[MD] Trust in Philosophy

[John Carl]

Adrie, actually no.  Unless you are else than the factory worker, you did
not make me read ZAMM.

Nice that you solved it, I hope and now i made you read zam eh?
> So yes , it was in the ride up and down.
> Stunning that you are actually are reading the books nowadays, i like that.
>  I'v got a shitload of mystery's to solve
>
>
That little scene where Pirsig suddenly realizes his altitude adjustment
issues has played back to me many times when I've been riding my own
motorcycle or driving my own car in the mountains.  Some passages stick
closer to the front of the lobes, I guess.  I remembered it fine without a
re-read.

It's always interesting to think what comes back to us.  I also like to
weld, and the  welder whose flickering flame dances over the chain-guard
repair "who does work like that anymore?"  goes through my mind often, as it
did last summer when I was doing a bit of repair to the farm equipment when
I was working there.



> As for the first problem you tried to solve, a sparkplug getting stuck in
> the head,
> Hm, this is how we do it.
>
> We pore liquid nitrogen in the sparkplughole, wearing glove's, very
> carefully
> The plug shrinks immidiately, you can really hear it physikally, it comes
> out in a second after that, it almost pops out, so to speak without damage
> to the head.
>
> see thread
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_nitrogen
>
> follow this  , ;to shrink weld machinery parts together.( we reverse the
> proces for the
> sparkplugs)
>
> Hey, i'm also very good skilled in skimming down distorted cylheadbanks.
>
>
>
Well how I would solve a stuck spark plug in real life is, I'd take it to a
machine shop and say "get this dang spark plug out for me, will ya?"

It reminds me of an anecdote or a joke about an engineering test I heard a
long time ago, where the challenge was to describe how to find the height of
a tall building using only a barometer.  The guy gives a whole bunch of
solutions including "take the barometer to the top of the building and drop
it off and time how long it takes to hit the ground" and "find the building
superintendent and say to him, if you'll tell me the height of your
building, I'll give you this swell barometer."

Exercises in alternative Cat-skinning can be great fun.  I wonder if liquid
nitrogen would work on fur?

Yours,

John