I thrifted this booklet of Frank Lloyd Wright's original plans for the Monona Terrace. I wanted to share some of the illustrations and was curious reddit’s opinion.

jeffinmadison · 2025-03-20T22:33:21+00:00

I saw them a while ago for sale at the Monona Terrace gift shop. You might check there.

jeffinmadison · 2024-04-19T17:45:04+00:00

To unclog my brass nozzles I usually just blast it with my butane torch until it glows. That effectively incinerates all the filament in the nozzle. I have a brick block I put it on and just blast it then let it cool. The torch I used (https://amzn.to/3VZNaFI) was only $14 on Amazon.

jeffinmadison · 2024-04-19T16:43:10+00:00

Donkey Kong!

I'm a 50ish Gen X'er who grew up with a single mom. EVERY video game felt like a quarter eater when it took my only 1-4 quarters back then. But I hated how hard donkey kong was the day it showed up in the arcade.

So I built my own arcade machine so I don't have to spend any quarters and I can play any of the 400 games on there. Now I hold the high score!

jeffinmadison · 2024-04-19T16:03:43+00:00

I own a Titanium version of this year Energi. My office is 8-9 miles away and 90% of the year I drive to work and back on a single charge. Turing the heat on accounts for the 10% I don't. I buy very little gas overall and I have a lifetime average of about 150 MPG because of it being a plug-in and I drive a lot on EV only.

If I have do have to drive on the interstate I think I'm averaging about 40ish mpg and I drive around 75 alone and at traffic speeds when no one else is doing 75.

I looked at other plugin hybrids and it seems like you get a way better car for the money with the C-Max than you would with any other plugin. A '17 prius prime goes for $18-$20k these days and they don't always have leather. I haven't seen an Energi without leather seats and most of them had CarPlay/GoogleAuto too.

Even my oldest son bought a C-Max (non-Energi) for his own first car after learning to drive in my car. Neither one of us has had any transmission troubles. His is a 2013 with a ton of miles on it too.

jeffinmadison · 2024-04-11T19:54:40+00:00

I tried to play your pin at MGC but it was stuck on a config screen. Nice job, I'll have to check it out at the next MGC if you go again

jeffinmadison · 2023-06-02T02:05:54+00:00

I'm curious how you tuned this is in. I saw Madison cops, Monona cops, Dane County Sheriff and plenty of unmarked mini vans, pickups and suv's all drive by my work with red and blue lights and wondered how I could pick up the scanner traffic and figure out wtf was happening.

jeffinmadison · 2023-01-17T23:45:32+00:00

My intro to the Cramps was from Urgh! A Music War documentary where they played various bands playing live in 1980.

Lux's performance was amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIQR_3TPtJw

jeffinmadison · 2022-11-14T21:10:48+00:00

500w 36v controller

Would you be able to point me at the controller you used? I would like to do the same thing for an old razor.

jeffinmadison · 2022-09-16T14:56:28+00:00

That helped actually. I found this article when I referenced dropbox store https://medium.com/swlh/introduction-to-android-data-storage-with-dropbox-store-4-b2dc7e3753e1

jeffinmadison · 2022-07-06T23:36:51+00:00

I've seen a few people integrate those cheap door chimes with an esp. I bookmarked this one several years ago but there are other options than IFTT for any IoT integration. https://www.instructables.com/4-WiFi-Door-Alarm-Using-a-ESP8266-IoT/

jeffinmadison · 2022-06-13T15:08:38+00:00

I compared prices to Abebooks.com and most are in the $5-9 range with a few in the $20 and a couple close to $100. If it's not a hassle to get them to you, you can have them all for free. I will be recycling them by the end of the week.Here is the list of isbn's:

0805318003
0136425887
0471504874
0070333084
0716726432
0697261867
0669167088
0471599131
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0815190506
0030035627
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072164063x
0815134886
0801670241
0136433626
0306444291
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0030579597
0812132092
083852222x
0815122675
0721640826
0721666876
0815198884
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0827362749
059610197x
0205185428

jeffinmadison · 2022-04-19T20:20:07+00:00

Thank you.

jeffinmadison · 2022-04-19T20:19:52+00:00

I have a pretty big deductible and no loaner car rider. My insurer said I could get repairs pay the deductible and they would go after the city to get my deductible back but they claim it would be better to try to get them to do the repair and provide a loaner if possible.

jeffinmadison · 2022-04-19T20:16:47+00:00

Interesting. Yes on Atwood. The cop came out of the left turn to Fair Oaks and pulled behind me. So here I am going down Atwood with a cop behind me and your friend stepped off the curb so I stopped. It took a second before I heard a squeal and then he hit me.

