What I see:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...3d0d471699.png

Robot Chicken logo was the img.

http://www.robots-and-androids.com/i...7q5QBkAZE.jpg?

Gotcha. Haven't watched the show in a few years, but used to be a big fan. Didn't even realize it was still one.


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d22749f44f.png




Also, why do bags of foul-tasting nacho chips now need to have integrated music players?

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...42a2374360.png

Not a joke: http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...ol-2-promotion

Lots of free parking under communism, it's just that nobody has a car to park there!

--Ian

No good ones, anyway.


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...a2f3c3d15a.png

Turns out that searching for "sexy robot chicken cosplay" produces surprisingly tame results.

Like this robot chicken:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...1cf045ff71.png



Or this chicken, and her tormentor, Col. Sanders:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ccd119638d.png



And the "after" photo:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...bd9090e0a9.png

That's one hen I'd like to peck... Bet she really is finger lickin' good.

A bit late, but a tribute to Earth Day:

*

Rocker panel, windshield surround, hard top, mirrors black please.

She slammered tho, I like.

I just realized at least one of our CNC machines has a tape drive.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1493310792

Because...baptized.

click to play

jesus saves.

... and Johnson scores on the rebound.


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2157498cd1.png

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Saw this at the supermarket, thought about picking up a bag for JasonC:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...3ce3715fc2.png



Spent much of the afternoon watching Maury on a 165" TV:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...69b1a52759.png


And saw these at the barber shop:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f311e985d0.png

Apparently, there's a guy on FB who will draw literally anything you request (within certain boundaries of tastefulness) using MS Paint. https://www.facebook.com/JimllPaintIt/ (EDIT: couldn't post a link, because IB is fucking up FB links right now.)

Examples:


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...4d4adc5433.png
"A bitter, washed up Sonic the Hedgehog on crutches drowning his sorrows in a bar having completely ruined his knees with 26 years of high impact running. He’s crying over a tattered photo of Amy Rose and has just spent his last gold ring on whiskey. As requested by David Sinclair"




https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...1e7a54c543.png
"Dear Jim, Please paint an intergalactic chip shop. A high street outlet on a Friday night / Saturday morning, with various characters from Star Wars queued for chips and kebabs, served by Jabba The Hutt, whilst Chewbacca is being sick outside, R2-D2 is on his back drunk and Han Solo and Boba Fett are arguing over a taxi in the shape of an X-Wing. In the night sky the Death Star looms ready to vapourise the entire planet. Thank you very much.
Andrew Sanders"





https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...a523a9a80d.png
"Dear Jim,

Please paint me the final round of Salvador Dali's surrealist version of Countdown. One of the contestants is Danny Dyer and the other is the ghost of some swiss cheese. Naturally the clock has melted and Danny's head has exploded whilst attempting to solve a particularly surreal crucial conundrum.

Ta very much,

Darryl"





https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...9ff24172d3.png
"Peter Venkman releasing the ghost of Bob Ross to help Vigo's painting overcome his Carpathian kitten loss - as requested by Chris Keane"





https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c924f803bb.png
"Hey Jim, could you please paint Thomas The Tank Engine, made of flesh (except for his wheels) with a face that reflects the agony of being twisted into the shape of a train. While the Fat Controller laughs beside a pile of failed flesh locomotive experiments? Cheers,
Adam Hughes"

this is a thing now:

https://cdn.milo.yiannopoulos.net/wp...e_update_1.gif

https://blog.google/products/search/...ements-search/

it was pretty smart of liberals to take over the internet, then install newspeak.

Al Gore invented the internet to control information. It's all right here in this book:

https://nevalalee.files.wordpress.co...w-i-did-it.jpg

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/3d2...5d0e23_landing

Penn Station

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/318...117b2e_landing

Somewhere in Cali

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/2d4...ef885a_landing

Somewhere in France

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/702...e72d59_landing

Somewhere in time

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/ec3...51faa1_landing

I think it's capitalism working at its' finest. Google, being a free enterprise, made a decision based on anticipated customer requirements. If we don't like it, we're free to use another search-engine that does not have this amazing feature. If this business decision is wrong, and they make more wrong decisions like this in the future, then they should eventually go out of business.
Or, maybe Google should give me the option of turning this censoring by my so-called peers off.

