These seem MT appropriate...

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I wouldn't hold my breath too long, AMD's threadripper is right around the corner :likecat:

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A few years back I helped a friend do a complete restore on her mom's 1973 Yamaha LT3. 100cc single cylinder two stroke. It turned out beautiful. I had it out on the road a couple times, and I imagine I looked like an ape on a baby tricycle when I was riding it. You'd peg the throttle and it'd give a WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH - do it a few times and you'd have it screaming along near redline in third gear as the speedo edged past about 30. IIRC, I could get the speedo to about 55mph on flat ground WOT in 5th gear. That thing was a blast in about the same way that a stock 1.6 NA Miata is a blast.https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d0463328c5.jpg

I have a yamaha dt100 from '79 that's the same way. Only has 800 miles on it and it's so chuckable it's awesome. You can run the little two stroke all the way through fifth gear like nothing, you won't be going real fast, but man is it fun.

Also the noises from that honda.... holy hell those were amazing.

A new one from Mike! The Miat King.....

Interesting 'fix' for sloppy latches. My only concern would be with the screw scraping the latch, unless it just gives the latch something to hold on to.

My first "real" bike was a 250 Nighthawk. I'm 6'2", and probably looked just as silly on it.

Drum brakes, spoke wheels, 2:1 compression, suspension about one step away from leaf-springs, no tach, manual choke, 90 parsecs per gallon fuel economy....

It was, by far, my favorite motorcycle. I'll never ride another one, as it'd probably spoil the memory to go back to something that puny, but I'll always cherish it.


As a no-frills city commuter, the CB-250 is easily the greatest motorcycle ever designed by man.

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It's been around for a while but he does a good job of documenting it. It works fine and doesn't scratch the latch at all. If you use a sharpie on the screw head it blends in good. I did both cars a couple years ago this way.

My hatred for that man is finite but unbounded.

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And that's really saying something, as I'm normally pretty conservative about those to whom I allocate my finite supply of opprobrium.

Ask me about this when I'm sober...

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All my training says that my eyes should translate a picture left-to-right. If I take the liberty of reading between he lines, I come up with: "Women going straight from "shower" to "in the bed with me" does not require any sober/drunk translation. I arrive at the same conclusion... "I need to be making more money, or be married less".

Me and the Captain have an mutual understanding on this one.

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^^ Agreed, needs pics of her or it didn't happen.

Haha.

Also, I took a photo of the sign requesting that I not take a photo. Because I'm just that much of a bad-assL

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The T-37 is the sexiest airplane in the history of airplanes.

It is not the fastest. It is not the most mission-capable. It is neither the most efficient nor the longest-range. It is not the most aerobatic, and it is certainly not the quietest.



Rather, it is Sean Connery's DB5. Small, sophisticated, unpretentious, and undoubtedly more exciting than a python dropped into a barrel of parrots.



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^ = :bowrofl:

Lol

^ Dafuq am I looking at?


Sidebar:

I think that if Walmart wants to maintain its wholesome, family-friendly reputation, and yet still continue advertising on FB, it needs to re-examine the product lines which it carries, and the algorithms which produce targeted ads for same.

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I am totally, 100% serious- not making this shit up.

I went and did something.

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You are one weird son of a bitch!

That was a random slogan that my fiancee threw there while we were originally working on the site. I was supposed to change it to something better, then several years later it still has not been touched. It is ok though. I am working on a new site that should launch very soon.

I predict that the audience for this video will be extremely small:

This is why I'm gonna miss big-city livin' when I move back out to the sticks next month. The local cable company is literally hosting a wine and cheese reception in the lobby of the condo building next week to encourage us all to sign up for premium services. Where else do you see this kind of shit?

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Joe, that picture is of a replica of The Mothership stage prop. Parliament Funkadelic circa 1976.

Well, now I feel like a total retard.

To quote the famous 20th century philosopher Eric Cartman; I'm, like, seriously, here.

As a former radio guy who was once offered a line of coke by George Clinton in the green room at KIIS-FM in LA about twelve years ago (I politely declined), I am ashamed and embarrassed that I didn't recognize that one.


On a wholly unrelated note, I'm about 1/3 of the way into the Mother of All Expense Reports right now. I haven't filed a single one since I started working at WGN, and staring at the mountain of receipts on my desk makes me sad. They're all tediously small (like $20-$50 each) but we're easily talking about $4k of unreimbursed expenses here in total. And to think that I wanted to go downtown for a cheezborger today...


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My internet service is fiber optic, and they don't charge outrageous prices. It's cheaper than the local cable or satellite packages by about 50% It sells itself.

