Quoted from TigerLaw:

What’s his skill set? He is not a designer or coder or engineer or artist or an IP license expert…he doesn’t have high end money management or have deep pocket financial contacts of his own. In all candor, what does he possibly bring to the table for a pinball company?
I guess he’s saying he can be a project manager of some sort or another, but that requires a significant amount of self-awareness and attention to detail…not to mention the ability to meet deadlines and manage people what not. He’s done a lot of name dropping and tried to affiliate himself in some way with Fix…that won’t endear him or give potential employers any sense that he can keep cool.

Quoted from mof:

Wait a second, Ben...
"Percepto" was an original movie gimmick? A buzzing device activated in every movie theater seat?
https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/2019/09/26/horrible-imaginings-film-review-the-tingler-in-percepto-60th-anniversary/
Amaaazing!

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

The fixed targets are fine, & I might find some other parts to go with the Texas build. Just had my supper after pounding back the 10 bottles of Labatt Blue: https://www.thebeerstore.ca/beers/labatt-blue
Double smoke Pepperoni, only got 2 of 3 in my gut!
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Quoted from snakesnsparklers:

If you have a family history of cancer AND high alcohol consumption AND high processed meat consumption AND you refuse to change your behavior then I don't know what else to tell ya. Good luck John.

Quoted from benheck:

So it's ass gout?

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Thanks for your concern. No I will not stop drinking beer. It is a culture in my area of Canada. Hard to believe but there are hard drinkers here that can barely make it home, or been to the drunk tank, DUI, Emergency, or deal with the cops. My friends can name people they know, & I am not one of them.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:Had 9 beers today. A good relaxation day. Did some work for the operator since some dumb kid tried to destroy a ic on on a vid board. Removed the damage ic socket & new one installed. Went to my printer to drop off some clear film. Lots of good rule sets hopefully to go into the game.
You guys can try to figure out the programmer, & I will keep silent on what is coming from Steve Young.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

I should know, some people will remember my early history 27 years back. Sent a bunch of rare pins to the dump or burned them up. Made the numbers even lower, & back then they were fairly cheap project games.

Quoted from dr_nybble:

Some news from the Great White North — https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drinking-health-risks-study-1.6565723

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Think I will keep drinking until my medical doctor gets serious concerns. Why do you think sales of alcohol & weed keeps going up. Not because of some stupid studies. No beers for me, & unlikely until Thursday. Maybe I will get some bottles & fill the pop machine with beer!

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Had my nice discount Nova Scotia pork chops for supper with a Guinness. Good to cook yourself, only ever saw Jpop drinking coffee. Still using my BBQ sauce that was best before about 5 years back. The local guys were a little concerned with the green mustard. So supper & can of Guinness was just over $5. Thanks coach for the first free beer from the coke pop vendor. You can stack some cans in the mini door!
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Quoted from PantherCityPins:

Beer count yesterday=1.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

All the years I have been drinking, no one has ever called me a drunk!

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

I bought just over $10 worth of mild pepperoni which is a bunch, this is what is left.
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Quoted from TreyBo69:

Can't tell you how many old alcoholics she's seen at the VA hospital. Best you can do is try to get them to be honest about how much they consume to write in their notes so the next doctor has an idea of what to expect.
People don't change unless they want to. A doctor's time is too valuable to preach to an unreceptive patient or devise an action plan that they know won't be followed.

Quoted from TreyBo69:

nonsense beer is liquid bread
During the Middle Ages where monasteries doubles as regional breweries and monks would fast during all of lent, they would brew extra heavy beers for the fasting season for the caloric intake. That's the origin of the Abbey Trappist style of ale, which use a lot of beat sugar and tend to be 8-12% ABV

Quoted from TreyBo69:

That's part of why a lot of not-first-born-sons were sent to monasteries (that and to avoid fights over inheritance)

Quoted from BMore-Pinball:

& what are those healthy choices?

Quoted from greatwichjohn:This shop is nasty with bad smells, likely from dead birds, mice, rats, or squirrels somewhere in the walls or ceiling.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Cold day #4, at the workshop. Got a decent night sleep after tylenol all day. Chest congestion & runny nose. Should be back to work on the whitewood on Monday.

Quoted from TigerLaw:

That is probably the most appropriate picture I have seen to describe the situation in the thread.

Quoted from Only_Pinball:

It kinda looks like cheese that has liquefied. There is NO way I would eat that. I am surprised the store sees that as fit for sale.

Quoted from Haymaker:

John just for knowledge, eating animal fats is not necessarily bad for you. In fact its quite good for you (obviously in moderation). Back in like the 80's 90's it was thought that all these fats were bad for you and thats why we got all these vegetable oils and whatnot replacing butter and other fats in foods. If you're going to be concerned about fats in foods be less concerned about natural fats and be more concerned with all the processed fats

Quoted from TreyBo69:

There are a lot of medicines that have animal products in them. Like certain blood thinners, hormone therapies, vaccines, etc... Some countries still allow human insulin produced from animals.

Quoted from Haymaker:

I'm guessing that you're vegan and thats perfectly fine. I'm not one of those guys who is upset by that or says HURR DURR I'M GONNA EAT 2 STEAKS NOW HAHA. I have some good friends who are vegan and there is certainly an argument to be made over the health benefits of it. To say "no animal product is good for you" is scientifically and factually wrong. Don't do your lifestyle a disservice by being that type of person.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

For the last time nothing wrong with Fast Pinball steering us clear of their products. The coach knows them personally, & I do not believe that I have seen or spoken them at a show.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

The coach said he might call Monday afternoon. Still have a hack but the cold is finely winding down.

Quoted from Dee-Bow:

When i was young I recall my old man making himself a 'hot toddy' haha.. i think it was whiskey & hot water w/ a lemon or some honey maybe! That'll kill a cold apparently! Glad to hear you're feeling better John.

Quoted from pinballguru:

It's an "Alley Pass", not a "Shatz". Calling the move implies that Neil Shatz invented the move and he didn't!
I invented the skill in the 1970s and taught Rick Stetta the move in the 1980s. Rick taught Neil the move. Some podcaster saw Neil make the move many years later and without researching its origin, called it a "Shatz".

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

I spent my day home waiting on no show UPS. Finally got my package paid for brokerage, tax, etc. The first call seemed to go to India for customer service (bad hum on the line), called back likely got someone in Canada. Paid another redirect fee to send the parcel to the workshop for safety! I do not trust dump & go at my slum apartment. .

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

This week, maybe Monday I will be searching out steel fabricator shops to get the custom guide rails done, & there will be custom side rails!

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Reading through posts for good advice on stuff provided by a few. I threw out a mustard, & BBQ sauce from the fridge that were opened. I kept the packages of cheese & eating those slowly as long as I do not see bad mold growth. Power might of been off for 24 hours or more, less than 48 hours.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Completion is closer to zero. Do not expect much this month until the stainless guide rails are manufactured & most of the assemblies are here later this month. In the mean time I am working on pinball & arcade vids to free up space in my work area. Pop machine is still full of beer & a got another 48 bottles waiting to go in.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

4 - 5 months is enough build time for likely only the single game or a pair. Not worried, everything is still going to the plan for March 2023 in Texas.

Quoted from LORDDREK:

A month ago it was implied his vendors were all lined up and ready to go. This month we find out he is trying to get it done as a walk in customer and has to switch fabricators because of it.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Just got home from the bar & had 9 beer.... There is no panic going on here, everything is going along as planned, & the game(s) will be in Texas in March.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

The exterminator had been in to work on the bed bugs since we have poor people from Africa being government housed here.

Quoted from blueberryjohnson:

He was sick with a cold for several days, negatively impacting beer consumption.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

My best guess is Haggis Pinball might of got me on the list.

Quoted from dr_nybble:

Haggis wasn’t building quickly enough! Oh the humanity.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jaws-by-haggis-pinball?tq=&tu=Greatwichjohn
To be fair, John is showing how the sausage (or pepperoni) is made. Or not.

Quoted from damageinc55:

True talk. I just finished about 12 hours of slamming through marketing tasks to get a new website launched (behind schedule). I was frantically finding time between updates to team members, keeping people on task, doing dirty work myself, and keeping the head honchos pacified.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

But how often can poor people buy a desert when having a meal out. Very rarely for the wife & myself. Meal & beers is the priority. In Canada produce & fruit are very expensive. Blame it on high fuel prices in California that get added into the cost.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

I do keep the wife happy. Will get her next suitcase of bud cans (36) on Monday. I get the wrath when the beer runs out in the slum apartment fridge.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Game will be built in the timeline stated way to many times.

Quoted from vdojaq:

He has to be held accountable for dragging Haggis and Fast Pinball through the mud. Everything else, agreed, he needs to answer to the Ice man.

Quoted from blueberryjohnson:

It would seem we have the first official change to the plan.

Quoted from pookycade:

Wow, in 3 months of following this thread, the “for the most part” qualification is the most hesitant I have ever seen GWJ. Maybe the winds really are a changin.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Other stuff being ordered, & pop machine still full of beer.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Still alive & breathing. Still have not had a stay at the drunk tank yet! Thursday I got my wife her suitcase of beer, & the 2 computers (old) took a dump at home. My old one, I put a beating on with endless updates (see the endless comments about me beating on playfield glass & bus drivers that pull away with me running next to the bus, pound on the bus sides or windows), & my wife had no power (battery dead & charging port not working). Being Thursday I went for my Guinness & oysters to find out that special is over. So I paid $1 each for 3 oysters that were small, so I will likely end my Thursday visit. Went to another bar: 1 Guinness & 2 pitchers. Friday I spent 4 hours on the bus & walking to the beverage recycler outlets. Spent some time at the brew arcade, & then went drinking to my local 2 beers, staples looking for a cheap computer, & my Friday night social 6 beers. Saturday new computer, hour with my service provider, afternoon & evening drinking very nice free fresh British beer style on pull handles at Brew Arcade invite special. Had 5 free hot dogs & likely about 10 beer on tap. We played some pinball, Xenon, Rush, & Haunted House. 1 beer with a team member at the shop afterwards. I repaired my wifes old charging port by soldering the power cord to the jack housing & some hot glue. I will try the battery pack from my destroyed computer. I like to destroy computer stuff at the end of its life, my dead mother & wife always got on my case with destroying dud computers with the hammer.[quoted image][quoted image]

