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14 June 2008
12 June 2008
Selected Power Tour Shots
As a show, it's just a bit big, but kinda lame.
As an event, the Power Tour is incredible. Road trip with your 3000 most distant buddies.
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HHR SS Panel in retro rat rod flat paint
Candy apple red does not photograph well.
An Anglia, just because my dad likes them I take pics of them. Not that he'd ever know I thought of him near Father's Day.
More C2 for The Lovely Harvey.
The Family Truckster! If you think you hate it now, just wait until you drive it!
One lone Impala SS from across the way.
I'm not good about getting shots of everything. The cars I didn't take pics of were pretty much in the, if you've seen one Chevelle or Camaro, you've seen them all.
11 June 2008
Well Wasn't That Just Odd
Today the MacBook Pro was HOT, the fan was running full tilt. The charger's transformer was likewise very HOT.
The machine was losing power when it went into idle mode. Two hours of idle depleted 20% of the battery when it was plugged in, but idle.
Indicated battery life had dropped from around three hours of normal use to more like one and a half hours.
Worried that I had killed the battery or perhaps the charger, I ran to the local Apple Store. There I discovered that Boinc was running full tilt, twice. It's only supposed to run when the screen saver is active. Forcing the apps to quit and removing them from the start on boot list has returned normal operation of the machine, without Boinc.
I feel kinda stupid because I used the same utility that the Mac Genius used to check on CPU usage. Only I read the graph wrong because the fully loaded graph on OSX 10.5 looks just like the nothing running graph on my Ubuntu machine. Live and learn.
The machine was losing power when it went into idle mode. Two hours of idle depleted 20% of the battery when it was plugged in, but idle.
Indicated battery life had dropped from around three hours of normal use to more like one and a half hours.
Worried that I had killed the battery or perhaps the charger, I ran to the local Apple Store. There I discovered that Boinc was running full tilt, twice. It's only supposed to run when the screen saver is active. Forcing the apps to quit and removing them from the start on boot list has returned normal operation of the machine, without Boinc.
I feel kinda stupid because I used the same utility that the Mac Genius used to check on CPU usage. Only I read the graph wrong because the fully loaded graph on OSX 10.5 looks just like the nothing running graph on my Ubuntu machine. Live and learn.
09 June 2008
National Corvette Museum Pics
I went to the National Corvette Museum and took the plant tour at the GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant (where they make the Corvette and Cadilliac XLR).
Another note: The C numbers refer to generation. C1 is 53-62; C2 is 63-67; C3 is 67-82; C4 is 84-96; C5 is 97-04, C6 is 05-13 and C7 is 14-present.
One of the older cars, not sure what year, The Lovely Harvey really digs these.
Here's a 62.
A red C2.
A C3 taken half apart to show the frame and stuff.
C3 battery box recess from underneath.
Engine end of a cut-away of the C5 torque tube. This is different from JT's! The bearing here is bolted in, his is pressed.
Transmission end showing the rubber coupler.
LT1 cut-away
Nekkid C5! This is all the structural stuff plus drivetrain.
C6 Z06 frame.
C5 Crash Mule.
2008 Indy Pace Car commemorative edition awaiting museum delivery.
The 2005 engineering test mule that Car and Driver drove across Alaska. With graffiti in the dirt from idiots who don't understand what, "do not touch," means.
JT spent $500 on a ticket to win this car in a raffle. GOOD LUCK! And if he wins I can say I touched his car first.
Orange C3 convertible because it's cool! It's DISCO!
The Boy spotted this car in the museum. Later in the plant, he asked, "Why aren't there any purple ones here?" Can't tell him they never made any.
C4 ZR-1 drivetrain and suspension with some instrumentation.
Irony, we meet again!
Exclusive parking for people who bring their Vettes to the museum.
Mine was newest, this guy was oldest, fifty years apart in just a couple parking spaces.
Another note: The C numbers refer to generation. C1 is 53-62; C2 is 63-67; C3 is 67-82; C4 is 84-96; C5 is 97-04, C6 is 05-13 and C7 is 14-present.
One of the older cars, not sure what year, The Lovely Harvey really digs these.
Here's a 62.
A red C2.
A C3 taken half apart to show the frame and stuff.
C3 battery box recess from underneath.
Engine end of a cut-away of the C5 torque tube. This is different from JT's! The bearing here is bolted in, his is pressed.
Transmission end showing the rubber coupler.
Twin turbo LT5 motor! Arr arr arr!
LT1 cut-away
Nekkid C5! This is all the structural stuff plus drivetrain.
