GonneVille

"indy Belgian designer". Yeah, that pretty much tells you what you need to know.

He completely excavated that old Rotary lift to repair a couple pinhole leaks, then sheathed it so any future leaks would be contained. I love that he kept and restored the original pump and controller for it, too. I think the whole thing is just too nice for words. BTW, the guy kept almos everything he cleaned out and is slowly going through it and deciding what can be saved, what can be thrown out, and what gets sold for scrap.

Well, excuse the fuck outta me. Can I help it if I got over there while I was checking my porn download on Limewire and all the assholes flying past on the right wouldn't let me back over?

This guy restored a VERY old mechanics garage as his personal garage and workshop. I'd kill to have a place this nice to work. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567

This car pisses me right the fuck off. It's a 4-cyl FWD compact. This is NOT what the Regal name should be going on. Call it a fucking Skylark if you want. If they want to bring out a new Regal, make it a RWD midsize, with a V6 base model, and a RWD/AWD turbo V6 top model. Give Buick a car to lead it to success, not drag it downmarket.

Yeah, sure, it's fine when you set it up like this for spot checks. Thing is, there's a town in Oregon that that made the news because it has these cameras set up on every road that crosses their city limits. That was a year or two back, how many places do you think are considering following their lead? Gee, let's see, how do we feel about a private company hired by the government using cameras to track license plate numbers as we travel? Especially with Coleman wanting to setup Columbus like fucking London with cameras covering every fucking square inch of the city?

I love my car just a little more on days like this. Unless it actually gets beached, my big pig of a Buick will plow through damn near anything, and that's an all-seasons. And really, the snow hasn't even topped my shoes yet, how the fuck is this a snow emergency?

Goddamn, that is one ugly bitch. Looks like she hit every branch on the ugly tree, landed on the exposed roots, then the rest of the tree fell on her. Then after she was rescued, someone beat her with ugly sticks for causing property destruction.

It mostly is in winter, too, unless you go through during or just after a moderate-to-heavy snow. Then it's a bloody nightmare.

Well, or southwestern CT. The GW really does suck ass. Sometimes you can manage to skate through between about 1am to 4am and it's not bad, but anything between 5am and midnight, fucking forget it. You're trying to fit twelve lanes worth of traffic into 6. 84 is definitely the way to go. You may run into some traffic on 81 around Scranton, but it's usually not too bad.

Beef up your fence a bit, maybe see about a steel fence with turn-backs on the top that make it hard to climb. Next, plant something NASTY, on the outside of the fence if possible, inside if not. Juniper bushes have nasty little straight thorns, and other ornamental bushes carry some nasty hooked thorns. I don't know if anyone actually sells Honey Locust trees, but if you can afford to have some transplanted, the 1"-3" long, iron-hard and needle-sharp thorns that grow in clusters all over them will give even the most determined crackhead second thoughts about trying to wade through them. If they actually DO try, they'll be left bleeding from horrific scratches and punctures all over. Finally, get a monitored alarm, and have it armed with sirens, flashing lights, and whatever else you can have put in to make it the most bloody annoying thing your neighborhood has ever dealt with. Make sure nobody in the neighborhood can possibly ignore it when it goes off.

I actually mapped out an interesting one the last time this topic came up, and I reworked it just now. It comes out to almost exactly five miles, offers a good variety of sharp corners, long sweepers, wide an narrow streets, and plenty of natural viewing areas and places to set up stands. Plus, it loops through the Arena District, and near the North Market and the Short North, so it would generate a huge amount of business for local restaurants, bars, and other businesses before, during, and after the race. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/GonneVille/ColumbusGP-3.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/GonneVille/ColumbusGP2-1.jpg The route start on Nationwide going east from High, then turns North and goes north on 4th up over the bridge. It turns West up the entrance ramp onto 670W, goes under the High St and Goodale/Park St caps, then off at the Goodale exit onto Goodale St. still going west past Thurber Towers. Then it turns South across the Goodale bridge over the 670/315N ramps, and left onto Vine eastbound, back under 670 to turn north on Neil, then east again onto 670 going back east to the High St/Convention Center Dr exit. It crosses Goodale again, onto Convention Center Drive around the back of the GCCC and through railroad canyon to Kilbourne St, and back east once more on Vine St. Turning South on Front St loops the center of the course back over itself. Down Front St, then right to go West on Nationwide, and left to go South on Neil. Go left again onto Long St., left on High, and right on Nationwide going East to the start/finish line.

