Scruit

When the bad guy is out of ammo his bullets are probably in your torso.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/09/13/athens-woman-fires-shots-at-man-who-attacked-her.html You GO girl! (IB Should have thrown elbows)

Don't forget to convert UK and US MPGs. A US gallon is 3.8 liters and a UK Gallon is 4.54 litres. When the UK quotes 65mpg that's 54 mpg in the US just due to conversion.

I run 3 miles 3x a week at an 8:10 pace-8:30. I can't do treadmills - feel like a hamster. There is a nice loop around Dublin I can just step right out of my office and onto the path and arrive back 3 miles later. Other times I run around the cemetery Delaware. I woudl run further but I find I need to fuel up to run more than 3 miles and I'm actually trying to LOSE weight so fuelling up is not going to helping me reach my goals. Once I get to my goal weight (about 10-15lbs left to lose at an average of 1.5lbs per weeks so far, but it'll get slower as I get closer to my goal) I'll be able to fuel up and run further - my goal will then shift from weight loss to better aerobic conditioning. I run at an anaerobic pace right now. Lost about 6 weeks of working out to a broken rib but I'm back to 100% now.

I don't understand why the EPA would want to destroy an engine from '99? If there is some compelling legal argument for why the engine is no longer allowed to be used then presumably a replacement engine is also going to be similarly situated? I'd love to know the precise reason why the EPA required this engine destroyed. Think of the local small businesses that would love to get their hands on a truck like this.

Wouldn't they get more for it with a working engine?

I'm pretty sure the "Chinese Diving Coach" pic is probably illegal...

My DroidX phone IS a brick. Bad SD card slot, bad GPS antenna, crashes 2x per week, 10% of the photos I take are corrupt, can't take videos reliably. The phone has been rooted, de-rooted, factory wipes AND physically replaced TWICE.

Headed in the right direction!

Apple says pre-orders start 14th. So does that mean I pre-order that through Verizon or Apple? Can Apple sell me a Verizon phone? verizon claims no knowledge of the iphone 5; "No announcement about the iphone5 has been made".

Looks like: - n00b rider on a far too powerful bike riding at the back of the pack, possibly left behind and running hot to catch up - Pack slowed down for the trailer turning (they had no trouble seeing it!) - n00b was either showing off by splitting the pack intentionally or didn't realize the pack had slowed down and had to split the pack to avoid hitting a bike - Once the n00b started splitting the pack I'm sure he saw the trailer and thought; "Here comes the suck." NEVER ride faster than you are comfortable with in a pack. If the group leaves you behind then you shouldn't be riding with them for many reasons: - No good riders would intentionally leave a n00b behind on a group ride. It's up to the tailgunner to make sure there are not stragglers, and the road captain should keep the pack together. If the pack is too long for the RC to see the back of then him and the tailgunner need intercoms. If they leave you behind then they are not worth riding with. - No good group riders will force a n00b to outride his skill to keep up. That's how you get n00bs killed. They are too dangerous to ride with. - Outriding your skill will make you crash. That makes YOU too dangerous to ride with. I agree with n00d to the front. If it's your first ride, or you know you're not as fast, then make sure the RC knows. If they don't want you to ride with them because you'll slow them down then fine - better they vote you off the island than kill you. I've done many Patriot Guard rides and charity rides and I was always close to the front with the other n00bs until I had a few group rides under my belt.

God gave him a Mulligan. I hope he picks his next club more wisely.

"Those that turn their muskets into comedically large drinking straws will drink for those that don't" - Thomas Jeffeson.

The phrase should be; "Those that mold their Glocks into tupperware food containers will store food for those that don't."

This is an actual conversation between my son and I this morning. My son asked me this morning; "Is it September 11th today?" "Yes." "Today is a special day..." "Yes. Before you were born, 11 years ago, terrorists crashed commercial jets full of people into the World Trade Center, Pentagon. One plane full of heroes thwarted a fourth attack by crashing into to a field in Pennsylvania. About 3000 people died. in all. We remember it as Patriot Day." "No, I mean it's chocolate pudding day at school today." So, I failed as a parent. I'm going to fix that after school. How depressing is it that the kids of today who weren't born yet will never understand what it was like to live through it? I know several people who were there, and a friend of my wife's was killed. A work colleague of mine visiting from our New York office was stranded in Ohio for a week - took him days to reach his family and find out they were all ok.