The one in NYC?

(thinking...)

Oh, right... I forgot they did a major rebuild in the early 60s. I was gonna say "There's no overpass near Penn" like a smartass, but then the Penn I know isn't the Penn that was.

I'm sadful that I never got to experience the Old Penn, which by all accounts was a marvel of architecture which easily rivaled Grand Central Terminal.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...55ddb06eaf.png

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The present-day Penn might charitably be described as "dank" and "oppressive." The Amtrack concourse isn't bad, but the NJTrans and LIRR concourses are just downright awful.





Serious question:

Do a lot of people still use Google for their every-day search needs? Personally, I started using the Duck a few years ago, mostly out of paranoia. I do occasionally still use Google for some things, but they're no longer my default.

Duck user mostly.

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Looks like something out of a cyberpunk movie.

The new folding rollcages are out now.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/honda-t...052095cf8f.jpg

I think these pics are related.

https://www.askideas.com/media/10/Fu...ng-Graphic.jpg

Absolutely hideous that.

Really? That can't be rated as strong as a real, welded cage.

Obligatory pic:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d9e298b951.jpg

scam level 9000:

'Rich kids of Instagram meets Hunger Games': Guests at luxury festival where tickets cost $12,000 'mugged, stranded and hungry'

2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk Official Photos and Info | News | Car and Driver

707hp Jeep Grand Cherokee

http://media.caranddriver.com/images...s-original.jpg

The 707-hp Jeep is here, and it's everything we expected.



Dodge’s 707-hp Challenger and Charger Hellcat models are loud, instigate bad behavior, and can generate local, rubber-sourced cloud cover with merely a stab of their gas pedals. They’re the vehicular equivalents of a Daytona Beach spring-break hookup, the sort of ride that your dad might high-five you (behind Mom’s back) for buying. But what if there were a Hellcatted vehicle tame enough, relatively speaking, to bring home and introduce to Mother?

The Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk is the third Fiat Chrysler vehicle to have the unhinged supercharged V-8 stuffed under its hood, and it’s the quiet Hellcat next door. Not literally, of course—have you heard a blown Hemi V-8 at full whack?—but with standard all-wheel drive mitigating the engine’s tire-spinning proclivities, plus its under-the-radar looks, the Trackhawk can at least pass for an upstanding citizen.



With more traction than any Hellcat yet, the Trackhawk has quite a lot of poke despite its pork—the engine adds 259 pounds over the already heavy 475-hp Grand Cherokee SRT. Nonetheless, Jeep claims it can reach 60 mph in 3.5 seconds. That time is on par with the nearly 1000-pounds-lighter, automatic-equipped Dodge Hellcats we’ve tested. (The quickest was the Charger, which reached 60 mph in 3.4 seconds.) Per Jeep, the quarter-mile is expected to fly by in 11.6 seconds (at 116 mph!), and, with no electronic governor, the Trackhawk is said to surrender to atmospheric resistance at 180 mph.

Demonic Possessions

Helping this SUV move out in a hurry is a Torque Reserve launch-control feature that briefly holds the supercharger bypass valve closed while cutting spark and fuel to specific cylinders to limit torque before the brake is released. This widget is shared with the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon.
The supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi V-8 is mostly left alone otherwise, right down to its forged pistons, sodium-filled exhaust valves, heavy-duty bearings, and blower pushing as much as 11.6 psi. Exhaust-routing complications reduce peak torque by a negligible 5 lb-ft, to 645. To keep the Hellcat from lunching the Trackhawk’s driveline, Jeep fortifies the eight-speed automatic transmission, fits forged chain sprockets and a wider chain in the transfer case, beefs up the rear driveshaft and half-shafts, and tweaks the rear differential.



