The Peckish Synapse

[Grumpy Bear]

Benefit of the Doubt

 

It's the title of a Jesse Stone episode. 

 

1.) Opening scene is a slow pan shot around a small New England fishing village. My eye is draw like moth to a flame of two shingles curled on the roof of a shed. A Flaw. 

 

2.) Jesse enters the home of a man who does not answer the door and calls out to anyone that may be there. He hears a faint scratching noise. Room by room he finds a dog locked in a pantry that bolts to the back door leading into a garage where the own in hanging from the rafter. A find he wouldn't have made without the dog pointing to it. 

 

Later he's talking to the State Police who thinks it was suicide. Jesse says he doesn't think so.

State guy asks, "Guess?"

Jesse replies, "No a hunch". 

State cop says, "what's the difference". 

Jesse, "Certainty". 

 

Although it is never spoken of again the remainder of the movie the thing that gave Jesse 'certainty' was the dog shut in the pantry, A man killing himself would not leave his best friend to die in a locked room uncertain of when he may be found. It is never said in the movie but a "Silent Clue" unaware even to Jesse it had been sent, received and processed. 

 

3.) A scene of Jesse lowering the arm of a record player on to the outer most rim of that record and while the stylist is still searching for the grove the music starts. "An Anachronism"  

 

4.) Early on Jesse talking to the town counsel. Apologies for not returning his call explaining there is no cell reception at his home on the point of the bay. Later in the move he makes a call from his cell phone from a bench on that very point. A LIE or perhaps a script error.

 

This ability  to see these sorts of things without effort, nearly unconsciously, almost no one else does is how I made my living in Refining. 

 

I see the lies and the deceit in marketing. In Engineering presentations. In a story told at a BBQ. Nearly impossible to lie to and while it made for a very good living, it ruined allot of movies and relationships. Mostly ones that need it.

 

Leaning into a lie hoping I will doubt myself is a long wait. 

 

I like Jesse Stone Movies.    

 

[Silverado4x4]

9 hours ago, Grumpy Bear said:

Benefit of 

 

I like Jesse Stone Movies.    

 

Same here Grumpy I liked them too. I still watch the reruns sometimes when I see them on.

[KARNUT]

9 hours ago, Grumpy Bear said:

Benefit of the Doubt

 

It's the title of a Jesse Stone episode. 

 

1.) Opening scene is a slow pan shot around a small New England fishing village. My eye is draw like moth to a flame of two shingles curled on the roof of a shed. A Flaw. 

 

2.) Jesse enters the home of a man who does not answer the door and calls out to anyone that may be there. He hears a faint scratching noise. Room by room he finds a dog locked in a pantry that bolts to the back door leading into a garage where the own in hanging from the rafter. A find he wouldn't have made without the dog pointing to it. 

 

Later he's talking to the State Police who thinks it was suicide. Jesse says he doesn't think so.

State guy asks, "Guess?"

Jesse replies, "No a hunch". 

State cop says, "what's the difference". 

Jesse, "Certainty". 

 

Although it is never spoken of again the remainder of the movie the thing that gave Jesse 'certainty' was the dog shut in the pantry, A man killing himself would not leave his best friend to die in a locked room uncertain of when he may be found. It is never said in the movie but a "Silent Clue" unaware even to Jesse it had been sent, received and processed. 

 

3.) A scene of Jesse lowering the arm of a record player on to the outer most rim of that record and while the stylist is still searching for the grove the music starts. "An Anachronism"  

 

4.) Early on Jesse talking to the town counsel. Apologies for not returning his call explaining there is no cell reception at his home on the point of the bay. Later in the move he makes a call from his cell phone from a bench on that very point. A LIE or perhaps a script error.

 

This ability  to see these sorts of things without effort, nearly unconsciously, almost no one else does is how I made my living in Refining. 

 

I see the lies and the deceit in marketing. In Engineering presentations. In a story told at a BBQ. Nearly impossible to lie to and while it made for a very good living, it ruined allot of movies and relationships. Mostly ones that need it.

 

Leaning into a lie hoping I will doubt myself is a long wait. 

 

I like Jesse Stone Movies.    

 

I’ve watched them all, some more than once. My favorite of all time is NCIS. I’m on my fourth rotation on Netflix. I recently started watching The Rockford Files again. It’s amazing what our taste were back then. I’m so glad we have access to the old shows and music. There’s not much of the new stuff I’ll watch or listen to anymore. 

[Silverado4x4]

3 hours ago, KARNUT said:

I’ve watched them all, some more than once. My favorite of all time is NCIS. I’m on my fourth rotation on Netflix. I recently started watching The Rockford Files again. It’s amazing what our taste were back then. I’m so glad we have access to the old shows and music. There’s not much of the new stuff I’ll watch or listen to anymore. 

NCIS is also are favorite we been watching it since it started just wish Gibbs would make a comeback. NCIS Sydney is growing on us. NCIS Origins we don't like as we watched it a few times and gave up. I still watch the old Mchale's Navy we I can catch it.

Edited February 16, 2025 by Silverado4x4

[KARNUT]

2 minutes ago, Silverado4x4 said:

NCIS is also are favorite also we been watching it since it started just wish Gibbs would make a comeback. NCIS Sydney is growing on us. NCIS Origins we don't like as we watched it a few times and gave up. I still watch the old Mcales navy we I can catch it.

I’m giving Origins some time. I also like some of the who done it’s on Acorn, I get on prime.

