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Sigma X posted:I had a lovely Jimmy Johns' sandwich, full of gristle. I also had a cookie. Quality of late-work food has gone down lately since the new PM's taken over, we used to actually get our choice. Now it's more like "There are 5 places with take-away in a 3 minute drive, which one you want food from?" If we go late on a release, we typically get Pei Wei, because we have a fair number of vegetarians in the group, and it's a reasonably close place that does decent take-out that will be open when we run late, and they have a good online ordering system.
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Just realised I'm going to be driving past Pebble Beach on Sunday, and the Automotive Week & Auctions are on. Anybody been before? Seems like a shame to drive by and miss it but I'm not sure it's possible to do much without spending big bucks?
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Slow is Fast posted:Interested to see how you like it. I've had a broken screen on my galaxy 4 for a year and want to move onto something newer with a better camera. I think I'll just get a galaxy 5 or 6, but I'm open to other options. I don't like it, it's going straight back. I like the form factor. I don't like the build quality, it feels like cheap plastic. I don't like the screen brightness or color rendition -- side-by-side with my Nexus 5 the ZF2 is less bright and much more dull. I don't like the ASUS, speaker and home buttons in reflective chrome. Basically, I went from a Nexus 4 to a Nexus 5 and I'm spoiled on the polished, quality feel of the Google units. I also have a Nexus 7 (2013), and there is absolutely a familial feel to the three. Looks like I'm just going to wait until Google announces the N5 (2015) and hope that it comes in under $400... Rumors are that they are going to announce an LG N5 and another brand's new N6 at the same time. That'd drop the price of the current N6 and that thing is really pretty... meatpimp fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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I miss having a nexus. Updates straight from Google, promptly without any bullshit. The oneplus one is nice and all but their devs suck poo poo. If cyanogenmod didn't still support this phone, I would have ditched it by now.
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You jest, but in comparison, the N* has home buttons built in to the screen space, so they disappear when you aren't using them... instead of damned chrome reflections every time your hand moves. I'll probably lose sleep over it.
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So, somehow, while helping out here in California, I lucked into the annual Mattel company picnic lunch! This showed up while I was waiting to be escorted in to the facility:  That's Twin Mill II, done up in a new paint job/wheels/accessories to tie it in the Batman vs. Superman franchise. It was driven in. I'm sitting in the lobby waiting, and I hear *V8*. Get up, look out the window and there it was. Stupid phone was slow to bring up the camera app and start recording, but I got a little of it running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4idFFpDmMYY   The wing is new for the Batman vs. Superman schtick. It pivots back (actuator on the right side, next to the rear wheel) to get out of the way of the hatch, but the hatch still only opens a little. Later on, the real life Boneshaker showed up:  And Deora II:   Transverse rear engine, supercharged. I presume it's a V8.  All of them were driven in. There's a storage are for them a few blocks away. This was at the entrance to the Design Center:  The steel mesh basket at the top holds hot Wheels to run down the track, and there's a similar basket at the end to catch them. I couldn't take pictures in the Design Center, of course, but there were all kinds of prototypes and design work, and showcased past toys, and EVERYBODY had loads of toys in their cubes. All the Mattel stuff. Just inside the door were three more real life Hot Wheels: the Team Hot Wheels desert race car, the '71 El Camino with jet engines from the Team Hot Wheels videos. Mario Andretti drives it in the last episode!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T3EFd8fswc It's so kick-rear end in person. There was also a modified '70s 510 wagon. in baby blue. This was just parked outside the Design Center. Not even on display for the picnic.  Cool poo poo is just LYING around! There was so much goodness for my inner and outer child in that facility. I mean, this is the shuttle bus between facilities:  Then there was a car show at the picnic:   Closer/more pictures here
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 uuuhhhhh it never loving occurred to me that some of the hot wheels cars might be actual real goddamn cars that run. holy fuuuuck the Deora II is real *mind implodes*
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features, 2002 audi a6: - constant smell of hot oil - a/c blows spider eggs at you - transmission and turbos are known to fail - stereo will only output the wails of crying children - throttle lag - when locking, car softly whispers satanic verses
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Those are amazing. Just did the easiest oil change ever. I think if my drain pan will fit I won't even have to put the car on ramps.
