Oddly, the 5-speed doesn't seem to have the zip the automatic does, but it runs perfectly acceptably considering it's only 1000cc and 50hp. That's 216cc smaller and 100hp less than my Suzuki Bandit, but at 41 miles per gallon, the Geo gets better gas mileage, hauls a lot more stuff, and the heater is-a-verra-nahss when there's frost outside.
I bought a small Harbor Freight trailer to scavenge the axle, tires, lights, etc. to make a trailer for the Bandit. I frequently have cause to make 120-mile trips hauling engine blocks and the like, and the Bandit gets better mileage than my Malibu station wagon, plus it's a lot more fun. I haven't finished the trailer project yet, but I'll probably wind up making a hitch for the Geo to take the motorcycle trailer. It uses a rod end and swivel instead of a conventional ball coupler.
The Geo will carry crankshafts and cylinder heads okay, but there's no real way to get a block in or out. It's a very small car, after all.
> http://www.eurospares.com/newadd.htm#New Additions"Ian Drysdale (builder of the Drysdale V8) sent me these interesting photos. He tells me "the builder's name is Russell.Sutton, a Kiwi living in Australia. The motor (when finished) will displace 8 litres, it has a similar bore and a longer stroke than the XR600. I think the redline is 4,000 rpm or thereabouts, with a planetary gearbox made from a gear set out of a Caterpillar transmission, to bring it down to 2,500 rpm at the prop. Intended use is an "airboat". Its still missing crank and rods, but these are being made."
http://www.eurospares.com/graphics/engine/XR_Radial_03.jpg http://www.eurospares.com/graphics/engine/XR_Radial_05.jpg http://www.eurospares.com/graphics/engine/XR_Radial_07.jpg http://www.eurospares.com/graphics/engine/XR_Radial_08.jpg
I had watched the "Serenity" movie a year or so ago. It was poorly made and made no sense. The series, on the other hand, was almost good.
I couldn't actually watch much; besides the usual special defects, they used some kind of stutter-zoom thing that made my stomach try to eject its contents instantly. So I could only glance at the screen from time to time to see what the sets and characters looked like; it was impossible to watch more than a few seconds at a time.
I wouldn't have minded listening to some more, but apparently it only ran for 15 episodes and was canceled. Perhaps all the viewers got tired of throwing up due to the special defects.
I surely wish someone would wire a "software steadicam" that could process in input AVI and stabilize the image. The defects assholes are doing the "dribble the image like a basketball" thing to everything now - the 6 o'clock news does it, old WWII film clips have been "modernized" with the wobblies, etc.
Like commercials, most people have become accustomed to this crap over time. But I quit watching broadcast TV in 1986, and only started watching movies and some occasional TV series on DVD or downloaded since 2004 or so. We've rented movies I've had to return unwatched; it's annoying as hell. But most people literally can't see the jiggle; they're used to it. And further, I've found that most people don't actually watch more than a few seconds of a movie at a time; they're talking, flipping channels, or whatever.
Placed in an appropriate place in a utility room or garage, the stealth factor is high. It's not anywhere near as secure as a real gun safe, but you can get them for free, and they don't scream "HEY, THERE ARE VALUABLE OBJECTS IN THIS GOLD PINSTRIPED SMITH & WESSON GUN SAFE YOU MIGHT WANT TO STEAL!" to any odd persons who might go through your house.
> What I find amazing is how "bad" the spelling has to be, before > we begin to lose meaning.I figure, if the sender can't be bothered to click the spellcheck button, it's not important enough for me to decipher it. I push the delete key, and the gibberish returns to the Void from which it came.
If they're on a dumb terminal somewhere, a dictionary would be appropriate.
I can subscribe to more properly-formed mail than I have time to read, anyway...
> Re Filip's spelling and the foo-fa-rah it's caused, I think it's > worth noting how humans equate intelligence with the mere SIGNS of intelligence.Are you familiar with the Turing Test?
Back in ancient times, Alan Turing proposed a test to determine what was now refer to as "artificial intelligence." It was a very simple test - you put a person in a room, with a teletype. The other end of the teletype might be another human, or it might be a computer. The tester would then open a dialog via the teletype, and try to determine whether he was talking to a human or a computer. If he could tell which was the computer, the computer would be deemed to have failed the test.
