to which box, aax or ajg?

Post #174,991 by Andrew Grygus 9/18/04 10:26:38 PM Reply	to which box, aax or ajg? So far I haven't found it among the 80+ (in each box) offers to harden my dick and take my money I've recieved since yesterday. Anyway, be glad to see you when you're out here. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #174,996 by a6l6e6x 9/18/04 11:41:39 PM Reply	aax is the only one I know. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #175,022 by Andrew Grygus 9/19/04 5:45:04 AM Reply	OK, found it and replied. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #175,058 by a6l6e6x 9/19/04 1:42:51 PM Reply	All right! I'll be at you place of business by 7:00 PM on Wednesday and then we can go eat somewhere. I'll see Ben on Thursday. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #175,076 by Andrew Grygus 9/19/04 3:58:38 PM Reply	Instructions have been emailed [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #175,082 by a6l6e6x 9/19/04 6:05:44 PM Reply	Got 'em, thanks! Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #175,083 by pwhysall 9/19/04 6:13:27 PM Reply	We expect photographic evidence. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #175,863 by Andrew Grygus 9/23/04 4:01:31 AM 9/23/04 4:06:37 AM Reply	And we have the evidence! Overhead beam and background as proof of place - but was I there? For that evidence you must wait upon the evidence of others (who may have been bribed by the Bilderbergers or Opus Dei) [image\|http://www.aaxnet.com/ajg/alex02.jpg\|\|\|\|] In an act of heroism Alex and his wife (who shall remain nameless at this point because I always forget names the first time), after braving Homeland Security and suffering an airline flight across the entire continent, driving from LAX to Chino, then from Chino back to Glendale, actually arrived here - but 10 minutes late due to a data error involving a GPS device. The lateness, of course, made their timing near perfect. Diner began with a Rasam faithfully executed to a South Indian recipe except for the proportion of Toor Dal (peeled and split pigeon peas) which was acording a Northern interpretation of a southern recipe, making a more substantial first course soup since rice would not yet have been served (in the South, rasam is the second course). Oh, yes, it was also rather light on the chilis for a southern dish, but a little less light than I had intneded (due to over rambunctious chilis). The main course was Soutern Fried Chicken (southern India, that is) simmered in a coconut sauce and served with a side of green beens and potatoes according to a Bengali recipe. Desert was a plate of dates (both fresh from the tree and the familiar dried) with walnuts, pecans and almonds. Diner was apparently enjoyed since all servings were eaten - either that or the guests were unnecessarily polite. Confirmation will have to wait for the guests to post (at least those who exchange private emails with them will know the truth). Given the stress of DHS, flight, driving to God forsaken Chino and back, and being hours ahead of California time, our heroic duo set off for Chino fairly early, which was good for me after a hard day's work since my tradition is that bedtime is after all equipment and facility have been joyously prepared for the next event and there is no trace of the one just enjoyed (except in this case an IWeThey hat). [image\|http://www.aaxnet.com/ajg/iwetheyhat.jpg\|\|\|\|] [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx] Edited by Andrew Grygus Sept. 23, 2004, 04:06:37 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #175,883 by Arkadiy 9/23/04 10:08:23 AM Reply	On the INternet, nobody knows you're a dog I would never presume to argue with someone like Alex in person the way I argue with him here. (not that I intend to stop now) OT: where can I buy the hat? -- ... a reference to Presidente Arbusto. -- [link\|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001417.html\|Geoffrey K. Pullum]
Post #176,524 by a6l6e6x 9/26/04 11:59:17 PM Reply	Re: OT. Are you still on Riverside? Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #176,548 by Arkadiy 9/27/04 10:08:16 AM Reply	As in "street address"? Yes. -- ... a reference to Presidente Arbusto. -- [link\|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001417.html\|Geoffrey K. Pullum]
Post #176,579 by a6l6e6x 9/27/04 12:42:42 PM Reply	Of course! I'll speak sweet nothings in my wife's ear and.. see what she can do. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #176,580 by Arkadiy 9/27/04 12:48:11 PM Reply	Wow. Just... wow. -- ... a reference to Presidente Arbusto. -- [link\|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001417.html\|Geoffrey K. Pullum]
Post #177,912 by a6l6e6x 10/5/04 8:08:55 PM Reply	Sent yesterday. You should have it Thursday, if not tomorrow. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #178,005 by Arkadiy 10/6/04 12:15:57 PM Reply	Thank you very, very much. May I offer ten bucks to your favorite charity? (A beer when you are in our neck of the wood comes standard :) ) -- ... a reference to Presidente Arbusto. -- [link\|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001417.html\|Geoffrey K. Pullum]
Post #178,104 by a6l6e6x 10/6/04 8:57:26 PM Reply	You're welcome! I'll expect to get that beer sometime! :) Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #175,991 by Ashton 9/23/04 5:17:08 PM Reply	I note the splendid work done by that clandestine surgeon, in removing all traces of the h6o6r6n mountings. (Same one as did Humphrey B. in San Francisco? in that unforgettable noir called ___) Your mouth-watering description of umm Tandoori Bubble n'Squeak? seems an entirely appropriate appreciation for our 666-Man's so oft refreshing quippery :-0 Nos compliments au chef Now as to the embroiderer . . . (Proceeds to the Rove Deconstruction Project? Opus Mortificatus)
Post #176,019 by jb4 9/23/04 7:24:10 PM Reply	Cool hat! Yours, or A6l6e6x's? jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #176,022 by daemon 9/23/04 7:28:26 PM 9/23/04 7:29:14 PM Reply	put money on A6l6e6x he's definitely got the equipment, takin orders bud? regards dameon (edit fixed syntax) Edited by daemon Sept. 23, 2004, 07:29:14 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #176,024 by Andrew Grygus 9/23/04 7:43:56 PM Reply	Well, I have one, Alex has one, and Ben probably will . . . . . have one tonight. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #176,079 by Ashton 9/24/04 1:33:03 AM Reply	Holy Fatherland Solipsism - If kids start wearin these suckers backwards - we could land on the AG's No~~Fly~~Breathe list. Again.
