Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

My first pushbike (a Speedwell quite similar to the pic) was a birthday present but I was too small to sit on the seat. I was told I wold grow into it which I did. I had to turn the seat 90 degrees and sit on the bar with a towel wrapped around it. It was somewhat uncomfortable. What was weird was very few of my peers would actually see me riding the bike because I was too embarrassed that I couldn't sit on the seat.
BUT the most impressive thing about the bike was it was a 3 speed with hub gears. None of this exposed gear sets for me!!


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You ride side-saddle?

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[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

My first pushbike ...............

So, what was your first bike that could be rode?

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

You ride side-saddle?

Nope. One leg a side, just no seat to sit on. The seat was there, but unavailable to me.

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by humfrz

So, what was your first bike that could be rode?

I should have wrote "but I was too short to sit on the seat and have my feet on the ground"."

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Didn’t know +’18 Subaru Crosstrek came w 6sp MT option. That’s pretty cool. Still it have a weak FB20 engine, but not a bad spec.

As for a second random thought, next yr, I’ll be a father.

Just read the fine print...

Congratulations!

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[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

Just read the fine print...

Congratulations!

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Haha thanks! Trying not to make a big deal out of it... but at the same time wanted to share it

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Didn’t know +’18 Subaru Crosstrek came w 6sp MT option. That’s pretty cool. Still it have a weak FB20 engine, but not a bad spec.

As for a second random thought, next yr, I’ll be a father.

congrats!

i've been wrong before at my guessing, but i'm really feeling it this time. i think the baby is going to be a dinosaur!

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

You should have replied:

"How long does it take to go 80 miles at 80 MPH?"

careful, i know a few guys that could still manage to make it take 100 hours.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by soundman98

careful, i know a few guys that could still manage to make it take 100 hours.

Well, of course, if you count in a nap. -

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Haha thanks! Trying not to make a big deal out of it... but at the same time wanted to share it

That is good news coming from you but would be a horror story coming from me and divine intervention coming from Hum!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

That is good news coming from you but would be a horror story coming from me and divine intervention coming from Hum!

That's a triple fer sure -

[ls1ac]

It is probably time to introduce the younger members of our group to the work of our for fathers in automotive design. this was introduced in 1946.

[soundman98]

i've got the shirt!

it still amazes me that chrysler was able to produce that video despite all the corporate channels it needed to go through.

[soundman98]

ok, i had to look up the history of it, and it goes way back further than chrysler. chryslers video was actually at the tail end of the history.

The original technical description of the "turbo-encabulator" was written by British graduate student John Hellins Quick (1923-1991). It was published in 1944 by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers Students' Quarterly Journal[2] as also noted by consulting firm Arthur D. Little in a 1995 reprint of Quick's description, and giving Quick's full name.[3]

The earliest written U.S. source may have been in 1946, in an Arthur D. Little Industrial Bulletin. An early popular American reference to the turbo-encabulator appeared in an article by New York lawyer Bernard Salwen in Time on April 15, 1946. Part of Salwen's job was to review technical manuscripts. He was amused by the jargon and passed on the description from the Arthur D. Little pamphlet.[1]

Time got with the gag, featuring the device in a May 6, 1946 issue, described as "An adjunct to the turbo-encabulator, employed whenever a barescent skor motion is required."[4] A month later a response to reader mail on the feature appeared in the June 3, 1946 issue:

If the sackful of mail we have received from you is any indication, the story of "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry" struck many a responsive chord. Aside from those of you who wanted to be reassured that TIME hadn't been taken in, we received the customary complaints about using too much technical jargon for the layman, observations such as "My husband says it sounds like a new motor; I say it sounds like a dictionary that has been struck by lightning"; suggestions that it "might have come out of the mouth of Danny Kaye," and plaintive queries like: "Is this good?" Wrote one bemused U.S. Navyman: "It'sh poshible." To some the turbo-encabulator sounded as though it would be a "wonderful machine for changing baby's diapers." A reader from Hoboken assumed that it would be on sale soon in Manhattan department stores. Many of you wrote in to thank us for illuminating what you have long wanted to tell your scientist friends."[5]

In 1962 a turboencabulator data sheet was created by engineers at General Electric's Instrument Department, in West Lynn, Massachusetts. It quoted from the previous sources and was inserted into the General Electric Handbook.[6] The turboencabulator data sheet had the same format as the other pages in the G.E. Handbook. The engineers added "Shure Stat" in "Technical Features", which was peculiar only to the Instrument Department, and included the first known graphic representation of a "manufactured" Turboencabulator using parts made at the Instrument Department.

In c. 1977 Bud Haggart, an actor who appeared in many industrial training films in and around Detroit, performed in the first film realization of the description and operation of the "Turboencabulator", using a truncated script adapted from Quick's article. Bud convinced director Dave Rondot and the film crew to stay after the filming of an actual GMC Trucks project training film to realize the Turboencabulator spot.[7]

In c. 1988 the Chrysler Corporation "manufactured" the Turboencabulator in a video spoof, with Haggart reprising his role from the GM film.[8] Rockwell Automation "manufactured" the renamed Retro-Encabulator in another video spoof in c. 1997.[9] On April Fools' Day 2013, Hank Green released a SciShow episode on YouTube entitled "The Retro-Proto-Turbo-Encabulator."[10] On April 1, 2016, PATH "introduced" the Micro-Encabulator on their YouTube Channel as a "new game-changing global health technology featuring hydrocoptic miniaturization and advanced panametric fam alignment."[11]

April 2020 Viper Innovations continued this historic gag with a presentation of the Turbo Encabulator 2.0 with quantic IoT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator