Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

[hog88]

but you have the palate of swine

Yep, very refined.

 

[AM64]

Just dropped by to say "Hello". Things are OK, but I spend a lot of my time being PO by events, and better just to say nothing I suppose than be old and grumpy. FTR, I consider Musk to have by far the most punchable face and to be a complete fool - savant maybe - good at some things while a complete moron generally.

College athletics is in cannibal mode; too bad rational people weren't in the loop to save another of today's blundering fools from themselves. Some programs can survive - some can't. A little thought to consider: TN makes money on football (at least); not all schools do. But the bigger point is that the money to fund NIL etc is limited by funding, and TN doesn't have oil in the ground to pump like a few states - that limits the number of big boosters. States like OH may not have oil, but they still have monetary reserves far superior to many other states like TN; in a real athletic monetary war, we lose - end of discussion. tOSU proved you can build a professional amateur team and dominate at least in a one off mode; is that repeatable, and can other schools do it? BTW their coach (apparently the old Popeye Bluto) was slow in figuring out that they would win; he got it coming out of the tunnel. The key was the "Come to Jesus" team meeting after the MI game; after reading about that, I realized our chance of winning was essentially zip.

As far as "savants" like Musk. We simply have entered the digital era and found the ability to do things that were virtually impossible in the analog age. Example Bozo's Amazon is simply an updated version of Sears - you view, select, and order via internet instead of looking through a catalog and filling out and mailing in an order. NASA found pointing rockets in the right direction far more difficult and expensive in the analog and earlier digital age than Musk did when others had fully developed the technology for him to apply. Cars have steering wheels and pedals because in the old days they were mechanically linked to point wheels, clamp brakes, and open carburetor intakes. All that could easily be replaced with a single joystick connected to the car's computer these days. You could do it, but should you do it is the question - particularly when every manufacturer of digitally enhanced equipment thinks it should be linked to a world of hackers. Similarly, every time I look at an aircraft electronic display, I think about the wandering F-35 in SC and the pilot who ejected because of visibility in clouds and vertigo - hugely expensive issue. You loose electrical power (which was happening in that F-35), and you lose the display showing some crucial factors like which way is up and how fast the plane is moving - there is a reason to keep the old stuff that just simply works.

An example of transition from analog to digital. During my engineering years in the nuclear industry, we worked hard to develop and advance systems to detect and analyze anything that could have broken loose within the reactor coolant system. From years of experience, I can promise you that detecting impacting with strategically placed accelerometers was relatively simple, but somehow storing the first impact or sign of anomalous behavior was almost impossible. Skip forward just a few years and suddenly you could digitize the sound over a full audio spectrum and store it digitally - first it was very limited because of processing speed and digital storage. With fast processors and TB sized drives today, it's child's (think Musk) play. It's even easy to bounce the digitized signal around and delay the signal by several seconds, so you can trigger on the event and have recorded pre and post- event data for analysis. Realizing how to do that when technology has advanced and matured isn't genius; it's simply that somebody else moved technology along, and you suddenly had a toolbox full of stuff you never dreamed of in years before.

To a great extent, I simply see a bunch of our "leaders" as toddler age fools given a fully functioning daycare complete with a very nice collection of pristine toys ... and then they found the bag of hammers. We don't seem to have the sense to stop and ask some vital questions such as "You can, but should you?", "Is this really progress?", and maybe most importantly "Do you really think you are more intelligent than all the people who got you to this point?"

I do miss posting, but I do drop by and read sometimes. Right now I'm using a lot of my time experimenting and deciding whether I'm ready to fully kiss Windows goodbye and move to Linux. Another one of my irritable moments - I don't do well with ultimatums like you have to go to Windows 11 or get a new cellphone every couple of years just because "we have something new, and we don't like supporting the old stuff that actually works". Funny how some companies want to keep staffed and "productive" while "advancing" AI and automation intended to mentally emasculate and un-employ the rest of the population. It's like we've moved into in a world without the ability to reason - one where we can't understand that if people aren't employed they aren't consumers - one where despite all that we know of physics and thermodynamics with respect to losses like friction and imperfect heat transfer, that we can simply siphon off cash from "investments" and investments in workers/consumers. Have we learned nothing at all from history?

 

[hog88]

Nice to see you're still kickin AM64

 

[McDad]

Just dropped by to say "Hello". Things are OK, but I spend a lot of my time being PO by events, and better just to say nothing I suppose than be old and grumpy. FTR, I consider Musk to have by far the most punchable face and to be a complete fool - savant maybe - good at some things while a complete moron generally.

College athletics is in cannibal mode; too bad rational people weren't in the loop to save another of today's blundering fools from themselves. Some programs can survive - some can't. A little thought to consider: TN makes money on football (at least); not all schools do. But the bigger point is that the money to fund NIL etc is limited by funding, and TN doesn't have oil in the ground to pump like a few states - that limits the number of big boosters. States like OH may not have oil, but they still have monetary reserves far superior to many other states like TN; in a real athletic monetary war, we lose - end of discussion. tOSU proved you can build a professional amateur team and dominate at least in a one off mode; is that repeatable, and can other schools do it? BTW their coach (apparently the old Popeye Bluto) was slow in figuring out that they would win; he got it coming out of the tunnel. The key was the "Come to Jesus" team meeting after the MI game; after reading about that, I realized our chance of winning was essentially zip.

