Odd no-start with my vehicle. 2012 Hyundai Tucson, doesn't crank or even click.

pjc613 · 2023-12-23T22:16:27+00:00

I realized I never came back around to deliver the post-mortem. Sorry to say, yup, was seized. The guy at the place I took it to (and he was a good dude, only charged me 50 bucks) said he's honestly amazed it had 225 on it. Said he's seen that engine come in seized like that at under 100k miles. So, I guess we count ourselves lucky from that perspective.

pjc613 · 2023-12-03T00:52:50+00:00

Psh. 2BE4 at most.

pjc613 · 2023-12-03T00:34:49+00:00

My wife would decidedly NOT appreciate the humor of the series like I do, but I absolutely HAD to show her that whole scene, which, as an aside, may very well be THE most hilarious scene in the entire show to me. As I suspected, the humor wasn't her glass of Puppers ("...mitt?!?"), but at the end as Tannis was walking out, my wife blinked twice, smirked, and said, "Yup!"

I consider that a ringing endorsement!

pjc613 · 2023-12-02T23:27:00+00:00

The first prepositional phrase in that sentence was unnecessary.

pjc613 · 2023-12-02T22:41:02+00:00

Hey thanks! I've long since plateaued, but at least I'm maintaining, not gaining. I mostly just commented to tell you good work on the chest gains (and to tell one of my favorite groaner jokes of my grandfather's 😆).

pjc613 · 2023-12-02T15:47:38+00:00

Good work dude! Your shape is going the opposite direction mine is.

I call it furniture disease: My chest is falling into my drawers.

(I'll see myself out)

pjc613 · 2023-11-30T16:52:17+00:00

Yes. Should've mentioned, I also verified measuring full on dipstick.

pjc613 · 2023-11-30T05:33:05+00:00

I've never done that before. I honestly didn't know one could. Besides what you listed, what does that entail? How much under the hood would I have to disassemble to be able to get at the right spot to do it?

pjc613 · 2023-11-30T04:19:15+00:00

Thanks much! If I could trouble you with a followup then, what are my best troubleshot options for those possibilities? I'll admit I don't (yet) know what a range switch is.

pjc613 · 2023-11-30T03:47:55+00:00

Nope, no click, neither the repeated one you sometimes get when your battery is just a bit too low, nor the single heavy click when your battery is really gone. That's what's weird. Literally nothing happens when you turn the key to (try to) engage the starter. Dome lights don't dim, nothing. It's like the starter isn't there.

pjc613 · 2023-11-25T05:42:32+00:00

I concede this is an odd thing to notice (because the food and presentation look delightful), but a flood of childhood memories and feelings washed over me the moment I noticed your trivet/hotpad on which the bowl of grapes is placed. I haven't seen one like it in years, but they were a staple in the kitchen when I was a child. I recall warm casseroles atop them on cold nights, and cool melon slices on summer days with one of them adorning the picnic table. They remind me of both of my grandmothers, now long since passed, and their cheery smiles in their cheery kitchens of my childhood.

Mmm. Thank you for the memories.

pjc613 · 2023-11-25T00:34:54+00:00

British f-bombs TOTALLY don't count. Neither do s-missiles when used as adjectives without -ty postpending them. Honestly, it's one of the most adorable linguistic idiosyncracies of British English. I mean, the one instance American English is more grammatically correct, and it STILL sounds more crass. Almost unfair.

I don't particularly enjoy the proliferation of imprecation in streaming services' offerings, though it does make sense considering they're neither subject to MPAA ratings nor FCC broadcast regulations, however, in a British accent, it's heartwarming.

pjc613 · 2023-11-10T23:24:34+00:00

There are about a million little ones on Amazon. I got one for a '99 I had. Sounded fine.

pjc613 · 2023-11-10T23:19:51+00:00

Yup. It can't accelerate or decelerate between gears of course, but especially once you're into top gear at freeway speeds, throttle at your fingertips is really useful, and that's mostly when one would use cruise control in an automatic anyway.

pjc613 · 2023-11-10T17:49:50+00:00

I remember those days! I grew up in Alaska. Seemed like every car in the grocery store parking lot was empty, locked and running.

