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Episode: 2859
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Title: HPR2859: 2018-2019 New Years Eve show part 7
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2859/hpr2859.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 12:29:45
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This is HPR episode 2859 entitled HPRNY Show 2018-2019 Part 7.
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It is hosted by Honki Magu and is about 179 minutes long and can remain a explicit flag.
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The summary is, the HPR community comes together to say happy new year and chat.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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Support universal access to all knowledge by heading over to archive.org forward slash donate.
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So, Ms. X, you're in the shipping business?
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I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? We are having a conversation about portable battery charges
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for cell phones. Sorry. You're in, you do work for a shipping company?
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I work for a ginormous company that has their hand in every little pot that has to do
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anything with logistics. They're international. My division is third party warehousing or fulfillment?
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Well, my brother, as I said, is long haul trucker.
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What company does he drive for? Decker.
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You know, I'm not out on the dog carry off in any more because I'm usually chained in my desk,
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but I'm sure we've had the minute timer too.
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Yeah, well, as I said, he covers the only area that he doesn't get into with this company is the North East.
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He tends to stay down toward Georgia and not when he's in the East.
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Yeah, we don't usually do a lot of truckload calls outbound.
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We get a lot of that inbound, of course. Most of the stuff that we get comes in from the port
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or out of Canada. Where's my Amazon package right now?
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I go now. I don't work for Amazon Wing Wing.
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Well, here you go, www.ups.com.
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Actually, my brother has got it tough. He's in a 2019 Volvo truck.
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Stop right there. If he thinks that's tough, right?
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Insert sarcasm here.
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Automatic transmission, air conditioning, satellite radio.
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It's got an APU that keeps the batteries charged and provides house power,
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so he doesn't have to run the main engine and it also keeps the main engine warm.
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And main battery is charged.
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Yeah, you did have a little trouble adjusting to a vehicle with no clutch pedal.
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Yeah, my dad was kind of old school and he had an issue with that too.
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He's back from when they used to have a double clutch and had 18 gears and,
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you know, he's missed one crossing the summit and, you know, good luck.
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But now they're all automatic.
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He said there is a learning curve.
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I wouldn't have believed it, but he said there is a learning curve.
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Well, I believe that this is a second truck with an automatic that he had, but he was saying
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the first time he had phantom pedal troubles. And he said, because this is a Volvo truck with
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a Volvo engine and transmission, they're coordinated much better than the Peterbilt that he had
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prior to.
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When I had my first car growing up was a five-speed Honda manual.
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And I remember I used to have to sometimes drive my mom's automatic because my dad would have
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my car for some reason. I couldn't tell you whether this stage of my life.
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And I had a phantom pedal problem.
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And my sister was always the first one to tell a lot of me because she thought,
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very sure, my parents, we live in because I stomped on the brakes that hard.
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But it was looking for a clutch pedal that wasn't there.
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Well, I think they should install a dead pedal just to ease the withdrawal symptoms.
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I think my sister probably would have had less whiplash.
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Yes, Kat, it is a good sandwich. Thank you very much for your interest.
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Yes, remember there's a comb terminals over in Missoula, Montana.
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I always liked Montana.
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Well, it's pretty good. Although some things can be a little challenging with the weather.
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Yeah, I imagine so. But, you know, if you kind of like being a hermit, winter's nice there.
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So, since my brother is basically a turtle, he doesn't really have to worry about it too much.
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Is the sleeper that he's got whether it's a refrigerator in microwave, I think it has a microwave.
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He didn't install a TV in this one.
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He's probably got the internet. He doesn't need TV.
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I was going to say some of those sleeper units are just about as big as built.
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I mean, they're just as big as an RV in some senses, but not a lot of them are that huge,
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but they're all pretty well apportioned.
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I've seen some that as long as you're not taking a family, a six would be perfect for,
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you know, just they're pretty nice.
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It's a hotel on wheels. It should be awesome.
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Well, he, uh, with one of his prior companies, he had a little Chihuahua that would go with him.
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Oh, someone, and I have no idea where I spoke to him. He went everywhere with his wife,
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and he got the extended sleep cab. So basically for his wife to have a bit of space there.
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Um, and that, I don't know, it seemed pretty, it must, I imagined it was fairly luxurious if
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you can convince your wife to come driving around with it.
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Yeah, well, oftentimes all this missing is the toilet and the shower.
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Yeah.
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And I've even seen some of our drivers come in and, and, and they'll tell you they've got a little
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Kim toilet in there, which I'm not so sure is pleasant, but I guess it's better than,
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I don't know, just some people. It's better.
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Yeah, our fellow, a fellow on YouTube called this channel that is called Cruising the Cut,
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and he's on a, a narrow boat, a basically a powered canal boat, and he uses the,
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what they call a cassette toilet. So that would probably work in a truck too.
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Yes, and it's impressive when you realize the truck itself has satellite navigation,
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satellite communications radar, drives itself.
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No, they're working on that.
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They're working on that one.
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Although my brother was in the service of late 70s, early 80s, and evidently he did have to deal
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with someone who mistooks a cruise control for an autopilot.
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There was that person who'd bought an RV who was driving down the road, hit the cruise control
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and then went into the back to make themselves a sandwich. And oddly enough, when they crashed,
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they then tried to sue the manufacturer because it did not say that the cruise control would not
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steer for them. This is decades ago when cruise control was failing you, and they,
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they did win some money out of it. It's one of these stupid lawsuits, things like the McDonald's lady.
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Yeah, but here's the thing. Okay, here's the thing. You're an entire existence.
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You've never been able to push a button, have a car drive itself entirely,
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without some kind of human interaction. Well, I would you suddenly decide that today,
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when you got in your motorhome, you could push a button and everything would work like a charm.
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Wouldn't you be a little leery as a human?
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As said, did my babies in the process for a while?
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Well, actually, actually, my brother helped clean up that incident in the military,
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because evidently, the person who had the accident was
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diplomatic royalty. Sorry, that was probably a bit harsh. I just don't understand how common
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sense can be so uncommon. Well, you haven't talked to a lawyer recently. This person was coming from
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no, common sense dictates they should not speak to them. The middle, the middle east,
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and his jet had an autopilot and he believed that America was technologically advanced enough
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to put it in everything, just because you don't believe in lawyers doesn't mean they don't believe in
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you. I believe in you. I don't. I'm just kidding. Please don't sue us.
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Actually, back in the bad old days, I believe it was illegal in Massachusetts to be a lawyer.
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My how times have changed. Reminds me that Star Trek next generation episode where
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Q talks to Picard and they're talking about the time in history where they killed all the lawyers.
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That was Shakespeare, wasn't it? First, we killed all the lawyers.
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Could be. I don't know that that well. Wait a minute. You don't think Star Trek couldn't
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steal from the classics? Well, they had a Shakespearean actor on there, so
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that's perfect. I just figured that would be his favorite thing to do.
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Make it so. But I don't think you're with the episode. I think one of the most interesting things
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that I've seen was that a convention where Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner has an Ashbee,
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one of my favorite actors since Commander Data has very much the Ashbee traits.
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He spotted Brent Spiner and he said, Commander Data, you're out of uniform.
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I like the some of the conventions where Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner are and
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there's one of them that Patrick Stewart's up on stage taking questions and then Brent Spiner comes
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up and starts asking questions except he keeps going like, okay, my captain, so I've got a question
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for you, my captain. It's hilarious. Captain, my captain. Yeah, he keeps going like captain, my captain.
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It's just brilliant. And then Brent Spiner does a pretty good Picard impersonation,
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broadly enough. And apparently at one point, so Patrick Stewart was married to,
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she was like a producer or something for Star Trek. And at one point,
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she was working late as quite often the actors had to because they're trying to film something.
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And the Brent phones Patrick's wife up impersonating him and tries to say that, you know,
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something's come up, honey, I'm sorry, I won't be able to come and just keeps going until she
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realizes that it's Brent. But you can YouTube these, you should look for them. It's actually very
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amusing. Actually, what I find amusing was finding out which members of the cast hijacked their uniforms.
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Yeah, because Patrick Stewart was chastising the others. He said, I just went and asked if I could
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pay that because these apparently were like $3,000 uniforms that they were wearing. It was like
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wool things like hands made. Look, we have these the same Hollywood celebrities who are mad at me
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because I don't buy a smaller vehicle. And they're a kid starving in Africa. But for the
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prop department to make these one-off uniforms, basically, Taylor fit to each actor cost like three
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grand or some strange crazy amount. And a bunch of the basically just stole extra uniforms.
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Patrick Stewart went up to ask and he said, like, I'll go check three grand, you know, and they
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basically told him, no, he was most upset. He's like, I should have just stole it.
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I wish they would continue with the blunt talk, but I don't think they're going to.
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I know one uniform, which the actress and question, I know I should say actor, but I'm old-fashioned.
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I was a 50s kid raised in the 60s. I still say waitress and stewardess.
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Well, if you were raised in the 50s, even though the decade had six in it, you know,
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for all kinds of ladies, recalled girls, stuff like that.
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And none of them got offended because it meant they weren't old.
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Yes, and you could open a door without having to cover in sensitive organs.
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I think you should just let the door smack every one of those, which isn't the ass.
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Sorry, did I say that out loud?
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Well, that's why...
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No, just on the internet.
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Even better!
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That's why there's a big YouTube channel called MiGtow, which is basically men going their own way
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and avoiding attachment and cohabitation with ladies.
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I just don't understand when everybody got so hyper-sensitive.
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And I mean, I don't know, take a towel and all our go-die quietly.
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Well, there's an interesting, one of my newly discovered YouTubers is a lady.
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This is all one word, blown in the belly of the beast.
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She's a counter-feminist and an interesting and attractive lady.
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By the way, there was legislation in at least one Australian state
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where putting your child's gender on the birth certificate is an opt-in process.
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And they're allowed to change it at a later date.
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Which is just...
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I just don't get it because it's a simple XY chromosome thing.
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And if you don't tell your doctor that you were born, a girl or a boy,
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when they're looking at, well, I've got a pain in my stomach and it's cervical cancer.
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But they don't realize because you turn up and say, I'm a boy now,
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it's kind of important information that they need to know.
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I probably said that wrong, didn't I?
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No, I don't know if you said it wrong.
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I'm just American and you're not.
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I just need to know that we're talking about the same thing.
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Cervical?
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Yes.
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Okay, got it.
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Yeah, maybe it's just an English thing.
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I'm going to say that's what it is.
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Yeah, I'm sure that's all it is.
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And not the amount of bourbon or drunk.
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Also, the tests are different for cervical cancer and let's say prostate cancer.
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Obviously, it would have to be, right?
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But I don't know why, yeah, yeah, I don't get it.
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I mean, don't see why you can't medically be one thing and identify as something else.
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Maybe there should be a space in the birth certificate to say,
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yeah, when you're born, it's that.
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And then sometime later, if you want, you can add on.
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I really identify as this, but you're still medically have all that
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wouldn't down somewhere because like you're saying that it's kind of important
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if you're going to go to medical stuff.
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Right.
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Well, I think about it this way.
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I know this is kind of hyperbolic, but okay, we've all read the stories
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about the people who who think that they're cats or or or think that they're dead.
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There's all kinds of scenarios, right?
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That's the one I could pull up right now in my brain.
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But you know exactly what I'm saying.
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That doesn't change the fact that they're human, but they still can,
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I mean, they're close family and friends if they choose to play along,
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well, by all means, they can call them, you know,
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Felix and pet them while they purr.
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I don't care, but that still doesn't change the fact that they're a human
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female or a human male, right?
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They still aren't they are.
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If you've watched too much too many episodes of House,
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there are some people that are both and they don't realize it until there's a problem.
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I don't think that that's enormous.
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I'm not saying that you do.
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I'm just saying.
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I think it's possible.
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Yeah, it's possible.
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It's just possible.
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Yeah, well, it's also possible that lightning strikes my house right now.
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It's probable, you know.
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Yes, it is left the room.
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And the, the same years that some friends of mine were going through the
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Carolinas and they happened to be transgendered and they were recording things
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and they said, goodness, we're out of North Carolina,
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so I can actually go to the bathroom.
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I mean, I don't want anyone to take anything I just said to me that I'm not
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sympathetic to people who identify as one thing
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and are born as another.
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I mean, there's truly got to be some mental turmoil going on there for you
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no matter what.
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But I just don't understand why everyone's got to be so angry all the time
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if somebody accidentally calls Caitlin.
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You know what I mean?
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And that confuses me up.
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So if I'm talking about when that person won the races,
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do I call him he then or her?
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Because now he's a her, but he was a he.
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But at the time, he was a he.
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So I should call him a he because if I'm talking about
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where I was a kid, I'd refer to myself as a child.
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I'm not a child anymore, but I was back then.
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So I don't know.
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Basically, I'm wrong because I'm a white male.
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So that's all I know.
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Yeah, and another space for that when you're white male,
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just had a space wrong and there you go.
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Yeah, well, Australia has a large program
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to teach young boys not to rape women.
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Okay, they really just need decent parents to do that job.
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I mean, seriously, every child comes equipped with a reset button
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on the back of their head.
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You hear enough times they figure it out.
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Well, the thing is also you have to teach people who aren't going to rape,
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not to rape because you can't teach women who may run into people
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who haven't read the memo to defend themselves
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because that would be un-lady like.
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Oops, I'm not un-lady.
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I'm not lady like at all, ever.
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Well, I have been known to punch people in the throat.
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If you the concept of self-defense cannot be if you to women,
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otherwise they would like they would want things like mace
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or tazers or something so that they could defend themselves
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and act like adults who are being attacked.
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Now, if you define every male as a potential rapist,
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then you can focus on the bad males who,
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who because they're male, they have to be bad
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and they have to be told how bad they are.
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I don't fit into any of those categories.
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She just don't mind.
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I am quite competent at defending myself.
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I can't run and I can't fight, so I don't have a gun.
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Oh, Australia took guns away
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because there was an incident, a mass shooting,
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and they passed it as a health protection act.
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Same as the UK.
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Yes, what?
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People still die in both countries as victims of violence?
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Yes, but you see, also, they made it illegal for anyone who happened to have
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what were formerly legal firearms to dispose of them to anyone except law enforcement.
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You know, I like to get on these topics on this stuff here,
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but if you don't want to own a gun or you're not comfortable with guns,
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or you don't necessarily believe in that variety of violence,
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even if it is to defend yourself, that's your progative you don't have to.
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But don't take that ability away from the rest of us, right?
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Well, in Canada, there was a motion
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to have all semi-automatic firearms kept in gun club vaults.
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I'm not saying I'm against any kind of regulation to try and control
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whose hands that kind of firepower can fall into,
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but I think that we have proven in this world time and time again
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that has single law and instituting bans
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does not keep anything out of the hands of a criminal
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because the criminal will always find a way.
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So the only people who follow the laws are law-abiding citizens
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and they're not the ones you have to be afraid of.
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I mean, yeah, murder is illegal.
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Most will happen.
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Rafe is illegal.
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Rafe still happens.
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Drugs are illegal and I'm pretty sure I could go down to the street corner.
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I need something from.
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It doesn't work that way, I'm fortunate.
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Bans don't work any more than boycotts work.
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It's it's education that you have to follow through or not.
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That's just different.
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There's 30 people from doing certain things.
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And if they're seeing an uptick in gun violence,
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maybe they need to go back to like, okay, think about it.
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40 years ago, there was more there were more guns
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and more homes had guns.
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There are more guns available now,
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but they're not as in as many homes.
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It's like a select few people have tons of guns
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and most households have none or something like that.
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But in any event, I think things are a little bit better
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off than people hunted more and knew more about guns.
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I don't think we had nearly this amount of
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misuse of the firearms because more people knew more about them
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and more people heard them.
