Posts by MJI 6875 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009
Gaming.
But a lot of us are happy with consoles. It is not a poor relation. Just different.
Some people may say what about keyboard and mouse, to me that is too much like work.
As to game availability, there are many many games console only which PC players often miss.
Windows is not needed.
My current car is a change over model from basic minimum electronics to full on lots of them.
Lots of ECUs all doing different jobs, only accessable through an OBD styled non OBD compliant port.
It would be drivable with only 3 operating (security, engine, electronic automatic) but the ABS and suspension ones can fail but car still driveable.
I looked at the replacement models but put off by failing cranks, even more electronics with no manual way past (eg hand brake), and weight.
The latest keyless entry and starting does worry me a lot.
But almost all parts are still available. So I reckon this will last until I retire.
I had a car with EFI and no cat.
Was fine.
There was a carb model with poxy little engine, poxy with basic injection, but the biggest 4 cylinder EFI engine was so much better. Any differenences in manufacturing costs were all down to Bosch.
When cats hit they got detuned, I deliberately bought pre cat to get the higher compression.
With good binoculars.
You can see ships appearing over the horizon.
You see the top first (sails if a sailing ship).
If someone wants to fund me a trip to Cornwall in the summer I will spend a week researching it.
I will need my assistants.
I reckon £2000 will cover rental of place and food.
It felt like this.
Hitch up and as soon as we had left our town we were on holiday.
Route planning came down to who sold LPG (M5 Gordano was cheap).
Stop where we want.
Need the toilet? We were towing one!
Did absolute wonders to my stress level. Even towing was not hard work, keeping my speed down was the hardest job.
Our first post caravan holiday was not as relaxed, strange bed, toilet, and my wife moaned about 3 figure cruising speeds. (That car was quick. RIP)
When you have trouble learning new things, or as I put it.
"Why do I have to learn a new way of doing something, when the old way worked for 20 years?"
I am trying to work out why latest work Android phone is so different to my previous work Android phone.
Or that I gave up with Windows 7 mail client and stuck Thunderbird on for news group access as it was similiar to use to Outlook Express.
My boss is thinking of getting us some advanced Excell training (the MS version of Lotus123) but I said I want basic training.
He asked why?
I said I just cannot get on with them, they confuse me and annoy me, they are just a pain.
I have been in IT over 3 decades and cannot drive a spreadsheet. Everytime I had to deal with data I just wrote a program to do it.
I had to do this with some electronics.
Removed hard disk
Put on ground
Parked on it
Chucked in electronics skip.
Served me right for not getting a Humax then, as the manufacturers refused to update the Freeview box firmware, even though hardware was OK.
Learnt my lession, only buy Humax PVRs now.
Work Christmas meal, a small puddle of slop with cream, bacon, some other shit and a bit of sprout.
Ughh.
Please note
Not everyone hates sprouts.
Not everyone likes bacon.
Not everyone wants cream in their roast.
Oh also insufficient potatos and the turkey was not great.
Food fads drive me mad, there are a lot of foods i do not like and they keep infecting things I do like.
Bacon, thin strips of fatty pork (I can't eat lumps of fat) fills with preservatives turned into hard chewy things.
Ham, a piece of pork ruined. We have freezers, stick pork in there and roast it don't fill it full of chemicals.
Peas with everything, I hate them, if a meal comes with them I ask for an alternative (usually sweetcorn) but why not steak chips and sprouts?
Why does a chicken need to be wrapped in salted smoked very fatty pork strips?
Why do nice juicy butchers sausages need the same?
They don't.
It would be easier to be a veggie than a bacon hater.
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