In normal operation, the transfer case’s 40/60 front-to-rear torque split is the same as in the Grand Cherokee SRT; ditto the Sport mode’s 35/65 split, the Track setting’s 30/70 division, and Snow mode’s 50/50 apportionment. The Tow mode has a 60/40 split, but what’s more notable is the very idea that this Hellcat is rated to tow. It is! Owners can drag along up to 7200 pounds, which equates to either another Hellcat-powered creation or the weight of expectations for a Hellcat-powered SUV.

Outside the Engine Bay

According to Mopar’s performance catalog, the iron-block Hellcat V-8 engine and supercharger together weigh 800 pounds. That’s vastly heavier than the 6.4-liter Hemi in the Grand Cherokee SRT. To compensate for the Trackhawk’s additional mass, SRT engineers stiffened the front springs by 9 percent and the rears by 15 percent and also fiddled with the electronically adjustable Bilstein dampers. The only other chassis changes are wider front and rear tracks (by 1.3 inches and 0.1 inch) relative to the SRT and 0.75-inch-larger front brake rotors. Like the optional Brembo brake package on the SRT, the Trackhawk’s front rotors are two-piece units gripped by six-piston calipers (here painted yellow instead of red).

Just as the regular SRT defies physics, posting 0.87 g on our skidpad and braking from 70 mph in 168 feet in a recent test, so, too, does the Trackhawk. Jeep’s claims for the beast’s grip around a skidpad of unspecified diameter (we use a 300-foot pad) and braking from 60 mph (we test from 70 mph) are 0.88 g and 114 feet. We gather from these figures that the Trackhawk should be as surprisingly capable as the SRT model is on a track, although drivers likely will experience higher speeds between corners.



For a Jeep with 707 horsepower, the Grand Cherokee Trackhawk is remarkably incognito. Only a few badges that read “Supercharged” and “Trackhawk,” as well as the Hellcat-specific yellow brake calipers, quad exhaust outlets instead of two, and exclusive 20-inch wheels distinguish the Trackhawk from the SRT. Airflow requirements for the engine also dictated the deletion of the SRT’s fog lights from the outboard front intakes.
Inside, only a winged Trackhawk badge on the steering wheel sets the mightiest Jeep apart—well, that and the 200-mph speedo. The same active noise cancellation, stitched-leather dashboard and door-panel coverings, Berber carpets, and 8.4-inch Uconnect infotainment display as the SRT are included. (Jeep adds a dyno function for instantaneous horsepower and torque readouts to Uconnect’s Performance Pages app.) Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard, as well, for anyone who cares about such things when purchasing a 707-hp SUV. Ditto the adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, parking sensors, lane-departure warning, and forward-collision warning. Then again, this equipment ought to be included, given that the Trackhawk is expected to cost somewhere around $80,000.

except it's a political move, not a market driven one.

So it's based on political motivation of the deciders at Google? Then, again, the market should sort it out over time and punish them for behavior that is not in the best interest of their customers.

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=...wagen1.jpg&f=1
Rumpler Tropfenwagen

Serious question:

Does anyone believe their privacy is really protected by the search engine they use?

No, but it makes it harder for commercial exploitation to occur.

http://95octane.com/wp-content/uploa...trip_95o_1.jpg

To a limited extent, it is possible. There have been already been instances of the court compelling the disclosure of search histories in criminal cases. Google (and others), of course retain the full search histories of their users in order to target advertising to them. Duck, by comparison, claims not to, which seems logical given that they do not provide targeted advertising.


But this is the random pictures thread.


The following images are photoshopped. But anyone wanna take bets on when this will become an actual styling trend?

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https://a.d-cd.net/18d8801s-960.jpg

https://a.d-cd.net/84d8801s-960.jpg

https://a.d-cd.net/58d8801s-960.jpg

Is that yours? I LOVE that car.