It was a rather shocking realization, some years back, that a goodly percentage of humans on the 'net don't pass the Turing Test. I still get messages that look like line noise...
> There's the old "intelligence" example of the naked savage who > is very unintelligent by our sophisticated western material > standards, knowing languages and geometries and maths and chemistries > and mechanics as we do - yet in his world we'd be considered dumb as > rocks for not being able to track a food animal or catch a fish or > know what to eat or how to locate an herbal cure for an itch or > avoid a poisonous snake.You're confusing ignorance with stupidity. Though plenty of stupid people are wilfully ignorant, they're separate things.
It's a common misperception; I've read papers by people who really should have known better, who didn't know the difference.
Your naked savage had to learn everything he knew by example. Slowly. But we literates can draw upon the experiences of others, binding knowledge over time. Drop your savage into a different environment, like a desert or tundra, and he'd be lost. All a literate would need is an appropriate book.
> Bottom line is, ya take a man for what he IS, not what one > might think he SHOULD be.What he is: a jumble of poorly-arranged black letters on a light gray background.
Y'all look exactly the same to me. All I get are your thoughts. If you can't express those thoughts, there's nothing.
Apparently, Oswald's mother made the trip to DC to tell them to lay off. She was apparently a formidable woman. John J. McCloy had faced down Hermann Goering at Nuremburg, but he made special efforts to avoid encountering Mrs. Oswald, who apparently had no problems with making her displeasure with the Commission known to anyone she could trap. Finally she ran out of money and returned to Texas, and the whole Commission heaved a collective sigh of relief.
All the time I was reading that part, CCR's "Midnight Special" kept running through my head...
Couches are crazy expensive, almost always extremely uncomfortable, and generally butt-ugly. Which is why they're feature items in furniture stores, I guess. "But... you can't have a properly furnished living room without at least one couch, and maybe a love seat!" Of course, a "love seat" is usually just a short couch, with all the usual couch horrors...
The "hide-a-bed" is another atrocity I've encountered. They manage to be equally uncomfortable in either "bed" or "couch" mode. Best to toss the cushions on the floor and sit there. If your host is reasonable, he will applaud your ingenuity.
I'm going through the Robert Ludlum stuff now. I'd acquired and read most of it 15 years or so ago. I didn't care for it all that much, but I kept them around to re-read. Sometimes a book will somehow improve on the second reading. And they're long as hell, which is handy when you need to kill some time on a trip.
I read "The Acquitaine Progression" last week. This week was "The Apocalypse Watch." I'm not sure I actually read the Watch the first time around and it made it to the shelf unread, or it was so bad I developed amnesia in self-defense.
It's hard to describe how bad the book is. Yes, there's the usual Ludlum liberal slant, the characters are all so hyper they bounce off the walls, plenty of paranoia to go around, right-wingers hiding under the beds, and the trademarked Ludlum characters exuding shrill outrage. Make that shrill outrage.
Anyway, every possible thing related to technology was gorbeled so badly it was sad. Even cars and telephones. I'd give you some examples, but they're nowhere near as sad out of context. Not to mention some of the times the writing looks like left words out. Perhaps Ludlum is such an Important Major Writer no editor dares to point out his mistakes. So he just keeps on churning this crap out, laced through and through with stupidity.
"The Jansen Directive" was read recently enough it went into the discard pile without a second try. Yes, the major terrorist guy is really a well-known philanthropist and anti-terrorist! Such a plot complication! Except the rest of the book makes even less sense.
> Someone asked me > once, and with some thought, I have worked on more 'jails' than schools.It must be hard to tell the difference. Cinderblock walls, a few small, barred windows, razor wire fences, all internal glass has chicken wire embedded inside, metal detectors, dress code, hair code, regimentation by the clock, arbitrary authority, warring gangs, no partitions in the bathrooms, loud echoey PA systems, glaring lights, institutional food, treated like animals, armed guards...
Makes it easy to go from Student 332-343-999 to Prisoner 332-343-999, I guess. "Hey, look, prison is just like senior high!"
