Over here they salt the crap out of our roads. Salt all over the roads for 4 months coupled with sub freezing temps for that same time and "nice" wheels means when summer comes, you no longer have "nice" wheels.

Me, I'm not a wuss. I have the same tires and stock wheels with plastic hubcaps summer and winter. I don't need freakin winter/summer tires. I don't drive like an idiot thinking I am on the racetrack in the summer so I don't need wider stickier tires and I've lived with the snow since I've started driving in 1988 and I'm not as stupid as everyone else around me who forget how to drive in the snow after a week's period of warmer weather.

Quote from jibber :

You guys have to be more creative... like homer simpson when he was allowed to design his dreamcar.

Dreaming of having a manual transmission in the US is being quite creative

Quote from 1993weeman :

Your the same as me, as you look at my earlier post

You posted this....



....which is not what he posted

I am in the US. Any more, my dream car is a decent practical car available with a manual transmission, not a stripped down econobox or high dollar sports car as the only way to get a manual.

Quote from Stefani24 :

But man, at the beginning of high-school I guess I couldnt even quite afford an xrt.

XRT = Mitsubishi Starion = Chrysler Conquest

1989 Chrysler Conquest TSi, bo ... uming excellent condition

Don't see why not. I paid $4000 for a car working a 15-20 hour week part time for $3.35 per hour when I was in school. Still had plenty of money left over.

Quote from The Very End :

the speed is changing between 5mbit-30mbit

Wish I could have that problem. I have a choice of reasonably priced 1.5 or too much $$$ 5mb.

Been on DSL since 2007 when it first came available to me. Only ever had 1 problem of the connection going out on me. Didn't really matter though, we were out of power for 4 days. I had internet back first and ran a generator, the work laptop, and the wife's TV for entertainment for the last 2 days of no power.

Yup, agree with Xaid0n, except for the last image. This one was the scrollbar stopper for me...

http://www.rallyphotos.cz/photos/triestingtal09/39.jpg

Fantastic!

Stregone, I've fallen in love with Nikki! How adorable is that? So, I browsed through the Nikki set. I just about lost it and busted out laughing at this one. What a capture.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/s ... in/set-72157607297079646/

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Quote from The Very End :

Actually I have heared that if you take 2-3 beers on the morning with hangover, it goes away. Have not tried it myself tho.

That's what I've always done back in my drinking days.

2 beers and a joint. Hangover gone.

Wasn't this video already posted here, sometime in 1948 or so?

Quote from Luke.S :

I find that a bit stupid considering NR2003 existed first. Isn't iRacing basically just a mod of NR2003.

Somehow I think modding someone else's program isn't quite the same as a developer modding his own program into a new program...

Quote from amp88 :

That's my point...

We have vastly different experiences because we're in different countries. Your situation can't be compared to mine's and vice versa.

I'll say! In the 80's, I was buying music for $10-15. I was buying VHS movies for $15-20. 30 years later, I am buying CD music for $10-15 and I am buying DVD movies for $15-20. The media moved from analog magnetic tape to digital recordings, far better quality.

In comparison, in the 80's, my parents were paying $0.50/gallon for gasoline and $8000 for a reasonably nice car. 30 years later, I am paying $2/gallon (was $5 last year) and $25-30,000 for a reasonably nice car. Now gasoline has so much crap in it that mileage suffers and the cars are built with so many stupid "safety features" and crap materials that the quality has gone downhill.

Oh those horrid horrid people of the entertainment industry....

Quote from AlienT. :

Luckily someone took a picture!

No way are you 15 there mate, you must be lying about your age ya old sod!

Nah, that's Grandpa Rodgers. He knew how much I liked racing games even back then, but Logitech hadn't come up with the Momo Force yet. So, he built me that wheel controller for me for computer racing games.

1988, 10th grade in a CAD class. Prior to that, I had never even seen a mouse. I was 15.

Quote from Riders Motion :

6000 miles? What kinda car do you drive? My Corolla's oil changes are every 4000 miles or so. At 6000 miles your oil must be damn dark!

Every 4000 on a Corolla? It's a Toyota, shouldn't need changed except for every 5 years or so like on my old Toyota

Just changed the oil on the wife's vehicle. Mobile 1 synthetic, every 7500. We don't live in the city though, so every trip is "highway miles" of a half hour at higher speed or more. No 5 minute trips or stop, idle, go, stop, idle, go..