[Silverado4x4]

1 hour ago, KARNUT said:

I’m giving Origins some time. I also like some of the who done it’s on Acorn, I get on prime.

We can't wait for the Bosch new season to start next month on Prime, we got hooked on it then after Bosch there's Bosch legacy series as it's a continuation of Bosch then it's the new season starting next month. Reacher is also good that new season starts the end of this month, there all on Prime.

 

[KARNUT]

30 minutes ago, Silverado4x4 said:

We can't wait for the Bosch new season to start next month on Prime, we got hooked on it then after Bosch there's Bosch legacy series as it's a continuation of Bosch then it's the new season starting next month. Reacher is also good that new season starts the end of this month, there all on Prime.

 

I watch them both. I started watching Murdoch Murders on Acorn yesterday. Just finished Doc Martin. I watch those with my wife. When by myself I watch a little more violent like the Equalizer. 

[txab]

1 hour ago, Silverado4x4 said:

We can't wait for the Bosch new season to start next month on Prime, we got hooked on it then after Bosch there's Bosch legacy series as it's a continuation of Bosch then it's the new season starting next month. Reacher is also good that new season starts the end of this month, there all on Prime.

 

Reacher starts the 20th of this month

[Silverado4x4]

6 minutes ago, txab said:

Reacher starts the 20th of this month

Thanks I thought that was the date but wasn't sure.

[Grumpy Bear]

On 2/15/2025 at 11:18 AM, customboss said:

OK.  You're the winner.

 

Winning was never to goal.  

[txab]

Reacher will have 3 episodes at the premiere

[Grumpy Bear]

How long will the rings of a 2 stroke last? 

 

Go the AMSOIL site and look up 2 stroke oil PDS. Note the difference between the premix/injector oils meant for 30:1 to 50:1 applications and then have a gander at the oil intended for the 100:1 motors. You will see a jump from SAE 12W to SAE 40W with nothing in between. 

 

These motors have short ring lives measured in hours not hundreds of thousands of miles. Yes average operating temperatures are higher as is RPM. But the killer is FUEL that dilutes the oil to fractional viscosity. Ya know, that thing that keeps parts from touching other parts. Oh and next to no phosphorus or sulfur. Well they do have to run a few hours so can't foul plugs ever few miles, eh? 

 

Here's the hint. Double the ratio and the oil's viscosity doubles.  

 

0W8 oil in a Toyota with GDI. (Japan market) Soon here. 

 

SAAB Sonnet  

[OnTheReel]

19 minutes ago, Grumpy Bear said:

How long will the rings of a 2 stroke last? 

 

Go the AMSOIL site and look up 2 stroke oil PDS. Note the difference between the premix/injector oils meant for 30:1 to 50:1 applications and then have a gander at the oil intended for the 100:1 motors. You will see a jump from SAE 12W to SAE 40W with nothing in between. 

 

These motors have short ring lives measured in hours not hundreds of thousands of miles. Yes average operating temperatures are higher as is RPM. But the killer is FUEL that dilutes the oil to fractional viscosity. Ya know, that thing that keeps parts from touching other parts. Oh and next to no phosphorus or sulfur. Well they do have to run a few hours so can't foul plugs ever few miles, eh? 

 

Here's the hint. Double the ratio and the oil's viscosity doubles.  

 

0W8 oil in a Toyota with GDI. (Japan market) Soon here. 

 

SAAB Sonnet  

OMC (parent company of Johnson & Evinrude outboards) reputation got dinged pretty bad when moving from 50:1 to 100:1 back in the 80s. Replaced a lot of power heads, and back they went back to 50:1. We never deviated from 50:1 in our motors, and no issues. No surprise. OMC was pretty much the gold standard in outboards from the 50s-80s, their designs were stout. Still see plenty of those old beasts on the lakes today.
 

But unfortunately with that 100:1 move they were trying (and failing) to bend physics to their environmental and economic/ marketing wills. Wonder if Toyota will fall in a similar fashion over 0w8? I think consumers will get burned with their blind faith in Toyota engineering, just the same as those who did with OMC 40 years before. I guess I’m saying people don’t learn…

[Donstar]

I like Elsbeth, Matlock(new version) and Hudson & Rex.  They are light, entertaining detective stories that are easy on the brain.  

[Grumpy Bear]

10 hours ago, OnTheReel said:

But unfortunately with that 100:1 move they were trying (and failing) to bend physics to their environmental and economic/ marketing wills. Wonder if Toyota will fall in a similar fashion over 0w8? I think consumers will get burned with their blind faith in Toyota engineering, just the same as those who did with OMC 40 years before. I guess I’m saying people don’t learn…

 

No sir they don't, but they keep trying. 

 

I think we are at a point of breathing this poison air the entire world lives in that the vast majority of people who used to view certain touchstones as reliable enough to use a a gauge for making reasonable choices to have defaulted to 'Trust Nothing". They've abandon reason. Abandon truth. Accepted 'alternate facts'.  Not because they believe they are right but because they are different and those that benefit from that difference support that movement. 7 billion people is allot of momentum.  

 

When the Bible commented on "Just as it was in the days of Noah...." he wasn't talking about just people going on about the daily routines of life but about a state of mind (Eph 2:2)

 

Quote[....in which you at one time walked according to the system of things of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.] Close quote. 

 

Compare Luke 4:5,6

 

Pick a topic. Any topic over which men disagree and I think you will find that the argument is just that spirit yelling to a pack of dogs..."Squirrel" We are easy to distract from seeking truth about anything.