QUOTE=Joe Perez;1411792]Still, it's better than San Juan, where I first learned to drive (and with a 4MT in my cousin's Tercel, no less.) Things like lane-markings and hard shoulders are considered to be purely aesthetic there (the sidewalk is a perfectly good passing lane, after all), and they never bothered to put up signs at freeway off-ramps indicating which road you're about to exit onto. You just have to know.

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Yup! SJ is a mess of cars. I didn't realize you were also from PR. Fellow Boricua here. 20 year old me with first car in PR back in '89...
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...28541184_n.jpg

Joe's from Cuba but ended up in PR for a while.

I was actually born on the mainland (my father was the only one of four brothers who settled here, as opposed to PR where the rest of the family went, after the communist revolution), but I spent a lot of time on the island as a kid. Learned a great deal about electronics, marine engineering, diesel mechanics, bread-making, the textile industry, and so on. Ironically, I learned only very poor Spanish (mostly profanity and sailor-talk), as my father was very much of the opinion, having worked his ass off to get here, that "We're Americans, and we speak English!" I never forgave him for that...

Whenever I hear Micheal Jackson's Smooth Criminal, I am instantly transported back to Fajardo, working long days as an apprentice in the repair shop and then cuddling up in those almost totally threadbare Snoopy bedsheets in the lower bunk in a small bedroom in what, I must admit in retrospect, was a remarkably nice apartment on the "rich" side of town. Makes me kinda wonder what sort of transactions were happening which I didn't see.

I didn't have a lot of things. An old pair of hazy binoculars with a cracked primary lens on the left side, the board game "Risk," a few books, a collection of shells / coral / etc that I'd gathered from the ocean, and a Sony AM/FM/Cassette radio with detachable stereo speakers. The kind where you inserted the cassette sideways. There was one FM station which played American top 40 music that I used to listen to. I first experianced Smooth Criminal on that radio late one steamy night with the mosquitos in full force. It blew my fucking mind.

I can practically smell the bilge water just thinking about it...



Wanna know what else blows my mind? According to Google Maps, Panadería La Viña is STILL IN BUSINESS!

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fce7eb3a13.png


I am seriously tempted to buy a plane ticket right now, just so I can taste those pasteles de guayaba one more time...




99mx5, I have to ask you this, as I can think of no other objective person whose opinion I'd value on the matter: Orange Tang?

Being from Washington I can confirm this. Sun? Freak out. Rain? Slow the fuck down and freak out. Snow? Gun the throttle and slam the brakes. But by a subaru with all season tires first so you think you can drive in the snow like that.

OMG! so much want! pastelillos de guayaba. The powdered sugar ones are to die for.

Yeah... that orange Tang. I remembered being exposed to it when I was little and at grandmothers house when we visited before moving there. I'm guessing its better than crappy tasting water.
I was born in Southern California and spent my time there from 15 - 30 years old. Seems like Tang was consumed to mask the bad water taste and the fact that it had a whole days worth of vitamin C LOL!

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1494126555

Dear god, yes. My mouth is watering right now.

And the round picadillo-filled ones as well, with that egg-glaze on top. If I were told that I could eat only two things for the rest of my life, those would be they.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d18b90f79c.png


Granted, I'd be dead in a year, but it'd be a delicious year. :D


How the hell did PR, which has failed at literally* everything else, manage to eclipse even the French when it comes to pastry?

Two 'spics living in America, driving gay Japanese cars inspired by the British, we are. Seriously, if I ever get back out to NM, we are going to find the best Cuban / Puerto Rican restaurant within a hundred miles, and eat until we puke. I'll buy.



Sidebar: WHY DO NO AMERICAN BAKERIES SERVE THESE?!?!? They're literally** the best thing since the residual heat from the big bang decayed enough to allow coherent matter to form.



Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! :bowrofl:

I'm literally*** crying right now. It's such an odd-ball thing, how Orange Tang is the de-facto drink of the island. Every kitchen seems to have it. And yeah, the water was... interesting, even in Hato Rey.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1494135656

Thanks for the great memory flashback Joe! If you are ever in Las Cruces, you have a place to crash.

Last night at a local meet.

Mustang's gonna Stang

lol. sees friend spin out, tries to kill witnesses...

I just don't get the modern car scene...





Totally unrelated: Here is an audio recording, with photo montage, of the final hour at the Jonestown complex, on Nov 18, 1978:



I've been listening to this in the background for several hours now.

I can't quite think of a good word to describe the emotions invoked. It's oddly interesting, somewhat perplexing, and quite morbid. For most of the recording, you can hear children in the background. Then there's a part when they all start crying. Then they're all silent. Then everything is silent. And you just listened to 300 people die.


The title of the video is misleading. It's not "graphic" in a visual sense. Only on an emotional one.