> My brother has a book on robots that has pictures of a working > exoskeleton developed by GE. It's bulkier than this one, much closer > to the loader in Aliens, but he got the book in '78-'80 timeframe. > Not much progress that I see. I guess there's just not much demand for it.GE and the Army were showing pictures of their exoskeleton work in the '60s. I have a couple of old Popular somethingorothers around here with exoskeletons on the cover. And one of the old James Bond movies even had some exoskeletal beer keg loaders, if I remember right.
I was astonished to find out that the exoskeleton in "Aliens" was a prop, and most of the fight scenes were a model. It just looked like such a simple device, I didn't see any reason for it not to be real.
All this time, and still zip.
> The only problem in China is that they want to *buy* all kinds of stuff, > but they don't want to *pay* for it. With everyone stampeding in to sell > in China, and with the difficulty of getting bank credit there, you're > going to find sales managers doing vendor-financing and deferred-payment > deals that make what went on here in '98-99 look like revolving credit at > the corner 7-11.I've seen other comments similar to this. But nobody has mentioned the correlation between making loans to Chinese so they can buy American goods, with doing the same thing for Germany in the '20s and '30s...
"We would like to buy high tech goodies and military stuff so we can invade your allies and conquer them."
"Certainly, look at our nice brochure, we can certainly find something you like."
"We have no money to pay for all this equipment."
"Well, if you only wanted to make a small order, you'd have to come up with cash. But for a large order, we'll be happy to arrange for a loan. Would six per cent be okay?"
"SIX PER CENT! Thief! One and a half would be better."
"One and a half, then. How would you like your order shipped?"
...
"We're having some financial problems right now. We can't keep up the interest on that 1.5% loan."
"Oh, my. Okay, how about a loan to cover the interest?"
"No, I think maybe just a no-interest payment break, say, no payments for the next couple of years, until we get things in order."
"I don't know that the bankers would like that."
"We owe you a *bunch* of money, you wouldn't want to see an economic collapse damage your chances of repayment, would you?"
"Oh, my, no. Perhaps something could be arranged."
"Good! By the way, we need to borrow some more money to buy more toys. One per cent should be fine, don't you think? Just drop it by the office in large bills, that's a good fellow."
"Well, you're already heavily in debt..."
"Nonsense! Remember that investment..."
"Well, all right, we can get Congress to help us out with public funds if something goes wrong..."
I typed "trailer" in a few moments ago, and got a page with:
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This is a place for anyone that enjoys camping with a SUV and a travel
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This week, the honour of Jabroni-dom goes to Trish Stratus with an
overwhelming 142 votes. Methinks this may have some thing to do with
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This club is for anyone who owns a Trailer tent, Folding Camper or even
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Let's see... that's a piece of hamburger slathered with mayonnaise, mustard, and ketchup, with pickles, onions, and lettuce, wrapped in foil-backed paper?
The reason sandwiches have a bun is so you have something to hold onto all the messy stuff with. I'm at a loss as to how you're supposed to unwrap and eat one of those bunless low-carb wonders...
> All I want is a professional waiter, and a fairly quiet place where I can relax.You already lost.
Muzak is passe'. Most places around here are into TVs now, half a dozen of them, all tuned to different channels, with an over-blast of some "variety" 'radio station/in your face Muzak' thing.
You're lucky if you can make yourself heard by shouting across the table. Sign language will work, if you bring your own flashlight or candles; most places want both LOUD and dark.
I've complained a few times, but they always look at me like I just stepped off the mothership.
When I went to work in a machine shop, I noticed a lot of my fellow workers had great difficulty reading blueprints. They'd pick the paper up, tilt it at odd angles, and squint a lot. Most of them had been to some sort of training or schooling; I figured they'd skipped the classes for reading blueprints. More than once, I not only saw someone have trouble reading a print, but they failed to recognize the print was of a part that was sitting right on the bench in front of them.
The endless 2D vs 3D wars on the 'net have finally led me to believe that a majority of people simply can't see something in 2D and visualize it in 3D, and vice versa.
It has also become tediously obvious that no amount of CAD software will make a noob into an instant draftsman. And if I could find the guy who thought up "auto-dimensioning", I'd fix him so he wouldn't pass his genetic heritage on.
