It was able to get onto the trailer under it’s own power, and I drove it to work the following Monday… it needed a water pump to be “driveable” but I ended up doing a few other things to the car. It was an old Geo Metro and I wanted one to tinker with. I spent about $600 getting the car like I wanted it.

I used to have a motorcycle that would give a couple of pops out of the exhaust if I closed the throttle too fast. I wonder how many Nextdoor conversations it started?

I’m reminded of Bender:

“This isn’t even about you”

“That’s impossible!”

I once bought a more or less running car for $50.

Wet rental?

“So tell me about yourself”

“It’s all on the resume”

The mythbusters clip about the bus is one of my favorites, because it showed just how hard it is to tip over a bus.

I was living in Oklahoma and I remember some of the local media mentioning this “coronavirus” thing that was spreading in China. I also remember people joking about Corona (the beer) being suddenly less popular.

Then in February, March, and April it getting more and more serious, and this is about the time that people started claiming it wasn’t real, and if it was, it wasn’t that bad, and if it was, then it was from a chinese lab bent on taking down the US…

April-May had me re-adjusting my previous opinions of people around me that I thought were rational.

“I’m going to business school!”

Yes it will destroy the world in a year, but with Goo™, we will see an increase of 12.6% this quarter!

I don’t use youtube for it’s riveting entertainment, I use it to learn things.

I’ve heard the term “stimming” before, and never had a clear answer on what it meant. After taking a look through this thread, I now have yet another thing to add to the list of obvious symptoms I should have seen in myself years ago.

I have a tendency to take things apart, or move whatever moveable pieces are on something. I’ve made little toys/implements to enable this at work so I’m not just taking pens apart.

“No, I don’t know who broke your car’s windows. I don’t work for you anymore, stop hassling me.”

I don’t like fishing.

It’s not because “eww, worms” or “eww, fish”. It’s two things. The big thing is, I don’t want to hurt some small animal like a worm or bait fish, just so that I can hurt some other animal by dragging them into an environment where they can’t breathe. Oh, but the humane thing to do is toss them back? Imagine being pulled out of an airlock into the vacuum of space, photographed, measured, and then put back in the airlock? I don’t need to do all of that to some critter just for fun. Which brings me to the second thing about fishing that I don’t like : It’s not fun. It’s boring. It’s so boring. Just stand here and hope a fish eventually bites.

I wonder how hard it would be to make a mod that changes the model?

There are washing machines without anything more complex than a switch in them. If you really had a “pile of disassembled washing machines” you’d know that.

Doubt.

My electric bill changed by less than $2 per month when I installed an “inefficient” washing machine. It was so little that I’m not sure the washer was the cause. That’s $72 over a period of three years. The machine it replaced was just out of warranty and needed a $200 drain pump.

Does an old school washer dryer that runs off timer relays / knobs / push buttons really have a CPU?

Nope, it’s just a timer-drive. cam triggering switches. The physical cam IS the CPU.

We have reached a point in time where there are adults who think everything that runs through multiple steps must have a microcontroller, because only really really old machines* do without.

*For the most part. I bought a brand new whirlpool dryer late last year, and it has a mechanical timer in it.

Having a newer machine cost me slightly less money on utilities, and considerably more in washing machine parts.

There’s more to go wrong on an old washing machine and each control board was unique to the machine

What? Old washing machines just use switches and a cam that’s on a timer. Anyone who can read a basic schematic can figure out what is wrong with one.