midwestgak 3/16/2020 5:06:17 PM

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What is the crisis about?

- - (overheard customer comment)

midwestgak 3/16/2020 5:07:57 PM

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JCM 3/16/2020 5:10:24 PM

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Syrah 3/16/2020 5:10:47 PM

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Are we all dead yet?

I bought some Corona Beer as an act of defiance.

Beer is good. 

midwestgak 3/16/2020 5:21:56 PM

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In #4 Syrah said: Beer is good. 

I think so too. Sadly, OR's boozenook is out of his fav-Dogfish.

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 5:23:00 PM

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In #2 midwestgak said: Kosh, sad sad pic and poignant.

Wasn't meant to be, but it did turn out that way.

buzzsawmonkey 3/16/2020 5:28:25 PM

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KEEP CALM 

AND

CARRY OUT

midwestgak 3/16/2020 5:30:10 PM

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Reply to JCM in 3: 

What about "social distancing?"  Isn't that the answer?  Oh, and 20-second hand washing and coughing into you elbow and hoarding toilet paper and all things edible?

I'm so confused.  Can I get paid for not working now?  So much money has been allocated.

Where oh where will it ALL go?

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 5:30:26 PM

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Day 1 of working at home. I've worked at home before, but I had more trouble getting started, and our online meeting took a while to get started - conference line problems.

I have a not large desk with 2 24" monitors and a computer, keyboard, mouse, HID card reader (needs to read the chip in my badge so I can log in; yes, we do need steeeking badges)

Barely room for me, and the monitors frighten the dogs for some reason.

midwestgak 3/16/2020 5:36:08 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

Did tonight.  McD's hotcakes and sausage.  Sometimes I like breakfast for dinner.

And, did not want to tap into my cupboard stash of two cans of soup.  Might need that when other food sources aren't available.

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 5:37:10 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 8:

The Chinese are trying to blame it all on a deliberate release of a bioweapon by the US Army in Wuhan.

I don't think many people believe it.

But I think there is a germ of truth. No, not a bioweapon release, and certainly not by the US.

But maybe someone got infected by a harmless coronavirus that contained genes being tested for a bioweapon -

Long period of contagiousness before symptoms, so the disease spreads.

Ability to hide from the immune system (people have had relapses)

And that person got infected by the Pangoling coronavirus. Some cells got infected by both, and the resultant viruses included both sets of DNA.

No US DNA. Fully slanty-eyed chink DNA

And they desperately to hide this

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 5:40:18 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 10:

I always associate Hotcakes with Green Acres.

Video

midwestgak 3/16/2020 5:43:35 PM

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In #11 Kosh's Shadow said: Fully slanty-eyed chink DNA

Reminds me of WWII JAP cartoons, back in the day.

Oops.  Politically incorrect!  

There.  I said it.

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 6:04:40 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 13:

Many years ago, when there was a computer company Wang, there may have been an ad for them that said "Wang: A chink in IBM's armor"

Not sure if that was true.

Then Wang went down the tubes and its remnants were bought by IBM,

And I was working for Digital Equipment Corporation, having problems of its own.

The joke was "What's the difference between Wang and Digital?"

"About 5 years"

buzzsawmonkey 3/16/2020 6:20:10 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

Wang would have done better if they'd brought out a computer called the Wang Dang-Doodle.

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 6:24:38 PM

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In #15 buzzsawmonkey said: Wang would have done better if they'd brought out a computer called the Wang Dang-Doodle.

Wouldn't have been able to count beyond 21

This was their first product - a calculator. The main box could support up to 4 calculators

Syrah 3/16/2020 6:33:17 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 4:

...and I got my truck back. It seems that a working fuel pump is important to keeping the big beast happy  

I am back in business.

Yay!

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 7:07:27 PM

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In #17 Syrah said: It seems that a working fuel pump is important to keeping the big beast happy

And not that expensive as vehicle repairs go.

Syrah 3/16/2020 7:30:32 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18:

starting with the cheapest parts first, I asked them to check to see if air is getting in the fuel line. I also asked them the replace the fuel filter, kind of to force hands on the system. Also, the fuel filter is one of the cheapest parts in the system, and apparently if it gets an air bubble in it, it would cause problems that sound like or are similar to what I was experiencing. 

So they tested the lines for pressure and determined that the fuel pump was just not up to the task (0 psi output). Which I don’t fully understand unless the pump was working intermittently.  With it replaced,(10 psi output) everything seems to be working.

i am trying to understand how a Diesel engine works. It is a little different from everything I vaguely understand about gasoline engines.

I like the simplicity of no spark plugs. Simplicity is good. 

Syrah 3/16/2020 7:33:11 PM

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If I sit out front of Costco and ask for $100/roll of TP, will I be taking advantage of natural market forces, or price gouging?

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 7:40:01 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 19:

Diesel engines require high fuel pressure because diesel fuel is not as volatile as gasoline (not that 0 psi would work in a gas engine, either)

They have high compression, so the temperature due to the compression is enough to ignite the diesel fuel injected under high pressure.

In a gasoline engine, the fuel/air mixture is injected in the intake stroke (low pressure;  the piston is sucking in whatever it gets). Then the compression stroke, and then ignition.

In a diesel, only air comes in the intake stroke. The high compression increases its temperature so much that when the fuel is injected (and the pressure in the cylinder is high), the fuel ignites to generate the power.

Syrah 3/16/2020 7:49:48 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 21:

My guess is that the fuel pump was working intermittently, possibly affected by the temperature of the engine block in some way.

i really want to believe that this fix will solve the problem. My bank account says it better be the right fix since there is nothing left to work with money wise. I am broke. If these were normal times, I would be able to get some sales fairly quickly. 

I am a little worried that we are in for a long term shock to the economy. I may have to improvise. I may even have to get a real job, if one can be gor. 

Syrah 3/16/2020 7:54:34 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 22:

“got” not got”. Gor is a terrible place and a pretty awful set of books, even if they do closely mirror how congressional legislation is loaded up with pork and other horrors.  

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 7:56:15 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 22:

Fuel pumps can become intermittent. I am not as familiar with those for diesel engines, and I'm not an expert on those on gas engines, either.

But fuel pump failures are common;  I have seen enough to know that.

lucius septimius 3/16/2020 8:06:20 PM

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In #14 Kosh's Shadow said: Many years ago, when there was a computer company Wang, there may have been an ad for them that said "Wang: A chink in IBM's armor" Not sure if that was true.

I learned SSPS on a Wang terminal -- wrote my doctoral exams on one as well.

midwestgak 3/16/2020 8:12:22 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 25:

How are doing, kids at home with school work etc?

Kosh's Shadow 3/16/2020 8:31:02 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 25:

Wang was killed by A. N. Wang's hand chosen #1 son successor. He had no chips off the old block.

lucius septimius 3/16/2020 9:17:34 PM

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Reply to midwestgak in 26:

Their school had everything in place already, and the kids are used to doing work remotely.  The only snag today was that youngest boy couldn't log on to his account, but we got that straightened out.