Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

They are releasing the first generation of all electric, not hybrid, trucks. There are direct drive at the axels like train locomotives, other configurations spin a drive shaft. Trucking has changed. Daimler who owns Freightliner is delivering in limited numbers. There are six on the road in the US. A charging network is still needed. Their main competition is Tesla who hopes to go into full production by the end of 2020. There have been delays, they were supposed to be in production in 2019. Tesla has a 300 mile range on a charge version for $150,000, the 500 mile version is $180,000. The range of the Freightliner is 250 miles (90 minutes for an 80% charge to add 200 miles). I heard that it was selling for $400,000, four times the cost of a diesel. Nobody who's buying these really cares about the cost at this point.

WOW!

 

[beans-on-toast]

I never saw the attraction of manual shifting. I'm not one for sport driving. In traffic, clutching is tiring work that takes away from simply enjoying the drive. I found that particularly true with my motorcycles, too much shifting.

I think that it's true, modern computers do a good job with shifting most of the time. When they don't, it drives me nuts. I know how I like it to be.

 

[Polish Thunder]

I can hear it now "That's not A# that's 22!"
Lol
Bob

If you are trying to locate a note and then you play B-9....BINGO...you found it and won!

My luck is all the books would be math word problems.

Some math word problem books would be fine, but if all of the books were poetry, they would be for decoration only and would collect dust in my library....unless the poem started with..."There once was a man from Nantucket...".

 

[GonePlaid]

So if there are steampunk bands even before I wonder if there are steampunk bands, might stand to reason someone, somewhere there was a real life trucker who may have gone by BJ and drove with a chimp. I mean, where's the line drawn?

Drove standards all my life and there's a meme about a standard being a millennial anti-theft device. I changed my mind about slushboxes with the Audi S4. Realized its fancy programming actually shifts better than I do. Is a PRNDL the driving equivalent of autotune?

So that's me and two friends inside a Grateful Dead concert when this guy rolls up besides us with an incredible story of how hard it was to get here. And we're looking at each other, minds blown as the band plays because the guy telling us a wild story, and asking questions, and succeeding in scaring the three of us out of our wits is Alice Cooper.

Had to google Ms. Hartman and I see she is not related to Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.

Very different skill set.

 

[GonePlaid]

If you are trying to locate a note and then you play B-9....BINGO...you found it and won!


Some math word problem books would be fine, but if all of the books were poetry, they would be for decoration only and would collect dust in my library....unless the poem started with..."There once was a man from Nantucket...".

"Who kept all his cash in a bucket
His daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nan tuck it."

 

[Polish Thunder]

"Who kept all his cash in a bucket
His daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nan tuck it."

I was thinking more of the dirty limerick, which I can't post here.

Urban Dictionary: Man From Nantucket

 

[GonePlaid]

I was thinking more of the dirty limerick, which I can't post here.

Urban Dictionary: Man From Nantucket

I know numerous versions of that plus variations.

 

[GwenOnBass]

You guys watch a lot of Benny Hill or what

 

[GonePlaid]

You guys watch a lot of Benny Hill or what

Well, nothing recent.

 

[Polish Thunder]

You guys watch a lot of Benny Hill or what

I can't speak for anybody else, but I loved Benny Hill as a child (and as an adult). Vaudeville slapstick humor from Britain.

I tried to find a clip that would not get me banned.

 

[GwenOnBass]

We are all Steampunk now.

 

[beans-on-toast]

You guys watch a lot of Benny Hill or what

Benny was funny, and I watched it when it was on TV. I prefered British comedy shows like Mr. Bean, Are You Being Served, All Creatures Great and Small, Wallace and Gromit, and Faulty Towers more. Those shows had a timelessness of days gone by. I still manage to catch the Three Stooges and Marx Bros.

When VHS came out, I bought a lot of box sets and movies, the rebought them all and more when DVD movies came out. Then along came Blue Ray, I have less of those movies, more music ones. The trouble is, I find that I have very little time to watch them and can't remember when I last did. Like so much of life, it is more about planning to get to things that I want to enjoy at some point.

 

[beans-on-toast]

We are all Steampunk now.

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Ringo had a grey patch, even as a teen. He thought it was from all the stress of illness he endured as a child: a bust appendix that kept him in hospital for a year, tuberculosis that sent him to a sanitorium to recover, and multiply bouts of pleurisy. It mostly kept him out of school. He got a drum in the hospital and caught on quickly.

 

[GonePlaid]

Benny was funny, and I watched it when it was on TV. I prefered British comedy shows like Mr. Bean, Are You Being Served, All Creatures Great and Small, Wallace and Gromit, and Faulty Towers more. Those shows had a timelessness of days gone by. I still manage to catch the Three Stooges and Marx Bros.

