spacecase0

ever herd of art bell ?
he is back in the USA
he brought his wife with him.
I am really happy for him,

so, I was going to post something, but I forgot what it was.
damn memmory.

new topic
USB drives are fun
its 9:23pm on some day I am not sure of.
I need to get dinner.

I have wondred if I might accedently poor a glass of canola oil insted of something else, because I almost did that this evning.

I got a letter from the state of california about the bankruptcy case I have, they are asking for the same thing for the last 3 times, what the hell is the attorney I hired doing ?

the TV show I am watching is really annoying.

I remember now,
I keep accedently hitting my earrings, its really strange to have them.
and the alchohol is really helping with the pain that the holes in my ears are causing me.

I hope you have a nice day.
Adam

this station hates me.

they advertise 2 scifi shows that I like,
then they interupt the shows with "special reports" that really could have waited for the evening news.
and to top it off they talk about it after the special report after they are done...
why are they so damn annoying ?
channel 2 sucks !
and they do it almost every weekend that I watch.
why can't they at least put the regular show on channel 2.2 or something, they have the technology to do it.

I have been a little tired lately, like I needed a vacation,
the endless days of no work have convinced me to relax.
I finally feel like doing the dishes.
I really needed this vacation, I am all better now, now I just need to get a job, but until then,

so, my question is how do you get gelled oil off of things, soap is not effective, hot water is not effective, nothing seems to work. scraping sort of works, and buying new dishes is only for the employed.

any ideas anyone, this "gelled oil" is stickier than glue and makes the biggest mess.

I stopped by target and got a cutter that makes frys very quickly from a potato
I also got a cutter that will cut onions very quickly.
I got a colander, I have never had one of these before.
and I got a heart shaped silicone muffin tray, but I will use it to make ice cubes.

so, now I use the cutter,
then wash the fries in the colander,
then put them into the salad spinner to dry them,
then put them in the deep fryer,
it is really easy to make the fries now.

according to some websites I should call them "freedom fries" in order to protest the french not supporting the iraque (spelling) war.

any way, I just turned 2 big potatoes into fries using canola oil, a salad spinner, and my deep fryer and then I ate them.
it was strange, that was lots of food, but I am still hungry, kind of.

making french fries was really fun.
I will do it more often now that I have oil in the deep fryer.

A minor earthquake occurred at 9:21:15 AM (PST) on Saturday, December 23, 2006.
The magnitude 3.5 event occurred 4 km (2 miles) ESE of Berkeley, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 10 km ( 6 miles).
map
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-38.htm
text detail
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51177121.htm

A minor earthquake occurred at 7:12:28 PM (PST) on Wednesday, December 20, 2006.
The magnitude 3.7 event occurred 4 km (2 miles) ESE of Berkeley, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 9 km ( 6 miles).

I was a little worried at first, but it seemed OK after the shaking stopped.

so, I went to the holiday party that Ready Made had, it was lots of fun.
I met 3 every so cute and sweet women that appeared to like me, or at least were not frightened away at the very drunk me.
it took me till 3pm the next day to actually get my car home, and I am still sick feeling, so I had to much, but it was totally worth it, even if I lost the number of the one that I kept smiling at all evening, stupid cell phone... , but now that I think of it, she did tell me that she has never seen someone through up as gracefully as me, I still value that complement, but maybe she deleted her number, not a good first impression.
I still have the number of the one that kept coming up to me and smiling at me, I should call her soon.
I just thought I would share my seemingly important thoughts with everyone.

I wish everyone a happy nice day.

my account seems to be gone, that means someone made a special request for it to be deactivated,
I was not really expecting that, but I guess I should have, mean things always come in infinite numbers.
I had one more message to send with that account, I guess it was not that important anyway.

I no longer work for Initech, oh wait, I mean LHS
I hope things work out well.

my web page is going away
so, I reposted the entire site as blog entrys,
and when I get time I will make an index that will link to them all, then put a link to the left so that is is easy to get to.
so, if you already know me, it will be nothing new.
happy thoughts
Adam-

