Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

The entire point of such a long supply chain is cheap labour and reduced cost, after all.

Although according to this news page it is an FAA approved part, so again it is likely not the issue, unless they can demonstrate it was not made to spec.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/boeing-door-plug-malaysia-supply-chain-737-max-9-4059941#:~:text=WASHINGTON%3A%20The%20US%20National%20Transportation,a%20Spirit%20facility%20in%20Malaysia.

It turns out the Alaskan 737's plug door was manufactured in Malaysia. Nothing wrong with that, but it shows the subcontractor subcontracted their own work. I doubt anyone was checking it was done to the certified standard as the FAA does not maintain an office in Kuala Lumpur. That's what happens when everything just gets outsourced.

The weirdly satisfying world of YouTube videos wherein someone starts up a giant diesel engine in a train
https://youtu.be/jMoIP82n6j0

A balmy 20F this morning. More snow tomorrow. I'll probably be remote as kids will have a shortened day and town will be a shit show if we get the promised accumulation.

I have been trying Dokuwiki to replace a proprietary monstrosity at work and I think it's just fantastic. A great example of elegant and simple design. It is fun to use, which immediately tells me something.

You can't see it so well but my wiper fluid is instantly freezing where it is pushed to the left side. It's that cold.where it runs back to the resting blade it forms a crust.

I really need to be on a beach somewhere

For some reason the cartoon strip Charlie Brooker used to do for PC Zone just popped into my head. I remember The Wombles rendered in the quake engine, but they were called 'Tobergory' and 'Horinoco'. I think the Spice Girls were in there somewhere.

I have an old Dell tower that sits on my desk that I potter about with. There was a scheduled power outage a week ago and It did not come back up. Worse still the CMOS reset back to factory (dead Battery I guess) and reset the SATA mode to 'raid' which is a weird Dell thing. Anyway that's the story of why my toy box wouldn't boot this morning.

I had to wait for the Amtrak to pass to cross the rails to my office this morning. They are now running Siemens blue orange and yellow locomotives, giving me a weird flashback to South West Trains back home.