It's not actually my car in the pic, but I do have one exactly like it (20% off deal was too good to pass up). Going to be sad to see them go bye bye after this year.

Four points:

1: Fluoroscopic-guided lumbar steroid injections, even with the weaksauce local anesthetic they give you, suck balls. After you think the worst of it is over (while the doctor is repeatedly re-positioning the four rather large needles into just the right spot), that's when they start pumping fluid into your spinal column, which is the most disorienting feeling I've ever experienced.

2: What the fuck is it about hospital OR nursing that attracts ALL of the cute young blondes and Koreans? I mean, are nursing schools literally recruiting at cheer-leading camp or something? Seriously, I've been on the operating table a total of four times now in the past ten years, and so I feel qualified to observe that private-practice nurses have NOTHING on hospital nurses. (As an aside, this is probably a good indicator that I need to start taking better care of my body...)

3: When the cute nurse says "Doctor, BP is down to 95 over 40, heartrate 44" with more than a touch of anxiety in her voice, and you're fully conscious, this is disconcerting. When the doc said "I need you to take long, deep breaths", the best reply I could come up with was "Roger, understand long deep breaths." That's pilot training for you...

4: Holy fuckballs, was all that pain ever worth it. The first 24 hours were a bit uncomfortable, but today I actually feel like a normal human.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...df25615215.png
(Not my actual procedure, but the same thing.)

Glad it's working for you. My procedure wasn't very painful, more like just uncomfortable. It really didn't help, just like the surgeon said. But it's cheaper than surgery, so they have to do it.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...5c6ed36416.jpg

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...4c9bc8ea05.jpg


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d842e8e704.jpg

YES. Right click, save as...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...osYCckGf8D869w

It is, an STi aamof.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7a4788c9c0.jpg

Vespa TAP 150

https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-co...94-640x452.jpg

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fd98046fdf.png

@Monk

Subtle engineer humor:


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...8a5ed5d452.png

Nothing to see here.

Just my car passing the much dreaded biennial comprehensive motor vehicle inspection.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c0b1668f50.jpg

This is why I love WGN. We do at least one band in the studio every morning, sometimes 2-3:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ebb10a8a59.png




Note on the back of a 55" Panasonic monitor, which is part of a 3x3 array. "Please don't hand and throw no the field and part of a mark." I literally have no idea what that means. You'd think that for $103,000 they could afford to have the Japanese directions translated into English by someone other than a Russian child.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d86f3e0b99.png




Given the historical association between wire coat-hangers and amateur abortions, I find this... odd.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...acb5cb47f8.png




No comment needed on this one. I can't wait to install this beast. Our lead A1 is gonna shit a kitten when he sees it.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...af0b929092.png





So technology, very lights, much camera.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...6329a6df22.png





Seriously, why do people have dogs like this in small condos? This isn't a fluke, I see these monsters every time I use the freight elevator. (This is a classy building, they don't allow their kind in the nice elevators.)

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7d52e98ded.png

Is that why you were in the freight elevator as well? Because they don't allow your kind in the nice ones?


Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Wiseass. My finely-dressed, well-haircutted self is the classiest thing in the whole damn lobby. + :likecat:


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7a22f83367.png


There are six pax elevators (three each for 1,2-28 and 1,2,28-55), plus two freight elevators that do B1-56. To access the laundry room, you have to either take one of the freight elevators, or take a pax elevator to 1, walk all the way across the building, down a flight of stairs, and then all the way back again.



Also, we had some electric mini-bikes in the studio. I hijacked one and rode it through the whole TV station including the newsroom and the GM's office. A quick-thinking photg grabbed a camera while I was riding past the ND's office, so I fully expect to be in some future fluff piece. And I'm pretty sure that, as an employee, they don't need a waiver to broadcast me.


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f8c3e903f8.png

You might be a nerd if this is how you plan for a move:


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...48414ef950.png