Operation T.R.A.F.F.I.C
Too
Racy
And
Final
For
Infant
Cars
This one started out as a script idea for a cars movie. In this scene a new character is being introduced. A prius. In this scene we learn that the prius’ name is Pat.
Scene begins across the street from the filling station in radiator springs. The station is full and there are a few cars waiting in line. Three friends ‘mater, lightning, and sally carrera are talking together. It is another slow day along the mother road, route sixty six. Al least it was a slow day until the filling station filled up.
sally:"What a line over there at the filling station, I hope that neither of you is in a hurry."
‘mater: "Nope, filled up this morning! Seen any blue cars?"
lightning: "No, but I saw a yellow one. Hey, who is that?"
[a prius has pulled-in to the radiator springs filling station, a little tired after a long day on the road]
‘mater: "That one looks friendly."
lightning: "Is that one of those new hybrids?"
sally "maybe she could use a place to stay this evening!"
No one had seen a hybrid car in radiator springs before this day. The three friends look at each other and nod silently. They begin to move toward the prius. Hybrid. Whatsoever.
lighning: [saunter]
sally: [dance]
‘mater: [sashay]
[All three friends begin talking at once]
+
sally:"Hello my name is 'sally carrera' and I would like to welcome you to radiator springs, here is a nice motel with clean rooms and a continental breakfast!"
lightning: "lightning name is the name, you may have seen me on television or something and I am really glad to meet you!"
‘mater: "Howdy stranger, I am tow mater the biggest, strongest tow truck in these parts!"
Pat: "Well…" [takes a half step back]
[three friends notice that they are crowding, and draw back half a step as well]
Pat: "…okay, my name is Pat."
All three friends begin talking at once.
+
Sally: "I hope to see you at the motel!"
Lighning: "Psst, stay away from the leaded premium fuel, it is very old."
‘mater: "If you need a tow, just holler!" (giggle)
Pat: "I might be staying overnight. How far is it to the next town?"
sally:"About one hundred sixty miles going that way" [She points with here eyes glancing].
Pat: "A hundred sixty miles…(yawn) "
[ ‘mater and sally exchange glances ]
‘mater: "So, Prius…"
Pat: " Yes), (whinny), ( I am a prius!)"
_
'mater: : …are you a boy car… or a girl car" ?
Pat: "Yes! I am also a dry car!"
sally: "You are in luck, the line is moving!".
[As Pat turns away from the three and over to the gas pump, we can see a "clean vehicle" sticker on his/her back bumper. Once at the pump, she turns around and is once again facing the three friends although from a distance ].
lighning: "Well, boy or girl that new car sure is cute."
‘mater: "Sure is. I’d like to know some more about that. What was that on her back bumper? "
sally [makes a gasp! Exclamation! It might be from the conversation, or ]
lightning: "That looks like a clean air vehicle sticker! I would like to have one of those!"
[P.O.V. sally makes eye contact with Pat who gives sally an interested smile. Pat is stepping sideways toward the fuel pump and gives the pump a little fanny rub action.]
[ P.O.V. From afar, that is from across the street, Pat sees sally acting a little confused, while ‘mater and lightning are prattling on although we can’t hear what ‘mater and lightning y are saying as they compare one car’s looks with another. ]
[ P.O.V. sally sees the fuel nozzle being inserted into Pat. Pat moans a little and shivers at the penetration. ]
[ P.O.V. Pat sees that sally is a little bit uncomfortable or embarrassed.]
Pat: "Hmm hee hee hee " (giggles to herself then closes her eyes and moans as the fuel nozzle is pushed all the way in and begins fueling).
[ P.O.V. Pat sees the three friends across the street, ‘mater has noticed that sally is both excited and confused, while lightning is talking about something else entirely. In the middle distance, can be seen the main plot line. ‘maters face shows surprise in reaction to sally‘s discomfort ]
‘mater: "Wha ???"
[ lightning keeps talking ]
‘mater: "Sorry to interrupt, but it looks like you have a customer!"
lightning: "What customer?
‘mater : "At the motel…"
sally: "Oh, yes! A customer!" [sally hurries over to the motel ]
[as sally is behind her check-in counter, in her proper place (whew!), sally looks out the window towards Pat in the filling station. Pat returns her gaze unashamedly].
[sally continues the check-in process for (A CUSTOMER) although she seems distracted and has trouble spelling the customer’s name or repeating his phone number correctly.]
