Random Ramblings

tGreenWay wrote:The only thing worse that coffee beans ground for too short a time are coffee beans ground for too long a time. It’s like trying to pour hot water through flour.

Get a decent burr mill.  Once dialed into your preference, it's load and forget.

tGreenWay wrote:The only thing worse that coffee beans ground for too short a time are coffee beans ground for too long a time. It’s like trying to pour hot water through flour.

Or just any coffee.
#overrated

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Cmu move in day.
Pray for me.

Good Luck, Joe - Freshman?

AvgMSUJoe wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Good Luck, Joe - Freshman?

Today's was a second year transfer.

Wmu move in day tomorrow.
Pray for me.

(Like a 3rd-ish year transfer... they both started with the community college route due to the pandemic, etc. )

Looks like you got through today ...

Two different moves in's in two days ... yiks

Though 20 years ago we had one in East Lansing and one in Ann Arbor starting the same year

Really random - I'm I the only person in western culture that never gave a tinker's damm about Diana?

Trapper Gus wrote:Really random - I'm I the only person in western culture that never gave a tinker's damm about Diana?

Never cared for any of the royal family but liked her the best. Maybe there's some truth that only the good die young.

The Pantry wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:Really random - I'm I the only person in western culture that never gave a tinker's damm about Diana?

Never cared for any of the royal family but liked her the best. Maybe there's some truth that only the good die young.

She was not what her public image portrayed.

Motown Spartan wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Never cared for any of the royal family but liked her the best. Maybe there's some truth that only the good die young.

She was not what her public image portrayed.

Please, go on

Ohio man wakes from coma after being stung over 20,000 times by bees and swallowing dozens of them

From the town of Ripley, no less, so you believe it or not.

When life gives you lemons, go into a coma.

Left work about 3:45. Front lot was completely empty except for my vehicle.

The Pantry wrote:Left work about 3:45. Front lot was completely empty except for my vehicle.

You missed the memo.

Dendrobates wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Left work about 3:45.  Front lot was completely empty except for my vehicle.  

You missed the memo.

Checked the vacation list.  33 scheduled today off, including my boss.  Another 4-5 were out due to covid. A dozen cases in our office over the last two weeks. Facility guy reposted the capacity limit signs outside all our conference rooms today.

They have me (only) working OT on a quote that is ridiculous on every level.  Judging so far, will likely be $25+M in the end.  Project will barely fit in our building...literally the dimensions of a football field including the endzones.  We're a GM "strategic partner", whatever that means.  Don't think they're gonna like that much floor space taken up by a project for a competitor.

Clients/buyers timelime for the project is insane.  Got the RFQ two weeks ago and the quote is due week from Monday...will be lucky to finish it two weeks later.  They want the project designed, built, debugged, and ready to ship in 5 months lol!  Very complex. We couldn't even design it in 5 months.  Probably another 4-5 months to fab, machine, assemble, pipe & wire.  At least 6 months for debug before ready to ship.

Our main quoting competitor (they probably have 5-6 people working on it) has a major leg up on this quote for reasons I won't go into.  

Our upper management should have politely no quoted this project, but stuck me doing it.  Feeling really stressed and fried.

Gonna keep watching the Spartans (21-3) and get drunk!  GO GREEN!

The Pantry wrote:

Dendrobates wrote:

You missed the memo.

Checked the vacation list.  33 scheduled today off, including my boss.  Another 4-5 were out due to covid. A dozen cases in our office over the last two weeks. Facility guy reposted the capacity limit signs outside all our conference rooms today.

They have me (only) working OT on a quote that is ridiculous on every level.  Judging so far, will likely be $25+M in the end.  Project will barely fit in our building...literally the dimensions of a football field including the endzones.  We're a GM "strategic partner", whatever that means.  Don't think they're gonna like that much floor space taken up by a project for a competitor.

Clients/buyers timelime for the project is insane.  Got the RFQ two weeks ago and the quote is due week from Monday...will be lucky to finish it two weeks later.  They want the project designed, built, debugged, and ready to ship in 5 months lol!  Very complex. We couldn't even design it in 5 months.  Probably another 4-5 months to fab, machine, assemble, pipe & wire.  At least 6 months for debug before ready to ship.

Our main quoting competitor (they probably have 5-6 people working on it) has a major leg up on this quote for reasons I won't go into.  

Our upper management should have politely no quoted this project, but stuck me doing it.  Feeling really stressed and fried.

