Funeral Service
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Topic: Funeral Service
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Subject: Funeral Service
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 10:37am
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 1:18pm
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 8:32pm
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I'll post a few gun threads to bring some life into the place. Follow it up with a post-your-ride, and a good old Obama thread to invite FE. But yeah... I've been thinking that too.. ------------- 
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 9:18pm
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I've tried to post some pb stuff just to keep this place going. I don't want to be part of the reason for it disappearing:) I don't understand why tippmann owners don't use this forum because it's a great opportunity for them to restructure a new community and be part of the process. Pbn is just too much sometimes even though certain sections over there are very slow. I'd like to get some tippmann owners here again but the question is how to do it without being unethical. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 10:02pm
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So that ebola... I'm glad I'm not back home in Dallas. The nurse that has it now, went to a high school that my middle school fed into. I didn't go to it because it's an expensive private school, but it's a small world where someone I could have known is now the first person to get the virus in the states. I say we go all Madagascar on Africa. On another note, I made some delicious pumpkin bread. It's alright, you can be jealous.
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 10:29pm
| Pumpkin deserts rate among the best. Just yummy |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 13 October 2014 at 10:38pm
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I was on a plane from Amsterdam to Atlanta last week. Africans were sitting all around me and the guy right behind me was talking about how he was on hi way back from Nigeria. I try not to overreact to things like this, but I have to admit I was mildly nervous until my 3rd Gin/tonic. ------------- 
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 14 October 2014 at 12:47pm
Fixed. -------------
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Lightningbolt wrote:Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 14 October 2014 at 2:06pm
| Sweet potato pie gives pumpkin pie a run for its money. The cooking process of the sweet potatoes sucks though and getting 100% pumpkin in a can is super convenient. |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 14 October 2014 at 5:41pm
Guess we found the token basic white girls. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 14 October 2014 at 7:11pm
Got a new Remington 870 Tactical... ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 14 October 2014 at 10:55pm
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I like how the 870 feels, and the action is great. I've been using the mossberg 500 JIC for the last 4 years for camping/kayaking, the case floats like a champ, and I prefer how it loads compared to an 870. http://s2.photobucket.com/user/JohnnyCanuck62/media/20141014_201424_zps251fe8a4.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  http://s2.photobucket.com/user/JohnnyCanuck62/media/20141014_201603_zps7b625719.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  http://s2.photobucket.com/user/JohnnyCanuck62/media/20141014_201617_zpsfec820e2.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 14 October 2014 at 11:13pm
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The mossberg feed system is more user friendly and the manual safety is in a nice position but the excessive play and rattle in the pump handle is just annoying. Nice remi. They just feel like quality. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 15 October 2014 at 1:14am
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Just keep it all in one thread now, I like it. I finally got myself another car, and this time it's one I've wanted for ages, an E30! '91 325ix
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 15 October 2014 at 9:43am
I have no shame. To contribute to the gun talk, I have a basic 870 with garden variety wood furniture and a 26" barrel that I use for clays. I found a dirt cheap 26" rusty ventrib that I cut down to 18", mostly because I wanted to mess with electrolysis. Also, for cars, I'm still driving my burnt F150. -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 15 October 2014 at 12:37pm
Okay, I'm actually jealous! Nice looking vehicle man! Very clean for that age. As for firearms, just picked up a M44 from AIM Surplus' "bottom of the barrel sale" Apparently they look rough, have some surface rust, and are swimming in cosmoline, but the import marks are very small and hidden, and they're generally matching and (most importantly) not arsenal refinished, which is a rarity. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 15 October 2014 at 2:24pm