> > found the mower gone, then complained to your neighbor about it, your > > neighbor would say something like "well you dumb ass, you left the mower out, > > of course someone took it". In South Florida, it's expected that things grow > > legs unless locked down tight. Up here in North Carolina, no one would take > > something like that. the neighbors would be outraged, and if one saw it at a > > flea market, they would call the cops right away,Little Rock is like South Florida. Rural Arkansas is different; when I'm visiting a friend in Traskwood, which makes Mayberry look like New York City, things are much different.
The other day I drove from Kenney's shop to the nearest store (8 miles) to buy lunch. The same store sells everything from homemade sandwiches to gasoline. I left my keys in the car, as people do there. Waiting for my order, I saw a hand-lettered sign on notebook paper taped to the wall; a $150 reward from the local PD (one constable) for information leading to the arrest of whoever vandalized some playground equipment in the city park.
In Little Rock, the police wouldn't even have bothered to take a report. In Traskwood, it's a big deal. The relative level of what constitutes "crime" between the two towns is interesting.
When I was visiting a friend in DC, we had to stop everything so he could watch the news to find the daily murder rate. His office had a betting pool on it. That day's score was six. They don't even bother giving you the names, they just give the total.
Wow. 1988 might as well have been 1960; maybe I've been infected by James Lileks' habit of looking at the backgrounds instead of what the director wants me to look at. A whole lot has changed since 1988...
Over thirteen-odd years, I'd remembered the movie as okay. Turns out, it's a *d-mned* good movie. I'd remembered it was a comedy; they played a few scenes for yucks, but it's a serious cop movie. And I'd forgotten that a lot of it takes place in Russian, with English subtitles. My Russian stops at less than a dozen words, but there are enough portmanteau words for me to know that what they're saying and what's subtitled isn't precisely the same thing; there's probably something amusing there, if the viewer spoke Russian.
The squirrels always want to sit through the credits; I noticed that they shot parts on location in Moscow and in Budapest. I suspect the broad general shots were in Moscow, and they used Budapest for the action scenes. I don't think the Soviets would have much liked an American film crew's antics in Moscow...
The movie flashes "Moscow" at the bottom for most of the cuts to the USSR; however, the Chicago police thought Danko was from Kiev, and Danko said it himself at least once. I'm not sure if I'm missing something there. Also, a couple of times people made "KGB" comments, at least twice in the USSR scenes... but Danko was GRU, or Soviet police. This might have been just a Soviet subtlety; the KGB never trusted the GRU, and the GRU was infested with KGB doubles and informers to the point where most Soviets treated it as an arm of the KGB; it was considered an insult to refer to a GRU officer as "KGB."
> What brand of reloading equipment do you use? I'd like to get on board, but > incrementally moving up in equipment gets more expensive than buying decent > stuff in the beginning, more frustrating too.I have a fancy and expensive Dillon press, but as far as I'm concerned it's vastly overhyped. Now I know why the previous owner gave me a good deal on it.
I use a plain old cheap Lee O press for everything. Since I normally do several hundred rounds at a time, it's only a matter of seconds to change between decapping, sizing, priming, and crimping. Yeah, I have to handle the cases more, but it's no big deal. I can set it up and AB will do the actual loading.
Lee has a little turret press that looks sort of wimpy, but a friend has had one for over 20 years and has probably loaded a hundred thousand rounds with it. It's faster than the O press, but not sturdy enough to swage .30'06 down to 7.65 Mauser, which makes even the O press grunt.
Dean Grennell's "ABCs of Reloading" is the best book I've encountered on reloading ammo. I didn't have anyone to show me how, just a bunch of random equipment I'd picked up and Grennell's book. One of the Lee kits and that book would be a good deal. Lee uses standard shell holders and dies, so if you ever move to a different brand, you can take all your tooling with you. Most of the oddball loading equipment has faded away now.
