Random Thoughts Thread

[Robert Hall]

7 hours ago, dfelt said:

 

Who is wearing the striped diaper?  

Zo, a rather large Yorkie boy (16lbs). 

[ccap41]

16 hours ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

He can be a bit yappy...but he's mostly mellow and fits in with the pack..

Do you typically keep the two with longer hair and the rest with shorter hair? 

[Robert Hall]

4 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

Do you typically keep the two with longer hair and the rest with shorter hair? 

Pictures taken at different points in time...I let their hair grow long in the winter, keep them short in the summer... they both have short hair in the bottom most photo (the two on the left).

Edited August 2, 2018 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[ccap41]

10 minutes ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

Pictures taken at different points in time...I let their hair grow long in the winter, keep them short in the summer... they both have short hair in the bottom most photo (the two on the left).

Oh Okay. I just thought you had that many pups! lol

We let ours get a little longer in the winter but in general, short hair for a yorkie. 

[Robert Hall]

18 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

Oh Okay. I just thought you had that many pups! lol

We let ours get a little longer in the winter but in general, short hair for a yorkie. 

Yeah, the Yorkie girls hair doesn't grow too fast, but the boys hair grows really fast.  All the dogs had grooming in May, a couple of the Yorkie boys need hair cuts again. 

[ccap41]

23 minutes ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

Yeah, the Yorkie girls hair doesn't grow too fast, but the boys hair grows really fast.  All the dogs had grooming in May, a couple of the Yorkie boys need hair cuts again. 

Ours needs her nails cut more than her hair trimmed. Te GF does hair for a living so she typically can trim her hair well enough but we're scared to do her nails and accidentally cut them too short. 

[Robert Hall]

17 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

Ours needs her nails cut more than her hair trimmed. Te GF does hair for a living so she typically can trim her hair well enough but we're scared to do her nails and accidentally cut them too short. 

The littles are like that..the two 6lb girls (Ginny and Penny) have nails that grow fast... and the golden boy (Henry, 10lbs) in the background is getting his hair cut today, grows fast.

[balthazar]

Be careful out there!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/01/mans-legs-hands-amputated-after-dogs-lick/877895002/

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Edited August 2, 2018 by balthazar

[Robert Hall]

Deer in the yard across the street.  

[ccap41]

The deer on the college campus I go to are nuts. They have no fear and know nobody will screw with them. I've seen them right in the middle of campus just munching on grass probably only 100ft or so away from a building. I've almost hit dozes of them next to the road. It's crazy, their population and carelessness on campus. 

[balthazar]

Deer are in my yard, either front or rear (or both) EVERY DAY. A month ago I walked around into the backyard and froze, and wacthed a fawn who was 100 feet away slowly wander up to only 8 feet from me.

I've eaten some MIGHTY tasty fresh venison jerky... and that sums up my sentiment on this topic neatly.

[David]

5 hours ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

Deer in the yard across the street.  

Fresh meat for the BBQ, lean.  

[Robert Hall]

6 hours ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

The littles are like that..the two 6lb girls (Ginny and Penny) have nails that grow fast... and the golden boy (Henry, 10lbs) in the background is getting his hair cut today, grows fast.

 

..and Henry is back from the groomers...he doesn't like to show his face for the camera.   Looks great w/ a short haircut.

5 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Fresh meat for the BBQ, lean.  

Nah, I couldn't eat Bambi...they stroll through my front and backyard, eat the bird seed in the bird feeders and the critter crunch I put out for the squirrels and chipmunks.. 

[balthazar]

[balthazar]

[daves87rs]

Nothing more bumming than having to leave your car in a parking lot because no one can pick it up until morning......

Drove it all over today, but the fuel pump in the Cobalt finally died this evening. No prime in the parking lot. 

This after giving it a car wash.....

[ocnblu]

Ordered this as a kit from over at the Home Depot website.  Stained it last wknd and put it together this wknd.

[David]

Some very cool stuff in the August Vol 18 2018 Fuel email. Tri-Five nationals. Gonna be some cool Retro with Modern Power train autos there.

Action in August2018.htm

[balthazar]

weather.com apparently believes "partly cloudy" and "mostly sunny" are 2 different things. The tiny graphics are significantly different, yet those words describe the exact same conditions.

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[ocnblu]

[David]

Talk about a sexy Porsche Concept. I like this very much. Anyone got an extra million or so to buy it?

https://www.goodingco.com/vehicle/1966-porsche-911-spyder/

 

WOW, talk about gross stuff in Detroit. Ooz coming up out of the ground. Wonder what it is and what the results will be?

[David]

https://jalopnik.com/mysterious-ooze-claims-metro-detroit-street-as-its-home-1828132147

Found others that also reported on this. LOL

[David]

COOL Story of going 300mph on water, sadly it ended in a crash and death of the driver, but WOW. 

The Story here is that the daughter gave the rights to the boat to a museum that raised it up off the lake bottom and is restoring it.

https://jalopnik.com/infamous-bluebird-jet-engined-speedboat-is-back-after-s-1828134184

[Robert Hall]

An artist & motorsports friend of mine in Arizona did this neat painting of Campbell's Bluebird.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/-full-power--arthur-benjamins.html

[David]

4 hours ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

An artist & motorsports friend of mine in Arizona did this neat painting of Campbell's Bluebird.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/-full-power--arthur-benjamins.html

That rocks   Thanks for sharing.