As far as "savants" like Musk. We simply have entered the digital era and found the ability to do things that were virtually impossible in the analog age. Example Bozo's Amazon is simply an updated version of Sears - you view, select, and order via internet instead of looking through a catalog and filling out and mailing in an order. NASA found pointing rockets in the right direction far more difficult and expensive in the analog and earlier digital age than Musk did when others had fully developed the technology for him to apply. Cars have steering wheels and pedals because in the old days they were mechanically linked to point wheels, clamp brakes, and open carburetor intakes. All that could easily be replaced with a single joystick connected to the car's computer these days. You could do it, but should you do it is the question - particularly when every manufacturer of digitally enhanced equipment thinks it should be linked to a world of hackers. Similarly, every time I look at an aircraft electronic display, I think about the wandering F-35 in SC and the pilot who ejected because of visibility in clouds and vertigo - hugely expensive issue. You loose electrical power (which was happening in that F-35), and you lose the display showing some crucial factors like which way is up and how fast the plane is moving - there is a reason to keep the old stuff that just simply works.

An example of transition from analog to digital. During my engineering years in the nuclear industry, we worked hard to develop and advance systems to detect and analyze anything that could have broken loose within the reactor coolant system. From years of experience, I can promise you that detecting impacting with strategically placed accelerometers was relatively simple, but somehow storing the first impact or sign of anomalous behavior was almost impossible. Skip forward just a few years and suddenly you could digitize the sound over a full audio spectrum and store it digitally - first it was very limited because of processing speed and digital storage. With fast processors and TB sized drives today, it's child's (think Musk) play. It's even easy to bounce the digitized signal around and delay the signal by several seconds, so you can trigger on the event and have recorded pre and post- event data for analysis. Realizing how to do that when technology has advanced and matured isn't genius; it's simply that somebody else moved technology along, and you suddenly had a toolbox full of stuff you never dreamed of in years before.

To a great extent, I simply see a bunch of our "leaders" as toddler age fools given a fully functioning daycare complete with a very nice collection of pristine toys ... and then they found the bag of hammers. We don't seem to have the sense to stop and ask some vital questions such as "You can, but should you?", "Is this really progress?", and maybe most importantly "Do you really think you are more intelligent than all the people who got you to this point?"

I do miss posting, but I do drop by and read sometimes. Right now I'm using a lot of my time experimenting and deciding whether I'm ready to fully kiss Windows goodbye and move to Linux. Another one of my irritable moments - I don't do well with ultimatums like you have to go to Windows 11 or get a new cellphone every couple of years just because "we have something new, and we don't like supporting the old stuff that actually works". Funny how some companies want to keep staffed and "productive" while "advancing" AI and automation intended to mentally emasculate and un-employ the rest of the population. It's like we've moved into in a world without the ability to reason - one where we can't understand that if people aren't employed they aren't consumers - one where despite all that we know of physics and thermodynamics with respect to losses like friction and imperfect heat transfer, that we can simply siphon off cash from "investments" and investments in workers/consumers. Have we learned nothing at all from history?

Good to hear from you. Please keep touch if just a hello or go vols.

 

[BreatheUT]

Rickey Gibson agreed to NIL deal and is now saying he will trasfer this spring..he knows his value now that McCoy is hurt. You agreed to the deal young man.

This stuff is a mess. I don't even follow football like I used to. I just wait to see who is on the roster. Then many of the underclassmen on it today won't be on it next year.

 

[AM64]

This stuff is a mess. I don't even follow football like I used to. I just wait to see who is on the roster. Then many of the underclassmen on it today won't be on it next year.

Imagine what it will be like to coach a smaller team (think 105 was the last number) and without being able to add non scholarship players when players aren't really invested in the program. Then throw in the monetary distribution like when a QB might own multiple expensive cars - say a Mercedes, a Lamborghini, and his GF a Range Rover? Imagine a lineman saying "Aww hell no, I ain't getting paid enough to get hit by that guy across from me; let that guy in the back - the one making all the money - have him."

How do you define the most important person in a real team sport? That's a bit like "the winning play" that neglects to mention the other plays necessary to even the score for the last one to matter.

 

[LouderVol]

two movie stars died yesterday. Michelle Trachtenberg and Gene Hackman.

Michelle died from suspected liver transplant complications. Gene Hackman, his wife, and their dog, were all found dead in their home.

 

[McDad]

two movie stars died yesterday. Michelle Trachtenberg and Gene Hackman.

Michelle died from suspected liver transplant complications. Gene Hackman, his wife, and their dog, were all found dead in their home.

Gene Hackman household died???

Any speculation on what happened? Carbon Monoxide, or something?

 

[LouderVol]

Gene Hackman household died???

Any speculation on what happened? Carbon Monoxide, or something?

not that I have seen. wife was 20 years younger, so I doubt it was natural.