I have a rule on FB - You're only my FB friend if we met in person. I've only broken that rule for a couple of the guys on OR that I know through the forum. What I definitely DON'T do is accept FB friend requests from friends of friends or random people I don't know. Go one this morning from a chick supposedly called "Gely Rodriguez" who lives in the Philippines. WTF? Gotta be someone trying to set up avenues to spam people. He profile pic was of a cute girl (Oooh! They did a google image search for "hot girl" - I'd never have thought of THAT! ) Anyone else here use FB and get random friend requests? Do you accept all friend requests, or only people you know?

The phrase "beat sword into plowshare" is biblical (e.g http://bible.cc/isaiah/2-4.htm - one of many), and of course refers to converting the sword into a farming tool - a sign of peacetime and the end of war. This makes sense as you are simply reshaping one blade into another blade. Thomas Jefferson is inexplicably and inaccurately credited with the phrase "Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those that don't." A gun of that era is mostly wood with only metal working parts and a barrel - which are not suited to being "beat" into a plow blade by the average person. It's a known phrase, an old one at that, but the substitution of the word 'gun' is clearly a contemporary pro-gun politicization of the phrase, along with the requisite false validity by incorrect attribution to a revered public figure. (I know Chevy's sig didn't have the false attribution) Plus, good luck beating a Glock into a plowshare. (IB "Good luck beating a Glock at anything..." )

Chevy, Regarding your sig... How does one beat a *gun* into a plowshare? A sword, sure... But a gun?

Well, there is a reason they hold their value.

No way in hell and I moving someone who's been through that unless they are in a position where they will die from some other more pressing factor (fire, drowning etc). F everyone else, they can be late for work. One of my brothers was hit by a car many years ago and launched about 20'. I went to where he landed and made him stay down. Even at 14 years old I knew to keep him immobile until the paramedics arrived. I recruited bystanders to call 999 (UK) and others block the road but keep a path open for the EMTs. I had to physically hold my brother down because he wanted to get up. He was bleeding a lot from the mouth and I worried it was internal injuries, but turned out to be just a badly bitten tongue/cheek. You can't just grab someone who has been through that level of trauma and drag them off the road.

When my younger brother was 10 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The doctors didn't even want to operate, they used the words; "make him comfortable". After some consultation it was decided to operate under the understanding that he only had a 50/50 chance of surviving the operation, and a 90% chance of being left totally blind because the tumor grew around his the optic nerves. I had tried to be the strong one. My mother was devastated and my other younger brother was too young. My older brother and I had to be "the rock". My step-dad didn't care and my biological father lived in another country (came home for the operation, but there was no interaction between him and my mother due to unresolved acrimony). I was doing great all the way through the operation, several hours. We all sat in the waiting room trading funny stories about my brother as the surgeons cut his brain open (looked like Data from Star Trek when they open his scalp to access the control panel on his skull) to get the golf-ball-sized tumor out. I reminded everyone that he and I spoke a non-English language for years as he struggled with his Aphasia (auditory dyslexia, tumor-related it turns out) I had to translate for the rest of the family. I was just in tune with him so when he spoke his jumbled nonsensical words I understood fine. The doctor walked in to the room and told us they were done and he was awake but they had to take more good brain tissue than they wanted, and warned us that even if he survived he "most likely won't be him any more." My mother and I were first to visit him. I had to hold her up as we approached the room, almost carry her, she was utterly destroyed be grief and worry. He looked asleep but we knew he wasn't. We were shocked by his black eyes despite being warned it would happen. He roused slightly but didn't respond to my mother. We were both imagining the worst - was he in a vegetative state? I put my hand in his face as if try to wipe the black eyes away, and said; "Do you know who I am?" He opened his eyes, draw a deep and labored breath, then said; "Stop being stupid Scruit, of course I know who you are." I told him to "Get well soon, you're using up a perfectly good hospital bed that someone else might need." then took my mother back out into the corridor. I made sure I was out of earshot of his room... And I was done. Collapsed on the floor and cried like a baby. My mother sat with me, not doing any better herself. As we stood up again she told me to wash my face and compose myself before we went back down to the waiting room to relay the news. She told me that I had been the only strong one and that everyone was relying on me to be strong to help them through it. I told her I wasn't. She said that didn't matter - if I can be strong for them then that's all that matters. Being strong doesn't mean you are emotionless. Being strong means you stand there are a beacon of hope and strength for those who need you, when they need you. We went back downstairs and I relayed the news that he had survived, retained *some* sight and was still "him". Not a dry eye in the room, except mine. I was still the strong one for everyone, and they took comfort from that. Being strong doesn't mean you have to be divorced from all feeling. It's a tough role, but you need to fill it. Be that guiding light of hope for your family when they are around... Nobody will judge you for how you cope with it on your own. Least of all me.