When VHS came out, I bought a lot of box sets and movies, the rebought them all and more when DVD movies came out. Then along came Blue Ray, I have less of those movies, more music ones. The trouble is, I find that I have very little time to watch them and can't remember when I last did. Like so much of life, it is more about planning to get to things that I want to enjoy at some point.

My father and I were absolutely destroyed by Dave Allen.(RIP)

 

[Bobhmcs]

Boy, am I glad you didn't make a typo and drop the "r"!

Also, I am blissfully unaware of Mr. Davidson's relationship with Miss Hartley. Perhaps you could elucidate.

Mr. Davidson actually had the relationship with the Mitchell Brothers who produced the Movie Behind the Green Door which stared Marilynn Chambers and in which he had a minor roll as a bouncer who popped a football in the face of the primary "Actor". Nothing really exciting but a known name. Apparently at the time of the signing he still kept in touch with those involved with the Mitchell brothers who had passed a number of years before.
That is how I understand it.
Bob

 

[Bobhmcs]

His first truck was a cab over engine (COE, picture on left) with extra strength rear springs (for a more comfortable ride with heavy loads), but he normally had light loads, so the ride was extra harsh.
His next tractor was a 225" wheel base, air ride equipped Freightliner (euphemistically called a Freightshaker in the biz) with a conventional layout (picture on right) , known as a "coffin nose" or "hood", for obvious reasons. This tractor featured a much more comfortable ride.

A " linear" is an illegal power booster for a "CB" radio.
You can legally transmit with up to 4 watts of power.
Most drivers have their radios "peaked and tuned", that is, hot rodded to put out about 20 watts, to increase the effective range of transmission.
Back when, many drivers ran 100, 500, even 1,000 watt linear boosters that would shred your radio if they "keyed up" (transmitted) within twenty miles of you.
These amps also emitted so much spurious RF (radio frequency) energy, that they would heat up metal parts in the cab.
The joke was that drivers sitting right over one of these were surely microwaving their family jewels and rendering themselves sterile!

Nobody uses these anymore for obvious reasons, plus the FCC has gotten much more skilled at locating these mobile pirate radio stations! Big fines!

As an aside, modern trucks are more comfy than a Cadillac. The driver sits in a seat with air suspension to isolate him from the cab, which sits on an air suspension to isolate it from the movement of the frame, which sits on an air suspension to isolate it from the road surface. Think "magic carpet"!
Advanced aerodynamics reduce wind buffeting, set-back front axles reduce turning radius and effort, 600 hp engines with almost 2,000 lbs/ft of torque pull endlessly. Now the majority of new tractors are equipped with 10 speed automatic transmissions, because companies have a hard time finding drivers that know how to "row their own" (drive a stick).
The trucking industry has advanced, technologically, more in the last 10 years than in the previous 100.

Sorry, I'll let myself out now.
Leaving quietly.
No, please, don't get up.

Thank you so much for the explaination and the effort to post it. Unfortunately that way more than I truly wanted to know. (I can hear my father "Bob shut up and just say Thank You!")
Now I can recite the path that a red blood cell take through the various systems in the body from start to finish but I think your response would be quite similar especially after the waste management system.
Please take this with the humor and Jocularity intended.
;[)
Jocularity jocularity! (For all you M.A.S.H. fans)
Bob

 

[GonePlaid]

Thank you so much for the explaination and the effort to post it. Unfortunately that way more than I truly wanted to know. (I can hear my father "Bob shut up and just say Thank You!")
Now I can recite the path that a red blood cell take through the various systems in the body from start to finish but I think your response would be quite similar especially after the waste management system.
Please take this with the humor and Jocularity intended.
;[)
Jocularity jocularity! (For all you M.A.S.H. fans)
Bob

Humor in a jugular vein.-MAD Magazine

 

[Bobhmcs]

Boy I guess the Social Ostersization is beginning to show in my ramblings.

 

[Bobhmcs]

Humor in a jugular vein.-MAD Magazine

I was raised on Mad Magazine. So sad about Mort. Long live Alfred E. Newman! Who Me?

 

[GwenOnBass]

Technical question for you guys

No not about Behind the Green Door. It's a skill, I suppose, and best left at that.

Do I need a set of higher tension strings on my Chowny? Checked the relief on my neck at the 7th fret (capo at first fret, E string depressed at the last fret), and it's lower than .010 / .254 mm. The truss rod is completely loosed. String height at the 17th fret (at tension) is 5/64th of an inch. It's wearing La Bella Low Tension Flats that are just now beginning to break in nicely. Whatever set, will need a 34 inch winding length and a .100 E string ....

Thankee sai