Getting back to your roots may cause you to feel dirty.
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Getting back to your roots may cause you to feel dirty.
Trouble is, these days those roots are grey.
Becoming more true every day, unfortunately.
Grey or Gray. What's that all-aboot?
(Not as simple as black or white I would assume.)
Congrats... I'm not a fan of the new Camaro (GM lost me when they killed off Pontiac) but that's a pretty sweet ride. What engine is in it?Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I've been a mostly Chevy/GM person all my life - first car a 1969 Chevelle SS. Then a 1978 z-28 Camaro - drove it into a tree and replaced it with a 1983 Pontiac Trans-am. That car had the flip-up headlight body style - remember that show Knight rider. That was a crazy fast car.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
Then a few decades of Chevy SUV's - my latest was a nearly 6000 pound Tahoe.
This new Camaro is the RS model - comes with a V6. The SS model was like over $50K - I couldn't rationalize the cost :) The V6 does 0 to 60 in 5.1 seconds - it is so fast and so smooth.
It has little paddles behind the steering wheel that make the automatic transmission down shift and up shift (increase the RPM's going into the curve so you're ready to blast out of it).
It is so nice to be back in a regular car! My twin boys are one year away from getting licenses - they are really excited! I'm going to have to get a used Volvo or Subaru station wagon for them to drive...
So, you've been a Chevy Chase...er?
You do know that trading them in is both more cost effective and a whole lot easier on the trees, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
The tree was my hero - it was the only thing between Rte. 34 and the Housatonic River! Interesting thing to see an engine come through the firewall...
My boss wanted to know if I was still going to make it onsite that day!
Important lesson learned about the condition of tire tread vs. February icy roads.
Same here - at least until 2009. '74 Coupe deVille (6-7 mpg LOL), '76 Ventura (Pontiac-badged Chevy Nova), '80 Grand Prix, '93 G20 van, and my favorite was the '74 LeMans I drove in college. When the body rotted away I sold the drivetrain to a friend and after a complete rebuild it lives on in his '80 Firebird.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Losing the Pontiac brand was bad enough, but watching all those white collar GM employees get royally effed over was too much for me. I have several friends who worked for Delphi's IT department and they all lost their pensions while the government handed GM $33 billion of taxpayer money and turned the entire company over to the unions.
Eff GM. I'll never buy another.
I hear you. When I bought my Mustang I really wanted a Boss 302 but the sticker was $46K or double what I paid for my V6 w/the performance package which is the Boss 302 suspension, wheels & brakes and shorter rear end gears. Not sure what my 0-60 time is but I'm sure it's close to that if not better. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I had an '82 Honda Civic that did 0-60 in the state of Washington.
The new Civic is pretty sharp looking, but unfortunately only available with front wheel drive and (*cough*) 174 hp. :lol:
The Civic always has been and apparently always will be a "chick car."
Yeah... so is your insurance agent! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I had a rusty Ford Capri. Jealous?
Was a Civic ever rear wheel drive? Seems like a bit of a pointless idea, except as a garage chop 'because I can' kind of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
My 1999 Subaru Legacy Outback Coupe is showing signs of age.
Weird electrical problems, Odometer broken, Wheel bearings sloppy, and the head gasket looks like it is failing (again).
I'm dreading having to shell out for a new vehicle, but the head gasket replacement alone is probably more than the car is worth.
The cost of living is so high I cannot afford a new car so I will be looking at something used.
Grumble, grumble.
Where are all the cool cheap electric cars we were suppose to have by now?
Back in the 90s, an article came out about what your car said about you. The story for the Civic was: I just got out of college and this is all I could afford. That had me pegged pretty handily. However, what really cracked me up was that the VW Cabriolet said, "I'm out of the closet." My burly boss drove a Cabriolet at the time.