It rocks. The video and sound quality are almost as good as a GoPro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAcpbQ1e4j4 The power source is a mini-usb plug. If you plug the USB into a computer it will go into a file transfer mode where it simply presents the SD car to you computer as a removable drive. you can get the same effect by taking the microSD card out of the camera and plugging it into your computer. (I carry a microSD to SD adapter and an SD-USB adapter in the car/on the bike so I can take the microsd card out and plug it in anywhere to view the video. The camera records to the microSD car as a series of 2-minute AVI/MP4 (depending on precise model) videos. VERY easy to put in any computer and view without special software. The camera has all the core dashcam features - auto start, auto stop, cycle record. It also has a GPS chip inside and a G-load sensor. The GPS and G-Load sensors are used to keep a data file containing speed/course/location data. You can play back just the video file in your normal video player or you can use the proprietary player which will read the GPS/GLoad data and present you with a screen that includes a "realtime" map with speed and G-load data. Neat feature, but not one I have yet to use fully. I can see the value in an accident if you wish to show the magnitude of a crash (I rear-ended the guy and he's suing for injuries, but the G-load sensor shows only a 2G impact... Or the guy who rear-ended you says the impact was "just a slight brush" but the G-load says it was over 10G), or if the location of the crash is in dispute and the video itself does not show the location well enough. I'm sure the value will present itself one day, so I have the data tracking turned on. If nothing else it serves to confirm the on-video speed readout. The G-Load sensor can be set to always keep videos where the g-load was high (theoretically it will never overwrite a crash video) but I found this feature to be difficult to tune... - If you set the g-load threshold too high and it will not mark the crash videos - If you set it too low and it will mark too many videos and eventually stop marking them (there is a limit to how may you can mark). - The vibration on a motorcycle presents a high natural g-load that confuses the sensor. - 99.9% of the interesting stuff I save the videos from do NOT involve a high-G event. I get several hours of history so I have plenty to to recover any video. In terms of mounting on a motorbike I give it a 3 out of 5. It does not have a standard 1/4" camera thread, but it DOES have a nice bolthole across the top that you can fab up a bracket for with relative ease. Most car "dashcam" dvrs use proprietary connections between the camera body and the windshield mount, so mounting them on a motorbike is extremely difficult. I love this camera. I just bought my 4th to replace the rear-facing camera on my bike that has started l corrupting videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKo-gRGTq8w

Cycle record. It records videos are 2 minutes long. When the car is full it automatically deletes the oldest video when it starts a new one.

It plugs into the 12v outlet / cig lighter. The outlet turns on and off with the ignition. If your 12v outlet is always-on then go to the auto parts store and buy a spare outlet and wire it up under the dash to an ignition-switched source.

I just bought one today from ebay for $91. http://www.ebay.com/itm/261082993510 $30 for the microSD card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0DF-0005-00029 $130 total. For full fully automatic HD dashcam. At that price we should all have them.