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I like the way it looks, but it looks too short (especially the rear deck) to be a Riviera...I agree with Sixty8's comment about calling it a Skylark. It'd be cooler if it had a boat-tail rear.

I found out about this late last night...what a horrific event. I just don't understand people sometimes...and why didn't the campus alert everyone after the first two were killed. I read that the administration believed that the gunman had fled campus...what a lousy excuse. Someone in the upper levels of the admin at VT is going to get heat over that.

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Do you think the Camry's clock-radio has a snooze button? Or does the car just do it all itself? Edit: Damn, I thought I was being original, but having just looked at the posts above...it seems we're all on the same wavelength!

As much as the idea does sound somewhat appealing, Michigan would die if the Big Three were too leave...it would be the final nail in the coffin for the state's already terrible economy.

Excellent post, dwightlooi...I couldn't agree with you more!

LOL..."to helllll with the devil!"I gotta admit...even though Styper's lyrics are not my cup of tea, they have some really awesome sounding guitar work.

My apartment is right off Via Labicana, basically about 5 minutes from the Colosseum. We missed the changing of the guard...I think it happens on Sundays, but we decided to go to Poseidon instead since it was sunny that day. Cats and dogs everywhere in Greece...in fact, they had a petting zoo in the National Gardens with two donkeys, three roosters, a turtle, and cats all in the same pen. We burst out laughing when we saw that...I mean, those animals obviously go together well! And yes, the food was great...they really feed you there; you don't leave until you're stuffed. I should post up my Naples pics so everyone can see how $h!ty it is.

Lol...it's hard to believe it, but even the apartment building that I'm staying in here in Rome is older than anything in America.

I have quirks like that too with my pockets. My wallet is always in my right front pocket, along with car/apartment keys, and the cell phone is always in the left front. Now, if I have to bring my digital camera and MP3 player with, both of those go in the left pocket (I never put my keys in the same pocket as any electronic device after my old digital camera's display was cracked)...and the cell phone goes wherever it fits. But if I just have my wallet and keys with, the wallet goes in the right and the keys in the left so it balances the weight a little. My wallet is ALWAYS in the right pocket...that's a given. I never put anything in my back pockets. I like to walk in a straight line...it gets on my nerve when people weave all over the sidewalk (especially here in Italy...left or right...pick a side!) That's about all I can think of...I guess I don't have many weird habits.

I don't think I would ever get any of my architecture projects done if I didn't pull all-nighters. Work output for me increases tenfold when it's 3 AM and I realize I still have two drawings and a model to finish before 1:00 the next day.

DAY FOUR: Back in Athens Lykabettos Hill Greek theater The Propylea...entrance gate to the Acropolis The Parthenon in extreme wide angle Parthenon Temple of Athena Nike Nike again City before leaving Athens is just gigantic...our hotel was near this square

DAY THREE Cont'd Nice view of the island Temple of Aephea crystal clear ocean water Audi TT My friends on a rock Our rental, a Renault Clio Da Clio Sunset before boarding the ferry back to the mainland

DAY THREE: Aegina Island Port of Piraeus Fast asleep Boarding our ferry...the AIAS boat! (American Institute of Architecture Students = AIAS) One of the few highrises in Greece Industry Cargo ship Our destination in the distance Resort city of Aegina Waterfront Byzantine church

Sparkling clean Athens Metro Temple of Thissos at night DAY TWO Bus ride to Sounion Reminds me of SoCal scenery Cargo ships heading for the ports at Piraeus Temple of Poseidon at the tip of Greece Poseidon It was so windy that day! Gusts were probably approaching 80 mph Caught in Poseidon's fury Greek highway Enjoying the day

I said I would post them sometime and here they are...pictures from my Greece trip in March. It's a beautiful country...we stayed in Athens for four days, taking some side trips to the Temple of Poseidon in Sounion and Aegina Island. DAY ONE View from our hotel At the top of Lykabettos Hill, 700 feet above the city An Athens street 1896 and 2004 Olympics stadium Temple of Zeus and the Acropolis in the distance This column at Zeus was blown over by a windstorm in the 1800s and has been that way ever since Lykabettos Hill (left) and the Acropolis (right) Me Greek sculpture The Stoa