Earthquake survival kits

The things you might want are - to stay safe, clean, warm, and have food. Flash lights are the typical thing people think of, but you might not need much of one as there is free light all day long. But if you do get one, consider one that has no batteries, like the shakelight to your right.
	The flashlight above has to be pointed - good for walking or looking for things, but not good to be making dinner with, for that sort of thing the flashlight to your left is the way to go, but remember that if you plan for it, you will not need any light at night.
Safety is a big issue, if you have something, someone else might want it. The hurricane flood showed us that attacks will come in small groups, some well armed. The black case is there to get you thinking, you must pick what you will use, and if you don't want to own a weapon, I understand and I don't want you having one either in that case. But having a crow bar can be useful anyway, and can be a very effective weapon when you change your mind after the world has turned to shit. Staying out of sight is by far the best way to stay safe. Tactics for dealing with small raiding groups: If you have a single shot weapon such as a crossbow (very quiet), remember that people will fight if they might die, but if you pick a person (the leader would help) and tell him that you know that you cant hurt them all, but you can guarantee that he will die, and he should convince his friends to leave. It might work, but repelling the gangs of Oakland and Richmond might be really hard.
	Staying clean is really important, some really bad things are very small and need to be washed off, studies show that health really deteriorates when you stop washing your hands.
I also have a stainless steel cup in my earthquake kit, it is strong enough to cook in if I need to.
	A blanket can be nice, something just to stop the wind can make a few pieces of a fallen house into a livable place for the night. This is my favorite piece of linen, blankets are bulky.
Sunglasses may seem like an extra, but being outside for days can hurt my eyes.	Communications with the outside world, this radio can receive and transmit on the ham radio bands as well as talk with aircraft and police frequencies, it costs about 350 $ it is an Icom W-32a with legal modifications done.
Extra car keys in your kit can really help, your car is a great shelter even if all the roads are destroyed. People may value cash, so it might help to have some. Brushing your teeth is important, and what else you think you might want to keep you comfortable. The watch ? I know that time can be helpful, even if it is not set correctly, it might help to know about when the sun will set the next day, or how long is the walk to fresh water.
Some food, I can live on this for 3 days with comfort. But water is a bigger issue, have a water filter in a separate bag that I always have with me.(below)	A set of clothes, if you run out at 3 am with nothing on, you will really want this in the bag in your hand, don't forget shoes of some sort.
I have another bag I carry almost everywhere. It has soap, the good tasting kind so I can wash my teeth if I need to. Knives, titanium plate, cup, water purifier gloves, telescope, and a few other things.	This has my portable kitchen in it, including a stove, pans, food and oil, remember that dried seeds (beans, rice, lentils, quoina, ect...) are the lightest and have the most energy, and the oil will balance the meal enough to be workable. I also have another type of water filter system and extras such as string.
Who gets rescued in the dark ? that is right, the one with the 10 $ strobe light from the boat supply store.
	My favorite ax. Never know what you will be trying to cut, someone free of a fallen whatever, or just trying to get out your front door, or making something to get out of the rain.
This is a really effective water purifier, will treat 10 thousand gallons of water. The laws in California make it hard for this to be sold here, but you can get it here, or an out of state REI when on vacation. It is meant to be used with a 1 liter sports bottle, very easy to use.
If my apartment is left standing I have a big kit that has nice stoves and a tent, sleeping bag, 2 months of food, rope, pulleys, GPS, a big short-wave radio transmitter, 10 pounds of soap, and it is all on a luggage cart that I can get out of my apartment in 45 seconds. The down side is that earthquakes tend to mess up things like this. It is great if I know something is coming. Remember that earthquakes toss things about, --- keep everything in an easy to find container --- water proof if you can, I use a 5 gallon bucket with a lid.
	if it is just me, I have at home about a year of food in this can, it is stored in duffle bags so that I can empty it fast. I store the grain in metal so that mice or rats have no chance of getting to it. I don't think rodents will be a problem, but they are so hard to get rid of if they ever move in. and If I ever use my seeds, I will need a place to put the harvest.
I also have a grain mill and other things, did you know you can cook beans in 3 min. if you start with bean flour.
	I also have books that have lots on infrastructure design and basic technology. This sort of thing is of more use in your head than on a shelf.
And I have enough seeds to grow a garden in just about any conditions and enough of them so I could feed about I don't know - 20? people after harvest time. metal box sealed air tight and with silica gel that keep them dry. They should be good through at least my life. Some seed saving technology is relay easy to learn, and a few bags of organic beans, lentils, ect... can be plenty of seeds, just test them in pots in your window. Http://www.seedsavers.org this website has good simple instructions.
Back to the main page	All this took me 6 weeks to put together in my extra time.
I was actually preparing for a zombie attack with all this, I figured that would cover everything.	Remember that something is better than nothing, do what you can, and revaluate every year.
I would recommend to others to have at home: full set of clothes, extra car keys, some way to clean up water, a few days of food, soap, a hand towel, a small umbrella that can take high winds, a blanket and if possible, flash light, pepper spray and a small weather radio. And all in a backpack or some easy to grab container that is next to your bed, and some would say tied off to it, but if you do that use light string that can be broken with a very hard pull.	In your car: you figure it out...
In your mind: don't panic, think, don't lock up. people are smart for a reason. People are very fragile, don't take risks, infections can kill very fast.	In your heart: most people are nice, plan for the worst, hope for the best.
Some weekend just turn the power off at the breaker to your dwelling, and see what it takes to live, things become clear very quick.	The movies rarely get things right.
Back to the main page	Good luck

consciousness in a body

I have come to this after many things, let me define my words, then tell you and explain it.

consciousness - just you, not your hair, hand, arm, body, thoughts or emotions. These external

things are just tools "you" use, the whole package from your mind to your clothes, no including your consciousness, I would call

your personality.