My 98 Subaru Legacy Brighton (the most stripped down model of Legacy) still looks great and runs great, but has 225K miles on it and some things are wearing out. I probably need to put a few thousand into it to fix the AC and a minor oil leak, and that's not seeming worthwhile. There are so many improvements out there that I'm thinking of moving up, though probably not until next spring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
The thing that is really slowing me down is that I look around the market and there doesn't appear to be any car out there that checks all the boxes for me. I want better than 30 mpg (better than 40 would be nice), in a hatchback (this is the point I'd yield on first), and with the ability to occasionally tow a really light boat (it weighs less than I do, but the trailer weighs more than me). The new Subaru Impreza seems to fit, but they've added that constant variable transmission, and it may not be able to tow a boat even that light. It would certainly void any warranty, but I don't intend to buy new, so I don't expect a warranty. I just need to be able to put a receiver on it.
Not to bring you down, but, just had a head gasket done [dealer] on a 2007 Outback. $2500.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
Curious: why is this important to you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
No particular reason other than gas mileage lower than that makes my skin crawl. I'm not sure why. It's a visceral response, to be sure, but I couldn't put a finger on why it's the case. There's the obvious argument of efficiency or economy, and there's certainly some truth to that, but I telecommute quite a bit, and there's no gas savings quite like not leaving your couch (well, not ALL the gas is saved, if you know what I mean). Still, even if I didn't do that, it's not like the cost of gas makes any real difference to me. I spend somewhere around $30-50/month on gas. I could double that without even noticing it, yet better than 30 mpg would mean reducing that.
So, I have no good reason, it's just a goal.
The dealership out here ball parked it at $3500.00.Quote:
Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
With my model they have to pull the engine to do the job.
Those dealerships are huge rip off artists.
They wanted about 800.00 to replace my AC fan.
I looked it up online. Three philips screws and a cable connector.
I bought a new replacement fan for 40.00 and
paid my Son-in-law a six pack of beer for 10 minutes of work. :)
(Physically I am in really bad shape. I can't crawl around floor boards on my back any more.)
Woo hoo! Just fired up my new WiFi/Cable modem.
I am finally on line with a Windows PC at home.
It appears to be very fast. I am wired into the modem directly for this PC and will be hooking my chromebook up via WiFi.
My only issue is I need to take a trip to the hardware store and pick up a very bright drop light. I have no flash lights as the batteries wear out before I ever need them.
I need the light because the sticker on the bottom of the modem is black text on a black sticker and I cannot see the Wifi ID or default password.
I'll keep y'all posted.
If you have a cell phone just take a picture with flash of the bottom - then it's easy to read.
Cell phones have flashes?
Even if mine does I have a very hard time seeing anything on my phone.
P.S. Picked up a small goose neck lamp. Needed one for my desk anyway. Found the SSID and pwd.
Still no joy though. The WiFi lag is slow enough I get "Error loading Media. File not Found." when trying to watch a movie.
Dern.
hey new to the forums, what's this thread for
Racing!
Mostly it's just where we come to blow off some steam by posting irrelevant stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. I've heard them referred to as watercooler threads though I have no idea why.
Welcome to the forums:wave:
thanks the much funky for the nice hey hi and same to you. so you mean it is a cool thread to be in ok then i'm in it too then.
This is on PutLocker.is only. Phew!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
Apparently I am not the only one with this problem. ;)
Possibly you mis-heard and they were saying. "Wayyyy cooler threads!"Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Welcome to the forum also funnyceeta.
watercooler cause its a race get it silly.
It's pretty random, so that post fits right in.
Driving the admins insane......Quote:
Originally Posted by funnyceeta
Brad!
(and it was a short drive for at least one of them. ;) )
It's a place where the voices in my head can battle it out.
"No it isn't!" ---> <--- "Yes it is!"
Speaking of random....Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I was talking to a guy about a gaming table program (Fantasygrounds) that he was the developer on. The dice rolls on the game often seem very "not random". He said they use the standard random features (C++, I believe) using a time seed. As such, you'd think it would be very random. However, they then use this random number to kick off a physics engine that is used for a dice roll on the screen. Seems like if you are going to take a random number and run it through a third party library, then your 'random-ness' might not end up being so random. I had a one come up three out of four rolls on a D20 die. Statistically that is crazy. Sadly, getting the same number multiple times is not as unusual with the program as it should be.
They are seeding it just once - right?
