Patrick Frawley

Chris Petkus @carolinesays.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

In a midterm election, at that. Impressive for someone trying to come off as a near-parody of a ‘90s slacker.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

Now to crack open my copy of "H-Point" and start to figure out the battery stack. And find $14,000 plus however much more I need. And get a garage. And some insulated gloves.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

Lots and lots of little details to figure out - instruments, body hardware, copious amounts of suspension tuning and software work even going as stripped-down as I want - but the basics are definitely there.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

Build the frame, get everything fitted, draw up a decently sexy carbon fiber shell with a basic canvas top that fits over the integral-with-frame rollbar. Kind of a Rezvani Beast roadster with doors or a Janarelly that's not so obviously retro.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

Figure out interior packaging. Decently comfortable seats. Get the seat/pedal/wheel/packaging arrangement finessed. I'm sure that bringing over even parts of the HVAC system from the Ocean is way outside my skills, but wish to add a heater at least.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

Keep the steering rack if reasonable. Need to see how Fisker/Magna managed steering assist; three thousand pounds with a decent tire footprint points to power assist still being desirable, if turned WAY down from what the Ocean needed.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

Keep the hubs, keep the brake hardware. Would absolutely love to go to full regen for a braking system, but that's not this project. Question: What's the SMALLEST wheel that can fit over the brake discs? Would prefer to go no larger than 18s.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

The hubs. I want to keep the hubs and some of the basic suspension arrangement of the Ocean. Hubs are complex enough that I don't want to have to fart around with them myself. Maybe that means we get to keep traction control and ABS? Probably some serious programming in there.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

Power management as simple as possible. No boost modes or other sales hooks. That power number is apparently what it can indefinitely sustain without overheating. Would love to retain some sort of traction control, but that depends on software and stuff like hub sensors.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

That's the arrangement that (I think) Piëch is using for their upcoming hyperdollar GT. Slightly higher center of gravity, but lower polar moment of inertia and far better overall packaging.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

Big engineering exercise: Rearrange the battery cells from the sprawling, high polar moment of inertia skateboard arrangement to a multi-layer T-configuration behind and between the seats while resolving battery management concerns (cooling, mostly).

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

Rear-mounted motor. That's 275hp with a standard electric torque curve, so a Ferrari 328 with EVERYTHING underneath filled in. Workable given the target weight.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Oh, basic layout: two-seat roadster. 98-inch/2500mm wheelbase, 59-inch/1500mm track, so very close to a current Boxster.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

588kg is 1300 pounds of batteries, which is a lot but not enough to be discouraging. Let's aim for a net curb weight of 1350kg/3000lbs.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:57 UTC

I don't think it would be terribly difficult to draft up a good solid tube frame, maybe with some semi-monocoque elements (ref: Jaguar D-Type), to form a basis for all this. Is that $14K price for the one with the big battery? Not sure. Battery specs as below:

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

Most of what's identifiable as "crossover" can get binned, or at least held to sell as spares to people unfortunate enough to get one earlier. I want the battery pack and one motor and some of the running gear.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:49 UTC

Starting to do some research into this just for fun. (The lack of both a spare $14,000 and adequate garage space is keeping me honest.) But let's try to map this out a bit: If you disassemble an Ocean, can you reassemble it into something else?

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:38 UTC

Tell PK53 ZLX that they're blocking the E24. Priorities here.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:49 UTC

Some of us have never not been in love with smaller vehicles. That preference pops up in conversations all the time here and elsewhere. We weren’t the ones making calls based on profit margins.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

Second-round interview with a candidate for the department today and Tom decides to do laps in the apartment so there’s the top half of his head going one way and then the next on regular intervals as we listen to this guy’s somewhat labored responses. Oy.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:40 UTC

Full-time work-from-home x full-time dad.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

I do what I can to maintain a sense of professionalism when I’m on a Zoom call, but it’s gotten to the point where the kids - especially the baby - are on often enough to earn their own square. I’m about ready to make this my away/camera-off image:

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

Actually, yeah: for fourteen thousand I'll get one, harvest the necessary hardware, and cook up a homebuilt/conversion EV of some kind.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

Curious about how plausible it is to jailbreak the OS and de/reprogram it down to basic reliable functionality. If it can be reworked to basically be on the level of an ICE-to-EV conversion, then yeah, huge bargain. If not...

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:13 UTC

Flip side is Bernie, who for his political career was categorically not a Democrat but caucused with them anyway. He was never in a position to be decisive like the terrible two of Sinema and Manchin but a few more like him could have been.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

That's one of the problems with trying to contain everyone under two huge tents. Maybe if there was a variety of potential coalition partners then that faction of the party (or separate weirdo-fringe party) could get the chin flip they richly deserve.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:00 UTC

I moved away that summer. Wonder how everyone turned out. Wilson no longer exists.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

Me and Jason and Sean walking across the Woodrow Wilson middle school front yard on the way to the school buses doing this word-for-word in 8th grade. I think I was the King Ad-Rock part.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

Sudden urge to try to get "3MTA3" on a license plate.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:48 UTC

I don't mind small parties in the US because they're very subject to market/Darwininan forces, although the spoiler element is a scary-unfortunate fact of modern life. Gerrymandering is a completely different issue that is unfortunately way tied up in all kinds of machinations in many places.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:43 UTC

It'd be interesting to see an election-winning DSA political party as a coalition partner with the Democratic party and some of the leverage they'd be able to exert. Of course, by all evidence Republicans just want openings to be even more reactionary so not the same there.

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

Big part of what's going on in Israel right now. Netanyahu's most reliable partners are small vociferous parties on the far right fringe and they've contained him in their deranged absolutist approach to the war. (Among other awful things, but still.)

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