The water one’s interesting (modifying a traditional 4-cycle engine to use steam as an expanding gas) and would work (in my opinion). I’m at a company that’s trying that right now (I think, not my project) but I hope to god someone else picks it up because this building has no concept of how to engineer things…

‘57 chevy: with a solar powered welder and my yankee screwdriver.

As an engineer I take offense to the statement that technology is not good enough to replace fast food workers, I happen to know with absolute certainty that it is. The only thing keeping it from happening is that it isn’t cheap enough. Raising wages will help close the gap between robot prices and human prices, but…

I wish you all the best, I love those displays and if you have any trouble or need help with the code/multiplexing/sensor reading hit me up. I picked up some of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPI-Bubble… to cram behind the idiot lights in my ‘57 chevy (I figured a voltmeter and oil pressure meter are better than…

The office of the Kentucky County Court clerk is required to issue marriage licenses in accordance with the law. If the person currently holding that post refuses to preform the tasks required by the position then that person needs to be removed and replaced with someone who will. That is the entire point that needs…

I’ve thought about what would happen if my parents split up since I was a kid. My mom would be absolutely unable to handle anything. She usually manages the laundry, but that’s not all the time. Other than that.... My dad repairs the clothing, cleans the house, does the bills and taxes, yard work, any home repairs,…

Dude, I did that run for 4 years, almost always at night, and I still make 3 trips up a year. Everyone (and I mean absolutely everyone, including the semi trucks) will stop to offer what assistance they can and they’re all great. This is why I keep my tool in my car, because when I was stranded I’d needed help, so I…

I had a friend with a 92(?) Geo Prizm LSI, can confirm that thing took anything we threw at it. Eventually got totalled by a moron Jeep Grand Cherokee pulling off the left shoulder on the interstate in the rain (70mph difference, no lights, no signal, no notice). The Jeep and Geo were totalled, I wanted to turn it…

I’m going to be living in Hazel Park for the forseeable future, your contributions here have made you my first thought for any car-related legal trouble. (previously my first call for any car-related non-legal trouble was the guys from Car Talk, but that era has finally come to an end)

That’s true, a scientist will revise theories when new data is presented, but an analogy to doors and walls isn't data. I could form an analogy to electricity and diodes that supports his current theory, but it wouldn’t be any more valid than yours.

BMI is an objective measure of the ratio of height to weight developed in the early to mid 1800s, and not the measure health of an individual (no, it doesn't correlate). http://www.npr.org/templates/stor…

just a note: I regularly park at some horribly timed stoplights that have just turned red because I know how long it will be.

They hired Alex Iglesias to draw up some initial designs. The guy on the right is actually the former President of my hackerspace and a really fun guy.

Fix it. Your car is cheaper and easier to work on than mine and it's not quite as bad to start with. I took on this old 4 door '57 chevy 210 that needs damn near everything. I patched a hole in the fuel system, put in a new fuel sender, and I currently have the rear axle off. The plan is to go all disc-brakes on…

I loved Chevy's 1956 film (for the 1957 model year) Jet Ace about their new fuel injection. Someone had a lot of automotive filmstrips for sale in ohio on craigslist a month or two back and that was one of them. I should have gotten it, the only copy online bugs me by being off-center.

I don't mean to hijack this, but the only reason to care about upping the perceived value of your home is if you plan to sell it, otherwise you just pay higher taxes/insurance on it.

As a young voter (I did vote, researched all the candidates and measures, even down to the local non-partisan stuff) I feel very disenfranchised. From my perspective Republicans are evil, out to line their own pockets and oppress everyone else that isn't them. The other choice isn't great either, Democrats are…

Maybe that's more fair, I currently work at a supplier and even though we have some smart people here the layers of bureaucracy keep anything from getting done. Everyone around here can say 'No' but they have to escalate it quite a few times to get a 'Yes' that can be acted upon. It may not be fair to blame everyone…

The answer is: you're right, it shouldn't take that long. It sounds like you work with people that are better at this than GM, but that's not too surprising. Car companies have been behind the curve technologically (and that gap seems to be widening). I'm not surprised considering I interviewed there two months ago…

Oh look, there's an election coming up...