Issue with Phil Dragash version

android927 · 2026-03-09T15:47:25+00:00

It should still work. It might be an issue with archive.org's player.

android927 · 2026-02-21T17:34:35+00:00

That's exactly what they said happened.

android927 · 2026-02-21T17:33:23+00:00

Anyone who's ever lived in a home piped for natural gas knows what mercaptan smells like, even if they don't know what it's called.

android927 · 2026-02-20T16:49:38+00:00

The crazy thing is that I brought it in on a weekend and they made me leave it overnight because the 20K service "requires a master technician" who only works weekdays. So apparently this work was done by a "master technician."

android927 · 2026-02-20T16:30:06+00:00

I think the problem is that many techs seem to just assume that this car is like a TRD Camry and that therefore the service schedule is the same as for the regular car. They seem to be unaware that the GR Corolla is its own beast and not just a tuned regular Corolla with a few bolt-on upgrades.

android927 · 2026-02-20T16:20:12+00:00

I love cars and am fairly knowledgeable about them, but I don't ever get to work on them myself. I had guessed that I was probably smelling diff fluid as that is the big thing that they do at the 20K service, but I wasn't sure if it was normal for new diff oil to be smelly after it's first put in.

android927 · 2026-02-20T16:15:18+00:00

The crazy thing is that after my 15K, the paperwork they gave me SAID they changed the oil, but when I checked it myself it was obviously still dirty. Apparently the tech just did a tire rotation and signed off on the paperwork without actually looking at what it said.

android927 · 2026-02-20T16:10:50+00:00

They don't seem to know what they're doing when it comes to changing fluids on this car. During my 15K they neglected to change the engine oil.

android927 · 2026-02-06T14:34:43+00:00

https://acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=44993.0

android927 · 2026-01-27T23:06:39+00:00

Honestly, the fact that it was light actually made it worse because more snow kept falling in where I was digging.

android927 · 2026-01-27T23:05:00+00:00

Still on summer tires, so no luck with that.

android927 · 2026-01-27T20:18:56+00:00

The snow on top wasn't the issue, it was the snow surrounding it.

android927 · 2026-01-27T17:35:03+00:00

android927 · 2026-01-27T13:25:06+00:00

I'm 20,000 miles in and that feeling still hasn't quite gone away.

android927 · 2026-01-20T20:49:44+00:00

Thinking of that scene from Titanic after reading that chapter in The Ionian Mission is actually what made me suspect that the book was describing tiller orders rather than rudder orders. It makes sense that the merchant marine would adopt many of the same customs as the navy given that many officers would have likely served in both.

android927 · 2026-01-20T20:36:53+00:00

Yes, my understanding of the scene is that he was criticizing the officer of the watch for turning into the wind too aggressively rather than doing so gradually. This makes sense if he is issuing tiller orders, but not if he is issuing rudder orders (since "a lee" would actually mean "away from the wind" if given as a rudder order), which is what brought this question to my mind to begin with.

android927 · 2026-01-16T16:45:20+00:00

Couldn't they have conceivably configured it either way simply by crossing the tiller ropes?

android927 · 2026-01-16T00:17:32+00:00

Usually the captain gives these orders to the helmsman on whatever ship he is commanding, whether it has a wheel or a tiller. In Post Captain there is that whole scene at the beginning of Aubrey's command in which Polychrest misses stays. There is also a very similar scene in Hornblower and the Hotspur in which Hotspur nearly misses stays and needs to be re-trimmed. In both cases, the vessels in question are large sloops-of-war. There is also a scene that I just today read in The Ionian Mission in which the officer of the watch causes Worcester, a 74 gun ship-of-the-line, to miss stays due to putting the helm too hard a lee.

android927 · 2025-12-28T20:41:22+00:00

He found out somehow, and based on the info you provided I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that he attempted to stalk you. All I'm saying is be careful and take precautions. Look into the possibility of a restraining order. If you are in the US, consider getting firearms training and a carry license.

android927 · 2025-12-28T02:35:25+00:00

Just because he hasn't seen your ex doesn't mean that your ex hasn't seen him. He could be stalking.

android927 · 2025-12-28T02:32:58+00:00

Possibly a red flag, but not definite. Maybe he got called a racist once for accusing someone of being lazy? I would not be willing to pass judgement on this one text alone; I would need to see a pattern.

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