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Das_Prachtstrasse · Post by **Das_Prachtstrasse** » Jan 14, 2014 12:32 AM

It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot. It's cooler in our spray booths on full bake cycle and the paint's drying before it hits the panel at room temp. My testicles are so low they're operating the pedals in my black leathered e34. Beer time.

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Jan 14, 2014 9:25 AM

Das_Prachtstraße wrote:My testicles are so low they're operating the pedals in my black leathered e34. Beer time.

ldsbeaker · Post by **ldsbeaker** » Jan 14, 2014 11:55 AM

Das_Prachtstraße wrote:It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot.

Check back when you top 120. Quit whining. At least you have ice.

Das_Prachtstrasse · Post by **Das_Prachtstrasse** » Jan 17, 2014 7:08 PM

ldsbeaker wrote:
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot.

Check back when you top 120. Quit whining. At least you have ice.

It reached 131 indoors today, I think I lost about 10kilos.

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Jan 17, 2014 7:36 PM

Das_Prachtstraße wrote:
ldsbeaker wrote:
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot.

Check back when you top 120. Quit whining. At least you have ice.
It reached 131 indoors today, I think I lost about 10kilos.

Hows yer ballz holdin up?

Das_Prachtstrasse · Post by **Das_Prachtstrasse** » Jan 17, 2014 7:42 PM

Brian in TN wrote:
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:
ldsbeaker wrote:
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot.

Check back when you top 120. Quit whining. At least you have ice.
It reached 131 indoors today, I think I lost about 10kilos.
Hows yer ballz holdin up?

I won a game of bocce with them, but got disqualified when it was discovered they were over legal size.

Karl Grau · Post by **Karl Grau** » Jan 20, 2014 12:14 PM

Happy M.L.K. Day everyone!
I'm thinking about getting out of bed in about an hour.

OcCoupe · Post by **OcCoupe** » Jan 20, 2014 2:57 PM

Homer Simpson has REALLY bad breath!!!

djazz · Post by **djazz** » Jan 20, 2014 9:30 PM

Karl Grau wrote:Happy M.L.K. Day everyone!
I'm thinking about getting out of bed in about an hour.

I've been dozing on and off all day with the Gilligan marathon on the tube.er... pixel. Gotta love TVLand.

wkohler · Post by **wkohler** » Jan 20, 2014 9:42 PM

It's not every day that the tow truck that's hauling your car gets a flat tire.

smitty · Post by **smitty** » Jan 21, 2014 10:18 PM

BTDT. On the 805 in Clairmont. Sideways is good.

djazz · Post by **djazz** » Jan 22, 2014 12:41 AM

Big score on E36 parts: Front Bilstein Sports w/ H&R sport springs, KMacs, and rear M3 springs and struts. $250 shipped.

This plan may finally be coming together.

Mike W. · Post by **Mike W.** » Jan 23, 2014 12:41 PM

You know it's a bad sign when you feel like you are stretching a yellow light, not running a red, but you could have stopped. And you look in the rearview mirror and see someone else, who wasn't that close to you stretching that same yellow light.

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Jan 23, 2014 9:46 PM

This is my car's new color; it's called Grimeunddeicer. It's very popular in my hometown this month; seems like everybody has it.

Mike W. · Post by **Mike W.** » Jan 23, 2014 10:23 PM

davintosh wrote:This is my car's new color; it's called Grimeunddeicer. It's very popular in my hometown this month; seems like everybody has it.

What's all that white stuff on the beltline? Tell me it isn't salt. I've lived in the rust belt and I never saw salt like that, if it is salt. No wonder cars rust back there. I sure hope a seagull had diarrhea on it. Which actually is probably even more corrosive, but you know what I mean.

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Jan 24, 2014 12:10 AM

Pretty sure it's not salt, but I don't know they use for deicer. They mix it with sand and ash in different ratios depending on temps and what's on the roads. We had some warmer weather earlier this week, then got some precipitation just before the temps dropped which turned the streets to ice, so they put enormous amounts of this stuff down. Very effective at melting the stuff, but makes a heck of a mess. I don't know how corrosive it is, but I'm sure it's not good.

