Knurled. said:
In reply to Nick Comstock :
I assume that cruise control is integrated with the PCM since it is drive by wire.
The S40 had no problem with this method, and since it was drive by cable (the cruise actuator actually pulled on the accelerator pedal), I also had feedback as to where the cruise "setting" was.
The Quantum had cruise, but I stopped using it when I found that it would happily give me WOT if the situation demanded it. That is all well and good but it also meant I would have to downshift if I needed more go, and I wouldn't be able to plan for the downshift since I wouldn't know I needed to downshift until it was too late. (And how the hell does anyone drive a drive by wire car with a manual trans, anyway??)
My FoRS does just fine with drive by wire and a manual. The throttle works like normal and you get used to it, just like any other car.
DUMBEST. MOUSE. EVARRR.
So, I see some evidence of the unwelcome tiny furry squatter. I put out a Tomcat poison bait box, with the "doorway" conveniently placed such to entice the mouse to enter and dine. I check the bait box a day or two later. The mouse was so stupid that, instead of simply walking through the door to get at the tasty poisoned bait he attempted to chew through the plastic lid right over the bait to get at it. And, apparently gave up in frustration.
I've ranted a good bit in the past about how stupid I think some of the GM engineers must have been for how things were designed on GM vehicles- but largely because I've mostly found myself working on GM vehicles. It's apparently not unique to them... whoever designed the VQ35DE in my Infiniti QX4 must have hated mechanics, because you apparently have to pull a stupid amount of unrelated stuff off to successfully change the alternator. Having a 'captive nut' that is a separate piece (roughly inch and a half long by 3/4" wide piece of metal with a nut welded to it and a 90-degree bend to keep it from rotating when up against the lug on the alt) should really be shot- I'm still wrestling with how to get it to stay in place when I can barely reach it AND have to put the long alt top-bolt in and get it started in the threads.
What SHOULD have been an hour job, tops, IMO saw me spend nearly 2 1/2 hours on it yesterday and I'm only now starting to be able to put things back in (and still have to figure out that damn captive nut before I can go any further when I get back home tonight).
Also, Berkley Microsoft Word. Twice last week it screwed the pooch in such a way that I lost half a day's worth of work. I shouldn't have to spend 5 minutes each hour saving and renaming copies so it can't corrupt them when it decides it doesn't want to play nice. This has been a problem for pushing a decade and several revisions of Word- it just doesn't handle the large documents we have to create well, but we can't try and find something that does handle it better because the computing group doesn't have the budget- but we wasted far more than it would cost in lost time thanks to Word...
WildScotsRacingCampbellCougarSeed said:
DUMBEST. MOUSE. EVARRR.
So, I see some evidence of the unwelcome tiny furry squatter. I put out a Tomcat poison bait box, with the "doorway" conveniently placed such to entice the mouse to enter and dine. I check the bait box a day or two later. The mouse was so stupid that, instead of simply walking through the door to get at the tasty poisoned bait he attempted to chew through the plastic lid right over the bait to get at it. And, apparently gave up in frustration.
Or he's a very clever mouse used to stealing non-poisoned bait from mouse traps. He figures, "ah, a convenient door, obiously this is where the deadly trap is! I'll get a look at the insides through the roof!" And then later he gave up for some reason. Maybe he smelled poison in the bait.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Re: Word - look at your autosave settings and possibly Volume Shadow Copy on the local machine (if you save locally and not on a network location) for earlier versions. I have dealt with crashing Word in the past... less now, due to smaller documents.
GameboyRMH said:
WildScotsRacingCampbellCougarSeed said:
DUMBEST. MOUSE. EVARRR.
So, I see some evidence of the unwelcome tiny furry squatter. I put out a Tomcat poison bait box, with the "doorway" conveniently placed such to entice the mouse to enter and dine. I check the bait box a day or two later. The mouse was so stupid that, instead of simply walking through the door to get at the tasty poisoned bait he attempted to chew through the plastic lid right over the bait to get at it. And, apparently gave up in frustration.
Or he's a very clever mouse used to stealing non-poisoned bait from mouse traps. He figures, "ah, a convenient door, obiously this is where the deadly trap is! I'll get a look at the insides through the roof!" And then later he gave up for some reason. Maybe he smelled poison in the bait.
Your comment reminds of the poison wine game fom The Princess Bride
I hate tax time.
My filing system sucks. I have a drawer in the basement bar area and a pile on my desk. All of my paperwork, receipts, etc. goes in one of these two places.
Once a year, I sort through all of this garbage to find the 20 or so documents that I actually need for my taxes, and the rest of the crap goes in the garbage.
I need a new system. I've been saying this for 40 years.
Maybe this is the year.
In reply to SaltyDog
Fourteen file folders. Payroll stubs in one, yearly tax info in the second one. The other twelve are marked January thru December.
All receipts go into the month they occur. On the first of the month the wife empties the new months file and shreds. She might keep some big ticket receipts but we found after a year we don’t need most of them. I used to keep water or electric bills for ten years. Why?
Then some random folders for health insurance, house equipment books, or car stuff.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
Yeah, I've got the folders in filing cabinet built into my desk, already labeled and everything and about this time every year i say that this is the year I'm gonna use them!
One of these day, one of these days....
I cant tell if the brakes aren't lockingup, or the abs is working.
Oh well, ill bleed the system more tomorrow.