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And because of that, the people who would have committed the crimes
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with the guns knew their chances of succeeding
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in what they were attempting to do were lower.
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I don't know.
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I think there might be a correlation there.
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I know correlation is not causation if I subversive,
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but it's something that I think we really need to talk about
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in a public forum.
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Well, yes, if you're breaking into a home in Texas
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where the homeowner may well have a shotgun
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and know how to use it,
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or you're breaking into a home in New York City
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where the homeowner is going to be very unlikely
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to be able to buy or legally own a weapon for self-defense.
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Which is the better bet?
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Well, I can't pretend that I have all the answers
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and I don't think that anyone that's currently on here is either.
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I don't think that for a minute,
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but I definitely think a healthy dialogue should be opened.
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I just don't know that in this current climate
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and this current political scene
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that anything healthy is going to happen.
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That's the sad part.
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Yeah, because it normally turns around someone will look at you
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and say, oh, you like guns?
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You hate children and want them to die.
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Well, wait, where did that come from?
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I got accused of being part of the problem
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because I'm a white male and no offense.
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And it's like, you don't want to help the children, of course.
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Yeah, and basically she wanted to get pissed off
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for whatever reason and I just have to be there now.
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In my mind, you see, this makes her racist and sexist
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because it's my fault because I'm a white male.
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If I turned around and said it,
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drugs are your fault because you're a black male,
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suddenly I'm a racist.
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So in my mind, because I should back up.
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When I was at school, I was in the sixth form,
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which is hard to sort of explain in American terms.
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Think, sort of like you're doing an associate.
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And there was a teacher in that we had a morning assembly, basically.
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The teacher was reading this story about
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there was some shop and they had a rule
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that only two school children were allowed to enter at one time
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because they had a problem with theft.
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Some kids from a local school had stolen some stuff.
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So if they're only allowed to children in,
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they could keep an eye on the children that's a theory.
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And she was reading this story and so what if it was
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the sign said only two blacks were allowed in
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or only two women are allowed in.
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And they said it's, you know, it's not okay because it's on.
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It's just if you switch one for the other
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and it becomes racist or sexist,
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then it was always racist or sexist.
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It's not one of these things.
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It can't magically become this because
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whatever argument is now the power struggle or something,
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isn't it?
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Because why people have power?
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They can't be made,
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that you can't be racist again, white or something.
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No, it's a simple.
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If you change color from one to the other
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and it becomes racist,
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it was always racist.
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It's that simple.
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So turn around and say it's my fault
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because I'm a white male.
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It's racist and sexist.
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I'm an equal opportunity hater.
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I don't care who you are.
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If you're stupid, I hate you.
|
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That's how I feel.
|
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And I'm sorry.
|
|
Guys, I'm going to turn in for the night.
|
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It was really good talking to you.
|
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I hope you still want to talk to me in the future.
|
|
You kind of got off on some topics
|
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that are a little bit frightening.
|
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Happy New Year.
|
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Happy New Year.
|
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And thank you, Mom and Mr. Axe as well.
|
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Thank you all for the jokes.
|
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And we'll talk to everyone in a year.
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Or sooner we hope.
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We hope sooner.
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Or Friday.
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Friday to cool.
|
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It reminds me somebody was saying,
|
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well, if you're hate against the police,
|
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it can't be a hate crime.
|
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Why?
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Because police is not a race.
|
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Well, the definition of hate crime
|
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is against any member of an organization,
|
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gender, et cetera, et cetera, ethnic group.
|
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What have you?
|
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If the police are not an organization,
|
|
so if you hated your local nonprofit,
|
|
that could be a hate crime.
|
|
Well, if you're hating them
|
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because they are belonging to a local nonprofit,
|
|
yes, that's a hate crime.
|
|
Well, then you could have a hate crime
|
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if you're hating the local police
|
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because the police are a group.
|
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But they were saying,
|
|
but there was a female that was saying,
|
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well, you can't have that
|
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because they're not a minority.
|
|
So to be a hate crime,
|
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your local nonprofit would have to be a minority?
|
|
Well, because they're potentially white males,
|
|
which is a minority segment of the population,
|
|
they can't come under the protected minority banner.
|
|
However, the definition of hate crime
|
|
does not say that you have to be a minority.
|
|
It just says you have to be part of a group,
|
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whether it's part of a given church,
|
|
a given ethnic background, whatever.
|
|
And if you count noses among the population,
|
|
the number of police versus the number of civilians,
|
|
if the police are not a minority
|
|
by headcount, I would be very surprised.
|
|
Well, how would the police not be a group?
|
|
Because they're not a minority group.
|
|
They are not a minority gender,
|
|
they're not a minority color,
|
|
they're not a minority ethnic group.
|
|
And then when you had a white male,
|
|
read the definition of hate crime,
|
|
which didn't say that you had to be a minority,
|
|
you just had to be a member of a group.
|
|
The female was very shocked
|
|
that anyone could defend a white police
|
|
or any group that could be considered non-minority,
|
|
rather non-designated minority.
|
|
Just like in the Boston School Districts,
|
|
where the public school population is,
|
|
well, the ones that are left
|
|
are largely, shall we say, people of color.
|
|
Yet those people of color,
|
|
even though they're the majority of the population
|
|
in the schools are considered minorities.
|
|
Also, an incident that happened
|
|
to a friend of my fathers
|
|
who happened to be living in the town near here,
|
|
where they had people from minorities
|
|
from deep in Boston,
|
|
bust into suburban schools.
|
|
Now, what happened was that these people of color
|
|
were wearing, shall we say, black power,
|
|
sweatshirts and whatnot.
|
|
Well, a white woman made the mistake
|
|
of wearing a white power
|
|
sure to have similar design
|
|
into a public school in this town.
|
|
The black ladies,
|
|
all this person into the bathroom
|
|
and discussed the issue physically.
|
|
Now, the people in the Metco program
|
|
that were bust in
|
|
were also under Metco discipline.
|
|
They were not under local discipline.
|
|
So if a white person
|
|
or a person who lived in the town
|
|
who invited these people from Boston
|
|
to come and get a better education,
|
|
if they broke a rule,
|
|
they were hammered for it.
|
|
The people imported from Boston
|
|
were counseled by Metco counselors.
|
|
If you want to truly generate racism,
|
|
unequal handling of the races
|
|
or colors, or what have you,
|
|
gives a dandy way to ensure it.
|
|
Well, in that matter, I think I'm done.
|
|
Hope to see you Friday.
|
|
I'll try to catch up with you guys then.
|
|
Well, thank you for hanging in.
|
|
Absolutely. You too.
|
|
I may hang in here a little while.
|
|
Um, kids should be awake by now, huh?
|
|
Well, I'll hold down the fort.
|
|
Um, I was late to the party,
|
|
so I'm going to be late to leave as well.
|
|
All right, we'll have a good night.
|
|
Happy New Year.
|
|
Happy New Year.
|
|
Is there anybody out there?
|
|
Oh, yes. I'm out here.
|
|
Good morning.
|
|
And now I have the audio turned back on.
|
|
I wrote Happy New Year.
|
|
Oh, thank you very much.
|
|
I mean, I've been holding,
|
|
I'm holding the fort day
|
|
since the Western continued
|
|
failed at Minerva.
|
|
What time is it there, Nick?
|
|
I have a little after six in the morning.
|
|
Uh, Eastling standard.
|
|
Well, it's 12 past 12 here.
|
|
I don't want 47 minutes to go.
|
|
It's a little officially ends.
|
|
We'll obviously leave it running after that.
|
|
Two, was it busy?
|
|
It's been off and on.
|
|
Uh, there'll be plenty of silence to be compressed.
|
|
Yeah, there'll still be plenty of time, I reckon.
|
|
And there'll be, uh, some segments.
|
|
Well, let's say I got a little more
|
|
political and technical.
|
|
So the New Year show is all about the wrecking.
|
|
May I ask where you're coming from?
|
|
Yeah, I live in the Netherlands
|
|
now from Ireland, originally.
|
|
So I live in the Netherlands.
|
|
And, uh, yeah.
|
|
Well, a good friend of mine
|
|
through my college years was from Harlem.
|
|
Yes, Harlem.
|
|
I reckon the original one was
|
|
famous in a wreck in the whole time.
|
|
I don't know, the original one
|
|
or the one in New York.
|
|
The Netherlands origin.
|
|
It's sometimes, remember.
|
|
That was during late 70s, early 80s.
|
|
Yeah, my, uh, my friend had lived in the US
|
|
but went home, did his military service
|
|
and then came back having
|
|
fulfilled his needle obligation
|
|
and that's was free to go to college here.
|
|
Okay, that's, uh, stopped a good while I got.
|
|
Well, as I said, this was
|
|
1978, 79, 80, 81, 82.
|
|
And, uh, also, he didn't mind getting drafted
|
|
when he went home because nobody was shooting at the Dutch.
|
|
Yeah, good point, yeah.
|
|
Which does improve the service situation, indeed.
|
|
Roughly the same time my brother was serving
|
|
in Germany and, you know, Pershing missile unit.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
And did you, uh, served with all?
|
|
No, I did not, uh, I got my PTSD domestically.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
But then again, I have, uh,
|
|
a number of physical issues
|
|
that would have probably made me
|
|
not pass the, uh, the physical anyway.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
So I'm going to go back to bed or still.
|
|
No, I'm going to hang in until, uh,
|
|
at least it's time to shut down and see
|
|
if anybody shows up.
|
|
I don't believe I've had the chance to, uh, express
|
|
my appreciation for finally meeting you, sir.
|
|
Full of, don't overdo it there, um, uh,
|
|
it's nice to, uh, chat with people that say,
|
|
so I do like the New Year show for that.
|
|
And thanks for staying on the whole, uh,
|
|
keeping the thing going.
|
|
That's awesome.
|
|
Well, back in the day, I used to work 4 p.m.
|
|
to 8 a.m.
|
|
Friday and Saturday morning.
|
|
So this is much like what I used to do,
|
|
except much more fun than the,
|
|
driving a security gate.
|
|
Well, actually, it was a stop sign in a speed bump.
|
|
Yeah, to protect and serve.
|
|
Or is the server protected, uh, well,
|
|
the most interesting conversation I had was with a state police officer
|
|
who, uh, had a little problem with, with the rules,
|
|
because I said to him, okay, officer,
|
|
you tell me who you're going to see and I will lock up the gate
|
|
and I will escort you to their unit.
|
|
If you're visiting someone, I'll give them a call.
|
|
And if they would want to have coffee with you,
|
|
it got awful in the morning.
|
|
That's perfectly okay.
|
|
But because you're in an official vehicle,
|
|
I cannot allow you to prop our property
|
|
in an unofficial, official capacity.
|
|
What were you minding a barracks or something?
|
|
I was minding a, uh, condominium complex.
|
|
And it was my job to, when the police had it,
|
|
had reason to escort them to a unit to talk to a resident.
|
|
Or if the police officer wanted to pull in to have a coffee break
|
|
with, with someone who he said was his girlfriend on site,
|
|
I would be perfectly willing to call her up and announce him.
|
|
But one of the reasons they had security was to make certain
|
|
that official visits were official visits.
|
|
All right. Was this like a gaseous community or something?
|
|
Uh, yes, it was somewhat gated.
|
|
It was a condo complex.
|
|
And there were some people, including one fellow
|
|
that was pretty well acknowledged to be a turf accountant.
|
|
Uh, they had, some people may have had reason
|
|
to want to keep official officials at arms length.
|
|
Mm-hmm. Interesting.
|
|
Also, there was part of our job was to try to keep teenage boys
|
|
away from, uh, residents, daughters while they were working
|
|
overnight. Uh-huh.
|
|
Now, how I was supposed to do this while sitting in a gay house,
|
|
some 50 or 100 yards away from the entrance to the building.
|
|
Also, on our complex, there was the buildings on one side of the street
|
|
where under our protection, um,
|
|
such as who was, and the buildings on the other side of the street
|
|
were not, um, so honored.
|
|
So somebody could say that I'm just visiting somebody over there
|
|
and they could just drive through.
|
|
Okay. Yeah. I see a problem with this logic.
|
|
Also, the young lady, most in, in demand, shall we say,
|
|
lived in a unit which had entrances on two levels.
|
|
So you could be, even when we were controlling, you could be dealing
|
|
which we did on weekends.
|
|
That night, you could be dealing with, with the front door to her unit
|
|
and people could be moving in and out through the floor above.
|
|
Security people celebrated this young lady's 18th birthday
|
|
when she was legal to allow her own guests in,
|
|
nearly as much as the young lady probably did.
|
|
Oh, wow.
|
|
Well, they had a pool with a two-foot high fence.
|
|
The problem with it, the pool with a two-foot high fence
|
|
is that it can inhibit rescue activities, but
|
|
is not tall enough to keep people out of said body of water.
|
|
Yeah, probably aids them going into it more than anything else.
|
|
And, uh, also, uh, where we're, you know,
|
|
you're at the gate, you know, 50 yards away, um,
|
|
your ability to control access was strictly limited.
|
|
And I went out some sort of fence going around.
|
|
But then again, a lot of the things in this building
|
|
in this complex were more features than actual assets.
|
|
So, and while we're here at New Year's,
|
|
I must point out, uh, an incident that occurred
|
|
when a New Year's Eve party.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Well, I have to describe the facility so you get,
|
|
get the background.
|
|
You have a cast concrete floor,
|
|
senior block walls.
|
|
The overhead is a overhead,
|
|
uh, the roof of the facility is made out of precast concrete slabs.
|
|
Yeah, I know they, I know the type.
|
|
Um, now,
|
|
Tweedle-Dom and Tweedle D have a beef,
|
|
and one of them is wearing a pistol in a shoulder holster.
|
|
So, they have a beef inside this facility.
|
|
One of them opens his coat,
|
|
his opponent sees the pistol in the shoulder holster.
|
|
During his distraction, the person wearing the gun,
|
|
sucker punches the surprised individual
|
|
who he's having the beef with.
|
|
In that environment, I will say to you
|
|
that using the gun as a distraction for a sucker punch
|
|
is the proper use of that firearm,
|
|
because drawing and shooting such firearm
|
|
is definitely not the proper use of such firearm,
|
|
but distracting your opponent.
|
|
So, he is vulnerable to nature's weapons,
|
|
is if, if anything,
|
|
the only proper use of that weapon.
|
|
Barring, you're going to apply,
|
|
apply it in the Bat Masterson technique,
|
|
which is to say you lay the barrel
|
|
alongside your opponent's head
|
|
until he has no further interest in the proceeding.
|
|
I believe Bat Masterson was far more
|
|
famous for using his pistol that way
|
|
than in a more noisy fashion.
|
|
Besides, cowboys you'd knocked out
|
|
with your pistol survived to pay the fine in the morning.
|
|
Yeah, good point.
|
|
I'm going to go grab a coffee before we close this up
|
|
on the back in a minute.
|
|
Well, this is not a place where you rush very much.
|
|
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
|
|
Good morning.
|
|
Yeah, who is still there, you, that minor?
|
|
Ken is off to get coffee.
|
|
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
|
|
I don't know if he's going to have some Irish coffee.
|
|
I ended up getting some sleep, it seems, so yeah.
|
|
I mean, yes, Irish coffee, that famous invention
|
|
caused by aircraft and the Shannon River.
|
|
Yeah, yeah.
|
|
I was going to be off this completely
|
|
but change of mind slightly.
|
|
Oh, one plus I woke up again, so.
|
|
Well, I used to, every week, I used to work
|
|
a 12 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift.
|
|
So I'm told the end of my tour is a security guard.
|
|
I was working 64 hours a week or something.
