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mariooncrack posted:What kind of car is it? Boxster Spyder. Although to be honest, when I calculate 2000 miles, that's: 72 gallons x $3 = $220 $250 for at least two night's hotel $200 for a one way flight to LA I'm getting shipping quotes of about $800, so that kind of seems like a no-brainer. If I can get the guy down a tiny bit more this might happen. 
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Residency Evil posted:Boxster Spyder. Bring good music, amphetamines and mirror shades. Godspeed.
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CommieGIR posted:I would like to know more. I'm hesitant to talk about details, but it's a tracker that will probably replace hundreds of hours per week of event scheduling.
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Residency Evil posted:Boxster Spyder. I would fly to LA to pick it up and then I'd drive my new pre-broken-in-awesome-sportscar on Decker Canyon Road, and then you have 2000 miles to figure out how to move to LA to continue driving on Decker Canyon and the surrounding roads. 
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This is your brain on oversteer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBtSxMVmCX8 Oversteer: Not even once.
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Jun 4, 2016 19:59
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Do I detect a hint of pajama pants?
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Jun 4, 2016 20:12
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drat, guy is going to see if he can get his price locally for a few days first. So far I've been successful in: 1. Scoring extra garage space for the winter. 2. Getting my girlfriend to let me use her old Civic for the winter.
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One week left to get your answers in for the Sheep Game! I've had over 30 responses so far...get yours in today! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3777313
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Jun 4, 2016 20:39
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Tomarse posted:Spent much of today attempting some woodwork
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Jun 4, 2016 20:51
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Alternator's going out on the protege. Are there any brands known for putting you on a 6 month replacement cycle? This is the original, 13-year-old one that I swapped over from the original motor; if I can get half that life out of the replacement I'll be happy.
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Jun 4, 2016 21:09
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Grab one from your FLAPS with a lifetime warranty and keep the receipt around.
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Enourmo posted:Alternator's going out on the protege. Are there any brands known for putting you on a 6 month replacement cycle? This is the original, 13-year-old one that I swapped over from the original motor; if I can get half that life out of the replacement I'll be happy. I gave up and learned to rebuild my own.
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Residency Evil posted:drat, guy is going to see if he can get his price locally for a few days first. So far I've been successful in: How much difference is there in your prices? Because I'd say just pay him what he is looking for if this is the car you really want, you don't want to spend another 6 months looking for just the "right" one just to save a few bucks now, unless there's a yuuge variance - it's not like this is a cheap purchase either way so what's a couple more grand in the overall scheme. I've never regretted just buying the right M3 even though I could have probably saved a couple thou if I'd bothered to argue the PO's price at all (he actually negotiated -$1000 for himself after we'd already agreed on a price, heh - I wasn't arguing then either) and once you're motoring in a car like that, no matter what you paid it'll feel like the best deal in the world.
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Ether Frenzy posted:How much difference is there in your prices? Because I'd say just pay him what he is looking for if this is the car you really want, you don't want to spend another 6 months looking for just the "right" one just to save a few bucks now, unless there's a yuuge variance - it's not like this is a cheap purchase either way so what's a couple more grand in the overall scheme. It's pretty minimal as far as price goes. The thing in my mind is that the car has a significant amount of miles on it (55k), and I don't see it as "worth it" unless I can get it for what I think a "good" price is. There's also the fact that I don't need to buy the car right now, as I was planning on buying 9 months from now after I go through my last Midwest winter. If I can pick it up for a good price now great. If not I'll end up getting a used Cayman GTS next spring. Residency Evil fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jun 4, 2016 |
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Cool, sounds as if you have a plan. I just like encouraging people to buy sweet cars and the boxster spyder is certainly an eyecatching car even on the supercar-jaded streets of Los Angeles.
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Enourmo posted:Alternator's going out on the protege. Are there any brands known for putting you on a 6 month replacement cycle? This is the original, 13-year-old one that I swapped over from the original motor; if I can get half that life out of the replacement I'll be happy. I put one from AAP in my Focus back in 2008, so far it's outlived the factory original.
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Residency Evil posted:Hypothetically, for a trip of about 2000 miles, would you: Who would want to drive something they bought sight unseen 2000 miles home? 
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Just drove down to see my brother, put the wrong address in my phone and turned up at his future mother-in-laws house.  She recognised me and invited me in for a coffee, my dog gets on with hers, brother and girlfriend turned up half an hour later confused as hell  Then I got let in on a terrible secret, brothers future father in law might not be around much later than their wedding, he's got cancer. Very few people know. I spent a couple of hours getting to know him. Wierd day.
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Selling a motorcycle today so I just cancelled the insurance. Apparently even a one day lapse between canceling and turning in my plate equals a $50 fine. gently caress.
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Jun 4, 2016 23:29
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Rolled back to Windows 7 after nonstop driver issues with 10. That didn't last long. The final straw was my G27 not working even after I downloaded the proper drivers and Windows not letting me uninstall drivers to do a clean install. It's a shame too because it really was a lot faster than 7.