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Now that's Random. ^
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I had you pegged as the highest probability of knowing what that was. I was disappoint. But 76 is getting back there; I hadn't even purchased my first album yet. Which, for the record, was Kool and the Gangs Celebration. On cassette, no less. Only place I could play it was in my father's then brand new 81 Sedan DeVille. Which was diesel. No power, but 30+ mpg in an enormous vehicle. And, it would lay a smoke screen when you floored it. The vehicle was in serious need of a turbo.

But I digress. Round 2. This one is probably more difficult, but the theme continues.

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^ It is indeed fabulously random. And :likecat: is awarded.

Whatever algorithm FB uses to decide what to advertise to me has been going off the rails a lot lately. This morning, it wants me to buy military-themed pouches of flavored coffee grinds at 7-11, as an alternative to chewing tobacco.

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Dafuq combination of things did I ever type / click on to produce that result?

Is that a real thing? Chew coffee grounds instead of tobacco?

It is indeed a real thing: https://getgrinds.com/

Apparently, it comes in little pouches like snuff, and is intended to be used the same manner.


Oddly, a different company makes tea-grinds snuff.

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What is it with the recurring military theme on the containers? Other chewing tobaccos feature pictures of horses or beavers or mountains...




Secondarily, a friend of mine puts his milk into the fridge in descending order by fat content. This has an aesthetically disturbing consequence:

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Really, milk-producing company? RBG?

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Serious question: why does a normally functioning T-800 Infiltrator require a torque wrench? How is it not able to sense the amount of force which it is applying to the handle of the ordinary socket wrench which it is already holding? Swapping it out for a tool designed to overcome a basic inadequacy in the human arm seems oddly and unusually inefficient for this machine.

Out of all of the plot-holes in the Terminator series, this one bothers me almost as much as how, at the end of T2, when they "destroy" the two Terminators by tossing / lowering them into a crucible of molten metal, nobody bothers to think about the fact that after all the wacky shit that's happened in there, a reasonable factory manager would likely order a metallurgical analysis of the material in question, which would reveal small traces of futuronium in the batch. leading to a repeat of the Dyson Incident a few years later.

With all the dust blowing from across the Mediterranean, the roads were really slippery past couple weeks around here.

So I crashed my bike.

Front end bentered...

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Took the steering tube out, confirmed benteredness.

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Sent it to wholesome youth camp and got it all straight again.
Changed the bearings, too.

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Hammered a 10" solid bar into the steering tube to address any possible weakness issues after repairs, and good as new...

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Shit, dude. How'd the rider fare?

Joking aside, I'm fine.
Playing defensive sports all my life has its advantages, I know how to fall.

Light bruises on my right ankle, knee and elbow.
Healed in a few days.

I was wearing shorts and sandals at the time. My bad.

I had to put my bike down many years back. Helmet got into a fight with a granite curb. My legs hurt again just reading about you.

Over here many states allow "no helmets" except if a child under xx years. I was getting gas the other day and there was a young girl (17ish) riding a fairly fast Japanese bike with her younger sister on the back (10ish). Older girl no helmet + shorts and bikini top. Younger sister helmet + shorts and t-shirt.

I guess some parents just don't give a shit...

I gave up motorcycles 15yrs ago. Too many stupid drivers around.

Hope you heal up quick.

I always have my helmet on.

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Open face and all, but still a helmet.

And, I am completely healed already.
It was just some light bruises from a three point landing.

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Having fun with that inspirobot.

top-end life:

It's ridiculous, I live in a large city and pay more for internet than my girlfriend in her small town. I think her town, population wise might have a few more people than the building I live in. Sorry OT

I gave up motorcycles 11 years ago after a nasty wreck and concussion at the track.

^ doze fears... I kno dem.

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I often think these exact same things about the terminator movies. The Cyberdyne Systems model 101 could hop in a semi truck and understand the exact transmission shifting (similar to the pilot program upload in the matrix when Trinity needed to fly the helicopter)...but he can't sense ft lbs on a breaker bar?

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Apparently, I do not understand the rules of the Goodwood race...


In unrelated news, so very pretty:

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Such brake, many stopping:

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I know what you're thinking. "Did he mount six racks or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a Core i9, the most powerful CPU in the world and would blow your Passmark clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

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Also, today I remember Lexi, the bestest little fuzzbutt a man could have, who declared her independence from life on this date, five years ago.

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Dafuq? What line number is that?

Boeing 787-9 unit 1, tail# N789EX, on display at Farnborough.

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Looking forward to flying on that bitch in my new job.

Ah. You can see all the orange flight test wiring on it in that shot of the MLG.

Yes.

And also in the many racks full of orange flight test wiring and instrumentation in the main cabin. :giggle:

It's ironic. I helped build that plane. I was there for the 1st flight ceremony of the -9. My mind just went to the -8 planes when I saw test equipment wiring. I think line 5 is the lowest line number -8 still flying, and we're using it as a test bed.

I love when they hot rod those beautiful birds... nothing like it IMO. I just wish someone was willing to nut up and roll one again.