Unfortunately, the poly-V belt on my air compressor had died the day before. I'd put the old belt in a plastic bag and (I though) in the Malibu. I went to the lumberyard to pick up some grass seed for the bare spots in the back yard, got a treated 2x4x10 to fix the back porch steps, went by the bank and the post office, went to Advance... no belt. I went back home and looked for the belt. It's gone. Okay, I'll need to go back to TSC where I got the compressor, and buy a new belt. But it's pushing 3PM, and they're in a construction hellhole off the Bottleneck. I'll just wait until the next day. So I go back out into the shop, hm, might as well finish up the bushings for Fred's pistons so I can press them in and take them to the TIG guy next week. But the chuck is full of chips from the last project, and I can't change the jaws unless I blow them out. I *could* completely disassemble the chuck and clean it with solvent and a brush, except I have most of a 460 and a 302 stacked on top of the solvent tank.
Okay, I'll finish the alternator bracket on the LT1. I wheeled the engine to a convenient place, sat down in the folding chair, and got about three minutes of quality stare-at-the-problem time before the phone rang. And it was pretty much telephone the rest of the evening.
This morning I got up and rolled out at 0800 on the Bandit. 10 miles north to Cabot, their K-Mart has a good deal on CDRs. I also needed some pocket inserts for 3-ring binders. $2.36! For FIVE? WTF? The last pack from Office Depot was something like $5 for 20. I got the CDRs wedged into the tailbag, topped off the gas tank when I got back into town, stopped at the bike shop and ordered a magnetic tank bag and a silver-and-black mesh riding jacket with armor panels. Went by John C's to see if he'd swap some 1.25" titanium valve spring retainers for 1.46" steel ones. He didn't have any on hand. Back to the house to drop off the CDRs, off to North Little Rock to TSC to get a compressor belt. Oh, now they have *two* sizes in stock... 48" and 50". My compressor probably used the 50" because the last belt I got - the only one they had - was about 2" too short, so I had to make spacers to move the motor. So I got a 48" belt. Off to the other side of NLR to Joe Carter Tool to get some bandsaw blades, because I have three coarse blades and no fine blades, and I need a fine blade to cut the .090" sheet steel for the alternator bracket. No fine blades in stock. Back on the Bandit, hit Tia's for fajitas. Off to south Little Rock to Harbor Freight, picked up an 18-tooth blade and a 24-tooth blade. Back down AR161 to where Core's new place is supposed to be; they were supposed to re-open last month. Nope, not yet.
Total time: 6 hours, 97 miles. No, nothing unusual in DaveWorld. Just in case anyone wonders why it seems I have trouble getting anything accomplished on time...
What happens if you follow the "To talk to someone in Spanish..." phone button tree?
Do you get connected to a sweatshop in Tierra Del Fuego, or do you get some guy in Los Angeles who also speaks normal American English?
Their logo was a Suit; looked like something out of a 1950s health-class textbook. Short hair, narrow lapels, briefcase, a full figure walking. I thought it captured the essence of White America quite well, and despite my best attempts, I didn't manage to feel offended.
I've just spent a while trying to find a copy of that image. The main site for the ball team is down. There are other sites that have their logo, but it's not the same one - it's a disembodied head eerily similar to Joe Bob Dobbs, with "Everything's Going to Be All White" lettered underneath.
Either my search strings suck, or the original logo that I saw was only posted for such a brief time it never propagated, or it's those damned squirrels again...
> > Does that make Great White the best rock band ever?I dunno. But it's downright scary to think that there are bands that have been touring for over *forty years*, and the Rolling Stones or Black Sabbath can still fill a stadium.
Then there is Elvis Presley, who has been dead for thirty years, but
his followers don't seem to care... you can hire an Elvis anywhere.
> > Elvis is DEAD?#> ping elvis
Here's another trick they can do - if a crime is committed somewhere, they can click on the phone database, see what phones were in that area at that time, and then call them all to see if there are any eyewitnesses.
Somewhere, there are ex-KGB people ripping out their hair in frustration, that the Soviet Union didn't last long enough for the Shield of the Party to have tools like that...
I thought it was a joke. Alien-vs-Predator spoofs and jokes go back to whenever "Predator" came out, which was a long time ago. And "Predator" pretty well stank; I think I posted a review of it before. Most of the Alien movies weren't much better, except for Aliens (Alien 2).