[ Pat leaves the filling station, and lightning is immediately at his/her side as they motor off down the road. Pat easily falls into step, wheel to wheel, with a clumsy lightning ]
lightning: "Since you are new around here, why not allow me to show you around?"
Pat: "…around? " [Pat looks at desert, one-street town, the flying-saucer shaped butte, ] "Oh I guess that’s around!" [ indicating the butte].
lightning "Around? A round? Oh, because it’s round!"
Pat: "That’s right! Nothing much to see or do around here. "
Lightning: "There’s more to see. Up the hill. Around the bend. A secret place. C’mon, let me show you!"
Pat: "Well, alright, but you must promise to bring me right back, right here, as soon as I want to."
lightning: "Yes, we will return here again. I live here! In radiator springs". {lightning looks at the "radiator springs city limit" sign, as the sign is laying on the ground.)
[Pat and lightning motor off together].
lightning (to himself) catch phrase!
Back at the motel, ‘mater says: "I wonder where they’re gong?"
sally says : "They had better not! He had better not…"
_ - _ _ _ - - - _ _ - _
(eventually a few scenes and the next day later )
!
[sally is angry with lightning because he showed Pat where the secret spot is located]
sally: "How could you take Pat to our secret spot?"
lighting: "I like it so much I wanted to share it with somebody".
sally:"Grrr". [Sally drives around and around lightning as if she was a crazed porcupine.]
!
lightning: "I am dizzy. And confused. How did you know? "
sally: "Pat told me about this during our continental breakfast. We gossip".
Operation F.U.T.U.R.A.M.A.
Floppets
Understand
The
Usual
Reqirement
As
Mouse with
Aconda
Re-write the script for futurama. The three friends are scruffy (instead of tow mater), bender (instead of lightning), and aimee (instead of sally). Pat is a hybrid robot (instead of a prius).
Young woman aimee has been paying more attention to scruffy since the body swap fiasco The Prisoner Of Benda. She seems to enjoy scruffy’s companionship, from a distance. The robot bender seems to have the temporary job of keeping scruffy and aimee separated. So there they are all three, facing the road. Across the road is an electric robot recharging stand. There on a sidewalk, next to this road is an electric robot recharging stand.
The newly arrived robot Pat uses hybrid propulsion. Pat is the first of a new generation of clean robots that are intended to replace the previous generation of gross polluting robots as seen in Crimes Of The Hot. Instead of a filling station of fossil (polluting) fuel, here is an electric robot recharging station filled with (non-polluting) electric energy.
Robot bending unit bender has no idea why any an electric robot recharging station might exist. Bender has no need of any electric robot recharging station. Or does he ?
The scene above is re-written with the same dialogue again. The prius technology becomes our friend, the hybrid robot Pat. Non polluting green robot Pat. (She is not really green color, she is a green robot).
The hybrid robot PAT, who might be a boy robot or a girl robot, becomes a running character in the next few episodes. We never know when she will pop up for some reason.
Intelligent Marsupials From Outer Space
In a later episode which includes intelligent marsupials from outer space, there will be a few references to the marsupial pouch and why it’s good to have a pouch. Robot pouch gag has Pat climbing inside of bender’s stomach, a.k.a. pouch, to perform some maintenance tasks. Bender starts calling that stomach cavity his "pouch" as if he was a different kind of robot, part human robot (with stomach) and part marsupial robot (with pouch).
As an upgrade, to prevent bender from going to the "Gross Polluting Robot Scrapheap", ( again Crimes Of The Hot. ), bender decides to have his propulsion system upgraded to be a green propulsion system. It turns out that Pat the robot has been given this important task. Pat is converting Bender into a plug in electric robot. Bender is going to become a clean-air robot. Bender wants a clean-air robot sticker. Not everyone in the cast, the crew, the audience, or even those people reading this script, knows that bender is walking around with Pat inside of bender’s pouch. Thus is our little secret.
When Bender plugs in to an electric robot recharging station, he shakes and vibrates as if he is having a lot of fun. B-b-b-b-b!
aimee: "For chuzpahs sake, Bender! That’s enough! We have to go meet with professor stroganoff". [ aimee unplugs bender from the electric robot recharging station. ]
[aimee walks away and doesn’t see benders pouch open up. Pat sticks her head out ]
Pat: "You know, Bender, I am nowhere near being done in here!"
bender " I know, I know, honey. Lets go where this robot body needs to be and then I will plug in again". Pat gives bender a wink, then closes his stomacchh… oops, that is to say, pouch. Robot bender is pretending to be a marsupial robot.
[aimee and bender return to the hangar building and work with professor stroganoff to get things done. Occasionally a clank sound is followed by bender’s reaction as though he has a baby kicking inside]. Time passes and eventually..
professor: "Okay that’s finished!"
Bender: "Okay I am out of here!" [bender quickly leaves and goes out into the street] .
bender: [outside on the sidewalk] "Heh heh heh, now to find another electric robot recharging station!"
[inside the building] aimee: "I am worried about bender, going from station to station all the time!"
professor: "Yes, I share your concern."
aimee: What can we do about this while working together? Something positive!
professor": "I will.."
aimee "harrunph!:
professor: "We will invent e newer, better electric robot recharging station and have it installed here."
aimee: "Hooray, then we can all watch! The robots recharge."
[outside on the sidewalk, final gag before closing credits]
Bender (connected to electric robot recharging station ) [happy] " B-b-b-b-b! B-b-b-b-b! B-b-b-b-b! B-b-….(poot). Oh dang, hey!"
electric robot recharging station: "Ding. Robot recharge time limit exceeded. Please disconnect!"
bender: "Dawww! Give me a break! I am charging for two here!"
[bender unplugs and plugs in four times in a row]
electric robot recharging station: "Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh!"
fin
Monday, February 14, 2011
My Early Spring
Spring came early this year 2011, but not for you. Neener.
Spring cleaning chores include filling out those beloved forms. Ones social status is low enough that one must fill out schedule m but it's not available on the web site. Was it hacked? The people who run the web site aren't low enough to need that particular schedule so they don't notice that is has been replaced by something else. It seems as if someone hit "save as" by mistake.
A trip to the Endsville post office found only "nonresident" forms. So if you aren't a resident then there are plenty of forms available for you. Took a drive over to Snobville. Sure enough there it was! Snobville gets all the breaks.
A scan of the one sided form might be available in the e-mail but of course can't be posted here.
fin
A trip to the Endsville post office found only "nonresident" forms. So if you aren't a resident then there are plenty of forms available for you. Took a drive over to Snobville. Sure enough there it was! Snobville gets all the breaks.
fin
Friday, February 11, 2011
My Spooky Advert
Three well-known people are bringing supplies from a GIV, Ghost Intercept Vehicle , into an old Victorian house. Scene begins with three well-known ghost chasers, Man1, Man2, and Woman1. They are working together bringing supplies, including the refreshing drinkable product. The three follow a large electrical cable that is bringing power from the Ghost Intercept Vehicle up the front porch steps and into the house. Man1 is soon looking at the equipment detectors and some cans of refreshing drinkable product.
Man1 is excited as he reads the instrument and the narrow print-out on paper that has a wiggly line. Something about the wiggly line is exciting to him. Man1 says, "There is definitely some activity over there," while motioning with his hand past a staircase and down a short hall in-between two rooms.
Man1 grabs a can of refreshing drinkable product with his other hand while Man2 and Woman1, laden with equipment, go searching around in the old Victorian mansion which is actually a little too old for comfort. The floor creaks and pops as the two separate and search the two rooms at the end of the short hallway. The floor suddenly gives way beneath Man 2 and he slides down the resulting incline plane to the floor below. Bonk, ouch!
As Man2 regains consciousness, he sees Woman1 nearby and hears her voice urging him to get up. She doesn't touch him or help him to get up. She asks, " I am afraid to touch you, is anything broken?" "Can you stand up?" "Try to get up."
Man2 gets up from the floor slowly (ouch) and looks at himself in the mirror. He says, "I don't know yet". We hear footsteps coming downstairs from the floor above. Down the stairs and into the room comes Woman1, that is to say another Woman1.
'Another' Woman1 walks over to MAN2 and says, "You look awful, are you sure that you should be standing up?"'
'Another' Woman1 can be seen as a reflection in the mirror as well. She touches Man2 on the shoulder. Just then she notices that Woman1 is already in the room! Gasp! We can see the image of the distraught 'Another' Woman1 (who just came down the steps) and her distraught reflection in the mirror, Man2, and a Woman1. There are three images of two Women1 and only one image of Man2 since he has moved away from the mirror a little bit.
The radio crackles with the voice of Man1, "Hey fellas there is something really big going on downstairs where you are!"
Man2 touches 'Another' Woman1 on the upper arm and gives her a little shove. She moves back a little, as does her reflection in the mirror.