[David]

Anyone ever eat Veroni? Italian type of Salami looks and sounds yummy. Italian traditional cured meats at a much higher quality level than traditional cheap versions.

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/veroni-italian-food-company-ham-prosciutto-mortadella-new-jersey-plant-20180807.html

[trinacriabob]

Why is Ford stock (F) so listless?

[David]

39 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

Why is Ford stock (F) so listless?

Cause you can have it in any color as long as it is Black! 😏

[David]

@ocnblu I see someone started your type of Uber.

Amish Uber

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/08/07/amish-uber-horse-and-buggy-michigan-video/

[Suaviloquent]

It’s because they had that guy called Barley I think do the quarterly address and boy was it terrible 

[balthazar]

3 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Why is Ford stock (F) so listless?

You could have quintupled your investment had you bought it at $2 per in '08.
In 1981, it was as low as .67 cents/share.

[ocnblu]

OH MAN... it seems there was a short time today during which the 2019 Ford Ranger configurator site was active... by mistake.  This presents a conundrum.

[David]

57 minutes ago, ocnblu said:

OH MAN... it seems there was a short time today during which the 2019 Ford Ranger configurator site was active... by mistake.  This presents a conundrum.

Why did you not grab some screen shots Skeeter?

[ocnblu]

Well, another car site grabbed plenty and posted them.  I never actually got to see the real thing. 

Ford is saying it should be officially up and operational next week.

[David]

4 hours ago, ocnblu said:

Well, another car site grabbed plenty and posted them.  I never actually got to see the real thing. 

Ford is saying it should be officially up and operational next week.

Arghhhhhhh, will have to see who got it.

https://jalopnik.com/the-2019-ford-ranger-starts-at-24-000-but-configure-yo-1828164523

Based on the Story, seems to hit $50,000 for a fully loaded FX4 version. WOW 😮 

Found the original source, Off-road.com has plenty of screen grabs.

https://www.off-road.com/blog/2018/08/07/2019-ford-ranger-details-on-pricing-options/

Here is just one of the many levels.

[ocnblu]

A Supercab 4X4 XL STX FX4 with rear seat delete sounds like a sweet truck for not too much moolah.

[ccap41]

I built one how I would want it yesterday. 

[David]

Too bad it is offline now. Wonder how many days till it will be back up?

[balthazar]

$700 / MONTH???

Yikes.

[ccap41]

44 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Too bad it is offline now. Wonder how many days till it will be back up?

I never closed the tab yesterday so it's still active for me lol 

36 minutes ago, balthazar said:

$700 / MONTH???

Yikes.

Yeah, that's absurd. 

[David]

17 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I never closed the tab yesterday so it's still active for me lol 

Yeah, that's absurd. 

Share the link here, I am curious to see if it will pull up for me.

Thank you

[ccap41]

7 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Share the link here, I am curious to see if it will pull up for me.

Thank you

https://shop.ford.com/build/ranger/#/config/Config[|Ford|Ranger|2019|1|1.|301A.R4F.....914.76E.CAB.RETAIL.99H.AWD.44U.XLT.] 

Hopefully that works. That'd be pretty neat. 

[David]

2 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

https://shop.ford.com/build/ranger/#/config/Config[|Ford|Ranger|2019|1|1.|301A.R4F.....914.76E.CAB.RETAIL.99H.AWD.44U.XLT.] 

Hopefully that works. That'd be pretty neat. 

Thanks for posting, tried it hoping like you it would work and it dumped me into a Fiesta.

 

[David]

Cool Story for Aerosmith fans.

https://jalopnik.com/american-pickers-finds-aerosmiths-original-internationa-1828196077

[balthazar]

^ Saw that, but they insanely overpaid for that @ $25K.

[Drew Dowdell]

On ‎8‎/‎3‎/‎2018 at 7:30 PM, balthazar said:

Looks like the faceplate for the boiler tubes for a steam engine. 

On ‎8‎/‎5‎/‎2018 at 4:26 PM, ocnblu said:

Ordered this as a kit from over at the Home Depot website.  Stained it last wknd and put it together this wknd.

But you live in Amish country... there is good homemade furniture everywhere!

[Drew Dowdell]

I just can't get into the Ranger because of its interior.  It's a 2012 Fusion inside.

The Colorado/Canyon feel just as outdated but they have it worse with some pretty terrible seats for taller folks like me.

[David]

5 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

I just can't get into the Ranger because of its interior.  It's a 2012 Fusion inside.

The Colorado/Canyon feel just as outdated but they have it worse with some pretty terrible seats for taller folks like me.

That is supposed to be the interior for a all new $50,000 fully loaded FX4 Ranger? 😕

PASS

[Robert Hall]

25 minutes ago, dfelt said:

That is supposed to be the interior for a all new $50,000 fully loaded FX4 Ranger? 😕

PASS

Well, it is the latest version of an Australian pickup dating to 2011... price is about $20k too high for a midsize, it seems.  Hard to wrap my head around the idea of a $50k midsize 4x4 4cyl pickup. 

Edited August 8, 2018 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[Drew Dowdell]

1 minute ago, dfelt said:

That is supposed to be the interior for a all new $50,000 fully loaded FX4 Ranger? 😕

PASS

Sadly, the Canyon Denali is an even worse deal