In reply to ShawnG :
Wrap them in bacon.
In reply to ShawnG :
Wrap them in bacon.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
I had a '79 Supra with a 6ME (I think), which had a penchant for blowing head gaskets.
At the time, it was actually easier and faster to source a whole engine and replace the entire thing, rather than tearing down all the crap you had to remove to get the head off.
In reply to alfadriver :
And they're going to lose my business because of it. I loved my iMacs because the windows stuff was so bad, and the Apple stuff was so good and so easy for non computer people like me. That's no longer the case. It took way longer than it should have to performa simple task recently, and the reason was, every tutorial on how to do it was wrong, none of the tabs existed. It should have been intuitive, and a matter of seconds like it used to be.
In reply to alfadriver :
Unfortunately, even Apple doesn't seem to be immune from enE36 M3ification. I need a new phone soon, and it'll probably be an iPhone again, because Apple tends to support them way longer than other brands(my current iPhone is almost 6 years old, and works fine, except the battery is getting weak). I don't use music on my phone, so I've been able to dodge the Apple Music app for now.
Appleseed said:In reply to ShawnG :
Wrap them in bacon.
Just eat the bacon
Nothing says having a fun weekend adulting like getting woken up at 4am by the a/c power cycling due to what looks like a condensate drain issue, and having to mop up the mechanical room floor at 4 berkeleying am.
I'm getting really tired of the plumbing issues in that part of the house.
ShawnG said:Can everyone stop pretending to like water chestnuts?
My stir fry was full of those awful little chunks of Styrofoam.
Seriously, who had to choke one of those things down and went "more of that please!".
Oh man! I love that crunch in stir-fry.
Water chestnuts are fabulous. Real rumaki is nasty because of the chicken liver, but we make bacon-wrapped water chestnuts marinated in soy sauce for all the patties around Christmas and New Years. I recently tried them on skewers with shishkabob on the grill and that isn't so good, though.
wae said:Water chestnuts are fabulous.
I found the perfect house, it is a single level 1br home in a semi rural area and it's well wooded and there is a 2 car garage (facing east!) and a small barn and a stable and I can afford it and I am completely unprepared for this situation
"tHeY dO GrEaT wOrK!!!!!!" -what I was told about the contractors/remodeling company that we bought our house from.
"It's got a new roof!"
Somehow they do good work but couldn't figure out how to install the roof vent boots correctly?
The installed a new roof but couldn't repair the decking?
The open junction box nestled in with the blown in insulation is a nice touch.
*Not pictured:
- Both bathroom exhaust fans dump into the attic
- The 8 outlets that weren't grounded
- The water line to the fridge ice maker that improperly installed and leaked GALLONS of water onto the kitchen floor the day before we closed.
Needless to say, I'm not impressed by their work. Sure the house looks nice but they did E36 M3 work. The pre-purchase inspection caught a lot of the issues, which I had them fix. But why didn't they do it right the first time?
Im so burned out on working on other people's E36 M3, foing stuff for others, and everything else. No time for me, stressed by folks asking when stuff will be done, work is stressful, losong sleep, and feeling completely overwhelmed. Its got my guts tore up, my mind racing, amd my sleep schedule berkeleyed. I need to find some relief, but every time i feel im getting close i get kicked in the face by something unexpected.
Need a berkeleying break man......
Because I'm not miserable enough with summer and chemo winding down, the root canal and crowns I got last berkeleying October have decided that they need to be doing a jackhammer impression.
I can't get any kind of dental work done until I'm done with chemo. In 7 weeks, give or take whatever it takes for my bloodwork to say it's ok, so more likely 10-12 weeks.
Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, Motrin, baclofen, and vicoden do NOTHING.
The Japanese need to hurry the berkeley up with that pill they've been working on to regrow teeth. Human trials started not to long ago, but not here in the US.
Duke said:In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
I had a '79 Supra with a 6ME (I think), which had a penchant for blowing head gaskets.
At the time, it was actually easier and faster to source a whole engine and replace the entire thing, rather than tearing down all the crap you had to remove to get the head off.
Should be 5M, the 6M was not sold in the US, IIRC. Maybe.