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I've heard the quality on 870's have dropped in recent years. That being said I prefer the design of them over 500's. Safety is more accessible, and the 870 is way easier to clean. I'm looking to move up north so I'll need a new vehicle. Looking at older 4x4 extended cab S-10's. |
Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 15 October 2014 at 9:47pm
http://vimeo.com/107437867" rel="nofollow - Watch this if you haven't already ------------- Face it guys, common sense is a form of wealth and we're surrounded by poverty.-Strato |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 15 October 2014 at 11:07pm
| Oh man, the E30iX was pretty much the holy grail for me in my Bimmer phase. Looks to be in good shape. I don't think I could ever go back from AWD after having it, but it sure would be nice to drive a car I enjoy again instead of one that's uninspiring but reliable and practical. I put LED lighting on the boat trailer, brake job on the Hyundai, and am trying to love the Yugo AK I had built, which has turned out to need a few tweaks. |
Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 12:29am
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G42 carryover- Talon; Yeah I'm not a glock fan either but they just seem to work albeit not as accurately as many other options imo. Surprising to me they seem to do decent in competitions which behoove me to be honest. As much as I've tried to not like them, they're super easy to place a lot of holes in a sheet of paper in a hurry. If they smelled like pumpkin pie I'd really like them. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 1:11am
| Just bought some pumpkin spice candy corn. They are alright. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 1:39am
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Replaced the battery today, but electrical issues remain (dim headlights until rev). Gonna round up a voltmeter tomorrow and see if I'm gonna need to yank the alternator or investigate grounds or what... New car, new problems. Would be great to make it to the E30 picnic next year, if I'm still living in the PNW. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 8:02am
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I'm still playing paintball... Hit the field Sunday with my Tipx and A-5. Did some dual wielding and it was a blast. Here is the first game. I've moved into another project home and have spent the summer redoing it. Flooring was a huge pain and took me way longer than I thought it would, but I did 1,000 square feet in hand scraped walnut. It looks amazing now. I have been replacing all the switches and vacationing this month... So I figured I'd play some paintball! I'm getting the new TCR as soon as it comes out, along with a bunch of the 12 round tru feed mags. Already got a second generation zeta for my Tipx and put an apex 1 tip on it with the 2011 A-5 barrel. I'm still using my MonsterSpin barrel on my A-5. It is annoying how bad field paint is around here... I realize they have to buy in bulk to get the discounts, but by the time it gets down to the lower part of the skid, the paint is horrible... Dimpled and leaking... Biggest problem with paintball is finding good paint... I'm so sick of both political parties, you'd be hard pressed to even get me to talk about them... I'm driving a 2005 Acura TSX now, gonna pass 230,000 miles this week... That's my update!
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 8:47am
My son likes the 870 Tact, I still prefer my 590. Smooth as silk, worn in perfectly. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 9:06am
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It's hard enough just typing on a 7 inch tablet so no quote but; FE, you mentioned BOTH political parties. I didn't realize that there is two and thanks for the heads up. And your a5 maintenance video assisted me in reassembling my a5 valve. For some reason the washer and o ring came loose during dry firing. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 9:46am
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Both parties do the same thing... spend more money than they have, while always taking more money from us dumb workers who put them in office so they can rip us off more... Glad my A-5 video helped you! I've heard from a ton of players that they really like it. I'm gonna do one for the Tipx when I get some time... That thing is a PAIN to take all the way apart! ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 10:22am
Oh crap, FE, Impulse, and I all seem to have the same general feeling on politics? Get ready for Armageddon boys!  Post some picks of that hand-scraped walnut goodness FE! I'd love to see that. I ♥ me some walnut. Got my el-cheapo M44 from AIM yesterday, it's a strange bird. No refurb markings, and the whole thing is matching except for the bolt. It's a nearly perfect Factory 21 bolt from China's T-53 production. That makes me think it came through Albania, which is pretty rare for M44s. It's also mainly held together by surface rust and cosmoline as the wood is beat to hell. As for shotties. I'm finding myself falling in love with O/Us these days. Used on on the sporting clays course up at Snowshoe this year, and am champing at the bit to buy a CZ "Mallard" now. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 10:47am