The word soul is over used by to many people for to many things, so I will not use it, it is just a word with no real definition anymore.

I think that consciousness can be very fluid.

when you concentrate on something - I think you extend to it, your consciousness can go out and

envelope the item of your focus.

when someone is looking at you, you can feel it, I think because there consciousness is entering

your space and that is why you feel them, this is important because it means that more than one

consciousness can be in the same space at the same time.

I think that people don't realize that consciousness is so fluid because they are trapped in a body.

the only way I can describe how you are trapped - is it is like you are in a clear balloon that has the

exit in the back, and you are always looking through the balloon, stretching it when you focus,

but still trapped by it.

you are fluid but you are always brought back unless you leave by the exit, and this is not an easy

exit to find.

I think most people's consciousness have control of the mind and the emotions, some people's

consciousness has expanded to there whole body, and some can expand there consciousness to

things around them, such as a race car.

I think it can be very useful to be able to expand your consciousness so that you can feel and

control what is going on outside your body, such as the weather, or your car, or your garden, or

your pocket knife.

some people would tell a race car driver to feel the car and treat it as if it is a part of your body.

I have an alternative description of what they are doing, the driver is expanding he/she/it's

consciousness to envelop the car and gain control of it.

and this gives the driver the edge they need to win.

I started this project by wanting to build a detector to tell how far my consciousness has

expanded, and then realized that my consciousness is me, and it is really easy for me to tell where

I am, and not to hard to use my thoughts to record memories of where I was.

I still wanted to build the detector to prove it to others, but realized that consciousness is

everywhere, I think this is why ancient people thought that the average emotional state of people

on the planet controls the weather, many consciousness overlap to create a background feeling in

some areas, and this has real influence on many things.

this information has proved a very useful tool for me, just remember that your thoughts are just a tool that you use

and really have nothing to do with all this.

I think it is handy to know what I am and how I work.

Adam~

techniques of prayer

so you want to pray?

here is all I know, only use it for good, or you will be haunted by evil for a very very long time.

prayer works no matter what religion you belive, even if you have no religion.

prayer works well in many cases, but try what you can physically first, and concurrently with prayer.

the cases that it will not work are when you are violating someone's free will.

it works best when the prayer is for someone else and done by more that one person.

OK, there are 2 tricks I know to get this to work, use them at the same time.

first put your brain in the right state to force your will on the outside world.

Neal Slade came up with this one, but I can't find it on his web site anymore.

you are trying to find 2 points inside your brain,

let me describe how to find them, imagine a line going between your temples,

now imagine 2 new lines going straight back from the center of each eye and connects to the line between your temples,

the 2 intersecting points are the places your looking for,

the 2 points are special places in your brain, I don't remember why.

now focus your nerve connections from the 2 points toward your forehead.

"how do I focus my nerve connections like that ?"

easy, imagining it happening works well. try this one,

visualize 2 feathers from the special points tickling the connections forward, it works really well, even if this sounds annoying, just try it first.

after being in this state all day I have a hard time going to sleep,

so the trick to fix this is to make the nerve connections so from the 2 points back and down to the base of your brain,

this does something bad if you do it to much, but I can't remember why, less than a minute is all I have ever needed.

the next trick is to activate at least 2 energy centers, one mental and one emotional.

the one you are already focusing on (right ?), at your forehead.

the next is between your eyes, this is the one I use.

the emotional ones are lower down, the one I suggest is at the heart level.

I will try to describe the differences between the centers and what they do, this night help.

there is a pattern to them once you get this it is easier.

most people are familiar with the mental with its questions and answers, this center is at eye level.

by the way, I don't know why the locations are where they are.

the next center people can relate to is the lower emotional center,

this one has wants and desires along with fulfillment and satisfaction, it is at your belly button level.

go up one center (that I know about) and you get the higher emotional, it is at the heart level,

and it has what they call pure love, meaning there is only one part to it.

the lower mental and lower emotional both have 2 parts (questions-answers, desirer-satisfaction)

go up one energy center from either and you get the attributes of the center below combining to one thing.

the one that is one up from the lower mental is really a cool place to be, no more questions without answers,

information simply is, and it all makes sense instantly.

see why the higher emotional is a better place to pray from, no broken pieces.

but do not abandon those centers with 2 parts, as these centers are what gives us drive and motivation.

there is also a center I can't fit in the pattern, it is at the throat,

people centered here are good at mechanical things, things like mechanics, lock smiths, and other physical world logic type things.

each center has a front and a back, one set lined up with your spine on your back,

and one set directly in front of that in the front of your body.

the ones in the front seem alright to focus lots of energy from,

the ones in the back cad do serious damage to you physically and mentally if you focus to much (trust me).