|
|
Basically, around the clock, so I'm used to being up at all hours.
|
|
I'm back.
|
|
Yeah, I come a little bit like that as well.
|
|
I can be awake at nearly all hours.
|
|
And yeah, sad returns.
|
|
It must be the New Year's show.
|
|
Yeah, but I'm not keeping it going for another five hours.
|
|
Come on, let's time.
|
|
We have tradition here.
|
|
Well, I was wondering, Ken, was that Irish coffee you had?
|
|
Oh, no.
|
|
Regular old coffee.
|
|
Not after last night's worth it.
|
|
Well, I'm just wondering because I've always been fascinated
|
|
by the fact that Irish coffee, according to what I heard,
|
|
was a side effect of the aviation industry.
|
|
Was indeed.
|
|
I was there, actually, in the borough where Irish
|
|
companies were invented.
|
|
On the Shannon?
|
|
That's the very one start.
|
|
Yeah, as well.
|
|
Yeah, well, that was back in the days when the drink service was
|
|
after you landed instead of after you took off.
|
|
Yeah, correct.
|
|
I think I told the story before here.
|
|
Well, I heard it elsewhere, and I was always sort of tickled.
|
|
Recall it to me, recall it to me.
|
|
Well, if what I remember, and again,
|
|
my memory is none of the best, the flying boats, which
|
|
they used for transatlantic service,
|
|
would land in the Shannon River.
|
|
And after a long cold transatlantic flight
|
|
in the flying boat, well, you need a little pick me up.
|
|
And the Irish coffee was designed so that between the coffee
|
|
and the addition, you would be picked up one way or another.
|
|
I was told the story by the guys on there,
|
|
and they said that the ladies and gentlemen,
|
|
the passengers, were allowed to drink,
|
|
but this is on the way out.
|
|
So outbound flights to Newfoundland.
|
|
But the pilots were not allowed to drink, obviously,
|
|
because hey, there was no such thing as outer pilots.
|
|
And even today, it's considered not very cool for your pilot
|
|
to be drunk, getting on the airplane.
|
|
So they would have coffee for the pilots at the bar,
|
|
and then the barman, whatever it was, would say,
|
|
would you like me to turn that into an Irish coffee there, sir?
|
|
And then they could quietly have a little bit of a warming glow
|
|
before they went up into their unheated, unpressurized cabins,
|
|
and flew the whole way across the Atlantic.
|
|
You're saying that they added a little Andy for you,
|
|
such a coffee?
|
|
That's the body, yeah.
|
|
Right, yeah, Irish coffee, but Ken is there,
|
|
because you're in Netherlands now.
|
|
Is there anything else that you like, really like,
|
|
because it's Dutch now?
|
|
Well, actually, about deviating from the story,
|
|
I heard recently about the Dutch-Jane-Aver,
|
|
or what do you call us in English?
|
|
Jean, Jean, Dutch-Jane.
|
|
You ever hear the expression of Dutch courage
|
|
in the Protestant Catholic Wars?
|
|
Dutch?
|
|
Yeah, probably.
|
|
The Dutch soldiers were allotted a snifter of Jean-Jane-Aver
|
|
before they went into battle.
|
|
So that tradition spread through the armies
|
|
and become a little bit of Dutch courage
|
|
before you went into battle.
|
|
Yeah, as well.
|
|
Given the Royal Navy did a bit of that until what they call,
|
|
I think it was Black Tuesday.
|
|
It was a day, I think, in the 70s,
|
|
when they decided that a ton of wrong and modern weapons
|
|
just didn't go together quite.
|
|
So Seb, how have you been up to all year?
|
|
Not that much, really.
|
|
It's another year gone by in a different place, which is nice.
|
|
Not that far, really, from where I was living for, but still.
|
|
Because I'm in a better location for getting around now
|
|
and things like that.
|
|
Just out of the city, which is very good.
|
|
Is it good down there more than do things as well?
|
|
Yeah, good, nice.
|
|
I'm going to now continue scanning the photographs
|
|
that I started scanning at the beginning of the show.
|
|
I had finished last night at the boat,
|
|
Eastluck, or so I thought.
|
|
And then I found that the box I was pulling all the photos out of
|
|
was actually a top box.
|
|
Because there were two additional boxes underneath that box.
|
|
So rather than being almost finished, I barely started.
|
|
I have here an interesting document from the early 90s.
|
|
It's called Exploring the Internet,
|
|
and the Internet Travel Log by Carl Mellemut.
|
|
And one of the things that he did is so he translated a bunch of
|
|
ISO documents into PDFs and put them on a server provided by Sun.
|
|
And he also gave the ISO PDF documents
|
|
instead of their original data was in some proprietary form
|
|
which they couldn't even deal with.
|
|
But going around the world, he went into the Netherlands
|
|
and he went into a little corner store.
|
|
And he was surprised to find that this corner store was
|
|
was selling a bunch of marijuana of various kinds and whatnot.
|
|
He said that his travel fog brain didn't need any extra help.
|
|
But it was interesting that some places for many for so long
|
|
have had that legalized marijuana for decades.
|
|
No, it's actually not legal. It's just not prosecution.
|
|
Yeah, well, well, this country still gets a frenic on that.
|
|
Because there's a lot of stuff where it's
|
|
state regulations allow it, but the federal
|
|
still consider it to be the evil weed.
|
|
And yeah, and in this one it's, well, they talk about sometimes how it
|
|
could go legal, but it's not going to happen soon, it seems.
|
|
The real problem that they have in America
|
|
is while there are industries, including some providing
|
|
purely medicinal infusions, extractions, etc.
|
|
with no psychotropic properties whatsoever,
|
|
or at least none of the recreational properties.
|
|
Uh, because of the federal view of things,
|
|
money made in these industries cannot be put in a
|
|
fight, the usual financial institutions.
|
|
Nor can it be safely expressed on on federal tax forms,
|
|
which is to say the states are recreating prohibition one
|
|
stated at a time.
|
|
As I recall, it didn't work so well the first time.
|
|
That's true.
|
|
Now we just need a one-to-time as well as in
|
|
when the time zooms get chained for the can and go back hours,
|
|
because this, you know, 16 and an hour of the head thing,
|
|
and what's summertime and market, and then that either moving
|
|
whatever, and then the 12 hours behind thing.
|
|
So yeah, then we'll have a 30-hour day
|
|
for this instead of 26.
|
|
30-hour show instead of 26.
|
|
Did you hear me?
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Well, how is it going to be a 30-hour show?
|
|
I mean, if the time looms mess up again, like,
|
|
you know, like in summertime and the island moving,
|
|
yes, we've got 16 hours ahead, so it starts,
|
|
you know, and 12, 12 hours behind.
|
|
I mean, the time zone will only get affected
|
|
on the international deadline, not on the zero.
|
|
As if Ireland's moved, one, Ireland, or England,
|
|
or Europe moves left or right,
|
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we're just either closer to the east or closer to the west,
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but you're still within that bracket of the 24-hour period.
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Maybe, right.
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Yeah, I guess so.
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But we didn't end up with the 16 hours ahead
|
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and 12 hours behind still.
|
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Yeah, or relatively, we moved across the window itself.
|
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I would find it very hard to see how they could increase
|
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of more than 26 hours off there, fine, whatever.
|
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Just need that last time zone out to be like,
|
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you know what, we don't want to be lost anymore,
|
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or one of them if there's another place, and you can have,
|
|
yeah, so what have you been doing all year set for photos?
|
|
Yeah, it's been a strange year.
|
|
It hasn't been too bad, but it hasn't been the best year ever,
|
|
and of course, I'm hoping that's a good sort of this year.
|
|
Maybe get better or get a little worse.
|
|
We'll get better or worse.
|
|
My personal situation that I don't intend to talk about here.
|
|
Anyway, yeah.
|
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Okay.
|
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I also think net mining might not make it to the very end
|
|
unless the year is actually still there.
|
|
It was valiant, often done now.
|
|
I'm here, I came late to the party
|
|
because I didn't realize it started at 5 AM Eastern.
|
|
Wow, there's 176 terabytes of data sent
|
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over the mobile network of one of the providers
|
|
on Saturday on last night.
|
|
Hundred and how many terabytes?
|
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176 terabytes.
|
|
Well, from this year.
|
|
On one of the providers, probably 50% of the network traffic
|
|
in the Netherlands yesterday,
|
|
during the night, the New Year's change
|
|
had 176 terabytes of data in video messages.
|
|
Yeah, listening to HBO.
|
|
Yeah, sure.
|
|
I'm sure.
|
|
Well, have you looked at the new Intel chips
|
|
where the physical and virtual address spaces
|
|
are going to go from absurd to petabytes of data?
|
|
No, I miss that.
|
|
Yeah, Intel has announced an expanded
|
|
both physical and virtual address space in it
|
|
and it's upcoming chips petabytes of addressable memory.
|
|
Okay, so we've got about 10 minutes to go officially.
|
|
So I think let's have this as a topic at the end.
|
|
So open source or Linux predictions of 2019,
|
|
I can't really think of anything as such,
|
|
so it will have some new devices
|
|
that are probably quite interesting coming out.
|
|
I'm wondering if the pie 4 is coming out this Friday.
|
|
Well, there could be a Raspberry Pi,
|
|
but I mean, what's going to happen here
|
|
is it going to be the year desktop Linux?
|
|
No, it's not.
|
|
Is it going to be the year mobile Linux
|
|
taking over our Android, which is basically,
|
|
we know it's not things like this, you know?
|
|
Is Google Chrome going to lose loads of market share
|
|
to Firefox because, you know,
|
|
maybe that's probably not going to happen either?
|
|
Oh, that's a very depressing approach
|
|
to take what predictions.
|
|
Oh, it's kind of also pointless though.
|
|
It's all relative to the market share
|
|
of desktops are decreasing anyway.
|
|
And yeah, so it's unlikely that everybody who hasn't switched
|
|
already to running a Linux desktop
|
|
are suddenly gone to the side this year.
|
|
Hey, let's listen to all those people
|
|
and put on a desktop.
|
|
Well, the desktop has never gone to take over
|
|
unless you're running Chromebooks.
|
|
Well, yeah, yeah, I agree with that.
|
|
I'm right.
|
|
It's a version of Linux.
|
|
This is why Richard Sawman was saying all the time
|
|
that Linux is not GNU Linux.
|
|
It's Linux, so people ask the question
|
|
when is Linux going to take over the desktop?
|
|
It already has.
|
|
Yeah, now I agree with that.
|
|
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we would have a desktop
|
|
where it's bound.
|
|
Well, mobile, it's taken over already by Android.
|
|
But like, yeah, think of some predictions of the year,
|
|
what you think will happen or might happen.
|
|
That's why I meant actually, actually,
|
|
Google has done the smart thing with the Chrome OS.
|
|
He's while Microsoft has the Linux subsystem for Windows,
|
|
the most current versions of Chrome OS
|
|
have the Linux compatibility layer
|
|
or whatever you want to call it for
|
|
a Linux-based OS, which is an interesting
|
|
and-around people trying to use like Cruton
|
|
to put a full Linux distro on your Chromebook.
|
|
Google has sort of short-circuited the procedure
|
|
by saying, well, just run your Linux applications
|
|
under Chrome OS natively.
|
|
Well, of course, you got to take into account that Google's developing
|
|
their own OS for underlying systems to take over.
|
|
So, if we say, okay, yeah, it's, it's,
|
|
counting Chromebooks, it is the year for Linux desktop.
|
|
Well, how much longer is that going to be true?
|
|
Okay, guys, three minutes and this thing is over officially.
|
|
And Google claim books can well Android apps,
|
|
so that's, well, yeah, more than we'll be able to as well.
|
|
And the other operating system in the works,
|
|
something, whatever was called after something.
|
|
It's going to be interesting to see how the transition goes.
|
|
It's like, well, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
|
|
I mean, over here, but everyone knows prediction articles as well,
|
|
but I mean, Microsoft loves Linux,
|
|
they're apparently open source.
|
|
So, I guess it could be an interesting year to see
|
|
what happens when it comes to Microsoft and open source.
|
|
Business loves open source at the moment, guys.
|
|
Well, I know it's because, I know it's because of that.
|
|
It's because big enterprise won Linux and it was awesome,
|
|
but Windows, they have to play along with that.
|
|
People will follow the money at the end of the day.
|
|
Yeah, money, yeah, money, yeah.
|
|
So, I say apparently love open source.
|
|
It only wins in business interest.
|
|
Well, that is nature of business to love,
|
|
whatever is currently making them a profit.
|
|
Yeah, that's exactly that's the point as well.
|
|
And yeah, it's got one minute to go officially.
|
|
Or something like that of this.
|
|
Okay, by my 2018 for the whole world, I guess.
|
|
And welcome to 119 new slux here on HBR.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Yes, we officially open a show.
|
|
2018 is officially in the past for the whole world.
|
|
Yeah, crap, I'm going to be riding it on my checks
|
|
though for the next month and a half.
|
|
Well, before you get used to riding it, you mean?
|
|
919, yeah, 19 at the end of the stat.
|
|
Well, I'm officially behind the 8-ball
|
|
because I didn't get myself a new calendar.
|
|
I was given a new calendar and it's better than all I had last year
|
|
as in 2018.
|
|
Well, I'm going to have to see if I can get a 2019 YogaCats calendar
|
|
to keep up the tradition.
|
|
It's one of those paper things with numbers on it, isn't it?
|
|
Yeah, and some photos when we do something to make it look nice.
|
|
That's one thing I've noticed.
|
|
I mean, usually I would acquire by then the year,
|
|
you know, two or three calendars I would never really use.
|
|
But, oh yeah, there's a bunch of cool pictures.
|
|
Fine, I'll look at it, you know, longs or free, but that, you know, I think
|
|
never occurred to me before, but moving into the digital age,
|
|
I don't see that many just free.
|
|
Here's a calendar of cool pics of things on it that much anymore.
|
|
And then you meant to write on the calendars yourself
|
|
what's going on, what are you doing, things like that.
|
|
And I mean, no, they are sold in the shops here quite well still,
|
|
but it's a bit old and fashion than away because we've got, yeah,
|
|
because we've got all this tech now, we've got computer calendars
|
|
and maybe all the income and there's no that.
|
|
Well, that's it.
|
|
I mean, if somebody develops a paper calendar that updates itself to Google,
|
|
then, you know, somebody might buy that, but, you know,
|
|
I was just born.
|
|
I found out the other day that I've got an echo device,
|
|
and supposedly I can actually time the echo device in the Google calendar,
|
|
but so far I've done that and so far none of my stuff on Google calendar
|
|
shows up on my echo.
|
|
Well, that's one of the reasons why I like XFCE.
|
|
On a sidebar here, I have the numeric date,
|
|
I have the day of the week, and I have the time
|
|
in coming for our format.
|
|
Right, okay, but I think about two points, one you can probably do similar in other
|
|
interfaces and two extra week three points.
|
|
Two XFCEs is mostly in the past, but saying that so is the interface that money at the moment.
|
|
Well, I mean, that's nice, but I mean, if I'm going to do a calendar,
|
|
I want to do one central calendar shows up on all my devices,
|
|
because I mean, it's the phone I'm going to be carrying with me that, you know,
|
|
needs to buzz and go off and remind me of something.
|
|
Yeah, I always have Google calendar capabilities,
|
|
but I haven't really used it.
|
|
Is Ken still able to do this, Pat?
|
|
Yes, he just appeared this week.
|
|
And honky, did you jump in or not?
|
|
Well, I guess he's muted, so I guess not.
|
|
I think most of the people except U50 are here as audio syncs.
|
|
They're not actually here as active participants.
|
|
Right, have you guys been here this whole time?
|
|
No, no one's been here the whole 26 hours.
