How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
11-06-2020, 07:14 PM
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Little things sometimes make a big difference.
In my quest to live a life of opulent luxury, I recently purchased a heated seat cover. This one, specifically:
Put it in last weekend, just in time for the weather to shoot back up into the 70s. So I'm driving around with the top down and no jacket, sitting on a heated seat cover. (It's not switched on, obviously.)
Now, it didn't seem all that thick. But man, what a change in seating position. At 6'2", I wear thin jogging shoes to drive, and have the seat as far back / reclined as possible. It would be possible to run the bottom a little further back if it was reclined less, or to recline it a tad more if the base were a little further forward, but essentially it is at the hard limit of how far back I can get, with the seat back rammed hard-against the bulkhead. I set the recline to where I like it with the base forward, and then run the base back as hard as I can, pushing the seat back forward just a tad in the process, and kinda locking everything firmly into place.
And now my hair is brushing against the top, and my knees are pressed a little more firmly into the dashboard than usual.
Yes, I know, someone's thinking "foamectomy" right now. That person has no appreciation for just how astonishingly lazy I can be.
That's it. No point to this rant, just ranting.
In my quest to live a life of opulent luxury, I recently purchased a heated seat cover. This one, specifically:
Put it in last weekend, just in time for the weather to shoot back up into the 70s. So I'm driving around with the top down and no jacket, sitting on a heated seat cover. (It's not switched on, obviously.)
Now, it didn't seem all that thick. But man, what a change in seating position. At 6'2", I wear thin jogging shoes to drive, and have the seat as far back / reclined as possible. It would be possible to run the bottom a little further back if it was reclined less, or to recline it a tad more if the base were a little further forward, but essentially it is at the hard limit of how far back I can get, with the seat back rammed hard-against the bulkhead. I set the recline to where I like it with the base forward, and then run the base back as hard as I can, pushing the seat back forward just a tad in the process, and kinda locking everything firmly into place.
And now my hair is brushing against the top, and my knees are pressed a little more firmly into the dashboard than usual.
Yes, I know, someone's thinking "foamectomy" right now. That person has no appreciation for just how astonishingly lazy I can be.
That's it. No point to this rant, just ranting.
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11-07-2020, 05:27 AM
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I'm like 4 clicks forward, at least. Probably more.
Be glad you aren't the one who gets to climb in the dirty crappy hole because you're the only one who fits.
Be glad you aren't the one who gets to climb in the dirty crappy hole because you're the only one who fits.
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11-09-2020, 11:09 AM
It would appear that one of the batteries in my truck has well and truly died overnight. Guess I'm working from home today and working on it more after Costco opens up so I can get a warranty replacement, battery was only a year old.
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11-09-2020, 03:11 PM
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Covid and hurricanes are only two of the very many things which are Trump's fault.
I've been trying to figure out the meaning of that graph which Braineack pointed out earlier. The one which shows the rate of new cases of Covid in China as being nearly zero. That is in fact the result you get if you do that search. I'm trying to figure out the relevance of it, though.
The same sources show that the rate of new infections in the US remains high, and is increasing in most states. Oddly, both the rate of increase as well as the overall positivity rate (cases per 1,000) is highest in places I wouldn't have guessed, such as North and South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming. Places with relatively low population density.
I wonder if Brainey is asserting that the data for China is incorrect, either because it's being deliberately mis-stated or because of some other factor.
I guess it's possible that Covid isn't over yet because Orange Man isn't not the President yet.
I've been trying to figure out the meaning of that graph which Braineack pointed out earlier. The one which shows the rate of new cases of Covid in China as being nearly zero. That is in fact the result you get if you do that search. I'm trying to figure out the relevance of it, though.
The same sources show that the rate of new infections in the US remains high, and is increasing in most states. Oddly, both the rate of increase as well as the overall positivity rate (cases per 1,000) is highest in places I wouldn't have guessed, such as North and South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming. Places with relatively low population density.
I wonder if Brainey is asserting that the data for China is incorrect, either because it's being deliberately mis-stated or because of some other factor.
I guess it's possible that Covid isn't over yet because Orange Man isn't not the President yet.
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11-14-2020, 02:47 PM
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I am seriously digging this heated seat cover, which I mentioned a page or two ago.
The seating position is still awkward, but man, there is nothing quite like having a toasty-warm *** within a minute of having turned the key.
Even on the "low" setting, it works superbly. Next summer, I may crack open the control box and see how the "high / low" function works.
#Bourgeois
The seating position is still awkward, but man, there is nothing quite like having a toasty-warm *** within a minute of having turned the key.
Even on the "low" setting, it works superbly. Next summer, I may crack open the control box and see how the "high / low" function works.
#Bourgeois
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11-14-2020, 09:48 PM
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I am seriously digging this heated seat cover, which I mentioned a page or two ago.
The seating position is still awkward, but man, there is nothing quite like having a toasty-warm *** within a minute of having turned the key.
Even on the "low" setting, it works superbly. Next summer, I may crack open the control box and see how the "high / low" function works.
#Bourgeois
The seating position is still awkward, but man, there is nothing quite like having a toasty-warm *** within a minute of having turned the key.
Even on the "low" setting, it works superbly. Next summer, I may crack open the control box and see how the "high / low" function works.
#Bourgeois
I know you are taller than me. Foamectomy made a night and day difference for me (I am just about 1/4" under 6' since my back surgery).
The whole procedure took 2 cups pf tea and a couple camels (hardpack), so it was fairly minor.
Just do it.
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11-15-2020, 10:28 PM
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Literally.
Still haven't done anything about it...
I suspect you're right on there being two parallel resistor tracks, with the "high" setting putting them both in parallel.
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