One of the channels I subscribe to on You Tube posted this video the other day. Auusie50 is geek/engineer sort of guy that likes to have a little fun once in awhile and tinker with stuff. So anyhow, he killed this washing machine recently and I thought I’d pass it on. Good stuff!
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Well folks you really wonder do have to wonder sometimes. Either way North Korea is always good for a show and unless something bigger is afoot probably nothing to worry about. Then again, maybe history really does repeat itself. Either way have some popcorn and enjoy the fireworks while you still can!
Japan, U.S. bases in range… Here’s more from the absurdity department… Reid’s gun bill could threaten privacy rights, civil liberties, says — ACLU? Tens of thousands Obamacare ‘navigators’ to be hired — at $48 an hour… After two-decade downturn, Bank of Japan unleashes world’s biggest stimulus: $1.4 trillion… And this from Karl Denninger: You have to be kidding me…
Just a few news links of interest and a short update on IOR. There is now a dedicated IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 server up and running for those interested. It requires a fairly good machine to run but with a quad core processor, 8Gb of ram or so it works just fine with Windows 7. If you’re interested let me know and we can set you up to join in on one of the dogfights. But more on that later, here’s some more IOR Headline grabs for the day. Breakout the popcorn folks, it’s a good show. Not this again!!!!
What’s this guy supposed to be teaching again? What a looser.. More from the gun grabbers…. It would be really hard to make this stuff up but that seems to be the norm these days anyhow. The non-event asteroid fly by was accompanied by at least 3 other meteor sightings not to mention the Russian incident. Makes you scratch your head doesn’t it? At any rate break out the popcorn and enjoy. Football-field-sized asteroid buzzes past the Earth Armed robbers snatch $50m in uncut diamonds from Brussels airport And This again? Whatever…
Karl Denninger posted this piece which describes our current state of affairs as a people and global community to a tee. Good Morning, This Is Your Captain Speaking Now that we’re a couple of hours into our flight over the Atlantic Ocean, we’d like to update you on our flight status and expectations. We’re cruising at DOW 13,892 this morning having ascended from approximately DOW 6,000. Our target is DOW 25,000 which we have all convinced you we will achieve, or you would have not have boarded our fine flight this morning. However, despite the smiles of our cabin attendants as they served you all the booze you’ve been drinking (and charging you $10/drink for the privilege) I’m speaking to you from JFK airport, not the cockpit as you assume. You see, I’m an employee of GoldSucksToBeYou, and I watched the ground crew load fuel before your departure, noting that while this trip is scheduled to last six hours over water, there was only three hours of fuel being loaded on board. Incidentally, as I noted, you’ve been in the air for about two hours. Moe, Larry and Curly are at the controls and in accordance with FAA regulations the cockpit door has been reinforced in the unlikely event that any of you have flight experience and might be able to actually alter your flight’s course. In addition, to soothe you and entice you to consume all that booze we have been running continual in-your-face promotional material from Warren I-ate-your-Buffet and Central News Bull Crap, carefully crafted to appeal to your fear of missing out on the next-great-thing. Your checked luggage also did not make the trip with you. Instead, we have looted it. To the passenger in seat 17C, thank you for the nice iPAD and for the passenger in 31A, you should know better than to check 6-carat diamonds in your suitcase. Remember, as employees of GoldSucksToBeYou, we’re dedicated to our comfort and safety, and to Hell with yours. The headwinds that have slowed your progress materially are global and inescapable. Not only is the most-recent GDP print in the United States negative, but so has been reported Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Austria and Cyprus among others. Finally, you will note that despite FAA regulations the life vest under your seat is in fact a Winn-Dixie plastic bag and the waters over which you are flying are shark-infested. Have a nice remainder of your flight.
Watch the signs folks. Every day the news from around the globe is telling us the games about ready to time out. Venezuela to devalue currency… NAVY UNABLE TO REFUEL CARRIER DUE TO BUDGET CUTS… Chicago Police Want 12% Pay Raise…
This is an interesting piece from Karl Denninger: Someone Is Betting On A Crash?
