Those chairs do not look at all comfortable.

Courtesy The Parts Group:
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Bad business model, huh Joe?

Not sure yet.

But it was an interesting photo op, which I could not pass up.


Sidebar: Trippy shit like this was how I learned to count.





As it turns out, knowing how to count is useful in the context of becoming an engineer.

I did not recognize the significance of this at the time.

In my search for info on closed loop boost control, I came across this video.

P, I and D became very clear to me after I watched it.
I am learning.

Yeah, but they would probably severely piss off your significant other. Not that I would ever do such a thing...

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Lyft stock has lost nearly 50% of it's value since the IPO. So, it is probably a bad investment at least.

Detroit has the stupid scooters.

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The birds are fastest, but the limes are better. The orange ones get thrown in the river.

People are riding them on the highway.

Gotcha. I hadn't realized that Divvy was owned by Lyft.


Chicago recently ended its pilot program. Never used one. I'm not sure how it's even possible to ride one of those here, given the condition of the pavement.

This was my exact thoughts before i tried one too. They handle some pretty serious bumps well. The issue is that they go so damn fast. Like 30mph fast. That's what gets people in trouble.


Unrelated old blueprint that looked to be hand drawn. I thought it was pretty cool since i am normally always using digitally created prints. Though i'm sure this isn't uncommon for a lot of people. Especially you Joe, working with all your legacy equipment.
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Earlier in the year, I put the right-front wheel of my car into a pothole which brought the car to a dead stop from around 15 MPH. It bent the upper and lower control arms and broke the wheel, and I had to use the jack to lift that corner of the car up out of the hole (and put weight back onto the left-rear) so that I could back out of it. (Essentially, I just drove backwards and let the jack tip over as I went.)


That's one area where I'm fortunate. We do have a room full of blueprints from the early 60s concerning the building structural & mechanical stuff, but have been using electronic documentation of one kind or another for the broadcast stuff since the 80s. And so far as I know, none of it has been lost or corrupted. We have a really top-notch IT and broadcast engineering team here.

Dealing with old formats is sometimes challenging. Until about two years ago, we still had a few DOS machines to access the legacy wiring database, which was in FoxPro. I converted that to an Excel spreadsheet.

And, God bless AutoDesk, I can still open an AutoCAD drawing from the 1980s (sometimes via a convoluted conversion process) today.

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5th gear, 1800 to 7000 rpm...

Just started tuning, first session.