I enabled a friend into buying the scruffiest, most hideous NA Miata I've ever seen for his son. This is the same guy I inadvertently caused to start a father-son race team after I took his son for a ride in my Miata at an event two years ago. I'm a bad friend.
I've applied for jobs within the company I work for that even I wouldn't hire me for. I recently saw on pop up on our internal job posting board that dealt with the management of the managers of the production CNC machine operators. The requirements were either a 4-year degree with a few years of manufacturing/machining experience or 10+ years of manufacturing/machining experience. Well, I don't have the schooling but, I definitely have the experience. It was a salary grade 25 which means $140+k base with a potential for a $50k annual bonus and the work hours were 6:00 am - 2:00 pm. The work hours were what really drew me in; it would be nice to be on day shift... if you want to double my pay while you're at it, I guess that's okay too. LOL
I didn't get it but, I didn't really expect to. Sometimes you just have to swing for the fences and see what happens.
In reply to The_Jed :
Twenty years ago I didn't apply for a maintenance supervisor position because I knew the guy had already been chosen, and the posting was just a formality. He was the best choice, and I was OK with it. One of my (idiot) coworkers did apply, and the geniuses in HR, seeing that he was the only other applicant, and since nobody else in the company was interested, decided to create a new position as a backup supervisor. Lot's were interested but didn't apply because it was futile.
Buddy got the backup position, and was an absolute disaster as a supervisor. So when they fired his ass I applied and got the job. They asked me why I didn't apply before, because I was obviously more qualified...
Lesson learned? Always apply.
Man, any time I get a little spare pocket change, I sure do find fast and creative ways to spend it. Possible new hobby incoming, likely won't stick.
I enjoy the whines of impotent rage when I point out that I'm a Millenial by the definition of having grown up with being online as a general part of life.
I was born in the 70s. I am technically older than the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which used to be required reading for being able to understand half of what was on USENET or server naming conventions. (The other half was Neuromancer, I'm a lot older than that)
I got my first computer when I was five, my first Internet-capable e-mail address (meaning, no BBS private messaging BS) when I was nine.
For my 45th birthday, my mom got me a sweater with that e-mail address on it.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
I'm proud of my Gen Xness cause we DGAF.
In reply to Stampie :
I mostly find compartmentalization in general amusing.
I'm a long haired hippie freak who works too hard, and drives cars that would be on the EPA's Ten Most Wanted list, and I recycle as much as I can. I'm a proud American and I wear tri poloski and squat with heels on ground. I like high technology, but also don't like change for change's sake, which is why I am posting this from a computer still running Win7, and will buy an EV as soon as they make one with mechanical gauges and switchgear because they are so much nicer and proper-feeling than cheap crappy touchscreens and LCD bullE36 M3.
Pigeonholing is a way to drive wedges between people to make them easier to control. Berk all that.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Except for me not being able to squat very well it sounds like we're very similar. I'll give you a few years on the squat thing. Have you meet my lord and savor Citicar?
Stampie said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Except for me not being able to squat very well it sounds like we're very similar. I'll give you a few years on the squat thing. Have you meet my lord and savor Citicar?
One of the people I used to follow online (in the old school, "you read their articles on mailing-lists when they came up" following sense) went a little wiggy and started collecting those. He was a brilliant guy, who had done all sorts of amazing things before Pi and Arduino made amazing things mundane, and then went kind of strange.
But yeah, those are neat in a "out-weirds the Reliant Robin" sort of way. I remember seeing the DIY plans for sale in the back of Popular Mechanics/Mechanix Illustrated.
Stampie said:I'm proud of my Gen Xness cause we DGAF.
I'm so X that, for just a moment, I thought you meant DGAV, and couldn't remember the last time I had seen a Weber 32/36.
I'm really wanting to work out a way to go get a really non-rusty Datsun 720 ST King Cab, in TN that runs but needs clutch hydraulics to drive. And then drive it back to MI. Price is half-challengeish, and wife approved - but... Still hard to actually do it
In reply to classicJackets (FS) :
You don't need clutch hydraulics to drive. Start in gear, rev match your shifts, you'll be fine.
I may be free next week if you need a way to drive two cars from TN
I drove a 4cyl/5spd S10 a few hrs home with no clutch.
Towing a trailer.
With my Wife and son in the truck with me
The truck and trailer were not my biggest problem that day.
Peabody said:I drove a 4cyl/5spd S10 a few hrs home with no clutch.
Towing a trailer.
With my Wife and son in the truck with me
I'm more impressed that you drove a manual trans S10 with three people in it, period. Weren't all 4cyl/manual trucks single cab?
Minor confession: I can't look at a supercar without thinking that it must be really dull to drive. Anything with a wheelbase that long has to handle like a truck. Bet it has really slow steering, too.
Best driving feel has you sitting near the middle of the vehicle, maybe a bit rear of centered in the wheelbase, and that wheelbase needs to be 95" or shorter. And the steering should ideally be fast and responsive enough that you can flick the steering and spin the car in its own length without having to take your hands off the wheel.
"But it will be nervous over 100mph." So what. If you can drive that fast then the road is pretty boring... maybe a little nervousness is needed?
classicJackets (FS) said:I'm really wanting to work out a way to go get a really non-rusty Datsun 720 ST King Cab, in TN that runs but needs clutch hydraulics to drive. And then drive it back to MI. Price is half-challengeish, and wife approved - but... Still hard to actually do it
If it's always engaged then that's easy. Start in gear and rev match your gear shifts. Highway driving shouldn't be that hard. If not I'm up for an adventure if you want to meet there in a fly and drive.
classicJackets (FS) said:I'm really wanting to work out a way to go get a really non-rusty Datsun 720 ST King Cab, in TN that runs but needs clutch hydraulics to drive. And then drive it back to MI. Price is half-challengeish, and wife approved - but... Still hard to actually do it
Well...do you know it needs clutch hydraulics?
A friend asked for help with his Datsun 620 decades ago because the clutch wouldn't release. We both assumed the hydraulics were bad. I put it in gear, depressed the clutch pedal, hit the starter, and the darn thing came free. Turns out the hydraulics were fine, and there was enough rust on either the flywheel or the pressure plate that the clutch wouldn't fully disengage until we broke it loose with the starter.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Yes, there were three of us in a single cab. Pretty normal in those days, but we're not exactly big people
Pete. (l33t FS) said:Peabody said:I drove a 4cyl/5spd S10 a few hrs home with no clutch.
Towing a trailer.
With my Wife and son in the truck with me
I'm more impressed that you drove a manual trans S10 with three people in it, period. Weren't all 4cyl/manual trucks single cab?
It just requires a cooperative center passenger when using second and fourth gears. The correct center passenger makes it fun.
I signed up for Max because I found Netflix didn't have anything of quality and figured I could watch Last of Us as it looked cool. Instead I've spent the last two days binge watching all the Harry Potter movies in order which I've probably seen at least 20 times each.
In reply to Stampie :
I'm equalizing that out by never having watched, nor ever intending to watch Harry Potter.
In reply to Appleseed :
My whole family has been out of state this week.
The dog and I are having bacon wrapped filet mignon tonight.
My wife went to the same high school that David Hasselhoff did.
All I have is Emo Phillips.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
I went to school with Matt Skiba, of Alkaline Trio.
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