Trick questions on exams.
Yes Polaris, loosening the bolts on the final drive -technically- lets it move away from the mount point but when the question is about belt adjustment "Allows for belt tension adjustment" IS the more correct answer.
Stupid shenanigans keeping me from getting 100% on the test.
wae said:CIT130, Information Technology Fundamentals. Taught by a professor who graduated college in 2011. In 2011, I was 17 years into my professional career in IT. For this class I have to watch videos about what a video doorbell is and what web browsers do. I want to grab her by the lapels and scream, "Do not quote the dark magic to me, witch! I was there when it was written!" or whatever the actual quote is. I hate that I'm paying money to have this child tell me E36 M3 I already know.
Recently I had someone young explain how I was doing something wrong in the lab with a kit. I wrote the original documentation and testing for the company that developed the kit over two decades ago.
I literally have the original manuals with my name in the references still. He was not correct.
Duke said:Yay.
Something that was supposed to be simple and fun got blown up and berked up and now it won't be fun any more.
Let's not and say we did.
...and now you're pissed off at me for something I didn't cause.
In reply to ShawnG :
You sure don't want to write the millwright exam then
wae said:CIT130, Information Technology Fundamentals. Taught by a professor who graduated college in 2011. In 2011, I was 17 years into my professional career in IT. For this class I have to watch videos about what a video doorbell is and what web browsers do. I want to grab her by the lapels and scream, "Do not quote the dark magic to me, witch! I was there when it was written!" or whatever the actual quote is. I hate that I'm paying money to have this child tell me E36 M3 I already know.
Have you heard of CLEP tests? CS chair scoffed that no one ever passed them and I'd be seeing him in his intro class soon. Sucker.
You guys ever take an FAA exam? Its reading comprehension. They don't give a berkeley if you know how to fly.
In reply to Appleseed :
I took Canadian Aviation Regulations. It's open book, they just want to be sure you know how and where to find the correct information.
If you fail that, you have no business doing anything but sitting in a dark room, watching "Ow, my balls" and 'batin'.
I can't share a ton of details, but I just caught a GC on a job trying to snow me into paying for a large rework of a system my company installed. The other GC tried to blame my construction practices as being deficient so I would have to redo everything and pay for it myself.
I came back by citing appropriate code and specific allowances, which shut down that argument. However, I really don't like that underhanded nonsense and it's super stressful.
When near Detroit I like the Holiday Inn Express near the giant Uniroyal Tire on I94.
The large Roush plant has nothing cool in the lot and Ford has nothing either but some truck with a tarp on it.
Disappointed in Jack and Ford today.
Me: "Would you like to watch a show? Maybe [this one] or [that one]?"
Wife: ::Vague non-commital noise::
Me: ::Finishes a snack::
Me: Okay. Well I'm going to play my new computer game.
Wife: I thought we were going to watch a show?
Me: You didn't seem interested!
Wife: Let's sit and watch [this show].
Me: ::Sits Down::
Wife: Walks into the basement and starts doing laundry.
slefain said:slefain said:2025 can already berkeley right off.
After much thought and deep contemplation....I stand by my original statement.
Apparently I must have agreed to roshambo to start 2025, and 2025 is going first.
Yup, 2025 can still berkeley right off. Another day, another expense that can't be put off or avoided. Just digging the hole deeper. So much sunk cost everywhere that only needs little more money this time. Something mandatory for school, or kids activities, or the house. And it has to be paid because 90% of the money is already spent on it, but not paying throws the whole thing out. Damn if you do spend it, but more damned if you don't. berkeley.
It's cold here, by local standards. I own a nice pair of insulated leather gloves and can't find them to save my life. Rant one.
"Maybe I left them in the truck", thought I, and went out to check tonight. Didn't find the gloves, but did discover a puddle of suspiciously greenish liquid on the floormat. Rant two.
The heater core is in the engine compartment. Surely it couldn't have burst and leaked uphill to the interior. Right?
Ordered something Sunday night for delivery the next morning at an Amazon locker. Got there, door was jammed, couldnt pick up
Didn't have time to deal with calling customer support. Went to work.
Stopped by after work. Called and 25 minutes on the phone with customer service to find out the locker is damaged and I will be unable to get my package until a tech gets there at an unspecified time.
I can't get a refund until a technician gets there and looks at the locker. but I can't get my package till its fixed. So. $70 in limbo till.... whenever. Thursday if nothing else, then they will automatically assume I didn't pick it up?
berkeleying washer is frozen. Genius teenager first switched off the space heater for the laundry room/her closet, but also never actually plugged it in either.
Just add insulating that room to the list of E36 M3 that needs done this year, with the deck, the windows, the chicken coop, getting septic sucked out, replacing the oven, fixing the gutters, replacing the busted downspout that goes ??, Redigging the garden, and the list goes on forever but the money never comes.
Oh cool, a water leak on the main because the tapcons holding the bracket on pulled out of the concrete.
Virtual school hasn't even started yet and I'm so over today.
Last Wednesday, a contact of mine reached out for my availability for a meeting one day this week. I said I could make Monday or Tuesday happen. It was understood that I'd have to rearrange my day to make sure I could attend.
Radio silence. Last night at 7pm, I get an email invite for a meeting scheduled for this morning. No, that's not how this works. Then I get shock and disappointment I can't make this meeting today.
Bonus rant. I hate dealing with people who are 100% unreachable all day everyday. Then, they start sending late night emails and get pissed off I don't respond or jump at their request. You're the a-hole. Not me.
Appleseed said:You guys ever take an FAA exam? Its reading comprehension. They don't give a berkeley if you know how to fly.
There were more questions about ADF than GPS when I took Private Pilot exam in like 2018. A quick poll of our club members (10 of us co-owned a C172) showed that exactly zero used the ADF on the plane (which included 3 ATP rated pilots who might have collectively had more hours in the sky than I had experienced on Earth). But by golly, I had to prove to the FAA that I understood it.
Same with being tested on the needlessly abbreviated AIRMET's and such, leftover from when it was technologically required because it came over a Telex or some such.
Spearfishin said:Appleseed said:You guys ever take an FAA exam? Its reading comprehension. They don't give a berkeley if you know how to fly.
There were more questions about ADF than GPS when I took Private Pilot exam in like 2018. A quick poll of our club members (10 of us co-owned a C172) showed that exactly zero used the ADF on the plane (which included 3 ATP rated pilots who might have collectively had more hours in the sky than I had experienced on Earth). But by golly, I had to prove to the FAA that I understood it.
Same with being tested on the needlessly abbreviated AIRMET's and such, leftover from when it was technologically required because it came over a Telex or some such.
It's kind of funny that we're still making and installing ADFs, but how else is the flight crew going to listen to the ball game or the farm report?
In reply to Karacticus :
The hardest part for me was remembering all of the cloud separation requirements for airspace, altitude, and time of day.
They let you bring one 8.5" X 11" blank sheet of paper into the exam room and the first thing I did was to draw the chart:
I don't think it's possible to accurately judge the distance of something nebulous like a cloud so in reality it's pretty much, oh look, a cloud, let's stay well clear of it.
I'm so glad I paid extra for shipping from Rock Auto to get the part today and UPS doesn't even have it yet.
RX Reven' said:In reply to Karacticus :
The hardest part for me was remembering all of the cloud separation requirements for airspace, altitude, and time of day.
They let you bring one 8.5" X 11" blank sheet of paper into the exam room and the first thing I did was to draw the chart:
I don't think it's possible to accurately judge the distance of something nebulous like a cloud so in reality it's pretty much, oh look, a cloud, let's stay well clear of it.
My CFI's answer for "how am I supposed to accurately judge that distance?" Was some version of "don't fly VFR in clouds. The distance part you need to know for your exams."
Karacticus said:It's kind of funny that we're still making and installing ADFs, but how else is the flight crew going to listen to the ball game or the farm report?
I remember that back in the 90's we mostly just used it to grab AM radio for in flight entertainement.
We sang, "Friends in Low Places" a *lot*.
brandonsmash said:I can't share a ton of details, but I just caught a GC on a job trying to snow me into paying for a large rework of a system my company installed. The other GC tried to blame my construction practices as being deficient so I would have to redo everything and pay for it myself.
I came back by citing appropriate code and specific allowances, which shut down that argument. However, I really don't like that underhanded nonsense and it's super stressful.
My sympathizes for dealing with that. Stuff like this is why I have a list of long time clients I work for and only really add others if they are known to that circle.
It's a weird business practice that thankfully works for me and cuts out asshattery
GPz11 (Forum Supporter) said:I'm so glad I paid extra for shipping from Rock Auto to get the part today and UPS doesn't even have it yet.
I've been reading bad things about RockAuto more and more
Antihero said:GPz11 (Forum Supporter) said:I'm so glad I paid extra for shipping from Rock Auto to get the part today and UPS doesn't even have it yet.
I've been reading bad things about RockAuto more and more
Please don't shatter what little faith I have remaining in humanity...I trust Marriott, Delta, Mazda, Dell, and RockAuto.
Removing any one of them would result in my safe space getting 20% smaller.
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