foil insulation on some of the LEM's.
"We do this not because it's easy but because it's funny as E36 M3"
I have a note of encouragement for my daughter Sarah placed in the first coin operated binocular she'd service if something bad happens to me.
Does an Upper Decker count?
In every building I've ever built or remodeled, there's an empty cigarette pack with my name, number, and the date ticked into the studs. No one has called yet
In the early 2000's I was working for a friend's construction buisness. We were converting a strip mall into a day care? something like that, doesn't matter.
When we tore out one of the walls we found a mason jar with a photograph of six dudes, on the back was their names and the dates they worked on the building. We tucked it aside until we finished the job, added a similar photo of ourselves and sealed it back into a wall.
Russian Warship, Go Berkeley Yourself said:Does an Upper Decker count?
Time capsule, not time bomb. Nuances.
AClockworkGarage said:In the early 2000's I was working for a friend's construction buisness. We were converting a strip mall into a day care? something like that, doesn't matter.
When we tore out one of the walls we found a mason jar with a photograph of six dudes, on the back was their names and the dates they worked on the building. We tucked it aside until we finished the job, added a similar photo of ourselves and sealed it back into a wall.
Very cool.
mtn said:My brothers roommate put a packed bowl and a lighter beneath one of the floorboards in their frat house. His plan is to go back there at some homecoming, walk in without saying anything, pull up the floorboard, and light up.
I question whether the lighter will still work and whether the product will still be consumable, but kinda funny to me.
The lighter will work. The product will have dried to the point it will burn away in one hit and taste like garbage, and probably leave the smoker in a non fun coughing fit.
I wrote this note, attached the kitchen contractors estimate and then put it into this ziplock bag. I dropped it between two cabinets right before the granite countertops were installed. Who knows when somebody will find this. The kitchen that we pulled out was installed when the house was built in 1954.
A friend of mine has left notes on the inside of many of the engines he has rebuilt over the years. Usually mocking the next person that has to get into them.
RevRico said:mtn said:My brothers roommate put a packed bowl and a lighter beneath one of the floorboards in their frat house. His plan is to go back there at some homecoming, walk in without saying anything, pull up the floorboard, and light up.
I question whether the lighter will still work and whether the product will still be consumable, but kinda funny to me.
The lighter will work. The product will have dried to the point it will burn away in one hit and taste like garbage, and probably leave the smoker in a non fun coughing fit.
You'd think the lighter would work, but my MIL has a ziplock bag full of lighters from when she quit smoking around 15 years ago. 9/10 of them don't work because, for whatever reason, the flint rollers will not turn at all. I'm assuming something has corroded just enough to stop them from moving.
As a residential remodeling contractor we would routinely add a little trinket for "carpenters of the future" before sealing up a wall - a plastic wrapped newspaper was a popular choice, but really anything that had some connection to that point in time.
Similarly we would find stuff during demolition and some of the most interesting items were old packaging and consumer goods, a late 30's beer can or 19th century empty soap carton was a very cool find.
RX Reven' said:I'm friends with a retired Grumman engineer and he told me technicians had placed cartoon pron underneath the gold foil insulation on some of the LEM's.
"We do this not because it's easy but because it's funny as E36 M3"
I have a note of encouragement for my daughter Sarah placed in the first coin operated binocular she'd service if something bad happens to me.
It wasn't just under the insulation.
https://aphelis.net/seen-any-interesting-hills-valley-playmates-on-the-moon-1969/
I left this inside some shelving I built around a new window earlier this year. The car is glued down so it won't rattle.
Always try to do a few fun things when in the middle of a project. Makes life more interesting.
We also signed the walls in a cabin we stayed at that was partially being renovated (we knew before we stayed there) - signed on the underside of the window framing.
I put two coins from Mexico in the concrete footer I poured for my small garage right near the man door.
My dad put a quarter in the new concrete sidewalk out front.
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