Post #176,136 by ben_tilly 9/24/04 10:49:53 AM Reply	And indeed, I now have one :-) And pleasant memories from dinner with Alex and Brenda. They are getting a motor home and intend to do some travelling around the country, so it is possible that they will meet others in a while. Cheers, Ben About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Post #176,526 by a6l6e6x 9/27/04 1:09:13 AM Reply	It was great to finally meet you in person. That thought goes back to my lurking days on IWE. The Thai place you picked had great food. The only way to have improved it, would be if it had been quieter. But, one has to expect the hub-hub at a popular place. Yes, my wife and I decided to get a motor home. We used have a travel trailer when our kids were school age (20-30 years ago). There are still a lot of places to see in the US, Canada, and Mexico and we'd like to be traveling off and on at least 2 month a year. What we're getting is a Class-C motor home which more or less looks like beer or appliance delivery truck with windows. We've ordered it from the manufacturer and expect to get it at the factory in February. We get a half day inspection/orientation session at that time. To avoid California sales (7.75%) taxes we get to be passengers in the motor home as it is driven by an ICC approved driver to Nevada or Arizona. Technically, we cannot reenter California for 90 days after that. Californians must have used a variety of schemes to try to avoid the tax. :) Anyway, North Carolina has a sales tax cap of $1500 on motor homes and that's bad enough. The part I'm not looking forward to is flying to California with one-way tickets while carrying extra luggage and an excitable dog. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #176,530 by Ashton 9/27/04 3:02:32 AM 9/27/04 3:06:45 AM Reply	Peripheral thought (Whatever the red tape, it's Fun to pick up wheels at a furrin factory.) Each time was an adventure - why, at the very factory gate! in Trappe, a cyclist damn near committed seppuku - before mine eyes. CA qualifies as furrin.. fer you Yankees ;-) Dunno what your automotive lore is; apologies if this is all old stuff - thought occurs: engines just don't like to be broken-in at a constant speed. Pity you cannot cruise it around on short runs with stop/go for first 100 miles or so, etc. Those are most critical, abating after a few hundred. Maybe you can prevail on the driver to at least close throttle periodically, for several seconds == this uses engine vacuum to suck a tad more oil to the all-important piston rings. If these don't bed in properly (while the Indium flashing on main/rod bearings is also getting micro-polished), wearing off the high-points on the adjacent surfaces smoothly - nobody I know has found a way to 'correct' that, subsequently: it always burns a bit of oil. You'll be a long way from assembler.. without a "serious" fix-it case, if later oil loss rate turns out to be ~ marginal. Maybe driver can simply change speeds by 10 mph pretty often during first few hundred..? ie. anything but steady cruise at limit. Ah well, never had to break in a motor home; just assume the physics is the same - and only Rolls (used to?) run-in their engines with a dry-sump fixture - constantly supplying fresh filtered oil, as the speed/load is altered progressively: customer could gas it from Day 1. RHIP. (Maybe too, you can investigate that "wings" thingie posted, linked about a week or so ago - claims several-% fuel savings on a New-Beetle test bed - and that the idea can be scaled-up to boxy shapes.) We have to keep zIWE-Lab at the chuckling-edge of New Stuff! Sounds like a fine Hobbitt adventure. moi Edt: replace Upanishads with be Edited by Ashton Sept. 27, 2004, 03:06:45 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #176,536 by Meerkat 9/27/04 4:46:19 AM Reply	I read a great 'running in' story just this morning. In the latest issue of the imaginatively named car magazine, 'Wheels'. It was 1984, and Toyota were launching their lightly-facelifted Corona. To do so, they loaded a bunch of journalists into 20 brand-new just-off-the-production-line Coronas, pointed them toward Alice Springs (basically the centre of the country) and said 'Go forth, young men!' There's no web link(The Wheels web site is marketing-only ans associated with CarPoint. Hrmph.) , and I guess typing in the full article would not be the appropriate thing to do. But to cut a long story short, the lack of a running in period caused the diff oil to break down and escape as a sulphrous stench emanatine from the rear of the vehicle, follow shortly by various scary grindy graunchy noises. And that wasn't just the grinding of the PR guy's teeth. Of course, the journos did drive these poor things at their 161km/h top speed pretty much the whole way (point of note, you can get a 1984 Corona up to 168 if you slipstream 8 of them in a convoy), so it was of course their fault. But still, not the best way to introduce a new model range. (For the record, my 1980 Corona also topped out at about 161 km/h, depiste having a differeny body/engine/transmission...) Anyway, fab magazine, highly recommended if you're at all interested in things with wheels and tyres and engines and stuff. Er, unless their bikes. Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #176,541 by Ashton 9/27/04 6:06:35 AM Reply	Yeah.. the lore has changed lately. Ever since my first 'new' thingie - a Lambretta motor scooter.. everybody had "an idea" of how to break in stuff. Lately though, a mini-science has developed, abetted by cheap borescopes and real measurements (especially by racers and others who Like tearing things apart just for the hell of it). Me lazy. It seems there's a Right-way to break in disc, drum brakes (pads or rotors+pads), as well as some accelerated ways to bed-in a new engine, or one with just particular parts changed. This-all makes sense on the microscopic scale, natch -- it's just that many old husbands' tales persist too. At least I know whom to ask, but doubt I'll be doing this to anything 'new' again. Big penalty for that new-car smell. (Fortunately my now 10-yo wheel-set appears to have been done well, and I hope it will continue via its sexy synthetics diet; I hope never to See its guts!) moi
Post #176,583 by a6l6e6x 9/27/04 1:08:18 PM Reply	These drivers do this all the time. The factory gives them break-in instructions just in case. The chassis is a Ford E-450 with 6.8L V-10 "Triton" engine. I suspect we'll suck the California gas supply dry before we leave. :) Actually, only 55 gallons. Speaking of gasoline, I had a brand new experience (in San Bernardino) while in California. While trying to figure out where to pay for the gas with a credit card, a Hispanic guy comes over with small container asking for a squirt of gasoline! A new way to panhandle. Anyway, it turns out only debit cards and cash work at this place, so I left. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #176,556 by ben_tilly 9/27/04 11:37:55 AM Reply	Solution to the extra luggage problem Send it ahead UPS. I'd suggest to Arizona or Nevada. (If UPS is slow, you don't want luggage stranded in CA when you're not supposed to go back in.) That doesn't help with the dog though. I'm glad that you liked the restaurant. Cheers, Ben About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Post #176,558 by deSitter 9/27/04 11:47:14 AM Reply	Recommended venue Black Canyon of the Gunnison outside Gunnison, CO. Most spectacular thing I ever saw next to the Cliffs of Moher in Western Ireland. -drl
Post #176,586 by a6l6e6x 9/27/04 1:17:03 PM Reply	I know what you mean about the Black Canyon. My family camped there in 1974. It's a quarter mile straight down to the river. The Grand Canyon, while a mile deep, cascades over many miles. Evokes totally different emotions. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #176,587 by deSitter 9/27/04 1:19:50 PM Reply	Exactly! I've camped on the rim. There is definitely a pucker factor invovled with the BCG that is not there with the GC. -drl
Post #176,600 by boxley 9/27/04 4:34:55 PM Reply	ahem, dog... too bad Im so far away Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #176,608 by a6l6e6x 9/27/04 5:10:50 PM Reply	Rofl! Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #176,480 by a6l6e6x 9/26/04 2:53:13 PM Reply	Very nice, Andrew! The Rasam was quite spicy hot on the first byte, but that changed with every successive byte. It was most excellent after the palate adjusted. The entire dinner was delicious. The fresh dates and the coconut based drink (Parrot juice was it?) were brand new experiences. I would recommend The House of Grynus Restaurant to anyone here! :) Indeed, the GPS unit requires a proper address to get one to the desired location. I managed to drop the most significant digit of Andrew's street address. So, after (passing his house twice and) referring to a printed copy of Andrew's email figured out my error. The California "freeways" are something else. Other then when they are like a parking lot, of course. It took an hour and a half to get to Andrew, and a half hour to get back to the motel in Chino. And there's a mental attitude required in driving the freeways. More than once my wife reached for handle above the door on our Volvo, but absent on the rental auto. The cap with the IWeThey logo was something that my wife Brenda made at my request. She digitized the logo design for her embroidery machine, embroidered a piece of cloth, and the appliqu\ufffdd the cloth to the cap. I'll be sending Andrew the pictures my wife took of him and me and perhaps he'll post one. Let there be no doubt, Andrew was there! Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #177,259 by Andrew Grygus 9/30/04 10:20:24 PM Reply	OK, complete set of photos Alex & Brenda [image\|http://www.aaxnet.com/ajg/alex02.jpg\|\|\|\|] Alex & Andrew [image\|http://www.aaxnet.com/ajg/alex03.jpg\|\|\|\|] IWeThey Hat [image\|http://www.aaxnet.com/ajg/iwetheyhat.jpg\|\|\|\|] [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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