I read some good posts by hyperv6 in the GM RWD thread and figured it would be good to start a whole new topic where people could post their opinions and links to articles that might be of interest. Here's a great article about global warming being a political and power play from the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6070400789.html I have a friend who is an extreme liberal...I've been living with him here in Rome for the last four months and I reluctantly get to hear him reading articles aloud every day from CNN and wherever else he gets articles on global warming paranoia. Half of the people in my architecture major follow this same type of paranoia, so I get an earful of it often..."green design" is the word on the tip of everyone's tongue. I'm not opposed to green design at all, in fact I think it is smart because you create huge energy savings over time by incorporating some obvious solutions like use of natural ventilation, geothermal heating and cooling, low E glass, etc. I'm hoping to learn more about it and get LEED certified one day. But I think that so many people just swallow whatever the popular opinion is without asking any questions. My friend read an article the other day about how much animal methane (cow farts) contribute to "global warming"...now he has vowed to cut back on his meat consumption. He'll probably never own a car...he rides his bike everywhere. He spends hours digging up info on obscure websites to further his belief that anything conservative is pretty much the devil reincarnated. If the US were to switch to socialism, he would probably be all for it. I use him as an example because there are so many others like him out there that are promoting this global warming hysteria. But how real is global warming? Do we have enough facts yet to prove that we have in fact affected the climate and it's not just a natural phenomenon? I read an article about how Greenland has been warming up to the point that trees will soon be able to grow there...that is some solid evidence that something is very awry in the earth's climate. However, I have also read of the earth having mini-Ice Ages during the Middle Ages and periods of warming, which may have allowed the Vikings to sail all the way to North America in the 11th century (and the cooling of the climate probably killed them off). How much of global warming is just a political power play? I don't think there is anything wrong with lowering our consumption of resources and cleaning up the environment, but these greenies that are setting SUVs on fire and promoting mass fear....is there some deeper agenda? How much truth is there to global warming? Anybody that has good articles or websites on global warming, feel free to post them because I would be interested in reading them.

I've never really followed the Bible...my religion didn't stress it very much. But my belief is that the Bible is a collection of hundreds of years of stories from many different people into one bound book. Christianity was an underground religion until 313 AD when Constantine declared it legal to be practiced in the Roman Empire. No one will ever know exactly when the Bible was written, but it was written during one of the darkest times in civilization's history, after the collapse of the Roman Empire. I have no doubt that some of the events in the Bible may have actually happened, but I also believe that they were likely exaggerated as time passed and different sources passed the stories on. The Christian Church before the Great Reformation had a history of exaggerating things...numerous Popes built early hospitals claiming to be "healers," and one Pope even painted a falsified fresco in the sanctuary of SS Quattro Coronati that shows Emperor Constantine being baptized by Pope Silvester I and seceding his power to the Pope, which never actually happened. To me, the Bible is a book of morals...general guidelines for a society to follow. But it is never anything I would take literally. Events like the Great Flood may have happened; they are saying that there is scientific evidence of a massive flood that occurred in the Black Sea around 5000 years ago, which would have been recorded by the Ancient Greeks in their mythology. As time passed, this catastrophic flood story would have been retold through many generations, but how can we be certain they did not add new details or exaggerate the story? Early Christians living in Italy were surrounded by Greek and Roman mythology; perhaps this mythological account transferred into the story of Noah and the Ark? We'll never know for fact unless we somehow are able to travel back in time.

Are there more cars that will be debuting, or is that pretty much it for NYIAS?

We don't have any of that here. We're so deprived in the Midwest.

And in other news, there was a large explosion this afternoon on the South Lawn of the White House after President Bush plugged an electrical cord into the hydrogen unit of a Ford test vehicle. The president was blown 20 feet back on his ass and is currently recovering in the hospital. A stray dog named named Scrappy is filling in for the president until he returns to office.

I've seen quite a few of those Cherokees here in Italy...Chrysler has quite the presence here (300, Grand Cherokee, Cherokee, 300 Estate (Magnum), Voyager, Wrangler, and Caliber are all sold here).

Gotta admit, that doesn't look too bad. I actually like the profile quite a bit.

Kinda reminds me of this clip I saw a while ago. Check out about halfway through the clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgvgjfwyPs

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