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oldskool · Post by **oldskool** » Apr 21, 2012 9:12 PM

Took the posse to a car show today downtown. It was called "Rims on the River". I bought a parking pass from some guy that was leaving for free. Meow.
Interesting choice of favorites among my ladies. I'm digging the ratty black 65 Lincoln while the girls flocked to the German cars. They liked the older Bugs and van campers while my wife liked the V12 60's Jaguars. Not a single BMW but I did see a guy who was wearing a hat with our logo. Show Fail.
Once I get my 80's 5er rolling, that hooptie will go directly to show mode here and I can finally tell every Camaro guy about my tool kit and blue rag.

a · Post by a » Apr 21, 2012 9:30 PM

I drove the Ranger for the first time in 3.5 months ! Only issues are the speedo cable and a few brake warning lights are on. Also the ABS light is on. Meh,

I have the clutch switches jumped out too. I roll started it in reverse at my sister's house. Haven't done that in 30 yrs. Rowed it around town , never getting into 5 th. Clutch engages very low, but it should ride up with wear. Other issues too, but for now it is adequate for my purposes.

1st 5er · Post by **1st 5er** » Apr 22, 2012 10:26 PM

1st 5er · Post by **1st 5er** » Apr 22, 2012 10:28 PM

Xenocide · Post by **Xenocide** » Apr 22, 2012 10:29 PM

1st 5er wrote:

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Apr 23, 2012 6:20 AM

Xenocide wrote:
1st 5er wrote:

I approve this message.
Regards.
Uncle Doland

Karl Grau · Post by **Karl Grau** » Apr 24, 2012 1:09 PM

My supervisor has been a little grumpy since he found out he didn't get the promotion but this morning's email is a bit over the top.

You forwarded this message on 4/24/2012 8:54 AM.
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:29 AM
To: Gray, Charles
Attachments:

Hi Charles,

Your jeans look faded and should be replaced. The uniform policy Section C-29 page 2 states that pants are to be dark blue in color. If you have questions or concerns please let me know.

Thanks,

Tad

nnarth212 · Post by **nnarth212** » Apr 24, 2012 1:40 PM

That is over the top--

I took the small age gap advantage when my boss told me my hair was not combed to his liking and replied, "of course your forgiven for saying so, Mike, you're old and out of touch.

Look around you."

ON another note: are HDD prices still stupid out of line...?

It looks like they are approaching the costs we saw prior to the tsunami. Poor south Asia.

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Apr 24, 2012 2:22 PM

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Apr 24, 2012 2:22 PM

Karl Grau · Post by **Karl Grau** » Apr 24, 2012 2:31 PM

nnarth212 wrote:That is over the top--

What sucks is that now I have to use a sick day tomorrow and I don't like taking time off if the weather isn't going to be nice.

rmiddendorf · Post by **rmiddendorf** » Apr 24, 2012 3:05 PM

nnarth212 wrote:ON another note: are HDD prices still stupid out of line...?

Yes. That's why I still have two empty bays in my MacPro. Blu-Ray archival FTW...

... but I would like a RAID 5 array sometime. That would be cool...

nnarth212 · Post by **nnarth212** » Apr 24, 2012 4:37 PM

rmiddendorf wrote:
nnarth212 wrote:ON another note: are HDD prices still stupid out of line...?
Yes. That's why I still have two empty bays in my MacPro. Blu-Ray archival FTW...

... but I would like a RAID 5 array sometime. That would be cool...

I'm about to press buy on the 3TB seagate external.... $149.

Someone tell me all this crap is not the reason my netbook is slow....

(I know the answer.... it's not... but I do need a few TB these days.)

rmiddendorf · Post by **rmiddendorf** » Apr 24, 2012 5:21 PM

nnarth212 wrote:
rmiddendorf wrote:
nnarth212 wrote:ON another note: are HDD prices still stupid out of line...?
Yes. That's why I still have two empty bays in my MacPro. Blu-Ray archival FTW...

... but I would like a RAID 5 array sometime. That would be cool...
I'm about to press buy on the 3TB seagate external.... $149.

Someone tell me all this crap is not the reason my netbook is slow....

(I know the answer.... it's not... but I do need a few TB these days.)

The only bad Segate I've ever had has been an external one. Didn't die completely, but would crash at will. I was lucky I was able to move all the data off of it that I needed to save.

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Apr 24, 2012 5:24 PM

Karl Grau wrote: My supervisor has been a little grumpy since he found out
he didn't get the promotion but this morning's email is a bit
over the top.

You forwarded this message on 4/24/2012 8:54 AM.
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:29 AM
To: Gray, Charles
Attachments:

Hi Charles,

Your jeans look faded and should be replaced. The
uniform policy Section C-29 page 2 states that pants are to
be dark blue in color. If you have questions or concerns
please let me know.

Thanks,

Tad

Just a Tad over the top.

Maybe you should inform Tad that dark blue is pretty subjective; ask him for a more specific definition. That ought to help improve his mood.