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QuarkMartial posted:Those are amazing. I've never owned a car my drain pan wouldn't fit under. I do have a pretty low profile pan, though. It fit under my 94 Protege and my then-wife's 09 Mazda 6s. Anything fits under the 4Runner, which is one of many reasons I love that truck. Edit: Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club back to back on AMC. This makes me very happy, as Molly Ringwald was my first celebrity crush. bandman fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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BloodBag posted:My mom traded in her mint Z3 for a c230 sedan *kompressor* because the battery died after six years. Kompressor does not dance Edit: but seriously, we need people to keep doing this stuff so we can buy it a few years down the road at a reduced rate. And then people can say "how can you afford to drive (insert luxury auto maker here)!? It's so expensive!
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365 Nog Hogger posted:
Judging from your posts you're in California. If you really want to go to Tennessee to get an 11 year old rx8 with no air conditioning send me a pm. 
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meatpimp posted:another brand's new N6 Knowing who it is, I'm curious to know if they'll actually deliver a product that fits into the Nexus name.
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I had chik fil a tonight. Didn't taste like oppression or anything. Just delicious breaded chicken deep fried.
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stump posted:Just realised I'm going to be driving past Pebble Beach on Sunday, and the Automotive Week & Auctions are on. Anybody been before? Seems like a shame to drive by and miss it but I'm not sure it's possible to do much without spending big bucks? I've never been, but I've heard that while a lot of the big events like the Quail are super expensive that the parking lots and roads in and out of events are often almost as good because of what the attendees are driving in and out. If you go make sure to take pictures to share! Darchangel posted:This was at the entrance to the Design Center: This is so awesome. I hope their interoffice mail system uses something similar 
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bandman posted:I've never owned a car my drain pan wouldn't fit under. I do have a pretty low profile pan, though. It fit under my 94 Protege and my then-wife's 09 Mazda 6s. Anything fits under the 4Runner, which is one of many reasons I love that truck. I could slide the drain pan under the ST no problem, but I couldn't get to all the little attachment points for the under-body panels to remove them, or reach the oil plug. Also, I can't even fit my low profile aluminum jack under the jacking points unless I drive up on some 2x8's. I have a pair of little wooden ramp things made of a large 2x8 with a smaller 2x8 on top of it about 18" further along the board. The reason I have these, is that my old CP race car was so loving low that my low profile jack wouldn't go under the cross brace in the front of the car unless it was on top of the 4" lift. And the 2nd board is so far down the first one because the front splitter would hit the 4" tall block if the front tires hadn't already gotten up onto the first 2" board. To get it onto a trailer I had to use the longest & lowest ramps made by RaceRamps or I'd wreck the splitter on the trailer ramps, and it was a low trailer with a dropped dovetail. I loved that car in a lot of ways, but in other ways, holy hell was it a huge pain in the rear end (and a massive black hole for any green paper that might consider occupying my wallet).
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Mat_Drinks posted:I've never been, but I've heard that while a lot of the big events like the Quail are super expensive that the parking lots and roads in and out of events are often almost as good because of what the attendees are driving in and out. If you go make sure to take pictures to share!
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I keep seeing a totally mint fourth gen caprice (last gen in my mind as I've never seen a zeta platform caprice) around town. I can't help but keep thinking how great it'd be to have to have a warmed up ls motor and six speed in an old 9c1, roadmaster or Fleetwood.
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Haha it looks like Martin Roofer came back today and left me a bunch of Bible quotes in my mailbox. E: Now that I have his business address, I think I need to leave him a sign of the one true God, V8! Witness my deed brothers! MrChips fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Couple days late but if you don't like raw sushi-quality fish and raw oysters* you are seriously missing out. Best proteins on the drat planet and I come from Pork & Steak Land originally. I have eaten tons of strange and uncooked things that a wizened japanese man has produced for me and never once gotten ill like I do every single drat time I eat Domino's (still delicious). Other fun stuff California, seen within 2 blocks of each other:   *May not be advisable unless you live on the coast
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Mad Max Fury Road has hit iTunes and Amazon. 2 weeks till the blue ray release.... Oh what a day, what a lovely day!
