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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 31, 2016 19:35:23 GMT -5
Zoinks! It's like a scene from Jurassic Park!!!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 31, 2016 20:01:13 GMT -5
Don't forget to vote in the Jamie awards!
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 31, 2016 20:15:28 GMT -5
Zoinks! It's like a scene from Jurassic Park!!! Yeah, I thought it was a fake for sure but snopes seems to have confirmed it.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2016 21:22:37 GMT -5
So I usually spend all of Thursday afternoon in jail. Out of context signature fodder if I've ever seen it -M
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 10:38:10 GMT -5
Yep. Once upon a time I was a halfway-decent shade-tree mechanic, at least until they started computerizing all the shade trees. Uh ... I mean, until they started computerizing all the cars. If I could accomplish things (as I did, mainly on my mother's old '73 Pinto, my then-stepdaughter's I-think-'72 Pinto station wagon & my '88 Dodge Colt) like changing out starters, a U-joint, shocks, a master cylinder, etc., there's no reason someone like you can't do what you're hoping to. That was almost all before the internet, much less YouTube & the equivalent. These days I'm not as likely to get much done under the hood, even with a 20-year-old Maxima, but even so a couple of years ago I managed to save myself $300+ in labor by poking around on Google, heading out to a salvage yard & coming back with & installing a screen about the size of a silver dollar. And now I'm getting to practice what I preached, I guess. A week ago my driver-side window stopped working, so I removed the door panel (about an hour-long process, since the images allegedly illustrating the procedure in my Haynes manual bore no more resemblance to what I was actually dealing with than they did to the SHIELD helicarrier) to see if anything obvious was the matter. Wound up heading out across town to the Pull A Part yard Saturday & did the same thing with a compatible '95 Maxima so that I could remove the window regulator & motor, crossing my fingers that (a) that was the problem & (b) the one from the '95 worked. That took about 2 hours, because I spent a good part of that time trying to do the same thing with a compatible later model, only to realize that getting access to everything would be a major hassle with the window stuck all the way in the up position (all the way down would've been ideal). Decided after awhile to go in search of another one with, I hoped, a lowered window, but no luck ... but the '95 I finally settled on had something like 80,000 miles than the first one (& 40,000 or so less than mine), so I figure I lucked out a bit. Had to mangle the top of that door's window channel to extract said window, but I finally managed. Got back home, removed my own regular & motor, switched out the salvaged parts & ... yep ... that was the problem. Of course, now my window is off track, to the point that it jams about halfway up, but after looking at it this morning in the parking lot here at work, with the previous day's exhaustion & exasperation largely lifted, I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of guiding the glass' front edge into the proper channel rather than where it is now. I'll have to repeat a lot of the above steps, but at this point I'm becoming an old hand at such things. Getting the window back on track was about a 3-minute operation, but now, of course, some 2 weeks later, my moonroof won't close. Because of course. The motor is working, because I can hear it humming away when I try to operate the roof panel, but it moves only a half-inch or so. From online research it looks like I should be able to close it manually by either disconnecting the motor or using a hex key (provided in the toolkit that came with the car, I'm told, but since it's 20 years old I seriously doubt it's stuck in the trunk somewhere) to crank the panel shut. At least the weather is sunny this week. (Famous last words, I'm sure.) If there isn't an easy fix otherwise, I figure I can keep it shut. I made it 50 years without a retractable/removable roof, so I suspect I won't die.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 1, 2016 11:01:33 GMT -5
Zoinks! It's like a scene from Jurassic Park!!! Yeah, I thought it was a fake for sure but snopes seems to have confirmed it. Wait, that's real?! With the way that thing was moving, it looked very CGI to me.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 1, 2016 11:03:04 GMT -5
Well, today was a waste. My boss was swamped with other clients today and wasn't able to come in to review the demo I've been working on for the past few days. I should have just slept in. (atrb_partsz)
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 1, 2016 11:07:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought it was a fake for sure but snopes seems to have confirmed it. Wait, that's real?! With the way that thing was moving, it looked very CGI to me. I thought it was fake too but Snopes says its real so I'm going to say it is too.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 1, 2016 14:02:28 GMT -5
Sorry. Here's the deal. I'm a defense attorney. My Law & Motion day is on Tuesday. Which means I spend all day Tuesday in Court. So I spend most of Monday morning getting ready and all of Monday afternoon in jail with clients. If I have a trial 99% of the time it starts on Wednesday. My preliminary hearings are Friday morning. So I usually spend all of Thursday afternoon in jail. Losing a Monday just totally messes up my schedule. On almost any given Monday holiday I still end up in the office on that day anyway. Memorial Day tends to be the exception, because my wife's family makes a big deal out of it. Anyway...I hate three day weekends. They're just a pain in the butt. Makes perfect sense. It screws up the rest of your week. I figured it must be something like that. Best of luck getting back on track with your clients and for helping to keep our judicial system moving.
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Post by Gene on Jun 1, 2016 20:32:27 GMT -5
"Thank God we have the optimism of DC's latest event to counter the violence and cynicism of Marvel," I find myself saying for the first time ever.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 1:16:11 GMT -5
It may look like the most powerful artifact in the universe... but it can't even hold a hot pan without it's owner getting burnt... Loot Crate included these Infinity Gauntlet oven mitts in a recent box, but apparently they do not work as oven mitts, and have caused several people to suffer burns when using them. Loot Crate is in the process of doing a recall and has notified its subscribers via e-mail to stop using them. ...curse of Thanos or shoddy product? -M
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 2:06:05 GMT -5
I also remember this cartoon quite fondly from the late 1970's...
The Adventures of Muhammad Ali!
after watching a handful of classic Ali fights, I had to find the intro to the show on youtube as well.
-M
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 4, 2016 21:11:55 GMT -5
Finished the first chapter today. Only (gulp!) nine more, plus two forewords and two acknowledgement pages, to go!
Cei-U! That's one small step for a geek, one giant leap for geekkind!
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 4, 2016 21:56:19 GMT -5
Went to a medical clinic a few nights ago with a severe allergy reaction in my lymph nodes in my throat.
As such, I've been taking meds and slept practically all day today.
Got up at 7 a.m. to let the pups out and they woke me up at 6 for dinner.
Thankfully the rest and meds have helped tremendously.
I think finally I'm going to go to an allergist and get this addressed the right way.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 5, 2016 1:33:10 GMT -5
Went to a medical clinic a few nights ago with a severe allergy reaction in my lymph nodes in my throat. As such, I've been taking meds and slept practically all day today. Got up at 7 a.m. to let the pups out and they woke me up at 6 for dinner. Thankfully the rest and meds have helped tremendously. I think finally I'm going to go to an allergist and get this addressed the right way. Is it me or are the allergens in the air becoming more aggressive? Pollen never used to bother me, I always only had indoor allergies but this year I'm really affected. And the guy I have a crush on at the gym actually couldn't breathe a few days ago and panicked and I sat with him for 20 minutes on the floor of the gym an talked him down. (and then found out he has a new boyfriend via facebook when I got home, grrr)
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