2/ My approach: - read book on operating diesel engines on pure vegetable oil https://www.amazon.com/SVO-Powering-Vehicle-Straight-Vegetable/dp/0865716129 … - research improvised welding rods - research specs of Cat D-6 https://itstillruns.com/caterpillar-d6-specs-8030334.html … - research controls and starting procedure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-1NpqEAEwk … - use google maps to
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3/ this, unironically [ to be fair, I think the original is also unironic ] I'm backing a theme and a playbook / bible into the Caterpillar series, but it's this: C P Snow "Two Cultures" fusion, except instead of science + art, white + blue collar. https://twitter.com/UtterlyOctavius/status/1212422322294083585 …
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4/ I'm aiming at a kind of Aubrey–Maturin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series … ) thing, except with a blue collar maintenance guy and a white collar coder geek. The "secret thesis" buried beneath the zombie action is "both spheres are important". Also >>>
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5/ I want to embed some white collar and some blue collar knowledge in each story. You should come away from episode 1 knowing about web scrapers, diesel engines, and improvised welding rods. Episode 2 touches on GPS and bulldozer track adjustment.
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@BostonDelendEst is already in something else I've written. https://twitter.com/downflood/status/1212427601802932224 …ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,
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7/ wife and I talk about writing me: OMG, in the second episode of the zombie story - you know it's set in Arlington MA, right? - I just had the SPICIEST POSSIBLE IDEA. There are these cops - wife, panicking: PLEASE tell me that you're not going to use the names of real cops
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11/ me: ...what makes you think I was going to do that ? wife: ... me: ...
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12/ wife: PROMISE me you won't do that! me: I ... <cough> ... umm ... I ... I think I probably won't ?
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