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Rodeo Joe said:
I wouldn't say that. Weather the last few days here has been unusually warm and it's all changing over the weekend....unfortunately! :zrant:

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Likewise, I think we are forecast to have a 30° swing in temperature over the next couple of days, its crazy.
 
I didn't take this, but This is a Harley Davidson:

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1962 scooter by HD.
 
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I'm not sure I understand the connection, @KevinVarnes

Are you saying kids nowadays don't get excited about such installations anymore because...they overlook them because their eyes are pointed down to their phones? Or because they immediately google how it's done, so they don't get the experience of discovering the trick on their own?

I remember we had one like that in an amusement park. It was a huge faucet which to my young eyes appeared to be floating. I thought it was amazing.
 
I guess it was more a commentary on society as a whole. An awesome floating tea kettle cannot even capture our attention for a second because we are so consumed with what everyone online is saying and thinking. We cannot even show emotion to the very person sitting right next to us in front of the floating tea kettle because our our self absorbed obsession. The mirror in the car shows how we look at ourselves, but there is no reflection because our very soul is empty so there is nothing to reflect. In all a very deep introspective picture.

Or I could just be making light and completely ignoring the fact that the point of the picture was to show the floating tea kettle and the people in the picture are immaterial, but I decided to ignore the floating tea kettle and instead focus on the people sitting in front of it on their phones.
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
I'm not sure I understand the connection, @KevinVarnes

Are you saying kids nowadays don't get excited about such installations anymore because...they overlook them because their eyes are pointed down to their phones? Or because they immediately google how it's done, so they don't get the experience of discovering the trick on their own?

I remember we had one like that in an amusement park. It was a huge faucet which to my young eyes appeared to be floating. I thought it was amazing.
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I vividly remember the grocery store by me had this coke display when I was a little kid and it absolutely blew my mind wondering how it worked, it never occurred to me the soda stream was spiral shaped and spinning, I thought it was a continuous loop that went through the floor 😆

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This is the one from my childhood. The faucet is suspended from chains. As a kid, I thought they somehow fed the water through the chains. At some point, my parents explained to me that there was a transparent acrylic pipe inside the stream of water.

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HAHA this is awfully close to needing it's own thread
 
KevinVarnes said:
I guess it was more a commentary on society as a whole. An awesome floating tea kettle cannot even capture our attention for a second because we are so consumed with what everyone online is saying and thinking. We cannot even show emotion to the very person sitting right next to us in front of the floating tea kettle because our our self absorbed obsession. The mirror in the car shows how we look at ourselves, but there is no reflection because our very soul is empty so there is nothing to reflect. In all a very deep introspective picture.

Or I could just be making light and completely ignoring the fact that the point of the picture was to show the floating tea kettle and the people in the picture are immaterial, but I decided to ignore the floating tea kettle and instead focus on the people sitting in front of it on their phones.
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I agree, a lot of people are spiritually dead and have become completely consumerist. Bring back human interaction.




Went with my buddy to get his 04’ wrx sti tuned. Pretty much FBO and a bigger turbo with injectors. About 23 psi and dropping fuel pressure out the pump. The thing is really fun once it gets into boost and the AWD just puts the power down all day. Going back in a couple months, tuner recommended a flex fuel upgrade to run E and hoping to push about 500awhp. Current numbers are 380whp 360wtq



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Chingon1 said:
I agree, a lot of people are spiritually dead and have become completely consumerist. Bring back human interaction.
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The real problem is people increasingly raised on screens equate human interaction to device usage. I consider myself lucky for my age that my upbringing was largely computer free, and because of that I still largely see the very device I’m typing on now as a frivolity. I’m most assuredly as much as a slave to it as anyone else for practical necessity but if it all bricked tomorrow I could move on easy other than missing this community(which is the only “social media” I happily participate). For others raised on technology where they got a smartphone in the stroller I can’t imagine how warped “life” must appear, especially now with AI making the perception of reality even more bizarre from what it already was.

The really crazy part is I’m generally introverted/loner by nature, I don’t need human interaction, I tolerate it, but by today’s standards I feel like a social butterfly compared to the behavior of people in the present.
 
I grew up a geek, books, chemistry sets, rockets.
I really liked blowing stuff up, so I spent a lot of time in the woods. You don't get caught if no one sees you.
One of my neighbors taught me the joys of nitric acid. Nitroglycerin is tricky; it takes a ice bath to prevent 'thermal runaway.' which is bad, lol.
I got caught riding the storm drain lid out behind the house, and lost chemistry set priviledges. :)
I got pushed into electronics, and didn't hit chemistry again until '04 or so.
Computers when I was young were mainframes, building sized beasts. They were using VAX systems at my first job as an electronic tech in the test dept in '84.
But, I had a shiny new IBM PC XT on my desk.
No one knew how to use it so I taught myself dos and basic.:) Fun times!
 
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