OT - What are you doing right now?

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

WeberWho said:

TideEggHead said:

Just saw where Ford is releasing the maverick in 2022. Base price is right at $20k and the lariat trim is $25k.

It will be interesting to see how the sell. The biggest downfall I think is the 4.5 foot bed. I'd love to see a 6' bed on one. 

That and the towing capacity.  2000 lbs unless you get the tow package and all wheel drive, then 4000 lbs.

Until it can tow 30,000 lbs like a 1989 HiLux, I'm not interested.

Check out around the 3 min 25 sec spot.

https://youtu.be/pUWMc92W1wQ

TideEggHead

WeberWho said:

TideEggHead said:

Just saw where Ford is releasing the maverick in 2022. Base price is right at $20k and the lariat trim is $25k.

It will be interesting to see how the sell. The biggest downfall I think is the 4.5 foot bed. I'd love to see a 6' bed on one. 

I agree plus what @nolaegghead said about towing capacity. I do think there are quite a few customers who wanted something like the old ranger (small cheap work truck). It will be interesting to see if they decide to make a single cab 6ft bed in the future.

Botch

There’s a lot of suburban truck owners who have never hauled or towed a thing.  And I do wish I got better than 19 mpg in my Taco.  I bet these sell like hotcakes, once Ford gets their chips.  
 
My first car was a ‘70 Ford Maverick.  

fishlessman

they need to add the rear cabin pass door to the higher horsepower version like on a hummer sut or the chevy avalanche. 4000 pound tow capacity and the extra 2 ft or so bed space in the cabin would be plenty on a truck this size

GrateEggspectations

Botch said:

There’s a lot of suburban truck owners who have never hauled or towed a thing.  And I do wish I got better than 19 mpg in my Taco.  I bet these sell like hotcakes, once Ford gets their chips.  
 
My first car was a ‘70 Ford Maverick.  

This yours, @Botch? If so, 19mpg sounds pretty decent. 

nolaegghead

GrateEggspectations said:

Botch said:

There’s a lot of suburban truck owners who have never hauled or towed a thing.  And I do wish I got better than 19 mpg in my Taco.  I bet these sell like hotcakes, once Ford gets their chips.  
 
My first car was a ‘70 Ford Maverick.  

This yours, @Botch? If so, 19mpg sounds pretty decent. 

First, they make fuel out of corn, now body panels....what next?!

GrateEggspectations

nolaegghead said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Botch said:

There’s a lot of suburban truck owners who have never hauled or towed a thing.  And I do wish I got better than 19 mpg in my Taco.  I bet these sell like hotcakes, once Ford gets their chips.  
 
My first car was a ‘70 Ford Maverick.  

This yours, @Botch? If so, 19mpg sounds pretty decent. 

First, they make fuel out of corn, now body panels....what next?!

I’m guessing it’s fuelled by refried beans, but the emissions are terrible. 

nolaegghead

GrateEggspectations said:

nolaegghead said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Botch said:

There’s a lot of suburban truck owners who have never hauled or towed a thing.  And I do wish I got better than 19 mpg in my Taco.  I bet these sell like hotcakes, once Ford gets their chips.  
 
My first car was a ‘70 Ford Maverick.  

This yours, @Botch? If so, 19mpg sounds pretty decent. 

First, they make fuel out of corn, now body panels....what next?!

I’m guessing it’s fuelled by retried beans, but the emissions are terrible. 

Not all bioreactors are pleasant.  In fact, none of them are.

lkapigian

This just arrived

lousubcap

Someone and ones are gonna be enjoying quite the banquet right there.  
I need to give Wild Fork a shot.  

GrateEggspectations

@lkapigian: Nice haul. Never heard of Wild Fork, but I think I just broke my brain trying to discern how frozen could be fresher than fresh. Seems like it could be a philosophy exam question. 

lkapigian

@lousubcap , SRF only had Wagyu , prime is fine with me, the end product will tell, but service up there with SRF @GrateEggspectations, first time I ordered online I thought the same, this is flash frozen and “ should” be fine not fresh off the carcass , but slide degradation in quality 

SGH

Mississippi Gulf Coast (Biloxi) Coliseum. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Just watched the Cardinals season end on a 2 run walk-off homer by LAD.  It was fun while it lasted.

