The Jet Cash coffee lounge thread.

[_Miracle]

I think less time spent in McDonalds, and more exercise is the answer. When the weather improves, I'll spend some time clearing my garages. Here is a pic of one -


I've got eight like that.

A bit of swimming at Hayling Island will help as well.

You have inspired me that photo is wonderful.

You have eight of them nice.

I have two sheds. A greenhouse and an attic along with a guest bedroom all need a clean up.

Marie Kondo guys!:-)

[Jet Cash]

Today is South American support day in the Jet Cash Lounge, so here is some Bossa Nova ( New Wave ) music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIRHvA4oulI
and as I'm a confirmed sexist, here is - Elis Regina, Águas de Março
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqI5R6L7ow


and of course I need to include my theme song - Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSwBM_CbyY

[_Miracle]

Follow it up with the Judas Priest version  as well

[Jet Cash]

I can't get close to anything with Judas in it. I've just been watching Theresa May.

Whoops I was trying to keep politics out of it. Maybe I'll ask about woolly mammoths tomorrow.

[_Miracle]

I can't get close to anything with Judas in it. I've just been watching Theresa May.

Whoops I was trying to keep politics out of it. Maybe I'll ask about woolly mammoths tomorrow.

It's your conversation you can talk about whatever you want;-)----I'll keep my political views on the Politics and Society board---although just about everything has become politicized.
You are missing out...Rob Halford hits those notes like you wouldn't believe

[Jet Cash]

Well I hope conversations here are for all of Bitcoin Talk, and not just driven by me.

I watched this video about the woolly mammoth, and it made me think.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E8pNqVd1U8
There are people trying to recreate a woolly mammoth by cloning some remains. Whilst this may be intellectually stimulating, should we really be doing it? Where will it live for example? Probably in a glass cage in a zoo, and that is no life for an animal that nature created to wander through wide plains. Will they create a mate for it, or will it have to go though a lonely life without friends? If it was released into the wild, then it would be dead within 5 minutes. The poachers would have its tusks for a start.

What do you think, should we create one in the interests of science?

[_Miracle]

Well I hope conversations here are for all of Bitcoin Talk, and not just driven by me.

I watched this video about the woolly mammoth, and it made me think.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E8pNqVd1U8
There are people trying to recreate a woolly mammoth by cloning some remains. Whilst this may be intellectually stimulating, should we really be doing it? Where will it live for example? Probably in a glass cage in a zoo, and that is no life for an animal that nature created to wander through wide plains. Will they create a mate for it, or will it have to go though a lonely life without friends? If it was released into the wild, then it would be dead within 5 minutes. The poachers would have its tusks for a start.

What do you think, should we create one in the interests of science?

I saw that too.
Sometimes just because we CAN (possibly) do something it doesn't mean we should.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Pleistocene Park seems like a logical place to let them live in the wild.

Having said that, why? What benefit is to be gained from creating one? What will it achieve? I have no doubt it would cost an enormous sum of money to both create one, and to nurture and care for it through its life. Would such money not be better spent on protecting elephants, all of which are currently classified as either "vulnerable" or "endangered"?

[Jet Cash]

Here is a true story from my life.

A good few years ago I bought a derelict farm from a property development consortium. It had an agricultural tie on the land, and they couldn't get planning consent for development. It was next to a large unused field, and the place was overrun with rabbits. There was one large black one that I suspect was an escaped domestic pet. He didn't seem to be a part of any of the rabbit communities there, and I decided to write a story around him. I used the farm as a collection point for my antiques business, and the place was full of things I had acquired from house clearers. One of the items was a sporty remote control battery car toy. My idea was that this black rabbit learnt to drive the car, and he used it to tour the area looking for does with whom he could form relationships. I was going to create a website as a pseudo blog that described his adventures and activities. I even registered a domain name - Bang Bunny . This is parked at the moment, and I really ought to decide what I should do with it.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Inspired by this thread, I just created mine. I'm officially signing into the Jet Cash coffee lounge thread. Hoping it becomes big like the Wall observers btc/usd thread and maybe we get our customer made hats or symbol someday  .


Jet, I can't wait to see how that idea of yours plays out. I know dogs can be taught how to rid cars (toy) but rabbit, that'll be interesting to watch. Hope you upload videos too especially from the learning stage to when he/she perfects the car riding. Good luck.

[Jet Cash]

That idea was from a few years ago. These days he would have to be transgender, and I could not describe him as black. He would also need to be collecting carrots for leporine aid for rabbits living under oppressive farming regimes. Ar least he would be using an electric vehicle.

[note]
For anyone who doesn't use the word "leporine", I added it to the unusual words in the English language thread in the Fit to Talk English project.

[_Miracle]

That idea was from a few years ago. These days he would have to be transgender, and I could not describe him as black. He would also need to be collecting carrots for leporine aid for rabbits living under oppressive farming regimes. Ar least he would be using an electric vehicle.

[note]
For anyone who doesn't use the word "leporine", I added it to the unusual words in the English language thread in the Fit to Talk English project.

