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Old Oct 25, 2019 | 07:58 PM
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Those chairs do not look at all comfortable.
Old Oct 25, 2019 | 09:01 PM
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Old Oct 26, 2019 | 08:51 AM
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Old Oct 26, 2019 | 07:52 PM
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Old Oct 26, 2019 | 09:02 PM
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Bad business model, huh Joe?
Old Oct 26, 2019 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
Bad business model, huh Joe?
Not sure yet.

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


Sidebar: Trippy **** 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.
Old Oct 26, 2019 | 09:14 PM
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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.

Old Oct 27, 2019 | 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by rleete
Those chairs do not look at all comfortable.
Yeah, but they would probably severely **** off your significant other. Not that I would ever do such a thing...


Old Oct 27, 2019 | 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
Bad business model, huh Joe?
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Not sure yet.

But it was an interesting photo op, which I could not pass up.
Lyft stock has lost nearly 50% of it's value since the IPO. So, it is probably a bad investment at least.
Old Oct 27, 2019 | 08:53 AM
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Detroit has the stupid scooters.



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

People are riding them on the highway.
Old Oct 27, 2019 | 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by rleete
Lyft stock has lost nearly 50% of it's value since the IPO. So, it is probably a bad investment at least.
Gotcha. I hadn't realized that Divvy was owned by Lyft.


Originally Posted by Erat
Detroit has the stupid scooters.
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.
Old Oct 27, 2019 | 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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.

Old Oct 27, 2019 | 11:24 AM
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Old Oct 27, 2019 | 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Erat
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.
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.)


Originally Posted by Erat
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.
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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Old Oct 27, 2019 | 11:50 PM
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Old Oct 28, 2019 | 09:05 AM
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https://www.facebook.com/matthew.griesbach.5/videos/10155178764697613/
Old Oct 28, 2019 | 09:33 AM
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5th gear, 1800 to 7000 rpm...

Just started tuning, first session.
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