It does sound like a hell of a show. The best my wife ever did was set a menu on fire in Michael Jordan's restaurant. That was pretty funny but nothing that would scare off a band of marauders.
I think it predates the term "SUV" which helped... I like the idea of the 5L Hybrid. Put a generator in the trunk to charge the battery if it dies. There. You have a hybrid. Ha.
@MarkHenderson I think only 2 our of the 30+ crashes resulted in anyone dying, but yeah. Firestone sold the tires to Ford and told them not to put anything less than ~2 ATM pressure in them. Ford told the tire manufacturer, who's been around longer than Ford, to take a hike, and put ~1.75 ATM in the tires because the suspension was overly stiff and people wanted a "softer" ride.
When the lawsuits hit the fan, Ford sued Firestone saying that Firestone obviously condoned the unpressure practice because they know about the safety risk and kept selling Ford more tires. Corporate belligerence at it's finest. Side note, at the same time GM was using those exact same tires on their GMC Jimmy, a very similar SUV; but at the recommended 2.2 ATM, and never had a single problem with blowouts.
@MarkHenderson The H2H was a Hydrogen powered H2 Hummer.. To start GM made Hummers. The H1 was built on the 2.5T Truck Frame; the H2 was built on the 0.5T Light Truck/Small SUV Frame. The H2 is really the same frame as the Trailblazer or the Holden Colorado, not military grade at all.
Those smaller SUVs only take a Small Block v8 at the largest, and the H2H didn't have a ICE at all. H2H was a concept vehicle, never produced.
@rnxrx As it should have been, it was built on a "Family SUV" Frame to begin with, not actually meant to have much utility other that hauling stuff around on dry pavement.
@MarkHenderson Ah. Yeah, totally a *nix guy. And probably not good enough to work at Fog Creek either.
I think that falls under knowing my limitations.
I got pieces of Sage IV responsibilities under my belt, but there's some gaps in there that need fixing, like better scripting and programming skills. In fact, I need to go back and take some programming classes next year too.
I've forgotten a lot of the algorithmic stuff, which I wasn't ever very good at anyway.
I'm mostly Ops. Cool under fire and excellent intuition for where stuff is broken. But I've been behind the curve and the need for those skills is going away for the businesses that I want to work for.
Hmm. He set the parent to root.root 770, but none of the children. I suppose that would be good enough to keep the occasional social worker from dinking around in there. Certainly not anyone with a clue though.
@vCole At the office I worked at before Big Blue bought Vallent, there was a tiny little Italian place across the parking lot. The Calzones were epic. Unfortunately, they were also approx. 2200 calories apiece.