"how do I activate an energy center ?"

visualization with intent really works for this.

so to put it all together, you have set yourself up to change reality, now ask for what you want, be specific,

the clearer your picture, the easier it will be for it to happen,

and say it out loud if you can, there is something about the voice that makes it work better,

of corse you can ask for fulfillment from only one source like god or someone else,

but think about who you are asking and are they the best to help,

not specifying usually works very well,

but consider what may grant you this favor, especially if it is for something like personal gain.

my suggestion is to think about what you are asking for before you pray,

things like what repercussions will it have, ect...

my favorite prayer

(referring to every one on earth)

"heal our bodies

heal our lives

heal our societies

heal our civilizations

heal the world."

I know what repercussions this might have.

if any of this was excessively confusing please message me so I can make it clearer.

Adam

the color of religion

this was caused by a conversation I was having with someone.

we were talking about prayer.

they said yea, yea, I know, many paths to the same point.

my response was, no, it is one path to one place.

here is my analogy.

one person sees the way, one listens, one smells, one feels the way, some get others to carry them, some drag weights behind them, some follow a map, some drive, some walk, some spend a few min., some spend many lives, some go straight, some wander for it, some wear sunglasses, some have night vision, but

they all end up at the same place, and they all came down the same street to do it.

sure it felt different on the way for each method, but it was still the same path.

ancient people knew there is one path to one place as far as religion.

religion is a useful tool, and is color less.

like ink on the pages of a book the colorless text is hard to read, the color makes no difference to the text, but you need the color in order to read it, but people got wrapped up in the color and forgot why it really works.

I know the path and see it clearly, I know the destination and have been there many times.

I just want someone to talk to and hold hands with along the way.

How I see physics and time

How I see physics

if it is possible for something to happen, it will happen.

I think that is the only structure to reality, I think that the unified field theory that people keep looking for will come down to that, the rest is just math.

this means to me that things that are possible either happen in the quantity of zero or infinity.

I think matter and consciousness are 2 entirely different things that it was possible for them to interact.

you remember that you can't create or destroy matter-energy, right. so I say that there is no matter-energy, if you average it out anyway.

in magnetism ( quantity infinite ), north and south always travels opposite of each other thus canceling the total energy, so there is no total energy. I think this magnetic fluid is what everything is made of , different magnetic patterns create each of the sub atomic parts that we see.

this "average" is where time comes from, at least in terms of energy.

the speed of light is determined by this averaging, the magnetic field collapses, then the electric field collapses, the speed that this happens is determined by the speed of the magnetic fluid.

if you have a different speed of fluid, you get a different dimension, only electrostatic can be seen by all of them.

any questions ?

How I see time

how time works for people.

time is not liner, but it appears liner.

here is why.

things like thought can go through time easily.

when you feel things that happen in the future, this is what is happening.

so if this is possible, most people would think that you should be able to avoid bad things.

well, if you do it right then you can.

if you wake up and remember that you will get bad milk at the store, then go and get it, and then send the message back to yourself that this will happen, then the time line is consistent, so it will happen.

if you remember the milk is bad and do not go get it, and send no message, the time line will not work, because you did not send the message, so the time line will not happen.

most people do not think that time works this way, so they do not do what is needed to get it to work well. most people's emotions do not care about time, so some people feel good or bad things coming.

what you have to do to get things to work well is to send yourself a message that will cause you to do the thing you want and to send yourself the correct message to get yourself to do those things. all of this is to make a time line that you want that is possible so that it happens.

so what I would have done in the bad milk case is to get a different container of milk and then send myself a message to get a different milk container than the one I first would have picked up. I make sure that it is a time line that is possible that I want to happen. and the big part is I know that this works, so it shows up in more than my emotions.

if someone asks me when is a good time to work on there car I might answer something like last sat. but I usually remember not to say that sort of thing to other people, but it is the way I think, and the way I deal with life.

I can't prove that it works, but I miss so much bad traffic now that I think this way.

it took me a few years to send complex messages, and they are not very clear, all I really know is that they show up as a memory of the future. I seem to have the same difficulty remembering the past and the future.

free yourself of the city grid
I will help you get your house disconnected from the city grid.
power and water are my primary issues, but food would be nice as well.

just message me and I will guide you in the correct direction.



why I decided to do this.
Ok, I was reading a personal add about a year ago, and the person said in response to the question
what are you doing with your life, that she was
making the world a prettier place one room at a time (she is an interior decorator).
then over the weekend I am listening to the radio and some guy
that says aliens put information in his head is talking about how we can save our planet from
doom.
He says we should all be using alternative power, and things like this,
and that the aliens said they did not need to give humans any technology,
that we have all we need already.

so I got thinking, I should start helping people one at a time to get them using alternative power,
maybe if one person has it, the people around will see and will want alternative power as well,
at least I can hope.

so, if you own a house or think you can get away with it in your apartment,
I will help you put in power and water systems that will make you independent,
even if it is just one light and one outside water faucet,
during any sort of utilities blackout, it will be really nice.

I want to help people get free of the grid one house at a time.

I suggest that you start with something small and toy with it,
just to get to know how everything works.

just one small solar panel, one battery, and one radio or light.
try a water can and collect some water from the rain and figure out how to clean and distribute it.

just remember, you need a few things in life
water
food
shelter

usually your food needs energy to cook it.
water, usually needs energy to move it around,
15% of all energy made in the USA is used to move water, think about this.
shelter, like clothing is not transported over a grid, so you are fine there.
all the nice things in life, like communication, and light really help, and use energy.

if you use the correct kind of energy you can get along better.
electricity is good for many things, but things like cooking require a very large amount of energy.
butane or methane are better choices for cooking, running a TV needs electricity, etc..



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Just think if reincarnation is possible.

Things that are important to you when you have a body and when you do not may not be the same.

If you wait till your dead to decide where to go next, you will be deciding where to go next from the point of view of not having a body.

I see this to mean if you want a good next life, start planning now, so that when the time comes, you have a better idea of what you want. If you think about it, you don’t even know if you can think the same way with or with out a body.

I say it is best to plan now, there are so many possibilities,

and if reincarnation is not possible, then you have waisted just 5 minutes.

global warming / the next ice age

people keep asking me why the weather is so strange
the reason is that the earth is going into the next ice age.
we have had all the weather that shows us that the ice age is coming
global warming will cause an ice age.
here is how
the earth has a few temperature regulating mechanisms
first the currents in the oceans, it takes about 100 years for the water on the top to change with the water on the bottom, and algae now grows near the edge of the ocean due to the warmer temperature.
second, ocean currents like the gulf stream taking water from the amazon rain forest and delivering it north to places like England to keep it warm. this can only happen if the ocean is salty enough to act as a stream bed for this river to flow on. lots of melting ice makes the ocean less salty.
third is the methyl bromide, forests create it, it goes up into the atmosphere and destroys some ozone, this keeps the plant life on the planet to approximately the same value. I do not know the length of time this cycle takes.
all of these cycles are usually out of phase, this means that one is causing the planet to heat, while another is causing the planet to cool.
now, with all the heat, co2, CFCs, ect... every one of those cycles are aligned to cool the planet. the gulf stream has slowed to less that one fourth of its normal value sometime in the last 2 years (2005).
the ozone is week in the upper atmosphere.
and algae is starting to grow in the middle of the ocean, and the algae in the ocean makes more oxygen than anything else in the planet.
so it looks like we have some cold weather in store for us.
the weather in an ice age will be very chaotic, especially far inland.
I am looking forward to it, I am prepared and change can be fun.

driving tips for people that are sliding the car

Ok, so you want driving tips, this is all I know

remember these are only ideas, meant to me a starting point for practice in a safe location, most work on gravel at under 30 MPH.

Use good judgement, it will determine the outcome of trying any of this, good judgment can save you in an emergency situation (I have done this twice successfully and failed once), bad judgment can end in twisted metal and broken people, where there was no danger had you not read this.(I have done this twice, yes the person was me)

be safe, when learning these tricks, I ended up sliding sideways to a stop, almost hitting dirt banks that were hundreds of foot away when I started, and it really hurt the tires and paint when on gravel, do not try this in something that will turn over when slid sideways, my cars can handle high speed slides and not flip over, and only one came this way from the factory, I have had 2 cars upside down in my life, and it is not fun in any way.

first lets explain some driving conditions, then I will explain how to overcome some of the conditions.

Under steer, this is when you turn the wheel, and the car does not turn as much as it should for that angle of the wheel, meaning the front wheels are sliding when they are turned.

over steer, the car turns at an angle larger than you turned the steering wheel, meaning the rear of the car has slid in the direction of the outside of the corner

front engine front wheel drive cars usually under steer

front engine rear wheel drive cars usually oversteer

front engine all wheel drive cars usually under steer going into a corner, and oversteer coming out of the corner.

Rear engine rear drive cars scare me, so I do not know what they do.

Mid engine rear drive cars cost to much, so I do not know what they do.

Anti sway bars affect under/over steer

larger bar in the front tends to cause more under steer

larger bar in the rear tends to cause more over steer

to save money some cars come with an anti sway bar in the front, but not in the back.

In a front engine rear drive car, like most 1960's American cars this helped cause more under steer to counteract the nature of a front engine rear drive car.

In a Honda civic, this practice just causes the car to under steer lots.

A car can usually be balanced with the correct anti sway bars, I did this to my Mitsubishi eclipse.

Things that can help with under steer,

1. (This works on Front wheel drive cars) hit the gas some, this can cause the car to be pulled in the direction that the wheels are pointed

2. (This works on Every car I have driven) Flutter the gas, this shifts the weight to the front tires so that they get better grip to turn you with, I think more is going on here, but I do not know quite what.

3. Hand brake, this causes the rear wheels to stop making them slide, if you are turning at all, the rear of the car will slide in the direction of the outside of the corner, be very careful with this one as it can spin your car 180 degrees really easy.(this is how I know my ABS works in reverse)

4 (this works on rear drive cars) hit the gas very hard, this can causes the rear wheels to slide toward the outside of the corner, like with the hand brake you must be turning some initially for this to work, but depending on speed and engine power output, it can be more or less controllable.

5 turn the steering wheel more, or less, it could be just the wrong angle to get traction, this usually works better in combination with the other methods.

6 pray, this has only worked for me once, the usual result is my car off the road.

Things that can help with over steer.

1. Turn the steering wheel more out of the corner

2 (front engine rear drive) let off the gas some, why did I have it to the floor anyway?

3 (front engine rear drive and all wheel drive cars) flutter the gas, it helps the rear tires find traction

4 (all wheel drive cars) your going to have to live with it, steer correctly, and gas down or flutter the gas, or somewhere in between. By the time you have under steer, if you let off the gas you will be right out of the corner.

Remember these things react differently on different cars, and can be much different on the same car, given conditions ore age, etc...

an example, some unnamed American rental car, you slide it around dry pavement, and it reliably under steers by 15%, you get it on gravel, and it over steers. What was happening you may ask, it was most likely the frame was bending on dry pavement corners due to the high cornering force, when on gravel, the cornering force is lower, and the frame bends less, causing a very different dynamic, but then why was it inconsistent on the gravel, ok the frame of a car acts like a big spring, when you turn the frame twists, then the car starts to turn, when you straighten out, the frame bends straight, then the other direction, then your car straightens out, then the frame returns to straight. What a mess, right? Gravel is not very consistent, so the frame was bending lots in different directions, making the car inconsistent in the gravel.

Frame bracing make the frame bend a lot less, and it is relatively cheep, but remember the bracing can change the affect of your anti sway bars act, usually it make them act stiffer.

A single strut brace bar for the front can really make handling much more consistent, and they are usually cheep.

Some rally race drivers pump the brakes while hitting the gas to get a similar affect that I get from fluttering the gas, I just cant get this to work, and in one of my cars when you hit the gas and brakes at the same time, it destroys the clutch, the real advantage to this pulsed braking is that acceleration lag on the part of the engine is not an issue, all of my cars throttle very quickly.

Straight line braking on poor traction surfaces from high speeds where stability is an issue, like stopping from 140 MPH on gravel.

What I found works is leaving the gas about 1/4 to 1/3 down and pumping the brakes very fast.

If you just let of the gas at speed, on gravel, you can spin, if you do not, and start hitting the brakes you will probably spin, and if not, your rear brakes will fade first, and then you will loose stability and spin, and if you do not spin, you got lucky, or are more skilled than me. My trick slows the car when the brakes are pressed, then regains stability when you let off the brakes, with a net affect of slowing the car without spinning out, best to try this one in a simulator first as the result of messing this one up can be death, remember more brakes = stop faster, more gas gains stability.

Last a fun (very fast) way to take a corner in the rain in a front wheel drive car, steer the car about double into a corner needed if not sliding, if you start going into the inside of the corner, hit the gas, if you start going toward the outside of the corner let off the gas.

Steering with the gas peddle can be unnerving at first, and quite scary, as you slide off the road, but can be quite effective.

Keep in mind your engine RPM, as low RPM can be very bad, as it usually will not get you enough power to use any of the tricks I have described. Also plan your corners well, as shifting in the middle of a corner can really mess with a slide, but low RPM or over redline can be much worse, sometimes it takes me a half a lane of sliding to shift, but with the correct RPM I can usually pull out of the corner much better than had I not shifted.

The most important thing to keep in mind, there is only so much you can do if you enter a corner to fast, and it usually ends in bad things happening. My best trick for that, if it happens, is to hit the brakes till I slide near the edge of the road (or my lane), then hit the gas enough to gain traction, ( I once ended up sideways at the end of the corner having not hit anything trying this).

I still do not know if it is a good idea, but it has saved me 3 times.

I hope you liked it, email be if you want something cleared up, the chair I am in is uncomfortable, and I can no longer think clearly.

Adam

Evolution and our gardens
Some want to preserve the environment as it was before man arrived.
Some want to use all the resources they can for short term gain.
Some just want to get by, however the can.
And some will shape the environment to be more helpful to humans.
the world can be a harsh place, and if you don't believe me, walk out into a forest in the middle of winter and see how many days it takes for you to feel like you will die.
My point is that every animal we know has a method of life that works for them, and when that method stops working, they die. The human method is to shape our surroundings to work for us.
There are many ways to do this.
My grand father planted trees that produced food and planted blackberries on the banks of a local stream, he did this so that people, whoever they may be, would have more food if they needed it..
Some find this horrifying that he changed the fragile local environment, the blackberries grew very well, killing some of the local fish, the trees go unnoticed by most, later someone built a dam on the stream and killed all the fish and the blackberries.
My point is, that most environmentalists have a bad plan as far as how to continue the human race, and most industrialists have a very bad idea on how to keep things going.
Is it ok for us to mess with the environment and randomly kill off animals and plants that we don't like right now? Probably not a good idea, you never can tell what they might be doing for you. Celtic people would always have a section of the fields left to nature. Other animals would kill us if it helped their method of living, just look at any bacterial infection.
Then, just when the debate gets good, something like the next ice age comes along and will kill much of life as we know it, so, does it really matter?
The gulf stream has slowed to less than 1/4 of its original speed. This is the largest change in the weather in recorded history, and if it changes things the way we think it might, then we have the opportunity to fix views on this topic, as countries fall and many people are gone, the social structures that have created the madness will fall apart, and this is when you come in to my plan, yes, I mean you. When things are rebuilding, help others to determine and act on what is in the best interest of everyone, not just now, but in the future. Remember that lots of things in life are marketing. An example of how things can go wrong, lets say, you associate these thoughts with a style or religion. And then some group says something like "I hate hippy clothes and lifestyle" Remember things like that are good reasons for someone not follow your idea of the future. Almost any lifestyle is sustainable, I like wearing suits and having conversations while drinking cocktails, and I don't mind if the energy to freeze the ice came from a solar panel, but that is just me.

trouble shooting

Schools do not teach trouble shooting. Why, I ask?

To hard to teach, some people cant learn?

Any way, I will try to teach it.

To understand how to fix things, you must know how to design them

The black box theory.

Things have inputs and outputs.

We shall view every thing between the input and output as a black box

“black box” refers to something that you do not know how it works.

So, you if you have the correct input you should have the correct output.

The basic logic is to view your item as a single black box at first, check the inputs and outputs.

If that fails to find the problem, keep dividing it into smaller boxes, and test the inputs and outputs of each black box till you find the problem, keep in mind there are things you can not test or take apart for testing, this should guide your decisions for how to divide the boxes.

Lets take a table lamp as an example, inputs are electricity from the wall and input from a switch, outputs are light.

Easy trouble shooting might be if the switch is off, you will get no light, solution is turn on the switch, proper operation needs proper inputs.

Next example, there is power, and the switch is on, and there is no light.

What to do? Do not do nothing, it will not get it to work.

One solution is to replace the black box (entire lamp ), kind of costly and may or may not be a good solution.

The next thing to try is to reduce the black box size ( smaller and easier things to deal with ).

We will now view the lamp as more than one black box connected together.

I will say, a power receiving box ( wall plug ), a switching box, and a light emitting box.

Seems reasonable, right? If you get this part wrong, it may increase time, and energy to fix it

We will figure out what input and output requirements each black box unit has, and determine if they are able to be tested.

Route one: Let us say that we have only our eyes to test things with.

The light emitting box is the only thing we can detect, I would start there, if it is broken, all other fixes may be not necessary and undetectable.

We test the bulb in another lamp, it works.

The switch is easy to get to in this case, so we replace it, still no light

next I will take apart the black box for the power plug, it seems simple enough, nothing looks broken.

all my black boxes seem to work, the problem must be the interconnections, of these boxes.