Then we’ve got this Dorner character dancing circles around the LAPD. To the point that innocents are getting shot up by the boys in blue. Trail for rogue LAPD cop goes ‘very cold’…
Gun Confiscation Bill Proposed in California: ‘We Can Save Lives’
Illusion or Reality? Lots of questions when it comes to the headlines these days, but some of it is getting to be on the extreme side of things. Take this bit of news from Miami: Video Link: Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami Fl. Granted they were probably blanks, but the level these training missions are taking place at with local authorities gives one pause for thought. WTF? Another one in Texas? Video Link: Army training exercise happening on Houston’s south side
Then this from Drudge concerning the Middle East: Israel warns of possible pre-emptive strike in Syria... So was that an accident or what? I bet they hate it when key parts of their nuclear program blow up for no reason.
Karl Denninger wieghs in on gun control: Obama Still Doesn’t Get It: 2nd Amendment Obama’s Government at the same time claims these guns are “assault weapons” that are “only intended to murder people” while it issued a Statement of Work to acquire 7,000 Personal Defensive Weapons. What are those weapons? Let me just quote from the SOW:
This is from Karl Denninger on Japans fiscal mess:
Japan adopted an “official” 2% inflation target. At the same time the so-called “independent” BOJ said it will begin open-ended money-printing starting in January of next year, when it will begin buying a total of 12 trillion Yen of government bonds monthly. This is about $135 billion in dollars, more or less, per month — or about $1.6 trillion annually. The market initially spiked on this, but then people started to contemplate: This is a fiscal devaluation of about 22% annually! That’s well beyond eating the seed corn and into the realm of burning the furniture — and perhaps the wallpaper. The impact of this policy on the common Japanese citizen is going to be catastrophic and will lead to the collapse of the economy and government. This is not speculation; it is mathematically certain. We are talking about a “fiscal operation” that is approximately three times what our government is doing, and the impact here has been horrifying, boosting unemployment and pressing firmly into the neck of Americans while driving food stamps and other social “program” demand to the moon. The impact in Japan will be nothing short of cataclysmic, which leads one to wonder: Are they really that dumb or is this a promise that nobody intends to actually keep?
I had no clue this project would go this far when I started, but no surprise really, it happens to me all the time. Actually I enjoyed the destructive tear downs, although the scrapping/recycling part was a bit of a chore. Oh well, it is what it is and a done deal for now. A YouTuber known as MikesElectricStuff gave me the idea originally in a video he posted on his channel. If you’re into electronics and equipment autopsies check the guy out. He definitely knows his stuff and takes a look into some rather unique equipment and analyses it in depth at the component level. Now it’s time to move onto something a little more productive. Hat Tip goes out to Chromedome and Jackster for the equipment donations. Checkout this little jewel of a flying machine. A good friend of mine, we’ll call him THM for now, is probably the best machinist I’ve ever come across in my days. He put this bird together. It was equipped with a 4 cyl piston aircraft engine originally, but rather costly to keep flying due to the yearly majors and maintenance fees. So after doing some research he decided to try using a turbine engine and reconfigure the drive train from the ground up. It was a radical idea but proved to be a good one. The turbine engine he finally settled on was a Solar unit used on the CH-47 (Sky Hook) helicopters for power generation and the hydraulic systems. He purchased two or three of them and put one together that was air worthy. That was the easy part and he moved on to designing the drive train. The transmission had to be built from square one to achieve the right gear ratio including shafts, gears, bearings and that whole ball of wax. THM owns a well equipped machine shop and set about using his expertise to build the transmission and related drive train components piece by piece. The original main rotor shaft was also re-fabricated from titanium stock due to some harmonics encountered with the changes to the drive train. The skill set required to do something like that says everything you need to know about the man. He’s a machinist with the heart of an engineer and the vision to make it all fly. The trailer (bird cage) is used to move it to air shows. If time allows I’ll get some video of it flying next spring.
Ok, it really is done this time. I added more PC MOBO’s and the boards from a huge pile of vending machine coin mech’s and bill validator’s to the little wall, then added some accent lighting for good measure. What started out as an attempt to get rid of some junk is now art and spare parts on the wall. It was actually a lot of fun scrapping it all out and in my opinion looks like it’s right at home in the studio. Each to his own I guess.
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