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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 10:44 AM
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work for a defense contractor and your learn writing reports on paper is not going away anytime soon
I had a student a year or so ago come to class and told me he couldn’t do the short assignment due that night because his printer broke on him. I took a pen out of my jacket and asked him if he’d ever worked one of these.

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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 11:05 AM
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I had a student a year or so ago come to class and told me he couldn’t do the short assignment due that night because his printer broke on him. I took a pen out of my jacket and asked him if he’d ever worked one of these.

I never went thought as many pens in all the years in school then I have working where I am at logging my test onto paper, and writing up labels for charts. as our specs do not allow computer log sheets. must be hand written
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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 11:06 AM
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Not to change to subject but do you know of any garages for rent in Huntsville / Madison? I think a Garage Condo type business would go over big in this area.
I agree and have toyed with some ideas myself...a storage warehouse, climate controlled with a full service drop off/pick up reservation service; i.e, send a text and your high-end car is clean, waiting and ready for your date, cruise, weekend. Drop off and she's cleaned back up and placed back in her spot until the next time. Very similar to boat storage in a warehouse. Only problem is I enjoy my nights and weekends too much and that's when I'd have to work! Not something I'd trust a teenage workforce with.

We used a local indoor storage rental facility for a couple of years. That worked well and I could get six months with one month free. I'd move the cars every couple of weeks or so, bringing one to the house as I only have a two car garage. We'd thought about building a detached garage but found a lake house with a 30x30 garage five years ago that is about 70 miles away.

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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Vettebuyer6369


I had a student a year or so ago come to class and told me he couldn’t do the short assignment due that night because his printer broke on him. I took a pen out of my jacket and asked him if he’d ever worked one of these.

That's a good one,.....nearly chucked my lunch out my nose when I read it. Very funny,....sad but true.

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Originally Posted by iwasmenowhesgone
I don't know what's available, but the simple thing is to simply learn to know your car. Long before all this "great" technology, people learned how to operate things instead relying on gimmicks and gadgets. You might find a little pride in that.
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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 06:02 PM
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I have a ceiling mounted laser system by the garage door opener. When the red light is on the dash I'm in the right place.
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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 06:21 PM
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I just crash to know where I'm at and then leave it there.


In all seriousness though I was parking mine once and saw the bush that was in front of me moving. That was the only way I knew I was touching it. These cars are CRAZY long. Who needs visibility though when you look super cool and hip. All the milkshakes in my yard as they say.
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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 08:04 PM
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I love the irony of being on a internet forum, denouncing tech...

Parking sensors,
I bought in the early 90s a parking sensor kit not sure how it "sees"
It has sensors, and a led read out,
i thought i might need it for the cow catcher daytona nose on my wide body,
Never installed it, it became shop art.

I would have thought c7s came factory with parking sensors.
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I got one of these park zone lights for my wife's side of the garage, works great. Vette gets parked in the bay with the hoist, I have a reference on the wall and a paint mark on the floor for the tire.

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