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Wife bought me a trip to a float tank for my birthday and the appt is for tonight. Hopefully it's fun
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iwentdoodie posted:Wife bought me a trip to a float tank for my birthday and the appt is for tonight. I wouldn't say fun, but it is incredibly relaxing
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InitialDave posted:I spent most of yesterday afternoon and a lot of today clearing out weeds and so on from my back garden. The insect population did not take kindly to this, apparently, and I have some swelling from bug bites that Joseph Merrick would be proud of. Ive got my back garden down to nothing but a fort nightly/weekly 30 min mowing and weeding session. If only I had got the house and vehicles so much under control
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Goober Peas posted:I wouldn't say fun, but it is incredibly relaxing For me that will be fun. The last few months have been so stressful it's not even funny. That and I've wanted to do one of these for awhile now.
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Tomarse posted:Spent much of today attempting some woodwork (I'm building a small kitchen table), trying to do it properly using dowels and glue to hold the frame together rather than just blasting loads of screws into it as is my usual woodwork approach. I did not enjoy it. Do both. Countersink your screws deep and use a plug cutter to make wood plugs that you tap in and sand flush so it looks you know what you're doing.
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Son of a goddamn bitch! My jackass friend just went and swiped the Protege I was gonna buy as a winter beater out from under me!
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Rhyno posted:My jackass friend Which one?
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I got an air compressor! 80 gallon 2 stage, 5hp, 240v dewalt branded. I got some 10/3 romex and other supplies to wire it into the garage. Garage already has a panel and a 50amp welder outlet, so hopefully putting in another 30 amp goes easily. What should I do for piping? I have been eying the 1/2" and 3/4" rapid air maxline kits. And for a dryer? I see some people make up a copper maze, is that required or are there other options?
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This is what I did: A bunch of 3/4" black iron pipe with ball valve drains on each vertical to drain the accumulated water. Works amazingly well as is but for painting I'm still adding a three stage filter/dryer/oil separator just to be safe. MonkeyNutZ fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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Previa_fun posted:Rolled back to Windows 7 after nonstop driver issues with 10. That didn't last long. The final straw was my G27 not working even after I downloaded the proper drivers and Windows not letting me uninstall drivers to do a clean install. If you do a clean install rather than an upgrade (or a "reset to factory" after the upgrade, which effectively does a clean install for you) you should do fine.
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Enourmo posted:Alternator's going out on the protege. Are there any brands known for putting you on a 6 month replacement cycle? This is the original, 13-year-old one that I swapped over from the original motor; if I can get half that life out of the replacement I'll be happy. I've had good luck with Napa alternators. And really bad luck with AutoZone alternators. 
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Woohoo! East Coast Low! 300mm of rain in a day!
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Woohoo! East Coast Low! 300mm of rain in a day! Saw that on the news tonight. Two nice highs over all off NZ. No wind, crisp frost. Look over to Australia and see that Sydney is getting absolutely smashed.
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Anphear posted:Saw that on the news tonight. Two nice highs over all off NZ. No wind, crisp frost. Look over to Australia and see that Sydney is getting absolutely smashed. Yeah, three rivers are flooding right now that havent flooded like this in 3 decades. Just south is even worse, 500(!) mm got dumped. The Nepean river has four dams that are spilling now or about to spill tonight feeding into it so I'm expecting quite a lot of water at Penrith tomorrow morning. The big dam called Warragamba is about 3 meters from spilling - it's enormous so even three meters would have to fill a 50 km lake for it to spill. It's beginning to fill quite rapidly tho so there is now a chance it's going to join the party. That would triple the volume of water by itself at minimum so if that one spills, half of the North West might go underwater. I think they are expecting a 9 meter flood at the best - for reference the biggest known flood of the Neapan is 27 meters, without the dams we'd be looking at a pretty epic one right now. If Warragamba spills, all bets are off, I might not be getting to work CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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East coast of Australia, Gulf Coast of Texas, and Paris, we need to redirect that rain to California.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Yeah, three rivers are flooding right now that havent flooded like this in 3 decades. Just south is even worse, 500(!) mm got dumped. The Nepean river has four dams that are spilling now or about to spill tonight feeding into it so I'm expecting quite a lot of water at Penrith tomorrow morning. The big dam called Warragamba is about 3 meters from spilling - it's enormous so even three meters would have to fill a 50 km lake for it to spill. It's beginning to fill quite rapidly tho so there is now a chance it's going to join the party. That would triple the volume of water by itself at minimum so if that one spills, half of the North West might go underwater. I think they are expecting a 9 meter flood at the best - for reference the biggest known flood of the Neapan is 27 meters, without the dams we'd be looking at a pretty epic one right now. Isn't your country in a perpetual state of drought
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corn in the fridge posted:Isn't your country in a perpetual state of drought Australia has three states - Drought On fire Flooded Sometimes all three happen at the same time (That's actually not a joke either) Edit : looks like the ECL has decided to smash us again, another huge rainband incoming. This ECL is definatly not loving about. Oh boy, hope it doesnt stall off the coast..... CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Australia has three states - I have fought a fire, In the rain, On grass that had an inch of water at its roots. This country is mad sometimes.
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Life on Mars would be like, Tuesday, in Australia. So in that respect, the first Mars explorers should be born and bred Australians because they're the only ones that could truly survive in such adversarial landscape.
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Adiabatic posted:I'm hesitant to talk about details, but it's a tracker that will probably replace hundreds of hours per week of event scheduling. Is it a job/ticket dispatcher? Do they already have an OMS, ADMS, or scada system?
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