Man2 touches Woman1 on the upper arm and gives her a little shove. His arm goes into her body up to his wrist! He can't see his hand. He says, to another Woman1, "Are you seeing this, too?". 'Another' Woman1 nods her head, as does her reflection in the mirror. Man1 pulls his hand back and it's OK. No harm done. Woman1 looks mildly concerned, as if the situation is annoying though still under control.
Man2 looks back at Woman1 and says, "You aren't real!". He swipes his hand through her again, only to follow though too far and strike 'Another' Woman1. He yells at Woman1, "You aren't real!" but Woman1 merely looks at him and shakes her head a little as if to say, Calm down. Man2 is shaking and has turned red. He looks at 'Another' Woman1 who has gone pale, then he looks in the mirror and realizes that he can't see the reflection of Woman1. He says, "You have no reflection…" but when he turns to talk to her he sees an empty room where she had been standing. Then he is suddenly alone with 'Another' Woman1 and her reflection in the mirror.
The radio crackles with the voice of Man1, "That's okay, it's gone now!".
Man2: "Humph!"
Woman 2: "It is gone!"
Woman2 runs upstairs with Man2 hobbling along behind her. When they arrive upstairs they are hot, thirsty, and exhausted. The stair steps are creaking, groaning, and falling down with a crash! Man2 and Woman1 barely make it off the stairs before those top steps fall down into the basement.
Man1 is already chugging a can of the refreshing drinkable product. He is holding the paper graph that is still coming out of a detector machine. The graph is a wavy line with a big spike in the middle. Man1 says, "You have got to take a look at these readings!" Something about the wiggly line is exciting to him.
Woman1 ignores the detector machine and goes over to the refreshing drinkable product. She hands one to Man2. Man2 holds the cold can of product against a bruise on his head. As Woman1 shifts her gaze past Man1 and the detector machine, she can see a cloud of dust rising from the self-demolished stairsteps. Something flies up out of the basement, perhaps a large moth or a furry bat. Then it flies away, free at last, out the front door and past the GIV. Ghost Intercept Vehicle. There isn't much noise from the GIV because the GIV is a hybrid vehicle running in electric mode.
There is still some noise inside the house since it seems to be collapsing little by little around the ghost chaser team. The team is safe for the moment, but each little pop (wood breaking noises) or roar (hundred years old rusty nails) is accompanied by a small puff of dust. Woman1 drinks some of the refreshing drinkable product and says the pat phrase. Man2 is dry and cannot say the pat phrase until Woman1 allows Man2 to drink out of her can of refreshing drinkable product, as he holds his can of refreshing drinkable product against his head. Man2 manages to say the pat phrase. Behind him, a large beam swings down from upstairs.
Man1 is excited as he reads the instrument and the narrow print-out on paper that has a wiggly line. Something about the wiggly line is exciting to him. Man1 says, "There is definitely some activity over there," while motioning with his hand past a staircase and down a short hall in-between two rooms.
Man1 grabs a can of refreshing drinkable product with his other hand while Man2 and Woman1, laden with equipment, go searching around in the old Victorian mansion which is actually a little too old for comfort. The floor creaks and pops as the two separate and search the two rooms at the end of the short hallway. The floor suddenly gives way beneath Man 2 and he slides down the resulting incline plane to the floor below. Bonk, ouch!
As Man2 regains consciousness, he sees Woman1 nearby and hears her voice urging him to get up. She doesn't touch him or help him to get up. She asks, " I am afraid to touch you, is anything broken?" "Can you stand up?" "Try to get up."
Man2 gets up from the floor slowly (ouch) and looks at himself in the mirror. He says, "I don't know yet". We hear footsteps coming downstairs from the floor above. Down the stairs and into the room comes Woman1, that is to say another Woman1.
'Another' Woman1 walks over to MAN2 and says, "You look awful, are you sure that you should be standing up?"'
'Another' Woman1 can be seen as a reflection in the mirror as well. She touches Man2 on the shoulder. Just then she notices that Woman1 is already in the room! Gasp! We can see the image of the distraught 'Another' Woman1 (who just came down the steps) and her distraught reflection in the mirror, Man2, and a Woman1. There are three images of two Women1 and only one image of Man2 since he has moved away from the mirror a little bit.
The radio crackles with the voice of Man1, "Hey fellas there is something really big going on downstairs where you are!"
Man2 touches 'Another' Woman1 on the upper arm and gives her a little shove. She moves back a little, as does her reflection in the mirror.
