Motorcycle dude was incredibly lucky. They pick dudes off a cliff by my house every weekend. Usually in multiple pieces.

Target fixation is a bitch...

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Never sure if joke or not... http://knightscope.com/

I may be ugly, but at least I ain't got no money.

Doesn't everyone?





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Watch close and you can see the pistons still reciprocating when the engine hits the ground, although it looks like most of them came out of their holes eventually.

It would be much easier to just say you have money instead of using a double negative.

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I think Joe is probably the only one that broadcasts in the shower.

I don't recommend searching for broadcast shower while at work...NSFW

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Not a miata, but has trubo noises...

It may be short, but it sure is skinny! :dealwithit:

Does flying for half the track count as a drag race?

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Not in the shower, but many years ago, I did broadcast while sitting on the toilet.

In the early 1990s, I worked as a part-time board op at WKII, a small AM radio station in Florida. That station carried the Texas Rangers baseball games, which I was usually assigned to. Most games, of course, were in the evening, after everyone else had gone home, and I was usually alone at the station.

Now, the annoying thing about baseball is that they tend to announce pitching changes with extremely little notice. Literally, the announcers would be in mid-stride, and then say "And with a pitching change, we'll be back in a minute, on the Texas Rangers Radio Network." And, boom, that was your cue to hit the button to fire a commercial.

Which was a problem if you were using the bathroom at that precise moment.

This was back in the days of tape, of course. Carts, the were called. Tape cartridges shaped just like an 8-track cassette, which each held between 30 seconds and a few minutes. Basically, one commercial or one song.


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After leaving a trail of piss more than once between the head and the control room, I spoke with the station's chief engineer, and we rigged up a solution. Two pushbuttons mounted on the wall of the men's room right next to the john, which remotely fired off Cart #1 and Cart #2. From that day on, all I had to do before going out to relieve myself during a boring inning was to make sure that 1 and 2 were both loaded with 30 second spots and potted up, and thus, if the coach decided to swap out a pitcher with two on and no outs, I could literally run the entire spot break without ever getting up off of the john.

Obviously, once the break was started, you had to hurry up, wipe, raise trou, and get back into the control room to re-load the cart machines, as invariably the third out would follow shortly.



Aaaaah, memories.

I can't stop laughing at this picture.

Hunters, always confirm your kills.
Revenge can come without warning.

I registered on a site in case of some shenanigans while I was in the US. Checked in tonight and got a rather interesting mail
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I had to fight myself not to respond with "if only you were attractive enough to be picky" but decided to let her be the one to escalate things. I can't wait to see how she'll try to make me look like the rude one. Who the hell opens with something like that?

You know those are dudes, right?

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I've had enough of comments like that in person too. I just reply tit for tat now. Don't know if you're meaning guys trolling or on those sites and honestly it's beside the point.

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I feel like I'm back in my element...

Ridin' the train like a boss.

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Exploring parts of the airport I'm not supposed to be in like a boss.

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And, man, when this company is wooing someone, they don't skimp on the hotel room:

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Those two balconies directly overlook the marina. This place is considerably larger than my NYC apartment was.

So, does New Bern qualify as a shit hole?

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Haven't seen much of it in the daylight yet. The view from my room:


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So, you haven't felt the Bern yet.

How tall are you?

I mean the tall guys get all the chixx...


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I lived in Havelock (Cherry Point actually) for three years. I love the area and can't wait to visit. Not sure I would want to live there though.

One of my duties while there was barracks manager of a 1,700 acre airbase that is used primarily for pilots from Cherry Point to do dry strafing runs over and for Marines that work on the bombing range to live on so they don't have to commute 1.5hr each way to the island.

It had three runways (inactive), all in decent enough condition to do full 1/4 mile plus drags. If I was doing that today I could have a heck of a side job doing tuning.

lol I'm 5'6. Iceland has a higher average height than the US and my height hinders me in no way over here. I make more fun of my height than anyone else but it's funny how super important it seems to be in the US. And right now one is accusing me of using another guys pic in my "before/after" pic after I got in shape. I'm having way too much fun responding to that.

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A good half of the female profiles are guys/fake profiles.

I'm aware of that. most of them attractive women used for phishing/blackmail. Not this below average "meh" of a woman.

But enough of that. we want pics here!
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I suspect that this is regional. When I was on okcupid and POF 3-10 years ago, I'd say the amount of sketchy profiles I communicated with was at most 10%. Met a number of cool girls in my mid-late twenties and into my early thirties, a number of whom I'm still friends with today, despite now being fully-relationshipped. Got laid a good bit, too. But then I didn't hold out for 10s, I live in a pretty large, liberal, college city, and I travel and am unjustifiably arrogant enough that some women seem to find me interesting.