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Mad Max Fury Road has hit iTunes and Amazon. Ordered!
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Friend that was supposed to send me a cable amp walked out on his cable installer job and told his boss to gently caress himself. Pretty sure the amp was going to fall off the truck, and he's been hard to reach lately, so I gave up and ordered the same model amp he was going to send me. Specifically, this one. The active return amp was a plus, as most are passive. So is the pass-through VoIP, since I do have landline service via coax, and do plan to put a battery into the MTA (supposed to keep it going for 8-12 hours, I'll probably put all the network poo poo on a UPS soon too - I'd love to know why TWC sends a complete cable modem with a built-in MTA though, even if you don't lease a modem - they just disable the internet portion of it if you don't lease it). At my worst, my downstream signal was around -12dB, SnR around 32dB, upstream signal around 58dB, when the modem could sync. On average it was -8dB down, SnR was decent around 35-38, upstream still in the mid 50s, and the second cable modem with the MTA would constantly lose sync. The HDHomeRuns were also showing roughly ~55-60% signal quality and would pixelate randomly. The (internet) cable modem was also logging hundreds of thousands of CRC errors. Now I have about as perfect of a signal as it gets to my (internet) cable modem. No idea what it is to the MTA, since it's also a cable modem (one that has an IP I don't know, plugs into a different coax jack, and the ethernet ports are inactive), but it syncs despite the -5dB loss on the passive port (has to be better than the daisy chain mess of splitters it replaced. The passive port remains active during a power failure and is designed specifically for a MTA.  Maybe now my lovely Adult Swim shows will stop pixelating, and my internet will stop dripping packets everywhere. poo poo's much more reliable so far. rdb posted:Congrats on the teeth. I too have had a bone graft and two implants (for three teeth) in the front of my bottom jaw. Be sure to follow the surgeons instructions about cleaning exactly. I had them done as a teenager and did not, and wound up having to go back in and have my jaw scraped. On the plus side, I am now 35 and they have held up great and still look as good as the day I got them. Implants are something I'm going to need eventually (and probably a bone graft). In the front, I only have 1 upper tooth remaining, and it's a crown that's chipped. The rest were all crowns or bridges, and all snapped off at or close to the gum.  Part of it was refusing to brush my teeth often as a kid, part of it genetics I think (my dad has lovely teeth too), and of course all the drugs didn't help.I have a few broken in the back (had a tongue piercing for all of a week until I bit down on it and broke 3 teeth), but the nerves are long dead at this point, so I'll get them yanked whenever I get any other work done. And they're knocking my rear end out cold before they even get me into the chair, I HATE dental work. Astonishing Wang posted:It's not a ranch if you're building trucks on it. It's a truck factory. Well, it IS built in Texas.  stump posted:Drove Vegas > Death Valley > 395 > 207 > South Lake Tahoe yesterday in a rented Nissan Altima S. My dad had an Altima S for a rental when he came out to visit a couple of weeks ago. Even just riding as a passenger, the CVT felt really weird. Comfortable and quiet car, but the engine was already making death rattle noises on startup with only 15k on the odometer (sounded like it had a broken timing chain guide... or tensioner). He kept it in CVT mode the entire time, so it was smooth, but still disconcerting not feeling any gear changes. stump posted:Yeah, with I used to be anti-automatic, but purely based upon what I had read about them getting better in recent years I had come around the idea of an auto... but I guess some of them still suck. Might get a 528xi from zipcar on the last day of the holiday, I imagine that might be more like what I expected from a modern auto. It really depends on the car for me. Just going on rental experience, the 4 speed auto GM uses in most DBW cars absolutely blows in that it takes seconds to figure out how long it should take to downshift when you stomp it - except for the loaner 2010 Impala LS I had when the dealer was fixing warranty issues on my car, that one actually downshifted quickly (only the LS got the 4 speed for that year IIRC, all others got the 6 speed). I expected to find a V6 under the hood when I looked, but it was just a Ecotec 2.4 with variable valve timing. The 6 speed auto in a rental Cruze I had was drat responsive. I don't know how the gently caress I managed to add 3 MPG to the average mpg on it, I was driving it like I stole it the whole time I had it, with traction control off. I popped the hood expecting to see a decent sized engine, then saw this tiny little 1.4 with a cute tiny turbo and went "how the gently caress is this thing doing one wheel peels all