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The house I bought was ROUGH... mold in the basement, water lines in the house busted, water heater missing, floors in horrible shape... Bathrooms nasty. Vacant for over 2 years. if your bored, I made a video before I bought it showing how bad it was to my folks... and so I could remember the room dimensions... I tore out the walls in the kitchen to make it open concept, and found cabinets used on craigslist for $900... I'll have around $25,000 fixing it up, but it will be worth it as it is in a great neighborhood in the fastest growing area of Ohio! I bought this house at auction, for WAY under market value! Here are the floors I put in. This is the most accurate lighting wise  They aren't as dark as they show in these pics    ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 11:15am
| The flooring looks nice but it is it a floating floor? It looks cut in tight and they need room to float. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 11:38am
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Awesome looking floors FE. Wish I had the kind of know-how to do things like that. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 11:47am
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Looks great, especially after taking a look at the "before" video. On a side note, if there's one thing I've learned from looking at short sales and foreclosures, there's ALWAYS a purple room.... ALWAYS.... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 12:02pm
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Hey babe, wanna see my youtube channel? It's huge. ------------- 
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Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 4:33pm
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FE, why didn't you film the before video with your zoom cam while it was still mounted to the A5. The lady would have loved that... ------------- Face it guys, common sense is a form of wealth and we're surrounded by poverty.-Strato |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 7:25pm
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You guys are funny! I'm still in shock that my channel has blown up like it has... Paintball woodsball videos... who would have thought! The house was scary when I got it. And the video didn't have smell so you only got part of it... haha! But, it has been fun fixing it up. I used 3/4 inch solid wood floor stapled in tongue and groove, so you can go pretty close to the wall with it, as long as you have space where the drywall is, you should be fine. Real solid wood makes your house worth more than laminate, as it is considered "permanent". And if you do the work yourself, you save a TON of money. I got this flooring for less than the cost of bamboo, so I did really well, but it still cost a ton! If I remember right, I paid $4.59 a foot for this... USAFPilot, it is REALLY easy to do wood flooring like this, it just takes forever to do. It comes in pieces, and you just lay it in a row as you go and staple it. I got my stapler from harbor freight for under $150. Did that whole area, and two of the bedrooms. I want carpet in my room... So all you need is a chop saw, and a table saw, and floor stapler. And good knee pads... Getting the first row is the key, it has to be perfect, after that, it just lays in row by row... And takes forever! haha!
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 10:52pm
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It's something to easily lose count of but I've put in maybe 100 wood floors and just a quick look tells me that you're a perfectionist. It's the kind of thing that wins awards and what the industry needs. Foreclosure flips, new builds, either way quality work is fantastic to see. I just wish that I had the same drive for perfection on my own home as I did when I was involved in the industry. Still a silent partner in a very busy company. Did you continuous run or put in thresholds in the doorways? |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 11:01pm
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What are some of the keys to getting the first board perfect? -------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 11:33pm
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They see me lurkin'. I have an insane paintball collection, and it's still growing. Latest is a red X-Valved (yes, the valve too) R/T ULE. It's sweeeet. Too bad I don't actually play anymore. I'm also hotrodding my Bike (VTX 1300). That's proving to be fun! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 11:44pm
If it looks like what I think it looks like, I am jealous and I want it! I think it was You Wont See Me who had a blue one and that was the sexiest gun I've ever seen and then he sold it to a friend.