Yesterday was really cold, but it was still melting ice from the roads, which splashed up on the rockers. It was cold enough that the splashed stuff re-froze on the car and collected. Then today it warmed to about 10°, which must've been just above the melting point of the crap that had collected, so it started dripping off the car. I don't mind it so much with the e32, but it seems like the wife's X5 collects twice as much crap when she drives it, and then it all drops off in the garage. Yuck.

1st 5er · Post by **1st 5er** » Jan 24, 2014 2:51 AM

It's late, so...

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Jan 24, 2014 6:37 PM

Today is Beer Can Appreciation Day. Go out and appreciate a beer can (or three). Or rather, the contents of a beer can.
Personally, I prefer a bottle, but I'm sure that'll suffice.

oldskool · Post by **oldskool** » Jan 25, 2014 12:04 AM

Just watched "Blazing Saddles" for the first time tonight.
Probably a good thing, that.

djazz · Post by **djazz** » Jan 25, 2014 1:00 AM

oldskool wrote:Just watched "Blazing Saddles" for the first time tonight.
Probably a good thing, that.

First time? One of the greatest comedies of all time, that.

How 'bout Young Frankenstein?

Last Remake of Beau Geste?

You poor deprived soul.

Acid House · Post by **Acid House** » Jan 25, 2014 1:34 AM

Found this photo from July 4th while transferring pics off my old phone.

Car looks better now, but my driveway here just ain't the same

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Jan 25, 2014 2:06 AM

oldskool wrote:Just watched "Blazing Saddles" for the first time tonight.
Probably a good thing, that.

Work work work work work work work! Hello boys! You have a good night's rest? I missed you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WolIS6PfJfQ

vinceg101 · Post by **vinceg101** » Jan 25, 2014 11:57 AM

They're pouring concrete under my house this morning...

Mike W. · Post by **Mike W.** » Jan 25, 2014 4:08 PM

vinceg101 wrote:They're pouring concrete under my house this morning...

Under your house?

What are you doing, putting a foundation under an old pier and post house?

Karl Grau · Post by **Karl Grau** » Jan 25, 2014 4:54 PM

Mike W. wrote: What are you doing, putting a foundation under an old pier and post house?

My first thought was something to do with dead bodies.

Post by **tig** » Jan 25, 2014 6:39 PM

Any electronics company that builds a mid-high-end AV component with Ethernet and does NOT include a documented TCP/IP control protocol should be taken out back and shot.

vinceg101 · Post by **vinceg101** » Jan 25, 2014 10:08 PM

Mike W. wrote:
vinceg101 wrote:They're pouring concrete under my house this morning...

Under your house? What are you doing, putting a foundation under an old pier and post house?

Precisely.
More to point, we are underpinning a 62 year old rather inadequate foundation that has been moving and sinking with some regularity (damned California expansive clay soil). 7 perimeter footing locations, 2 new internal piers at existing locations and 1 entirely new internal pier. Each 24" square and 5'-6" deep

. Good natural soil is that far down.

Outside and under the house has resembled a WWI entrenchment for the last few weeks:

Here's a shot of one of the internal piers (this pier actually picks up the end points of two girder lines), they had to cut a hole in the floor of our Laundry Room; reinforcing steel cage set, right before the form-work :

Karl Grau wrote:My first thought was something to do with dead bodies.

I'm not sayin'...but you certainly could squeeze a few in there

.

Acid House · Post by **Acid House** » Jan 25, 2014 10:15 PM

cek wrote:Any electronics company that builds a mid-high-end AV component with Ethernet and does NOT include a documented TCP/IP control protocol should be taken out back and shot.

UPNP?

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Jan 28, 2014 9:53 PM

Here's four and a half minutes of random for the botanists in the crowd. I set up a webcam at my desk to watch an amaryllis grow & bloom, and used Gawker to take a snapshot every four minutes. Who knew plants were so active?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpUTxCPj5Q

Post by **Jeremy** » Jan 29, 2014 12:10 AM

Feeeeed me, Seymour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7SkrYF8lCU

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