I might be able to find the video from the 1984 Manx Rally (maybe 1985?) where they swapped a Supra cylinder head during a 20 minute service. Obvs they do things to the car to make it a little easier but still... 20 minutes to swap a head on a car you just drove up to the service crew.
All I remember is that they swapped the whole head/intake/exhaust manifolds as an assembly, and it was due to a valve sticking in a guide causing a misfire.
Step 1: Dump a bucket of water on the exhaust while the car is being jacked up...
RevRico said:The Japanese need to hurry the berkeley up with that pill they've been working on to regrow teeth. Human trials started not to long ago, but not here in the US.
Have they never watched a zombie apocalypse movie? Because I am pretty sure that's how half of them start.
I am 99% sure that people working on drones and/or AI have never seen a Terminator movie.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:I am 99% sure that people working on drones and/or AI have never seen a Terminator movie.
Or confused them with an instructional video, much like a bunch of people interpreting 1984 as an instruction manual.
Pete. (l33t FS) saidI am 99% sure that people working on drones and/or AI have never seen a Terminator movie.
I don't know if it's scarier if they haven't read Manna or watched Elysium, or if they have...
Re: Water chestnuts, my mom puts them in a chicken casserole and they really bring the whole thing together. I might ask my mom to make it when I see her [at her house] in 2 weeks.
Rant: why do I over think things so much? I put that bracketed text in because I'll see my mom in a week, but we will not be in a place where one could whip up a casserole. What a stupid thing to add. Or is it? Ah, I'm overthinking overthinking a throwaway post on an Internet forum. Time for bed. And to paraphrase John Prine, it maybe time to Throw away my cell phone.
I wrenched my back during the leadup to the rallycross on Saturday and it hurts bad enough that I can't sleep. So now I'm in pain and extra grouchy about it.
I hate setting up gears. I hate cleaning sludge out of axle housings. I hate removing and replacing pressed-on bearings. I hate the 400 lbft of torque it takes to seat a crush sleeve.
Apparently I'm not the only one because try as we might, there wasn't a shop that would touch it.
The one shop that agreed to try but called back and said 1/8" of slop in a pinion shaft was normal and that it just needed $3500 in bushings and steering linkages. WTF? When I asked about the glitter in the gear oil, they brushed that off as normal as well.
The off-road shop in town said they don't do gears. What? How do you do big tires and not do gears?
The race shop in town said they don't do front axles.
So this weekend we did it. The pinion rollers were so worn they were falling out of the cages. Everything else looked damn near perfect.
It is the first time I've been into a Torsen LSD. At least that was cool.
GameboyRMH said:Pete. (l33t FS) saidI am 99% sure that people working on drones and/or AI have never seen a Terminator movie.
I don't know if it's scarier if they haven't read Manna or watched Elysium, or if they have...
"At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"
In reply to Toyman! :
All of that is the reason I bit the bullet and bought an assembled center section for my Capri rather than just swapping ring and pinion.... unbox it, and bolt it in.
I have grown tired of the round and round of trying to get changes put in place for procedures. No one commits to anything until after I am over 90% complete and I have to redo it afterwards.
I think I will start announcing what Im going to be doing via email, send out one example, then sit on my butt for a week and wait for all the feedback to filter in.
(Realistically, I'll be working on other projects, not sitting on my butt, but still.)
I've got a Holter chest monitor on watching heart activity for the next day to diagnose what's going on with me after my fainting spell 2 weeks ago.
The directions I've gotten were to, "Go about your normal activities."
Which "normal"? My old normal would be an intense weight training session this morning and a 2 mile run tomorrow morning. But the Dr. explicitly told me "no moderate or heavy exertion. Walks are good, but not much more than that."
Do you want my old normal that was causing problems? Or my current normal?
Asked this question on MyChart, and got the same "Go about your normal activities," response.
Every berkeleying 60 days I have to change my password on my work computer. And every berkeleying time it takes me most of an hour to re-synch everything. Does corporate calculate how much lost productivity that is across its entire organization??
Oh, and this time, it's the week after the giant Crowdstike clusterberkeley. So everything is going to work berkeleying flawlessly. Right?
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