You said rape twice.
You said rape twice.
Over half of Goldwing sales are DCTs. Most NC750s were being sold with the DCT, so the manual was dropped, at least in Canada. IIRC ~40% of Africa Twins are sold with a DCT.
They work very well now, unlike the old Hondamatics, which were awful.
Edit. With everyone and their dog offering quick-shifters, even the manuals aren’t really that manual anymore.
The only other book I struggled with was Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The travel-log sections were entertaining, and the relationship with his son was interesting, but the discussions on the nature of quality were completely lost on me.
I did get through Zen on the second attempt because I thought it was worth it. I saw no value in Atlas Shrugged at all.
Very early on in my career in consulting engineering, I had an architect tee-off on me for changing the ceiling heights of the office space she’d designed.
I’m electrical, all I was concerned with was circuiting her lights, that was it. I had documentation showing that I’d worked off of exactly the same ceiling heights she had sent me. Heights that she’d apparently changed somewhere along the line without informing the client, who was an international conglomerate, and notoriously picky to work for.
That could have blown over, had she not berated me over email while CCing the client, my management and just about anyone else involved with the project. I made sure to “reply all” showing where the change had happened. She was replaced on the project the following week.
After that I stuck to industrial projects, where the buildings were non-descript concrete and steel boxes with no architectural involvement.
I remember not picking up another book for some time after finishing Shogun. I wanted to hang onto it as long as I could. It’s epic.
Dad had an interesting career. Started as an office clerk for a railway with only high school education. Then he got into using an IBM 650 (IIRC) for doing freight rate calculations. How he managed that transition, I have no idea. He didn’t care for being cooped up all day flipping switches, dealing with punch cards and tapes.
He switched to marketing and got on there very well and retired after 37 years as a regional director.
He always has a book on the go, even now at 83. He has an eclectic pile of them that he kept, from Zane Grey to an early history of the Civil War written around 1870.
Back when I was in junior high in the early 1980s, I found a copy of Atlas Shrugged on my father’s bookshelf, and started reading it. I can’t remember how far I got into it, but I do remember thinking it was just awful in just about every way: story, writing, pacing, everything.
I asked Dad about it, “Oh, that. It’s terrible, isn’t it?” A friend had given it to him. Neither one of us finished reading it and after that it ended up at a book reseller.
On the plus side, he’d gone through his books and gave me James Clavell’s Shogun to read, which was an awesome novel.
Just going from the website, an F150 Lariat is $68k in Canada, and the Lightning XLT is $69k. If you wanted a more comparable Lightning Lariat, it’s $80k.
Both the gasser and sparky version can be optioned up to well over $110k, which is insanity to me.
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Might I suggest defenestration? It’s super effective.
I graduated high school in 1985. This movie spoke to me at the time.
I rather like kbin and feel no need to go back to the other place.
At least not until it starts randomly logging me off.
PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!
Weak sauce. If they value you, they’ll get in touch. If they don’t, they never cared in the first place so what does it matter?
There were a number of sites that FF choked on, so I just ended up using Edge. uBlock works with it, and that’s about all I need for extensions.
Not sure how people decided that Google is more altruistic with data handling than Microsoft, but here we are, I guess.
Setting aside the Earth vs moon mistake, much like religion, this is an illusion that uses a human creation to explain a natural phenomenon.
Cool photo though.
I got the impression that the “Dark Brandon” meme was an ironic take on all of the MAGA pap being continuously spewed at the time. Some people may miss the irony and take it at face value, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
“Why use 1 part when 6 will be more interesting.” Those engineers? I’m not saying they can’t, but I wouldn’t be putting money on it.
Right now we can’t do fission economically despite 70 years of trying, and it’s basically using hot sticks to boil water. Suspending plasma in a magnetic field to somehow boil water is a whole other level of complexity.