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 16 October 2014 at 11:50pm
| I had a ULE body X-Valve with the R/T with a 90° trigger frame. Shouldn't have gotten rid of it, even if I don't play anymore. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 7:54am
Attempt at hotlinking! Let's see if it works: ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 8:52am
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X mags are great looking guns but it's a shame you guys don't play anymore. I'm working on a two gun buy this weekend. My tippmann collection would grow to 5. I've got a model 98 that's kind of rough with light finish flaking in spots. Would you guys repaint it or leave it as is? |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 8:58am
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Detrevni, I put my stuff on photobucket and paste the bottom link as it is already coded for this site. Lightningbolt, Thanks man! I try hard to make my stuff as good as I possibly can. As it will drive me nuts if something is wrong... I had to tear out boards as I went if they ended up with the ends over lapping to closely... As I knew it would bug me forever! haha! I'd repaint your 98 custom, some custom color! I used that textured paint on my last A-5 I painted and it turned out great. Just take your time, and sand it first so it doesn't flake off from the bad paint underneath. Eville, the key is to get that first row perfectly straight to your room (not the wall as the wall might be bowed or not perfectly level). So you want the boards to run perfectly straight as you continue. You nail down the first row, and I use a laser level as well as measure to make sure where you end will be enough of a board so it isn't too short... As you might have to rip your first boards shorter... I get it all laid out and run that first board, then fill it in. I had to do this one kind of weird, because it took me so long and I had to move before it was done... Which sucked! So I finished where my fishtank went so I didn't have to move it twice! Here is what it looked like on moving day!  With the fireplace you have to get the boards to line up as you go around it, any gap and it will show. So you have to measure perfectly. My wall was wavy so I had to cut small pieces for parts of it... It was a pain but will be behind the kitchen cabinets so no one will know. I also do wood under all my cabinets, so if anyone changes the layout of the kitchen down the road, they have a floor under everything... It costs more to do this, but it is the right way to do a permanent floor. I use roofing felt underneath it for a vapor barrier and sound barrier. Makes a HUGE difference than just putting it on the subfloor and costs way less than underlayments they sell... And does the exact same thing the more expensive ones do... The hardest part is you have to pick boards that don't end at the same place as the two rows before ended. You can see how I lay out the different size boards so I can select the right ones. Then I pick colors and knots to be eye pleasing... I also match the wood color variations and stain variations to make the floor look the way I desire.  You have to take your time and pay attention to the details to make sure you don't end up with dark or light spots, by mixing wood from different boxes and putting long boards where your eye will naturally fall. I also find really cool boards, and put them where I will see them everyday... not hidden under furniture or next to a wall. I did my bedrooms first, as I was moving in and didn't want to have to move my beds twice, and I messed up as one room I did from the far wall, and the next room I started on the opposite side, so my end boards at the door were groove on one side, and toungue on the other! Whoops! I had to do a threshold anyway as there is no way the big room would hit just right. Here is how I did the connection between the rooms. The bathroom will have tile, and the master carpet, so I did different width thresholds there as I wanted them to stop at the door on that side. Where the wood shows under the doors on the other two rooms.   here is what it looks like when finished.  Good to hear from all of you and see what you are up to! ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 9:02am
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Ehhhhhh, I'm on my phone and I'm too lazy to snap my own pictures and host them, so I jacked the seller's photo. If y'all realllllly wanna see my own pics, I'll host 'em myself. :) ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 9:03am
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I'd like to see your collection of paintball guns! ------------- They tremble at my name...
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 9:08am
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Very well! I'll post them up after work! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 9:42am
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So what did I base my assessment of fe's perfection? That type of finish is one of, if not the most difficult to clean and not have smear marks, smudges, dust etc. That in itself is enough but on my tablet it looks like even the cut ends that will land under the base line up. No one does that! Lol. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 9:52am
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I wrecked the new fusion already.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 11:29am
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 12:15pm
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Leave it to Reb. What's the damage? Second for pics, Detrev. The floor looks good, FE. I will love the day I can have my own home and have some big projects to do.