:-) teaching us native speakers English too.

[Jet Cash]

Sorry I've been erratic again. I spent some rime sorting my truck and planning my future year as a digital nomad. I'm going to have to dump Windows at last, and I decided to install Linux Mint instead. Then there is the photography on Hayling Beach, and some other similar stuff.

Oh yes, there was brexit as well.

[_Miracle]

Watching Brexit as an outsider is tough enough. It is odd to observe each side (even in my country) debate against each other while completely missing that this should be the call to citizens: to seriously figure out how to scale back government interference in our affairs.

[Jet Cash]

Life certainly seems to throw it challenges at times. I gave up trying to get a garage to change the prop shaft bearing, and I did the job myself. I don't really understand why nobody wanted to do the job, it was pretty easy. Only five bolts to undo, and replace the bearing, then bolt it back together. The hardest part was removing the old inner bearing race, and I ended up smacking that off with a hammer and a cold chisel. I took the truck for a couple of short runs, and the bearing seemed to be fine, so I decided to go to the beach at Hayling Island. Just after I'd run down the motorway, and across the causeway, I managed to shred the serpentine belt on the engine. I was about 20 yards from a garage, and I decided to get them to fix it. That cost me £190, as I got them to replace the tensioner at the sane time. The van is certainly running a lot better now, and I took it to the McDonalds just outside Portsmouth to get some breakfast and to talk to you guys..

[Thursday update]

I thought that I was on a roll, but life keeps throwing its challenges. I've now got a problem with the gear change linkage. I'm thinking of changing career to become a motor mechanic in my retirement.

[_Miracle]

That's rough old man! Did you make it to the beach yet? Rooting for you.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I could not describe him as black.

Has the term "black" become offensive or something now?  This is the reason I hate politically correct terminology--it keeps changing with the times, and any term you use to refer to a identity-sensitive group will eventually wear out and become naughty.  I cannot stand the term "African-American" because it does not describe a person in general terms.  The black person could be Canadian or whatever, and it just drives me nuts.

Anyway.  I just bought a nice Dietz lantern that should come in handy for power outages, which I'm now trying to prepare for.  I've been thinking lately about how my town had no power for about 3 days and I was caught unprepared--and it was freezing.  There was what the town called a 'warming center' where people could go so as not to freeze to death, and I had to go there to charge my cell phone.  It was truly an awful experience, and I can't imagine what Venezuelans are going through.  At least it's not really cold there, but they've got so many problems on top of the power cut that they've got to be suffering.

I also got a nice hand-crank radio with a light on it, and it's also solar-powered.  Very cool stuff.

[Jet Cash]

I made it to the beach a few times, but I'm now stuck in a supermarket car park. It looks as if a retaining pin has fallen out, so it isn't a big job if I can find a new pin.

@The Pharmacist - I believe there is more destitution and desperation in the US, The UK, Columbia, The Yemen, Gaza, and various other countries than there is in Venezuela, but they don't have so much oil. This means the US doesn't have to destroy their power supplies, and try to block aid from other countries, and steal their gold and assets.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

@The Pharmacist - I believe there is more destitution and desperation in the US, The UK, Columbia, The Yemen, Gaza, and various other countries than there is in Venezuela, but they don't have so much oil. This means the US doesn't have to destroy their power supplies, and try to block aid from other countries, and steal their gold and assets.

I don't know about that, but I'm pretty ignorant about world affairs.  The US isn't a destitute country in general, nor is the UK for that matter.  In any case, I did see news reports about Venezuelans running out of money, food, and everything else.  I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter to the average citizen of Venezuela how much oil they have right now.  It's got to be absolute chaos there.  I'd love to hear from someone who lives there and is a member of bitcointalk.  Anyone know if they're well-represented here?

During that blackout that I went through in 2011, I remember very vividly being cold and extremely bored.  I'd come to rely so much on technology for entertainment that when the electricity went kaput, it really sucked.  Plus it was winter, so there wasn't a lot to do outside.  I ended up making an olive oil lamp and going through a gigantic jug of pennies and separating out the 95% copper ones from the modern junk zinc pennies.  Talk about eye strain.

Edit:  Jet Cash, why are you stuck in a supermarket parking lot?

[Jet Cash]

The roll pin fell out of my gear change linkage, so I couldn't change gear. I've ordered and paid for a part (£2.56 + VAT ), it's come into stock, and I need to get a friend to collect it.  I think the garage that fitted a new clutch for me, put the old pin back in instead of fitting a new one. They were really bad, and I paid £700 for the fitting of a new clutch ( dual mass ).

I'm accumulation a collection of spares for the time I become a full time digital nomad, but I hadn't thought of including roll pins.

It's really difficult to find out what is going on in Venezuela, as there ia so much misinformation. Conoco is going to try to seize some Venezuelan tankers I believe, and Maduro is going to try to run them past Chinese and Russian naval bases in the Caribbean, and Washington doesn't have many bases down there. That may be the next flash point.