Related: I'm currently spending 3 weeks in an out-of-town hotel filled with stewardesses and a hot tub. It's a strain on my resolve not to be an asshole to the girlfriend.

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^ Not bad.

Just finished up at Wheatstone. Did the tour, met the people, spent about three hours in the "interview" phase with the owner of the company, which was mostly general chit-chat, some tech talk, sharing war stories from back when we were competitors. (I used to be the Head Guru for the company which was their #1 rival, which subsequently went down the toilet and which they just purchased.)

Afterwards, he directed his ops manager to hire me, which I gather (from the ops mgr's lack of preparedness for this scenario) doesn't usually happen same-day. I've got an offer letter in hand. $15k relo, then $70k/year base pay, plus 1% commission on sales up to $2m, $5k bonus at $2m, then 2% commission on all sales after that with $10k bonus at each additional $1m milestone.

In the short-term, I'd be taking a pay-cut in absolute numbers, as I'm sure I won't be able to do $4m my first year. On the other hand, there's a huge COLA factor, and honestly, the town isn't a shithole. It's small, and tiny, and minuscule, and several other adjectives which have essentially the same meaning, but then so was Maineville, OH, and I thrived there.


The weirdest part was seeing a bunch of hardware that I designed years ago, sitting on the shelves of the company which I despised as the enemy at the time. Even ran into one of my old co-workers who came over as part of the transition. (And learned that several others have died / gotten cancer / retired in the mean time.)


I poured ten years of my life into this router (upper-right):

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And I built this test fixture in my garage, 12 years ago:

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When I left Harris, I assumed I'd never see them again. I have to admit, I got kind of emotional running my hands over that BMXdigital console (extreme left of first photo.) To the best of my knowledge, that board still holds the record for the most expensive broadcast radio console ever produced and sold in quantity.

First time at a drag strip. Son-in-laws car:

Anyone else have a song that you apparently loved as a child? According to my mother I would ninja out of my car seat and dance to this song constantly. For some apparent reason, I know it like the back of my hand and do it in Karaoke fairly well :dunno:

Drunk Russians... and a laser engraver.

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I only thought of this :laugh:

sounds great

^ cute.


Following a recent thread, bendy-wing is bendy:

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Despite being filled with lots of non-bendy things:

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Still weirds me out...



Also, gotta love AAs newer 321s. Seats 23A & 23F FTW.

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I fear that my ever-growing collection of graduated cylinders which, up until now has been entirely recreational, is at risk of becoming a fetish.


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It started out harmless enough. Just 25ml polypropylene. But before you know it, you're up to 500ml borosilicate glass, and still thinking "yeah, but what if I needed to accurately measure liquid volumes up to 1 litre in a single pass?"

I swear, this shit is addictive...

Why limit yourself to just a liter?

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Can you give me a close-up of the markings on the red stand, please? I have been manufacturing the product for about 40 years and don't ever remember anything but white. Just wondering about competition.

I bought that one about 6 months ago from some random online vendor of cheaply-made Chinese labware, before I started acquiring a taste for nicer things. No markings on it that reveal a manufacturer:


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Thank You. It is a very cheap knock-off, but it looks like it serves the purpose for which it was intended.

He had some trouble with spin on first and ran mid-9's. Then ran a 8.78 and an 8.79. Won the true street class.

Had me verifying that my MS can run launch control with only tuning involved, and looking into:


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205-50R15 should work on my stock rims and present power. Shouldn't break anything if launched correctly.

The markings seem to be accurate, but I find the white etching hard to read (hardly better than the polypropylene which it replaced) and vastly prefer the dark orange of the Karter glass. Edit: the red-based cylinder also doesn't pour nearly as cleanly as the 50ml Karter, despite the fact that I can't see a significant difference in the lip. Sometimes quality is invisible, I guess.

It doesn't get used anymore.

What better to soothe the soul while plowing through wiring documentation on a Sunday morning than interesting & unusual covers of The Beatles?






















And then you veer off into Disco Star Wars for some reason....







And after that, it's Fuckbrain McPhearson, and you're balls-deep in the 70s.

Too bad you'd wear it out in 100 miles.

Wear what out? and what experience do you have to offer?


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Found in the beetle collection in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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European tow-away truck:

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Joe Perez's next new hobby: