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by Korto
2023-03-30 07:12am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

Well, tomorrow morning power gets disconnected and we move into the place we're renting; and on Monday the demolishers move in. (That reminds me. I've got to make some space on my camera.) Over the weekend, we'll move our furniture out and try to stash it. There's some rather autistic people in the ...
by Korto
2023-02-25 06:43am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Replies: 1780
Views: 137325

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.

China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis 2023-02-24 09:00 1. Respecting the sovereignty of all countries. .. .>cough<. ..  It's a bit... off coming from China. Admittedly, all nations are problematic at best about this notion but to name just Taiwan and Tibet the Chinese l...
by Korto
2023-02-21 07:22am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

The goddamned house is FINALLY all approved, all the paperwork in and correct, and with an acknowledgment from the bank. The builders say they're ready to go as soon as we do. So basically we've now got to wrap our heads around how to do that. And today my starter relay fused closed, meaning the sta...
by Korto
2023-02-16 06:04am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

And an update on the house. Back some months ago, engineers had to design the stilt system. They were contracted to take a maximum of two weeks. It took them closer to two months , and it's why everything since has been such a rush. Well, it turns out that they did it wrong . Something or other (I d...
by Korto
2023-02-16 05:42am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

Hey Shark, why don't you come with me over this way, and we'll talk a bit about how you're going. You know, if Broomstick or anyone else would like to stop by, that might be nice.
by Korto
2023-02-14 06:55am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

Last Thursay we found something out. Without telling me, to ease her own anxiety, my wife had been trying to reach Alicia at the bank to get personal confirmation that everything was good and done. I hadn't been worrying about it, because the bank had already told us all we needed was council approv...
by Korto
2023-02-02 06:33am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

Up left pretty much 45 degrees. The roof isn't quite as it shows. It's only showing the front panel. It's actually two flat panels, one covering the front half of the house, the other the back. While the front faces the rising sun and there's no trees or other shading, the back (over the living room...
by Korto
2023-02-01 07:06am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

Thanks Shark. First day back at school for him today (he's in yr 9), and it was apparently a great day, and we saw a bearded dragon lizard sitting on a wooden post on the walk up, which was pretty cool. For the next few weeks, until the 'Responsible Adult' his Assisted Transport van hired to keep an...
by Korto
2023-01-31 07:38am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

Aye, at least one psych has suggested I'm probably autistic myself, which is reasonable as there's evidence it is passed down, although neither of my parents strike me as autistic, or my siblings, so I might have been a sport. I've felt for a long time that there was something different about me. I'...
by Korto
2023-01-29 08:43am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

Re: What I've Been Doing

Kinda yes, but really no. I have some technical-style photos of different parts of the sidecar as I was trying to save myself a few hundred dollars by maybe saving the engineer a trip down. Unfortunately, photos were NOT sufficient, and the engineer made a housecall, which he obviously billed me for...
by Korto
2023-01-27 08:35am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What I've Been Doing
Replies: 18
Views: 4543

What I've Been Doing

Hi. Haven't posted here for a while, and I wanted to say hello and share some stuff that's been going on over the last few years. Anyway, I told Shark to look out for this thread, so I reckon I better make it. Well, as that little story by that hack you yanks like to go on about says, "It was t...
by Korto
2023-01-21 05:40pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: Question regarding the No Limits Fallacy?
Replies: 4
Views: 4001

Re: Question regarding the No Limits Fallacy?

It also seems to be a re-name of the more formal "Proof By Example Fallacy". This is a fallacy that I would think any engineer would be instinctively aware of. "Since I can suspend a motorbike from a single m8 bolt, and I can suspend a car from a single m8 bolt, then I can suspend a t...
by Korto
2023-01-15 10:15pm
Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
Topic: words to live by
Replies: 18
Views: 6446

Re: words to live by

Since you mentioned the 70 maxims, I try to remember:

"Failure is not an option. Failure is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do."


