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Geirskogul posted:Why does everybody post good morning when I'm just getting home from work? turn you're clock upside down
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I see 3 days vacation wasn't enough for some people  I am loving beat. That was a fun weekend and now it is time to sit in an air conditioned office and design wiring for cars and planes again. Ahhhh.
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Aug 24, 2015 12:27
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Vacation from my vacation please. Just wolfed down some ibuprofen. NEAI will take a lot out of you. These are the days I am thankful for my mostly desk job.
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Aug 24, 2015 12:46
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Cakefool posted:I am going to raise so much poo poo on the phone today, as soon as the lazy bastards start work Adiabatic posted:Vacation from my vacation please. Just wolfed down some ibuprofen. kastein posted:I see 3 days vacation wasn't enough for some people Enourmo posted:turn you're clock upside down Looks like I'll be spending most of the morning catching up on customer and employer online training 
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Aug 24, 2015 12:51
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Why does no-one else start work at a reasonable 7am-ish hour like I'm used to?
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Enourmo posted:turn you're clock upside down i should specify this joke only works if you're using a 24h clock face
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Aug 24, 2015 13:01
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Do people still honestly use 12h clocks? Even some bank clocks around here are 24h. Maybe I live in the center of a perfect storm of Hispanic, military, EMS, and internet culture.
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Aug 24, 2015 13:18
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Adiabatic posted:Vacation from my vacation please. Just wolfed down some ibuprofen. I was pretty much useless yesterday. Today I'm not going to be doing much. Except researching supercharged miatas.
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Aug 24, 2015 13:20
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My rear end is still sore from NEAI, and not for the reasons you'd think.
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Aug 24, 2015 13:57
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Bored with my Focus but don't want to get rid of it because it's so reliable/cheap. Wondering if it's worth it to upgrade the suspension and stereo to make it more enjoyable.
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Aug 24, 2015 14:05
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angryhampster posted:Bored with my Focus but don't want to get rid of it because it's so reliable/cheap. Wondering if it's worth it to upgrade the suspension and stereo to make it more enjoyable. Ford Racing sells a handling package for the 2012+ Focus that's pretty decent. Ford part number M-FR3-FS Sits a little lower with slightly more aggressive springs, bigger sways, and some performance struts and shocks.
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Aug 24, 2015 14:47
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Mine is an '08 unforunately..one of the boring years.
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Aug 24, 2015 14:54
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angryhampster posted:Mine is an '08 unforunately..one of the boring years. Ford racing sells a good kit for it, same basic idea. That generation may have a bit of a crap interior but the chassis is still brilliant. If it's a manual, install suspension and love your car again.
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Aug 24, 2015 15:08
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car im working on atm has brake squeal so bad it sounds like you're standing on the horn when you drag the brakes lol
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Aug 24, 2015 15:20
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Here comes the stock crashes  
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Aug 24, 2015 15:26
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the spyder posted:Fuuuuuuuuck you Mini/BMW. I want to curb stomp the engineer's nuts that made the harmonic damper on the 01-06 Mini Cooper S two-parts. Steel and rubber. Failure involves the rubber disintegrating and the pulley separating, grinding into the front cover and destroying everything around it when it breaks apart. This POS is going forsale the same day it's drivable again. /rage I bought a solid aluminum one for mine before it could finish breaking apart and do all that poo poo Just find a used one and throw it on and get rid of the car. They are huge POS unless you future proof everything, and then they are pieces of poo poo that you still have to stay on top of Nodoze fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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Aug 24, 2015 15:32
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I felt great after neai so I decided to go drive 16 hours to have a burger with slow is fast and watch the sunrise at the furthest east place in the Contiguous U.S.
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Aug 24, 2015 15:49
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Ford racing sells a good kit for it, same basic idea. That generation may have a bit of a crap interior but the chassis is still brilliant. If it's a manual, install suspension and love your car again. Aside from trying to find it used, do you know any websites that sell it? I don't see it on FRPP's site. It's an auto..an economy-tuned auto.