Karl Grau wrote:
nnarth212 wrote:That is over the top--
What sucks is that now I have to use a sick day tomorrow and I don't like taking time off if the weather isn't going to be nice.

Wait; I thought the weather was always nice in the other SD. You mean it's not?

rmiddendorf wrote:
nnarth212 wrote:ON another note: are HDD prices still stupid out of line...?
Yes. That's why I still have two empty bays in my MacPro. Blu-Ray archival FTW...

... but I would like a RAID 5 array sometime. That would be cool...

If you guys think HD prices are out of line these days, maybe you should hop a ride in the Way-Back Machine™ to see what those puppies were selling for back in the early '90's. My first hard drive purchase around 1994 was a pair of 500MB SCSI drives to make a striped RAID on a Mac Quadra 950. $1400. That's 500MB as in megabytes.
/grumpy_old_fart_rant

nnarth212 · Post by **nnarth212** » Apr 24, 2012 8:07 PM

Oh -- I remember!

$500 for 40mb ram in '94.

68040 Quadra 700 with 8mb onboard retailed for $4,250.00

alijonny · Post by **alijonny** » Apr 24, 2012 8:47 PM

Brian in TN wrote:
Xenocide wrote:
1st 5er wrote:

I approve this message.
Regards.
Uncle Doland

Fuggin gooby

Karl Grau · Post by **Karl Grau** » Apr 24, 2012 8:54 PM

nnarth212 wrote: I'm about to press buy on the 3TB seagate external

3TB ?!!
What, no cloud storage for p0rn?

davintosh wrote:Maybe you should inform Tad that dark blue is pretty subjective; ask him for a more specific definition. That ought to help improve his mood.

Normally he's a pretty cool boss but this isn't the first time the hue of my group's Levis has been an issue. Out of ~100 of us that are considered 'field' people, my group of six are the only ones whose supervisor gives a rat's ass about it.
I think what bugs me the most is that he couldn't just mention it in passing at the coffee machine, he had to go on the intranet and research the actual rule number and then put it in an email.

davintosh wrote:Wait; I thought the weather was always nice in the other SD. You mean it's not?

It's great now but they were saying chance of rain tomorrow. Calling in sick the day after your balls have been busted over something stupid has been a long standing tradition at my agency but I decided that it would just be lowering myself to his level of pettiness (plus it's supposed to rain

) so I'm going in.

oldskool · Post by **oldskool** » Apr 24, 2012 9:07 PM

I really pissed off a friend today.
A guy he worked for died so I texted my friend using another phone saying I was the guy that died and that God gave us all iphones in heaven. I'm not sure if I'm an asshole or if my friend is a gaping vagina. I'm perplexed.

rmiddendorf · Post by **rmiddendorf** » Apr 24, 2012 9:09 PM

^^^ I'm like not even gonna touch that...

Motronic · Post by **Motronic** » Apr 24, 2012 9:15 PM

oldskool wrote:I really pissed off a friend today. I'm not sure if I'm an asshole or if my friend is a gaping vagina.

I'm sure he knows you well enough to get over it eventually. That's classic though. What else would he expect from you

ldsbeaker · Post by **ldsbeaker** » Apr 25, 2012 12:04 AM

oldskool wrote:I really pissed off a friend today.
A guy he worked for died so I texted my friend using another phone saying I was the guy that died and that God gave us all iphones in heaven. I'm not sure if I'm an asshole or if my friend is a gaping vagina. I'm perplexed.

No, that's classic asshole. Funny, though.

In other news,
MCAS Miramar to MCAS Yuma - 2:15

I have a new point to point goal! (<2:00)

davintosh · Post by **davintosh** » Apr 25, 2012 2:44 AM

My wife wanted to make cornbread for breakfast the other day but didn't have any cornmeal in the house. We did have popcorn, so she through some in her fancy grain mill & ground it up. Made some tasty cornbread. Or rather, popcornbread.
I was impressed anyway.

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Apr 25, 2012 9:15 AM

Got my stock check in yesterday. WHOOHOOOoo.

oldskool · Post by **oldskool** » Apr 25, 2012 5:44 PM

^
^
Money is the root of all evil. Good news! You'll never be evil.

1st 5er · Post by **1st 5er** » Apr 25, 2012 5:50 PM

oldskool wrote:^
^
Money is the root of all evil. Good news! You'll never be evil.

Let's get the quote right.

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Apr 26, 2012 1:30 PM

Made me chuckle.

oldskool · Post by **oldskool** » Apr 28, 2012 11:02 PM

Looks like I'm BANNED over at NCEURO.ORG.
Those fags have no heart.
For all it's worth, create a name and enlighten. WTRF

Brian in TN · Post by **Brian in TN** » Apr 28, 2012 11:26 PM

Had a great day of metal detecting. Spent 4 hours on some property on historic Misionary Ridge in GA. Came away with a musket ball and trolley tokens from the 30/40s. Not car related, but my hunting bud got a kick out of Das Boot.

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