[Jm_]

Well, either way, I wasn't coming to work. It's sort of a tradition that the president gives the day before xmas off, so it was already a holiday. Not sure which one started it, but at least it's continued. If you have payments due you can get into trouble when these things go on for a while.

Sucks more because sitting around recovering from surgery is real boring and I can only take apart my bearings and regrease them so many times...

At least once again there'll be more work than we can ever get to when we get back...

 

[Toshi]

I find these Wingdings confusing.

Looking to procure a Model 3 before year end. May or may not come to fruition.

 

[jonKranked]

I find these Wingdings confusing.

Looking to procure a Model 3 before year end. May or may not come to fruition.

I hope you're leasing from out of state

 

[Toshi]

I hope you're leasing from out of state

Vehicles in-stock here in Colorado. I called tonight and was assured that delivery before Dec 31 is feasible for the full tax credit. Just hinges on exactly how badly I'll get raped on the Volvo buyout vs. actual residual value at this point.

 

[jonKranked]

Already bailing on the Volvo? It took you longer to get the paperwork sorted than you were able to drive it

 

[Jm_]

I find these Wingdings confusing.

Looking to procure a Model 3 before year end. May or may not come to fruition.

Interesting:

That said, up in Alaska I see Ss, Xs and 3s.

 

[Toshi]

Already bailing on the Volvo? It took you longer to get the paperwork sorted than you were able to drive it

The decision to do it now rather than later is due to the tax credit for Teslas starting to sunset Jan 1. I'll get some hard numbers tomorrow to see if I'll pull the trigger.

Interesting:

That said, up in Alaska I see Ss, Xs and 3s.

I was watching that earlier tonight, actually. I also went by and sat in my former co-worker's Model 3. Long range dual motor. It has adequate headroom and the paint/panel gaps looked ok on his.

 

[HardtailHack]

I find these Wingdings confusing.

Is that what they are? I put it in to Bing Translate and it thought it was French text.

 

[rideit]

Haven’t felt the furlough here yet due to the fact that it is the holidays...I wonder how Yellowstone operations will be impacted.

 

[rideit]

Is that what they are? I put it in to Bing Translate and it thought it was French text.

BING? That still exists?

 

[Jm_]

The decision to do it now rather than later is due to the tax credit for Teslas starting to sunset Jan 1. I'll get some hard numbers tomorrow to see if I'll pull the trigger.



I was watching that earlier tonight, actually. I also went by and sat in my former co-worker's Model 3. Long range dual motor. It has adequate headroom and the paint/panel gaps looked ok on his.

The one thing that really bugs me is all the guys ripping on the interior of the S and other Teslas, as if having a bunch of switches to flip and shit somehow makes a car "good". It's like they prize that over function and ergonomics. Just because it looks "clean" doesn't mean is bad IMO.

 

[Jm_]

BING? That still exists?

I have to explain to our IT guys when they suggest looking on the MS help pages that "I don't trust those guys, after all, they wrote this program...". I usually get a lot of agreement.

 

[HardtailHack]

BING? That still exists?

Yeah, used to have to do lots of copying and pasting of internet deals on my brother's site. For that Bing was better than Google as Google had way more shady gray import stuff in the first few pages and I didn't post any of those sites as they undercut decent companies by using a tax loophole. The Chinese don't seem to bother paying bing coz nobody but me uses it.

I come from a hipster family, everyone bar my sister is still on Windows phones, hahaha!

 

[Pesqueeb]

I find these Wingdings to be fucking awesome!.

Eggnog latte and cookies for breakfast.

 

[jonKranked]

The decision to do it now rather than later is due to the tax credit for Teslas starting to sunset Jan 1. I'll get some hard numbers tomorrow to see if I'll pull the trigger

Ok that part I get but please stop going through 3+ cars a year. You do realize that's part of the problem right? Driving an electric car isn't gonna offset that.

 

[slyfink]

Ok that part I get but please stop going through 3+ cars a year. You do realize that's part of the problem right? Driving an electric car isn't gonna offset that.

I think this may have been posted here before... But it seems relevant.

 

[jdcamb]

Had to wake up early and drive drunky drunkington to work. She lost her car after her Christamas Party?? Gahhhh!

 

[SkaredShtles]

Had to wake up early and drive drunky drunkington to work. She lost her car after her Christamas Party?? Gahhhh!

 

[Full Trucker]

Is this the “Happy Christmas Eve GMT” then?

