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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. I bought my wife a food processor years ago but she insists on clamping her grandma's old crank grinder to the edge of the countertop and whaling away on just about anything. Says the texture is so much better. Whatever, it's delicious.
  2. We do this with Spam and bologna as well. Run it through the grinder with the coarse blades, add chopped onions and sweet pickle relish. Add cumin and lots of celery seed. mix it all with your choice of glue, I prefer Miracle Whip but mayo or Ranch dressing are acceptable too. I like to open a home grown mater and put a big scoop of this in the middle. Makes a great lunch.
  3. Pigot's crash reminded me of this one. This was the first Indy that I attended and I had a ringside seat to this one. Cogan slid down pit row and came to rest within 100' of where we were sitting behind the pit area. I chuckled when Paul Page gushed about the safety of the cars. He was right, of course , they were miles ahead of where they had been but they have come so much farther since then.
  4. That's not a pairing I would have ever imagined on my own. Tori has to be one of the harder vocalists to sing along or harmonize with. Well done.
  5. Not sure who is sitting in with whom but this is the tits. Bonus with Vinnie C. on the drums.
  6. Kansas City did it in their first extra inning game and won.
  7. I just talked to the saleslady and was quoted $1100 for that package. Seems reasonable enough.
  8. We have an old Mazak Slant-Turn lathe (199?) with Mazatrol T32-3 controls. It has limited memory so our operator has been dumping old programs to clear space for new jobs. Not a problem as long as the programs that are dumped are one-off jobs that will never be repeated. We have reached the point that everything left in memory is something that we need to keep. The problem is that Mazak controls don't allow us to download these programs to a laptop or PC. There is a single RS-232 port for data transfer. Have any of you figured out a way to do this? A quick google shows several 3rd party software packages available that purport to do this and we are going to download some free trials from a couple of them to look at. It doesn't sound like the trial versions have the transfer capabilities enabled so I doubt that we can witness what we actually want it to do for us. It's probably a longshot but are there any programmers/shop owners here that know this shit? I'm not a controls guy so use small words and talk to me like I'm in 4th grade.
  9. Thanks. I will give that a try next spring.
  10. Sorry. I do use glyphosate but it only kills what is already sprouted. Less than a week later there is more green to cover the brown. I need something to stop the germination. I use Preen in my landscaping but I can't afford to use it on almost an acre. I'm lower tier surly.
  11. Is there a pre-emergent that any of you use to keep weeds in your gravel drives in check? We had 10" of rain in July and already have had 2 1/2" in August and the weeds are going nuts. It's mostly crabgrass, goosegrass and Mexican sandburrs (goatheads) but there are lots of low spreading weeds that look like sandburrs without the stickers. My house and landscape plantings are downhill from the drive so I hesitate to put down a sterilizer. Anybody have any suggestions?
  12. So much this. I've been using the same Zebra for over 30 years. I've flirted with a lot of others but I have yet to find one that is more reliable. I put a 1 5/16 grip on it and can't imagine using anything else. We play a 1,2,5 game on the weekends with up to 12 players. I had 5 birdies and 2 bogies for a 69 and 2 eggs today. One stroke from shooting my age again.
  13. At my age it's ball powder, nomsayn?
  14. Obviously he don't hustle South Broadway.
  15. Baez probably is the best at making tags right now but that play was all on Contreras. Baez only needed to close the glove. Oh, one other thing. Mondesi is playing like he'd rather be somewhere else. I can't think of another player that makes so many half-hearted swings at balls in the dirt. His defense is sucky too.
  16. Way too many to list but I think Annie Lennox and Susan Tedeschi are my top two. I can't argue with anyone listed except Tracy Chapman.
  17. This looks bad. Do you think this looks bad? It's from my '93 Tiger River 2-person. Purchased new and used often until last night. Hit the ON button and nothing happened. Smelled a little ozone and knew it was fucked. I can get a new board, Tiger River/Hot Springs parts are easy to come by, but I think I will look for a new spa. 26 years is long enough.
  18. Yeah, it's far from finished. I'm retrofitting a newer style blade guard from a later Craftsman saw. The original guard for this model is cumbersome and hard to find. Mcmaster has some belt guards that are easy to modify. Already on order.
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