OT: That didn't take very long!

I'm having fun. Are you having fun?

But why would anyone want to do that? Hundreds of hours of dirty work for a few seconds of front wheels up? Bizarre.

Fuel dragsters are even stranger. The mean run time between engine explosions must be 50 seconds. Blowing up the occasional mosfet is trivial in comparison.

I love my car. Do you love your car?

More like the Volvo owners.

Yeah, I'm having fun. Getting ready to drive my Tesla.

John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Nwadays, it costs money to enjoy a hobby. Back in the sixties and seventies, folks had garages and engines could be had for a few dollars.

Some could not afford RC planes and cars and demolition derbies and drag races was what were embraced.

You not seeing man for what he is or was is what is bizarre.

And *your* 'normal' is far off the mark from the common 'normal' of the days when you came up. You're an oddball.

Absolutely, I'm one of the weirdest people who post to s.e.d.

I actually design electronics.

Me too. I love violent motion... roller coasters, cars, motorcycles, skiing steep stuff. I've been on small boats and big ships in storms and never got seasick.

I think that's correlated with electronic design. Riding a dirt bike on hills, or skiing over bumps, feels just like waveforms to me. It's all dynamics.

AlwaysWrong thinks an AMC Gremlin is a "muscle car". LOL! That's funny, even for an AlwaysWrong post!

You're right, all the way around. I had a '70 POS Gremlin. They were manufactured rusty.

The most appropriately named car ever build.

Evidently it takes a lot of preparation.

You are *ALWAYS* wrong, AlwaysWrong. The Gremlin was the biggest POS ever built. ...and there was a lot of shit built by Detroit in the '70s.

AlwysWrong.

Subaru owners are plenty smug.

All that charging and route planning is most of the fun.

What makes you weird, though, is that you go to a sci.* newsgroup and slander scientists...

I like the way Larkin posts two totally unrelated statements and then says nothing else about them.

Actually the second one is not completely correct. It should read, "The only thing I know about is designing electronics".

It was a bit more than usual. I had to do some laundry before I packed my bag.

Coming down last week I met a very pretty girl while charging. I had talked to her before and we exchanged emails. I'm looking forward to seeing her again soon. Good place to charge. Filling a gas tank doesn't give enough time to chat.

Umm like.

They had that inline six. those were great. you had to advance the timing, and usually so much you had to rotate the spark plug wires. Then richen up the idle mixture to give it a little more oomph.

So little did I do to this car and how fast it did go.

My Ma had one with the same engine and I did my thing on it. She is like "W hat the f*ck did you do to this thing ?". We are talking with the 232-258 e ngine, 0-50MPH in five seconds. My shitcan MOVED ! I forgot what happened t o it. Oh, I bought another car and sold it to a guy who needed an engine fo r his ice cream truck. Drove it for half a year and mad about fifty bucks o n it I can't bitch.

Whatever, I am going on a tangent and I am stopping.

Now

As opposed to "knowing very little about a lot" like some other people here. >:->

Not exactly. He tinkers with designs until they work. The stories he posts seem to suggest that each minimal change becomes a "new design".

He's not exactly a fount of stories about how some new design insight got turned into a new and completely different line of products.

Phil Hobbs has a different posting style, which does seem to reflect more design content.