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Aug 24, 2015 15:53
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i start classes at a real university in under 24 hours anxiety level maximum
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Aug 24, 2015 16:05
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Been there, done that, so I know how it feels. poo poo, that was in 2001. Back then I probably had a pIII or athlon thunderbird, with a geforce 2 or 3. Life was much simpler back then, good cheap cars were easy to find as well. I bought a bunch of cars for under $2k that go for $20-30K now. Hell you could buy a $500 datsun that could sell for $10k now. I'd give up "smart" or mobile devices and LCDs and anything like that just to go back in time... Just to have simple entertainment, cars in the local paper classifieds, a phone "phone". All this new poo poo and they haven't made it any better for life's necessities. Booze, smokes, other accoutrements have got more expensive as well. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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Aug 24, 2015 16:13
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angryhampster posted:Aside from trying to find it used, do you know any websites that sell it? I don't see it on FRPP's site. M-18000-ZX3B are the revised SVT struts that fit 2006-2011 models, unfortunately you can't get the full SVT kit that includes half-inch lowering springs and a stiffer RSB because they changed the diameter of the front struts from 2006 onwards and never offered a revised version of the full kit. Ford Racing sold a stand-alone lowering spring kit (M-5560-ZX3B) but it appears to be out of production. Geoj fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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Aug 24, 2015 16:35
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Spent all morning getting poo poo notarized and did budget garbage. Yay being an adult or something.
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Aug 24, 2015 16:47
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Whoever uses the santican next will be able to tell that all I ate yesterday was like 6 bowls of Capn Crunch with Crunch Berries.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:12
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Looked over my finances and upcoming expenditures and figured it will be far easier to just kill myself than deal with the next year.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:13
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Rhyno posted:Looked over my finances and upcoming expenditures and figured it will be far easier to just kill myself than deal with the next year. This is a universal truth for anything though
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Aug 24, 2015 17:15
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Ugh, typhoon 15 (Goni?) is heading straight through my area sometime this morning and I wasn't too worried until I saw it flipped some cars in Okinawa. Can't sleep, 
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Aug 24, 2015 17:29
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Rhyno posted:Looked over my finances and upcoming expenditures and figured it will be far easier to just kill myself than deal with the next year. Bankruptcy is easier on the system (ask Trump). I thought I was clear when the ATO sent a letter saying they do not intend to pursue a month ago. But they still send threatening letters, because they are absolute idiots, impossible to deal with. EG can't sort it out at all. The fact that one letter says I'm not being pursued but everything else says I am is clear proof of that. As well as me owing $5k but them claiming $20k So looking forward to that and bankruptcy in the near future. At least they don't deport to a slave/indentured servitude colony, or send you to a debtors prison these days. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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Aug 24, 2015 17:35
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corn in the fridge posted:good morning everyone i hope you all enjoyed your weekends Can't complain. Car show, beach, dragstrip, mountain road driving, all in Southern California. Almost don't want to go back to TX tomorrow. Almost. All my stuff is there. And my wife, I suppose.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:44
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Rhyno posted:Looked over my finances and upcoming expenditures and figured it will be far easier to just kill myself than deal with the next year. Don't you not pay rent or something? How can you worry about finances when you're living rent-free?
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Aug 24, 2015 17:55
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Fo3 posted:At least they don't deport to a slave/indentured servitude colony, or send you to a debtors prison these days. That's because you're already in the penal colony, ya drongo
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Aug 24, 2015 18:02
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Rhyno posted:Looked over my finances and upcoming expenditures and figured it will be far easier to just kill myself than deal with the next year.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:10
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angryhampster posted:Aside from trying to find it used, do you know any websites that sell it? I don't see it on FRPP's site. Summit I think sells it? Lmk if you can't find it and I'll look when I am at my computer next.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:17
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Coworker learned a terrible lesson this weekend  . He was sitting at an outdoor fireplace when someone tossed in a crumpled up paper bag. Turns out there was an aerosol can in the bag and after a few minutes, it exploded, covering his upper body in flames and pelting everyone else with hot embers. He escaped with minor burns on his face, arms, and hands. Doc wants him to take a minimum of a week off to rest. I expect it to take longer, he's a slow healer. It was a complete accident, drinking was involved and I believe outdoor fireplaces are banned right now.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:22
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Sometimes being an electrical engineer with no children is pretty drat nice. I've accidentally saved $8k over the last few months. Resisting the temptation to pay off my last student loan right now instead of being responsible and buying a furnace this fall. gently caress I hate debt so god drat much.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:43
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Cakefool posted:Why does no-one else start work at a reasonable 7am-ish hour like I'm used to? Part of me says "What? No, gently caress no, man!" But then i remember that i usually start work between 5:30-7:30 and it's a loving pain turning up to collect or deliver and finding a loving ghost town. Payday wooooo and not a bad week last week either. Quite releived. Still need to throw more money at the van, but i finally have some cash float in my account. Cleared my old workshop on Saturday, was a sad day. Got a call today that everyone down that way is crying that i took the hydraulic press. Seems they're upset that i took something that was given to me and they never owned. Un-loving-lucky.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:45
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the spyder posted:Coworker learned a terrible lesson this weekend People throwing dumb poo poo into fires annoys me so much. Having an aerosol can explode on someone is not an accident, it's someone being an idiot. Man, I would be so pissed off.
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Aug 24, 2015 18:46
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I was going to ask if the lesson learned was "trust no one; become a hermit".
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Aug 24, 2015 18:50
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Got back from the states on Saturday. Still jet lagged to gently caress, waking up at 4am despite the time zones not working that way, I think two nights on cattle class flights hosed me right up. Had five hire cars on my trip. A Kia Forte, Nissan Altima 2.5 S, BMW 528xi, Focus Sedan (wee trip to Niagara Falls between flights) and a Vauxhall Inisgnia (Buick Regal) Diesel one way hire back from the airport The BMW was nice, but honestly, as a BMW fanboy, kinda disappointing. Nice powertrain, but the interior and handling were uninspiring. I wouldn't kick one out of bed, but I don't see them being worth what they ask for them. Both the Kia and Nissan had enough grunt for average cars, but poo poo transmissions and crap steering, needing constant attention to keep nicely placed on the road, not nice when you are used to sitting on the other side of the car. I was quite attached to the Altima by the end though, it the only car I had for more than a day, doing 1500 miles (34 hours behind the wheel) over 8 days going Vegas>Tahoe>SF>LA>Vegas. It coped with cruising at speed through Death Valley with the outside temp showing 50c (yes I reset the OBC to the correct units) and the air con on max. The Focus seemed decent for a economy car, although since I mostly drove it on Canada's freeways with their crazy low speed limits its hard to tell. To be honest I preferred the insignia's interior to everything else. The 6 speed auto with paddles (which the BMW didn't have) worked well with the diesel. Not exactly fun, but it was decent. It rode ok despite the big blingy SRI spec alloys. Today back into my battered, poorly maintained187,000 mile 320d manual e46 it felt more sprightly than everything apart from the 5 series. It also felt better to drive than any of the newer cars, and the only one happy to cruise on a curvy dual carriageway at at speed with only two fingertips on the wheel. I spent ten minutes trying to lower my seat, before I realised it was just the low belt lines putting me off. And I could see things, the pillars were a sensible size, and it felt narrow to drive, but not claustrophobic . The aux in line didn't freak out with spotify like the MMI on the newer cars, had working air con, and a non ugly and intuitive OBC. Having a bunch of nice shiny cars on holiday was great, it convinced me I don't need to waste my money on one. I could definitely consider myself buying a (good) automatic though, aside from the mountain roads near Tahoe I didn't miss the third pedal much.  Driving the the USA was fun, but I'll never complain about British drivers again. I expected to be cut off a lot, and lane discipline to be terrible, but to cut me off while indicating in the opposite direction? I stopped counting after the third time. stump fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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Aug 24, 2015 19:01
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My house will probably be sold in the next 5-7 years and it's really not motivating me to actually do anything with the place, or fix up the shop in the backyard. But at the same time, if I had a shop I could get a project car.
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MustardFacial posted:My house will probably be sold in the next 5-7 years and it's really not motivating me to actually do anything with the place, or fix up the shop in the backyard. But at the same time, if I had a shop I could get a project car. 5-7 years is a long time.
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spent the weekend pulling up carpet in our first house that we are moving into this week. I now remember why I stopped doing commercial flooring and started sitting at a desk for a living. I am way too sore and I am still not done. One more room to pull the carpet out of then I have to start pulling the old VCT tile and linoleum that I found under the carpet to hopefully expose the original wood floors. Then I need to get ready to start refinishing the wood floors. Owning your own house is fun! I also went over to the future in-laws house yesterday and helped yank the engine out of the future father in-laws e36 m3 that he is rebuilding. Thank fully he had done all the hard work and pulled the front end off and disconnected everything from the motor, so it about an hour after I showed up, we had this:   ignore my ugly mug, he wanted a picture to send to the gf. He is going a little overboard with this thing, '99 techno violet, manual vaders, ~90k original miles. It drove perfect when he picked it up and he is apparently trying to put it back to showroom condition, which I thought it was when he bought it. I am trying to convince him to do some more aggressive upgrades to the engine while its out, but I think he is only going to port/polish the head and maybe put some more aggressive cams in it. And only 3 weeks till I start my new job and will be in SF for 2 weeks for training. And we are actually closing on our house around then. The next couple months are going to be insane.
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