DuckDogDr

@TideEggHead

Both. Work just keeps piling more and more stuff...where as my co-workers do less and less...literally working 30% more than them the next two months and each gets at least one holiday off..I was scheduled for each one
Lost my skit on them at last meeting AGAIN..
Schedule changed that afternoon. 

Talking with the Texas group next month


I do have a hunting vacation planned in Washington state towards the end of the season

DuckDogDr

@SGH

My favorite band. See them in concert in BHAM a couple of years ago

TideEggHead

@DuckDogDr I hear you. Hopefully your situation gets better. We've missed teal season the last two years, it just seems to sneak up on us. I've heard great things about Washington, it is on my list! Hopefully we can get out there in the next few years. We are going out to Kansas in December for our duckcation.

ColtsFan

Installed Windows 11 on my office PC and bricked it. Now it’s time to figure out why. 

kl8ton

 ColtsFan said:

Installed Windows 11 on my office PC and bricked it. Now it’s time to figure out why. 

Let us know how it goes.  I will hold off on installing Windows 11 on production machines until . . . hmmmmm. . . support ends on it.....

I have customer still on Win7 and some CNC machinery on win98, win95, winNT, as well as DOS. . . but I think the DOS machine is sold, it is no longer my responsibility.  

Botch

kl8ton said:
I have customer still on Win7 and some CNC machinery on win98, win95, winNT, as well as DOS. . . but I think the DOS machine is sold, it is no longer my responsibility.  

You brought back some bad memories.  We had the same situation across the Ogden Air Logistics Center, and the director of engineering assigned me the task of setting up all our CNC machines on a network, so that control of the machines could be centralized under him.  Couldn't use the internet.  Couldn't dig any lines (direct order from base Comm).  No budget.  But he kept demanding it.  Four effin' years.  
Need to add my degrees are in ME, IE and Munitions Tech; zero background in comm, software, or electronics, I have trouble updating the OS on my phone.  
It ended badly, and why I chose early retirement.  Ugh.  

Eoin

kl8ton said:

 ColtsFan said:

Installed Windows 11 on my office PC and bricked it. Now it’s time to figure out why. 

Let us know how it goes.  I will hold off on installing Windows 11 on production machines until . . . hmmmmm. . . support ends on it.....

I have customer still on Win7 and some CNC machinery on win98, win95, winNT, as well as DOS. . . but I think the DOS machine is sold, it is no longer my responsibility.  

I have an old Dell running XP with out of date Mikuni software for tuning / diagnostics on my Husqvarna bikes.

nolaegghead

I took my bricked MBP to ubreakitifix yesterday.  2 weeks before they can look at it.  I'm not very optimistic.  First time I've taken something electronic to a repair shop. Usually fix myself.  

fishlessman

if we are going back in time, i have a vertical machining center hooked to a tape drive, hooked to a black box, hooked to a 286 that still works my first cnc. except for the black box, it was free. the tape drive is big like a fridge

lousubcap

Pulling for the White Sox vs the Astros.
Anybody but the friggin Astros.  MLB shoulda vacated their 2017 World Series win.  Park Avenue (MLB HQ at the time) spineless at its finest right there. 

Battleborn

lousubcap said:

Pulling for the White Sox vs the Astros.
Anybody but the friggin Astros.  MLB shoulda vacated their 2017 World Series win.  Park Avenue (MLB HQ at the time) spineless at its finest right there. 

I have a pretty good feeling that the Astros took the fall for a fair number of clubs that were doing some shady sh!t and that is why they still have the trophy. ‘Stros in 4. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Found an amazing new App:. Radio Garden , streams radio from all over the world.  Currently listening to a Pop Music station from Denmark.

GrateEggspectations

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Found an amazing new App:. Radio Garden , streams radio from all over the world.  Currently listening to a Pop Music station from Denmark.

How I am imagining you and your crew lighting it up right now….

Ozzie_Isaac

GrateEggspectations said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Found an amazing new App:. Radio Garden , streams radio from all over the world.  Currently listening to a Pop Music station from Denmark.

How I am imagining you and your crew lighting it up right now….

Where did you find my highschool photo?

loco_engr

Watching PBS News Hour!

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Found an amazing new App:. Radio Garden , streams radio from all over the world.  Currently listening to a Pop Music station from Denmark.

How I am imagining you and your crew lighting it up right now….

Where did you find my highschool photo?

Have you gone with the fluorescent red hair since then?