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Pinky 09-28-2014 06:39 PM

So yeah, I'm back. Shit got Very Weird for a while, but all good now. What have I missed?

Joe Perez 09-28-2014 07:42 PM


Originally Posted by Pinky (Post 1171191)
So yeah, I'm back. Shit got Very Weird for a while, but all good now. What have I missed?

I ate a hamburger which used two grilled cheese sandwiches as the bun.

Some other shit happened too. Hustler rode a bicycle, and FaeFlora is either banned again or unbanned again, it will have changed by the time you read this.

And Scott took well-composed pictures of a cat.

turbofan 09-28-2014 08:02 PM

Glad to have you back.

Also, I dyno'd my car and wrote on it with sharpie marker.

Ahm.... Other fun stuff has happened too.

What's happened to you? Sell your car? Other funness?

Ryan_G 09-28-2014 08:33 PM


Originally Posted by Pinky (Post 1171191)
So yeah, I'm back. Shit got Very Weird for a while, but all good now. What have I missed?

Holy shit man! How are you? Steve, Troy, and I need to make it up that way to pay you a visit. I hope everything is okay with you!

Enginerd 09-28-2014 08:37 PM

Moon Hooch

These guys were on NPR. A unique style. I'm indifferent.

Pinky 09-28-2014 09:55 PM


Originally Posted by turbofan (Post 1171195)
Glad to have you back.

Also, I dyno'd my car and wrote on it with sharpie marker.

Ahm.... Other fun stuff has happened too.

What's happened to you? Sell your car? Other funness?


Originally Posted by Ryan_G (Post 1171200)
Holy shit man! How are you? Steve, Troy, and I need to make it up that way to pay you a visit. I hope everything is okay with you!

I got Bad Sick in my belly, it sucked for a while but now it sucks less. Still have the FrankenMiata but haven't touched it in a long time. I'm down to plumbing the fuel and installing the MS3 (and finding some non-boojy wheels to replace the XXR's I'm rolling it around on) but have been crazy busy with business. I still have my fab shop but also bought into a long-established speed shop up here in Jax and have been building hot rods. And Donks. We get a lot of Donk business.

Pinky 09-28-2014 10:03 PM

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Disclaimer: I did not build this thing, just doing some minor odds and ends like building a nasty 383 for it and hacking out enough inner fender to allow the front wheels to actually turn. We get a ton of these cars. The young entrepreneurs who own them never argue about price, and pay in cash peeled from enormous rolls.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1411956191

Pinky 09-28-2014 10:09 PM

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We work on all kinds of stuff..

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1411956509

EO2K 09-28-2014 10:16 PM

Good to see you back, Mr. Pink. ;) Glad to hear things are getting sorted out.

Also, JESUS TAP-DANCING CHRIST :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: But hey, if it pays the bills who am I to argue?

Enginerd 09-28-2014 10:35 PM


Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 1171139)
any iphone is shit.. compare the specs.. 2010 technology.

1 gig of ram, 1.4ghz processor, shitty video card with shared ram, 8mp camera, no expansion slot... list goes on.

Note 4 on the other hand,
3gb ram, 2.7ghz processor, great video card with some dedicated ram, 16mp camera, expansion slot..

In my researching, I saw people bitching about how the Note4 doesn't have a 64 bit processor. Now, I don't consider myself a real hardcore phone user. As long as it makes calls, emails, browses, and can take a picture without lagging too bad, I'm happy. The Note4 would be a significant upgrade for me for all of the productivity/multitasking functions it has.

sixshooter 09-29-2014 08:09 AM

Welcome back Pinky. As the krauts would say, vielen Donk (sounds like vielen Danke).

Braineack 09-29-2014 08:34 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1171194)
And Scott took well-composed pictures of a cat.

I was about to say I didn't take any cat pictures Sunday, but that would be a lie.

DaveC 09-29-2014 08:56 AM


Originally Posted by Enginerd (Post 1171236)
In my researching, I saw people bitching about how the Note4 doesn't have a 64 bit processor. Now, I don't consider myself a real hardcore phone user. As long as it makes calls, emails, browses, and can take a picture without lagging too bad, I'm happy. The Note4 would be a significant upgrade for me for all of the productivity/multitasking functions it has.

Specsmanship. It will earn me no cred around here, but I have no idea how long it takes for either of my cars to get to 60 mph. Don't care; no interest in measuring.

Likewise, I have no idea what the specs are on my Galaxy Victory, but I'm happy to have it with me all the time. It doesn't respond quite as quickly as my friends S4, but it's not as though I get bored waiting for it.

Joe Perez 09-29-2014 09:43 AM


Originally Posted by Enginerd (Post 1171236)

In my researching, I saw people bitching about how the Note4 doesn't have a 64 bit processor.

Computing devices targeted at retail consumers will always tend to be measured in silly ways.

It used to be that we could compare one device to another based on clock speed. That worked well so long as everyone was using the same architecture.

Then came the Core Wars. I've actually seen tablets advertised from reputable vendors wherein under "Specifications," the CPU is listed merely as "dual core" or "quad core" without telling me anything at all about the architecture, speed, etc.

I guess that the bus-width pissing contest is inevitable. Yet another mostly useless metric that's easy to latch onto.

I wish I could predict what the next silly metric will be. Maybe CPU core voltage, with poorly informed children expressing a preference for higher-voltage CPUs merely because it sounds cooler. "The S7 only has 1.2 volts, but my old iPhone 8 has 1.5! What kind of dumbass would buy a phone that only has 1.2 volts?"

Braineack 09-29-2014 09:49 AM

I'd rather have a 8MP camera if that meant the pixels were larger.

larger pixels = better SNR

Erat 09-29-2014 10:26 AM

Am i the only one who has a problem with all these racing events being called "street car" events? They won't let me participate unless i heavily modify and outfit my car with safety equipment that i don't need for it to be a "street car". Am i wrong in thinking that these modifications will class my car as a "race" or "track" equipped car?

Joe Perez 09-29-2014 12:08 PM


Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1171327)
I'd rather have a 8MP camera if that meant the pixels were larger.

larger pixels = better SNR

Oh, yeah. How could I forget about "more megapixels"?

I really loved it when they started advertising interpolated resolution.

Enginerd 09-29-2014 01:37 PM

I loled at the voltage comments and people in McDonalds looked at me funny.

Full_Tilt_Boogie 09-29-2014 03:07 PM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1171322)
I wish I could predict what the next silly metric will be. Maybe CPU core voltage, with poorly informed children expressing a preference for higher-voltage CPUs merely because it sounds cooler. "The S7 only has 1.2 volts, but my old iPhone 8 has 1.5! What kind of dumbass would buy a phone that only has 1.2 volts?"

Kind of reminds me of the scene in Idiocracy with the electrolytes.

Nobody understands the meanings of these technical things, but they have been told they are important.

http://safetrolley.wisegrouppteltd.n...tv1.jpg?fbda4f

concealer404 09-29-2014 03:25 PM


Originally Posted by Pinky (Post 1171228)


That shop gives me the twitches.

Can i come down there and clean and organize it all? PLEASE?


Glad to see you back!!! :D


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