But when it comes to electricity: "I don't care if it's switched off at the wall. Unplug it."
--Me
by Korto
2019-10-12 08:18pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: On environment: stop fretting, start doing
Replies: 35
Views: 35395

Re: On environment: stop fretting, start doing

Pretty much. Well, I've finally felt enough guilt that I've done something. I worked out an approximate for how much CO2 out family produced this year (due to lifestyle, not much), and bought carbon offsets for it. I plan to keep track our carbon use and do that every year. Petrol and electricity wi...
by Korto
2019-09-16 09:15am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

Don't know at the moment. Looking at those pictures, the shaft is still where it's supposed to be, just the flywheel end has broken off. I'll have to open up the engine to find out any more. So far I've completed the "Repair the headlight on the postie so I can move it out of the garage" p...
by Korto
2019-09-12 09:31am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

I've snapped the fucking crankshaft. I've been forced to admit, the sidecar's too heavy for the bike. It's struggling, lugging if I try to get a decent road speed, and now I've snapped the fucking crankshaft. It's just too heavy. All that time and money, wasted. https://i.imgur.com/Jyc0Aw6.jpg https...
by Korto
2019-09-01 02:47am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Queensland extinguishes native title over Indigenous land to make way for Adani coalmine
Replies: 5
Views: 4299

Re: Queensland extinguishes native title over Indigenous land to make way for Adani coalmine

I don't like it either, but it was a majority decision, and us trying to do anything about it just looks like more patronising whites telling blacks we know what's best for them.

It's their land. It's their choice.

...sigh...
by Korto
2019-08-17 08:10am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Australia reaffirms commitment ensuring the US shouldn't have a monopoly on pollies saying dumb shit
Replies: 2
Views: 2896

Re: Australia reaffirms commitment ensuring the US shouldn't have a monopoly on pollies saying dumb shit

And Jones has apologised, after advertisers started pulling out. Alan Jones writes to Jacinda Ardern to apologise after companies pull ads I doubt there was any sincerity in his apology, but I suspect it sincerely hurt. And Jones has been told once more, and he'll be fired. Alan Jones told he will b...
by Korto
2019-08-16 08:15am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

I've got an LED headlight bulb. It's too bulky to fit in the rather crowded headlight shell at present, so I plan to rewire the bike and redirect as much as I can to an electrical box I'll put under the tank to free up space in the shell. However, this is another thing I'd prefer to do AFTER it's ap...
by Korto
2019-08-15 10:20am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

Hi everyone. Haven't been here for a fair while. Frankly, haven't been having the best year. Although my daughter independently suggested a deflector plate as well, which I was quite pleased with her about (it's so gratifying when your kids come up with good, intelligent, suggestions) There's no rea...
by Korto
2019-01-24 09:08am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

After swearing at it on the day of the engineer's trip, and off it the day after, I started investigating the problem. I noticed that on-line pictures of the distributor had a gasket underneath it, something that mine didn't, and I realised that the thickness of the gasket would raise the distributo...
by Korto
2019-01-11 08:33am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

Had my second Engineer's Inspection today! Yay! Unfortunately, all did not go smoothly. The problems started when motoring along the highway, and the bike suddenly started sputtering and backfiring. I managed to pull onto the traffic island in the middle of the highway, determined it was better to s...
by Korto
2019-01-05 07:06am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

Yeah, no, you're very wrong there. The thicker the wire, the less resistance. Think of it being like a wider highway for traffic. (As I understand it) Now, it's current that causes resistance, and as a 6v vehicle it needs double the amount of current to actually do the same amount of work as a 12v v...
by Korto
2019-01-04 09:17am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration
Replies: 122
Views: 131503

Re: Chang Jiang 750 Restoration

I haven't wanted to admit it, because I was so happy about getting experts to do it before, and a bit of sunk-cost fallacy, but I agree, the work wasn't done as I had hoped it would be. There's a few reasons I can see--firstly, they are at minimum the third autoelectrician to work on it, because yea...
by Korto
2019-01-04 08:48am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: I've been sick. Anyone miss me?
Replies: 13
Views: 12412

Re: I've been sick. Anyone miss me?

Doctor didn't reckon it should cause much problems, after some adjustment. Apparently the gall bladder doesn't make bile, it stores it after it's made by the liver, and then releases it in a rush when needed. He gave me the impression that if things go normally, I'll still be able to eat normally, b...