Pretty sure that’s John Coffey.

Thanks, FT.

I’ll edit the post and add a link at the bottom.

There’s a great episode of the Timesuck podcast (episode 165: Simo Hayha: White Death)

I’m not going to link to it, because I’m not sure of the thread rules, but it’s a seriously well done and researched podcast on the life of this sniper.

(Edit: 22 MAR 2024 10:47 EST)

Here’s a link to “Timesuck episode 165: Simo Hayha: White Death” (I’ll use a YouTube link, probably more widely accessible)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyJ8d6Jq_E

Well, there most certainly Was a cracked version as of year before last… Guy I kinda knew was doing aftertreatment deletes on the DD Platform engines, OneBox. You’d hear from him on the phone, get a laptop in the mail with all the software needed to get the job done, and that included the DDDL Professional… CAT, Cummins Insite, JPRO and other shit on there. Even the operating system was cracked on the thing, I got to see one of the laptops. Everything was done remotely. Or so I’ve heard… Fucker’s probably still gone, he was pulling time last I heard… Last time I was in a big pickle I did hit The Pirate Bay and a couple other torrent sites, but nothing found for DDDL, nothing I’d consider safe enough to fuck with, anyways. But, I’m beyond the limits of Standard already, so we’re trying to cut a deal on the Professional. In the end dollars are the only way to fix trucks these days. If ever a motherfucker runs for office with the intent of ending this fucking nightmare, I’m hitting the fuckin booth. And I’m a damn apolitical fuckin combat vet. My Dad and some of his farming buddies fought with vigor against those John Deere motherfuckers, so it was nice to see they made a tiny chip in the green armor. But, this shit truly needs to change. Very soon only the massive corporations will have access to the tools necessary to do a mechanic’s job. And that’s fucking shameful to know that I’m pretty fucking castrated at the job I’ve spent my whole life learning and doing. Filthy motherfuckers.

Right, Detroit injectors have a trim code as well these days. They’ll usually fire without it, but economy is shit. Friend of mind had a situation where a Volvo went into no start due to missing trim codes on an injectors and cups job. What a fuckin mess things are in. It’s been heading this way for a long time. I remember seeing some Liebherr units in the coalfields but never got the opportunity to wrench on any, hate to hear they’re taking the same road. As a non affiliated mechanic, my days may be numbered just like those old coalfields. Sad shit.

Looking like we’re going to be forced into buying Professional version software from Detroit. I just don’t see any other way.

That’s pretty much what I thought… Company owner is in negotiations with our Freightliner guy at the moment looking at paying the even bigger bucks to you with the Pro version. What chaps my fuckin balls about it, though, is that up until recently Standard did all I needed it to do. It just fuckin pisses me off.

This is the reason I always swim on my back…

Little Nora Brown doing John Brown’s Dream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox4YJsGm8mY

Harriet’s 168th. birthday party with Steve Irwin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9M_WCXn3s

Because I have a “thing” about having those little floor-crunchies on my feet. Floating flooring is nice, but every little thing lays right on top of it… So instead of constantly dusting the bottoms of my feet off on my calves, I just throw on some house shoes. Freshly cleaned floors excepted.

Wide range, there. I love it!

Hahaaaa!! Fuck, I didn’t catch that shit!! Too fuckin funny to edit… Touche, s0x…

I’ve never typed Panera… Yet my dictionary has that shit over Pantera… This world has gone to shit… Fuck em all.

Gotta be Moonlight Sonata…

Maybe the Live 101 Proof version of Panera’s “War Nerve”

Or Freebird, maybe?

Stubborn Love or Angela, by the Lumineers?

Fuck… Depends on the day, but I’ll always go back to Moonlight…

Kuntz. Yep, said like That… As in Rusty Kuntz. Best baseball name in history:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Kuntz

Wow! That’s a beautiful Internet thing! Thank you!

That’s true… And what I was (jokingly) referencing…

But, my Dad’s mother, my Granny…

She was a natural Lefty…

And musically inclined…

Her Daddy slacked the strings on the family guitar before he left for work…

She figured out how to tune that instrument…

Those in her church, later, made fun of her for playing backwards chords, because she was a lefty. .

She learned to play the other way, too… And she taught me both…

There’s so many sides and nuances to every thought in our lives…

It was a harmless joke, but it has roots in my reality…

This shit is so often much deeper than we think…

You made a fuckin hell of a statement, but it’s without context or understanding…

I was just making an off-handed joke…

There is a fucking shitload of lefties in baseball… Because it fucks with the righties when they’re batting…

Baseball?

Some days are just… Right…

Ni!

That’s a damn good one…