|
|
Oh, I hope not.
|
|
No, I didn't mean the whole 26 hours, but since I dropped out,
|
|
what two hours, two hours ago, I dropped out earlier and then got some sleep.
|
|
It seemed, well, yeah, and then I was like, actually, this stuff is still open.
|
|
It's my only again, for bet.
|
|
But yeah, I got in late to the party, but I've been here except for a brief stop.
|
|
Well, there we are, we're lunch.
|
|
Well, there we are officially over.
|
|
So this will be the after show, however it's done now.
|
|
Yeah, essentially, we quit talking, you know, or well,
|
|
I'm not saying that other people aren't welcome to jump in.
|
|
That was the main reason I got back up.
|
|
And I didn't really get any sleep, but I got back restless and, you know,
|
|
kept getting out of you and stuff, trying to go back to bed and...
|
|
I did get some sleep, but not really properly, but then it, but I have,
|
|
I'm going out later anyway, it seems.
|
|
My neighbouring stuff, so flat neighbour, so might as well, you know,
|
|
do this for a bit and smaller things and doing that, I guess.
|
|
But I'm used to being wicked different times anyway.
|
|
Like, and that minor was saying, but for different reasons.
|
|
Well, like I was telling Hunky earlier today, it was, you know,
|
|
it wasn't Hunky, it was a kin.
|
|
No, whichever it was, it's, you know, maybe it's a kin, because I asked
|
|
me if I'd normally up that early and I said, well, it's a bit, you know,
|
|
I got in a weird sleep cycle of, you know, not, not being asleep when I should be and
|
|
sleeping when I shouldn't be or whatever and trying to break it.
|
|
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's actually, yeah, that happens to me at times.
|
|
I'm a little bit, I'm a bit like that at the moment, but, but, but then again, I do,
|
|
but whatever, I mean, I do like the night anyway and it's mostly night at the moment,
|
|
but that will change. At the end, hopefully at the end of this month, it'll get, you know,
|
|
more light. Yeah, of course, it's still dark, still got a couple hours of darkness here,
|
|
so I'm probably going to be. It's actually day here now, but yeah,
|
|
what's that you're saying you're going to be here a bit longer or going wasting?
|
|
Oh, not much longer. Yeah, I mean, it might stay about two hours and that's like everyone
|
|
disappears, but otherwise, they're ahead and they're, but yeah, that's just, but, but actually,
|
|
yeah, sleeping, that's a good topic in a way, because once, once you've like, you know,
|
|
let's say you've been up all night a lot and then you're going to sleep, you, you know, 8 AM,
|
|
come, 9 AM, come, just a little wake, 10 AM, come, you sleep for a bit and then you, and then
|
|
you kind of messed up again for the next day or you don't sleep enough and you feel tired,
|
|
but, but then you wake up and then you can be awake for another, you know, 17 hours, 18 hours,
|
|
20 hours, if you really want, and then you'll probably go into sleep again, feeling not tired,
|
|
you go like that as well. Also, I tend to sleep in like two hour jumps. What, really, just two hours
|
|
wake up and then sleep more two hours. Well, yes, and depending on how I feel and in the phase of
|
|
the moon and what I haven't listened to on whatever I'm following at the moment, I may be up for
|
|
a couple hours and then crash out or when I get myself awake, I'll just stay up until I feel tired
|
|
again and instead of, you know, swapping and out between sleeping and being active with very
|
|
little respect for how this links in with the day or night cycle. Yeah, so, are you saying you
|
|
basically sleep in day or night whenever you feel like it, but then you feel two hours each time
|
|
like that? Well, I can generally, depending on how tired I am, I will find myself sleeping in two
|
|
hour jumps and when I surface, I will decide whether I'm going to stay awake or crash back
|
|
into sleep and it's usually a coin flip. Yeah, yeah, I'm a bit like that as well.
|
|
Or on then sometimes you can, for whatever reason, you know, you've had your like, you've been awake
|
|
for like, let's say 17 hours, 14 hours, 17 hours, 16 hours, 18 hours, maybe even 20 hours and you
|
|
look at the time and you think like, oh, it's like five o'clock in the morning or it's eight o'clock
|
|
in the morning or it's seven or six or something like that and you think like, but I'm wide awake,
|
|
I feel wide awake, but yeah, because I haven't gone to sleep, I haven't had any sleep since
|
|
whenever, I'm going, you know, you're going to go to sleep and then you sort of, just
|
|
if you like that, you just sleep when you sleep and then you sleep five hours, six hours, maybe,
|
|
probably not eight hours. Yeah, and sometimes, sometimes, again, it depends, sometimes when you're
|
|
very tired, you'll break free. Well, I have PTSD dreams, but sometimes I will break free of that
|
|
dream since I'm, and I have to really push myself to go back to sleep. Anyway, no, I'm more like
|
|
sleep when I sleep, get comfortable enough and put me in really anywhere as well, as long as
|
|
you like comfortable enough and then you sort of sleep, you could do is off to sleep after a little
|
|
while, but then put not that long or whatever. But yeah, but thing is, I can, thing is, you can
|
|
go to sleep at times, like I'm saying, because you sort of feel that you should, because like,
|
|
day and night cycle or whatever, it's just the look at the time and everything, but you're going
|
|
to bed or you're going to sleep very, um, well, actually, why the wake, I would say, which is a bit
|
|
odd in the way. If you get what I mean, you know what I mean? Well, my trouble is I will do
|
|
something stupid, like get started on a series or something that the whole thing is dropped on,
|
|
that flicks, like, and like binge watch and keeps, you know, keeps thinking, yeah, I'll go to bed
|
|
at the end of this hour and then, you know, there'll be a cliffhanger and, okay, yeah, I gotta see
|
|
the next, you know, and so it's late in the morning and, you know, and then literally, like,
|
|
Kinney Rogers said, I get too tired to sleep. Yeah, well, I find, I do a lot of YouTube and
|
|
sometimes I do audio books on there and, uh, sometimes I listen and stay up and sometimes I lay
|
|
down and crash out in the middle. But, uh, you do mean that what do you say, crash out? Do you mean,
|
|
like, at the computer, yes, in your chair? Well, if I have an audio book playing and I have it
|
|
on the speakers, I can be laying in my bed, listening and just hearing it as sort of the background
|
|
and then, then realize that I didn't, that I slept through the last two hours of the book.
|
|
Yeah, when we got something on and then you listen to it, you think, oh, listen to this for a
|
|
bit and then he just, he just, he just, he goes off to sleep. Well, it's doing that, yeah.
|
|
Oh, yeah, I have famously fell asleep in my, uh, desk chair, uh, and apologies to Dan Fry, who
|
|
may listen to this a years ago, I had a house fire and, you know, he was at the time, he worked
|
|
in IT department of a office furniture company. So we actually had to send him out, uh, sent me out
|
|
a desk and one of these, you know, like thousand dollar desk chairs, or, you know, were several hundred
|
|
dollars, you know, and ergonomic and all that, you said it, oh my goodness, it's incredible.
|
|
And then about about a year ago, I fell asleep in it and apparently lost my balance
|
|
some time and turned a thing over and it hit hard enough to break stuff. I still need to take it apart
|
|
and like, you know, glue the plastic back together and, you know, bend, bend the metal parts back
|
|
in the shape, you know, it's, it's, I don't think it's unrecoverable, but it's, I, I just haven't
|
|
got around to it. I suppose that's the one thing we're sleeping in that case as well. Yeah,
|
|
if you sleep in, let's say, the wrong place sometimes, like you, you've done it, it sounds like
|
|
potentially you're going to fall out of that chair or whatever, it's going to break something and all
|
|
less, but not, I've not had that problem myself, but it's how you have, because when you're asleep,
|
|
you know, you don't have any control, you're, you're, you're sleep basically. You don't know what's
|
|
going on. Well, one of the most frightening situations I found myself in some years ago was
|
|
I had what I think they call sleep paralysis, uh, where my mind was awake, but my body was still
|
|
shut down. So your mind is going a million miles a minute, but all the inputs are, are turned off
|
|
and that can be quite uncomfortable. Oh, well, so like, it's like you're sleeping in your body
|
|
but the mind's awake, so I mean, yeah, your body, most of the, most of the time and sleep, there's
|
|
a mechanism that when you fall asleep, your body is sort of disconnected, so you don't hurt yourself,
|
|
you know, falling out of bed or what have you, but sometimes your mind can be moving while that
|
|
mechanism is, you know, steps on the clutch and disconnect your, your body from, from its motor
|
|
systems and its input, so all your mind gets is basically mental noise and is trying to make sense
|
|
of things and then nothing's really, you know, nothing's happening and, you know, your, your body
|
|
because it's shut down by the sleep systems feels very strange to a mind who's used to driving it.
|
|
I don't know if I'm expressing myself clearly, but it is a very,
|
|
very feeling. Yeah, I mean, that doesn't sound very nice,
|
|
of I think I understand what you're saying, and I mean, you know, watch out because they might,
|
|
no, I don't know, maybe something like that will happen. Actually, how, how many times does that happen?
|
|
I think it's only happened once or twice some, many years ago, but
|
|
in the case of yeah, probably not tonight for you then, after that. Not, not after this, although I make
|
|
crash out rather, rather deeply, but again, I will usually go through some kind of hour or two
|
|
hour sleep cycle. Yeah. Of course, they will, they'll, they'll do a restroom break and then
|
|
crash back, well then they're two hours of constantly, sleep cycles is maybe not the best thing
|
|
ready. Also, I tend to have, or seem to have very active dream cycles, so even when I'm sleeping,
|
|
me I'm not exactly rested. Well kind of dreams. Oh yeah. Different kinds often times flying
|
|
or driving neither of which I I am licensed to do but what I often have that I often have dreams
|
|
about being in where my grandmother's farm and main where I was at home. Actually you know what
|
|
turns out you're steeped right now. This is not actually happening. It's a dream. I knew a dream
|
|
about 5150 as well. Well 50 sorry but usually I try to scrounge up somebody.
|
|
Well she is he is he actually here. It seems he just appeared as well. 5150 wake up. Mr. Gwynn,
|
|
car 54 where are you? Maybe he's not with us anymore than he he's got some sleep.
|
|
Sleep. Make Beth has murdered sleep. Make maybe talking about sleep. Actually made him go to sleep.
|
|
Well perhaps he was the one with the Irish coffee or the Irish at least.
|
|
Like yeah that could be an independent tool. Next time or whatever but yeah yeah I don't know
|
|
to have a steep cycle doesn't sound very good though but it sounds like but like what is it like
|
|
four or five times and say a 24 hour day or what do you mean? Well I will maybe sleep two or three
|
|
two hour chunks and then be up for an indefinite period and then go back to two or three two or three
|
|
two hour chunks. So the being awake could be 20 hours 17 hours 40 hours basically and then
|
|
you sleep for two hours and then off we go off you go again. And also like if I'm doing something
|
|
like writing or YouTube or whatnot even when I lay down my I'm not relaxed so I can lay there
|
|
and for a while and then I'll get up and do a little more YouTube or something or you know.
|
|
Yeah and then you get the feeling a bit like that moment but like you slept but you haven't
|
|
released that property so you kind of wake up but you feel tired you get that as well times I guess.
|
|
Yeah well also there's the times when you're laying down and you're trying to shut down but your
|
|
mind is just dieseling on you know I don't feel like shutting down so I ain't going to no matter
|
|
just because you've laid down doesn't mean I'm going to turn myself off.
|
|
Yeah I suppose. Oh he's coming back from his nap I think I saw a light up.
|
|
We were just thinking it falling off to steep with all the steep torque 5150.
|
|
No I was playing over in the browser and I was looking at one of my browser tabs saying
|
|
oh what what's that that I have open there and uh and clicked on it and I probably need to restart
|
|
Firefox but uh well I said this particular machine I mentioned earlier this evening it just
|
|
seems to slip through a memory hole and time and space and it's got four giga-ram it there's no
|
|
reason it should uh for what I'm for what I'm doing with it but uh yeah that that was a problem all
|
|
the sudden the whole system just oh nearly locked. Yeah because um we I mean you were probably on
|
|
something that um out of there if you took by Nathan and so yeah well I have so many
|
|
tabs. I have so many Firefox is open it's not even finding in there multiple tabs on each one.
|
|
Yeah I think I'm going to take this thing back to bare metal and try a different version of
|
|
Linux on it you know I try try to change the desktop and that's that's not a big enough change
|
|
but I don't could could be a faulty memory module uh I don't know but it's it is not performing
|
|
I you know I got this uh essentially just to see off of eBay you know uh well I've got I've got
|
|
the uh I've got the pine book which is essentially some hundred dollar computer course by the time
|
|
I had it all uh every single accessory to it it cost but yeah yeah it cost more than that um
|
|
the the pine book I saw one day was in November that was finally and it's kind of interesting
|
|
I also saw the uh slim book or briefly the kd slim book thing um but yeah the pine book I was
|
|
going to all the one days you said accessories what kind of accessories. Oh uh ethernet adapter and
|
|
and uh it increased storage and uh oh what else there was something else uh externally plugged in
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but uh oh I use the pine book for my travel computer it is fine for that the the speakers are not
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fit for purpose if you want to list I mean yeah if you turn them all the way up in a quiet room
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and it's you know but it's like straining your eyesight you're straining your ears you know
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to hear anything so but you know maybe if you're traveling you're going to you you're going to use
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your bugs your buds or something anyway or maybe it's in a travel speakers that's the first thing
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the the the speakers are absolutely and of course there you know they're it's a hundred dollar
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computer and it's got the same aspect of like a uh you know it's as as thin as the the the
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thinnest of apple uh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a cheap computer um then it's me cheap
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but like having mouth beat pine I guess it's up to the pine book and pine board and stand
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pine 64 and also um is it the 14 inch you've got all the 11.6 because apparently the
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11.6 and really made any more inch yeah I've got the 14 I've got 14 inch and uh the next thing is
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the track pad is you know is pretty horrible at least it works I mean the speakers like I said
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the speakers are absolutely not fit for purpose the track pad is uncomfortable to you you know
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it's a pain in the butt to use but at least it works it's it's supposed to be like a secondary laptop
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that's the idea I think like you wouldn't use that as your main laptop or we probably know
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no but it's a great light thing to to throw in your luggage when you're traveling or you know I
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you know I could definitely see using that is a consultant as a work computer uh yeah but uh
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the main thing is and I don't know maybe maybe somebody's educated the TSA but this is what I
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take with me on on uh on airplanes to go into Linux fast and they you know whenever this thing
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goes through x-ray it's like 90% hollow there's like two little boards stacked on top of each
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other which are uh you know electronically they're equivalent to a pine 64 because you can use a
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pine 64 image uh you know you go over there and you look at the pine box there's not that there's
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not as many images but uh door door geek found out that you could you know any any of the images
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for the pine 64 also work on the pine book so electronically it's it's completely compatible
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and I did ask about a year ago hey is are there going to be any upgrades for the board you know
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are you going to put the rock chip in a new you know in a new pine book and uh I told you the time
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yeah yeah that's they said yeah that's coming uh yeah uh okay but you said swing about TSA
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was you saying they let they they scan it and it goes through looks okay enough or it doesn't
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well no they're they're used to uh you know they're not used to seeing big hollow spaces in your
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laptop so they they want to look at it out at the back today or normally yes every time the first few
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years in fact uh last year I had one lady lady come up to me said you know put her hands under
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hips and saying sir are you aware that your laptop is hollow and I said yes it's an armed
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processor and it's got all that it needs yeah I had wood like did you uh the pocket chip as well
|
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where something go on the day the thing you might one day is actually you go pocket chip as well
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yeah uh yes I do yeah yeah I need to reef I need I need to reflash it I screwed it up uh
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yeah I think I might have a piece missing of wine I'm not sure now well that was part of the
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casing many way um I heard somebody say that yes mean like that you take that to an airport and
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there's a chance that again the security can be like uh what's this for thing um yeah I've
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brought pies or similar things through TSA and not had a problem you know I think they're getting
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used to it you know uh looking at looking at stuff and well I know I've brought home uh
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like electronics kits and our do we know some stuff that have been uh you know so uh you'll
|
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you'll go to a conference and you go you go to the one you know uh uh a fang on soldering or
|
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you know what whatever and they actually give you the give you the board which is a great deal
|
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yeah and I guess um with certain that ports for down there enough to use conferences and so there's
|
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it going to be a little loads of people going in suddenly on certain days with these devices
|
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and I'm like okay yeah I don't know if they know that but uh you know I mean even even coming back
|
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last year uh uh was if we say I don't want you know uh they're they're starting to say no don't
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bother taking off your shoes that's ridiculous yeah well well on yours there's also a thing about
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you meant to take your laptop out and all that also really say but I think I've read some more
|
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whatever that you don't necessarily have to take like many pieces out and your um phone even
|
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because of how but usually you meant to take your laptop out still because it's big or something on that
|
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yeah but you know phones they don't look at laptops they do uh you know well like the one lady who
|
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you know said uh you was on me do you know your laptops hollow I mean I've had beat I've had
|
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them give me the stink eye and look at the laptop and yeah we got to look at that closer and
|
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that you know they do all the wipe test and make sure there's no explosives or drugs or whatever
|
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in it I guess but uh uh you know so but that was the first one they actually directly confronted me
|
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and uh well I kind of lost some of the train of thought isn't that minus delay yes I'm just
|
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drooling over my next uh server machine that's going to be hauled out as well yeah
|
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and small so you can give your TSA with that as well well I don't fly but I've been learning
|
|
this i5 2,400 laptop here and its screen gave out and I was just wondering what if I went to an i5
|
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desktop cord for how much more performance I would begin oh that's what I was going to say about
|
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the uh the pine book and and apparently everybody's mileage varies uh when the battery is fully charged
|
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you know I get a pretty you know pretty strong battery life out of it but mine just sitting you
|
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know if it sets for 48 hours it'll discharge just sitting by itself not on even from a full charge
|
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and luckily before I got on this flight this I guess this is the outbound leg so uh I charged
|
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it sitting at home uh otherwise I may have had a problem because you know I wouldn't have been
|
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able to turn it on and show them that it was working oh you mean you had it charged the home
|
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so you could turn it on that Apple exactly you know most laptops you would really had that problem
|
|
you know the you charge them up they stay charged this this you don't know uh pretty much at home
|
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I leave it plugged in all the time for the battery gone the license it's got good battery life once you
|
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know uh from a full charge but for some reason and like I said I uh uh I know a lot of people with
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them I think I know one other person who said they have that same problem or bail says we know
|
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what you're talking about yeah laptops and batteries I mean I've had problems with this laptop
|
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recently and the battery so like I had it opened up and then it was like so we said like oh so we
|
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say it could be a CMOS battery and it's like no CMOS is joined with the main battery I was
|
|
mean and it basically says on online to take your battery out and put it back in again that's
|
|
meant to at least temporarily fix it and annoying because the newer laptop you've done screw to
|
|
even get into the battery and where's your one used to tuck it out and then this was done about
|
|
three or four times and it basically wouldn't charge from a flat battery and it might still have
|
|
this problem now I'm I don't know quite uh I don't want to let go down as far as that it has done
|
|
I think once or twice since and it think it was okay the last two times but basically my battery
|
|
could be on the verge of going out as well because laptops from June 2015 but yes annoying
|
|
you have to unscrew to get into these batteries now whereas in the past you just took out
|
|
the back and that was that wouldn't happen to be a Dell I've noticed more problems you know
|
|
Dell's have software that tell it to the you know the batteries down and well I've had them show
|
|
well as a HP and also had the whole UFI issue which we talked about earlier but um
|
|
yeah I've asked quite a few issues with a laptop for really from day one overheating and then
|
|
motherboard failing and the UFI issues and later on because of a new motherboard and then the
|
|
battery issue and but when it works I mean it when it works it's a nice enough laptop it's got a
|
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touch screen which admittedly I had the heavy actually used it's got you know it's a nice
|
|
enough size but for 13 inches and like that but but yeah the battery stuff is not what you want
|
|
either but to be honest after the issues I've had with this laptop that's basically it I intend
|
|
to never buy HP ever again I don't want to buy Dell I don't want to buy Acer I don't want
|
|
to buy the Nova I don't want to buy any of this this stuff because you know what one there are
|
|
other devices that are much more well they're more interesting anyway now things like you can put
|
|
the pine bucket in that even slim book which is not a laptop anyway but the mobile device is the
|
|
pocket chip the the GPs you know there's all kinds of things now I don't need to stand the
|
|
laptop as much anyway so keep this one going and if I want to buy a new laptop or when I have
|
|
money for this I would put it down at the moment I really don't but I would look more seriously
|
|
again at n4 where or something like we've got n4 when the UK Linux um computer Linux laptop company
|
|
Linux only company and there's more options in America I think system 76 and all that but
|
|
you know you know it probably will be worth to pay a bit more and get something with Linux pre-installed
|
|
ready and HP and all this there's just you certainly support windows and even make
|
|
properly so why give money to them my bother with them oh because it's a brand well yeah but then
|
|
my motherboard comes back it's meant to be replaced and I can't even dual boot with Linux to
|
|
begin with because of the problems ends up where I was talking about earlier yeah if I were going
|
|
to buy new I would I would buy thank geek or system 76 but you know I'm always I'm always buying
|
|
used junk and then install it in installing Linux on I mean this this laptop here in front of
|
|
me case case in point it was time to experiment yeah I said okay like I said I was I was comparing
|
|
that to the pine book and I said okay if I give myself 75 bucks to spend if I go you know if I
|
|
go on eBay can I find a laptop that is arguably you know more powerful than the then the pine book
|
|
and this is it you know a dual core AMD from a few years ago 17 inch desktop replacement
|
|
uh laptop I did have to throw a little memory in it but still cheap you know cheaper than
|
|
why I spent on the pine book but not nearly as convenient you know I'd be a lot more worried if
|
|
I were just to throw this in my carry on that it would get broke because it's you know it's bigger
|
|
it's bulkier it's heavier and probably you know in a way probably more fragile than the pine book
|
|
I mean the the pine book because it is hollow as I have mentioned you know even though that you can
|
|
grab the two corners and twist it a bit you know there it's it's not like there's a full length
|
|
board you know uh running through the thing that's gonna break yeah I guess uh but you didn't I
|
|
don't think you got the pine book secondhand though that you poorly bought new now of course I've
|
|
got the pine book new and you know I established with my lust for the GPDs and stuff I am a sucker
|
|
for you know compact computers you know maybe not so much enough to spend five six hundred
|
|
dollars on one but definitely look at that and that you know looking at see yeah I want that
|
|
a lot more than I you know want a big heavy 17 inch like logable computer right uh mumbo crash
|
|
again I think I mean this upon this is the first time with a poem with that I think but it does seem
|
|
to stay up without issues for quite a long time can I be heard yes you can be heard very well
|
|
yes I won't keep on saying with this as that as well at least if the weather tickly just
|
|
put on 10 ms or I've did and left left the rest and I think people are can get
|
|
a bit annoying they have to do the mumbo wizard every time you read you you uh open up again
|
|
as somebody said oh yeah yeah I think that was that was honky I'm pretty sure said that I have had
|
|
that problem before always as always comes up yeah yeah a couple linux lug casts ago when I'd
|
|
first got this set up it took well that might remember it took me a while to get connected because
|
|
everything looked you know I hadn't tried mumbo before well I should say I dropped a new linux on
|
|
bare metal and installed mumbo and then of course you got to get everything lined up in
|
|
in every part so you got to go to yeah and then of course you got to get everything lined up
|
|
in in every part so you got to go to yeah you know uh uh pulse audio and uh you know if you've
|
|
got more than one output device like I do I've got built in speakers and and microphone and then
|
|
usb headset get that set and it looked like I had that set up and you know I couldn't hear and I
|
|
couldn't talk and uh finally went through the mumbo set up and and got everything got everything
|
|
working that week and I thought it was gonna oh man we'll do that every week but the next week
|
|
it just works so just yeah I mean here it uh for this time for me it's just uh default
|
|
input web and I'm like no select the USB headset for those and it's just it's just working great
|
|
and it's had say it's actually new as well so um so yeah and completely on my end I'm sure
|
|
because nobody mentioned it but Seb uh about three times for you this evening and once for that
|
|
minor you know uh it's been like a broken record you know it repeats the last thing you say
|
|
and it's like you know about seven times in and you know do I do I need to kill mumbo and then
|
|
finally it comes back but what uh what what when I when I when it crashes what do you mean
|
|
well you know whatever you were saying it will just repeat you know repeat the last two words
|
|
or whatever four or five times what mumbo will do that you mean well did it for me tonight I've
|
|
had it before on a bad connection but uh you know I said it just happened to be you you know like
|
|
three times and I think that might or once but nobody nobody else said anything about it so
|
|
I figured well my end I don't know there was a mumbo crash to have a problem I think three times
|
|
like just now as well and also there was somebody on earlier when it started repeating them and
|
|
when he said it wasn't me it was them so when it was like repeating what they were saying yeah
|
|
that's happening yeah I think that's happened about three times with other people
|
|
no that's that's a different thing that's feedback when somebody has their mic open um so
|
|
one one one one one one one one one one one okay that wasn't me repeating that that was actually me
|
|
right but um but no it shouldn't really repeat what what I'm saying ever so I guess it's a
|
|
problem with a connection or mumbo law whatever because it's tech it isn't that it's not perfect is it
|
|
no but never is uh cool thing sometimes I you know there will be a thing and uh you know some
|
|
some sort of momentary glitch and it's it's like mumbo tries to buffer everything you've missed so
|
|
all of a sudden somebody you know whoever was talking to be really speeded up so I could hear
|
|
everything that I missed yeah yeah so like I was saying though tech is not perfect right and I'm in
|
|
a basically a flat block slam and of course we have a lift and the building is about is a year
|
|
and a bit old now really it's quite still quite new and that lift has I think always worked so far
|
|
but you know you have the like a lamp and it's broke down all this and I'm thinking like you know
|
|
one day that lift is going to break down and potentially I'm going to be in that lift will have
|
|
hopefully not one I'm trying to go to Brussels uh at the end of this month to go get off to
|
|
fuzz them right going down with a suitcase probably and then you got your taxi and you're
|
|
going to get picked up or whatever but but I think you're like you know it can happen there's a chance
|
|
so like new year I don't want to be stuck in the lift I'll just keep out of the lifting go to
|
|
the stairs just in case I mean it's probably fine I could go in the lift but as that chance it's
|
|
going to break down at some stage because it's tech I was talking somebody about who worked on
|
|
left and he said you know it very unlikely a lift will you say elevator there actually a lift is
|
|
unlikely to go break down but you know there's a chance isn't there you don't be stuck in the
|
|
lift or elevator I think you're saying that ain't it not the moving stairs the uh the lift yeah
|
|
yeah moving moving moving stairs is escalator yeah yeah so escalator is moving stairs
|
|
and I'm talking about the lift we could say left here but you would say elevator yeah I was like
|
|
a new and be fairly reliable the ones that would bother me you well you see in the movies or
|
|
something I never really got in one to you know the the old the old ones that used to have have
|
|
to have an operator run it you know but you'll see them in in in movies and apartment buildings you
|
|
know that are old enough to still have that same tech and you know you got to run it yourself
|
|
well yeah the new one should be reliable for the most part but still that chance it's going to
|
|
go wrong one day well I've got an elevator story from the building of the Empire State Building
|
|
hey right what's that well the Empire State Building has as one might suspect Otis elevators in it
|
|
being the big elevator company in the US but they got into some a little hot water because
|
|
the elevator in the thresholds or door frames have the word Otis and part of the contract of
|
|
anyone contracting with the Empire State Building construction company was that no brand names
|
|
was supposed to be visible without approval by the Empire by the organization who was building
|
|
the building so Otis had to make special nameless thresholds or whatever framing for the Empire
|
|
State Building elevators because they put in their standard this is an Otis elevator
|
|
badging yeah right yeah interesting so I think I'll stay here for like strictly I'm gonna say
|
|
one hour or about one hour because it will then become two o'clock in the afternoon here wow
|
|
yeah afternoon and like to do some other things and then should be going out a bit later I think
|
|
with someone neighbor apparently one of these other things first thought that as well um
|
|
shouldn't actually happens this time because the other day it didn't um and uh yeah yeah another hour
|
|
I think and then take some other thing this one saying basically yeah a lot of people don't know
|
|
this I keep me to do an HPR on it and haven't got around to it I collect old uh rotary cell phones
|
|
and have all of mine uh connected up uh actually to my uh google voice number through various boxes
|
|
and stuff and uh so uh so they're all uh voice over IP phones but one of them I have is is an old
|
|
elevator phone you know in the old days you had that panel you opened up if you got into trouble
|
|
and there was a phone uh I don't know why they made them old rotary phones because I'm sure
|
|
they weren't hooked up so you could just call whatever whoever you wanted long distance as long
|
|
as you were an elevator but you know you you think it'd be a phone for button on it to call
|
|
who you know whoever you need to call and tell me yeah you're stuck in the elevator come help me
|
|
oh I know why you have a dial oh actually get you know he says me else my KKFest
|
|
dial allows you to generate pulses which would cause somebody to ring okay yeah that makes sense
|
|
and if you if you have just pick up the handset you're basically breaking squelch or breaking the
|
|
dial tone but you're not making an active say I would I would thank though that just give you a
|
|
capacitor and a hand crank like deal wooden phones well actually that's probably something uh yes
|
|
but dial mechanisms where you pick with us at the time of dial phone well that's where the
|
|
stories I was going to you know I was going to include because while the phones I have are
|
|
automatic electric and uh they not AT&T actually developed automatic you know
|
|
dialing system with the you know they developed the rotary phone and they tried to sell AT&T
|
|
AT&T things yeah we're not interested and then there was a strike by operators in about
|
|
1915 and AT&T came off from saying yeah let's let's let's talk about licensing this tech what
|
|
you have by by hands I can might seem to move on to phones some reason but I wanted to say some
|
|
about lifts quickly or and and yeah I mean I'm on a third floor um a third basically and if that
|
|
lift breaks down a minute one day you know I've put up four this before a few times but you know
|
|
you're gonna feel like oh finally I tuck the stairs why does I not take the stairs why do I go
|
|
on the lift is usually so annoying you know what I mean in a building where you you could take
|
|
the stairs most of the time anyway even if you got something heavier it will always but oh yeah
|
|
I can definitely excuse me is that third floor American or third floor european my safe
|
|
fair floor but it's like the ground floor is known to zero might and then you got a floor above
|
|
that which is known as number one and then you got this floor which is known as number two
|
|
to come oh I never knew that that's that's thank you that minor that's new info for me
|
|
well I don't know if this is American or opinion but I know that some buildings have like
|
|
yeah the ground floor is known as zero and then you might even have a basement or something
|
|
that you're like minus zero and that could be here or in Europe even but yeah it's free it's a
|
|
