Was it the "Today's Inspiring Thought Sharing" thread, the TITS thread?

I don't remember that thread.

It is hard to believe it is nearly 2018. Just a few more days. I do rember when I was in grade school learning about Halley's Comet and how it would appear in 1986 and I did the math. I was going to be in my 30s and OLD by then. It came and went and was totally underwhelming, even looking into a 21 inch telescope. Then thinking about the year 2000. Wow I was gonna be really old by then. No it is soon to be 2018 and I am still a 14 year old kid strapped in a old grey haired body.

Happy New Year!

Brother left for home!
He was lucky this year, he didn't get killed or maimed. It was close a couple of times. He was saved by the fact I was on pain killers for my tooth extraction.

We would be watching some streaming content then he would start downloading some huge videos about some extraterrestrial stuff. Not just one, but two or three at the same time. The streaming movie would start skipping and buffering. And most of the videos were already on his laptop but he thought he had to re-download them to watch them again. And did so while we were watching a movie that HE wanted to watch!

Then he tried to print 100 pages from a diet book on my color laser for several hours. All he ever did was keep saving it as a PDF. Told him the printer options to print. He would not listen and check the print to PDF box every time. He finally had to stop trying because he filled up his hard drive with PDFs. What is that thing they say about trying the same actions over and over and expecting a different outcome?

Would love to have this guy teach me to re-learn heel and toe!

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Just be aware, the C5 and C6 are narrow between the door panel and tunnel. Get a list of seats that are known to fit before you fall in love with any. When I sold seats they were one of the hardest cars to get seats in.


I know cobra has one that fit, but it was like $1800/ Seat. Same with some of the recaros. If you are in the market PM me and I’ll send you the names of the distributors I worked with.

Whew, it was rough there while Pelican was "down for scheduled maintenance" again. I had to go back to work. Well I did not go anywhere, just get off of Pelican.

The mean bosses wife made me have to take out the trash. The stupid part is the lady that comes to clean the house is on the way. I "get" to empty the trash so that the lady that gets PAID to do it does not have to. I understand getting some clutter out of the way, but really empty the trash? I guess I could vacuum the floor to make it easier for her. Grumble grumble.

Wow, hey Sidney, welcome back. Hang out and goof off here for a while.

Say.... where’d ya find that cool video. ;)

Woohoo!!! I don’t have to go to work until next year!! I had 10 hrs of paid time expiring so added 6 of vacation time to it and said see ya next year! We are closed Monday too, so I get a whole 5 days off!

So, Sid just what do you do at Amazon?

It does not sound like you are in the shipping department like so many folks. I saw a news report about how most of the fulfillment centers have a parking area for RVs and a lot of old retired baby boomers park their motor homes there at Amazon and walk to work shipping packages. The taked to one guy that said he lost over 30 pounds form all the walking on the job. At the end of the day they walk back to the RV. It was all for the Christmas rush. They old geezers make enough money to go take more road trips all over the country. They don't mind getting up at 4:00 AM and working 12 hours a day. It looked like a neat program.

I set up an Amazon business account for my business and have ordered a lot of the stuff we need. One package was just a normal order, and it only had one option for shipping. It arrived on a Sunday by USPS. It is weird to see a postal carrier on a Sunday. If they had a button for Monday arrival I would have done that.

I remember Mr. Stewart is a big proponent of having all the breaking done before any major turning and carrying more speed through. Not sure how he does it, but it worked for him. Might be the setup allowed him to get on the gas earlier?

I mailed a check today that was three months of payments on my old bachelor pad house. It is for a one month add on for more "fusers" to get the software running and using 5 different computers at once on one project. What is crazy mousetrap of software. They really need one more package to oversee the setup and monitor what is going on. Each computer has to have the setting just right to play nice together, and they are all set up right, but two of the computers are running like mad, and two are just waiting for something. Tech support is supposed to get back to us after 5:00 PM. I am sure it will all get straightened out, but after a lot of money spend we are rather annoyed how difficult it is to get working. I guess wanting software to just work like it should is really asking for a lot. Microsoft and Apple can't do it.

The software we are working with is almost magically logical to use compared iTunes. I still think iTunes is the number one worst POS software package I have ever had the dishonor to use. Windows 10 loves to force an update and then change setting back to the default they want and not what I had, and I hate that.

I hate itunes. It used to be a resource hog even if you weren't using it but had it installed.

I have to say I am glad Apple and MS don't make self driving cars.

The Apple car would take you to a vegan organic restaurant instead of a steak house because that is really where you wanted to go. The MS car would drive you almost to the steak house, make a sudden left turn and stall. After you start it back up it will get you to the steak house (maybe), but not until you go back to the original starting point first. Oh, and you don't own the car even though you paid for it. Once they change the EULA and you don't like it you have to give it back.

Yea, and every week you have to open all the doors and the engine compartment in a certain order and close them all at once.

And every other week someone will come replace some engine components to add features you never wanted, and had already paid to have removed. And then add other helpful "features" to let them monitor every place you go.

Yes, I'd done some searching.

