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sweet! thnks! ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

shiskabob (spelling?) sticks can be = as dangerous...tasty to the dogs, deadly to them as well. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

4 investment homes, now general contracting (spec building) for ourselves and selling, wife is our realitor, and soon to be broker...gotta keep it all in house. this is the ONLY way I see to not work for someone else. grill away ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

OK.. so I need to find a decent Karoke machine by Xmas that uses a TV for display, and has the usual effects like echo, bass, trebble. I can also pipe the sound through the stereo. help!

Clusterf**k: commonly used to descriptively generalize any situation with a large scale of disarray In radio communication or polite conversation (i.e. with a very senior officer with whom you have no prior experience) the term "clusterfuck" will often be replaced by the NATO phonetic acronym "Charlie Foxtrot." so know I know what to say on the radio... ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

That is one of my favorite movies. I hear that from very few people. The movie did not do well in theaters. The producer got it right when he said, "The problem for this movie is that it is a caviar dinner for a hamburger eating audience." It was a great movie to work on, and had special meaning for me, I had just lost my wife. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

Bring the little guy up and lets introduce it to the...."Boxer Mafia" I have 2 boxers, and with just a "look" they keep my border collie in line. This dog can stare anyone down. edit to add pic ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

He is a very nice person. I was lucky enough to work on "What Dreams May Come" and we became friends, mostly becouse my dog Clyde was on set, and he is a doggie person. Somewhere I actually have an autographed photo of Robin, wishing Clyde (my dog) a long life! He sent a hardbound copy of the script to all the people that worked on this film, very personal of him. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

Fixed it for ya are you calling us GREEDY? its not greedy to make a large amount of income in a short amount of time, and investing it well, thus being able to not work for the man, and securing the abiltiy to be home with your children...and raise them right. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

I would not consider investing in rental properties while my buddies are buying new cars and taking trips to who knows where...."getting lucky." One year, my wife and I purchased 3 houses, that took 90% of our income (we worked on the road, so over head was low), instead of spending it in a bar, or on depreciatable items....well, we did skydive here and there. but, yeah, i paid for my college, lived in my pickup truck, on a small boat...just to get exactly where I am...now...to push on even further. and, oh, i still drive a 17 year old beater car. its not what you make, its what you save, and how you spend it. edit to add: and i will spend my future life, in blue jeans, and a t-shirt. many people could be millionares...if they just stopped trying to look like one, or what society thinks a millionare looks like. the only person i have to impress is...myself. hell, isnt that why we all started skydiving. but it turns out that where i grew up, the last of 8 kids, a powerline foreman son...the area went big, and now the millionares, are just your average joe....at least finacially...mentally....thats a entire different story. mentally, i would consider myself a billionare...i have traveled, lost friends, gained friends, love my wife, doggies, and what i do...i just whanna die with 5 dollars in my pocket so i can get an icecream on my last day. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

interesting...the captin is the last to exit the shuttle, just after the actual pilot....cool. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

astronauts getting out of the shuttle now...launch scrubed....next window, saturday ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

agreed. i have actually stated to someone..."Hey, its like this, the guy on the phone is BEHIND ME IN LINE...GET IT! ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

hmmm, sounds like a good reason to start manufacturing a small EMP device to short out the phones ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

whats even worse are the people who blab on the speakerphone on a cell phone. after all the years of having cell phones around, you would think that society might get over the "Hey look at me, I am on the phone, so I must be important" complex. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

uh....jump out of a plane. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

oh, i totally hear ya, its a wrangler, and i use it for work, i am a general contractor. i use a custom trailer to haul my tools and gear, and the jeep usually gets sprayed with stucco, paint, concrete, mud, and other crap. hell i use it to drag a chain link fence section around my land to knock down the weeds. still dont understand how my subs drive these 40K rigs that essentially they throw bricks at all day. anyway, every once in awhile i clean it up, and was wondering what i could do to procect the paint, which protects the metal. maybe i will just go spray the entire thing with some bed liner spray! thanks for all the advice, cheers! ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

the paint is actually not showing any effects like that, simply looses its shine. there is no evidence of "breakdown" so to speak. more rather, simple fading, which the color can be brought back by rubbing it out. but its a process that i seem to have to redo about twice a year. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

I have an 89 jeep, red. The paint constantly fades. I can get the color back by using Color Back, but what is the best, or most effective wax that I can apply to stop the oxidation? ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

You can get a court date, and ask for traffic school. The judge may give you that option, it is up to them. Check your online traffic shools. Down here in so-cal, you can take the traffic school online, but you must actually go to a testing center to take the final test...no more "all online" available. Also, simply the court for advice, maybe you can get the traffic school option without a court date. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

next time you fly, where your altimiter...your question will be answered when your at 28k but your altimiter reads 6 or 7k feet. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

Okay, then 40 years from now, when mandated minimum MPG's and stuff like this, force carmakers to go mostly hybrids, you can go fishing for replacement computers and replacement battery packs (actually some hybrid's use rechrageable NiMH AA batteries -- hundreds of them in box-type packs). Just like how some smart computer geeks open up two identical laptop bad battery packs, and swap good "cells", to make a fully proper-working lithium-ion battery pack. (Each cell inside them are approximately the size of a AA or 9 volt battery, and are multiple-sealed, so a careful hobbyist can safely open up a Lithium-Ion battery pack for repair, once gaining the coveted instructions for opening the outer plastic shell). So us laptop-experienced technicians will just work on these hybrids. Or swapping a cracked screen from one laptop with a good screen from another laptop (With a damaged motherboard), to make one good laptop. So the home-repair industry for hybrids will be a lot more mature then, 30 years from now, probably. You swap parts in cars. I swap parts in laptops, computers, battery packs. Turn three bad laptops into two good laptops by musical-chairs part swapping. It's not that different. You'll see. 30 years from now - people will still be working on cars at home. Even the complex hybrids. I hope so. It really amazes me how people go out and buy or lease a new car every 2 to 3 years. When I was younger, you bought a car, and fixed it when it broke, you actually knew what was under the hood, and how to take care of it. Hell, I got non a non running car for free, and got it running with a few hours of work, and it lasted years. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

exactly why i will never own one. Actually, Toyota's hybrid is reportedly more reliable than most non-hybrids. It intelligently "pampers" the gasoline engine by using the battery power to augument the engine especially during acceleration; reducing engine wear and tear. You can SLAM THE GAS on a Prius; it doesn't hurt the engine in the Prius as much as on a 100% gasoline car. Consumer Reports now has enough data (Prius has been around since 1997), that shows the Prius have both excellent predicted AND actual reliability. Also, all modern cars always have computers built into them -- even the cheap Toyota Echo, Ford Escort, Dodge Neon -- hidden computer chips to control airbags, computer chips to control fuel injection, etc. The Prius computers are just a little more advanced, but they are very well-tested and stable systems (again, Prius being around for 10 model years now) Something to keep in mind! I know modern cars have computers, OBD-1, OBD-2, blah, blah... I buy older cars,...cars that have been thrown away, put a few parts in them from a junk yard, and I have extended, doubled, or even trippled the life of a hunk of metal. I dont need or want a 30 to 40 thousand dollar car to impress my neighbor...I want a car to get me from point a to point b. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

Used to have a 74 Honda CvCC (Civic). Great car. 5 spd, carried 5 if willing to do 3 in the back seat, but in college it worked great, I got 35 MPG while doing 95 MPH travelling home on weekends. This car was unstoppable, I used to skim over muddy fields where 4X4s would get stuck, did runs to the mountains to fish with roommates, and high speed runs to the parents house for the weekend. When the engine did finally went, I bought a used motor from an importer for $500, and paid $250 to have them install it. Now my big problem with todays cars is WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE FUEL MILAGE?!?! I know that oxgenating gasoline seem to cause a drop in MPG, but I was able to get 35 MPG back then, now its a big deal to get to 30 MPG. go figure. edit to add...Oh, a deer finally took me out one night, made me roll three times. But hell, the car did a great job of holding its shape in the accident, and we all walk away without a scratch! ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?

exactly why i will never own one. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him?