Upon inspection a wire between the power and the bulb has broken, problem found, but at high cost, time and a switch that may or may not be reusable.

Rout two: you have a meter that can test electricity.

You can now test the input and output of the switch, power plug, and input of the bulb.

It might be easier to test the points that are testable first, let us say that the wires on the switch are east to get to, we could quickly find out if anything up to and including the switch was working.

after testing it, the switch is getting, and sending power.

Ok, on to the next test, the bulb is getting power on one wire ( from the switch ), but no return connection ( the voltage is the same on the two wires ).

Ok, only one black boxes appear to have the wrong inputs, and the problem bust be an interconnect between the plug and the bulb, and upon inspection verifies a broken wire.

This sort of logic can be applied to many things.

Cost, ease of testing, and likely hood of certain parts to brake should be taken in to account.

Most people I see, stare blankly at their computer that is on (sound and lights as indicators), see no display and never figure out that the monitor is off.

Some trouble shooting is better than none, as they get laughed at all day long for this.

I hope this helped someone...

Adam

2002 Subaru WRX review

ok, I got mine 2 ½ months after they came out. I got the short shifter, and the suspention package, they refused to install the suspention.

I payed a speed shop $750 to install the suspention, they only left one bolt loose that I found 2 weeks later, it did some dammage, but not much.

I tried 2 air intake systems, first was the cold air intake from AEM, it had interferiance problems near the filter and 10K miles after the install I noticed a hole in the filter, the second one is from HKS, it was a short intake, when jumping my car (and the suspention I have lets me do that quite well) the intake came up and slammed into the fender hard enough to brake the mass air flow sensor. Five days later (and $300) I got the new airflow sensor from subaru.

Let me make this clear it took subaru 5 days with express ordering to get the part.

I put back the stock intake.

I added cusco frame bracing, triangle in the rear and the type 2 front lower brace, and the upper brace that had no ajustments and went way around the intercooler. I have never had any problems with these parts, and love the way it handles now.

I put halk hp+ brake pads in the front, they worked very well, despite the horible noises they made, then I stopped from 137 on gravle and realized the value of a ballenced brake setup, I am suprized I am still alive. I then put in the stoptech stage 2 brakes for the WRX, this works very well.

Due to the friction surface on the stock cluch being defective, I also put in an execdy 2 plate clutch, it worked well, was very driveable, other than the force needed to press the peddel in, if I was sick, I had a hard time of it. It lasted 45 thousand miles before I could not disengage the clutch anymore, the master cylnder had broke, I replaced it, and it helped for a few weeks, then the problem returned, so I took the transmission out, the clutch fork (or clutch piviot lever as the subaru parts counter called it ), was badly dammaged, I went to subaru on monday morning at 7:30am and aked for one, I brought my vin # and the old part. They said they could order it and have it in by thursday. On thursday they sais it would be in monday, on monday I got the wrong part. So when thay tell you if they use your vin # they will never get the wrong part for your car, they are not correct. Any way, after another 5 days (express ordering) I put my car back together with the exedy single plate cluch and stock flywheel. It is so easy to drive now. The duel plate cluch was almost warn out anyway (needed new friction disks). I miss the accrleration from the lightened flywheel.

I have broke suspention parts, and lots of other little things because I drive my car very hard, but other than air filters and oil filters, it would seem that the subaru parts department keeps nothing in stock, most things are 5 days away with express ordering, and 7 days away with standard ordering.

The car is perfect, I could not ask for anything more, but waiting 40 days a year for parts means I have to have a second car in order to own a subaru for a primary car, and this is a car with less than 60K miles and between 3 and 4 years old. I will never buy another subaru.

Due to this I was planning on driving to the mitsubishi dealer (I was still at trader joes) to get an EVO when my brother called and told me the top 5 cars that hurt people the worst in wrecks, and the lancer was one of them. So I guess I will keep my subaru and my old mitsubishi eclips.

So, carfull of your mods, it is very good stock, and don't plan on subaru having any parts on hand, and I am thinking Nissan for my next car, but I like AWD.

I thought it was fun,
had to use internet explorer to take the quiz.
hope you like taking it.

so,
lots of bars will make drinks the wrong way to make things easier to make.
I was talking with a friend about what kind of drinks are hard to mess up,
my brother figures that corona is really hard to mess up,
I thought that a tequila sunrise would be hard to mess up, no mixing and if the amounts are wrong, it really matters not,
but I found out about a bar in Sacramento that did something I would have never guessed,
they make the tequila sunrise with only orange soda and vodka.
I keep wondering, who would do that? and why ?