OK, so I'm not a SUPER tall person. 6'1" 185 lbs. I'm not a big guy. Now... It seems that in my little town in Texas every SINGLE person who comes into the dealership is 3' tall and has to have the seat pulled as close to the steering wheel as mechanically possible. I don't have a problem in moving the seat back, but I seem to think it's kind of rude to do that and not put it back where they had it. For the most part they have memory seats and I just set it as #1 and off we go. The problem I have is, when I do this, to be as polite as possible, I still get people who bitch at me because the #1 setting was for their husband and not for them and now he has to reset it to how he had it. You just can not win with some people...
In case any of you wondered, if you want a set of matching, black-face, 2" gauges (oil press, temp, voltage) with electrical sending units for less than $100, don't bother looking. Such sets exist, but they're out of stock.
White face? Sure. Arm-and-a-leg? Can do. Mechanically operated? Easy peasy.
I have a pounding headache from poring over gauge catalogs for the last two hours.
oldtin wrote:
On the rant side - cancer patients who ignore their symptoms or decide not to take a doc's advice even after several matching opinions. Curcumin and meditation isn't going to fix a 4 cm tumor and when you get around to realizing it - it will be too late and you will leave your family before your time. Treatment sucks, but dead sucks worse.
This this this. A couple of people in my family keep talking about how terrible the side effects of, say, radiation are. Well yeah but the side effects of being dead are pretty bad too! My brother is still alive almost 40 years later thanks to radiation; I don't see them suggesting he shouldn't have had the treatment then.
It's amazing how people focus on the side effects of a treatment almost to the point of ignoring the eventual course of the disease itself. Alternative treatments don't work so well for cancer.
Cant get any Theraflu anywhere. I swear by that stuff....now i am sicker than i have been in years.
Dear plumbing store:
Shower fixtures costing $400 don't include the actual berkeleying valve part? It's an extra $127!? Gooooo berkeley yourselves.
Amazon has the whole goddamn thing from the same company for $375 shipped. I wouldn't have even looked there if you greedy motherberkeleyers were even in the ballpark. Now you lost the whole $5000 over it. But, go ahead and wait there for me to come back with that check book. Serves you right for wasting half my berkeleying day off with your nonsense.
In reply to JohnInKansas:
Let's see if this link works. It should list 3 different kits at Summit supposedly meeting your specifications. Part #'s SUM-G2925-V, Autogage 2348, and Autogage 2397 in case it doesn't. Hope that helps!
Went to school for business, find myself interested in engineering or engineering management.
fidelity101 wrote:
Went to school for business, find myself interested in engineering or engineering management.
From my business experience, if you went to school for business you have no business managing engineers. Sorry, but you could go back to school and become and engineer, put in your 4 years as an E.I.T. take your P.E. and then be a manager!
fidelity101 wrote:
Went to school for business, find myself interested in engineering or engineering management.
From my business experience, if you went to school for business you have no business managing engineers. Sorry, but you could go back to school and become and engineer, put in your 4 years as an E.I.T. take your P.E. and then be a manager!
People saying the cars are numb, that have never driven one on a track even though the car has been awarded and praised for it's feel.
bgkast wrote:
I will have my revenge!
Ha! I got two of the little bastards last night. 
I came into work on time. I'm watching half the squad including my supervisor come in 20 minutes late. Ugh. Hopefully it was traffic, but this isn't uncommon.
Flight Service wrote:
Great. My android just went flying across the room.
Anti-stance wrote:
berkeley you AT&T!!! That's right, I am calling you out by name you piece of E36 M3 company. First off, who ever designed your website and this stupid linked accounts bullE36 M3 should be dragged out into the street and beat with billy clubs.
Second and more importantly, the stupid berkeleying maze that is your telephone support must have been created by the cousin of the, hopefully now bludgeoned, idiot that designed the website. I really enjoyed spending an hour on the phone with a kid that unfortunately had to deal with my very inpatient ass, explaining how the tech that came out today didn't fix my phone line, but shut the service off completely in my house. Including my dsl so I had to waste an hour talking on the phone with someone trained to talk to the complete technological idiot that usually calls to ask questions like "how do I connect to aol".
berkeley you at&t. For a telecommunications giant, you really fail at telecommunications.
Well, AT&T made it right yesterday without me having to take off work like they were trying to get me to do.
If I can complain about them, I should give them credit when they do something right.
In reply to Javelin:
Thanks for the link. I wound up buying a trio separately from Summit. I looked at those sets, but I couldn't find any specification that the oil pressure and water temperature gauges were electrical rather than mechanical. I bought a set of three JUST LIKE THAT from the local autohaus and, at that price, they're typically mechanical.
The set of three I ordered wound up running about $75, but the water temp is out of stock and won't ship for a month. 
In reply to Flight Service:
I double Majored in Automotive Management and Psychology I have an associates in automotive service technology (with shop experience) and in school I held an active "manager" role in formula SAE.
I'm the exception to the rule!
Realistically I'm looking for a career in purchasing, buyer, program management, project management, sales engineer, field service rep, account management. But I think I would enjoy going back to school for engineering and focus on calibration, development and testing.
I've been turned down for jobs because I was too technical for sales and not technical enough for engineering.
In reply to JohnInKansas:
Did you call them? I've had a phone guy actually go get one to tell me what was actually in the box. Their customer service is pretty awesome.
berkeleying E36 M3ty two days.
My Grandfather died, My son got bullied at school, out of money due to having to support multiple house payments in my move, I think the alternator is about to go out in my X3, wife's car needs tires, youngest has to go to Dr, looks like I won't have the funds to go to my grandfathers funeral.
This sucks.
In reply to Javelin:
No, didn't call them. That'd make too much sense. 
As it turned out, the "out of stock" gauge that wasn't going to ship until 2-17-13 actually shipped two days after I placed my order. It'll be here tonight.
I'll probably be the one working OT and weekends due to the fact that other people's parts of the project are late and we have a firm deadline. 
Design/decide by committee is not a time saver.
TOO MANY TASKS!
I think I may need to talk to my supervisor about my workload soon. At least hes cool about working that kind of thing out.
Anything to avoid the cube avalanch!
JohnInKansas wrote:
In case any of you wondered, if you want a set of matching, black-face, 2" gauges (oil press, temp, voltage) with electrical sending units for less than $100, don't bother looking. Such sets exist, but they're out of stock.
White face? Sure. Arm-and-a-leg? Can do. Mechanically operated? Easy peasy.
I have a pounding headache from poring over gauge catalogs for the last two hours.
Ughhh... that E36 M3 was horrible when i was doing it. It's STILL horrible because now i'm trying to track down gauges for the MX6, and it's even harder because i specifically want black face, amber lit imperial HKS gauges. ARG.
I did this for a few hours for the Escort.
My solution:
Said "berkeley it." This was way easier.
