Quote: "The reason I have those videos looking like that, is that an overpolished look may look great, but you can't connect with me as a personal person. You probably would have looked at me as your standard youtube blogger. I got the idea from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD2oO3PQs70 . It's because your uncle would have filmed videos like that and you would know he is a real person. So I'm filmming it naturally as if it was not a movie or film or documentary, but as if I'm helping you and sharing my experiences. Yes he did not use a cell phone vertically, but you get my point."
Personally when I see a YouTube tutorial in portrait orientation I think, "Oh great, this guy has no idea what he's talking about" and promptly close the video (unless it's something niche like doing the tissue, straw and tape mod for the PS2 and I can't find another video). That's just how I feel
Quote: "For those who are interested: Yeees, I got my little engine fully reassembled and running again. Here's a little video I made of it running:"
Awesome! That's a cool little engine! Definitely want to see it used for something!
Quote: "Some people like to use friction drives"
Ugh. So....
hacky. Definitely use a belt or (preferably) a chain.
Quote: "A basic chain system would then carry the power down to the wheel... I could give the engine its own chain system with a derailleur, or I could link the engine over to the existing derailleur system... But that's likely to be replaced anyway. Oh the possibilities! If I do it right, I could keep foot pedaling capability. Add a good muffler and a cover over the engine, and nobody'd even know I was riding a motorcycle!"
After you suggested making a powered bicycle out of your engine (or was that me? can't remember) I started looking at making my own powered bike, but from an electric motor, so I know all about working out theoretical ways to get the motor power to the wheels! There are quite a lot of ways to do it. The only reason I haven't pursued the idea of an electric-assisted bike is that while I can get a 200W electric motor (the maximum legal size for general electric-assisted bikes) off eBay for $50 (not bad at all), a full-size 10Ah lithium battery designed for bikes is about $260 (eek!). However I did see someone run an electric bike off two large RC lithium batteries, and those would be a bit cheaper. Will continue to look into this idea in future
Quote: "Oh where art thou Clonkex!"
Working, and too lazy to take on the mammoth task of reading and replying to lots of forums posts!
Quote: "Fixed my engine issue! My suspicion of fuel delivery problems was correct, but I was looking too hard -- it was out of gas."
LOL hahahaha *facepalm*
Quote: "It also shoots blue flames sometimes, which is startling in the most exquisite of ways."
Haha I really like the wording of that!
Quote: "So my brother and I recently obtained an older PC that we are going to turn into a custom media server. We're gonna slap Linux on there (probably just Ubuntu since it's the easiest to install and use right out of the digital box), and more than likely set up a personal Minecraft server as well."
In our experience Linux wasn't worth the trouble. Windows 8 ended up doing a way better job without all the unnecessary fuss and bother of Linux. To be clear: Lubuntu
worked (mostly - graphics drivers are a nightmare), but it was tonnes of effort to maintain due to everything relying so heavily on command line.
Quote: "So I got the ring yesterday. This is what it looks like in person!"
Ooh wow! I've never really had a girlfriend so I can't even imagine proposing to someone! Must be nerve-racking and exciting at the same time!
Quote: "How about we have some democracy on this forum."
Honestly Zach you have the strangest way of writing. I mostly have no idea what you're going on about. You seem so formal all the time and it's like you feel we're all behaving in an unusual manner.
Quote: "I was having a moment today. If a mod could kindly edit my post that would be great. Still I would like moderators to be moderated."
You do realise you can edit your own posts to your heart's content, right?
Quote: "Meanwhile Nvidia hasn't been stable for months on Windows with consistent hard driver crashes but they don't get half the bad PR."
Since when? I've had no such issues.
Quote: "I must say, the Crimson software is a HUGE upgrade over the previous Catalyst system that looked and operated like something from 2005..."
Wait, what? Crimson is a replacement for Catalyst Control Centre (CCC)? I hope so, because we have a couple of AMD laptops and CCC has always been fairly rubbish.
Quote: "At this point we should call you Flapjack Jer instead of Yodaman."
I wouldn't. I'd call him Pancake Jer. Flapjack is a silly name.
Quote: "Did somebody mention JK-flip-flops?"
Yes. I tried to make one in Binarray but it didn't work due to a bug. Also, I now plan to post an image like that at some point on a programming forum (this one, maybe?) in place of a normal "jk". Yes, this will be fun...
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Quick question to any Americans: Do your shopping trolleys "stack"? That is, when you push one trolley into the back of another, does the back of the front trolley fold up and allow the rear one to slide inside? (Stop it. Stop giggling. That's not as weird as it sounds.) I passed a lady today at the shops after work and I'm sure she was saying the backs of American trolleys don't fold, but I'm not convinced because of the ridiculous amount of space they would take up...
EDIT: This photo pretty accurately shows what our trolleys look like (I don't know about over there, but in Australia 99% of shopping trolleys look identical except for the handle colour/branding):
