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On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:26:11 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:28:22 -0000, John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 00:33:39 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:19:12 -0000, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:29:09 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
It\'s not sufficiently more eepensive to stop me using it, since diesel
engines are vastly more efficient and last longer.
Last longer than what? That argument worked better 40 or 50 years ago when
a gasoline engine was tired by 50,000 miles.
They\'re still double. I get 130K miles form a petrol engine, and 260K miles from a diesel engine.
Is that all? My petrol engine is doing fine at 207k miles. Fuel efficiency seems better
than when it was new.
I tend to drive 20 year old cars, so you\'re probably on newer designs. Also I mistreat them, driving them at the limit (of the car, not the law).
And if it\'s a Volvo engine, you double everything anyway.
I was shocked this morning, driving to work. I saw a Volvo that was
not outright ugly.
On 17 Nov 2022 04:08:26 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:51:32 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
I was shocked this morning, driving to work. I saw a Volvo that was not
outright ugly.
The P1800 wasn\'t bad for its time and place. The PV series had a certain
pre-war charm. Too bad they were built post-war when the rest of the world
had moved on.
A friend had a Healey 3000 that was stolen so he replaced that with
another 3000. That was also stolen. He\'d had enough of that shit and
bought a Volvo. It was also stolen but that one was recovered with minor
damage.
They\'ll steal anything in Boston; Volvos, hot stoves, elections...
Nobody stole my Ford Fiesta.
On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 05:26:23 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:28:22 -0000, John Walliker <jrwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 00:33:39 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:19:12 -0000, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:29:09 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
It\'s not sufficiently more eepensive to stop me using it, since diesel
engines are vastly more efficient and last longer.
Last longer than what? That argument worked better 40 or 50 years ago when
a gasoline engine was tired by 50,000 miles.
They\'re still double. I get 130K miles form a petrol engine, and 260K miles from a diesel engine.
Is that all? My petrol engine is doing fine at 207k miles. Fuel efficiency seems better
than when it was new.
I tend to drive 20 year old cars, so you\'re probably on newer designs. Also I mistreat them, driving them at the limit (of the car, not the law).
And if it\'s a Volvo engine, you double everything anyway.
It is a Volvo engine (and car). Its about 23 years old.
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:50:03 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:09:59 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:05:12 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:41:59 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:21:35 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 04:55:59 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 04:36:26 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
It\'s more of a local place than the monsters like Squaw and Northstar.
One of the runs is called Pacific Crest Trail because it is. One peak
is Mt Disney because Walt was one of the original investors. So it\'s a
Mickey Mouse ski area.
The prevailing wind off the ocean rises and peaks just about there. In
a good year they get 80 feet of snow. One year we skiied on the 4th of
July.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bgu1x1ajlk3rpit/July_4_Bikini.jpg?raw=1
Pah, I prefer it when they\'re cold.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/47/77/8c/47778c5bb078f4ac26ff9e0428d69d8c.jpg
It\'s fun to soak in a nice hot tub and let your hair freeze.
Sissy.
Girls make the experience even better.
Shivering girls are even better.
If I go on some passive vacation, I\'ll think about electronics all the
time. I can ski from 9AM to 4PM with just a couple of breaks, up in
the gorgeous mountains, and basically not think much at all. Then when
I\'m done I\'m too tired to think.
Skiing has actually taught me a lot. About trusting your body and your
instincts, about hesitation and commitment, about dynamics.
Indeed. Best to do everything subconsciously. Trying to calculate things takes too long and you come across things you didn\'t expect. Same goes for driving.
Do you calculate steering and braking forces as you drive?
No, my point exactly. I use instincts as you said.
In engineeering new ideas are usually qualitative and subconscious.
May as well get them while you\'re asleep. Ideas only need analysis
(classic math or simulation) once they exist. Good quantity instincts
will usually disqualify really bad ideas before you wake up.
Indeed. And always have something to write down stuff as soon as you wake up, especially if like me you wake up multiple times in the night. I\'ve been known to remember 6 different dreams by morning. The craziest one was placing a bet on Ladbrokes online. I then did so the next day and won the same £100 as in the dream. But calculating the odds, I should have lost several hundred.
I have to write ideas down at 3 AM, or I\'ll forget them.
Same here. I have a torch and a notepad and pen next to my bed.
Of course, if you do that it\'s too often obvious in the light of day
how crazy the ideas were. But we embrace all ideas, even the crazy
ones.
Crazy is always fun and often surprisingly correct.
I never remember dreams.
Look up Novadreamer.
I suppose I have them. I do have
hallucinations, which are different. They are fun.
Does this require ingestion of mushrooms?
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:51:32 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:26:11 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:28:22 -0000, John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 00:33:39 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:19:12 -0000, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:29:09 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
It\'s not sufficiently more eepensive to stop me using it, since diesel
engines are vastly more efficient and last longer.
Last longer than what? That argument worked better 40 or 50 years ago when
a gasoline engine was tired by 50,000 miles.
