Random Thought Thread

[Unforgiven]

I'm pretty happy with CoPilot for my current navigation tool. I can put my phone in Airplane mode and still get accurate redirects. It's a single cost just under $10. The IAP is for real time traffic but you get 1 year with initial purchase of the app.

 

[EarlyMon]

I just got through using it for about 2000 miles and my purchase point is just coming up - I'll ask.

$20 perpetual for navigation, $15 / year each for traffic conditions and speed traps. The last one I don't care about.

 

[Dngrsone]

Couldn't find the duct tape. RTV and aluminum "speed tape" will do the job nicely, I think.

 

[bjacks12]

Don't forget silver spray paint.

 

[Gmash]

Couldn't find the duct tape. RTV and aluminum "speed tape" will do the job nicely, I think.

I hope you're not working on a plane.

 

[Dngrsone]

No. I should have quoted my previous post-- I have a cracked intake hose. Replacement hose won't arrive until next week, and I have a good thousand miles of driving to do over the next few days.

Rather than stare at a check engine light and lose some fuel economy, I glued the hose together and taped it up with speed tape (expired, not for use on aircraft; perfectly fine for use on a privately owned automobile).

 

[mikedt]

I hope you're not working on a plane. [emoji14]

That's Air Koryo in North Korea does things like that. An airline that's banned from European airspace, but China and Russia aren't quite so fussy.

 

[Dngrsone]

That's Air Koryo in North Korea does things like that. An airline that's banned from European airspace, but China and Russia aren't quite so fussy.

I have a coworker who has a bumper sticker from Aeroflot; it shows them strapping cargo to the top of one of the wings and other silly stuff like that.

 

[no one]

I imagine I looked pretty stupid. My phone did not like it there, the battery was usually drained by 1 or 2 pm, so paper it was.

EDIT: On second thought, as stupid as I probably looked, it was dwarfed in comparison by how stupid some of the locals looked.

Stupidity pales in comparison to willful ignorance.

 

[mikedt]

I have a coworker who has a bumper sticker from Aeroflot; it shows them strapping cargo to the top of one of the wings and other silly stuff like that.

There's a fairly recent story about some cargo 747 taking off from China with only three working engines. Apparently a front turbine was all chewed-up and vibrating badly, so they tied it in place with seatbelts to stop it windmilling, and they took off for a European destination, only three working engines. It eventually ran low on fuel because of the increased drag, has to land Germany, pilots hoping for a quick fuelling stop. It was promptly grounded, requiring that three engines be replaced. I'll find the original article later.

BTW I much prefer to travel by train in China, rather than flying, it's much batter.

North Korea really are make do and mend on antique Soviet made planes, because that's all there is. And China and Russia are their only destinations AFAIK. Most of Aeroflot's fleet are new Airbus and Boeing planes these days. Many of the old Tupolevs and things are now flying around in Africa.

 

[Kaat72]

During our car trips in the US in '11 and last September we followed the old Route 66 from time to time.
Good to see they are restoring it here and there.

 

[mikedt]

Matter how the black stool.

...and I thought it was a beauty products catalogue they stuffed in my letterbox...it's talking about poop problems. ... and I don't have piles either.

 

[Dngrsone]

Interesting... I can push-install Google Play apps from my laptop to my phone.

That means Google knows far too much about me.

 

[Clementine_3]

I do that a lot because it's easy and I'm too lazy to bust my phone out sometimes.

 

[Unforgiven]

Interesting... I can push-install Google Play apps from my laptop to my phone.

That means Google knows far too much about me.

That has been around for a couple of years. I frequently push apps to my N7 at home while I'm at work.

 

[Dngrsone]

Well, it's new to me. [emoji14]

Actually, my work computers don't know my private email accounts &etc, and that's the way I like it. So, if I'm at work and find something, then I have to break out my phone.

 

[bjacks12]

That's been around as long as I've had android.

80% of my app installs are done from my PC, because it allows me to easily push them to both my phone and tablet.

 

[Bearsyzf]

How before we can smell food through our TV's and phones is what i'm wondering ?

 

[Dngrsone]

How before we can smell food through our TV's and phones is what i'm wondering ?

Hopefully not until I'm well-dead. There's too much perfume and stinky stuff in the world as it is, for my liking.

 

[Unforgiven]

In morse code the word dot has two dots and the rest of the word is dashes, while the word dash has two dashes and the rest of the word is dots.

 

[huh]

So I'm sitting in Target parking lot loading stuff on to my cartwheel app and I'm hearing something that sounds like ..a mouse? chipmunk? something...chewing scratching..etc in the back trunk?? I have a jeep so it's open to the rest of the car..anywayWTWhat?? when I make a noise it stops...no way..it can't be.... must be going crazy..still..not gonna go look no way no how

 

[Dngrsone]

So I'm sitting in Target parking lot loading stuff on to my cartwheel app and I'm hearing something that sounds like ..a mouse? chipmunk? something...chewing scratching..etc in the back trunk?? I have a jeep so it's open to the rest of the car..anywayWTWhat?? when I make a noise it stops...no way..it can't be.... must be going crazy..still..not gonna go look no way no how

Got Cat?

 

[huh]

2!! But they are home and I'm in a target parking lot oh !! I see what you are getting at!! no way Oliver will go in the car Malcolm in the other hand routinely jumps into anyone and everyone's car !
I have visions of me driving home and a deer popping up next to me like in the Movie Tommy Boy !![emoji13][emoji13]

 

[Revenant Ghost]

2!! But they are home and I'm in a target parking lot oh !! I see what you are getting at!! no way Oliver will go in the car Malcolm in the other hand routinely jumps into anyone and everyone's car !
I have visions of me driving home and a deer popping up next to me like in the Movie Tommy Boy !![emoji13][emoji13]

Well huh, you do have a way with animals. I just can't quite pinpoint what that is though.

 

[mikedt]

Nine Air China 737s in an hour. This place is becoming somewhat busy these days.