Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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I downloaded a Kindle reader for my phone yesterday and I have to say I'm surprised at how good it is. I can adjust the text size, brightness, spacing, margins, even the colour of the background, and it saves my place for me.

I'm reading this atm. It's about a bloke who loses his dad to cancer. Very poignant and evocative for me, as I suspect it would be for anyone who's lost their dad.

[Skippy]

I was thinking the other day about what in the future people will think has changed the most during our generation- our parents might have said space travel, or intercontinental flight, or the transistor.

12 year olds currently have to have vinyl records explained to them, or maybe even CDs. And the idea that if you were going out to meet someone, you'd have to arrange a time and place beforehand and actually be there- you couldn't just ring them up -it was entirely possible if there was a miscommunication that you could get there. not meet who you were intending to meet and have to go home again.

Our kids/grandkids will have to have explained to them in history lessons that people used to have information printed out on paper bound together called books and that indeed these items were considered so important that we used to have special items of furniture to hold them/ Indeed they were considered so important that we even built special buildings to keep them in that people travelled to especially to go and read them.

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I was thinking the other day about what in the future people will think has changed the most during our generation- our parents might have been said space travel, or intercontinental flight, or the transistor.

12 year olds currently have to have vinyl records explained to them, or maybe even CDs. And the idea that if you were going out to meet someone, you'd have to arrange a time and place beforehand and actually be there- you couldn't just ring them up -it was entirely possible if there was a miscommunication that you could get there. not meet who you were intending to meet and have to go home again.

Our kids/grandkids will have to have explained to them in history lessons that people used to have information printed out on paper bound together called books and that indeed these items were considered so important that we used to have special items of furniture to hold them/ Indeed they were considered so important that we even built special buildings to keep them in that people travelled to especially to go and read them.

Mrs Red and I were discussing this just the other day.

We have things now that past generations would never have even been able to imagine, so we set about trying to imagine the unimaginable things that future generations will see.

My guess is matter transportation. Just as we can now send a photograph or a voice to the other side of town or the other side of the  world in a fraction of a second, so we will be able to transport solid objects, even people.

How's that for unimaginable?

[Karabiner]

I bet Jules Verne is having a groan somewhere.

[tikay]

I bet Jules Verne is having a groan somewhere.

+20,000.

[Geo the Sarge]

I bet Jules Verne is having a groan somewhere.

+20,000.

 

Very rarely do any of us get one over Ralph

Geo

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I bet Jules Verne is having a groan somewhere.

I didn't read any Jules Verne so I just had a shufti at his wiki page. My goodness he was prolific.

I'm assuming he pinched my matter transporter idea?

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I was thinking the other day about what in the future people will think has changed the most during our generation- our parents might have said space travel, or intercontinental flight, or the transistor.

12 year olds currently have to have vinyl records explained to them, or maybe even CDs. And the idea that if you were going out to meet someone, you'd have to arrange a time and place beforehand and actually be there- you couldn't just ring them up -it was entirely possible if there was a miscommunication that you could get there. not meet who you were intending to meet and have to go home again.

Our kids/grandkids will have to have explained to them in history lessons that people used to have information printed out on paper bound together called books and that indeed these items were considered so important that we used to have special items of furniture to hold them/ Indeed they were considered so important that we even built special buildings to keep them in that people travelled to especially to go and read them.

I was surprised to learn that the bloke who wrote  this is a poker player.

[Karabiner]

I bet Jules Verne is having a groan somewhere.

+20,000.

 

Very rarely do any of us get one over Ralph

Geo

Tony does it on an almost daily basis I can assure you.

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Hi RED, if your coolant has gone down that much you should check make sure you have no external leaks, modern vehicles need to be topped up vary rarely without reason, the anti freeze will evaporate a little over time, but minute amounts, how old and what is your van?

Thanks for that.

Losing coolant is always a bit sus, but I've done all the obvious checks, (Rad is holding pressure and there's no water in the oil).

I think in this case, like air from tires, it just vanished over a long period.

I will be keeping my eye on it though.

Coolant low in header tank after 150 mile journey yesterday.  engine temp remains within the normal range, heater matrix cold at idle speeds, but warm at higher revs.

I can't see a leak anywhere. It could be pushing water past the seal on the radiator cap if the spring has gone weak.

I'm starting to worry that the head gasket might have gone between the water jacket and an exhaust port allowing the coolant to be blown out with the exhaust gasses.

[tikay]

Have you tried TIO&TIBO?

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Have you tried TIO&TIBO?

 

[pokerfan]

I presume you're topping up with antifreeze ?

Is the footwell damp at all ? Heater matrix if so.

Head gasket prolly favourite, though worst case you could have a hairline crack in the head if its been frozen.

[tikay]

I presume you're topping up with antifreeze ?

Is the footwell damp at all ? Heater matrix if so.

Head gasket prolly favourite, though worst case you could have a hairline crack in the head if its been frozen.

That is just the way he parts his hair.

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I presume you're topping up with antifreeze ?

Is the footwell damp at all ? Heater matrix if so.

Head gasket prolly favourite, though worst case you could have a hairline crack in the head if its been frozen.

Footwell dry.

No water in the oil so if it is the head gasket I would expect exhaust gasses are getting into the cooling system, (Or vice versa) but there's not much pressure in the system and there's been no overheating.

I'll try to get a sniff test done tomorrow.