Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

All the summer performance tire are horrible in cold weather. Most of them have warning to not use them in below freezing temps. Some of the summer tires will crack if moved in freezing temps.

Of course a Blizzak is great in cold and snow, but sucks as a summer performance tire. Duh.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Ah well. I suppose you could send her, can she drive a manual?

Glen, I had BFG Radial T/A tires on the Cobra when I first got it. The tread lasted a long time on those. Was glad to get rid of them. I jokingly called them my racing slicks because they were slick and had no traction. Fun and predictable, but no traction.

Question for you iPhone people. Can you set your SMS to sound a different alert for different people on your contact list like you can a ringtone?

Yes, it is the option just below the ringtone option. You can have unique ringtones and text tones for each contact. I do that for the bosses wife. She gets a different tone that the rest.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

So who is preventing them from going into orbit? If Tesla just put a hunk of junk in orbit, on purpose, why can't they launch into orbit?

I know absolutely zero on that subject, but I could try to make something up .....
Serial I'll ask him next chance and get some more details.

I asked if his grandfather's experiences in that field would come into play, he said one of the rules right from the start was no explosives, not even to separate stages.
That was one of dad's specialties in the first part of his career.

[RKDinOKC]

Watched some videos last night. Found instructions for training a Diabetic Alert Dog.
All I could find before were 2 week classes that were expensive that I could take her to and train myself and her.
Or buying a trained dog for $20K to $30K.
Now I can train her myself. They provide forms I can use if challenged since there is no certification.
If you want you can get your dog certificed with them once you have trained it for about $600, but is not necessary.

Someone asked me the other day about the new patch thing they have that you can get your Blood Sugar reading over bluetooth with you phone. You only have to change the patch every couple of weeks. The problem with it is that it measures your tissue not your blood. It can be up to 4 hours behind on your blood sugar levels.

I've discovered the finger sticking meters can be slow to respond by around 20 mintes.. I've felt my blood sugar is low and the meter showed it normal. Then 20-30 minutes later it dropped.

They claim the dogs are around 20 minutes ahead of the finger sticking meters. That sounds like a great way to keep your blood sugar in a more normal range.
There are a couple of studies going on right now trying to discover what the dogs are sensing. By the training it has something to do with their nose and scent.

Said they have been training dogs and have someone come into their shop. The dogs go nuts and they find the person that came in inquiring about alert dogs was diabetic, and was experiencing low blood sugar at the time.

Pretty interesting.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Ah well. I suppose you could send her, can she drive a manual?

Glen, I had BFG Radial T/A tires on the Cobra when I first got it. The tread lasted a long time on those. Was glad to get rid of them. I jokingly called them my racing slicks because they were slick and had no traction. Fun and predictable, but no traction.

Question for you iPhone people. Can you set your SMS to sound a different alert for different people on your contact list like you can a ringtone?

I’m shopping for new wheels & tires for the Z. Probably a set of 16x7 Panasports. The tires will probably be Conti ExtremeContacts, or similar.

On my iPhone, I set it up to have a different tone that plays when my wife sends me a text. I hope that helps, Brent.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

As a matter of fact she can drive a stick, but she charges a whole lot.

I imagine she does! I figured I would loan the Cobra to her but I suppose she would have to lease it to offset those charges.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yes, it is the option just below the ringtone option. You can have unique ringtones and text tones for each contact. I do that for the bosses wife. She gets a different tone that the rest.

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

I’m shopping for new wheels & tires for the Z. Probably a set of 16x7 Panasports. The tires will probably be Conti ExtremeContacts, or similar.

On my iPhone, I set it up to have a different tone that plays when my wife sends me a text. I hope that helps, Brent.

I was curious because Android 7.x has that option but my wife upgraded her phone and it has 8.x and that option is no longer there. I was curious if they took it away because it is or is not a feature on iOS. Until that is brought back I guess I will not be updating.

I had Goodyear Blue Streaks on the Cobra. They were sticky and it sounded like a rainstorm if you drove on gravel. Went with MT tires now. Not as sticky but they don't collect gravel like a rolling snowball made of gravel. They were awesome if it was wet though, even if it was a pain in the butt with no top in the rain.

The BFG Comp 2 are good tires on the sedan and work well all year long even in snow, but they only lasted about 25k miles.

[Porsche-poor]

not sure she would want to drive it. I have offered to let her drive the 911 but she has always declined.

[sammyg2]

Evidently that engineering student team built a 2 stage rocket several years ago, and now the latest version of the team are going for the three stage version that will get into space.
Here's an article from 2014 about the work:

Triton Rocket Club in Furious Race to Make Campus First University to Launch Rocket into Space

[Porsche-poor]

cool read thanks for posting it.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, (and ouch) I have a new tire. The screw in the tire was too close to the sidewall. So they will not fix it, only replace it. Of course the in stock selection of 15 inch tires is limited and the did not have it in stock. It had to come "from the warehouse" and the truck that delivers them did not arrive until 3:30. So off I went and Mrs Carrera decided I was "needed" to help her buy LED light bulbs up the street a couple of miles away. So she came and picked me up and off we went. Mission accomplished. Back to the tire shop, and the Elky was almost done. They finished up in a couple of minutes, and pay and done.

I pulled in my garage and checked the work. Lugs were torqued pretty close. The tire pressure was at 46 PSI and I determined that was a TAD high. I dropped it to 28 hot, and I will check it in the morning to set it back to 24. I was expecting it to be about 36, but NOT 46. Oh well, that is why I do most of my own work. But I will not be doing tire work.