Joe, flights from here or orl to SJ are super cheap. Jet Blue was ~$200 rt last time. Neat place. Really into mofongo which is hard to find most places other than there and here. Tpa and orl are flush with boricua and their restaurants and food. I eat at a lot of places where nobody really speaks much English. I'm good with ordering food and that's about it. I wish I'd known last time you were here.

*mofongo is... worth googling because

I drive about 4 months out of the year in Lima, Peru. Beats autocross if you do it right :eek5:

Your Tang reference must've reminded you about the drinking the Koolaid idiom. I remember thinking how could someone kill their children that way.

But alas it was only the first of many times I'd use the phrase over the years.

They're predatory, definitely not herds. Pack is to dignifying. Swarm?

HAHAHA!! I was going to mention mofongo last night! You are totally right! Props!

@Joe Perez, this used to be extremely popular around here when I was growing up..

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...6a3649019c.jpg

4 inch tall stack of thin sliced standing rib roast for the sole purpose of roast beef sammiches. That's how I roll. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2ebe231199.jpg

Slavs balancing tires
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Slavs driving
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Slavs shopping for bicycles
http://funny-gifs.me/media/fJVh7PyMw9MPPf106.gif

Slavs walking in the snow.
https://media.giphy.com/media/B7LFIntQCEBNK/giphy.gif

Slavs repairing cars.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2cb0341056.jpg

Slavs transporting wife from one kitchen to another.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...9db111640d.jpg

https://youtu.be/KTh84uy7mSU

Yes​​​​​​terday's 1/5 scale racin'

http://cdn2.darkhorizons.com/wp-cont...e-pew-film.jpg

poor Penelope.

I am torn in how to feel about this. First I feel joy because well, if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes. Maybe those asshats will learn their lesson.

OTOH, they're making things more difficult for the rest of us.

Seems unlikely.


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Sound needed

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Much like crows, it' a "Murder"

So, analogous to this claim, would a group of Miatas be a Flamboyance as in "Flamboyance of Flamingos"?

I think they tried to call it a "Miatagasm"

NYC, better than some places:

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The Ross Acuity switcher has a "Diss" button:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...395d195420.png

:facepalm:

He is definitely NOT looking at the map.

So old, but still funny as hell!

That's a little cumbersome.

Would one consider a grouping of Honda Civics as being a fart of Civics?

http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_...0003_large.jpg

A "fart of Civics" is missing a certain something. Maybe a "shart of Civics"?

And, since we have some people here who like their Urabus-es, a group of WRXs / STIs: An annoyance? A bother? A dicking?

You leave my URABUS alone, y'hear!

A douching of Mustangs?

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...3b097b140a.jpg

If you think Washington drivers are impatient you haven't driven many places. In Texas the Prius drivers camped in the left lane driving exactly the speed limit like the do in western Washington would have bullet holes in their cars.

If you think Texas drivers are impatient, you are right.

Assuming you mean Houston or DFW.

In the rest of Texas, folk seem not to take issue with farm machinery being driven on the highway.


Anyway, this little deer is having an existential crisis:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...345ff59935.png

I've seen the behavior in mostly metro areas; Austin is no different.

Also, when the recommended youtube list lines up just perfect to give you a creepy furby like face... This was in my feed.

http://i.imgsafe.org/33820bb03f.png?

Serious question: How do you make a record album about wrestling?

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probably sounds like this:

lol:

Dear god, that's awful.

Unrelated:

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we all start somewhere:

asked to rewire a 9697 DIYNP to 95 specs:

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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c30106dd69.png

reused the wire, but now you can actually follow where each goes.

i thought she was just fat:

^Porky before she was porked.

Dutch game show asks if woman is fat or pregnant

http://i2.wp.com/ewedit.files.wordpr...0%2C1333&ssl=1

Not really sure why this is a big deal. It's not like the women in question didn't volunteer for this.

I propose that "guess the gender" be added.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c796ae5ad2.png



But in all seriousness, I loved visiting The Netherlands. The Dutch are cool as hell, and they do zany shit like this:

In an effort to up my gaming experience, I ordered some new video cards. They arrived.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...70ad25c6a1.png

Any recommendations on where I can find an appropriate SLI cable, and a motherboard with twelve PCIe x16 slots?

I may also need to slightly upgrade my power supply.

12? Dang...

Here's one with 8.

https://www.supermicro.com/products/...4028GR-TRT.cfm

You can buy it on amazon too.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ac1447bcb9.jpg

That's not a hard-drive array. This is a hard-drive array:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...886599d50e.png






When's the last time you used Y-MODEM?

This screenshot was from today, uploading new firmware into a piece of gear less than six months old. At 9600 8-N-1, of course.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...3338cd11e9.jpg




Also, hot young female gaffers kinda do it for me:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...c473c9f2e9.png

click to play