Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[the harp unstrung]

^^^Fun or no...ya did it, 'cuz ya got your brother's back.


I have 3 Loving sisters...I'd take a bullet for each of them!

Still, I've always wondered what it would feel like to have a loving brother.

 

[Charlie Tango]

Can't complain too much. He's one heck of a chiro. When I got rear-ended on the 405 just outside of LAX, the C6-C7 disk almost herniated. It ballooned. Ugly on x-rays. He treated me 6 days/week for 6 months for what he was able to bill my insurance. Can't imagine how much that would have cost with an unrelated chiro.

He did owe me, though. I was his free IT guy. Set up a 4-PC peer-to-peer network back in the DOS days. That was NO fun.

A good 15 years gone by, my now-retired chiropractor found out I knew from computer networks professionally and told me his office had problems. We worked out a nice barter arrangement. I straightened out their office network and their computers, he straightened out my back problems.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

A good 15 years gone by, my now-retired chiropractor found out I knew from computer networks professionally and told me his office had problems. We worked out a nice barter arrangement. I straightened out their office network and their computers, he straightened out my back problems.

Mine was back in '87. Relative Stone Ages for PC networks.

 

[gtmalone]

Until someone tries to be helpful and tells you the final score. "WOW! Did you see that?"

I've had that happen or see a news headline on the internets. Also have to be careful to watch multiple recordings in the right order to avoid said spoiler. D'oh!

 

[notJaco]

I've had that happen or see a news headline on the internets. Also have to be careful to watch multiple recordings in the right order to avoid said spoiler. D'oh!

Or if that does happen pretend it was supposed to be that way. How many times have you watched a movie which had a time line all out of order? Call it... artistic license

 

[gtmalone]

Mine was back in '87. Relative Stone Ages for PC networks.

I remember those days. A dial-up at 9600 was a luxury not to mention a 56K leased line!

Modems like this: Vintage IBM 3865-2 Data Modem for Mainframe Terminal System for sale online | eBay

I still have the data phone that went with the modem.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Or if that does happen pretend it was supposed to be that way. How many times have you watched a movie which had a time line all out of order? Call it... artistic license

How many people know the car chase in Bullet can't possibly happen on the "route" they shot?

 

[GwenOnBass]

I remember those days. A dial-up at 9600 was a luxury not to mention a 56K leased line!

Modems like this: Vintage IBM 3865-2 Data Modem for Mainframe Terminal System for sale online | eBay

I still have the data phone that went with the modem.

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Was rockin' life with my Telebit QBlazer
except for the part it was work, not life
when work becomes life

 

[gtmalone]

Or if that does happen pretend it was supposed to be that way. How many times have you watched a movie which had a time line all out of order? Call it... artistic license

The Terminator movies. lol. 1,2, Dark Fate go together. The others not so much. I like them all but trying to fit them into the story arc doesn't work. I liked #3 Rise of the Machines except the ending was pretty loose with the machines. How did the little flying thing and the tracked robots with guns build all the other stuff especially after everything was nuked? I thought James Cameron did good in his three by leaving the rise of the machines vague.

 

[GonePlaid]

How many people know the car chase in Bullet can't possibly happen on the "route" they shot?

As a Native Miamian, some of the car chases on Miami Vice and Burn Notice had the same effect for me.

 

[gtmalone]

How many people know the car chase in Bullet can't possibly happen on the "route" they shot?

It's still one of the best chase scenes ever done! That Volkwagen must have been following the chase. Always thought that was pretty funny.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I remember those days. A dial-up at 9600 was a luxury not to mention a 56K leased line!

Modems like this: Vintage IBM 3865-2 Data Modem for Mainframe Terminal System for sale online | eBay

I still have the data phone that went with the modem.

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I'm still convinced every modem handshake should sound like a CRM-114 Discriminator.

 

[Fat Freddy]

How many people know the car chase in Bullet can't possibly happen on the "route" they shot?

You have just ruined my life!..........

 

[notJaco]

You have just ruined my life!..........

AND, Steve McQueen is dead.

 

[gtmalone]

AND, Steve McQueen is dead.

I got to meet Steve McQueen in '75 before he was dead. I worked for Mid-Continent Aircraft in Hayti, MO. MC was mainly ag aircraft but at the time they also restored and customized Boeing Stearman biplanes. Steve bought a Stearman from MC and came to pick it up.

Here are pics of a few Stearmans MC built but no pics of McQueen's. The black/gold belonged to Gulf Oil at one point. We sold it to a guy in Kankakee, IL. MC's owner Dick Reade flew it up there and I got to ride along! It had the P&W R985-450hp engine. Our speed was about 120mph on the way up. The new owner traded in another Stearman with the Continental W670-220hp engine. We flew back at a brisk 65mph and had to stop and spend the night about halfway. Loved it! About once a month Mr Reade would take employees for a ride. Tons of fun doing aerobatics in those planes!

 

[Charlie Tango]

I got to meet Steve McQueen in '75 before he was dead. I worked for Mid-Continent Aircraft in Hayti, MO. MC was mainly ag aircraft but at the time they also restored and customized Boeing Stearman biplanes. Steve bought a Stearman from MC and came to pick it up.

Here are pics of a few Stearmans MC built but no pics of McQueen's. The black/gold belonged to Gulf Oil at one point. We sold it to a guy in Kankakee, IL. MC's owner Dick Reade flew it up there and I got to ride along! It had the P&W R985-450hp engine. Our speed was about 120mph on the way up. The new owner traded in another Stearman with the Continental W670-220hp engine. We flew back at a brisk 65mph and had to stop and spend the night about halfway. Loved it! About once a month Mr Reade would take employees for a ride. Tons of fun doing aerobatics in those planes!

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And nothing will ever compare to the sound of a round engine.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

And nothing will ever compare to the sound of a round engine.

Like one of these 36-cylinder bad boys?

 

[Charlie Tango]

Like one of these 36-cylinder bad boys?

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That looks very much like the motor that Braun put in my toothbrush.

 

[notJaco]

I got to meet Steve McQueen in '75 before he was dead. I worked for Mid-Continent Aircraft in Hayti, MO. MC was mainly ag aircraft but at the time they also restored and customized Boeing Stearman biplanes. Steve bought a Stearman from MC and came to pick it up.

Here are pics of a few Stearmans MC built but no pics of McQueen's. The black/gold belonged to Gulf Oil at one point. We sold it to a guy in Kankakee, IL. MC's owner Dick Reade flew it up there and I got to ride along! It had the P&W R985-450hp engine. Our speed was about 120mph on the way up. The new owner traded in another Stearman with the Continental W670-220hp engine. We flew back at a brisk 65mph and had to stop and spend the night about halfway. Loved it! About once a month Mr Reade would take employees for a ride. Tons of fun doing aerobatics in those planes!

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The wife and I took this plane on a Red Rock tour over Sedona, AZ. She and I were crammed in the front seat side by side. Not terribly comfortable. It was loads of fun. But, I have to admit I did get a bit motion sick. Not super seriously but the fun ended for me; I wanted down.

 

[Fat Freddy]

AND, Steve McQueen is dead.

I've never liked you,,,,,,,,,,