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 2:04pm
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Nice floors FE! Is that a fish tank I see? What do you have stocked? I did some house stuff too... Started with a white room in the basement. http://s982.photobucket.com/user/mikeangelich/media/IMG_20140526_085836_775_zps3e61560a.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  Ended up doing some wainscoting and trim around the windows. Also replaced the trim around the two doors. I don't like the blue because I thought it was going to be a bit darker. Instead it turned out like a boys room. Will change it eventually. http://s982.photobucket.com/user/mikeangelich/media/10380898_10100119096012497_606574360346253930_n_zps14aff44f.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  Started with a pretty bland kitchen. http://s982.photobucket.com/user/mikeangelich/media/10442499_10100119095847827_4731843827745482623_n_zps7140ea55.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  After some staining and paint. http://s982.photobucket.com/user/mikeangelich/media/IMG_20141004_123449_292_zps58c3ee36.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  Also did a some landscaping in the front yard. We moved in and it was all weeds with crappy retaining wall bricks. Removed all of it and had some curbing put in. http://s982.photobucket.com/user/mikeangelich/media/IMG_20140628_135947_172_zpsf3288170.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  http://s982.photobucket.com/user/mikeangelich/media/IMG_20140703_105738_202_zpsb1510f90.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  -------------  |
Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 2:25pm
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Another perfectionist and it looks great. It's just the builder in me but the grade looks a bit low against the house next to the front step on the daylight Window side. Could be the camera angle. A half inch or less can make a difference. You guys are motivated. I'm finding it hard to just put lawn chairs away for the winter. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 7:14pm
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Dammit Reb! You jinxed me! Got in the Subie today, started it up, smelled burning rubber/oil. Took a look under the hood, but it was dark, so didn't see anything. Finish up work, start the car again, smell the same smell. Open the hood and sure enough, there's smoke wafting up from the exhaust manifold. Drive it up to the shop (after picking up my kid) as it's a small amount of smoke and I can tell it's dripping from somewhere above. Checked all my dipsticks, everything's in the "Green" so I knew I'd be alright getting it there. Guys at the shop check the plugs for all the fluids, all dry and good. Oil filter is dry and good. So we start looking at where we're seeing oil on the engine. Turns out it's seeping from the seals around the oil pressure sensor for the VVT system. The one on the other bank is starting to seep as well. At only 60k miles, this isn't something we should be seeing, but apparently it's common on the 2010-2014 Legacies as the guy at the parts warehouse finished the sentence for the mechanic when he was saying what parts he needed. It's a $200 job including labor. I'd do it myself, but don't want to run the risk of screwing up the VVT system. It was going fine until you brought your automotive misfortune into this thread Reb.... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 10:04pm
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I've been working on my '02 wrx, I did the valve cover gaskets/cam seals, new rad, new cat-back exhaust, ditched the lame blind-everyone-hids, new rear struts/springs/front struts, and new sway bar end links. Also in the middle of a kitchen reno as well. http://s2.photobucket.com/user/JohnnyCanuck62/media/02%20wrx/church_zps17a69f81.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  http://s2.photobucket.com/user/JohnnyCanuck62/media/02%20wrx/reardriver_zpsd9cf044b.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 10:42pm
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Same here. My truck threw on the CEL today and feels to be a little down on power tonight. There is a known issue with the Intake valve/cylinder heads that causes these symptoms. Good thing I bought an extended service plan this morning :) -------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 10:49pm
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So I just can't deal with the paintball stuff to post a picture any time soon. Sorry. I went through one footlocker and ran out of space on the pool table (9' tourney table). I have 4 more footlockers full. Yeah... I have a problem. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 10:58pm
| AC went out on my car, won't be fixing that until April. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 10:59pm
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My truck is going on 22 years and 150,000 miles. Leaks oil, sometimes is fussy in the morning, has been on fire, has one gas tank leak, half an exhaust, camber the shop guys cant fix, no AC, and no backup lights but it treats me well at 200 miles a day. -------------
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 17 October 2014 at 11:31pm
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Watched Fury tonight. Definitely worth it. It helped that the new theater in town has leather, electric reclining seats and a bar. -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 18 October 2014 at 12:40am
| Fury looks good. I really love war movies too. Saving Private Ryan is one of my all time favorite movies. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 18 October 2014 at 7:44pm
They've been promoting a new Regal Cinemas down in northern Virginia that's like that. You can even order dinner beforehand and eat it in the theater or some such thing.
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 18 October 2014 at 7:54pm
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And one liners. -------------
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 18 October 2014 at 10:31pm
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Fury is a must see. I liked it. I'm biased too because I am "tread head". ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 2:39am
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I took a vacation to Denver and now I want to move there. And I cannot wait for the first pheasant hunt of this year next weekend.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 9:12am
BHD=Black Hawk Down yes? -------------
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 11:27am
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Hey which one of you is Nick Tosto on the Facebooks? Because apparently we live in the same town now, which is neat. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 11:34am
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Since this is the monthly "Hey what y'all doing" thread: Been teaching my classes. First semester as a full-time assistant professor, and I like it a lot. This semester I'm teaching Journalistic Writing (the intro class), News Reporting & Writing (the advanced class), and Writing for a Mass Audience, which is a blogging-based class I've built from the ground up. In the spring I'm teaching a class I built back at UF called Social Media & Society, which is a theory/discussion class about all the ways social media is changing the way we live. In fall 2015 I'm teaching News Literacy, which is this awesome required course they built here that students across the university take. It covers what news is, its role in society, and how to process/digest info you see in the media. I'm also teaching Photojournalism, which will be interesting. I used to shoot for newspapers, but I was never really trained to do so. I'm glad I have a year to prep that.
On the research side, I'm working on some content analysis stuff looking into the themes of trending stories on the Facebook sidebar, and I'm doing a larger content analysis of use of the #GamerGate hashtag on Twitter to get a quantitative data set on that whole mess. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 1:49pm
Goin out on a limb here, probably Niq-toto. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 2:23pm
haha, sorry. I was run off the road the other day headed home from work. Guy was straddling the center line around a bend. Sideswiped a guardrail and did 3K worth of damage. Worse part is the guy in the oncoming lane never even slowed up and I never saw him again. ------------- ? |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 4:27pm
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Those always suck. I was in a similar one with my brother driving many years ago. We were coming up to a hill in my mom's minivan and a guy came flying over the hill fully in our lane. Brother took out 4 mailboxes and destroyed every panel on my side of the van. -------------
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 4:56pm
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 5:10pm
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I will definitely be looking at a single stack 9mm as soon as I move out of this damn hotel and get a proper safe. Anyone have any recommendations? The Beretta Nano looks pretty nice. -------------
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 6:32pm
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I think the Nano is a slick little gun. The shield has a nice feel for a sub-compact as well. One that I haven't shot, but liked when I held + have heard good things about is the xDS
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 6:50pm
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I've been looking at the shield a lot too since I've had an M&P for about 8 years now, so I'm pretty familiar with them. Do you know if anyone makes a larger safety lever for it? I haven't been able to find anything. -------------
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 19 October 2014 at 11:27pm
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I was shopping for small single stacks (9mm or bigger) a few months ago. The Nano felt okay in my hands, but I don't like that it doesn't have a slide release. I think the whole M&P line really nails ergonomics, and the Shield feels really nice in the hand. I didn't like the thumb safety though, and the version with no safety wasn't available at the time. I didn't get to handle any of the compact Walthers, though I've heard great things about them. I ended up getting an XDS (in .45, even though 9mm makes more sense) because of the lack of dinky, hard to manipulate thumb safety and how it felt in my hands. Only the 3.3" existed when I bought mine, but the option of the 4.0" barrel while keeping the small frame is a nice option if your carry style means you won't notice a bit of extra barrel/slide length. It's also worth noting that any of the striker-fired guns will have much nicer triggers than the DAO hammer-fired guns like the LC9. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 20 October 2014 at 11:04am
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 20 October 2014 at 8:32pm
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I'm looking forward to Fury, more looking forward to his wife's movie; Unbroken - the story of Lou Zamperini one of the best books I've read in a long time. ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 20 October 2014 at 9:03pm
My wife LOVED "Unbroken." I still need to read it. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 20 October 2014 at 10:58pm
| I was happy that apparently we were done, as a nation, endlessly rehashing wwII, but I guess not. \(._.)/ |
Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 21 October 2014 at 6:15pm
It may be superior in terms of accuracy, but SPR, in my humble opinion, does a far better job at invoking the despair and hopelessness of war. I always want to say that Tom Hanks utterly defined that movie but really every actor in it gives 110%, it's almost flawless film making. It's like the comparisons between Vietnam movies. I forget who made the quote, but someone fancy and important said that Platoon was ABOUT Vietnam but Apocalypse Now WAS Vietnam. That's how I see SPR and BHD. Also, Band of Brothers > both of them And yes, I logged in just to say that :) ------------- 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 21 October 2014 at 7:35pm
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Pearl Harbor is always good to watch. I also really like planes. I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was in daycare up until I realized my eyes were not fit. I remember watching Men of Honor when I was younger and loved it.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 21 October 2014 at 11:52pm
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I had a Reb moment and got in a hit and run accident tonight. I need to replace my passenger side headlight for the fourth time. I actually blame my dad's Sig. My truck caught on fire 20 minutes after he bought it, and the gun blew up yesterday and a Jeep hit my truck on I80. -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 22 October 2014 at 9:34am
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See, to me SPR simply goes off the rails with the radar installation scene. No captain in his right mind is going to go off objective to take out an emplacement that poses no danger to him or his men when he knows that the main force behind them will have things like tanks, artillery, and air support to help the grunts take care of it later. Going off mission, and losing men from your already small group, just doesn't make ANY sense at all. SPR is laudable for the D-Day sequence, but not much past that. Meanwhile, BHD shows how the best laid plans can turn to <poopy> when the shooting starts. And you can't tell me that Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Ewan MacGregor, and even Josh Hartnett didn't give 110% the whole movie. BHD may be the one saving grace to Hartnett's entire career, and Bana and Fichtner just ooze the operator-ness that I've come to know from my SF buddies. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 22 October 2014 at 11:39am
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But this scene is good too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY61XmDJ-1w" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY61XmDJ-1w It's a movie meant for entertainment. If every movie was completely historically accurate, it could be dull. I'm going to have to re-watch these movies. On another note, anyone see Django Unchained? I don't think I have ever seen a movie use so much blood. Every shot was like shooting into a bucket of blood. Also excited for the upcoming Disney (Big Hero 6) and Pixar (Inside Out) films. My favorite movies are animation. http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/18/disney-big-hero-6/" rel="nofollow - Big Hero 6 was rendered on a 55,000 core supercomputer.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 22 October 2014 at 1:29pm
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He'd have been able to shoot all of those guys AND evac the tower.... if he'd not been a freakin' south-paw.... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 22 October 2014 at 6:37pm
| QT's...thing...was a pale damn shadow of any of the italian ones. I liked his work when I was a teenager, but now I can't watch it at all, it's just cut and paste and stick pop over the top. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 22 October 2014 at 10:52pm
| SPR was basically another heroic John Wayne type WWII movie with added realism and touched on survivor guilt. BoB was better. Fury was in short, insane. It looked more like the pictures from the war my grandfather kept in his sock drawer and never talked about than anything I've seen in a WWII movie except maybe Stalingrad. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 October 2014 at 1:45pm
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 23 October 2014 at 5:22pm
| I'd love to run a 3-gun comp with a Winchester M97 or M12 trench gun, M1 Garand, and a bone-stock M1911A1. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 October 2014 at 5:57pm
This one is a take-down "riot" model, which means that the handguard and bayo-lug will fit it just fine. The good thing about it being a take-down is that I can swap out barrels and throw something longer for trap or skeet (or pheasants) and make everyone at the range scratch their heads when I start shooting a 97 year old gun next to all the fancy new Benellis and Brownings  ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 25 October 2014 at 4:37pm
