Today I Learned...

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

This really raises the question of exactly who was staring at an old oil pressure barometer in the middle of the Sunda Strait at that precise moment in 1883.

In fact I am not convinced there was even a city with a full time barometer monitoring technician within 100 miles of there in 1883!

Are you going to make me rewatch the video? I was having a "few" beers that night and don't completely remember. I believe it was Batavia(modern Jakarta, Indonesia) a costal port town where the reading was taken.

We had a telegraph cable across the Atlantic 20 years before that. I could believe a barometer was being monitored at a port town at that era.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Are you going to make me rewatch the video? I was having a "few" beers that night and don't completely remember. I believe it was Batavia(modern Jakarta, Indonesia) a costal port town where the reading was taken.

We had a telegraph cable across the Atlantic 20 years before that. I could believe a barometer was being monitored at a port town at that era.

But still staring at a barometer...

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

But still staring at a barometer...

My first job at 15 was picking rocks out of a disk'd hay field. I think I would have rather stared at a barometer.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

My first job at 15 was picking rocks out of a disk'd hay field. I think I would have rather stared at a barometer.

At 15? I was half that when I was doing it. Still would prefer it from staring at a barometer.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

That was weird. At first glance I thought that looked familiar but I couldn't quite place it. Hang on a sec! Am I in the right thread?
*light bulb moment* Read the text, makes sense now.

It was a great question! I've seen lots of dead axles with sub-frame-mounted torsion bars but my search for new car stuff ends at this forum.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

At 15? I was half that when I was doing it. Still would prefer it from staring at a barometer.

They had more rules by the time I got my first job


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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

They had more rules by the time I got my first job


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HEY I made 25 cents an hour!
My first real job was pumping gas, changing oil and installing tires. I was a ripe old 13 by then though. Got all the way up to $3 an hour.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

HEY I made 25 cents an hour!
My first real job was pumping gas, changing oil and installing tires. I was a ripe old 13 by then though. Got all the way up to $3 an hour.

I think we were 6.45/hr here by the time I got my first real job. Big money

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

Really niche again: https://therecord.media/revil-ransom...kaseya-update/



TL;DR: I work in information security. Bad guys pushed ransomware via a bug in device management software that affected very large customers and resulted in a claimed 1 million computers being encrypted.

wow, now that's a hack.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Meh...

It looks like a very cold fancy hotel or office space not a home.

Frankly I'd much rather live in my current home than that, regardless of the amount of money I had to spend.

If I had stupid money to throw at a house, I'd want something like the house Dwayne Johnson has up for sale about 3 miles from where I live now.

Except I would want it on a lake somewhere.

i've worked in a house like that. i've never run out of breath walking from the parking area to the master bedroom in any other house, but that one, i needed a breather.

i honestly can't justify any house over 1 million. even if i had the money, i just don't see the point. i'd rather own a barn/warehouse that size. at least i could run go carts/cars indoors there.

but really, if i could afford a $1+ million house, i'd stay where i'm already at and retire to travel the world for a little while.

[nextcar]

Originally Posted by soundman98

i honestly can't justify any house over 1 million. even if i had the money, i just don't see the point.

I kid you not... This fire damaged house sold for $1M in silicon valley. One million does not buy much in large parts of California.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by nextcar

I kid you not... This fire damaged house sold for $1M in silicon valley. One million does not buy much in large parts of California.

I swear I've seen that backyard somewhere. San Jose?

[NoHaveMSG]

TIL that you end up with a giant mess when you forget to put on a CV boot clamp.

FML

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

TIL that you end up with a giant mess when you forget to put on a CV boot clamp.

FML

Augh! Shit. Feeling your pain.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Augh! Shit. Feeling your pain.

Yeah, stupid is as stupid does I don't mind so much I enjoy working on the car.