They\'re still double. I get 130K miles form a petrol engine, and 260K miles from a diesel engine.
Is that all? My petrol engine is doing fine at 207k miles. Fuel efficiency seems better
than when it was new.
I tend to drive 20 year old cars, so you\'re probably on newer designs. Also I mistreat them, driving them at the limit (of the car, not the law).
And if it\'s a Volvo engine, you double everything anyway.
I was shocked this morning, driving to work. I saw a Volvo that was
not outright ugly.
Cars serve a purpose, they are not meant to look pretty.
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
My dad\'s petrol Volvo was at 260K when he sold it, with the engine
running perfectly.
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:19:59 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/15-angry-looking-cars-you-dont-want-
in-your-rearview/
They screwed up and showed an Audi rather than the Golf R, but that\'s the
sort of treatment my latest Yaris has. I had a second generation that
looked decent. This is a third generation that started getting ugly. The
fourth and final restyling attempt was worse. Topping them all for sheer
ugly was the GR Yaris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_GR_Yaris
A 1500cc engine doesn\'t need a grille the size of a barn door.
They screwed up and showed an Audi rather than the Golf R, but that\'s the
sort of treatment my latest Yaris has. I had a second generation that
looked decent. This is a third generation that started getting ugly. The
fourth and final restyling attempt was worse. Topping them all for sheer
ugly was the GR Yaris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_GR_Yaris
A 1500cc engine doesn\'t need a grille the size of a barn door.
presenting the concept that our frontal cortexes are prissy censors of
new ideas. Stop thinking and invent something!
I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having aOn 12/11/2022 12:04, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:02:44 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 09/11/2022 23:56, John Larkin wrote:
We drive about 190 miles each way for a ski weekend. How far do you
drive for a ski weekend?
I generally drive at leats 1000 miles to avoid a ski weekend.
Fortunately, they happen in other countries *shudder*
Why would you avoid athletic activity?
Why would you not? It\'s \"school work\". (When I was in primary school
they never had any equipment like swings &c. Just bare asphalt.)
On 12/11/2022 15:24, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/11/2022 12:04, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:02:44 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 09/11/2022 23:56, John Larkin wrote:
We drive about 190 miles each way for a ski weekend. How far do you
drive for a ski weekend?
I generally drive at leats 1000 miles to avoid a ski weekend.
Fortunately, they happen in other countries *shudder*
Why would you avoid athletic activity?
Why would you not? It\'s \"school work\". (When I was in primary school
they never had any equipment like swings &c. Just bare asphalt.)
I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having a
birthday late in the year; and I was small for my age. I avoided it like
the plague.
When they got to about 16 everyone else stopped growing.
I went on a summer camp after I\'d finished school, and there was an
orienteering competition. Which if you don\'t know is a cross-country run
with a map. I came second. Then had to explain that yes, I knew I was
that fit, but no, I did not want to spend my Saturdays representing the
school, I wanted to go sailing instead.
I still go sailing 40-odd years later. It\'s a complicated sport which
has kept my interest, and at small boat level not as expensive as people
think. Not as expensive as for example going to away matches with your
local football team.
On 12/11/2022 15:24, Max Demian wrote:
On 12/11/2022 12:04, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:02:44 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 09/11/2022 23:56, John Larkin wrote:
We drive about 190 miles each way for a ski weekend. How far do you
drive for a ski weekend?
I generally drive at leats 1000 miles to avoid a ski weekend.
Fortunately, they happen in other countries *shudder*
Why would you avoid athletic activity?
Why would you not? It\'s \"school work\". (When I was in primary school
they never had any equipment like swings &c. Just bare asphalt.)
I was crap at anything athletic at school. My first problem was having a
birthday late in the year; and I was small for my age. I avoided it like
the plague.
When they got to about 16 everyone else stopped growing.
I went on a summer camp after I\'d finished school, and there was an
orienteering competition. Which if you don\'t know is a cross-country run
with a map. I came second. Then had to explain that yes, I knew I was
that fit, but no, I did not want to spend my Saturdays representing the
school, I wanted to go sailing instead.
I still go sailing 40-odd years later. It\'s a complicated sport which
has kept my interest, and at small boat level not as expensive as people
think. Not as expensive as for example going to away matches with your
local football team.
On 19/11/2022 19:18, rbowman wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:34:34 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
My dad\'s petrol Volvo was at 260K when he sold it, with the engine
running perfectly.
Miles or kilometers? Which leads to the question of how you can put 260K
on anything on a little island.
It\'s easy enough. While I drive a pretty average milage now, I used to
drive all the time, both for work and privately. My peak was almost
20,000 miles of private use (friends spread over the country and a
couple of European trips) and 37,000 miles of business use (in the
office around Manchester one day, client site in Portsmouth the next,
Kilmarnock 2 days later), in a year. I got a new company car and put
1,200 miles on it in the first week.
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:32:12 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:50:03 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:09:59 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:05:12 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:41:59 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 05:21:35 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 04:55:59 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 04:36:26 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
It\'s more of a local place than the monsters like Squaw and Northstar.