Man2 touches Woman1 on the upper arm and gives her a little shove. His arm goes into her body up to his wrist! He can't see his hand. He says, to another Woman1, "Are you seeing this, too?". 'Another' Woman1 nods her head, as does her reflection in the mirror. Man1 pulls his hand back and it's OK. No harm done. Woman1 looks mildly concerned, as if the situation is annoying though still under control.
Man2 looks back at Woman1 and says, "You aren't real!". He swipes his hand through her again, only to follow though too far and strike 'Another' Woman1. He yells at Woman1, "You aren't real!" but Woman1 merely looks at him and shakes her head a little as if to say, Calm down. Man2 is shaking and has turned red. He looks at 'Another' Woman1 who has gone pale, then he looks in the mirror and realizes that he can't see the reflection of Woman1. He says, "You have no reflection…" but when he turns to talk to her he sees an empty room where she had been standing. Then he is suddenly alone with 'Another' Woman1 and her reflection in the mirror.
The radio crackles with the voice of Man1, "That's okay, it's gone now!".
Man2: "Humph!"
Woman 2: "It is gone!"
Woman2 runs upstairs with Man2 hobbling along behind her. When they arrive upstairs they are hot, thirsty, and exhausted. The stair steps are creaking, groaning, and falling down with a crash! Man2 and Woman1 barely make it off the stairs before those top steps fall down into the basement.
Man1 is already chugging a can of the refreshing drinkable product. He is holding the paper graph that is still coming out of a detector machine. The graph is a wavy line with a big spike in the middle. Man1 says, "You have got to take a look at these readings!" Something about the wiggly line is exciting to him.
Woman1 ignores the detector machine and goes over to the refreshing drinkable product. She hands one to Man2. Man2 holds the cold can of product against a bruise on his head. As Woman1 shifts her gaze past Man1 and the detector machine, she can see a cloud of dust rising from the self-demolished stairsteps. Something flies up out of the basement, perhaps a large moth or a furry bat. Then it flies away, free at last, out the front door and past the GIV. Ghost Intercept Vehicle. There isn't much noise from the GIV because the GIV is a hybrid vehicle running in electric mode.
There is still some noise inside the house since it seems to be collapsing little by little around the ghost chaser team. The team is safe for the moment, but each little pop (wood breaking noises) or roar (hundred years old rusty nails) is accompanied by a small puff of dust. Woman1 drinks some of the refreshing drinkable product and says the pat phrase. Man2 is dry and cannot say the pat phrase until Woman1 allows Man2 to drink out of her can of refreshing drinkable product, as he holds his can of refreshing drinkable product against his head. Man2 manages to say the pat phrase. Behind him, a large beam swings down from upstairs.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
My Shopping Procedure
Shopping from home is very relaxing and rewarding as long as you follow this simple procedure. Things to do next time while purchasing tickets on line.
If at first you don't succeed, realize that people are working on it and those people are as frustrated as you. Buying tickets on-line is a game where one of the players (you) might succeed by waiting longer between mouse clicks, but not too long because there is a time limit. One of the players is an evil gnome who resembles Mordach the Preventer. One of the players is the webmaster for the site that is selling tickets. The nature of the link from the event website will change when the webmaster changes the click-here banner. Even though the banner looks the same each hour, the actual web link changes periodically as the webmaster does battle with Mordach the Preventer.
Step zero. If at first you don't succeed, revisit the event page and click on the banner again. One mouse click only. Exercise some self discipline. Then take a walk around the block, pick up trash, stretch, do some tai cheese. Wait an hour. Or a minute. Then revisit the event page and click stop (red X). Click refresh ( up and down green arrows at top of page ), then click on the banner again.
1. If you are on an important-web-page-with-your-personal-info, and a small window
pops up and indicates that "Refresh might cause a multiple transaction" or some such,
click cancel in the pop-up window. You can't afford to re-send that information.
This indented text represents a pop-up window.
2. Then click back ( left arrow)to get back to the previous page.
3. Then click refresh ( up and down green arrows at top of page ), and this time when the pop-up window happens, do something else.
4. If you are on a semi-important-web-page-with-your-order, and a small window
pops up and indicates that "Refresh might cause a multiple transaction" or some such,
click refresh in the pop-up window. You may safely re-send that information.
If this doesn't work, go back to step zero.
5. Wait until the nice "click here to spend" button lights up. Exercise some self discipline. Don't click on anything, just wait for it. After it lights up, play the waiting game. 1, 2, 5, 55 seconds? Which is better? It's up to you. Then click on it.