That I don't know. (This conversation was at a non-tech game conference last week-end - GenCon). I simply asked about the details on how they generated the dice rolls in the software, as they didn't seem very sound. One of my friends that I play with asked the same thing at a different time. They told us both that they are doing an update to the software that will let you roll a real die and then enter the number. That resolves any blame you give to the software about rolling statistically improbable results.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
But this is too serious of a tech topic to cover in a post race. I'm surprised nobody had done a word association in awhile.... ;)
Dice....
Clay.
I have no idea why.
Pot
.
Let's not go there.
Aiken?
Yeah, a bit. The workout I did on Saturday kicked my butt a bit. The one I did this morning might not feel too good by tomorrow, either.
I like to put off today what I might not do tomorrow.
I'm so bad procrastinator's anonymous keeps sending me leaflets.
Leaflets. What I use to stay modest when posing for statuary. :D
Sometimes I think I dropped a bomb or something when it gets this quiet.
*Crickets Chirping*
Did I offend everyone?
Just seen the news of the flooding in South Louisiana, isn't that near DDay ? hope all is ok!
Went to see Ministry last night. I haven't been in a mosh pit in some twenty years.:D
Haven't heard anything about it but Louisiana's a pretty big place so he's probably fine. Fingers crossed though.Quote:
Just seen the news of the flooding in South Louisiana, isn't that near DDay ? hope all is ok!
You went to a Mosh pit in a Church? :D:D:rolleyes:Quote:
Went to see Ministry last night. I haven't been in a mosh pit in some twenty years.
I have never heard of them i had to look them up, on first read i thought you had said "i went to Ministry" as in Ministry of Sound, and thought surely not Funky has turned into an EDM fan !!!
I was a major industrial head in my twenties and Ministry were kind of the hub that most of the scene revolved around. Rev Co, Lard, 1000 Homo DJs, Ogre, Butthole Surfers... they all span off of or collaborated with Ministry at some point or another. Al Jourgensen was pretty much the centre of the universe.
Google for Jesus Built my Hotrod. The guitars and drums are in completely different timings and it's so tight you barely notice. And Gibbys lyrics are... interesting.
I don't mind the sun sometimes...
I've been off sniffing fish...and lots of smoke, since I drove through a forest fire on the way there.
Er... Don't mind me.
The way the Olympics are calling anything a sport now days it is a wonder fish sniffing isn't one of them. :D
Let's not go there.
DDay: The state of Idaho would probably be pretty happy swapping some Louisiana rain for some Idaho dry about now. Not too much rain, though, cause we've had such a large, widespread (and largely unreported) fire that our hills have no vegetation to hold onto the soil, so a sufficiently intense rain will bring them down.
so i guess that answers my question, unless you live in a house boat and you now live on the water ?Quote:
Er... Don't mind me.
Doesn't everyone in Louisiana live on a house boat? I've seen The Water Boy and that was the impression I got. Also.. 'gators.
Just had a read about the floods and... Wow! Why isn't it making the news?
"My favorite part of 'gator? That would be da snout."Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
It's making plenty of news over here.
What has me a bit puzzled is that the amounts of rain don't sound all that high. It sounds like only one or two feet of rain. That's a lot (especially since we average about 7" in a year where I live), but there are parts of the southeast that kind of live with it. When I was in the Florida Keys, tropical storm Gordon hit us three times. The first time dropped something like 12", then the storm went into the Gulf, turned around, came back over us and dropped somewhere around 20" only a couple days after the first pass. These things happen in the humid southeast, and it usually runs off. I assume that the actual totals are far higher than what I have heard about. Heck, I first heard it was only 8=10 inches. I've hiked in that much in a day.
Today is a very sad day. RIP Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidore "Toots" Thielemans. Hearing him play on the closing theme to Sesame Street when I was 4 or 5 years old was what made me want to become a harmonica player. He was also provided the whistle on the original Old Spice jingle.
Toots Thielemans, Who Found Jazz Renown on the Harmonica, Dies at 94
At 94, though. At some point, you shouldn't be too sad at death.
His initials are as long as my name.
So sad.
Last time I called someone Toots HR wrote me up.