I could hurt myself if i didn't. it's scary out there you know?

I guess I should probably mention I'm a very polarizing person. Strong Opinions and feelings that I'm not afraid to verbalize and have no problem debating my opinions on merit either.

I'm sure you'll all figure that out and form an opinion of your own about me pretty quickly.

HA!

Toss up:

Loser
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217630/


2001: A Space Odyssey

Getting in the way back machine....

Sam kinison.

I'm going to see Jim Gaffigan tonight. I'll let you know how that is.


I wuold love to see Lewis Black but I am going to be out of town when he comes to chicago in Feb.

I guess I misunderstood that then. It sure sounded like the conversation was strictly speaking of pleasure reading. And in my defense, that is how the conversation has always gone in my past.

my apologies for the misunderstanding.


I guess I should have put all my replys into 1...oops.

Your own reading ability betrays you. I only ever said I don't read for pleasure and I think it is unfair to look down upon someones intelligence strictly on the amount of pleasure reading they do.

But to answer your question, a lot of the ability I have in the technical realm I have learned from practical hands on experience. I have designed and built forced induction systems for various vehicles, I have created an internal engine part and am the first outside of a major automaker to bring this product to market since the original patents in the '20, I have built a top of it's field road race car....all in my garage. This is the first semester I am going back to school for Mechanical Engineering. My first degree is Computer Science which has zilch to do with any of that.

I never said I don't read. I said I don't read for pleasure. Big difference. It's the reading for pleasure that set the tone of this thread and what my comments were specifically about.

I do have to disagree on the point about having to read engineering philosophy to learn it. But I have no way to prove that as I'm sure the person who invented the wheel and the fulcrum/lever system were MIT engineering students.

Everything you mentioned is can be learned without the help of "pleasure" reading. Which was my point exactly. Thank you for helping me demonstrate that.

hilarious. should have never been taken off the air.

I guess I will be the lone dissenter. Sitting down to read just is of zero interest to me. I'm busy. If I've got some free time I would rather do something outside my school work, or my garage/business. Most of the reading I do is technical articles or patents. So in my free time I would much rather go have fun in the race car I just built, or go to a baseball game, go snowboarding, go see my old college roommate, ride my motorcycle, see a play, et al.

I actually resent the implication that if I don't read for leisure that I couldn't be as smart as you book worms. I guarantee that's not the case.

I would challenge anyone in this thread explain and do the engineering of a wankel rotary engine, a laminar flow air to water intercooler, correctly size a turbo - compressor wheel, turbine wheel, a housing A/R for both sides to turn a 180bhp bhp hyundai engine to a 600 hp engine. Then apply that which you just read to make it work in reality.

lol. thats an interesting way to put it.

I r new here, from just outside chicago. I didn't get much sleep tonight so I'm kind of at a loss for what to write about myself. Do people actually meet and date from this site, or is it mostly just an online social forum?

if you live in the right part of the state you are a short drive from chicago.

that's about the best thing about this state....leaving.