6. a. Now you are on the important-web-page-with-your-personal-info, even if you
can't see it. If a small window does not pop up then you win! Go to step 7.
6. b. A small window will pop up and indicates that "Refresh might cause a
multiple transaction" or some such, this time click refresh in the pop-up window
one time only. If the pop-up window goes away then you win! Go to step 7.
6. c. If it doesn't work, click cancel in the pop-up window that has popped up a
second time. You can't afford to re-send that information again, and again.
Go back to step 1.
7. a. Laboriously enter even more personal information. Remember thou art mortal. The clock it always running. Wait until the nice "say goodbye to it" button lights up. Exercise some self discipline. Don't click on anything, just wait for it. After it lights up, play the waiting game. 45, 78, 33 1/3 seconds? Which is better? It's up to you. Then click on it.
7. b. If a small window does not pop up then you win! Go to step 8.
7. c. A small window pops up. Go back to step one. You know the drill.
8. Copy the nice numbers from the event web site e-mail. Remember the event web site? Ignore the message in the ticket seller web site, as it is from Mordach the Preventer about an unspecified "problem" with your order. Wait another few minutes. Exercise some self discipline. Don't click on anything, just wait for it. Bling, you've got mail. Mordach goes thirsty!
brisk
If at first you don't succeed, realize that people are working on it and those people are as frustrated as you. Buying tickets on-line is a game where one of the players (you) might succeed by waiting longer between mouse clicks, but not too long because there is a time limit. One of the players is an evil gnome who resembles Mordach the Preventer. One of the players is the webmaster for the site that is selling tickets. The nature of the link from the event website will change when the webmaster changes the click-here banner. Even though the banner looks the same each hour, the actual web link changes periodically as the webmaster does battle with Mordach the Preventer.
Step zero. If at first you don't succeed, revisit the event page and click on the banner again. One mouse click only. Exercise some self discipline. Then take a walk around the block, pick up trash, stretch, do some tai cheese. Wait an hour. Or a minute. Then revisit the event page and click stop (red X). Click refresh ( up and down green arrows at top of page ), then click on the banner again.
1. If you are on an important-web-page-with-your-personal-info, and a small window
pops up and indicates that "Refresh might cause a multiple transaction" or some such,
click cancel in the pop-up window. You can't afford to re-send that information.
This indented text represents a pop-up window.
2. Then click back ( left arrow)to get back to the previous page.
3. Then click refresh ( up and down green arrows at top of page ), and this time when the pop-up window happens, do something else.
4. If you are on a semi-important-web-page-with-your-order, and a small window
pops up and indicates that "Refresh might cause a multiple transaction" or some such,
click refresh in the pop-up window. You may safely re-send that information.
If this doesn't work, go back to step zero.
5. Wait until the nice "click here to spend" button lights up. Exercise some self discipline. Don't click on anything, just wait for it. After it lights up, play the waiting game. 1, 2, 5, 55 seconds? Which is better? It's up to you. Then click on it.
6. a. Now you are on the important-web-page-with-your-personal-info, even if you
can't see it. If a small window does not pop up then you win! Go to step 7.
6. b. A small window will pop up and indicates that "Refresh might cause a
multiple transaction" or some such, this time click refresh in the pop-up window
one time only. If the pop-up window goes away then you win! Go to step 7.
6. c. If it doesn't work, click cancel in the pop-up window that has popped up a
second time. You can't afford to re-send that information again, and again.
Go back to step 1.
7. a. Laboriously enter even more personal information. Remember thou art mortal. The clock it always running. Wait until the nice "say goodbye to it" button lights up. Exercise some self discipline. Don't click on anything, just wait for it. After it lights up, play the waiting game. 45, 78, 33 1/3 seconds? Which is better? It's up to you. Then click on it.
7. b. If a small window does not pop up then you win! Go to step 8.
7. c. A small window pops up. Go back to step one. You know the drill.
8. Copy the nice numbers from the event web site e-mail. Remember the event web site? Ignore the message in the ticket seller web site, as it is from Mordach the Preventer about an unspecified "problem" with your order. Wait another few minutes. Exercise some self discipline. Don't click on anything, just wait for it. Bling, you've got mail. Mordach goes thirsty!
brisk
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
My Rash
Yes, it got better.
What could have caused this rash?
A decision was made to replace everything in the coolant system, one item at a time, in an effort to eliminate the leaks and the odor. The truck has a heater control valve in the water lines. This control valve has four hose connections. Two of the hoses were fastened to the valve with spring clamps. While removing these two hoses, the valve actually broke into pieces. The barbed hose fittings cracked through and broke off!
