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Posted: Jan 14, 2014 12:32 AM
by Das_Prachtstrasse
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.

Posted: Jan 14, 2014 9:25 AM
by Brian in TN
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:My testicles are so low they're operating the pedals in my black leathered e34. Beer time.
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Posted: Jan 14, 2014 11:55 AM
by ldsbeaker
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot.
:roll:

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

Posted: Jan 17, 2014 7:08 PM
by Das_Prachtstrasse
ldsbeaker wrote:
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot.
:roll:

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

Posted: Jan 17, 2014 7:36 PM
by Brian in TN
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:
ldsbeaker wrote:
Das_Prachtstraße wrote:It's 44 degrees Celsius here today, in the shade. That a 110F for you lot.
:roll:

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?

Posted: Jan 17, 2014 7:42 PM
by Das_Prachtstrasse
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.
:roll:

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.

Posted: Jan 20, 2014 12:14 PM
by Karl Grau
Happy M.L.K. Day everyone!
I'm thinking about getting out of bed in about an hour.

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Posted: Jan 20, 2014 2:57 PM
by OcCoupe
Homer Simpson has REALLY bad breath!!!

Posted: Jan 20, 2014 9:30 PM
by djazz
Karl Grau wrote:Happy M.L.K. Day everyone!
I'm thinking about getting out of bed in about an hour.

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

Posted: Jan 20, 2014 9:42 PM
by wkohler
It's not every day that the tow truck that's hauling your car gets a flat tire.

Posted: Jan 21, 2014 10:18 PM
by smitty
BTDT. On the 805 in Clairmont. Sideways is good.

Posted: Jan 22, 2014 12:41 AM
by djazz
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.

Posted: Jan 23, 2014 12:41 PM
by Mike W.
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. :shock:

Posted: Jan 23, 2014 9:46 PM
by davintosh
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.

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Posted: Jan 23, 2014 10:23 PM
by Mike W.
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.

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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.

Posted: Jan 24, 2014 12:10 AM
by davintosh
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.

Posted: Jan 24, 2014 2:51 AM
by 1st 5er
It's late, so... :zzz:

Posted: Jan 24, 2014 6:37 PM
by davintosh
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. :beer:

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 12:04 AM
by oldskool
Just watched "Blazing Saddles" for the first time tonight.
Probably a good thing, that.

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 1:00 AM
by djazz
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. :rotz:

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 1:34 AM
by Acid House
Found this photo from July 4th while transferring pics off my old phone.

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

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 2:06 AM
by davintosh
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

:cool:

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 11:57 AM
by vinceg101
They're pouring concrete under my house this morning...
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Posted: Jan 25, 2014 4:08 PM
by Mike W.
vinceg101 wrote:They're pouring concrete under my house this morning...
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Under your house? :shock: What are you doing, putting a foundation under an old pier and post house?

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 4:54 PM
by Karl Grau
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. :dunno:

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 6:39 PM
by tig
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.

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 10:08 PM
by vinceg101
Mike W. wrote:
vinceg101 wrote:They're pouring concrete under my house this morning...
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Under your house? :shock: 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 :shock: . Good natural soil is that far down.

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

Posted: Jan 25, 2014 10:15 PM
by Acid House
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?

Posted: Jan 28, 2014 9:53 PM
by davintosh
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

Posted: Jan 29, 2014 12:10 AM
by Jeremy