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If they do a Kappa 'Vette, they should make it a retro '57. The other two can keep it modern, but I'd love to see a retro interpretation of some of the older ones such as the '57 and the Stingray.

Welcome. I feel like I've seen your screen name somewhere else...do you belong to any other forums?

The guy that travels by jet and Lincoln Town Cars to his speeches while spending $30,000 a month on utility bills for his massive home wins a Nobel Prize for global warming awareness. I'm speechless. We will look back on this decade with embarrassment.

(copying this here from the other thread) I have a hard time with advanced math as well...I don't pick it up right away like some others. Basically, what worked best for me was to write down every single thing the teacher said. What I found most of the time was after lecture I'd go home and try to work on it later at night, only to find out that I didn't understand why he did certain things. Those little hang ups would cause me hours of misery trying to figure out why I wasn't getting the same answer. So if he explained some process in class, I would write down his words next to that part of the problem so that later when I worked on it I would remember why it was done that way. I think most anyone can learn calc, trig, etc...it's just that it is harder for some to visualize than others and very easy to get discouraged. It also doesn't help that I am a visual learner rather than audible learner, so if something is explained in words only I'm f*cked.

ISU has a rec center with a gym that I go to. They have lockers that don't have locks provided, but they are in the open and I'm not really worried about stuff getting taken because I never bring any valuables anyway. A three summers ago when I still lived at home I went to the community gym at the hospital...I think it was $30 per month.

I'm not really sure, I think it got approval by the city sometime earlier this year but I haven't been to Omaha in a while so I don't know if they have started construction yet or not. It was originally supposed to be completed by 2008 but was pushed back because there weren't enough funds available at the time.I remember them saying it could have a similar effect on the city as the Gateway Arch had on St. Louis...I think that may be a bit of a stretch but it should make for some good views of the skyline from the Council Bluffs side.

Kate Shelly High Bridge near Boone, IA...it's named after a little girl in 1881 who saved 200 passengers on the Atlantic Express by flagging the train down with her red shirt. The old railroad bridge had collapsed from heavy rain and took a smaller train with it, so she ran to the tracks from her house and flagged the train down before it crossed the bridge.

Quite possibly the most famous bridge in America Lion's Gate, Vancouver... ...which always reminds me of Tacoma-Narrows due to the slender proportions New Omaha pedestrian bridge, approved

Jesus... There are some UGLY concepts coming out of Tokyo. The only one I have remotely liked so far is that Nissan FWD car.

Toyota Toaster is what they should call it.

Fugly...it looks like the base of the smoothie maker I bought for my sister. Japanese concepts truly are looking more and more like kitchen appliances.

Mackinac Bridge in Michigan Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida Some classic iron, Manhattan Bridge, NY Royal Gorge Bridge, Colorado

Four kids elementary / middle school age were caught today throwing debris off the 9th Street bridge in Des Moines that passes over I-235, and Channel 8 news captured them throwing a log over just before police arrived. Not only did they throw a log, they also threw bricks and rocks. Keep in mind that these bridges were recently rebuilt and now have the protective fences, but they were low enough that the kids could still throw stuff over them. Someone died on I-80 a few years ago after a group of teens threw a concrete block over and it smashed through the windshield. When they interviewed one of the kids, he said it was a dare and was kinda smirking about it. Sad thing is, they probably aren't remorseful at all...or maybe they just don't realize how serious it could have been if someone had been killed. I drove that stretch of road every day this summer and I don't want to dread going under bridges every time because some stupid kids get cheap thrills from it. This kind of stuff would have never crossed my mind at that age. Apparently these kids were influenced by an event that happened last week when some people threw concrete and steel reinforcement off a different bridge downtown that damaged five cars. http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll...368/1002/NEWS01 These kids better get more than just a slap on the wrist.

Here's something that was posted at GMI. W T F http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55888

Here's a commentary piece that was in the Iowa State Daily yesterday I thought I'd share. It's a reminder that Americans take so much for granted that many others in less free societies would die for. http://media.www.iowastatedaily.com/media/...m-3017244.shtml

What Fly said above is basically where I stand as well.

Yeah, "aloof" can describe many profs in arch school. It's always a treat when you get a reviewer that rambles on for five minutes about abstract architectural ideology, and when it's over you're left wondering if anything was actually said about your project.

If you want to see fanboyism, this is your video. Notice how he quickly passes by the GM dealer with a shaky camera declaring that nobody is there, yet pulls into the Toyota and Nissan dealers who were having tent sales luring people in with food and whatnot. Apparently this tool had a role in "Who Killed the Electric Car." Guess this video can't explain why GM's retail sales were up last month while Toyota was down. Even though he berates GM for discontinuing the EV1, notice how he parks next to a Tundra? Gotta love it. One of his quotes: "GM could make a difference, if it were honest and had not crushed the EV1. GM is evil, and has no intention to make the Volt. Like the fuel cell, it's a hype and a sham."

He's a nice guy, but he has a completely skewed view of domestic cars. One of the things he said was how most college students would rather buy a Japanese car that will last 160,000 miles than a domestic that is going to give them a lot of problems...I wanted to blurt out that my last car had 220,000 miles and it was a Chevy. All it had replaced were fairly minor things like a water pump. Was the build quality the greatest? No, but it never left me stranded anywhere. Pretty much all cars today can get 160,000 miles, even 200,000.Most of that people in the class were probably not car enthusiasts, so I'm sure they believed most of what he said.

Wow, those are really good. I like photography that deals with weathered objects. That house one with the clouds was very cool, too.

Old people drive slower to reduce the risk of accident to due deteriorating sight and reflexes. If an old person gets in an accident, they have a higher risk of medical complications than someone who is younger and healthier. My grandpa, on the other hand, drives a Grand Marquis and drives it like a bat out of hell. But he's from Chicago and has New York blood in him, so that may have something to do with it.

Today, we had to hand in current events for my globalization class, and I turned in the one about the Republicans growing weary of free trade. In my analysis of it, I talked about how free trade was beneficial to keeping a society from becoming stagnant, but how countries that place protectionist policies on their own markets should be countered with protectionist policies here that would promote fairer trade. I also mentioned GM in it and the large effect it had on the economy. So as my professor starting discussing my article with the rest of the class, he misspoke a few things that I said that made it sound like I was for imposing protectionism on everything which is not where I stand. The vocal free trade advocates in the class just ate this up. Then somehow it moved over to GM, and of course the professor and the vocal advocates talked about how American automakers just don't get it and the typical stereotypes how Americans are willing to pay more for a Japanese car that will last a long time than a domestic car that will break down often. Every stereotype in the book. I decided to try to defend, but I'm a better debater in writing than in speaking, so my arguments fell on deaf ears. My professor started comparing the auto market of 1960 to today and how the US was the dominant auto manufacturer in the world, giving it competitive advantage over other countries. Then he went on to talk about how that competitive advantage has now shifted to Japan, so essentially we should stop hanging on to the past and invest our effort into new areas we can lead. I agree with the second part of that, but I don't see why we should just abandon the American auto industry, especially now that it is starting to come around. He was talking about how Japan's competitive advantage was its focus on quality and Just-in-time production. That got me thinking; GM absolutely needs to get the Volt out. The Volt will be the new competitive advantage for the American auto industry. The only way GM is going to win back hordes of people, especially like the ones in my class today, is by leading in fuel economy. It's so hard to convince people that quality is truly catching up, but if you have something to sell them that will save them thousands in fuel costs, they will bite and then discover the closing quality gap for themselves.

Agreed. If Japan and South Korea aren't going to play fairly, why should we?

Were they shooting at Biggie or the Sonata?