day?!". (.... granted, it was raining all day...) Tommychu posted:Man, I knew Haynes manuals were loving useless but I hadn't read one for a post-1995 vehicle before. They really are loving painful, especially the electrical section. The whole diagrams chapter might as well be a single page of IGN SW-----------[LOGIC]----------GND, and stuff any mulleted hick with a 6 pack of Old Milwaukee, a nut lathe and 3 brain cells could fix in ten minutes with absolutely no safety risk gets the 'YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS TO A DEALER DON'T TOUCH IT' note. I can't believe I paid money for this thing, it's absolute loving garbage. Should have listened to kastein and everyone else on the subject. I've found they're only really useful for showing you how to pack wheel bearings. Which you don't do on most vehicles today anyway. The one for my 80 F-150 was semi useful - but also about twice as thick as today's versions. I'd love to get my hands on a FSM for my car, but it's so much like every other car I've owned (except for the funky timing chain driven water pump, and the variable displacement ac compressor) that I've been able to figure out everything just by looking around a bit under the hood or using Google for 10 seconds. I don't even know if GM sells FSMs for my car, for that matter, I haven't really looked into it that much. It'd just be nice to have torque specs for whenever I have to do suspension work, and for whenever the clutch eventually needs to be replaced (drat thing still feels new with 120k, aside from chattering a little on the first few shifts of the day). meatpimp posted:I don't like it, it's going straight back. What'd you expect for a $200 phone?  Seriously though, I was actually giving it serious thought, the specs looked good and the price was great. But like you, I'm probably going to wait for the new N5 or for the price of the current N6 to drop a bit. My current N5 is limping along, but just barely - even with the new battery, battery life isn't great (I think I may go back to KitKat, it's that bad, but the new battery did make a huge difference), I dinged up the edges pretty good removing the original back panel with my ape hands, and the power button thinks I'm jumping on it like I'm on a trampoline half the time. New back panel really made it look a lot better, though it has the international model # printed on it. I may eventually solder in a new power switch, or at least remove the back cover, disconnect the battery, and blast the power button with some electronics cleaner. Brigdh posted:Knowing who it is, I'm curious to know if they'll actually deliver a product that fits into the Nexus name. Samsung, HTC, and Motorola have also made Nexus devices. HTC made the original Nexus, Samsung made the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus, LG made the N4, N5, and Motorola made the (current) N6. But yeah, I'm a bit nervous about Huawei being involved myself. MrChips posted:Haha it looks like Martin Roofer came back today and left me a bunch of Bible quotes in my mailbox. Or, you know, you could report him to the USPS for tampering with your mail. BrokenKnucklez posted:Mad Max Fury Road has hit iTunes and Amazon. I really need to get a Bluray drive for my PC. Preferably a Bluray RW, I think they've come down pretty far in price haven't they? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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stump posted:Drove Vegas > Death Valley > 395 > 207 > South Lake Tahoe yesterday in a rented Nissan Altima S. That's just kind of how a CVT is. There's always a slight delay after you hit the pedal. You get used to it. ilkhan posted:This is why people who drive sticks hate driving automatics. Its not pro-active, it only knows what you've done, not what you are going to do. If you went down a steep enough hill in my '07 Altima, the transmission starts revving high and essentially engine braking. It scared the hell out of me the first time it happened since I didn't know what engine braking was at the time.
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some texas redneck posted:Samsung, HTC, and Motorola have also made Nexus devices. Thanks for the chuckle. I'm well aware of the current Nexus manufacturers. I forgot the Huawei connection is now public. Google is heavily involved in the Nexus program, so a lot of risk is mitigated. These are Android Halo devices after all, so Google's name and brand is attached to them more than usual. Part of the program involves diversifying the market, and the respective companies have all gotten a bump from it. However, Huawei does seem to be a bigger leap than the past devices. I think Xiaomi would have been a more traditional choice, but they have their own idiosyncrasies as well. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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N is for Nipples posted:How do I sell an Infiniti Q45 with illegal-rear end window tint, rough interior and paint, and a failing transmission for $1000? Put a TV in it, take out the springs, and add curtains (because VIP).