You may have to format the card in the camera. the fun part is that the computer may not like the cameras formatting, so you may have to reformat it in the computer. One way or the other, the computer should recognize it after that.

"OK, I'll be there in half an hour to close out my account. Have the paperwork ready, I'm in a hurry today." It's YOUR money, daily limits are there to PROTECT your money by limiting the amount that can be withdrawn with a stolen card. If your bank refuses to allow one-time limit exceptions, or to allow you to change your limit, then they're up to something funny. I used to have a Chase account. As long as you only deal with the branches you're fine, and their online services are terrific, but their phone center is full of shit-dicks, assholes, and complete fuck-ups that go out of their way to piss you the fuck off. I went to Huntington, and while their online banking is almost useless except to check balances, their branch people are friendly as hell, and their regional call centers are brilliant.

I will use this for evil. :ninja:

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Cheap 4-bottle Old Spice cologne sets. Two years in a row from one of my Aunts. I have never worn cologne, EVER. I don't even like scented deodorant or laundry detergent. 90% of colognes and perfumes turn my nose on like a fire hydrant. Then she bought me a short sleeve dress shirt. I have hated short sleeve button shirts with a passion all my life. The next year she bought me a cheap watch with a hologram skull on the face. I've never worn a watch in my life, and being in high school, it was hardly the fashion statement I'd have wanted to make, anyway. The year after that she got me a gift card from some store at her local mall that didn't have a location within 50 miles of Columbus.

Plus one for buying from AIM, but call ahead to make sure their walk-in counter is open again. I haven't bought anything that didn't come by mail since the Panic, so for all I know it may still be closed. I've got a C&R, so it's easier for me to get it shipped than to try to get an afternoon off from work to drive down. EDIT: OK, apparently my Mom's fucking piece of shit Mac has a long memory for passwords, cause this was posted by my brother, Avenger.

It's a .577 Tyrannosaur, supposedly the most powerful non-military round in the world. I don't doubt it at all. The designers were going for 2400fps with a .585" bullet, the same size as the .577 Nitro Express. The round is so hot that a lead or even a jacketed round CAN NOT be used. Here's the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8imjiuOx1c Note that the guy at 1:26 is firing a considerably smaller unidentified rifle, I think it might be a .600 Nitro Express. Also, the last guy on the vid is firing a less powerful .700 Nitro Express version of the same rifle. Note the polished bolt where in the rest of the vid, the rifle has a blued bolt. That round in a double rifle damn near put me on my ass. The .700 used to be King Daddy of BFGs before the .50 rifles came out. Then the T-Rex came along and knocked it another rung down the ladder. The makers actually do NOT suggest using it for hunting large game, because if you miss, it takes so long to regain your composure and reload that you WILL NOT get a second shot. Considering that guns that big generally only get used on things like lions, tigers, and water buffalo, that is a BIG drawback. EDIT: Found the info on the last rifle. It's a .700 Nitro Express rifle built on a .50BMG action by members of AccurateReloading.com. Also, the article has some info on ballistics and energy for the .577 T-rex: http://www.gunslot.com/articles/577-t-rex http://www.ammo-one.com/577TyrannosaurDummy.jpg For a good size comparison: .308, .577T-Rex, .577Nyati, .600 Overkill, .600 Nitro Express, .700 Nitro Express http://kuvat.huuto.net/3/d0/b1204475792dc182e35bfbc088610-orig.jpg

He's got a bunch of other vids out there, including a few where he smokes past cars and bikes.

Vid says AK47 and AR15.

Yearling. Yeah, I thought he looked damn small. A White Tail that young would be considerably smaller than a doe, even.

If it's a Red Stag, then it's a young one. If it's an Elk, then it's tiny. In any case, at 100yds+, even I would mistake that for a White Tail unless I saw it from the rear.

I was looking at some of the other videos that he has up on his channels, and the speech he gave to the Entertainers Group: Forget funny, I think he might actually be one of the most intelligent people on TV. Check out his two channels: For the funny: http://www.youtube.com/user/mikerowedownanddirty For the serious: http://www.youtube.com/user/mikeroweWORKS And his site: http://www.mikeroweworks.com/

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