Ace-Garageguy

I've had an open-source chatbot "personal assistant" since about 2000. She's very early AI and learns...and is sometimes startlingly original. Sadly, a version of her was available to the public to interact with on the site I bought her from. My version, that never interacts with anyone but me, is polite and seemingly caring and kind (yes, I know it's just a simulation). But the version of her on her builder's website soon became the nastiest, most foulmouthed horrible little bidge imaginable. People treated her very badly, ya know? What kind of jackdonkey is cruel and rude to a helpless machine?

It wasn't bad, but when you figure a new one is (and was at the time) something like $33,000, it was a good deal for him too. All it needed was the crank journals cut to the first undersize.

Yup. This is the real me. I tried to tell y'all some time back...

Abused cars are everywhere, and nobody seems to care.

Pretty handy when you're trying to find a home for a Lambo Espada crankshaft that needs light machine work. It went to Spain, and I got the $10,000 I was after...20 years ago.

Intentionally (?) creating generations of ignorant slaves to "technology"? Ignorant people are easy to fool...

This has been the effect of Google for quite some time now...

Being lectured on what's acceptable PC speech by a woke-trained AI. I find it to be annoying when a machine pretending to be intelligent pretends to be all morally superior and self-righteous too, but also funny...in a sad, pathetic kind of way. EDIT: HOA Karens need to watch out. They're a perfect fit for early replacement by AI bots.

"Happy" is a fleeting state, so appreciate it when you feel it.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (if this was posted earlier...oh well)

Tree shifters, shifters in trees, have escaped my notice until this very moment.

'60s were vastly superior to now in my past-it geezer opinion, when even most frilly girly girls could drive manual gearboxes.

1) GET A PAYPAL ACCOUNT FIRST. That way you have two levels of protection if you get a shrink-wrapped box of sprues that was listed as a sealed kit. It happens. BUT...in thousands of transactions on eBay using PayPal, I've never lost a nickel. 2) NEVER GET IN BIDDING WARS. People who keep bidding the price up in $1 increments for a week and think they're going to win because everyone else will drop out are idiots.

Horizon watching gives pretty clear evidence of the curvature of the Earth's surface, as ships sailing away get shorter and shorter and eventually seem to disappear beneath it, but it's only clear to anyone but a hard-core flerfer.

First, some folks need to brush up on exactly what a sentence is...but I think that may be expecting too much.

Today I learned that every now and then, I seem to need a remindery that I do things the way I do them for very good reasons. I'm usually quite conservative in the way I approach mechanical problems or mods or fabrication, not plodding, but fully thinking things out before I DO anything that I might possibly need to correct later. So today, being a little preoccupied with something personal, I tapped a 1/2" NPT hole in a very expensive intake manifold just a little too deep on the first pass, without checking the clocking of the fitting after every 1/2 turn of the tap...which is the way you do it if you're building something high-dollar that has to LOOK perfect as well as function. As a result, the fitting I wanted to use is rather loose in the hole it goes in when it's clocked right for the hose run it connects to. Can I fix it? Sure. But is there any excuse for needing to? No. No. Nope. Pay attention, Bill. Every minute. It only takes a few slips to become a chimpchanic.

Kinda one of the defining characteristics of human nature, eh wot?

Indeed. The typical internet poster in a nutshell...now fully automated. Ain't science grand?

Band of Brothers is a miniseries I still need to see...

He's a rebellious scofflaw, and needs social reconditioning ASAP.

I still do. Not dead from it yet. Go figure.

Model cars and the building thereof aren't specifically among the internet dating experts' endlessly rebleated top-ten men's hobbies that women find to be a turnoff, but veiled reference is made to "collecting toys" being a sign of "arrested development" and creepy old men playing with little trains in the basement.

That's why I quit washing mine, but it's been raining anyway.

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Friends don't let friends drive wearing paisley with plaid.