Richard Cranium

It isn't just Tesla. I know BMW is planning it, and I've heard other manufacturers are planning it. https://www.thedrive.com/news/34547/bmw-is-planning-to-sell-heated-seats-and-more-as-a-subscription-no-really

I'm in!

I don't shoot mine much any more because I mostly shoot at a range that is only 100 yards. It's boring that short. Unless you want to try shooting quarters or dimes at that range. At some point I'd like to try and stretch it's legs out to a mile. Once I got dialed in at 1000 yards it was almost boringly automatic.

Nice!

Dr. Flue for Chimney inspection and cleaning. A while back I had called them to schedule an inspection and cleaning of my chimney. A couple days before the appointment we had a large storm come through and a neighbors tree fell and hit my house. On the day of the appointment they showed up right on time. The two employees were clean, professional, and polite. They insisted on wearing paper booties over their work boots even after I told them not to worry about it. They inspected my chimney, and let me know it was good to go and didn't even need cleaned. They did recommend a chimney cap to keep wildlife out. We had chimney swallows at the time. My chimney is not a standard configuration, so they measured and custom ordered a stainless cap. The icing on the cake was that they found an additional hole in my roof I did not know was there. They pulled out a piece of flashing from their truck and slid it under my shingles to close the hole until the roof could be repaired. I have nothing but good things to say about those guys.

MidwayUSA is doing a sale on Vortex Optics right now. Viper PST Gen 2 5-25x is sub $700

Ruger Precision Rifle - $1400 Vortex Viper PST Gen 2 - $$800 Leaves you $300 for rings, bipod, etc... Might run you a little more with tax, shipping, ffl, etc... But you can get in the ballpark of $2500. Those prices are from Buds Guns on the RPR and Optics Planet on the Vortex Viper. I have the RPR and love it. I put a Vortex Razor on mine though, that'll blow your budget. If you can take advantage of the military/LEO deal through Vortex you can save a bit of money.

She's still here. Insert "I'm not dead yet" meme from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Guess I'm going to have to figure out Discord. It's been great being a part of this group, I hope the group continues in some way shape or form.

I don't think anyone is going to care about your virgin banana daiquiri, with or without the umbrella.

Yeah, I agree on the hideous. I'm glad they are bringing back the midgate on something. After owning an Avalanche I can't imagine not having that as a feature.

1) Get the Holly Sniper Stealth on the dragster tuned, and turn up the power. The car should run consistent 8.0 quarters, I want to get back to that. 7.90 wouldn't hurt my feelings even a little. 2) Get the 6.0 LQ4 together and the T56 into the '95 Z28. 3) New to me daily driver. The Civic is at 275,000 miles and starting to rust out. Thinking maybe a Honda Fit.

Soft opening CR meet?

Yes, there is an Oculus specific cord. Last I looked it was like $70. I don't use one of those, I use a generic USB C 3.1 cord. On my video card I have a USB C 3.1 port, so that's what I connect the oculus to. You'll have to see what options he has to connect. The port on the quest is a USB C, but he may not have that available on his PC. Here is a link to the oculus cable. https://smile.amazon.com/Oculus-Virtual-Reality-Headset-Cable-Gaming/dp/B081SHD773/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=oculus+link+cable&qid=1640950034&sprefix=oculus+link%2Caps%2C67&sr=8-4 You can get a USB A to USB C cable if he doesn't have a C port on his PC. Just make sure the standard is at least USB 3 or 3.1 I would look at the Amazon reviews though and see what people are saying about the cord with an Oculus. I bought one of the cheaper cords up front ($20) and it didn't work for long. Just don't buy a cheap cable, it probably won't work. I recommend buying one with a 90 degree end so it doesn't stick straight out. Another option that might work would be wireless tethering. There is an app called Oculus desktop ($20). It was a little tricky to get it running wireless, but if you have fast strong wifi where he is using the oculus that might work for you as well.

I have the quest 2 and love it. I personally don't see many drawbacks to it. You can spend a shit ton on games, but I don't, and I don't think you need to. I really like the fact that it's dual purpose, so it can be stand alone or tethered. If the PC isn't up to the task he can still play stand alone until he can upgrade his video card. I have an older 1070ti and it does just fine. The only thing I do with it tethered is iRacing, everything else is stand alone. I was curious about watching 3d movies, so I picked up the Avatar 3D version and converted it to run on the headset. The process wasn't terrible, and it does work pretty well. When you guys are traveling he could download movies onto the headset and sit in the back seat and zone out. I don't know if he is someone who would get into VR chat, but I'm not sure that would be a super good idea. I've heard it can be pretty fun, but I've also heard it can get pretty raunchy and sometimes downright nasty.