Welcome to the IHoP

[dem beats 1,223]

Why is it that when your dehydrated you get the Hershey squirts?

That was a bad evolutionary decision.

[dem beats 1,223]

Thanks Darwin.

Or maybe I just had too many big Oles.

[///M5 2,833]

The squirts in the shifter isn't so good.

[///M5 2,833]

btw, remind me not to borrow your phone to put up to my ear.

[dem beats 1,223]

25% of my day driving and presenting, 25% at my desk. The other 50% in the thinking room.

If I was not absolutely essential for days like today I would have stayed home. Not to mention I couldn't do my job on Friday as the software went down yet wasn't allowed to leave and make up the time on Saturday because I was SOOOOO needed as a CSR for the last hour of the day....

I guess when I fall behind I will have amazing reason. Boo I hate unneeded stress.

/rant

Thanks hop for listening.

[Ohjay 116]

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Ethanol's a joke

Ethanol is great for making power. Not so good for mileage.

True. The idea that it could be any sort of replacement for gasoline in a daily driver scenario is a joke. It is a good alternative to high octane gas though. Equivalent of like 105 octane and costs about the same as pump gas right?

It's actually better for the environment as well. I don't know the exact number, but the carbon footprint is about half that of gasoline. E85 is slightly more. As for cost, it depends. IT's usually around 90% that of gasoline and it contains 80% of the energy gasoline does, so you burn more fuel for the same power, but in the end, you probably lose money. So the only real gain is the environmental effect.

Not at all how I understand it. You have to include the distillation in your environmental footprint and considering ethanol is a net negative that doesn't bode well for the environment. Add to that what it will do to our soil which is already overused and corn being an aggressive crop it really makes no sense at all. Sugar cane is a different story, but we can't grow that...

On top of that building a car to run on a flex standard and that is ridiculous. If you don't gain the benefit of compression then you lose everything that you gain and are now just wasting a shit ton of energy. And then of course looking at how little environmental impacts cars actually have and its just not a logical argument. Hell in LA air has to be "cleaner" coming out of the tailpipe than going into the intake on an average day.

I wasn't trying to make an argument and I simply meant in terms of burning fuel that the ethanol is better. I am with you on the production end. I don't like the hybrids either and all the pollution they create make "green" vehicles, but yeah

[Tirefryr 1,742]

LONG fucking day today.

[nem 2,019]

Sean if you want I can send you some of this 85 orange. http://www.fennerdrives.com/eagle_polyurethane/eagle_nonreinforced.asp#80_85

[dem beats 1,223]

Shifter..... Seriously.

Shitter now it's saved. I've been on winmob for so long and with a keyboard......

Rasafrassin BS auto correct. ......why it allowed rassafrassin, but needed to change Shitter to shifter I will never know. But Shitter will be a capitalized pronoun from now on I guess too. New phone > me

[Luke.H 33]

In O chem we were taught that H20 molecules accounted for something like 95% of the greenhouse effect and the CO2 from cars was something like 0.8%. Considering that, green vehicles are pretty pointless. The only reason I can see to switch from fossil fuels is availability.

[Luke.H 33]

Shifter..... Seriously.

Shitter now it's saved. I've been on winmob for so long and with a keyboard......

Rasafrassin BS auto correct. ......why it allowed rassafrassin, but needed to change Shitter to shifter I will never know. But Shitter will be a capitalized pronoun from now on I guess too. New phone > me

Maybe something like this would help?

(joking)

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

I mean, there are two Darrin Stevenses, right? Dick York and Dick Sargent. Yeah, right, as if we wouldn't notice. Oh hold on: Dick York, Dick Sargent, Sergeant York... Wow, that's weird.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Anything wrong, Davy?

Yeah, I got paid today.

Yeah, I know what that's like.

No. You don't understand. They laid me off. I got one of these.

Yeah, I know how that feels.

Know what I'd like to do?

Yeah I know what you'd like to do. You'd like to find the guy who did it, rip his still beating heart out of his chest and hold it in front of his face, so he can see how black it is before he dies.

Actually, I was thinking of filing a grievance with the union.

Well, the world's a twisted place.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Did you ever see that "Twilight Zone" where the guy signed a contract and they cut out his tongue and put it in a jar and it wouldn't die, it just grew and pulsated and gave birth to baby tongues? Pretty cool, huh?

[dem beats 1,223]

that is one of the most epicest movies ever.

[dem beats 1,223]

If he was an ice cream flavor, he would be pralines and dick.

[dem beats 1,223]

he = Bunjamin

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

A man in Chandler, Arizona, accidentally shot off his own manhood with his girlfriend’s pink pistol.

Ow, my balls...

[topgun 262]

Bronze bushing available for $6

6381K605

http://www.mcmaster.com/#6381k605/=dj7fiy

I could cut it in half. 1/4" gap looks too big to just use tape or butyl.

R2, I imagine its a bitch to make a Delrin bushin of 1.75" ID and 2" OD about 2" in length, no?

Depends on what I have laying around. I wouldn't be able to get to it until ~Thursday at the earliest.

[topgun 262]

Hey guys, I will be in the market for a mattress really soon. I remember you guys are able to really negotiate. What kind of reduction should I be looking for and what kind of mattresses should I be looking at?

Thanks.

Go to an actual mattress store, the hell with a furniture store that sells mattresses.

[///M5 2,833]

Sean if you want I can send you some of this 85 orange. http://www.fennerdrives.com/eagle_polyurethane/eagle_nonreinforced.asp#80_85

How thick is it?

[///M5 2,833]

In O chem we were taught that H20 molecules accounted for something like 95% of the greenhouse effect and the CO2 from cars was something like 0.8%. Considering that, green vehicles are pretty pointless. The only reason I can see to switch from fossil fuels is availability.

Way less than 0.8%

[///M5 2,833]

Bronze bushing available for $6

6381K605

http://www.mcmaster.com/#6381k605/=dj7fiy

I could cut it in half. 1/4" gap looks too big to just use tape or butyl.

R2, I imagine its a bitch to make a Delrin bushin of 1.75" ID and 2" OD about 2" in length, no?

Depends on what I have laying around. I wouldn't be able to get to it until ~Thursday at the earliest.

I think some rubber will actually be better. Found an old radiator hose, got excited as it was 2" external, fit in the rod holder perfect, measure 1.75" ID and then I tried to use it and realized when I measured the ID with the hose in it that I was compressing it more than I could on the round surface. About a 1/16" too thick.

Perhaps I'll cut a longer piece, staple it to a board and hit the other side with the belt sander. That ought to smell good, lol.