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1. Battery question - not really LSR... (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:54:00 -0500
Yesterday I brought all four batteries inside - from our semi tractor - to clean and charge 'em. I wasn't able to get them to take enough charge to start the truck outdoors. One, or two, or maybe eve
/html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00019.html (7,889 bytes)

2. Be jealous - non-LSR (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:35:09 -0500
Sometimes we have to do stuff in the line of work -- that we night not otherwise do. I just had to/got to move a few vehicles around in our storage barn, and dang it if that '66 427 'Vette didn't nee
/html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00080.html (7,234 bytes)

3. What's going on? (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:01:49 -0500
It's about time for the old "Hey, is this thing on?" question -- darn near no posts in the last few days. I know there's an El Mirage meet this weekend, but just 'cause Keith's there instead of on-li
/html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00112.html (8,155 bytes)

4. Re: How would you like 2 long and 2 short courses at (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:11:01 -0500
Okay, I can hear it now: "Leaving the north end of the long course it's Seldom Seen Slim, and on the south end it'll be Bob Moreland. Both of you: Remember to stay to the RIGHT side of your course. W
/html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00150.html (8,906 bytes)

5. Re: Wheel speed indicators. Not the forbidden traction devices. (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0500
It's been done on two-wheeled vehicles, too. Jon Wennerberg Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing Marquette, Michigan (that's 'way up north) It's been done on a very fast liner with small indicating lig
/html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00210.html (8,589 bytes)

6. Re: Hazard warning lights... (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:43:45 -0500
2. Maybe in some future time we could put GPS technology to work to put virtual mile markers on a car's instrument panel or into the earphones inside a helmet. Ed Weldon Ed, I don't know if standard-
/html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00220.html (8,249 bytes)

7. Re: MGs To Be Built in China ? What's NEXT ??? (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:49:16 -0400
Four times. I heard just yesterday that the "official" US population has now surpassed 300 million. On the other hand, Nancy and I have just bought the parcel of land adjoining our present site -- so
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00034.html (9,810 bytes)

8. Re: MGs To Be Built in China ? What's NEXT ??? (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:20:26 -0400
Keith, you might want to soft-pedal the nastygrams you send my way. It looks like I've been given the official title of "Potentate of Porta-Potties" for the SCTA, and in that position I've got the po
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00039.html (9,285 bytes)

9. Grumpy reader - non-LSR (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:52:37 -0400
Okay, where do I go to register my dissatisfaction? I just got the SpeedWeek 2006 Official Results book. There are all the runs, all the records, lots of photos, -- but not one dang photo of the port
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00083.html (8,312 bytes)

10. Re: Grumpy reader - non-LSR (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:37:26 -0400
'Tweren't me at WoS, although I did help out with placement of one or two. Don't give the USFRA folks any ideas -- SCTA/BNI has me on their sh*t list already -- I don't need to be on another one... J
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00087.html (7,947 bytes)

11. Re: Grumpy reader - non-LSR (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:23:13 -0400
I suppose you'd like this reassurance: When we send paper for recycling , the plant that does the actual recycling into tissue (toilet paper, among other products) DOES remove the paper clips and sta
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00124.html (8,372 bytes)

12. Re: (non-lsr) video frame rate...was: Worlds Finals Cancelled (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:34:21 -0400
Well, sorta 30/second, but really it's more like 60 every-other-line scans/second, then add two half-scans together to get 30 complete frames per second. However, that was the deal during the days of
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00127.html (8,260 bytes)

13. Re: (non-lsr) video frame rate...was: Worlds Finals Cancelled (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:12:36 -0400
In motion pictures, television, and in computer video displays, the frame rate is the number of frames or images that are projected or displayed per second. Frame rates are used in synchronizing audi
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00129.html (8,552 bytes)

14. Re: Test (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:19:59 -0400
Not up here it isn't. We're watching the snow melt. Last night we got our first dusting of the season -- an inch or so, and today it's windy as a bugger and cold-but-sunny. To think that we could hav
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00161.html (7,519 bytes)

15. Timing light wires (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:56:40 -0400
Okay: First, my stipulation that I don't know what research has gone into this subject, so I may be asking a question that's been answered. Why is the timing light system connected by hard wires? Why
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00178.html (7,867 bytes)

16. Re: Timing light wires (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:32:41 -0400
And GPS delivers how much accuracy from how many miles through how much poor atmospheric conditions? WiMax internet service moves digital data -- more than a timing system would need to move - at ext
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00182.html (9,511 bytes)

17. Fwd: Timing light wires (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:41:08 -0400
I'm going home for the night, so you folks carry on without me 'til morning, okay? Jon Wennerberg Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing Marquette, Michigan (that's 'way up north)
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00190.html (9,013 bytes)

18. Timing lights with and without wires (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:20:04 -0400
So far I've seen responses in four classes: It'd cost too much. Let's explore this idea. What we've got now works, so why change? I don't think it can be done. First: How much will it cost? Do I have
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00224.html (7,712 bytes)

19. Timing lights w/o wires, Pt. 2 (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:32:00 -0400
Let's explore this idea. What we've got now works, so why change? I don't think it can be done. Okay, "let's explore this idea". It's only hardware that we've gotta find. Hardware that I betcha is a
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00226.html (8,710 bytes)

20. Timing without wires, part the third (score: 1)
Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:48:47 -0400
What we've got now works, so why change? I don't think it can be done. Why change? I'm not suggesting we change. I'm suggesting we not sit back and not explore, that's all. And if there's reason to
/html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00229.html (8,580 bytes)

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