Perhaps those spring clamps hold on too tightly. Perhaps the cracks, hence the leaks, were a result of those spring clamps. The hand in the picture is holding one of those spring clamps, and two of the four hose barbs are seen to have completely broken away from the valve. The valve would have broken apart sometime this summer on a hot, hot day.
fin
What could have caused this rash?
- Arsenic in motor fuel, also known as "conditioner". Spilled on the hand from bewitched carburetor.
- Brown fluid used as radiator coolant, might have been old brake fluid. Got rid of it.
- Shingles. Chickenpox, anyone?
- All of the above.
A decision was made to replace everything in the coolant system, one item at a time, in an effort to eliminate the leaks and the odor. The truck has a heater control valve in the water lines. This control valve has four hose connections. Two of the hoses were fastened to the valve with spring clamps. While removing these two hoses, the valve actually broke into pieces. The barbed hose fittings cracked through and broke off!
fin
Sunday, February 6, 2011
My Pet Theory
The blowtorch experiment shows that electrons can and do carry significant amounts of heat (or cold) because electric current involves a lot of electrons, perhaps Avogodro’s number of electrons, passing by each point in the wire every minute.
In the blowtorch experiment , the idea of temperature starts with the idea of heating a copper wire until the wire is cherry hot. The wire glows red. The glow comes from the copper atoms bouncing around with heat. At first the idea of a hot temperature would show that the wire would glow with a continuum of frequencies. All of the red colors would be expected to be seen in the spectrum of color from the glowing wire.
A closer look at the spectrum reveals some details about the atomic structure of s copper wire. Copper can glow with some red colors, but not others. We are asked to believe that the wire is made of copper atoms which can vibrate with some frequencies and not others. Frequency of oscillation makes the colors of light emitted from the hot solid. In this case the solid copper is opaque. Red light from heat doesn't go through the solid as light. Rather this heat energy goes through the opaque solid as vibrations or noise. The cherry hot copper is very loud inside, and the loud sounds from heat come out as cherry red light on the surface. Since the copper atoms can vibrate with some frequencies and not others, the actual spectrum looks more like a comb with the tines pointed up.
An electron that has been in the solid wire for a long time may be oscillating in it's own internal structure with the same temperature as the wire, but the electron can have temperature A, temperature C, or temperature E. However the electron cannot have temperature B, or temperature D, or temperature F. These frequencies aren't available in the wire, so an electron that is at the same temperature as the wire cannot have temperature B, D, or F.
Compare this with the frequency spectrum of the transistor or diode made of silicon. The tines of the silicon spectrum don't line up with the copper spectrum. Silicon can have temperature B, temperature D, or temperature F. Silicon cannot have temperature A, or temperature C, or temperature E. These frequencies aren't available in the silicon transistor, so the electron can only take on temperature B, D, or F as a result of passing through the solid silicon.
A silicon transistor in a working circuit becomes hot because the circuit has been working for a long time. Transistors get hot as a natural function of regulating electric current flow. The hot ransistor has temperature BB, DD or FF. After being squeezed through the NPN junction of a hot transistor, the electron heats up. The electron will come out of the hot transistor with temperature BB, DD or FF. Temperature AA, CC, EE aren't available in the solid silicon. As the electron moves along with drift velocity in the silicon, it has intimate contact with the silicon material that vibrates with heat, but only with those temperatures such as BB, DD, or FF. The electron goes through the hottest part of the transistor, namely the PN junction.
Temperature BB, DD, or FF won't go through solid copper. After the hot electron leaves the silicon transistor and moves into the copper wire then the electron's temperature becomes hidden. The electron's temperature becomes hidden because the precise "frequency or temperatue" won't go though copper. The electron vibrates the electron is hot. Those hot vibrations, from silicon, won't go through copper.
Later on in time, which also means somewhere farther along the wire as the electrons move along, those electrons may cool off a little because of collisions with other electrons. And then the heat energy of the electron becomes apparent to the outside world. A hot electron with temperature CC will eventually cool off to have temperature BB. Then the vibration of the electron that represents temperature BB will go through the copper wire and then the heat energy will leave the copper wire as red or infra red light.
