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Mach 1

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  1. A little off topic but the Silcon Valley jargon is bleeding over into other industries, like real estate and construction, to try and sound hip and edgy. Companies are forming that want to manufacture entire buildings off site, then truck them in large sections and bolt everything together. As a potential customer, I was asked to sign an NDA to have access to look at their "IP" and better understand their "platform." WTF? What you're doing is called prefab, just give me a brochure and a Power Point presentation.
  2. Nachos Bell Grande is the best thing they've got. Mexican Pizza is #2. I used to think this way. Then my opinion was changed after by the Cheesy Gordita Crunch.
  3. My favorite is the Juicero story https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-valley-s-400-juicer-may-be-feeling-the-squeeze
  4. Goddamnit that article made me sick. Those motherfuckers are straight out of True Detective deranged power shit. For any legal types can anything be done post plea? Can they go after these guys? Bastards.
  5. She's now engaged to some 27 year old heir to the family that owns Lodge at Torrey Pines. Evans I think.
  6. Yes along that same line Layer Cake has a great mid 80's soundtrack (and is also a fantastic movie, got Craig the Bond role).
  7. This is pretty powerful. I always considered him as kind of a joke. I was very wrong.
  8. That was awesome, thanks for posting.
  9. I vaguely recall a post on the old scat site from a "friend" of roommate of Don Jr. at Penn. It summed up Donny pretty well. Story went that Dotard was invited to a football game, family included. He found Jr in his dorm room clad in basic college kid football clothes. Dotard took one look and slapped him across the head so hard it knocked the dumb kid to the floor. He said "Put on a suit and tie" and walked back downstairs to the car. Jr did as told. Could be bullshit, but kind of sums up his current support.
  10. I'll spoiler my assumption
  11. I liked to Stern alot on KRock, and jumped to Sirius immediately. I used to think he had Sirius by the balls, they'd have to rehire him or lose a shitload of subscribers. Now I'm not so sure. I stopped listening to Stern about a year ago, mostly because his narcissistic personality became more annoying as I got older (not sure why, maybe because I had kids), but also because the bits were getting stale. Now I listen to music and news exclusively. The money I pay is 100% to avoid the cringe worthy shit on terrestrial radio. It will be interesting to see what happens when his contract comes up. I think Sirius now has the leverage to low ball him, which with his ego, would likely lead to retirement, and we can then find out if he really has a ton of offers to do other things. He always said he hated it and wanted to retire, but I think that's bullshit. He likes the fame and notoriety.
  12. Jesus, must be nice after a hard days work to grab a drink, go out on the back patio, and look out over a beautiful golf course field of dirt and dead grass.
  13. Mueller is a straight shooter that follows the rule of law, so I'd expect him to follow the rules associated with the OSC. He's also a veteran and ex FBI director that, I assume, cares about the Constitution and the future of this country. The report will be seen by the public someway, somehow. Now it might be redacted in parts, to keep our pets' heads from falling off, but the main gist of the facts I believe will not, and cannot, be buried. I'll take the naive banner if it wasn't Mueller, but it is, so I'll go with we'll know most everything regardless of what the traitoreous R's try to do.
  14. Can't the House subpoena the report and make it public? I just don't see any way the report gets buried, whatever Burr does. Even if it can't be due to "Executive Privilige" I have to imagine the full shebang has other outlets already put in place to be released. We'll see it one way or another, but the traitors will claim it's doctored or some same shit if it's not official through the OSC or Congress. Good times.
  15. I had this on in the background, because football, but everytime I looked up it was very bad football. Are these bad teams or is the whole league like this? I noticed alot of dropped passes, but okay rain. But what jumped out was the horrendous OL play. The best example I can give is a run to the left, either off guard or tackle, that was stopped behind the line because the RIGHT guard was pushed into the runner's path, basically butt fumbling his own running back from 10 feet away. I'll keep watching because football, but goddamn.
  16. You can't pass this up when flipping channels. Classic. Also known as "Catskill Comedians Collide in California". I just made that up, thank you, try the veal ....
  17. The best is tough to say. However my favorite defensive player to watch since 2000 was Sergio Kindle.
  18. nm
  19. Catching up with past recorded episodes to get current ... the time jumps in Season 1 were done by a master, those in season 3 by an apprentice. There's an interesting story in season 3, but it's being told poorly, IMO. And here I thought Dorf was a douchebag. Turns out he's a douchebag that can act.
  20. Saw it this weekend, loved it. I especially liked how Jackson started off with typical documentary footage, then subtly slid into his upgrades. The Carlin podcast is a must listen for anyone interested in history - period. I need to go back and hand out some thank yous to whomever recommended... What struck me about the horrors of the podcast vs. the horrors of the movie was how *relatively* opposite they were portrayed. The podcast was so detailed and raw - which I loved since so much of history is sanitized - but the movie quoted British soldiers that described everything as kind of matter of fact. Rats? We shot 'em. Machine guns? We just had to keep going. "We had a job to do" was said over and over. Tough sons of bitches, stiff upper lip stuff. The stuck in mud is nightmare fuel.
  21. The Wire, Breaking Bad and Sopranos get a lot of attention for best TV series ever, and deservedly so. But I think Justified is close to the top of the second tier. I fucking loved this show. It's so well written and acted, and the storylines from season to season just worked. It wasn't perfect and I'm sure critics could nitpick stuff, but goddamn from start to finish it was entertaining as hell. Favorite season is Noble's holler - Limehouse didn't fuck around. Boyd Crowder, Dewey, Sheriff Steffy, Mags Bennet ... the characters in this show were awesome.
  22. I don't think there will be one. This shithead has broken so many basic Presidential principles I think we can add no library to the list. I guess once Mueller's evidence drops and is slowly, horribly, digested by all of us, and he's either impeached or loses in 2020, maybe the Huckabee family could raise enough for a kind of Ripley's Believe it or Not type deal. Branson, MO might work. Shit, it even might make some money to pay off the Trump Org legal fees.
  23. I was looking forward to this but turned it off after 30 minutes. Maybe I just don't get the source material, fine to each his/her own. It seemed like a poor mash up of Kill Bill (great) and Smoken Aces (sucked), but it couldn't decide what the hell it wanted to be. So it went from brooding tension to ridiculous cartoon character villains from one second to the next. Maybe it got better as it went along but fuck it, with Netflix it's always hit or miss so I checked out.
  24. Next step is weld in the DS floor pan. Luckily this was the only part of the car that needed serious rust repair. ] This will be my first welding job. Took a couple of classes and I still need a little practice, but hopefully it goes smooth. I've already beaten the shit out of the replacement panel to fit the as is conditions. 351 Cleveland off the machine shop shortly. Beyond the matching numbers I have something else to tell me the engine is original. An original dizzy fused to the block. I can't get it off no way no how. Fingers cross they can get it off without serious damage.
  25. JFC that movie came out in 2010 The original WS came out in 1987. The Gecko character was iconic for anyone living in NYC at the time, regardless of business. Yes I lived there 89-93. Point being Trump's entire persona has an interesting correlation to Gecko's character. I think it has heavily influenced him.
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