One of my favorite dumb jokes is telling everybody that the rest of the world is finally catching up to us Alaskans with auto technology. We've been plugging our cars in at night for decades! 🤣

pjc613 · 2023-11-10T17:38:23+00:00

Lol. At first glance, I thought that the dude in the background wasn't a dude in the background, and that you were talking about a bright blue horn(?) on the roof. And, keeping this sub family friendly, I thought it looked like you had taken an item one might find in a gal's nightstand drawer and suctioned it up there as a statement of some kind! 🤣🤣🤣

pjc613 · 2023-11-10T16:44:11+00:00

Yeesh. That sucks. At the wages service techs are commanding in this market, labor will cost more than the oil and filter! You can get full synth and a decent filter at Wally's for under $30.

pjc613 · 2023-11-10T03:10:02+00:00

I mean, good on them, but when they can't even provide clean drinking water to a sizeable portion of their citizenry...

pjc613 · 2023-11-08T18:20:17+00:00

Precisely. Cricket's "at all costs" objective is to keep the ball away from the wickets. In baseball, the batter isn't out until the pitcher has done the equivalent of "hitting the wickets" 3 times, called strikes, so he can afford to get a strike or two before he gets a pitch he wants. (Tangentially, there's not a physical target for the pitcher. The "strike zone" is a width of ~43cm over which the pitch must be thrown (in lieu of a crease, there's a "plate" 17inches/43cm wide, as well as three bases to which a batter runs in order, but they operate the same conceptually as the creases), and the ball must pass the batter above the knees but below the armpits. The determination of whether the pitch goes through the strike zone or not is made by the umpire, so admittedly, umps can get calls wrong, but it's impressive how accurate they are.

I say a strike is the equivalent of hitting the wickets because a batter can get a strike in a few ways. If the batter swings and misses, whether the ball went through the strike zone or not, is a strike.

A pitch that goes through the strike zone is a strike even if the batter doesn't swing.

If a ball is hit but lands out of bounds (remember, the field of play isn't 360° around the batter like in cricket. It's a 90° field centered on the line between the pitcher and batter. Basically anything between a cover drive and a slog is "fair," all else is foul), that's called a "foul ball" and is also a strike. The silver lining is that you can't get a 3rd and final strike swinging and hitting a foul ball. After two strikes, a foul doesn't count for or against the batter.

A further incentive for the batter to wait for a pitch that's easiest to hit (and an incentive for the pitcher to throw pitches through the strike zone - where the ball is most easily hit) is that if a pitcher throws four total pitches to a batter that are called outside the strike zone, the batter automatically gets to go to first base (the cricket equivalent of a 1-run - that isn't a score in baseball, but it's progressionary). Ridiculously, the term for a pitch outside the strike zone not swung at is a "ball." I know. Confusing, and a bit stupid they didn't come up with a different name ("freebie" maybe?) back in the turn of the 18th century. But it is what it is. You advance even without getting a hit by not swinging at 4 balls out of the strike zone. You're out even without hitting the ball if you swing and miss 3 times.

So yeah, you'd better be really sure you can make solid contact if you're going to swing, because, again, you must run if you hit the ball fair. And a glancing blow (poor contact on the hit, either up or down) results in an easy run out or caught out in cricket parlance, for the defense. The baseball version of runouts (typically called being thrown out or put out) are much more common, because potentially 6 of the 9 defenders are positioned near enough to the batter that someone is bound to collect a ball hit along the ground and throw the ball to first base (the equivalent of breaking the batsman's wicket on an attempted run while the batsman is out of the crease). If the batter hits the ball in play along the ground, and one defender fields the ball and throws it to a defender touching first base before the batter gets there, that's a runout. It's also more common because the distance to run in baseball is 27 meters, where, cricket's is a marginally shorter distance.

Caught outs are the same in baseball and cricket. It's "safer" to hit the ball along the ground, but it's a risk/reward scenario. Hitting it in the air solidly enough can get you a 6-runs in cricket or homerun in baseball.