Gonna keep watching the Spartans (21-3) and get drunk!  GO GREEN!

Sorry but the UM is correct, and they have put just as much manpower on it as it deserves, sucks that you are the stuckie ...

Cannot "no-quote" a possible customer, but doesn't mean the quote has to be competitive ...

Trapper Gus wrote:

The Pantry wrote:
Checked the vacation list.  33 scheduled today off, including my boss.  Another 4-5 were out due to covid. A dozen cases in our office over the last two weeks. Facility guy reposted the capacity limit signs outside all our conference rooms today.

They have me (only) working OT on a quote that is ridiculous on every level.  Judging so far, will likely be $25+M in the end.  Project will barely fit in our building...literally the dimensions of a football field including the endzones.  We're a GM "strategic partner", whatever that means.  Don't think they're gonna like that much floor space taken up by a project for a competitor.

Clients/buyers timelime for the project is insane.  Got the RFQ two weeks ago and the quote is due week from Monday...will be lucky to finish it two weeks later.  They want the project designed, built, debugged, and ready to ship in 5 months lol!  Very complex. We couldn't even design it in 5 months.  Probably another 4-5 months to fab, machine, assemble, pipe & wire.  At least 6 months for debug before ready to ship.

Our main quoting competitor (they probably have 5-6 people working on it) has a major leg up on this quote for reasons I won't go into.  

Our upper management should have politely no quoted this project, but stuck me doing it.  Feeling really stressed and fried.

Gonna keep watching the Spartans (21-3) and get drunk!  GO GREEN!

Sorry but the UM is correct, and they have put just as much manpower on it as it deserves, sucks that you are the stuckie ...

Cannot "no-quote" a possible customer, but doesn't mean the quote has to be competitive ...

No idea how the clients buyer put us on the list, which I believe is very short. Couple of our competitors already no-quoted. You can no-quote based on their timeline and expectations of deliverables.

Owner of the first company I worked for in this business had a saying, "Price, delivery, quality. Pick any two." That was years before ISO came around, but still true.

The Pantry wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Sorry but the UM is correct, and they have put just as much manpower on it as it deserves, sucks that you are the stuckie ...

Cannot "no-quote" a possible customer, but doesn't mean the quote has to be competitive ...

No idea how the clients buyer put us on the list, which I believe is very short. Couple of our competitors already no-quoted. You can no-quote based on their timeline and expectations of deliverables.

Owner of the first company I worked for in this business had a saying, "Price, delivery, quality. Pick any two." That was years before ISO came around, but still true.

Okay, I stand corrected.

Your UM seems to think they have a shot at this or future business, I guess.

Like all cubes, a Rubik's cube has 6 sides - green, white, red, orange, blue and yellow.  The six squares in the center of the cube are fixed so the color orientation cannot change.

On the cube - green is opposite of blue and white opposes yellow.

Erno Rubik was genius on more than one level.

MSU addict wrote:Like all cubes, a Rubik's cube had 6 sides - green, white, red, orange, blue and yellow.  The six squares in the center of the cube are fixed so the color orientation cannot change.

On the cube - green is opposite of blue, and white opposes yellow.

Erno Rubik was genius on more than one level.

Gave my daughter a Rubik's cube one day. She showed it completed 5-10 minutes later. At first thought she was a genius, until discovering she'd just peeled off the color stickers and replaced them.

The Pantry wrote:

MSU addict wrote:Like all cubes, a Rubik's cube had 6 sides - green, white, red, orange, blue and yellow.  The six squares in the center of the cube are fixed so the color orientation cannot change.

On the cube - green is opposite of blue, and white opposes yellow.

Erno Rubik was genius on more than one level.

Gave my daughter a Rubik's cube one day.  She showed it completed 5-10 minutes later.  At first thought she was a genius, until discovering she'd just peeled off the color stickers and replaced them.

Cute.  

FWIW, the newer ones do not have stickers.  To keep the black border around the square they have an inset colored plastic piece (the true Rubik's cube).  Most speed cubes just solid colored plastic blocks and they move much easier.  You can still always take them apart or spin the corner pieces though.  

I am a bit of a "speed cubist" - not at any competitive level but on a good day I can solve one in about a minute.   Well could when I was younger anyway.  It takes a lot of everyday practice to keep up that speed.  Now it takes me closer to two minutes (I just timed myself).  It does not take a genius, once you learn how to solve them it is pretty easy.

