Fudgy McFarlen

Adult Koolaid made of Jasmine Tea Sunny Delight and Cranberry Juice

Ever notice you want your cup of coffee everyday? Think its because you like the taste? Think again. I was on a habit of 1 strong cup of coffee everyday for quite some time.  At some point I started drinking alot of green tea. At some later point I realized that that I had forgotten to have a cup of coffee for everyday in the last 6 weeks.  Your body has subliminal habits ingrained more deeply than you possibly know. Thus if you want to stop your coffee habit first substitute a tea based caffeine habit.  The best recipe for flavor is the following: 1- fill a glass up with cold Jasmine tea that has been made to suit your tastes. 2- add a dollup of Sunny Delight ( probably the only legitimate use of Sunny Dee there is! Who would drink this stuff straight?? ) 3- add a dollup of cranberry juice. You'll be surprised at the sublime aeromatic nature of the flavor. You may drink it to excess and get a little agitated.  However in the process you can easily substitute this tea completely for the coffee you have been drinking.  If you want to completely kick your caffeine habit you can then start drinking less tea. Since tea has a calmative in addition to the caffeine it appears to me to be much easier to quite than the rough edged cousin coffee.  

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Brazilian Rubbing Alcohol is Ethanol and smells like caramel

You can buy ethanol alcohol very cheaply in Brazil.  It is very cheap.  It is very concentrated and people use it to start their barbeque grills.   I like it because when you rub it on your skin it smells faintly of caramel.  Also the part that absorbs into your body is the type of alcohol your body tolerates well.   Its hard to describe the smell but like other liquors you can't completely remove the essence of the source material that was fermented to make it.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Carrie and the Retarded Rapist

I had a female roomate once. Carrie was an extremely fun and interesting person.  She told the story once of an attempted rape. She was working at a summer camp and was riding her bike to town. The camp was in rural Illinois. She was riding along and man grabbed her handle bars and pulled her into a corn field.  The guy was obviously not quite right.  He told her to take her clothes off.  She said "I am not going to fight you and I'm not going to tell anyone about this"   Well as it turns out the guy could not get an erection.  He needed the increased blood pressure do to the rush of a struggling woman to get hard.  He finally gave up.  She promptly went to the police and he was arrested.  Retardo Maltaban had done some sort of similar assault before were he had raped someone and had finally been released only to do it again.  If more women kept cool heads in tough situations the world would do better.  And the retard?   Rape used to be a capital crime.  These people should not reproduce. 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Alibaba Transaction Review: Taisuo CH902 Temperature Controller

I contacted Susan Taisuo via Alibaba.  They refuse to send free samples. Here are the good points and bad points of ordering

1- Language barrier is there but seemed to mostly get past that

2- They only accept SWIFT wire transfers in payment – that means there is 35 US dollar charge on top of any order to pay for the transfer.  This is a real problem.  Technical things rarely go exactly right and with the language barrier its a real problem.  They suggest Western Union but that's almost as expensive. Also Western Union is not popular in the US.  Almost everyone has PayPal in the USA.  Suggested solution to this is GET A PAYPAL ACCOUNT! 

3- Two temperature controller parts did arrive quickly.

4- I ordered a temperature controller to control a refractory oven.  They made a mistake in what they told me and placed my most important out,  the SSR ( solid state relay ) driver in OUTPUT #2 location. Unfortunately this results in the output be suitable sign for controlling a refrigeration unit.  When the PROCESS VALUE > SET VALUE the output is turned on.

When I contacted them with the problem they wanted me to pay shipping to get another set of samples with correct output sign.  Of course what I would be paying = SHIPPING + WIRE TRANSFER fee.  A bit annoying and does not indicate well for doing business with them. 

I decided to do surgery on my and swap the output circuitry in the one they sent me.  Annoying but I am leaving the country soon for a while and do not want to take it along unless I need to.  Here are the results.

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Corralejo Tequila Blanco 100% Agave – Most amazing

If you want a good tequila good for thinning your blood this is the stuff.  Small doses before workouts really help because your heart can pump more blood volume when your blood is thinner.  Also its rumored that drunks have great vascular systems because they solvate the fat in their systems!  I use it before running, weight lifting and climbing Squaw Peak.

Alot better taste than Jose Cuervo! In a very tall bottle.

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

You always get the least qualified when borrowing personnel and this applies to outsourcing too!

Thought experiment:

You work in engineering and you need to borrow some hand work assemblers from the production department of you company.  Describe who they loan you?

Results:

Generally speaking they will give you the screw up.

Reason:

They have a job to do and its called PRODUCTION ……not ENGINEERING!  You can be sure they will give you the person they would be most likely to lay off in the next round.

This principle applies to outsourcing also. The following is an exerpt for this arty: Outsourcing – too successful to waste on teams of less than 50 people

We hire from all over the world, but we don't get much talent from India. This week I went to a panel discussion about outsourcing and got a clear explanation why. The jobs that I work on are startup product builds with 4 to 10 team members. Those jobs are just too small to motivate an outsourcing company to assign good people. They save the best people for the biggest customers, which is exactly what I would do.

How bad is this problem? We qualify individual developers by hiring them for a week or two to work on real projects. When I pick individuals for this paid trial process, they succeed about 70% of the time. However, when I run trials with developers proposed by Indian companies, the trials succeed less than 15% of the the time. This happens even after I clearly explain my desire to find the best people, and my qualification process. If the trial does succeed, about 40% of the time the person who did the trial turns out not to be available. It's "just kidding, we want you to work with a more junior person." As a result, I quickly learned not to accept trials from Indian companies. The odds of finding someone good are too small to justify the effort.

It is the same effect.  The screw ups go to the lowest priority projects.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago