My '68 Chevy II Nova weighed 2850 lbs and had a 250 c.i. straight six engine (cast iron with 1 barrel carb and log exhaust manifold, and two speed automatic transmission) that made 150 hp. Car got around 17 mpg.
My '07 Chevy Trailblazer weighed 5500 lbs and had a 254 c.i. Straight six engine (4.2 L aluminum block with fuel injection, variable valve timing, and factory headers, and 4 speed automatic transmission) that made 295 hp. Truck got around 19 mpg.
So, twice the vehicle weight but twice the power from same size engine (that has a lighter block) and better gas milage. Truthfully, I prefer to have the '68 Nova again but put the modern engine in it (and upgrade the black vinyl seats and AC). As far as safety goes, I was t-boned by an old lady in a '63 Impala and other than messing up driver side fender and door skin, was ok. Didn't even break the rolled down window in driver side door.
I hope lots of companies pile onto the automated takedown notices Process and flood the Internet with them until the whole thing collapses under its own absurdities.
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe; attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost... in time, like... tears... in rain.
What's funny is, now that daughter is getting into geek stuff (Star Wars, comics, Doctor Who), I'm getting t-shirts with some of the same things I had back in the 70's. For now the kid thinks its cool when I dress like this. I'm sure that'll change when the teen years start.
What is this "fashion" you speak of? I'm 45 and still wear pretty much the same kind of clothes I wore when I was 10; sneakers, jeans, t-shirt. Gotta love IT work.
But, but, Apple's a beleaguered liche player whose only customers are Pennyfarthing riding hipsters with handlebar mustaches who are too stupid to realize that Apple doesn't even ship anything in their pretty boxes but straw and dirt, 'cause hipsters never open the boxes but just leave them lying orotund their loft apartments with 20' ceilings that are painted all white and there's no place to eat down a bottle of cheap red wine because it'll clash with their Gucci polar bear fur bean bag chairs.
If you were starting out today, wanting to bring the power of computing to the masses, how would you do things today? With the technology we have or nearly have, what kind of user/hardware/software/data layout or process would you design or like to see happen?
Not really. We were set up about 10 miles south of Kuwait border, maybe 25 miles inland. This area wasn't movie desert; was just a field of dirt. There was a pile of dead goats nearby where the local Bedouin had slaughtered their herd before heading south when the shooting started. A unit of the 2nd Marine Division was in front of us and there was a Navy hospital set up south of us. Air Med-Evac worked with the Marine medics to treat and stabilize the wounded and fly them out on a C130 to hospital stations further back.
I'd seen Catch 22 and MASH and knew how war was supposed to work. I brought along beer making supplies and a Hawaiian shirt. My helmet cover had "Ours is not to reason why..." on it.
Our location in Saudi was really weird looking; smoke from the oil fires created a low ceiling of black smelly clouds that the sun couldn't get through and with the flat ground of the desert, it felt like being a bug trapped between two flat surfaces. If you've ever seen a winter in central North Dakota, you'll know what I mean. From our location we could see the big air-fuel bombs they were dropping on the Iraqi positions; you'd look north and see the dull red-orange glow of fires and then you'd see a small dot of light drop down from the clouds before going back up. Then there'd be a large flash of bright light and maybe 30 seconds later, the ground would rumble and shake. The scale of it all was almost overwhelming. For myself, it appeared to be a battle between the old gods and giants or maybe the attack on Minus Tirith in LotR. It also reminded me of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 and the firebombing of Dresden; something so overwhelming in szie it was... there's a word that I can't think of, where something isnt beautiful but still grabs your eyes and you can't look away. That's what I was seeing; something so far beyond human capability or scale yet here we were, shaking the earth and setting the sky on fire.
Wasn't until years later that I found out Tolkien had been in WWI and experienced artillery bombardments and Vonnegut had been in Dresdan.
After the bombing stopped, we moved north and started taking prisoners and trying to patch them up. Our 30 man unit had almost 5,000 Iraqis to care for. They were mostly farmers and such, sent to the front lines with barbed wire and landlines in front and behind them, with the Republican Guard shooting any that tried to leave. Until the bombing started. They got theirs on the road north.
Made beer in a bucket in a pit under our tent in Desert Storm. Only way to get temps down to reasonable levels. Wasn't bad (dark ale) but no easy way to filter it. And yeah, was a medical unit (Air Med-Evac).
Yup, I still have several art history text books. Some are from the 90's when I took the courses, some are fom the 60's when my Mom was in college. The basic pictures don't change but the text about them does.
Would make more sense that art schools would have a virtual collection of art and the analysis changes as needed. Just make it an app or charge more for PoD.
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Shhh! And don't call me Shirley.
Sauron's nazguils could take out Manwë's eagles?
Bullroarer was popular with the ladies. No word on how Merry and Pippen did.
Actually, leaving Middle Earth takes them out of range of the research.
Or they're all up on the moon, fighting Space Nazis!
I thought Forbidden Planet was Leslie Nielson. Still a dish, though.
Yup.
My '68 Chevy II Nova weighed 2850 lbs and had a 250 c.i. straight six engine (cast iron with 1 barrel carb and log exhaust manifold, and two speed automatic transmission) that made 150 hp. Car got around 17 mpg.
My '07 Chevy Trailblazer weighed 5500 lbs and had a 254 c.i. Straight six engine (4.2 L aluminum block with fuel injection, variable valve timing, and factory headers, and 4 speed automatic transmission) that made 295 hp. Truck got around 19 mpg.
So, twice the vehicle weight but twice the power from same size engine (that has a lighter block) and better gas milage. Truthfully, I prefer to have the '68 Nova again but put the modern engine in it (and upgrade the black vinyl seats and AC). As far as safety goes, I was t-boned by an old lady in a '63 Impala and other than messing up driver side fender and door skin, was ok. Didn't even break the rolled down window in driver side door.
Get large USB touchpads?
I hope lots of companies pile onto the automated takedown notices Process and flood the Internet with them until the whole thing collapses under its own absurdities.
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe; attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost... in time, like... tears... in rain.
Home. Home is where you wear your hat.
What about the Roxolani?
An Omnilingual, so to speak?
What's funny is, now that daughter is getting into geek stuff (Star Wars, comics, Doctor Who), I'm getting t-shirts with some of the same things I had back in the 70's. For now the kid thinks its cool when I dress like this. I'm sure that'll change when the teen years start.
I still have my CueCat!
What is this "fashion" you speak of? I'm 45 and still wear pretty much the same kind of clothes I wore when I was 10; sneakers, jeans, t-shirt. Gotta love IT work.
But, but, Apple's a beleaguered liche player whose only customers are Pennyfarthing riding hipsters with handlebar mustaches who are too stupid to realize that Apple doesn't even ship anything in their pretty boxes but straw and dirt, 'cause hipsters never open the boxes but just leave them lying orotund their loft apartments with 20' ceilings that are painted all white and there's no place to eat down a bottle of cheap red wine because it'll clash with their Gucci polar bear fur bean bag chairs.
If you were starting out today, wanting to bring the power of computing to the masses, how would you do things today? With the technology we have or nearly have, what kind of user/hardware/software/data layout or process would you design or like to see happen?
Not really. We were set up about 10 miles south of Kuwait border, maybe 25 miles inland. This area wasn't movie desert; was just a field of dirt. There was a pile of dead goats nearby where the local Bedouin had slaughtered their herd before heading south when the shooting started. A unit of the 2nd Marine Division was in front of us and there was a Navy hospital set up south of us. Air Med-Evac worked with the Marine medics to treat and stabilize the wounded and fly them out on a C130 to hospital stations further back.
I'd seen Catch 22 and MASH and knew how war was supposed to work. I brought along beer making supplies and a Hawaiian shirt. My helmet cover had "Ours is not to reason why..." on it.
Our location in Saudi was really weird looking; smoke from the oil fires created a low ceiling of black smelly clouds that the sun couldn't get through and with the flat ground of the desert, it felt like being a bug trapped between two flat surfaces. If you've ever seen a winter in central North Dakota, you'll know what I mean. From our location we could see the big air-fuel bombs they were dropping on the Iraqi positions; you'd look north and see the dull red-orange glow of fires and then you'd see a small dot of light drop down from the clouds before going back up. Then there'd be a large flash of bright light and maybe 30 seconds later, the ground would rumble and shake. The scale of it all was almost overwhelming. For myself, it appeared to be a battle between the old gods and giants or maybe the attack on Minus Tirith in LotR. It also reminded me of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 and the firebombing of Dresden; something so overwhelming in szie it was... there's a word that I can't think of, where something isnt beautiful but still grabs your eyes and you can't look away. That's what I was seeing; something so far beyond human capability or scale yet here we were, shaking the earth and setting the sky on fire.
Wasn't until years later that I found out Tolkien had been in WWI and experienced artillery bombardments and Vonnegut had been in Dresdan.
After the bombing stopped, we moved north and started taking prisoners and trying to patch them up. Our 30 man unit had almost 5,000 Iraqis to care for. They were mostly farmers and such, sent to the front lines with barbed wire and landlines in front and behind them, with the Republican Guard shooting any that tried to leave. Until the bombing started. They got theirs on the road north.
Aw, the Pope's Tits they'll outlaw Engrish. If they do, it'll become the cool underground language spooky books are written in.
Made beer in a bucket in a pit under our tent in Desert Storm. Only way to get temps down to reasonable levels. Wasn't bad (dark ale) but no easy way to filter it. And yeah, was a medical unit (Air Med-Evac).
So... No more bashing Windows phones?
And all those philli-busters he did as well! Why does he hate merkins?!!!
Yup, I still have several art history text books. Some are from the 90's when I took the courses, some are fom the 60's when my Mom was in college. The basic pictures don't change but the text about them does.
Would make more sense that art schools would have a virtual collection of art and the analysis changes as needed. Just make it an app or charge more for PoD.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.