Dern it, looks like I can't go to the Third Coast 928 gathering this coming weekend.
Don't know anyone to leave the Pepper with and she is not trained well enough yet to be a service dog in training.

The dog trainer I left her with last year didn't listen to me and untrained her because that's not how she trained dogs. As an example I had Pepper coming to me and saying "I want out". When I went to pick Pepper up the trainer was reall excited that Pepper went and sat quietly at her back door when she wanted out. Even now the best Pepper will do is if she really really needs out she barks, but only once. Really disappointing. She doesn't come to me at my computer any more to get out or say "I want out", just sits at the back door waiting for me to notice. Don't know what that chick did, but Pepper wouldn't hardly even bark let alone talk like she did before their week together.

It has taken me a long time to get Pepper back to saying hello. And still haven't gotten her to come tell me "I want out" when I am sitting at my computer and she needs out.

I am sure she would get along with ours, but it is a bit of a drive.

I only left Penny, my first golden with a friend for two weeks once. It was because I flew to Cali. He listened and she was the same dog when I got back as when I left. After I got back my friend got a dog himself. That was Penny's effect on people. My nephew that stayed with us 2 years in HS decided to become a Veterinarian because of Penny.

I am churning through some disk space.

The giant file needs some tweaking in Photoshop. Mostly get the density or how bright or dark and then a slight tweak in color. Photoshop can't even begin to handle the big mama looka giant files. I have to cut the file into 4 pieces saved as a tiff file with LZW compression to get the pieces under 4 GB limit for Photoshop. Then I tweak on those and bring it back into a mapping program that does not blink at large files. The regenerate a new mosaic and see what that looks like. If I see some small additional tweaking that has to go back to Photoshop in pieces.

Right now there are 70 GB of files. Once it is all finished and I can deliver the mosaic, I can delete a ton of stuff. It takes the mapping program almost 45 minutes to make the final geo-referenced mosaic file.

It is just so amazing to me since I remember working with computers with RAM measured in Kilobytes and hard drives measured in Megabytes. My first HUGE tape backup could store 2 GB and I thought that was just fantastic huge amount.

Cloudy, occasional light rain, light-to-moderate wind...sailing. Still fun. :)

Was thrilled when I got my first hard drive, 20 MB. Actually was thrilled when I got my 2nd 400K 3.5 inch floppy drive so I didn't have to swap disks back and fofth all the time.

My first hard drive was a '38 Buick with a 3-on-the-tree.

My first manual was a 76 914 2.0

http://www.zipbang.com/Cars/Red914.jpg

Jim, that is just a difficult drive, not a hard drive. The 14 speed trucks are a harder drive. Pete would know for sure.

One day, it felt more like a floppy drive.

Test drove a 70 Buick Skylark when looking for my 2nd car. It was the floppiest steering vehicle I've ever driven. The steering wheel moved 4 inches without effecting the steering at all. The very best you could do was maintain a general direction. My Dad told me that's a Buick. Never looked at another Buick after that.

The Treasurer of the company my Dad worked for was sellng his son's Skylark, another Son's 65 Chevelle, and his 70 Monte Carlo. Wasn't at all interested in the Chevelle. It was an in-line six, 3-on-the-three that the shifter messed up and wouldn't go back to first. You had to get out and monkey with the shifter linkage under the hood at stop lights. Oh, and you could unlock and start it with a flat blade screw driver. Already had a vehicle, wanted a nice car.

Really wanted that Monte Carlo. He refused to sell it to me. Claimed it was too much car for a 16yo. He would sell me his son's crap cars, but not his nice one.

2nd car was a Mopar muscle car. Funny cause a few years later I bought that same Monte Carlo really cheap from another employee. It had a blown heater core. Took the 400 small block out, rebuilt it and stuck it in an 81 GMC Jimmy that only had a 305. Sold the motorless Monte Carlo, and the 305 from the GMC for enough money to pay for rebuilding the 400 adding hot rod bits.

At my first job the boss threw me the keys to his Ford Bronco and told me to go pick up a package at the bus station in downtown Montgomery. I climbed in and saw the clutch pedal so I depressed it and twisted the key and reached for the stick shift. WFT? It was a three on the tree. It took a second but I surmised it was the same shift pattern, just done on the column. Off I drove.

My dad had a story of back in the mid 1950s one of his pilot buddies was injured in on duty. His car was parked at the hospital and he asked my dad to take the car to his house. It was an old 1950s VW bug. The owner bought it when he was stationed in Germany and no one else had even seen one. My dad was typical pilot type, and figured he could drive a 4 speed. He got in and fired it up and tried every possible position on the stick shift and looked at every lever trying to find reverse. After several minutes they gave up, and just pushed it backwards and then drove it home. They aske the owner why he would buy a car with no reverse and then he said, oh yea, I forgot to tell you, push DOWN on the stick for reverse.

morning all. off to multi-task the day away.

Good Morning! The good news is it aint Monday no more. The bad news is I don't think the morons realize or don't care that it aint Monday no more. For all I know they may be oblivious to the whole concept of the days of the week.

The first day driving my new to me manual 914 I didn't have a clutch issue. But somehow I broke the bracket that holds the shifter on the transmission. Got it fixed the next day so the day after that I could take a long weekend trip across country in the 914. I picked up the tranmission housing and bracket and had one of the welding guys were I worked heliarc it back together. Took it back and they had it all put back together and fixed by the end of the day. It was my first Porsche repair.

Possible the old owner cracked it and you finished it off.

My 74 914 2.0 was purchased new by me. I was just 19 when I got it. It was my only car, and I did not have a garage until 1982 so it was always in the weather.

I did all the work on it except for a few warranty items when it was new. It was my only car so doing a clutch job was a major thing. If I needed anything at all, I had to walk. I autocrossed it all the time and some years when I was in SCCA I did several per month. The first clutch lasted almost 90,000 miles.

It was driven hard, but well loved. I have often wondered what happened to it. It was a great little car. I paid $6,750 for it, drove it hard, and sold it after 22 years for $4,500. Not too bad.

Made me remember...

Sold my 914 because couldn't really take Penny and a girlfriend in it at the same time. If I did, Penny would sit on the floor in front of the passenger seat staring at almost eye level a few inches away into the face of the passenger.

Got the GMC Jimmy. Started doing the off road thing. Started keeping a jog bra in the glove box. The girlfriends complained that off roading made their tits hurt. New female passengers would look at me like I was crazy the first time I whipped out the jog bra before going off road. It didn't take very long before they would ask me to stop, open the glove box, and put on the jog bra.

Ha, as expected.

The client asks for a large area in very high resolution as one image. We do that and get him the monster file. Now we hear form him that is is too big and really choking his computer. He wants me to cut it up into pieces. :confused:

Ah well, I figured as much.

G'day all. Talk at ya later.

at is better than about.....