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Old 11-12-2008, 11:06 AM   #11 (permalink)
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all that CO2 generated only for your own comfort </joking>

Seriously, does someone knows the consumption of a radio or a GPS navigator ?

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Old 11-12-2008, 11:43 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Haha, I can see it now... thus started the downfall of Darin's mpg.
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Old 11-12-2008, 11:47 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I think that most stock steroes are about 20-25watts at a constant hum at the highest possible volume. Typical listening in a small car is probably about 2-5W... earth-killer, have you no shame?
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The radio from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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The shop was a different scene from the ones I remembered. The mechanics, who had once all seemed like ancient veterans, now looked like children. A radio was going full blast and they were clowning around and talking and seemed not to notice me. When one of them finally came over he barely listened to the piston slap before saying “Oh, yeah. Tappets.”
Tappets? I should have known then what was coming.

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He brought out a hammer and cold chisel and started to pound them loose. The chisel punched through the aluminum cover and I could see he was pounding the chisel right into the engine head. On the next blow he missed the chisel completely and struck the head with the hammer, breaking off a portion of two of the cooling fins.
“Just stop,” I said politely, feeling this was a bad dream. “Just give me some new covers and I’ll take it the way it is.”
I got out of there as fast as possible, noisy tappets, shot tappet covers, greasy machine, down the road, and then felt a bad vibration at speeds over twenty. At the curb I discovered two of the four engine mounting bolts were missing and a nut was missing from the third. The whole engine was hanging on by only one bolt. The overhead cam chain-tensioner bolt was also missing, meaning it would have been hopeless to try to adjust the tappets anyway. Nightmare.

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Why did they butcher it so? These were not people running away from technology, like John and Sylvia. These were the technologists themselves. They sat down to do a job and they performed it like chimpanzees. Nothing personal in it. There was no obvious reason for it. And I tried to think back into that shop, that nightmare place, to try to remember anything that could have been the cause.
The radio was a clue. You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe, they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling. If you can twiddle wrenches while listening to the radio that’s more enjoyable.
Their speed was another clue. They were really slopping things around in a hurry and not looking where they slopped them. More money that way – if you don’t stop to think that it usually takes longer or comes out worse.
But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing – and uninvolved. They were spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, “I am a mechanic.” At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job. In their own way they were achieving the same thing John and Sylvia were, living with technology without really having anything to do with it. Or rather, they had something to do with it, but their own selves were outside of it, detached, removed. They were involved in it but not in such a way as to care.
(not directed at anyone. It's just one of my favorite little snippets.)
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Old 11-13-2008, 10:26 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Having driven 1000's of miles a year for work, I don't know what I would do without some distraction of sound.

So, the radio failed a while back, and I needed something, anything to listen to in the car. The best that came to mind was a clock-radio plugged into a small inverter (cig-lighter). No presets, one speaker, and always blinked 12:00. The alternative is a Walkman, a bunch of rechargeable batteries, and (depending on local laws), earphones or a small speaker.

In rentals, I tend to carry my laptop with all of my CDs uploaded. The small speakers are good enough for entertainment and a 3-hour batt life. Sat-radio beats everything, IMO.

So, can you hook the radio to a separate, small battery that can be recharged from the grid? But, I don't know of many hotels with an outlet in the parking lot, though

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