One of the runs is called Pacific Crest Trail because it is. One peak
is Mt Disney because Walt was one of the original investors. So it\'s a
Mickey Mouse ski area.
The prevailing wind off the ocean rises and peaks just about there. In
a good year they get 80 feet of snow. One year we skiied on the 4th of
July.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bgu1x1ajlk3rpit/July_4_Bikini.jpg?raw=1
Pah, I prefer it when they\'re cold.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/47/77/8c/47778c5bb078f4ac26ff9e0428d69d8c.jpg
It\'s fun to soak in a nice hot tub and let your hair freeze.
Sissy.
Girls make the experience even better.
Shivering girls are even better.
If I go on some passive vacation, I\'ll think about electronics all the
time. I can ski from 9AM to 4PM with just a couple of breaks, up in
the gorgeous mountains, and basically not think much at all. Then when
I\'m done I\'m too tired to think.
Skiing has actually taught me a lot. About trusting your body and your
instincts, about hesitation and commitment, about dynamics.
Indeed. Best to do everything subconsciously. Trying to calculate things takes too long and you come across things you didn\'t expect. Same goes for driving.
Do you calculate steering and braking forces as you drive?
No, my point exactly. I use instincts as you said.
In engineeering new ideas are usually qualitative and subconscious..
May as well get them while you\'re asleep. Ideas only need analysis
(classic math or simulation) once they exist. Good quantity instincts
will usually disqualify really bad ideas before you wake up.
Indeed. And always have something to write down stuff as soon as you wake up, especially if like me you wake up multiple times in the night. I\'ve been known to remember 6 different dreams by morning. The craziest one was placing a bet on Ladbrokes online. I then did so the next day and won the same £100 as in the dream. But calculating the odds, I should have lost several hundred.
I have to write ideas down at 3 AM, or I\'ll forget them.
Same here. I have a torch and a notepad and pen next to my bed.
Of course, if you do that it\'s too often obvious in the light of day
how crazy the ideas were. But we embrace all ideas, even the crazy
ones.
Crazy is always fun and often surprisingly correct.
Often the path to a great idea is through a region of crazy ideas.
Rejecting ideas too soon blocks that path. The issue is, how do you
explore a basically infinite solution space? You sure can\'t do that
consciously, one idea at a time.
This is cool,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316453382
presenting the concept that our frontal cortexes are prissy censors of
new ideas. Stop thinking and invent something!
I never remember dreams.
Look up Novadreamer.
I suppose I have them. I do have
hallucinations, which are different. They are fun.
Does this require ingestion of mushrooms?
No. I have very brief, a second or two, extremely brilliant and
beautiful and colorful still images, usually a place (a little english
village for example) or a woman\'s face. One reason I like them is
because I have mediocre vision, but the hallucinations are optically
perfect. I wish I had more.
I\'ve read that over 20% of the population has hallucinations, but most
people have acoustic ones.
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:32:55 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:51:32 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:26:11 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:28:22 -0000, John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2022 at 00:33:39 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:19:12 -0000, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:29:09 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
It\'s not sufficiently more eepensive to stop me using it, since diesel
engines are vastly more efficient and last longer.
Last longer than what? That argument worked better 40 or 50 years ago when
a gasoline engine was tired by 50,000 miles.
They\'re still double. I get 130K miles form a petrol engine, and 260K miles from a diesel engine.
Is that all? My petrol engine is doing fine at 207k miles. Fuel efficiency seems better
than when it was new.
I tend to drive 20 year old cars, so you\'re probably on newer designs. Also I mistreat them, driving them at the limit (of the car, not the law).
And if it\'s a Volvo engine, you double everything anyway.
I was shocked this morning, driving to work. I saw a Volvo that was
not outright ugly.
Cars serve a purpose, they are not meant to look pretty.
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
Do you own an Apple device by any chance?
None.
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:19:59 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/15-angry-looking-cars-you-dont-want-
in-your-rearview/
but that\'s the
sort of treatment my latest Yaris has. I had a second generation that
looked decent. This is a third generation that started getting ugly. The
fourth and final restyling attempt was worse. Topping them all for sheer
ugly was the GR Yaris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_GR_Yaris
A 1500cc engine doesn\'t need a grille the size of a barn door.
lørdag den 19. november 2022 kl. 20.37.33 UTC+1 skrev rbowman:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:19:59 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
Some are designed to be agressively ugly. There seems to be a niche
market for ugly.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/15-angry-looking-cars-you-dont-want-
in-your-rearview/
They screwed up and showed an Audi rather than the Golf R, but that\'s the
sort of treatment my latest Yaris has. I had a second generation that
looked decent. This is a third generation that started getting ugly. The
fourth and final restyling attempt was worse. Topping them all for sheer
ugly was the GR Yaris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_GR_Yaris
A 1500cc engine doesn\'t need a grille the size of a barn door.
it does when it is a 270hp homologation special ...