Tom Forsyth

Rec Room was a great place to work, but they had to lay off over half their staff, so I am looking for the next opportunity.

If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you.

Picture is purely for attention, but I can drive pretty well.

Sep 4, 2025 at 11:21pmWeb
Show threadOblomovSep 5, 2025
@TomF «we're going to hire you, but only if you drive to work on your Caterham»
Show threadTom ForsythSep 5, 2025
@oblomov Oh no. How terrible. What a ghastly imposition.
Show threadbcaceSep 5, 2025
@TomF @oblomov I would be constantly losing it in large carparks
Show threadTom ForsythSep 5, 2025
@bcace @oblomov It can be a problem!
Show threadRyan ChallinorSep 9, 2025
@TomF oh wow, my dad had a kit-car caterham with the exact same color scheme. he rebadged his to look like a lotus, and removed the bug-eye headlights when he was racing.
Show threadStoneBear Sep 5, 2025
@TomF Caterham 7?? (I wish I had something for you...)
Show threadTom ForsythSep 5, 2025
@stonebear2 Caterham Seven indeed.
Show threadStoneBear Sep 5, 2025
@TomF VERY cool! (I want one... just, electric! If they still sell'em knocked-down, it shouldn't be hard atall to convert...)
Show threadTom ForsythSep 5, 2025
@stonebear2 A couple of people have done them, including Caterham:
https://caterhamcars.com/us/models/evseven
EV Seven | Caterham

Introducing the Caterham EV Seven, a technology development showcasing a future electric Caterham Seven. Discover Caterham and Drive Electrified.

Show threadStoneBear Sep 5, 2025
@TomF hot damn, that was just a pipe dream last I checked.
Show threadStoneBear Sep 5, 2025
@TomF damn, it still is. But it looks like at least they have a spec to engineer to.
Show threadTom ForsythSep 5, 2025

@stonebear2 The problem is range. You end up with not much range, or you add more batteries and make a heavy Caterham, which... the whole point of a Caterham is that it's light!

This is doubly true since a lot of Caterham owners want to take them to the track - because they're absolute weapons there. But now the range problem - which was "meh" on the road - is now absolutely atrocious.

Careful what you wish for, really.

Note that my race car does 14mpg AT FULL RACE PACE. So...

Show threadStoneBear Sep 5, 2025

@TomF On this side of the pond, range isn't nearly as much a problem as it could be. If you're going more than 100 miles it's faster to take the train anyway... Pop down to the beach? Take the 7E. Pop down to Paris? Eurostar. Den Haag to Utrecht, or London to Brighton, yeah, okay, you may not get back without a charge, but at least south of the Channel charging stations are in a lot of places, and if you're going to the beach, you're gonna stay long enough to charge to get back...

If I'm gonna put it on the track, I'll do what the LeMans people do, make it a hybrid. Charge the bats with regen into the corner, and then ALL THE TORQUE out of it... for all that you could just make the "batteries" some big damn carbon fibre _capacitors_...

But no, I'm not looking for warp speed, I'm looking for holeshot and slot-car cornering.... and a car that just _looks_ really bl---y cool. (Not a snowball's chance I'd score KAR-120C for a number plate, though. No way.)

Be seeing you.... ;)

Show threadTom ForsythSep 5, 2025
@stonebear2 Yeah, I was planning a hybrid - petrol on the back wheels, electric on the front. Would have been a demon out of the turns. The big problem was the entire front-end suspension would need a redesign to allow for driveshafts to the front wheels, so it never really happened.
Show threadDerek MartinSep 5, 2025

@TomF @grmpyprogrammer Is that a Lotus 7? My Dad owned a Super-7-11 prototype he bought from a guy who wrapped it around a telephone pole. He worked on it and got it back to factory condition. Sold it to come to Canada in the early 70s.

Hope you find work!

Show threadTom ForsythSep 5, 2025
@lo_fye @grmpyprogrammer It's a Caterham Seven, but same thing. In 1973 Lotus stopped making them and handed all the rights and machinery and parts to Caterham, and they kept right on building them. These cars happen to have been built in 2006, but they're still making them - about 300 a year.
Show threadFarbsSep 9, 2025

@TomF Would that make you a...

Graphics Driver?

Show threadJustin DerrickSep 9, 2025
@TomF Adding #GetFediHired and #FediHired for visibility. :). Good luck!
Show threadxyla!! 🐀Sep 9, 2025
@TomF hatsune miku ass vehicle
Show threadTom ForsythSep 9, 2025
@xyla