An old man in Mississippi was sitting on his front porch watching the
sun rise. He sees the neighbor's kid walk by carrying something big
under his arm.

He yells out "Hey boy, whatcha got there?"

Boy yells back "Roll of chicken wire."

Old man says "What you gonna do with that?"

Boy says "Gonna catch some chickens."

Old man yells "You damn fool, you can't catch chickens with chicken wire!"

Boy just laughs and keeps walking.

That evening at sunset the boy comes walking by and to the old man's
surprise he is dragging behind him the chicken wire with about 30
chickens caught in it.

Same time next morning the old man is out watching the sun rise and he
sees the boy walk by carrying something kind of round in his hand.

Old man yells out "Hey boy, whatcha got there?"

Boy yells back "Roll of duck tape."

Old man says "What you gonna do with that?"

Boy says back "Gonna catch me some ducks."

Old man yells back, "You damn fool, you can't catch ducks with duck tape!"

Boy just laughs and keeps walking.

That night around sunset the boy walks by coming home and to the old
man's amazement he is trailing behind him the unrolled roll of duck tape
with about 35 ducks caught in it.

Same time next morning the old man sees the boy walking by carrying what
looks like a long reed with something fuzzy on the end.

Old man says "Hey boy, whatcha got there?"

Boy says "It's a pussy willow."

Old man says "Wait up ... I'll get my hat."

Last fight I watched was way back in high school. Can't remember who Mike Tyson was fighting, but my brother said just before the fight started, "I'll be back, gotta take a leak." He came back about 15 seconds later. Dad and I looked at him and both said, "Man, you missed a good fight."

I take that back. My coworkers and I have personal interest in Brian Minto because he use to work with us a few years. My brother went to school with him. Watched a few of his fights on ESPN.

Quote from LFSn00b :

WMG pwnt it though

That's funny. Perhaps someone should email them and ask why they think they own everything.

Not a basketball expert, but I believe over here, if the shot is released before the buzzer, the shot counts even if it goes in after the buzzer.

TH84, DWB, or any of you NCAA/NBA if you are can correct me if I'm wrong. Plenty of clips out there of shots hitting after the buzzer for game winning shots.

Quote from Scatter :

Guitar Pro - Score-writing software and in my opinion, the best one. Cousin's gift to me. Cost = $60. A free alternative is Tux Guitar.

I have Guitar Pro. I just learned about Tux Guitar yesterday on Guitarnoise.com. I haven't tried it out yet. I figured it would be something a bit lighter to put on the work laptop, as well as invisible to the IT department because it is a zip file like LFS is and there's no install.

Quote from Toddshooter :

I live in Adobe Lightroom

I use Lightroom, but only for categorizing/organizing and cropping. I really like cropping and being able to move the photo around the crop window as opposed to having to move the actual crop lines around in Photoshop (unless I just don't know how to do it in PS.) I don't have RAW capability yet, so I don't use it for RAW.

So we move on to Photoshop. I do all my photo developing after crop and TIFF export from Lightroom. Photoshop compresses a smaller file size than Lightroom does when processing smaller images for web usage.

Quote from Toddshooter :

Recently moved from AVG to Avast because of bloat on AVG's part.

Exactly the same here. I normally don't have anything running live, but recently I contracted a virus through a browser game and had to fire up AVG. Found that it really slowed the computer down with the latest version at the time (8.0, I think 8.5 is out now). So I did switch to downloading Avast, but I haven't fired it up to run monitor yet.

Quote from majod :

Total commander - using all the time, when you know keyboard shortcuts its much faster than explorer

I've been using Total Commander to batch rename my photography files for quite some time now.

Others I use,

Firefox of course. Have to have something to surf youtube guitar videos and all the forums I frequent (photography, guitar, RC, and of course, LFS)

Simple Viewer, a simple flash photo gallery that I use for my photo gallery that you can see here (galleries listed across the top.)

Though I like Irfanview, I use ThumbsPlus more just because I know it better. It's where I initially sort through my photography stuff for rejects and keepers before importing into Lightroom.

Last one would be Quicken that I use just to keep the checkbook balanced.

As for games,

LFS, but I don't even know if it is still unlocked. I think the last time I was on LFS was patch Y. I'm looking around and don't even know where my wheel is.