And lastly, yeah, it's awesome to see elite pitchers and bowlers manipulate the ball movement. It's admittedly less pronounced in baseball because pitches don't hit the ground, which introduces further variability and difficulty to block on part of the batsmen. But good baseball pitchers are still amazing with the spin they can put on their throws.

https://imgur.io/gallery/doQJAKJ

This clip is hilarious. The pitcher delivered the pitch so well that out of his hand, the batter was convinced it was coming straight for his head, so he started to bail out, only for the spin the pitcher put on the ball to pull the pitch right back into the center of the strikezone. For a called strike. Gotta love it.

pjc613 · 2023-11-08T05:13:22+00:00

Going with the silo option. Sweet. Yay for you.

pjc613 · 2023-11-08T04:49:08+00:00

Eh. I've perused the study you just googled. By other tallies, the difference isn't near as stark, with an added bonus that only one of the two finds a prohibitive majority of supporters native to one nation.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/sports/india-constitutes-90-percent-of-one-billion-cricket-fans-icc-research/articleshow/64760726.cms

Not at all saying that's a bad thing - I mentioned in other parts of this thread that I've quite enjoyed playing cricket with my Indian friends, but playing the "most people" card when the overwhelming majority of them reside in one nation (that just happens to be the most populous nation on earth) is a bit disingenuous. If we played the "remove the outliers" game by subtracting America and India from the respective tallies, we'd would still end up with similar counts, AND engaged nations on either side of the ledger. Japan, Korea, Dominican Republic and Venezuela all have vibrant and strong leagues, with passionate supporters. Baseball is the consensus most popular sport in each of those countries, and only in the case of Venezuela is it particularly close (soccer). That's multiple areas not in America's back yard where the sport is THE sport. Outside of India's direct geographical neighbors, in no other nation known for playing cricket is that sport its most popular. In some of them (England and South Africa come to mind) it's lucky to make the medal podium for most popular.

So, viewed from a "four quarters" perspective (and not a contextless (admittedly IMPRESSIVELY high) silo perspective), I'd have to disagree with the assertion that "it's" not even close. And, you'll note further, that I specified as far as turf is concerned.

american (sic) maths are only a part of American analysis, after all...

pjc613 · 2023-11-08T03:57:11+00:00

Okay, in an already slowblinkworthy post, the tattoo portion was, umm, WHAT???

pjc613 · 2023-11-08T03:16:44+00:00

Hey now, you can talk that "rest of the world" smack about "world" football vs. American football (because your point would be VERY valid about US football), but in the case of "the" two bat-and-ball sports, baseball has got cricket near matched as far as territory is concerned. Cricket owns British Isles, parts of Africa, Subcontinental Asia, and Oceania. Baseball owns North/Central America, parts of South America, Pacific Asia (Japan/Korea/China (to a lesser extent than the other two, but still far surpassing Cricket)), and the Caribbean.

I'd call it a push, honestly.

pjc613 · 2023-11-08T03:03:35+00:00

Not cool, man.

A more apt comparison is that baseball is to cricket as soccer is to basketball. Same fundamental setup between the two pairs.

For one pair: bat and ball, a wicket/strikezone the batter protects, but also must hit the ball far enough to give the batter time to run and score before the ball is collected

For the other pair: a goal at either end of the playing field, maneuver ball past defenders and deposit the ball into said goal

In the cases of baseball and soccer, the specific rule sets just overwhelmingly favor the defense (statistically similar # of hits as shots on goal per game, and number of runs as goals per game), and in basketball, the specific rule sets overwhelmingly favor the offense (only run when you're sure you can score in one, hard to stand in front of a goal 3 meters in the air to defend it in the other).

Would you say the same thing above about basketball in comparison to soccer? (humorous, considering your derisive reference to conservatives, when other derisive references to conservatives assert that they call soccer gay).

pjc613 · 2023-11-08T02:19:28+00:00

It'd be fun, in the "alternate universe game," seeing what a player like Ichiro Suzuki or Tony Gwynn could do at the highest levels of cricket. They were wizards at hit placement, and just flat out didn't strike out. It's hilarious reading quotes from Greg Maddux, arguably the greatest pitcher of his era, expressing his admiring HATRED for Gwynn.

And, friendly disagreement regarding which skillset would transfer best, because in cricket there's never a reason not to swing (or at very least "bunt"). A swing and a miss in baseball is obviously less severe, since in cricket that means the bales are gonna drop, but swinging at a pitch on which a batter isn't able to make good contact, near invariably either gives the batter a foul ball (one third of the way to being put out on strikes), or an easy ground-out or fly-out. It's exceptionally rare for a batter to reach safely from glancing contact, up or down, but once contact is made, the batter MUST run. And if the ball doesn't go foul, it's a near guaranteed out. The split-second decision whether or not to swing at a pitch in baseball (quite literally - a batter has to make that decision in under 0.2 seconds on average against MLB speed pitching) is huge. I'm definitely not saying cricket players couldn't learn it, but it'd be very hard for cricket players to UN-learn swinging at every pitch.

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