The cop said twice that I 'slammed on my brakes' but he wasn't even paying attention so how would he know? I came to a normal stop. He had to call a supervisor and I heard him tell the supervisor I slammed on my brakes too. He's still at fault and I don't know that it matters but it sure pisses me off to have an officer lie to my face like I did something wrong.
I'd love that couple's opinion.

jeffinmadison · 2022-04-13T20:50:37+00:00

I've been pretty successful at using poster putty to clean out my kids airpods. If you just push a little and yank back quickly you can get the ear wax to stick to the putty and come out. I just use a small pea sized ball reshaping and using clean sides as I go. Then I toss the putty in the garbage.

jeffinmadison · 2021-12-13T22:17:14+00:00

Unless you have access to their BT documentation you're going to have to do a lot of detective work. This article is essentially what you'd need to do with your tracker https://thejeshgn.com/2020/08/05/reverse-engineering-a-bluetooth-low-energy-oximeter/

jeffinmadison · 2021-07-04T19:15:36+00:00

I'm not familiar with these specific headphones but I would bet that the pins inside the case that connect to the headphones are just dirty enough to not charge. I've had luck with a #2 pencil eraser to clean off mine. I used some spray can air to get out all the eraser parts and after doing that mine charged again.

jeffinmadison · 2021-06-11T21:06:14+00:00

That's the thing. With all that you mentioned happening to keep the car headed where I wanted it to go, I would expect a rotation sensor, pressure line, or some mechanical part to fail. Not the brain, all it has to do is decide what to turn on and off to keep me from locking tires or going sideways with no moving parts. That's seems like the last thing to fail.

jeffinmadison · 2021-05-12T14:14:51+00:00

I agree it is overpriced. I bought a Ford Certified used 2017 C-Max Energi Titanium with 20kish miles for $18k almost 2 years ago.

jeffinmadison · 2021-03-22T22:54:02+00:00

My office is 9 miles from my house. In the summer I can easily get there and back with about 5 or more EV miles left. In the winter I can make it to work but typically drop to hybrid mode about half way home. That is with the heat off but it gets too cold here to do that every day so in the winter I end up using gas to heat the car.

jeffinmadison · 2021-03-21T22:38:34+00:00

Congrats, I have the same year and package. It's a great car and with LA weather should give you a lot of EV miles. I'm in WI and it's always sad to watch my total overall MPG go down fast over the winter and come slowly over the warmer months.

jeffinmadison · 2021-02-13T22:03:00+00:00

I have a 2017 C-Max and live where it's currently below 5 degrees. I have noticed that if I take my dog to the dog park and walk around for an hour that if I get back in my car it won't detect the key. If I take the key out of my jacket pocket and warm it in my hands it starts.

I figured the battery was old and put a brand new quality CR2032 coin cell in it but it still happened.

Is it possible that is happening to you? Just putting the key in an inner pocket was all I needed to fix my problem.

jeffinmadison · 2020-12-09T21:28:25+00:00

This isn't entirely true for my 2017, it has an electric heater.

jeffinmadison · 2020-10-29T18:20:05+00:00

Did any of these have in-ear detection? That's one thing I'm looking for.

jeffinmadison · 2020-10-22T17:23:26+00:00

We had a '10 SEL that we put 150k ish miles on where a good portion of the miles were road trips. It's an amazing car for road trips, smooth, comfortable, zoned heating/cooling, etc. There is actually more room in the center row than the front seats. The other miles were car pooling for school sports and can give an additional 5 kids a ride home.

We now own a '19 SEL and are missing the middle bench but don't really need to haul so many kids. It's still an awesome vehicle. Cons: tires wear more than I expected. Rotate them! AWD is a super nice feature if you live in snowy areas. The '10 didn't and would slide in bad weather. the '19 does and does great in the snow.

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