The last few weeks have been awful ending with my father in law passing away Thursday. I haven't been sleeping and I've been eating crap and my long dormant digestive problems came back worse than ever to the point I worried it could be my heart. I went to the clinic Friday and the doc said everything looked ok, didn't seem like my heart, give my meds a chance to work. Sunday while I was getting ready for the wake she called to follow up and said since I wasn't feeling better I should go to the ER. I went after the wake and after 6 hours of testing they agreed it was not my heart, but a combination of my stomach and anxiety issues, and sent me home. Why am I still worried that I'm having a heart attack?
In reply to Wally :
Because a heart attack is a scary berking thing.
mtn
MegaDork
2/20/18 9:46 a.m.
I had a panic attack yesterday. First one. If that somewhat simulates a heart attack, I'd be terrified of it too.
I have been feeling under the weather lately, but not incredibly sick- so I did my normal weekend routine of being in the garage for three days straight, and didn't get any extra rest. Up at 5am yesterday, spent the whole day tired at work, went to a metal show in Philly right after work anyway (it was great!), home at 2am, up a bit after 5am, and now I'm at work again and am feeling... less than stellar. Worth it but I think I'm getting old.
Ian F
MegaDork
2/20/18 9:59 a.m.
In reply to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
Do it while you can. Sadly I am well past the age when I can go to mid-week shows. By 10 PM I'm ready for bed. Hell... I've gone to bed that early on a Friday night...
RevRico
UltraDork
2/20/18 10:25 a.m.
Can we please get 3 months of drought in southwest pa? Please?
I'd really like my yard to dry out from LAST year, let alone the alternating snow and rain from this year.
I managed to lose a shoe in my yard this morning. It's buried in mud, couldn't even find it when it came off my foot.
Nugi
New Reader
2/20/18 10:38 a.m.
In reply to mad_machine :
'LifeLock' is a pure scam.
All they do is tell you after you're hacked anyway. They have been charged by the FTC a few times iirc for making false statements.
The ceo used to advertise his ssn on billboards, after it was stolen the dozenth time they made him stop. It would all be a funny joke if this guy wasn't profiting of the ignorant and usualy just victimized. Its basically a second theft. Amazing that man is not in prison.
Nugi said:
In reply to mad_machine :
'LifeLock' is a pure scam.
All they do is tell you after you're hacked anyway. They have been charged by the FTC a few times iirc for making false statements.
The ceo used to advertise his ssn on billboards, after it was stolen the dozenth time they made him stop. It would all be a funny joke if this guy wasn't profiting of the ignorant and usualy just victimized. Its basically a second theft. Amazing that man is not in prison.
+1 for all this. Their service is utterly useless at best, and when the government stomps on them they don't stay dead.
A friend of mine had me looking for a cheap driveable project for him. He may be expecting a child but still wanted to have something to play with. Found a really clean 58k original mile 84 ltd sedan. I had the flu so him and a friend leave to go look at it. The guy who owned it was late getting back from Chicago so he bought a rusty 91 s10 instead. Now he wants me to help with it, but it needs body mounts, rockers, cab corners and eventually a bed. I don't do bodywork so now I'm the bad guy because I was willing to work on a rust free Ford but not this thing.
Nugi said:
In reply to mad_machine :
'LifeLock' is a pure scam.
All they do is tell you after you're hacked anyway. They have been charged by the FTC a few times iirc for making false statements.
The ceo used to advertise his ssn on billboards, after it was stolen the dozenth time they made him stop. It would all be a funny joke if this guy wasn't profiting of the ignorant and usualy just victimized. Its basically a second theft. Amazing that man is not in prison.
Proof that marketing works; a basic amount of research would tell you this, but because of their marketing people in management and similar positions still offer them as an option because of the marketing surrounding it.
Freeze your credit via the bureaus/FTC and watch your statements and contact the banks/credit cards whenever something funky shows up. Just a fact of life these days with the terrible security protocols many companies and organizations have.
In reply to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
Proof positive that I'm getting old (and/or that I was never very cool even when younger...), upon first reading through that post 'metal show' registered in my mind as a trade show with lots of different alloys & extrusions and not anything to do with music.
Actual (suitably minor) rant: since for some inexplicable reason it's pushing 80 degrees and sunny in mid-February, I took advantage of the weather and rode my bicycle in to work. Ride in wasn't bad... but the ride home (which is more uphill than the ride in) is going to HURT. My legs are already sore. It's my own fault for having been lazy and not kept up with exercising over the winter- but I know I'm going to regret it...
Allergies today have me looking like I've been crying for hours.
In reply to mtn :
I’ve had a few panic attacks and they can be really bad. I’ve gotten better at managing them but this weekend I haven’t been able to get things under control. I just carried all my 3/4 MDF train boards downstairs and feel fine but when I sit down I still feel like something is wrong.
In reply to Wally :
Anxiety (even hidden and subconscious) can lay a bunch of that on you.
Hiatal hernia can make your chest feel "tight".
GERD is another one.
Caffeine can make you feel truly rotten. "But Mr. Allroad, I've had caffeine my whole life and it never affected me like this." Yup. E36 M3 changes and we don't process chemicals as well as we once did.
Getting older sucks.
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:
Caffeine can make you feel truly rotten. "But Mr. Allroad, I've had caffeine my whole life and it never affected me like this." Yup. E36 M3 changes and we don't process chemicals as well as we once did.
Getting older sucks.
I've always been a big coffee drinker. I used to go through a pot a day or more when I was in my late teens / early 20s. That tapered off over the years, until now at 41 - I gave it up a few months ago and switched to tea. I feel much better and less jittery and sleep better. It's interesting how something I drank regularly for 25 years just started affecting me more and more until it was uncomfortable.