Just went to a local place that had Corbeau seats, I was leaning towards their A4.

It seemed a big improvement over the stock. I think I could go for 45 minutes in the A4, the stock seat was about 5 minutes.

I smoothly let off the brake pedal as I start smoothly turning in and get back on the accelerator just enough to maintain that speed. So yes, braking with the brake pedal is done before the corner.

Cornering, let's see if I can describe this without pictures.

When you turn the steering wheel you are turning the front wheel/tires to roll at a angle compared to the vehicles direction of travel. This angle is called the slip angle.

The grip tires have depends on the weight on the tire, the speed the vehicle is going, and the rate of change braking or accelerating, and the slip angle of the tire all combined.

In a straight line the slip angle is zero so your speed does not effect the traction available for acceleration as much as weight transfer. It's all braking or accelerating and weight transfer front or rear respectively.

In corners the maximum corner speed is determined by the maximum slip angle and speed of ALL FOUR tires. The slip angle is typically from 7° to 12° depending on corner radius and tires. This means the tires are basically drifting from 7° to 12°. You set the front tires slip angle with the steering wheel, the rears with the angle of the vehicle itself.

To enter the corner you are traveling down the straight and are braking at the maximum. This means the weight it transferred to the front and you are using all the available traction to brake.
As you turn in, you smoothly lift off the brakes. Since the tires can't turn and do maximum braking at the same time you are letting off the brakes as you are asking the tires to turn. You do this slowly and smoothly so the weight will remain on the front of the car to get maximum traction for turn in.

This not only begins to turn the vehicle, because the weight is kept at the front the rear of the car begins to rotate or it starts creating a slip angle between the direction the vehicle is traveling and the direction the vehicle or rear tires are pointing.

As the vehicle is turning toward the apex and rotating you apply some throttle. This moves the weight from the front to being balanced. It stops the car from rotating, but since both front and rear tires are in their slip angle the car is turning towards the apex.

As the rear is rotating around you add accelerator to stop the rear from rotating as the vehicle starts heading towards the apex in a 4 wheel drift. If you slowed too much and the rear stops drifting add throttle slowly until the front starts pushing out, then remove some throttle and use the throttle to steer the vehicle. If you didn't slow enough the rear will start coming around an you will need to remain off the throttle and countersteer to aim the slide towards the apex until the vehicle slows enough you can turn back into the corner and add throttle to maintain the corner speed and throttle steer.

Through the apex you use the throttle to steer through the corner. A little more throttle and the vehicle will transfer weight to the rear letting the front slip more and the vehicles radius increase. A little less throttle and the weight will transfer to the front grip more and turn the vehicle tighter.

As you pass the apex add throttle to make the vehicle drift out towards the edge of the curve/straight. The vehicle will start to accelerate more as it naturally straightens. When finish the turn unwind the steering and get on the throttle in earnest.

Heel and toe is important during the braking phase of slowing for the turn-in. You want to smoothly downshift so the vehicle is in the correct gear for when you get back on the throttle after turn-in before you actually initiate turn-in.

The only time you do not want the downshift before the turn-in is if you are entering a tight chicane. Then you want to let the clutch out on turn-in with the revs just a little mis-matched. This will put the vehicle into a rear end skid for the chicane. Steer the skid into the first turn of the chicange and add throttle. Countersteer for recovery from the skid and let it go a little too far rotating the vehicle into the 2nd turn of the chicane. Staying on the throttle you countersteer into the last turn and exit from the chicane adding throttle to accelerate out onto the straight. Negotiating the chicane is basically initiating a skid and doing a tank slapper recovery thru the chicane.

Stewart video showed up on my facebook feed. Was hoping it had some info on heel and toe.

A little frost on the pumpkins this morning.
15 below...... a little colder on the west side of town
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Feels like winter outside here too. Just a bit warmer though 34°F. High is supposed to be 30°F tomorrow.

Last work day of the year, just got paid, quitin' time is Noon, and I have a 928 with a full tank of gas! If it was going to get into the 60's today, would buy a Lottery ticket.

Do hipsters think they are organically heating their homes after they eat bean burritos?

TGIF everyone.

It is a good Friday for us. One of the clients that was not really feeling like paying us suddenly realized they really needed some of the data re-processed in a certain way to show the results a clearer for their clients. That told us for sure they were trying to use the data, and not pay for it. So guess what. They are now a pay BEFORE we do squat client. So we will get a nice electronic payment and then we will look up the old data and start re-processing it. Zero cost for us except some butt time in front of a computer to clean up the results to show more clearly what is reality. We don't change the final results, we just present it in a clearer format.
Even better they want us to start flying the project again. We want two weeks paid up front before we drive to the airport. They will need to keep a two week prepayment in our account to get anything from us. We will operate on their money this time.

They are our only NYC based client. Hopefully all Yankees and not as slick and sleazy as they seem to be.

We were smart enough to only give them the final results. They can't reprocess it. We have the raw files and we only send them 1/2 the the resolution that we could send them. It is real easy to lower resolution and impossible to "res it up." Especially 3D data. We ain't no bunch of dumb Okies after all. ;)