 

[Toshi]

Ok that part I get but please stop going through 3+ cars a year. You do realize that's part of the problem right? Driving an electric car isn't gonna offset that.

I'm not seeking an electric car to save the planet. I think that's futile. I think I may have created a thread about that. Instead I like how they drive, and their environmental marginal benefits are a nice side effect.

 

[Pesqueeb]

I'm not seeking an electric car to save the planet. I think that's futile.

If you really gave a shit, you'd quit having kids.

 

[stoney]

Working for 4 hours today. Locked in the basement waiting for probably not very much to happen. My downstairs "office" where I work when people are home is a guest bedroom which is currently occupied. Instead of my normal view of the open space and mountains, I get to look at a wall today. Great.

Took Haley to a park yesterday that has a ton of cement climbing walls that are built like natural terrain really, really well. She spent half her park time (over 45min) just climbing on the walls. My Dad, who was a spelunker back in his youth and helped mapped caves for the Park Service, was really surprised by her climbing. He hadn't seen her climb yet and thought that I was just over selling her ability. She was in her Converse and was getting pretty pissed when she couldn't toe into cracks or get onto little nubs with her feet. I hate to say it, but she's far better climbing than she is on her bike with far less effort. I think that and skiing are really her sports.

 

[stoney]

I'm not seeking an electric car to save the planet. I think that's futile. I think I may have created a thread about that. Instead I like how they drive, and their environmental marginal benefits are a nice side effect.

Have you done the math on panels yet?

 

[StiHacka]

Baby Jesus arriving tonight.

 

[eric strt6]

Work sucks

 

[Full Trucker]

If you really gave a shit, you'd quit having kids.

I think it’s pretty apparent that @Toshi’s Give-a-shit-o-Meter is perpetually pinned at exactly “Zero Fucks Guven”.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Time to break this out again.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

...

 

[StiHacka]

Ecars: tax subsidies for the 1%, dedicated parking spots for people who don't need them, soon coming dedicated tunnels leaving the 99% of the plebs out. Save the planet my ass.

 

[Toshi]

If you really gave a shit, you'd quit having kids.

Save the planet, kill yourself.

Have you done the math on panels yet?

Already have 2.6 kW on the roof of the house. The rest of our electricity used to be offset by wind RECs, and as of next month will be offset by our share of a 50 MW (!) solar farm run by Xcel. Except for a gap these last few months our electricity is zero carbon, for what that's worth.

I think it’s pretty apparent that @Toshi’s Give-a-shit-o-Meter is perpetually pinned at exactly “Zero Fucks Guven”.

I am like the honey badger. Also note that I help prolong the lives of the ailing, thus increasing carbon load. Much better environmentally to let everyone die. Many of these studies are performed on machines that rely on liquid nitrogen-cooled superconducting magnets.

It's not a sustainable place we've backed ourselves into.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Save the planet, kill yourself.

 

[slyfink]

I'm not seeking an electric car to save the planet. I think that's futile. I think I may have created a thread about that. Instead I like how they drive...

I'm with you on that. my buddy gave me a lift yesterday on his Bolt. It's so nice how they can pre-heat the car before getting in, without idling,from your phone. Torque off the line is nice, as is on-ramp acceleration. The Bolt''s suspension is pretty taught, so it rides a little like a go-kart. I find that fun.

 

[StiHacka]

A picture with my office.

 

[Pesqueeb]

A picture with my office.

Coincidence?

 

[I Are Baboon]

Ski day!

 

[rideit]

I have to go to the post office right now.
Think it will be nucking futz?

Hunh...I was the only one in line.

 

[dan-o]

 

[HardtailHack]

I spent Christmas Eve evening welding up a spit for a 44 gallon drum BBQ, it spins on a 20mm hub that has been chopped in half and affixed to each end of the drum.

 

[Nick]

It's not a sustainable place we've backed ourselves into.

You're right. It's best that nobody does anything.

I'll be building power plants, where the wind goes in one side and comes out the other side the same color.

 

[Toshi]

You're right. It's best that nobody does anything.

I'll be building power plants, where the wind goes in one side and comes out the other side the same color.

Note that I'm not rolling coal myself. I just support a realistic skepticism. The world is going to get warmer. The seas will rise. Instead of hoping that magically all worldwide carbon dioxide production/release from its current liquid or solid forms will cease by 2050 and we cap at 1.5C rise I think efforts would be better spent on mitigation for what will happen.