In the circuit diagram, room-temperature electrons are going into the silicon NPN transistor. The NPN transistor heats up and puts out hot electrons. If there is another transistor or diode near the first transistor, then electrons with temperature CC will get into the next transistor or diode. If those hot electrons get in to the PNP transistor, which is made of silicon as well, then the silicon of the PNP transistor can conduct the exact vibration frequency temperature CC so that the heat energy tends to heat up the PNP transistor a lot.
Key point: The PNP tramsistor absorbs heat enery from the NPN transistor. Then the PNP transistor adds more heat. As a result the PNP transistor is usually the first to fail.
The designer would wish to add a diode to the amplifier circuit, to prevent heat energy from the NPN transistor from getting in to the PNP transistor. This design will add "diode B" to protect the PNP transistor from hot electrons coming out of the NPN transistor. The diode will behave as a thermalizing junction. The thermalizing junction "Diode B" should be mounted to the same heat sink to which the NPN and PNP transistors are mounted. The physical size of "Diode B" must be large enough to handle the heat energy more so than the electric current. "Diode B" should be made of the same material as the NPN transistor, perhaps in the same size package for easy mounting to the heat sink. Heat sink not shown in this diagram.
The blowtorch experiment shows that electrons can and do carry significant amounts of heat (or cold) because electric current involves a lot of electrons, perhaps Avogodro’s number of electrons, passing by each point in the wire every minute.
In the blowtorch experiment , the idea of temperature starts with the idea of heating a copper wire until the wire is cherry hot. The wire glows red. The glow comes from the copper atoms bouncing around with heat. At first the idea of a hot temperature would show that the wire would glow with a continuum of frequencies. All of the red colors would be expected to be seen in the spectrum of color from the glowing wire.
A silicon transistor in a working circuit becomes hot because the circuit has been working for a long time. Transistors get hot as a natural function of regulating electric current flow. The hot ransistor has temperature BB, DD or FF. After being squeezed through the NPN junction of a hot transistor, the electron heats up. The electron will come out of the hot transistor with temperature BB, DD or FF. Temperature AA, CC, EE aren't available in the solid silicon. As the electron moves along with drift velocity in the silicon, it has intimate contact with the silicon material that vibrates with heat, but only with those temperatures such as BB, DD, or FF. The electron goes through the hottest part of the transistor, namely the PN junction.
Later on in time, which also means somewhere farther along the wire as the electrons move along, those electrons may cool off a little because of collisions with other electrons. And then the heat energy of the electron becomes apparent to the outside world. A hot electron with temperature CC will eventually cool off to have temperature BB. Then the vibration of the electron that represents temperature BB will go through the copper wire and then the heat energy will leave the copper wire as red or infra red light.
Key point: The PNP tramsistor absorbs heat enery from the NPN transistor. Then the PNP transistor adds more heat. As a result the PNP transistor is usually the first to fail.
The designer would wish to add a diode to the amplifier circuit, to prevent heat energy from the NPN transistor from getting in to the PNP transistor. This design will add "diode B" to protect the PNP transistor from hot electrons coming out of the NPN transistor. The diode will behave as a thermalizing junction. The thermalizing junction "Diode B" should be mounted to the same heat sink to which the NPN and PNP transistors are mounted. The physical size of "Diode B" must be large enough to handle the heat energy more so than the electric current. "Diode B" should be made of the same material as the NPN transistor, perhaps in the same size package for easy mounting to the heat sink. Heat sink not shown in this diagram.
The blowtorch experiment shows that electrons can and do carry significant amounts of heat (or cold) because electric current involves a lot of electrons, perhaps Avogodro’s number of electrons, passing by each point in the wire every minute.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
My Chinese New Year
Welcome to the year of the diesel rabbit. Amorous household appliances will be getting into trouble this year. This stereo has been trying to get together with a washbucket.
ABOUT TO BE SLICED:
Although this stereo will be sliced, the floppet is perfectly safe and is merely watching the goings on.
09:04 AM February 5, 2011 Update: You nerds have crashed ticket leap again!
1:12 PM February 5, 2011 Update: It worked. Hit refresh, cancel, back button, refresh, resend.
February 9, eventually picked up the email, had to enable pictures. Also found witch broom for costume.
Now eating: Exotic Rice Toast.
fin
ABOUT TO BE SLICED:
09:04 AM February 5, 2011 Update: You nerds have crashed ticket leap again!
1:12 PM February 5, 2011 Update: It worked. Hit refresh, cancel, back button, refresh, resend.
February 9, eventually picked up the email, had to enable pictures. Also found witch broom for costume.
Now eating: Exotic Rice Toast.
fin
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