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

I always refuse protection insurance plan, tell them I will smash the computer. Previous times I took my computer in for service wasted money, & only lasted a few months. Had the windows blue screen of death a few times. Lately it was endless windows updates. Have more hot dogs ready for supper. Nice fall day here, light winds & almost 70 degrees.

Quoted from blueberryjohnson:

He did. It was to order more parts. The plan was that once those parts arrived, John would get hard to work and pick up the pace.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

This week I will get the parts here mounted to the mdf board.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Must be a interesting story. Maybe the fanboys were all on his case about the build.

Quoted from Roostking:Good lord.
And hes on the hook to Iceman for at least 4 gs, as benheck knew would happen.
Good news GWJ can claim computer/fax/teletype illiteracy and its a slam dunk for him.

Quoted from TreyBo69:

For my sanity, I'm just going to assume that's lead free solder on your workbench where you do your pin fixin and pork cookin

Quoted from DBLM:

I have to ask, do you ever eat with your wife? It seems like you do a lot of things separately.

Quoted from pookycade:

I always argued that if the reward for work completed was a Starbucks coffee, JPOP would have set the world on fire. Instead Starbucks was down the road and the bank account (for a while) was flush, work done or not.
We all know GWJs kryptonite. The problem is it’s available to him whether he does or does not do any actual work. 25 cents even. That is not going to help productivity one bit. Incentives have to be aligned with accomplishment. They aren’t here except for some distant goal that might as well be next century. Doesn’t impact day to day effort. No sense of urgency at all.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Thanks my new gmail is listed here. Not feeling the greatest today, go to my local for 4pm opening, & have a few cheap horsepower beer on tap.

Quoted from meSz:

Methos come on man pay attention to the thread!

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Halifax is mostly a very tolerant city.

Quoted from Roostking:

Well I find that salvation army is somewhat annoying and possibly woke at this point, They have done some good in the world..

Quoted from pookycade:

Just imagine if the effort spent on acquiring discount food substances and in a bar was instead spent on the build. We might almost be done here.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Actually the store allows you free packages of dressings depending on the size of the salad. Free croutons are good with a salad or on their own. Had 2 beers at the bar that has Happy Hour all day Monday & Tuesday, or every day 5 - 7 pm. Margaret at Pinball Life was processing the 3rd order with Pinball Expo discount. I drink Keiths bottles only at that bar, & there was 13 free credits on the Jukebox (pick only single credit ones). I will be eating the rest of the pepperoni I dropped on the floor for supper (5 second pick up rule, or not).

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

in Canada there are lots of spoof commercials towards males questioning women about eating eggs.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Yes everything is going as planned.

Quoted from greatwichjohn:

Got a deal on a picnic pack, no tax, & $3 off. Meals for the day, already had the mac salad, roll, & some coleslaw. Pop machine is turned on. Had my piece with breadcrumbs or not, on the Deeproot thread.
In the past I have stated that American Pinball should buy out Dutch Pinball, & get all those owed games (EA's) finished quickly. Would expand American Pinball, to be a even bigger player. As for Deeproot Pinball IP, another good source or base for games if they get it or work with who ever gets it. If Chris Turner gets it, do a deal with him & he can avoid all the pitfalls with manufacturing pinball machines.
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Quoted from cliff_clavin:

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Quoted from vdojaq:

Nowhere do I see $4K in parts and boards.

Quoted from SLCpunk2113:

I am almost three years into my home brew. Currently wiring the second iteration of white wood. Things are pretty physically finalized but I’ve got code, sound, and animations ahead of me. I’d estimate that I’m 50% of the way there. I can only spare a few hours a week to the project which is about the pace this project is going so I’d predict if this ever gets finished it will be six years from now. You guys gunna stick it out?

Quoted from Mr68:

So lets play this one out.
Doctor asks how many drinks he has and John answers, about 10 beers every day (low average imo) or 70 to 80 a week.
Unless the doctor is Hunter S. Thompson, I just don't see him patting John on the head and saying atta boy.

Quoted from TreyBo69:

I mentioned it before, but my wife is a family medicine doctor who sees a lot of alcoholics.
By the point your doctor needs to have a serious conversation, it’s probably too late because massive damage has already been done
She was telling me about a lady who kept calling due to stomach pain and rapid weight gain. Classic symptom of liver failure. They pumped twenty pounds of fluid from her abdomen. She still won’t stop drinking…
Doctors know some people aren’t going to change and don’t waste their valuable time on the ones that aren’t serious about making a change. It’s patch them up and see them again later in a few weeks.