MS Flight simulator, though I haven't done that in a while either. Along with Flight simulator, I have to have FSNavigator for flight planning/tracking and FSEconomy which is a virtual economy site where I own an airplane and I ferry cargo/passengers.

Quote from OneCrazyDiamond :

The KA is a truck motor (small truck nonetheless). Hence the torque-iness compared to the SR.

That's what I understood as well, KA is the truck motor even though I have it (KA24E) in the old Altima.

Wing nut driver!

They have them. This one kind of defeats the purpose of using a wing nut if you are going to drive it on with power tools....

Actually, this one is listed as "Wing nut and Ceiling hook lag driver." Ceiling hook lag driver sounds a bit more reasonable than a wing nut driver.

Mods, thread can be closed now, it's answered

Quote from Bob Smith :

I never understood the point of pit girls. I mean, if the cars are stopped, I'll look at the cars. If they moving, I'll look at the cars. Generally, I watch motorsports to watch cars. What do they add? If I want to look at boobs I can't touch, I'll be at home with a glass of whiskey and a box of kleenex. If I were to repeat such an act in public, I'd no doubt be arrested.

Bob, if you want to look at boobs you can or can't touch, don't ever get married. You get married thinking you'll get to see and touch boobs whenever you want, but in reality, all you get is seeing an outline of well covered up boobs that you will never see again nor ever touch again...

Quote from boosterfire :

The concept probably exists to occupy NASCAR fans when there's no crash on the circuit. :P

I was going to ask, if NASCAR is the slum of the motorsports world like you guys think, why does it seem that every other "superior" motorsports needs pitgirls to sell it where NASCAR only has the racing that sells?

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Quote from BigPeBe :

You know, the famous scene seen on movies etc. when in slowmotion someone shouts "nooo". Just a joke.

Understand the "slowmooooo" part, just can't understand the "No"

Could it be, gasp, the fact that it's an SUV? A small one at that with a curb weight of 3400 pounds compared to your 2900 pound Merkur? Gasp, it's soooooo heavy! I average about 22 mpg and the Merkur specs at a combined 24 mpg.... Hmmm . I can easily get my 2 kids in and out of it, or actually they can easily climb in and out of it as opposed to wiggling into the back seat of the Merkur (or equivalent). I know when I was only 9 years old, I wasn't too pleased at wiggling into the back seat of a 2 door with my knees squished up against the driver's seat.

Perhaps it's because of the increased visibility of sitting up higher in a "truck"? I guess that wouldn't make sense either to you guys. Maybe the fact that I get 24 inch snowstorms several times each winter with having snow on the roads at least 50% of the time through the winter that makes it laughable to have an AWD SUV? Just this past winter I was quite glad to have it driving to work when I never saw the road surface for 5 weeks straight because of the snow and ice. My much more "reasonable" car wasn't going anywhere during that period.

Or was it the Mazda=Ford thing? I'm just trying to figure out what spurred the comment, not what the comment meant (the slowmo part is quite understandable, just why the "no") You are aware that Ford does = Mazda, right? After all, my Mazda Tribute is nothing more than a Ford Escape with a different front grill and rear hatch cosmetic design.

Just trying to understand the logic of the post, that's all.

Quote from BigPeBe :

[slowmo]

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

[/slowmo]

?????

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Even on FLAT grass with 1" of snow, if you didn't have your foot on the break, if the car was in gear, it would just start spinning the back wheels. Tractor had to pull me all the way across the lawn because it had NO grip. Not the car for that girl at ALL, lol.

Tis why I have this.....



Mine technically because I'm the one who paid for it, but it is for the wife as her "kid hauler". Gotta keep them safe in the winter.

Ford thread, but Mazda=Ford in this case (and most cases for that matter except the RX8 and MX5 I believe...)

Quote from Highsider9 :

What color does the Car have on your Screen? At home (where i edited it) it's a really nice deep Red, here at work it looks a lot lighter, almost pink.

Feedback highly appreciated.

I do not calibrate my monitor with any sort of equipment. I have done a soft calibration with a few websites though. My prints from Adorama.com came back perfectly matching what I see on the display.

I wouldn't call it deep red. I wouldn't call it pink either. There is a pinkness to it and I could imagine the car really being that color. What color was it to the naked eye? Deep red or red skewed towards some pink?

Quote from Kaw :

Some of the first shots with my new camera!

Kaw, nice colors in that sunset.