I could pop off a corner, disassemble and reassemble in under 30s.

Unsure where this goes ...

Of all the Born movies I like the first one way best ...

the other four all had stupid crazy vehicle chases for the last 15 minutes ... boring ...

In order, skipping the car chases ... 1, 2 (filmed on location in Russia), 4 (motorcycle chase better than cars), 3 (closes the story line, but stupid choice to use Germany rather than Russia for the Russian scenes) then 5 (a money grab by all involved)

AvgMSUJoe wrote:A night drunk pizza is pretty great.

So we’re BJ’s. But at a certain age Pizza took over. Welcome aboard.

Today is one of those days where it would be amazing to just be naked all day in bed, have sex multiple times, eat junk food, and have some beers.

But dammit, I've got little kids.
Some day I will get that again.

Dendrobates wrote:Today is one of those days where it would be amazing to just be naked all day in bed, have sex multiple times, eat junk food, and have some beers.

But dammit, I've got little kids.
Some day I will get that again.

But... the Lions are on.

Dendrobates wrote:Today is one of those days where it would be amazing to just be naked all day in bed, have sex multiple times, eat junk food, and have some beers.

But dammit, I've got little kids.
Some day I will get that again.

Saying that it is "One of those days where it would be amazing" implies that there are days when that wouldn't be amazing.

MSU addict wrote:

Dendrobates wrote:Today is one of those days where it would be amazing to just be naked all day in bed, have sex multiple times, eat junk food, and have some beers.

But dammit, I've got little kids.
Some day I will get that again.

But... the Lions are on.

We have a TV in our bedroom. We could still watch the lions

Dendrobates wrote:

MSU addict wrote:But... the Lions are on.

We have a TV in our bedroom. We could still watch the lions

Just lock the kids in the basement with a big bowl of popcorn, toys, and a TV.

The Pantry wrote:

Dendrobates wrote:

We have a TV in our bedroom. We could still watch the lions

Just lock the kids in the basement with a big bowl of popcorn, toys, and a TV.

Why won't my kids just sit in front of the TV?

Dendrobates wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Just lock the kids in the basement with a big bowl of popcorn, toys, and a TV.

Why won't my kids just sit in front of the TV?

That's what the popcorn and toys are for.

The Pantry wrote:

Dendrobates wrote:

Why won't my kids just sit in front of the TV?

That's what the popcorn and toys are for.

I am not lucky enough for my kids to be distracted like that.
Once in a while, I can get my older one to play with the younger one. But for 15 min tops

Can I just say here meeting Dendro she is totally hot Nevers is completely cool, and I’m thinking about how she’d be relaxing naked in bed watching football. Total win.
Dendro, even if the kids walked in on you, you’d come up with a good reason why mommy and daddy were wrestling for the remote control.

DWags wrote:Can I just say here meeting Dendro she is totally hot Nevers is completely cool, and I’m thinking about how she’d be relaxing naked in bed watching football. Total win.
Dendro, even if the kids walked in on you, you’d come up with a good reason why mommy and daddy were wrestling for the remote control.

Please stop drunk/horny posting. Even I'm getting a boner.

The Pantry wrote:

DWags wrote:Can I just say here meeting Dendro she is totally hot Nevers is completely cool, and I’m thinking about how she’d be relaxing naked in bed watching football. Total win.
Dendro, even if the kids walked in on you, you’d come up with a good reason why mommy and daddy were wrestling for the remote control.

Please stop drunk/horny posting. Even I'm getting a boner.

You didn't have to take that Viagra.

There's a good chance that the first girl that Jerry "dates" in Seinfeld was a professor at MSU. He met her after a show in Lansing, Michigan and she teaches Poli Sci.

Motown Spartan wrote:There's a good chance that the first girl that Jerry "dates" in Seinfeld was a professor at MSU. He met her after a show in Lansing, Michigan and she teaches Poli Sci.

Yep, that's always been my assumption.

I was on an airplane yesterday,  lost in my thoughts. I had this realization of why I am the way I am in certain aspects. It seemed so strange to learn something new about myself that I did not (consciously) realize.

Dendrobates wrote:I was on an airplane yesterday,  lost in my thoughts. I had this realization of why I am the way I am in certain aspects. It seemed so strange to learn something new about myself that I did not (consciously) realize.

That by far is the most random thought on this thread. :)