This one is a real movie, fairly recent (2002), and uses state of the art computer graphics, done well enough not to be intrusive. It's internally self-consistent *and* doesn't contradict any of the movies it's based on. Good stable camera angles, no dependence on stupid actions by the cast (that is, they don't split up to get eaten individually..." I kept expecting it to suck, but it's probably one of the better movies I've watched in the last several years. Hell, it's almost as good as "Aliens," which is one of my favorites, period.
I liked this one too. I don't know what's come over me lately...
"Cobra"
1981, Sylvester Stallone playing Sylvester Stallone. Another super badass semi-rogue cop, the usual conflict with Established Police Procedure, and some utterly incomprehenible crap about people that meet in sewers and clang axes over their heads while chanting. Lots of Yamaha Viragos that turned into dirt bikes. Lots of chase and fighting. THE END.
It sucked. Wow. For a while there I thought I'd lost it...
Now I realize it's probably some Biblical reference to "loaves and fishes", but my first thought was more along the lines of one of those places where you can hire a dancer or stripper for a party...
> > (For the record, the SXT is the modern > > incarnation of the Black Talon, just without the scary name or black > > coating.)I've often thought that something like "Eco-Green Happy Bullets" would be a good name for an ammunition brand...
- Dave "You shot me with WHAT?!" Williams
>> Top Ten Reasons Why Harley Riders Don't Wave Back: > > Someone waves at Harley riders?Newbies wave at everybody, until they get over it... well, I wave at people on riding lawnmowers and at cops, so I can't say much.
I'm starting to get annoyed at the Harloids who just point at the ground. They're too tired to lift their arm up? They're telling me to go to hell? They're aping something they saw on TV? Fsck 'em, then.
> > That has been around since Nam. The sign of the broken wing. Used to be > > only the real riders used that but now everyone is a poser...I've been riding since 1972, and I never saw that point-at-the-ground thing until just a few years ago.
> > I don't doubt it. It was from one H-D rider to another. Now-a-days the > > rich posers have taken over the H-D persona and are just imitating > > things of which they have no understanding.Ah. The geriatrics with their imitation Harleys, bike shop colors do-rag hiding their bald spot, and stick-on long white beard. At least, I don't see long white beards anywhere else...
> > I was passed going up the freeway couple of days ago by some senior > > citizen on an old hard tail knuckle with a vise grip shifter, flying > > Booze Fighter colors. IMHO, this guy was the real thing. I can't even > > remember last time I saw Booze Fighter colors, it was LONG ago..I occasionally see Booze Fighter colors around here. For all I know they're made in China and sold at Sharper Image. Sometimes I notice one of the Christian clubs. Hm, I just googled for them, but apparently there's more than one around here.
Supposedly this is Bandido territory, but I've never seen one. Twice in the last couple of years I've seen Jokers hauling ass southbound on I-30 in packs of a hundred or so, with support vehicles. They're supposed to be out of Michigan. The black Suburbans gave me the impression they were on their way to a funeral, but they could just as easily have been hauling beer or clean socks.
Mostly, it's seniors and their generic colors, which I've never looked at closely. Hopefully they're not copies of real ones. Lore has it that's how Gary Kildall (creator of CP/M) met his end.
>> Hopefully they're not copies of real ones. Lore has it >> that's how Gary Kildall (creator of CP/M) met his end. > Huh? Wot that? Never heard the story.There are two common stories. One was that he died of heart failure. The other is that after cashing out of Digital Research, he bought himself a big Harley and all the requisite garb, including "colors", and wore them into a bar staked out by the mortal enemies of the club whose colors he was wearing, whereupon they basically beat him to death.
For those of you not familiar with Von Dutch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_stripe
http://www.letterhead.com/articles/bob_burns/vondutch/
> look
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
> find link
You stumble around trying to find http://icculus.org/openbox/docker/, but your hands grasp nothing except dirt and rock. You eventually touch something solid, and lift it up. As you bring it to your eyes, you squint to find that it is a damaged disc of delirium.
> quit
Your score is 25 out of a possible 375. This gives you the rank of hoser.
Are you sure you want to give up [y/N]? : y
Apache/1.3.31 Server at icculus.org Port 80
--The McManagement.
That's another time a camera-phone would have been very handy to have.