free floor building really I'm on the roof floor basically we're done a flat as well which
|
|
very nice actually no neighbors except one now in in Europe you guys still skip this 13th floor
|
|
like we do we've no 13th floor well most buildings aren't most of us to be able to tell us
|
|
opposed on as big as that anyway the way you know well even over here there's there's no it's
|
|
some office blocks of building yeah yeah and some office blocks probably got like 13 floors as well
|
|
that's true I don't think it's skipped here but I don't know quite maybe it's skipped because
|
|
unlucky yeah number 13 yeah that's exactly especially if if the government owes you a bunch of
|
|
money well he was 51 50 was it you said yeah that's why it's skipped is the way said yes because
|
|
13 is considered an unlucky number that's exactly why it's skipped but so like 13 becomes 14
|
|
standard wall exactly exactly that yes really they do that but I didn't know that I didn't know
|
|
did that but uh for the 13th is more of things isn't it especially with no sure anybody actually
|
|
if France if the French government owes you a bunch of money watch it no way well the king of
|
|
France on a certain Friday the 13th decided that if he could accuse the Templars of all sorts
|
|
ghastly things he wouldn't have to pay him what he owed them um I think France a 51 50 some money
|
|
yeah well well that's what Friday the 13th is all about is the is the destruction of the
|
|
Templar order really is it I thought it's just because like you know like teenagers becoming 13
|
|
and things like that well if you follow the Jewish tradition 13 I believe is when the
|
|
barman's when the backman's was done oh yeah no it's fine you're just a
|
|
what those Friday the 13 movies are not particularly good as well as I say that minor you are
|
|
just a font of information and not just technical give it so it might be wrong for we know you have
|
|
to check it on the Google and Wikipedia except Wikipedia can be wrong as well as can things
|
|
on Google actually what actually Wikipedia I'll tell you something about Wikipedia and it's really
|
|
really annoying me now in fact because I there there was like a you might these emails yourself
|
|
I don't know I'm sure maybe some of the people who can listen to this to actually listen to this
|
|
get these emails and then what I'm gonna say now I had like a thing pop up on I think on Wikipedia
|
|
itself like four four years ago something and it was like is Wikipedia come donate to us
|
|
why don't you donate to us use your computer in the fault wow yeah I use it quite a bit I'll
|
|
go on money at this add more money at that time for like this kind of thing anyway I don't know
|
|
and I was like okay I'll donate 30 pounds to Wikipedia because I can and I had somebody else
|
|
when it's used group had done the same thing they donated 30 pounds some money about 30 pounds I
|
|
think as well but then every year ever since I'm getting these emails that are apparently from Jimmy
|
|
Wales who the founder Wikipedia and it basically is nagging to donate money again and every year happens
|
|
like twice or maybe three times and I think somebody said that no they have loads of enough money
|
|
anyway so basically spam in a way and then you get like this is my last final call
|
|
you donated back in 2014 or whatever when you donate again and all this and it's just really annoying
|
|
who's basically nagged to donate every again and you can go on to Wikipedia as well and you get
|
|
these things popping up saying like you use Wikipedia so why don't you donate to us yeah and it's
|
|
there's the old English saying you know if you pay the dean guild you don't get rid of the dean
|
|
well if you pay up they don't let you go they nag you to pay again without me mean or
|
|
yes it yes it's also uh it's the general fallacy of paying a ransom that can be made recurring
|
|
yeah if it's like for money well that's like anything anything any any cause you contribute to
|
|
on the internet you know they've got your email address you know they're they're going to come
|
|
back and hit you up again and things like Wikipedia and archive dot org I don't I don't really mind
|
|
I don't always respond you know respond but occasionally I do especially when they say yeah we've
|
|
got the sweetheart deal where if you you know it uh we've got somebody it's going to triple your
|
|
donation or whatever that's that's more an archive dot org deal I think they run every every year like
|
|
if you know if you if you contribute twenty five dollars we've we've we've got this age will
|
|
contribute or who will contribute seventy five fs f is another one it's like you know I used
|
|
I used to have an fs f membership and then he had an email all the news will certainly come
|
|
well let's not say power the fs f to be fair but you know this very much like you remember back
|
|
in 2014 of the fs f why don't you sign up again and Seb this is probably something completely alien
|
|
to you what's what's even worse if you ever shopped for a gun online um this is something well
|
|
you think you don't know dude I have basically that's all usually not
|
|
america you might do I suppose but that's what you remember he didn't you
|
|
yeah I I mean any any firearm site that you that you visit remembers you sign up for
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you know it's pretty much going to show up in your email once a week if not more often
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yeah I haven't used it but I really need to figure out plus addressing on on gmail
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they were wasting the site will pop up saying come by for me again is what you meant
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oh yeah uh you get a you get a lifetime supply of spam I probably get uh five 10 emails a day
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you say lifetime supplies of spam except then uh you um potentially get shot by that gun anyway so
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actually uh there is a method where you can add a plus sign I think on gmail so that you can
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you can give the provider a legitimate address but it's already flagged with uh something that
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designed to make filter and use I know it's hate shown some people like talking about guns which
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I wouldn't normally do or bother with that discussion however I'm gonna ask questions now because I
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just thought of something um what guns have you two got I've got no functional firearms at the
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moment yeah that's not something and you know I go I get something I go brag about to my friends
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but it's probably you know not something you want to create a list for online now of course all
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minor legitimate you know the government already knows what I have uh so the other thing would be
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you know maybe maybe uh not go out there and try to create a list of thieves but in in general I
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got got started uh oh three or four years ago uh but I I wrote you know wasn't something I was
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looking for because I didn't you know I didn't say not really practical for self defense uh but
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the price you know at the price point uh a uh reprodu uh an Italian reproduction of a uh
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peacemaker cult and that got me started you know really being interested in the uh vintage
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you know uh single single action firearms uh single action revolvers and I said that this is not
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you know uh the these are for fun they are they are not probably the first thing I would want to
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pick up for uh home or self defense or carrying or whatever and I'd got down to act you know
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well if if you wanted to buy every version out there of a uh model 75 peacemaker yeah there's
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probably 50 of them but I mean if you're picking from you know one from every uh you know a different
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gun you know uh a remington a peacemaker a busley uh you know there's really only about six
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out there and the last one that I hadn't got is a Smith and Wesson uh break action revolver and
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the reproduction of those go for about eleven hundred dollars so I started looking around
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and saying you know I could probably get an actual hundred-year-old coat for that kind of money
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and I did that last year so you know if you're asking the kinds of things I'm interested in
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Seb uh that that gives you a pretty good rundown uh 50 do you know what a bus 44 is pretty sure
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I've heard that before it's uh mentioned in uh uh what's what's that guys I can picture his face
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the old country singer is uh mr. Charity oh I'm drawing a blank on that I think it was a
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small handle short build probably 44 40 revolver yeah it could could be though there were a
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lot of percussion 44s as well well I think this was this was in the character gear um
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Marty Robinson sings about it I always thought it was a bad 44 but somebody said it was a
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bass 44 okay and uh you know there were there were also I think there are both 44 40s but there was
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like the uh oh not the Winchester but the gun the Winchester was made after but you know there
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there are no 44s rim fires not center fires and now we've just put Seb to sleep no we're not quite
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but I'm gonna go in about 40 minutes because I've got other things to do today but I mean if you're
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on time about comes a bit later go ahead but um or do they also can talk about anyway
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okay hit Henry that's what I was thinking I just wanted to say you know uh you know
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the Henry rifle when it came out the uh the the financial backer was always Winchester
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and then when it became when it became successful and popular you know the second version
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that that came out they said they uh uh yeah we like we'll wipe hit the the guy who designed the
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rifle wipe him Henry out and we'll call it the Winchester and the difference being you know you
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you've got the side gate loading on the Winchester and on the Henry you know you you uh open
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you opened up the tube and loaded from the bottom um there's a proponents for both but still
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as an homage to Henry if you buy Winchester ammo there's always there's an h-stamped on the back of it
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yeah I found the lyrics or or a page that talks about uh that Marty Robbins song uh 50 it's
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missing less than a number it's a three new model Russian with a four inch barrel small
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on but yeah that's that's the one I don't have that I was just talking about but it's $1,100
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you know there were two there were two model 3s there was one that had the uh rush you know the
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Russian model which is a single action but it looks more like a double action grip and then you
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you know you you have the scope field uh which is essentially the same guy before western grip on it
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but uh modern scope field group productions are in 44 cult right 45 cult
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yes originally it would have been 44 40 or uh 45 scope field which is slightly shorter
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but of course there and you can still get those I guess uh watch the video pick up 45 the other day
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hits and 45 scope scope field ammo but yeah almost everything uh like that has been re-chambered
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for uh 45 long coal so is it only seven o'clock in the morning for you two yep 720 you're 22
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well nearly yeah uh 50s in turns of central central time I'm Eastern time so it's nearly 830
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8 so that's all right let's see five hours to six oh yeah yeah I guess so just come up to two here
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um yeah that sounds right yeah I've got two clocks on my desktop and uh one of them I set you
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after the UTC so shows me 13 23 and 24 hour time so would you already know yes time man
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I'm in 23 I'm gonna have to pick up uh the couple of clocks and one of them that I will have to
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set to UTC why do you work for the new TC it's going to be supporting my radio habit
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and radio international radio yeah well I'm going to be talking about uh I'm going to be
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getting a software defined radio and some of the channels are going to be aircraft which some
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stuff is Zulu and uh in a lot of it's going to be shortwave which is largely Zulu based
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what means Zulu what's that uh what Zulu is uh is what Americans and our military calls UTC
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all right well then try to add into the facts which you might might know already or not I'll do two
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things so DTC or zero zero zero yeah and the time zone uh stuff is also called it's also called
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what's called then yeah yeah it could bring it to me in time yeah that's correct dancer
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and then you don't want to summertime's called when it's eight the clocks go forward
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kind of yeah we're waiting actually British summertime right but then what I find interesting
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as well is this which you may or may not know because we went to Iceland in uh made 2015 right
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the clocks had already changed here for summertime gone 40 hour but because I just
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and stays on UTC all year basically here we went back an hour just because of the time zone
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change because of the summertime and at the moment obviously it's the same time because it's
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on winter time and also America changes a week earlier earlier I think for both of those
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something like that yeah we changed like we changed our time in March and uh first weekend in November
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now yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's yeah that's it isn't it yeah so in the March
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America goes forward an hour first I think or the other way around and then the other one is
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um yes because like four hours behind so the five hours well it used to be the solstices
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and uh I think that changed under uh bush number two did a little earlier and a little later
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also uh we had one year under Jimmy Carter that he decided it would you know we wanted to do
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uh summertime all year round and then he got criticized probably unfairly uh because uh
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because uh kids got run over waiting for school buses a couple of times during that winter
|
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because it was so dark so you know uh the conservative party was looking for a reason to call
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Jimmy Carter a child killer so they found that uh but back back in the old days during the
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thirties when it first came through uh you you'll probably find this under entertaining sub the old
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folks called uh regular time gods time and daylight savings time Roosevelt time or not maybe it wasn't
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a funny story I can believe that also supposedly deep under New York City there is a couple of very
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special cars that hold President Roosevelt's limousine yeah I love like those videos on youtube
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where they go down and and see stuff like that well it's like a uh special stop to Ritz hotel
|
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there there used to be uh for celebrities and for presidents and stuff a subway a subway stop that
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you know right under the Ritz hotel and you know and and then you will see some of the unused subway
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platforms and they are just so incredibly ornate and there's a lot of stuff in Europe you know
|
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I've seen youtube stuff and it's just like you know they parked all their old crap in the in the tunnel
|
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so you know people have gone down there and you know there's there's all these vintage subway
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cars from the thirties and trains but also there's just regular cars you know for some reason park
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down there well one of the big things that they found was a whole bunch of cars that have been put
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underground to keep them out of the hands of the German and and there's a youtube channel
|
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is exploring with the fighters but apparently there's this crevasse in uh in England that people
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I don't know for 50 years people used just to throw their garbage in so like at the bottom of it
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you know if you get you can get down to it through some you know there's caves and then it could
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connect to mines and you can finally get down there and it's kind of sketchy but I mean there is
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this like 70 foot pile of old cars that people just you know to get to get rid of their old cars they
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just pushed them pushed them through this big crevasse hole of the ground yeah and there uh I think
|
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some of the slate mines during the war well they started it in world war one but in world war two
|
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they took some of the slate mines and said gee these are nice deep underground protected nobody can
|
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bomb them tunnels so let's fill them with all kinds of ordinance including bombs well one fine day
|
|
somebody was having a little trouble with this bomb removing a stuck feuds or fuse plug
|
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so this genius cuts it with a brass drift and mr bomb decides he doesn't like that and he goes
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off and his buddies go off and there's this huge mushroom cloud coming out of the hillside where
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where all these bombs used to be stored and where they decided they didn't want to be stored
|
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and there's the world war one movie that I think is uh fairly accurate under hill whatever it was
|
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you know we're you know the really interesting story uh you know the the tunnelers and the counter
|
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tunnelers and you know they tunneled under enemy lines and and uh you know stacked up a whole bunch
|
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of TNT oh yeah also uh one of the uh who does shows as they dug out a German flamethrower
|
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emplacement and at one time the German flamethrower was a monstrous construction it had you know
|
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fuel tanks and nozzles and stuff and had a bunker for the crew and stuff like that but evidently
|
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this one was in an area that the Germans basically just got it in place when it was overrun
|
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well you know I'm a big efficient auto of you know uh desperation weapons and you
|
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you know board war two you had and in fact they're ever used more than a couple times but I mean the
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the the the uh the big cannon pointed at London or what you know and you had the various charges
|
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that would go off in stages behind the shell oh I don't I think that that gun was never completed
|
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it's the same on the same style as the big supergun that was which they tried to construct for
|
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sozama saying it was using the same sort of principles yeah maybe right may may never been used
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and then you had you had uh you know uh they wanted to build a tank with like a uh battleship
|
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turret on top of it this huge huge tank which would have fallen through any any road available
|
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in the day um and the the the whole thing's crashed because yeah we we uh you know we can't build
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engines for that I mean they could they could but it would have been taken so much resources that
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they didn't they did have a couple of experimentals which the Germans called the mouse which met
|
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mouse which was like 80 times yeah they did they did have experimental uh experimental
|
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mouse and it did it it had the same failure you know they uh you had to put like uh ship
|
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diesels in it and that you know they uh then him you know probably smartly enough they didn't
|
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you know they didn't commit the the diesels big enough to actually make the project work but
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I you know I was thinking of the rat you know which they ever did build but uh if there was
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going to there was going to be some that were multiple hundred tons even uh pushes running
|
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gear which made the ferdinand and soon to be called the elephant as in white elephant was a rotten
|
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well I I mean even even and less under perfect conditions even the tigers too big
|
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also well you see a lot of those uh Germans with their interleaved road wheels
|
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right that was an American design well I don't know about that but I think you're talking about
|
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the Christie suspension like on the uh 234 but the interleaved road wheels was a great engineering
|
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solution well but you dealt with enough throws and mud to appreciate what that would be like
|
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if you got mud between those things right now I'm always interested in the uh design you know uh
|
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tracks driven from the rear versus driven from the front because driven from the front you've
|
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got to run that whole drivetrain from the from the engine in the back of the tank to the front
|
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but the whole reason they did that which most people don't know is that if you if you if you
|
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have your drives pocket in the back then all your mud and stuff that is stuck to the treads
|
