Signs you have ODed on CA

[rickca]

I thought this might be a fun thread.  I can't believe how much time people spend on CA.  Just starting this thread probably indicates I'm already there.

[wgscott]

Your post count >= 0.5*(Jud's post count)

[Ralf11]

When I detect the signs of ODing:

• nausea.
• vomiting.
• abdominal cramps.
• diarrhoea.
• dizziness.
• loss of balance.
• seizures (fitting)
• drowsiness

I just go into the garage and try to figure out what's wrong with my carburetors.

[Superdad]

3 hours ago, wgscott said:

Your post count >= 0.5*(Jud's post count)

 

Says the guy with almost 13K posts?  You're only off Jud's mark by a couple thousand. 

[Superdad]

2 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

I just go into the garage and try to figure out what's wrong with my carburetors.

 

You still have carburetors? Aren't those considered by car guys the way modern audiophiles consider tube amps? 

 

By the way Ralf, can you explain your avatar photo to me?  It's beautiful and creepy at the same time.  Keep thinking I see some sort of menacing face in it.

[firedog]

When you open the site to "new unread" and are bitterly disappointed there aren't any....

[mansr]

6 hours ago, Superdad said:

By the way Ralf, can you explain your avatar photo to me?  It's beautiful and creepy at the same time.  Keep thinking I see some sort of menacing face in it.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/organ-of-corti-inner-ear-sem-dr-david-furness-keele-university.html

[mav52]

When the poster has forgotten that they can also set back and just listen to music instead of posting their life away with endless babble. .

[The Computer Audiophile]

Such a good thread. I love the answers already :~)

[christopher3393]

when I find myself in the middle of yet another debunking thread with this on loop:

 

 

 

[Norton]

When you can't remember when you last spent some quality time with your oscilloscope.

[Ralf11]

12 hours ago, Superdad said:

 

You still have carburetors? Aren't those considered by car guys the way modern audiophiles consider tube amps? 

 

By the way Ralf, can you explain your avatar photo to me?  It's beautiful and creepy at the same time.  Keep thinking I see some sort of menacing face in it.

 

The avatar is an SEM of the Organ of Corti - maybe you hear a menacing face?  It is the part of the ear that contains hair cells which detect sound, and is designed to do something very like an FFT on incoming sound.

 

I own two tube pre-amps.  They are euphonic..  The carbs are on an old sports car, which was a lot of fun to drive before it started giving me problems (and a lot of fun to build up - I took fuel injection off the motor and hot rodded it, then added carbs).  Parts on the car range from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s in design, not date of manf.  (It is like right sizing something; I right-historied it).  The daily driver has a modern EFI system and will become an EV if they ever make one that can do what I need...

[esimms86]

When wgscott is tired of making fun of you.

[gmgraves]

25 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

 

The avatar is an SEM of the Organ of Corti - maybe you hear a menacing face?  It is the part of the ear that contains hair cells which detect sound, and is designed to do something very like an FFT on incoming sound.

 

I own two tube pre-amps.  They are euphonic..  The carbs are on an old sports car, which was a lot of fun to drive before it started giving me problems (and a lot of fun to build up - I took fuel injection off the motor and hot rodded it, then added carbs).  Parts on the car range from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s in design, not date of manf.  (It is like right sizing something; I right-historied it).  The daily driver has a modern EFI system and will become an EV if they ever make one that can do what I need...

What year and model sports car is it? I agree about EVs. As long as you can't pull into a service station, get a full charge in under FIVE minutes, the only EV that I could seriously contemplate would be a fuel-cell driven vehicle (the ideal fully electric solution) or a gasoline/electric hybrid like a Chevy Volt. The Tesla's a beautiful car, but what good is it if you can't drive across the country without stopping for 8 hours every 200 or so miles to completely recharge the batteries. Also, it is my belief that merely moving the point of pollution from locally (i.e., the car itself) to a central location (a power plant somewhere) is really just making the pollution point invisible to the car owner, NOT removing it altogether. And while granted that a steam generating* plant is much more efficient than an internal combustion automobile engine, not burning anything as in a fuel-cell is the only real net gain system on the horizon for vehicles. 

 

*I realize that there are sources of grid power other than burning hydrocarbons, to wit: solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, etc. But the fact remains that 65% of all US Power is derived from burning hydrocarbons. Only about 19% is from nuclear bringing the total up 84%. The other 16% are renewable energy sources (these figures come from US Energy Information Administration for 2016).  

[Daudio]

3 minutes ago, gmgraves said:

What year and model sports car is it?

 

Massively Off Topic !

[mav52]

You know you have OD'ed on CA when the topic goes way OFF topic.

[mansr]

48 minutes ago, Daudio said:

Massively Off Topic !

So that's what MOT stands for.

[Solstice380]

51 minutes ago, mav52 said:

You know you have OD'ed on CA when the topic goes way OFF topic.

 

But that happens with every thread!

[Ralf11]

It's a Porsche 911 and the unit body is a 1973.

 

I need an EV that is an SUV, with at minimum Sube Forester levels of off-roadiness.  A fine sound system would be a nice plus so I could drive it and listen to music instead of...

 

<wait for it>

 

...ODing on CA.

[gmgraves]

2 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

It's a Porsche 911 and the unit body is a 1973.

 

I need an EV that is an SUV, with at minimum Sube Forester levels of off-roadiness.  A fine sound system would be a nice plus so I could drive it and listen to music instead of...

 

<wait for it>

 

...ODing on CA.

Nice!