Yes, that's wood. Balsa wood. It's sandwiched between plastic layers. Very light, very strong. Hard to beat mother nature sometimes. C5 and C6 both have this.
LT5 cut-away.
C6 Z06 frame.
C5 Crash Mule.
2008 Indy Pace Car commemorative edition awaiting museum delivery.
The one and only 1983 Corvette left.
The 2005 engineering test mule that Car and Driver drove across Alaska. With graffiti in the dirt from idiots who don't understand what, "do not touch," means.
JT spent $500 on a ticket to win this car in a raffle. GOOD LUCK! And if he wins I can say I touched his car first.
Orange C3 convertible because it's cool! It's DISCO!
The Boy spotted this car in the museum. Later in the plant, he asked, "Why aren't there any purple ones here?" Can't tell him they never made any.
C4 ZR-1 drivetrain and suspension with some instrumentation.
The mighty and unlamented ZF six speed.
Irony, we meet again!
Exclusive parking for people who bring their Vettes to the museum.
Mine was newest, this guy was oldest, fifty years apart in just a couple parking spaces.
08 June 2008
Liiiiive From Bowling Green Kentucky
Staying the night at the Candlewood Suites; going to the National Corvette Museum and taking the Corvette Assembly Plant tour.
VA-CA-TION in the summer sun!
VA-CA-TION in the summer sun!
07 June 2008
Customer Service
I may have mentioned this before, but...
I think there's a hierarchy about the order a customer gets service.
The customer in the store takes priority over a customer on the phone. Practice, "(Business Name) please hold." The person who's trooped to the store is much more committed to buying from you than the person who hasn't even left home.
The customer on the phone might come in and purchase; the customer in the store might leave without purchasing.
A customer in the store takes priority over stocking the shelves. Drop the pricing gun and help the customer.
The reason for this is the customer is the entire reason you even bother to unlock the door in the morning. Their patronage is what keeps that door open and the store in business. If you act like their business doesn't matter to you, then they may agree and find someone who does care.
I think there's a hierarchy about the order a customer gets service.
The customer in the store takes priority over a customer on the phone. Practice, "(Business Name) please hold." The person who's trooped to the store is much more committed to buying from you than the person who hasn't even left home.
The customer on the phone might come in and purchase; the customer in the store might leave without purchasing.
A customer in the store takes priority over stocking the shelves. Drop the pricing gun and help the customer.
The reason for this is the customer is the entire reason you even bother to unlock the door in the morning. Their patronage is what keeps that door open and the store in business. If you act like their business doesn't matter to you, then they may agree and find someone who does care.
06 June 2008
New Sunpass Transponder Location
Like anyone cares...
It's mounted in the inlet under the nose, it's not interfering with air flow there at all.
It's mounted in the inlet under the nose, it's not interfering with air flow there at all.
04 June 2008
This Comes As No Surprise
I actually steered the answers to the one I wanted, the honest one is...
That surprised me, I figured I would be Bobby or Bill.
File Under Can't Leave Well Enough Alone
Dottie is nose heavy. Since I had the A2 stock just laying around, I put it on. She's a little heavier, but the balance is better. I also think the gun points better with the fixed stock. Interestingly, Kaylee feels perfect with the M4 stock she's always had. Interesting how feel can be completely different and still be completely correct.
03 June 2008
A Little Too Late Barry
For your denunciation to mean anything it would have had to have come from within yourself, not from looking at how your continued membership hurt your poll numbers.
For this to mean anything the story would have run more along the lines of, "When asked about Rev Wright's racist comments, Sen Obama stated, 'The racism was troublesome to me and my beliefs, which is why I left that church years ago." If he'd left years ago, I could believe that his conscious was involved. Heck, if he'd resigned just a few weeks before he started his campaign with a strong message against the racism, I would at least give him some credit.
Denouncing now, after his popularity numbers fall, is pandering.
UPDATE
For an example of how to do this correctly, see how Bob Barr is dealing with Stormfront. Ron Paul got this wrong too.
For this to mean anything the story would have run more along the lines of, "When asked about Rev Wright's racist comments, Sen Obama stated, 'The racism was troublesome to me and my beliefs, which is why I left that church years ago." If he'd left years ago, I could believe that his conscious was involved. Heck, if he'd resigned just a few weeks before he started his campaign with a strong message against the racism, I would at least give him some credit.
Denouncing now, after his popularity numbers fall, is pandering.
UPDATE
For an example of how to do this correctly, see how Bob Barr is dealing with Stormfront. Ron Paul got this wrong too.
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