[RKDinOKC]

That's how I found those Generals were squirmy at too hight a pressure. The tire shop put them on the max pressure listed on the sidewall. Yikes. Was so releived when bleeding the pressure made them tight again.

[Outback Porsche]

Had to relinquish the Seriously Quick 5 this morning (sniff). On the plane back to reality for a couple of days, before retirement continuation training on the weekend.

[RKDinOKC]

This is going to be interesting training Pepper to be an Alert Dog.

Just spent $60 ordering cotton gauze, freezer bags, and freezer containers.

When blood sugar is at the right alert level either low or high, get gauze wet in my mouth, spit them into a freezer bag, double bag, date and write blood sugar on bag, and store in a freezer container and pop em in the freezer. It's good for a month.

The saliva gauze is used to train with. The idea is the same for any scent dog. Use the scent to feed with so the dog gets a pavlovian response to the scent. Then train the dog to get your attention. Then train the dog to signal if the scent was for low or high blood sugar. Then chain them all together.

You also stop bowl feeding the dog. You either feed them as a reward for something they do, of put the food in a puzzle they have to solve to get at it. This is supposed to make them more attentive to you, and become a thinking dog by solving the puzzles to eat. It is supposed to help them learn.

Funny how the dog will get excited and think this stuff is fun. Remember training my first dog and I could actually see her thinking about what she was doing when learning something new. As she got a little older I only had to show her something new once or twice to learn to do it on command. It also worked for keeping her from doing things I didn't like. Just train her to do it on command, then she doesn't do it until you tell her to.

The training exercises they give take about 20 minutes a day. And if you can't spend at least an hour a day with the dog, don't get one.

[RKDinOKC]

Good Morning/.

It's 8am, 50°F, mostly cloudy but no rain with a forecast high of 69°F. The wind is ESE at 5-10mph

[GH85Carrera]

It was weird to look up yesterday at the thin high overcast clouds, and know they are all clouds from the hurricane still off the coast of Mexico! It will dump a bunch of rain on central Texas. Just what they don't need. We have had a wet year, but nothing at all like Texas, and the east coast.

With the new tire on the right rear I can now do a lot of hard acceleration runs making hard right turns to wear that tire down faster to make it match the other tires. With the limited slip rear end the rear tire on the inside of the corner always complains if I give it much gas. Now I have an excuse to do it on purpose. Of course I still have to be careful. With no traction control it will step the rear end out quickly in a corner. For a straight ahead launch it is a zillion times better than the old peg leg. In the rain it was hard to get moving with traffic speed in the past. Especially if the road had wide white freshly painted strips for the pedestrian crossing. Those are slick.

[RKDinOKC]

Penny my first dog was a thinker. Remember showing her she could swim. We were playing fetch with one of those bumpers that float near the edge of a pond. The bank was fairly steep. I threw the bump to where it landed in the water but right next to the bank. She stayed on the bank and reach the bumper fetching it.

Then I threw it just a little farther out. She would step into the water reaching the bumper to fetch it. Then a little farther out and she would jump to grab the bumper then come back up the bank. Then a little farther and she would lunge and grab the bumper then actually go under water to reach the bank and climb back up retrieving the bumper.

Then I threw it just far enough she couldn't reach the bumper by just jumping. She jumped in and didn't reach the bumper, so turned around. You could see her brain working. when she turned to the bank she realized she was not touching the bottom. She would turn back towards the bumper, and you could see her think "No that's too far." She would turn back towards the bank. She went around in a circle like that about 10 times with that little pause in each direction you could see her changing her mind. The she turned swam the one or two stokes to grab the bumper, grabbed it and brought it back.

Affer that she knew she could swim. She would not only swim, but she would jump out into the water. Even off of docks.

[RKDinOKC]

Last time I was out in the GTS it was tuned up and some Mustang revved his engine next to me. We just happened to be the first to go at a stoplight. When the light changed I let out the clutch then floored it (not having done that for years with it idling so poorly when I got it back.) It instantly broke loose spinning both rear tires all the way to red line.

With the pneumatic and electrically controlled differential lock that uses both the comparitive speeds of the ABS sensors left right front and rear and a accelerometer it kept spinning an accelerating in a straight line. So, when first gear hit red line, I shifted to 2nd and floored it keeping the spin going. It effortlessly went thru 2nd in the same fashion as first.

At the end of 2nd I as going the 45mph speed limit so just let off proceeded at the speed limit. Grinned to myslef thinking it was a pretty nicely setup car to not only spin the tires thru first and second on dry pavement (it did not do that before the rebuild) AND effortlessly stay stright with no tendency to fish tail one way or the other.

Even with the spin-fest I pulled out in front.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Good Morning/.

It's 8am, 50°F, mostly cloudy but no rain with a forecast high of 69°F. The wind is ESE at 5-10mph

Just a bit after 6:30am here, 61°F, overcast, no rain expected, high should be 72°F, wind is currently 2 mph out of the North, building to 5-10 mph out of the WNW later today, high tide will be at 8:54am, at +6.6 ft.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. Foggy and a cold 43 here today. Time to wrap up the 911 for winter I think.

[RKDinOKC]

The forecast for lunch today is to meet Glen for burgers close to the Pet shop and Grocery store.

Will have to find a kibble with large kibbles Pepper likes and look at their feeding puzzles. She not only figured out the Kong pretty quickly, now I can't find it!