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Mom left her Plantronics bluetooth headset in a pair of pants when she washed them a few weeks ago. We both figured it was dead. She tried plugging it into a charger tonight. Charge LED lit up. She told me, so I let it charge for about 15 minutes, and turned it on. Paried perfectly, all the buttons work, and sound quality is still decent. I'm pretty surprised to be honest; I've washed earbuds and they sound like total poo poo afterwards. Pretty sure it was turned on when it went into the washer. I've washed a phone on accident (an ancient Motorola RAZR v3m) - it never fully recovered, in that the keypad never lit up again and any camera shots were blurry as hell, but after a few days of drying out it started working again. It would still turn on when I remembered "gently caress, THE PHONE WAS IN THOSE PANTS!" a few minutes after the washer started agitating, but was giving multiple RAM/ROM/CPU errors. Rhyno posted:I put off buying a new phone for a whole fuckin year, still rocking my launch Nexus 4. Hopefully the new N5 is good and not huge because huge phones are sucky. Honestly, I thought the N5 would be too big, but even with a double layer case on it (Spigen Slim Armor), it's not bad. It's a HUGE upgrade over the N4 (particularly since it adds LTE). Yeah, I know the N4 has the LTE radio, but it's disabled by default by the radio firmware, and doesn't have the proper antennas for it. The N5's bulk is only noticed if I'm wearing slim or skinny jeans. mariooncrack posted:If you went down a steep enough hill in my '07 Altima, the transmission starts revving high and essentially engine braking. It scared the hell out of me the first time it happened since I didn't know what engine braking was at the time. Hondas have had "grade logic" since at least the late 80s - they would downshift on their own by at least 1 gear if you went down a hill long enough. Neat poo poo. They also unlock the torque converter (and possibly downshift a gear? I know RPMs would jump up a bit in my Integra if I tapped the brake pedal) when you sneeze on the brake pedal. Mom's Toyota Avalon also makes the tach shoot up a bit if you touch the brake pedal (I assume a combination of unlocking the torque converter and downshifting into 3rd), though you don't feel it downshifting through every gear like you do with a Honda transmission. Brigdh posted:Thanks for the chuckle. I'm well aware of the current Nexus manufacturers. I forgot the Huawei connection is now public. It's been relatively common knowledge for nearly a month, though "officially" it's only been known for a few days. I've had one Huawei phone - it was cheap and reliable, never had a problem with it, but it was an ancient flip feature phone that I had in the early 00s. I don't exactly see them as a high end manufacturer. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Darchangel posted:So, somehow, while helping out here in California, I lucked into the annual Mattel company picnic lunch! MORE PHOTOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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Just looked at my medical insurance claim info. First visit to my new doctor: billed at $480.  Second visit - which was literally 5 minutes with her discussing blood test results? Billed at $500. They added "lab supplies". I was in the building less than 15 minutes, and there were no "lab supplies". She walked in, spent less than 5 minutes with me discussing my blood work, then said "see you in two months" and handed me a piece of paper. At the bottom, for insurance, was "OBAMA" written in huge letters. At the office window, they had a 8x14 paper printed stating "WE DO NOT ACCEPT OBAMACARE EXCEPT FOR BLUE CROSS" (I have BCBS), and the office staff lectured me on "OBAMACARE" versus private insurance. My therapist asked me if I'd consider switching doctors, namely to one that would write scripts for Naltrexone (an anti-abuse med for opiates and alcohol) and benzos. After seeing that, gently caress yes. My current doctor has already stated she refuses to write a script for Naltrexone or benzos, and won't write a referral for them. I'm not a fan of benzos outside of the occasional recreational Xanax, but my therapist also doesn't want to see me off of them yet. Time to find another new doctor. Again.
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