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So I was looking at Shields today. The chain had a 9mm for 385 and a 40 for 350. I was going to get the 9mm but didn't have one of the pieces of paperwork on me that they needed. So on my way home to get it I stopped by the locally owned gun shop to see what he had. He had one as well so I decided I would support the small business even if our cost a few extra bucks. Then I saw his price tag. $505! MSRP on these is 449 and the guy wanted another 55 on top of that. -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 25 October 2014 at 6:46pm
| I bet if you mentioned the price difference, he may have matched or tried their best. They know they will lose that sale if you mentioned it and they didn't try to work with you. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 25 October 2014 at 7:05pm
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I ended up going to a range and renting one. Loved it. At 5 yards I had 4of my first 8 shots in a .5"x.5" group. Ended up buying one from them for right at msrp. It's a slick little pistol. -------------
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 26 October 2014 at 7:36pm
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I learned today that my 1970 Remington 1100 can't handle high velocity upland loads. And by can't handle I mean it somehow ejects not only the spent shell, but also the next live shell that's supposed to be chambered leaving me with an empty chamber. I'm not even mad. It's kind of a hilarious situation. Switched to regular velocity loads and all was fine. Tough day though, we put out 12 birds, saw 8 or 9 and only shot 5. All roosters though, so that's a plus. This new hunt club has some beautiful birds.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 October 2014 at 10:01am
Yeah, saw your pic on FB today, looked like it was a tough hunt with just those few birds. Still, IMHO, it's all about being out there, not how many you get. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 27 October 2014 at 11:29am
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It's a love/hate thing with the really nice weather we have. It's nice because it's warm and dry for us walking through the fields, and it's also terrible because of the same reason. The scent wasn't holding like it does when it's a little wet, and the birds can just run the whole time through the nice dry tall grass. And I very much agree Talllen... my brother and I haven't hunted together in years, so it was nice to get out with the family. |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 28 October 2014 at 3:56am
I've really gotten interested in doing this kind of research lately (collecting and analyzing data from large publicly available sets, such as social media). What kind of tools are you using? I've been playing with a few data sets off data.gov to see how police coverage correlates with socioeconomic conditions. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 28 October 2014 at 8:40pm
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well, my 'o9 macbook died, so bought a retina, need it for work. bonus of living in edmonton, going to see black keys tonight, and a guy name jake bugg is opening for them who is a very interesting artist, really like his music. ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 28 October 2014 at 9:34pm
What is your macbook doing? Mine died a month or so ago. It wouldn't boot. Had the gray/white startup screen nonstop. I tried all the fixing solutions I could find of buttons to press while turning it on. Seeing if it was a corrupted memory card. Nothing worked. I found some people with 09 MacBooks were all having the same issue and it was a bad harddrive wire. Apparently the 09 MacBooks have this problem more than any others. I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro. I ordered a new one from ifixit and replaced mine. Now it works just like before. After that fiasco, I bought an external harddrive and made a complete duplicate of my internal harddrive. Now I can boot up from the external if the wire ever gives me a problem. Just have to rewrite every month or 2 to keep it all updated. With the explosion of the Antares rocket headed for the ISS to restock supplies, does anyone what kind of backup procedures they have for getting another rocket up as soon as possible. Everytome I see ISS, I think of ISIS or any other names they have been given. |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 29 October 2014 at 1:56am
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I dropped it and it sounds like I physically damaged the disc(s), makes a pretty bad sound, the best part was I dropped it into some water. Too bad, I never had one issue with it until now. The new MacBooks have flash drives so hopefully it's a a little more robust, not that I plan on dropping it. ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 29 October 2014 at 2:49pm
| Found a truck. 03 4x4 S10 with 98k miles, for a pretty good price. Only problem it's in Los Angeles. I really do not like visiting the Peoples Republic of California, but I might have to. |