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you know runs you know runs over that sprocket and wears it out whereas if you put it in the front
|
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all that stuff is falling off uh you know by uh by the time the track gets you know goes over the top
|
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and uh runs through that track but it's you know the the again the trade the trade off is you're
|
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running the whole drivetrain the length of the tank uh rear to forward well also with with front
|
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drives sprockets uh oftentimes they put the transmission up there near the driver so the linkages
|
|
would be sure well that's true but the the real dog was the first world war tanks where they
|
|
they didn't have good the exhaust was dumped into the crew compartment oh yeah and then you
|
|
haven't you had an uncovered uh drive shaft spitting and guys would get their legs caught in that
|
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I mean you know probably we're serving at a World War Tank two tank was no treat but uh you know
|
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and I I'm not sure even about uh current tanks though I I rather imagined M60 as some kind
|
|
of air conditioning or whatever but yeah the World War one guys you know they they were driving
|
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those things around in their skivis because they were so hot yeah well yeah um a lot of stuff one
|
|
of the things that that I find laughable is the uh on the M3 leak slash grant they had a stabilized
|
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stabilization system for the upper turret the for the 37 millimeter however that was a new
|
|
and secret development which meant that a lot of the people that were supposed to run it were not
|
|
clear to know how it worked yeah and I've always thought the uh Truman got a bad rap yeah it
|
|
not not equivalent to a tiger but I mean uh the Germans were not trying to ship over an ocean
|
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and uh you know a lot of people be shouting at me you know uh all the you know all the tanks that
|
|
had that you know compared to a tiger or to a panzer you know uh had had to be sacrificed but
|
|
I don't I don't it it depends on who you talk to you know a lot of historians say it's not
|
|
was not as bad especially later in the war when you hit you know when they equipped the uh some of
|
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the Germans were for bigger gun that could penetrate the the German tanks and a lot of the German
|
|
tanks you know they you know they they were formidable but they weren't reliable you know
|
|
so at least on the Russian front and pretty much I think on the European front
|
|
you know most of the panzers and tigers you know they they succumbed to break down rather than
|
|
actually being destroyed by the enemy also because we we had enormous depth of spares part of
|
|
what the Germans would do would be they would not only shoot a Sherman but they would try to
|
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keep even after the tank had been disabled or officially destroyed they would knowing that
|
|
that if it was just taken out of action it could be repaired quickly they would uh try to do
|
|
overkills to slow down its return to service well I mean in the in the first war in the first
|
|
war the Germans had a lot more captured British tanks than they actually had tanks they built
|
|
themselves the the AV-AV7 or whatever it was was a was a gigantic monster with no ground clearance
|
|
exactly and a lot of people you know the little French tank you know the first tank of the
|
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Transversing Turret you know a lot of people think that was the best tank of them well it was the
|
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there was that one and then there was the British Whip it which wasn't too bad for what it was
|
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no I meant the first one I mean the first one I didn't take the whip it made it into the first
|
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well it was it was produced I don't know how how many got forward but it was it was designed to
|
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to follow the breakthroughs created by the by the mark ones and mark fours or whatever
|
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the the traditional Lomboy tank that started the British tradition of the infantry tank being
|
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in slow you know infantry support and a cruiser a faster tank designed to it get into the enemies
|
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rear and tear up the place like cow and of course you know the third the theory is you should not
|
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be putting tanks against tanks tanks should be put it against infantry and if you want to take
|
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out tanks use a tank destroyer yes which is to say a glass cannon most of it I mean some of the
|
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tanks were pretty pretty heavily armored lot of them were of course mobile artillery and not
|
|
very well protected for the crew but you you know you had a chassis and a really big cannon long
|
|
range and then some you know depends depends on the theory there were you know there are few
|
|
out there that were you know more heavily armored than a standard tank though generally the
|
|
what you gave up was the transversing turret is you know you you would have to actually turn the
|
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tank the aim the gun and the gun might have three or four degrees either side of travel and very
|
|
limited elevation of I think we have put those to bed but I'll be back in just a second now
|
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now chatting to somebody on Facebook but now but I was going to clear this down so you know
|
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the way isn't this me me yeah I'm holding up the side yeah I'm going to clear this down so you
|
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now chance some of your Facebook actually which is nice when I met before you know four years ago yeah
|
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yeah well I'm I may wait well if you're going to be shutting down I'll wait to see if 50 comes
|
|
back before before everything goes down yeah I mean I intended to enclose this at two o'clock
|
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and that's coming up so yeah soon 50 said you'd be back in a few minutes I didn't know when
|
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that few minutes were where I'm in a few seconds I just had to take a nature break but yeah man
|
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you know I don't want to be the guy to keep the keeps prolonging you from getting to bed or whatever
|
|
no I'm staying up for the day now I've got things to do actually we need to find an excuse to do
|
|
this at the summer's holsters or something maybe half as long in the summertime well you know
|
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maybe we could do something on LLC I don't know if I want to give uh Ken another headache yeah
|
|
we're going to do it twice a year now well I was not thinking twice I was thinking of one and a half
|
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of course we could get the pagans upset as damn Christian stealing another one of our holidays
|
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yeah the whole appropriation thing that gets people upset these days well I
|
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then feeling uh but it's time for me to say timber before I kill over is I'm running on
|
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tomes and uh so I will say see you Friday or see you next year or see you both and thank you
|
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for reading extra yeah it's already 2019 so I'll see you for definitely see you Friday uh net
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liner well here here on this channel little it may well be the next next year oh for sure
|
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in the case I'll cut you down the road well we have once again extended uh the the HPR
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due years for nearly two hours so I guess that is uh some kind of accomplishment
|
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whoever is going to come by and clean up after us whether it's haunty or kin fellon
|
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I will absent the channel so there will be any confusion and said I guess you you've got plans
|
|
already for the rest of the day yes and uh oh should wake up a bit more as well as it goes in
|
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so that's good the sun has come up here but I uh so I've my my own agent I am going to try to
|
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settle down and uh see if I can get a couple hours sleep before I get up and uh do the stuff
|
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of the day so uh you know I don't want to speak for the whole pack of pack of radio radio oh well
|
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you know I can't complain I can't complain yeah uh I think I heard you last year I couldn't
|
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to talk been he's sitting up at my desk now chilling nothing much I heard y'all yesterday
|
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well how you been hold on I have to said I have to get it set right
|
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can you give me a few give me a few minutes sure I'm sure to get it right okay now how about now
|
|
yeah let's see if there's yeah I don't I don't hear any feedback
|
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yeah and earlier this summer was a little rough I had a uh pulmonary embolism uh which I was not
|
|
expecting and uh you know took me to the hospital for a while I hope you got better I I did uh you know
|
|
most of the protocols are for people 10 years older or more than I am and you know I I they were
|
|
saying yeah you're gonna have some trouble for six months and take it easy and you know I I was
|
|
back to it within a couple weeks they put you on any war frame or anything oh yeah oh yeah
|
|
it'll be a good thing or I'm gonna be a I'm gonna be a rest in a restaurant yeah I think I
|
|
told you that a couple years ago I had that in 2012 I had three DVTs in 15 minutes well you know
|
|
my doctor and I and I was like can I get off of this stuff you know because it's expensive
|
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and tea you know he he was pretty much thinking well you've got all these knee braces you've
|
|
been wearing for 30 years because you're bad knees that's probably what caused all the uh blood
|
|
clots you know so if I'd never gone off the fitters it probably never would have happened you know
|
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and uh yeah I've been off them for about uh six months and then you know this this this thing
|
|
happened and I thought it was the arrhythmia you know and called mountains and they said no we don't
|
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you know we don't think that's what it is and took me in of course took me to a hard hospital
|
|
and all that and uh said yeah you've you've had an embolism and uh well even my heart doctor
|
|
I I had to remind him he said you know every tells me I'm gonna have to he he was telling me oh
|
|
yeah quit your uh fitter on February now I was like well you know a few months ago you were telling
|
|
you know it's gonna have to have it all my life and he he looked at chart and he's like oh yeah
|
|
that's right you know uh you you you can quit to aspirin but uh you probably need to stay stay with the
|
|
the blood center for now on yeah man I just go through my blood test every couple of weeks
|
|
that'll even argue with them going on sears now they just do what I gotta do yeah they cut me
|
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on the more expensive stuff for taxes so I don't have to test it well I'm glad I don't have to pay
|
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the VA covers I heard you yesterday you didn't you didn't you got drinking anymore remember when
|
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we were on we were half lit early on and I really you know this this time I I've been
|
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maintaining because uh well this this morning and you know it it was like yeah if I if I get
|
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hammered I'm gonna go to sleep so uh no I I've been pretty much maintaining all through this uh
|
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new years yep I haven't done anything uh smoke me a cigar this morning when I got up I had a
|
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cohebo somebody gave me about two years it took about five tokes on it put it out put it back
|
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in it's a little bit of smoking again next yeah sounds pretty good I I hear cohebo's pretty good
|
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yep my sister had a friend who was he got out of the military and he decided he wanted to do
|
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a tour of South America and when he got the Cuba for a visit he asked or she could bring him if he
|
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could bring her anything she said yeah my brother always loved Cuban cigars if he could get him
|
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and so when he came back he gave me a cohebo yeah I went through went through college I'm not
|
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smoking a lot uh anytime we had a poker night or whatever you know I just spoke a little but you
|
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know squish or sweets and that's you know sort of thing so completely uh different uh different uh
|
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you know strata uh of the cohebo's but everybody says those are so good yep they are nice and they
|
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got a nice little box and everything uh I bet I was smoking when I was in the military but that's
|
|
40 years ago I had a quit in 95 so occasionally I can't drink I'm not supposed to drink so I drink
|
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maybe once a year can't smoke maybe drink a smoke once a year and basically that's it like when I
|
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go to the doctor I don't have to lie and say no I ain't drink I didn't smoke I didn't do anything
|
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so I can tell them the true yes smoke smoke I know I I wouldn't mind especially now it just makes
|
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big cough but uh yeah cranky cranky is where I would draw the line yeah where you where you on all day
|
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yesterday or were you just popping in and out oh yeah probably yesterday is let least I've been on
|
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since the beginning yeah I didn't have much to do that I was watching a bunch of remember the old tv
|
|
show the equalizer oh I love that show yeah I woke up early one morning other day and it was
|
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long one of these stations up here in Atlanta and so I clicked the where else you can watch
|
|
the thing and it said the NBC out on the Roku so I've been watching equalizer for the last week and
|
|
a half yeah back in the day we used to call him the graphic equalizer yeah Robert McCall you still
|
|
on the farm the bank hands oh yeah oh yeah well I moved from Robbins Air Force Base about 90 miles
|
|
south of Atlanta to Dunlady Georgia I remember what I hate the last time when I last time we talked
|
|
but you know you were simulating a whole big uh server migration so you guys still uh involved in
|
|
in that kind of stuff now I'm just chilling I bought me a house up here and it's got three floors
|
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I live on the top floor the bottom floor has my computers and I got a flex server and a couple
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other servers and I go out when I want to and come in and invite people over but basically I'm
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a hermit I finally got my man case uh huh sounds like the plan yeah you know I I finally got where
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you know my old equipment was just too old to be sustainable and it you know uh well I
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seconded my dad but you know until he passed but after that rather jumping back into it and
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being on a tractor you know 50 hours a week it was it was so much easier just to turn over to a
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neighbor and uh say okay you got you guys got the better equipment you take care of it yep
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that's the line guys I said I'm going up to the big city I got a few friends up here I see
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him a couple of nights a week see my sister and her husband I don't have nobody to take care of
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I can spend my money the way I want I go to the doctor come on home and chill out
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well earlier this summer uh I don't know if you followed me heard this story but um you know I
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I was on Craig's list which I should never do because it always cost me money but uh you know
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there there was a fellow in which star had a 41 caddy ambulance and you know it was pretty
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ratty or whatever but you know you know it was kind of solid but uh you know didn't run
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or wherever he hadn't run in a while and uh you know I I knew a little guy would roll back
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and and said you know uh before I bid on this what would it cost to get me getting home
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so I talked to him and he said you know if you if you're in the like ambulance is dude do I
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got a deal for you and uh win in town in this 84 Cadillac curse and uh and uh you know from
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upstate four Cadillacs he won more fort than it would have been worse but uh look looking at it
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you know the my the mileage was really really low so uh you know I didn't even dick with him I
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gave him the 24 hundred bucks and uh you know uh since earlier summer I've been the proud owner
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of an 84 Cadillac curse you have to do any real work on it anything I had a friend and I was
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in high school in 1973 he bought a Cadillac curse we used to ride around in that sucker
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Warner Robbins that was the party move we had a good old guy and it was white too
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it originally was black and he painted it white well no I mean it's a sweet spot it is an efficient
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250 uh I wouldn't have thought it would have been any good but uh 250 50 cubic inch motor
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and uh something to win a drag race is but he gets you down the road with fuel injection
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uh the interior is like you know pristine um you know the crushed velvet or whatever it is
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you know in the in the back it's just great you know because you know you let these you let these
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things sit outside and they go to crap but uh this wasn't and I'm keeping it inside and uh
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you know the the blur or whatever interior is just perfect so uh you know I'm thinking this is
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my ultimate road trip machine well when I talked to you last time I had an old 1996 Ford
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contour and I was never gonna buy another car I was gonna buy me a scooter if I had to get
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anything because I wasn't going to make the car payment then last year I said when I was moving up
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here I said I'm gonna get me the car I bought me a floor and I keep that baby parked in the garage
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everything hey I don't leave it out for nothing I know what you mean you got to take care of my
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and I pay for it and I'm gonna keep it I'm not gonna let it get all beat up and everything else
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the one thing I can say though living up here at Lion Metropolitan area can't drive I can always
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ride the bus or the trains yeah it's good it's it's good that you guys still have a
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uh measurable metropolitan infrastructure because there's so many cities that they you know they
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were kind of paid off you know oh yeah we want to sell cars so uh why don't you kill your
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infrastructure well here up in Atlanta this year they decided they were going to expand the
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train system to outline counties that didn't want to do it when they set it up 30 years and for
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the next 20 years they got these extra tax and they got train stations planned all around
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further out from metropolitan Atlanta you know I first got up here I bought a metro car
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for us to put ten bucks on it I think I ridden a bus twice in the train three times for VA
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hospital downtown it was alright but it's not something I want to do everything Atlanta is the
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worst place in the U.S. or traffic you hit the interstates the wrong time you won't go no
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yeah uh still trying to work everything out but uh I usually go to PaganCon in Detroit
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uh in May and I I'm trying to work out to do it for Amtrak I mean you can't get the you can't get
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the big suite that that is way too much but you can get the you know the smallest the smallest
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suite to yourself uh for for not a lot you know and I looked at uh uh you wouldn't you wouldn't
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be in a big city it's not uh to uh to join that and uh go north but I'm not sure I want to go
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that you know train both ways and uh if you're due to train then you're going to you're going
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you're going to wind up in uh which trial and have to find find a way to get get back to
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L's worth uh you know so that that's that's the part that's kind of that is kind of uh problematic
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for me but yeah definitely definitely because it's like you would uh not the perfect time but you
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you'd you'd leave about two o'clock in the in the morning and then you'd ride the train to Detroit
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and it would be two o'clock in the afternoon so about 12 hours on a train and some of you'd
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want to sleep but some of you want to sit out but look out the window all the time I was in the
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military I never rode the train we'd always put equipment on train to move them we had to go
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somewhere load up we'd load up the train and then a month later the train we'd get there with all
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our equipment so I never rode amtrak I was never stationed any place that had trains available
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for passengers so this year in October told my sister you know what I want to ride the amtrak so
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for my birthday I bought two tickets from Atlanta to New Orleans and we rode the train should have bought
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the the room you know where you can go and lay down on a bed and you can sit the chair but I got
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us a couple of seats on the train for 68 dollars one way but it was like you said it's 12 hours it
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was 12 hours I think we left here like we were supposed to leave Atlanta 12 o'clock one Sunday morning
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and the train was late so we didn't leave till about 10 o'clock and we got to New Orleans at about
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10 11 o'clock that night but it was it was a long trip I'm not gonna do that again not you know
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just sit in a seat pay the cheap price and next time I go I'm gonna get a room with a bed for a
