Pete. (l33t FS) said:What kind of shiny happy person Armor-Alls their steering wheel.
I don't know but I can tell you that I learned the hard way not to Armor-All the seat of a RD350 in my younger days. Guess where the boys hung up the first time I gassed on it. 
Not exactly a rant, but it's been surprisingly uncommon to meet other young parents. We take our kids to little events at the rec center or a church, and parents of almost all the other (same aged) kids are 10-15 years older than us. Today the guy we were talking to was 17 years older than my wife with kids the same age as ours.
Seems true everywhere we go. Having kids in common is great, but 15 years of age difference can put you in a different stage of life.
classicJackets (FS) said:Having kids in common is great, but 15 years of age difference can put you in a different stage of life.
Confirmed. I was 45 when our kid was born. Most of the other parents of preschoolers we meet are ten or more years younger than us, and the people I grew up with are now watching their kids go off to college.
QA folks: If you open a defect on my code for something that I didn't change and *already exists in the PROD environment*, you raise my blood pressure.
In reply to classicJackets (FS) :
I felt that way when my oldest, now 10, started playing soccer at 4. I thought everyone was grandparents but nope, new parents who were in their mid 40's. Now that my three kids have gotten older, I feel like the ages of parents I meet have leveled out and I've made friends with parents mostly my age.
EES, "Where are the fire alarm contacts for these doors?"
GC, "What?"
EES, "Fire....alarm.....contacts. Where are they?"
GC, "Umm? Do you need fire alarm contacts?"
EES, "All 28 of these doors are fire doors. They can not stand open when the fire alarm is triggered. I need contacts from the fire panel to shut the doors down. We discussed this in every preliminary meeting before the plans were drawn up for this job."
GC, "Why aren't they on the plans and specs?"
EES, "Don't know. Don't care. Take it up with the architect. But none of this will pass DEHC or Joint Commission inspections without fire contacts."
GC, "Why didn't you say something about this sooner?"
EES, "I mentioned them in every meeting we had about this job going back over the last year. I can't do more than that."
GC, "E36 M3, can you write a RFI for us. We don't know what to ask."
Me, I'm really getting tired of this crap.
Toyman! said:GC, "E36 M3, can you write a RFI for us. We don't know what to ask."
Me, I'm really getting tired of this crap.
You're doing it wrong.
The correct answer is "Yes, I can. I charge $500/hour with a 2 hour minimum for consulting work."
Volvo made it better.
The blower motor is removed from the right side of the car.
Except for the locking tab, and the electrical connector, which is accessed from the left. Earlier models, you could reach the tab through a hole once the cluster was removed.
Now, 
It involves this...
Where is the engineer thread? Did I mention that it cannot be tested, because the body control module, and all the fuses are laying on the bench, and there is zero access to the blower connector with the dash in place.
One would think there's nonstop flights to Las Vegas from basically every airport ever. Apparently not. I'm even shopping months early, and can't find anything without layovers from Atlantic City to Las Vegas.
CAinCA said:Toyman! said:GC, "E36 M3, can you write a RFI for us. We don't know what to ask."
Me, I'm really getting tired of this crap.
You're doing it wrong.
The correct answer is "Yes, I can. I charge $500/hour with a 2 hour minimum for consulting work."
Unfortunately, this is holding up a quarter-million-dollar project that I need to move forward because it's going to be impacting other projects. Speed is more important than getting in a pissing contest.
Does anyone need a job? I'm hiring.
Streetwiseguy said:Volvo made it better.
The blower motor is removed from the right side of the car.
Except for the locking tab, and the electrical connector, which is accessed from the left. Earlier models, you could reach the tab through a hole once the cluster was removed.
Now,
It involves this...
Where is the engineer thread? Did I mention that it cannot be tested, because the body control module, and all the fuses are laying on the bench, and there is zero access to the blower connector with the dash in place.
Good lord man. I feel for you.
barefootcyborg5000 said:One would think there's nonstop flights to Las Vegas from basically every airport ever. Apparently not. I'm even shopping months early, and can't find anything without layovers from Atlantic City to Las Vegas.
Since it's supposed to be east coast Vegas, and competing for business, that's probably the first pair of decent sized cities that I'd think would not have direct flights.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
I don't see the firewall yet, you have a ways to go.
This picture is brought to you courtesy of Jeep. Literally, the entire dash back to the firewall had to come out to change the heater core. While I was in there it got a blower motor and evap core as well.
Every tried to transfer 16tb of data in 540,000 unique files. Yeah my network is not happy about this. Tested with one giant file and it flies but this many and it just chugs along.
In reply to Toyman! :
I had to undo one wire, and depress one locking tab to get the blower out... If I was changing a heater core, I'd be OK with it. We do those all the time.
One wire connector and one locking tab...
wearymicrobe said:Every tried to transfer 16tb of data in 540,000 unique files. Yeah my network is not happy about this. Tested with one giant file and it flies but this many and it just chugs along.
There can be a lot of filesystem access overhead to reading many small files vs. just streaming one big one. It seems to be worse on Windows for some reason. Plus the protocol you're using for the transfer can introduce similar per-file delays...but neither of those are network bandwidth issues.
Even when none of those are bottlenecks, sometimes you run into network equipment that runs out of processing power before the full speed of the network link is reached. You can commonly find this running iperf on OpenWRT routers that have gigabit ports and low-powered CPUs. That would affect single-file and multi-file transfers the same though.
Not a good idea to have your sister help you load a dumpster.
Her: we should pull the nails out of this scrap lumber so it lays flatter in the dumpster.
Me: no, berkeley no, load the motherberkeleyer up.
She's a MBA and PhD so what the berkeley could I possibly know. 
In reply to fasted58 :
Some of the smartest paper people I've met are the dumbest people on the planet. Like dumb enough to get eaten alive by a weiner dog dumb.
Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco really have to step up and do something about crime. The DAs office basically won't prosecute anything unless violence was involved, so theft is epidemic. Three of our vehicles have been broken into recently and today one of our vans was stolen from right in front of our shop. Infuriating.
Appleseed said:In reply to fasted58 :
Some of the smartest paper people I've met are the dumbest people on the planet. Like dumb enough to get eaten alive by a weiner dog dumb.
My sister has done a lot here in cleaning out Dad's house, much to her credit. For some reason she needs to counter me on my plans which I mostly ignore. Glad to get the help as I'm the only kid here, they are from out of state. My brother has helped but not as much. He's coming in tomorrow with his 17 y/o son to do some heavy lifting.
This is the final big push to get this place cleaned out and finished before putting it up for sale.
I can't wait to get out of here and get my life back.
Toyman! said:CAinCA said:Toyman! said:GC, "E36 M3, can you write a RFI for us. We don't know what to ask."
Me, I'm really getting tired of this crap.
You're doing it wrong.
The correct answer is "Yes, I can. I charge $500/hour with a 2 hour minimum for consulting work."
Unfortunately, this is holding up a quarter-million-dollar project that I need to move forward because it's going to be impacting other projects. Speed is more important than getting in a pissing contest.
Does anyone need a job? I'm hiring.
I just got laid off yesterday, what are you hiring for?
In reply to calteg :
Installer/service tech for commercial pedestrian doors. Unfortunately, it's not a remote job.
when apps update and their shortcut disappears..
No, I don't remember what app was between 9gag and signal, but there was something there until it updated, and it's going to drive me nuts.
Appleseed said:In reply to fasted58 :
Some of the smartest paper people I've met are the dumbest people on the planet. Like dumb enough to get eaten alive by a weiner dog dumb.
"Some people are educated waaaay beyond their intelligence" Jerry Clower
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