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little bit but I didn't think it would take 12 hours that that was a long trip I could but I
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could say though that the chairs that you sit in the seats are better than airline seats I think
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you got more room leg room you kick back and do you like a recliner real good it was an experience
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all I can oh I'm sure there's got to be room there there are on a recliner and it's like you know if
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you're an airline even even it's a night you know it's like do I want to hit the button or recline
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and and be jerked to the person behind me well see that's the thing I like these you could
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recline all you want in there with the seats are far enough far where they didn't bother the person
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that was behind you and you had you had the internet and you had your electrical outlets you
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could plug in we had a car where you could go eat if you want it to it eat breakfast and lunch
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just go on through the one thing though that bothered me a lot was every time they cross a road
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they have to ring that down whistle and so you have to get you some good noise canceling headphones
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for the trip down the trip back once we got there we had a hotel at the Hilton to the right
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off of Bourbon some so we didn't have very far of the walk just go down Bourbon Street in the
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French Quarter and eat all you want and if you want to go to the casino you walk down Canal street
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about half a mile and there was the casino get on a river boat yeah a good time I hadn't been
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the New Orleans since 1906 yeah I was a little kid when last time I went yeah make me to my
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my parents sent me to New Orleans in about the 70s and there were there was a lot of
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educational stuff which is probably lost on me but yeah I would definitely like to go back
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and check it out today one thing though in October it was hot it was humid good lord and everybody
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was wearing shorts I was surprised it was that hot down there it must have been 90 degrees for the
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four days was there and it rained every day you had to take your umbrella because you'd be walking
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down Bourbon just skies just open up people just running into places to get out the rain and
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10 minutes later to rain quit other than rain it would not be unusual I mean I'm not saying
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Kansas is bad as Texas and you know Louisiana or you know whatever but we do have our hot days
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during the summer so this wasn't summer this was October 1340 1560 well in that case yeah
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probably not I mean my mom wanted me to have pralines which I did didn't have any pralines they
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a lot of shrimp you know fried shrimp regulars baked shrimp cooked on the skillet just whatever
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and you come out you came out of the hill and you're on the bottom floor you just smell this
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shrimp this fresh shrimp oh it smells so good I smelled that stuff for three days after I got
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back here in Atlanta it was it was magnificent food it was expensive but it was good oh yeah so it
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always expensive when you get away from home but you're back you're right probably uh
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well that was that was the thing played my mom you know in her later days you know she
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she wanted seafood and you know we just didn't have it here we do we do now you know stuff she
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wouldn't want to you know I go down to get stuff but uh you know chrome chrome for anybody else uh
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but in those days you know they're just you know if you want to fish from the store it was like
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fist it's not just a crowbar occasionally they let me see I think I went last week they had a bag
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of shrimp medium size 1798 yeah you know I got something about to say uh like salad shrimp
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for uh want want to do some uh egg food yum you know about the same price I like the I like
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shrimp scamping some onions and garlic in a ton of butter a little bit of lemon juice just throw
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them bad boys in there and cook them for about two or three minutes throw some some angel her
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pasta mix it up oh you make me hungry well catch your plane I'll pick you up at the airport
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I got a bag and house there's in the fridge give me a minute I'll be right back okay
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no my mom she was uh bored into queen and then later his family moved to uh
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street port street port yeah I don't know street port there's air force space to drive through
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street port to head up to um lot doggal on the fort silt well that's how my parents met my uh dead
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was uh stationed in barkstale right right after college yeah no barks he used to be a B52 well
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back in my day it was strategic air command then you set B52s down and my dad used to go down
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here for the what I had been there though that way in about 20 years oh yeah I think it's B47
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based when my dad was there but uh or told the story of this you know B47 had to come back in but
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you know they had to for they could they had to fly around for hours and uh you know burn off
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fuel well I think what it was is they for some reason ripped off the canopy so the poor pilot you
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know he was out there in the whole wind blast for like eight hours that's why he got paid the big
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book well I don't know about the bugs but you know probably fun enough to fly to those hot
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airplanes around yep oh did you get anything for black friday for Christmas well I'm on my own
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now sir everything is you know what I do but yeah I did go walk around Walmart for black friday and uh
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oh well I I should have waited black friday didn't want it uh but I've been wanting to do some
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french fries so I got an air fryer about a a week or two before black friday and uh I need to
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call him up because now it don't air or fry no more I you know uh I got the like the highest
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in when they had because it would it would do you know air fryer and you know it would do dehydrator
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and I said yeah I I loved me some dehydrated uh banana and apple chips so I did that you know
|
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I I I did that and then figured out about halfway through what you know it wasn't doing anything
|
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anymore well okay I didn't do much I been looking at this old 32 inch Dell monitor for the last
|
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year or so went into Costco last summer I had it for 180 bucks I'm gonna get me need to replace my
|
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old 22 inch my desk never did buy it and then about two weeks before black friday I was on had
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on sale for 149 I just said well might as well get it you think it's not going to get no cheaper so
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I ordered it got in a couple of days and it's sitting up here on the desk as big as my little
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real good TV nice little thing 149 dollars I can't play well I used to be a big gamer I'm not
|
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so much anymore I I need to get back into it but uh yeah I have 130 inch monitor but I you know I
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had stuck on old PCs that uh you know what pretty much kind of the trash early you know people throw
|
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and stuff away so you know old core 2d oh duo PCs and uh start watch on youtube uh uh
|
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uh
|
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lettuce but it's not lettuce that we know from uh you know Linux it's it's it you know
|
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it's just lettuce guy who uh does software and hardware and he's not you know
|
|
you he he's not open source unaware but most of the stuff he does is a closed
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stores but he was talking about you know the Walmart gaming laptops and
|
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desktops and the laptops were better in the desktops but and the prices were
|
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coming down and I went in and looked and on Walmart.com and I looked and there's
|
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company doing you know refurb HP's you know with with the gaming card and an
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i5 and what I picked 16 game memory and a give it hard drive which is you know
|
|
I've got other hard drives bigger laying around failed systems that I can
|
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that I can use but you know it's two hundred thirty bucks for for an i5 16
|
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gear ram and a gigabyte hard drive and a gaming video card in video and I would
|
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think of that if I hadn't had so many beers but you know it's like yeah I could
|
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take a chance on that so I you know I've got that coming you know to to replace
|
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the core to do a tower that I was thinking that you know was gonna give me
|
|
back in the gaming well I still have my old Lenovo P580 laptop I bought a
|
|
laptop stand to slide it down and stands up next behind the monitor I was gonna
|
|
think about getting me a nook i7 that I still hadn't pulled that trigger still on
|
|
my Amazon wish might get I'd like to have one and that might be the last PC I
|
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get oh yeah if you don't need the video graphics that's that's the way to go
|
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well I don't do nothing but watch when everything that's what that's why I
|
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wanted the thirty-tenth monitor I could unplug my TV from computer at the
|
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HDMI cable and so I plugged it at HDMI cable to mod and I got them I got my TV
|
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computer sitting up here on the desk side by side and I didn't watch what I
|
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want and I want mainly I needed the big monitor for I don't have to wear my
|
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glasses no more when I see this big-ass screen that's the main thing yeah that
|
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was the last year got got the big display for my dad you know so he wouldn't
|
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have to put on his month glasses see the monitor yeah and he seemed to be
|
|
appreciative of that but it makes a lot of difference once you hit 60 years
|
|
old your eyesight gone mine left me about ten years ago and I had
|
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bifocals and trifles sometimes you just don't want to wear those and then I
|
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went I went to the doctor one time I told him all right can you guys give me some
|
|
computer glass I was going to the A and say yeah we make use so I got some
|
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computer glasses if they work pretty good but after a while you get you know you
|
|
sit in front of the computer eight hours a day you don't want to be wearing
|
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glasses so I'm sitting up here now I'm looking at it I can just see everything
|
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without my glass it's best investment I ever made oh yeah I had those for a
|
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long time they've already offered that to me for a while but yes slightly less
|
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powerful glasses to do the computer and then you go outside you gotta drive
|
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didn't these other glasses but you know and I've had bifocals for a while and
|
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it's like you know I can I can see my phone for about 10 minutes and then I've
|
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got to take my glasses off you know for the first 10 minutes after they after
|
|
they dial my glasses in it you know the lower thing works okay and then after
|
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that you know not well 10 minutes is stretched but you know weaker to within a
|
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week or two I'm taking my glasses off to see my phone well when I look at my phone
|
|
without glasses I can't see anything so high out from the glasses on what do you
|
|
rockin for a phone these days oh I get whatever was cheapest oh I guess it's a
|
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Galaxy 7 and only reason for that and it's been a year and I still haven't
|
|
done it is the Lenovo you know Star Wars experience or whatever where you
|
|
know you put it into the goggles and you can you know fight dark dark
|
|
well no dark dark dark faders up there you know you start you start out with dark
|
|
females okay I got me a Motorola G5 plus a year and a half just when they came out 300 bucks
|
|
went on the Motorola site and said I want an unlock phone they said oh well finance you so
|
|
finance it's in the 18 dollars a month paid that sucker off and off over it was only 300 bucks
|
|
well it does everything I need nothing nothing extravagant you know five and a half you know
|
|
mainly I got it was because it doesn't have all the crap on it like Samsung it's just the plain old
|
|
Android experience none of the no extra software or anything which are credentials in it and
|
|
off to go the only thing I didn't like about it didn't have a doesn't have a RFID you can't do
|
|
none of the you know the banking stuff with it you know you go up to a cash register and tap
|
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the thing you can't do none of that. Joe HTTPS call and slash slash www.youtube.com slash watch
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v equals bsh tflh6 a z w and amp t equals 25 and what was that oh um that's the poco phone
|
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the what the poco phone Papa Oscar Charlie Oscar yes
|
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and just looked it up I see it you check it out. Hi old anyone here?
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yeah we're here me in 1515. I see does that poco phone f164 gigs with six gigs of ram dual
|
|
camera 6.18 inch LTE factory unlock global version 318 but yeah I understand that the
|
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uh UI that comes with it kind of sucks and the uh camera is um made to be worse through software
|
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so it doesn't compete with um what is it the pixel 3's um flagship phone but uh fix all that
|
|
through rooting and roaming it. Yeah look at that. I was like I can use my American Express membership
|
|
rewards point. I almost did get a pixel too last year. I mean this year google clips in
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any emails red you can buy you a pixel 3. I might get a pixel 3 next year when they get a pixel
|
|
yeah I'm a fan of uh getting by just what I can what I can get for what I want to do.
|
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Well if you can get by that's all you need. I've never been a flagship type person. I don't need
|
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that much phone for me to drop it and then have to cry and get it replaced and if I you know I
|
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paid my money for a $300-$400 phone I'm happy put a good case on it good to go. If it breaks I
|
|
just buy another one. I see it was made by Zell me. I bought me a you got into the smart watch
|
|
thing yet. I did try to start uh honky you know uh put up a thing on uh you know and
|
|
and independent deal and uh I look and uh got like uh you know there there are a couple Azus
|
|
things out there and the Azus one is not Roy's support anymore and I thought yeah let's try that
|
|
and see what we can do with it and uh you know it's it's recognized by the the new software but it
|
|
won't connect so I'm thinking okay yeah let's let's beat on it with the uh independent software
|
|
but there's a lot of things you know uh air connectivity not not support I mean you you you can do
|
|
your own uh uh calendar but you really can't export into Google or something like that so you know
|
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it's just something to play with but yeah after having something on my on my wrist for years and
|
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years and years has been very liberating not to have to have that well back in June I said you
|
|
know I think about getting me a smart watch but I didn't I didn't like the Wear OS you know from
|
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Android and I wasn't gonna buy a I watch for nothing and I just wanted something that could do
|
|
I could do my walks with it would tell me my steps in my mileage every day and it had a could
|
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could have a couple other stuff in it so I saw on Amazon had a amazed fit bill for 70 bucks so I
|
|
ordered one for myself and one for my sister she's my walking partner day and so you can set it up
|
|
it does everything I needed to do and it's a nice little watch you know check it out it's on
|
|
Amazon called amazed fit bill 70 bucks nice little watch and so I use it every day I keep it on you
|
|
can buy straps for it I had the original black strap I bought a brown leather strap put on it
|
|
do your sleep it'll tell you your pulse rate of your location has GPS has a compass in it you can do
|
|
different types of workouts tell you your steps your mileage you can put different faces on it
|
|
everything it's nice for a watch for 70 bucks plus it lasts for three weeks we only have to charge
|
|
about three weeks four weeks at a time yeah I was never so much dialed into you know what's my
|
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health thing I probably should be but it was more you know yeah I'm meeting lunch in town one of
|
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my missing on IRC and these these days it's not so much back in back in the day you know I
|
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I was on my mobile dialed in IRC all the time well I got it after I had my blood clot C12 doctor
|
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said you have to start walking again I can't run the knees are shot out of bad legs I've been
|
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doing three and a half miles for the last couple of years every morning get up at five o'clock
|
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just go out and walk around the neighborhood and then come back and I got my 10,000 steps for three
|
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and a half miles whatever that's probably a really excellent idea you know uh my doctors are like
|
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yeah take this handful of pills every day well I take a handful of pills every day but it don't
|
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help my dead leg that's why I do the walking that was one of the things that came out of my blood
|
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clots remember the TV show house that's me the dead leg from knee on down can't feel nothing oh
|
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wow that that is that is not a good scene you know I always I always like that show but uh oh I
|
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didn't know you're like uh you know you couldn't feel half a leg that's what they make walking
|
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king that's what happens when you get oh you get as old as me up 62 that's what happened
|
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well I'll have to put a link in the chat there there was this old uh you know local character
|
|
you uh what met but I you know I wouldn't say I knew but uh passed away this last week but
|
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one of the things he was known for was these canes and his canes were not made out of what they were
|
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how do I say it they they were made out of a bowl part stretched over a
|
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to steal rod I got a couple of wood ones I got an on eight wood one I got my great grandballs
|
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old cane from 1950 and I got the VA regular L shape aluminum cane well this wasn't any of that but uh
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I've got the website loaded up so I'll put it in the chat let's see oh 50 I got the go I got
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somebody knocking on my door I think it's a relative or somebody I'll bring me some dinner you know
|
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it's still a breakfast I might get on later and how are you still able to if not I'll how are you
|
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you still on look cast I am and uh you know like I said if you can if you want to come back and
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check the mumble I'm just a step from uh post reading links so uh you know if you might be
|
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interested uh go look at it okay I'll check it out um look cast still second Friday uh first and
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third Friday first and third okay well I choose good to get back to you both later I'm out for
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reading well shoot I think uh read this connected just right before I posted my link
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that's gonna be probably not uh it's probably gonna be distasteful to a lot of people but
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I'm faking the entire uh you know uh new year's Eve system is probably gonna be flagged
|
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not safe for work so do we have anybody in the uh chat mumble that has the afford to say yeah
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it's done let's quit you're still there 50 unfortunately yes well I answered the door it was
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the kid next door yep I was just saying was there anybody out there with the authority to say
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yeah we're done this year seems to be it's only been a couple of months I'll see you next year
|
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we're looking forward to it man yep have a good one take care take your medicine
|
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yeah oh I always need to do that I'm out like my dad you know always put all these things
|
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he has taken it's like you know what what I got to take is at least as much if nothing it's
|
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depressing it's depressing when you become your parents of course I gotta go see you later 51
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see you next year edge okay I'm so recording I will mute and defend myself and
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whoever jumps back in and decides that we're done then we're done and k-wishers just told me
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looks like he's killing the stream so yeah we're what three three plus hours post what we should be
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oh man that's not a good thing
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