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- Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:56 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fall TV Preview: What are you watching?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 442
So I'm not sure if I'll keep up with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The fourth episode is widely regarded as being the best of the season so far - courtesy of Jeffrey Bell, alumnus of The X-Files and Angel - but that's really not saying much. I'm not impressed by anything Whedon does with his sister and br...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:16 pm
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: [D&D 3.5e Character] Morganstern
- Replies: 11
- Views: 797
[D&D 3.5e Character] Morganstern
I'm playing in a new D&D 3.5e campaign run by our very own Bishop - who I hope doesn't mind me mentioning it here - and I'm hoping you all will look over my character and tell me what you think: Morganstern . He's a second-level Human Cleric [I can't remember the last time I played a human, and ...
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 2:11 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Gang Phrases Help
- Replies: 4
- Views: 139
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 2:10 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: How do you deal with a violent ex con
- Replies: 4
- Views: 148
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:44 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Serioud Paul, can I be your friend?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 161
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:43 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fall TV Preview: What are you watching?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 442
- Sat Oct 12, 2013 2:59 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fall TV Preview: What are you watching?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 442
Agents of SHIELD hasn't popped for me yet. Sometimes it takes me a few episodes to get into a Whedon show - I hated Firefly for quite a while - but I'm having trouble even seeing the potential in these characters. When you watch the pilot of Firefly, you can see exactly what they're setting up, exac...
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 1:26 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
Yeah, this is by far the best of all the Cherokees in terms of floor, except my second Cherokee, which someone had already welded up...but not well. My new floor pans should arrive early next week, and sometime around Halloween the guy my dad works with who restores Jeeps will weld them in for me: p...
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:38 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
After blowing my seat mount through the floor, I thought it'd be novel to maybe see what was really going on under the carpets. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HWmd0r5kg2w/UknxbefjEiI/AAAAAAAAR2c/9EIaJQzbaVY/s800/IMG_20130928_191652.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kKlE4fFa00U/UknxbNqyaJI/A...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 4:03 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
Holy shit. This morning I discovered that I not only bounced the 80+ pound subwoofer box off the floor, I bounced it high enough that it flipped over and landed woofer-side-down on the floor. Thankfully I keep a pretty clean cargo area, so the only thing it landed on was our field bag: it appears th...
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fall TV Preview: What are you watching?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 442
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:36 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Some Music Teacher's just know what they're doing....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 96
Ever since my daughter's first middle-school band performance, I've thought that a lot more could be done with this huge pile of musical talent these schools are all full of. It occurred to me pretty quickly that if I were to need a band to play score for an independent film, I could do worse than t...
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:29 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Fall TV Preview: What are you watching?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 442
This fall, I'll try to keep up with Parks and Recreation, Agents of SHIELD, Daily Show, and Top Gear and Fifth Gear, but I'm already so far behind on TV that I'm on the first season of Breaking Bad [it gets good sometime, I'm assuming?]. We're going to try to wedge in Agents of SHIELD tonight someho...
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:15 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:15 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
All of which is significantly better than what happened to my car on Saturday. Super-excited about my new functional rear driveshaft, I decided to make a small modification: I removed the front anti-sway bar. Slightly illegal, slightly dangerous, and definitely not recommended for road driving: it m...
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:58 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
So, I recently had some major driveline vibrations. I crawled underneath, and lo and behold, saw shiny metal on the rear pinion u joint [where the rear driveshaft meets the rear differential]. So I pulled the whole rear driveshaft [which, of course, promptly fell on my throat]. https://lh3.googleuse...
- Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:41 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:15 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:25 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What is it with retailers these days? [Rant]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 356
- Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:23 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Media Center PC Build
- Replies: 8
- Views: 266
- Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:22 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: New Bike (Alternate title: I'm a dumbass)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 335
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:56 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:01 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
My Explorer (which is now 18 years old!) has just about had it and it's time for me to start considering something newER. While I'd like to have the money to blow on one of these , I just don't. Though one of the regular four-door JKs is looking pretty tempting, I'd likely end up getting a used one...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:37 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
Yeah, that's one problem I have with these SUVs that are really just rebodied minivans. Not quite as bad as my old full-size Ford van - the engine is three-quarters inside the passenger compartment - but just tough access, not least because the engines are longitudinally-mounted between the front wh...
- Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:16 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
In truth, the Aztek was a really great car, a revolutionary redesign of GM's minivans into something that looked like an SUV, drove like a car, and had space like its minivan forebears. If it hadn't been for the aggressively retro-futuristic styling [carrying a kind of late-80s/early-90s vision of w...
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 6:03 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:27 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: New Bike (Alternate title: I'm a dumbass)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 335
Yeah, the big new ones - modern KTMs, the BMW GS bikes - can actually be genuinely nice long-distance tourers, set up properly. That's what I'd like to graduate to, after learning on a 70s Suzuki TS 250 or Kawasaki KE100 or something else similarly tiny and super-cheap. One great thing about bikes: ...
- Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:02 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: New Bike (Alternate title: I'm a dumbass)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 335
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:05 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:10 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:40 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:35 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
As it turned out, Dad didn't drive to California until today, and that timing didn't work for the seller, so I did something a little crazier than hitching nearly to the Missouri/Arkansas border and driving a car back sight-unseen: I drove there with a car hauler and picked it up, and then drove bac...
- Mon Jun 24, 2013 5:15 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
Okay, so I'm selling the above Cherokee [our third], and buying another. Some older pictures of it are here : I actually tried to buy it from that guy, but missed putting a deposit down by a couple hours. Well, the subsequent purchaser is selling it , plus several improvements, for the same price he...
- Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2846
Because he was a minor character that served no real purpose since it was not very practical to keep viewers from knowing that Whitebeard was Barristan Selmy without some kind of magical trickery involved (the likes of which figure into another storyline that has nothing to do with Selmy). I'd not ...
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2846
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:11 am
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: Games I'll never get to run.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1155
Here's where we lie: it takes days for me to come up with settings we could play in for years. It takes you days to come up with adventures we finish off in hours. So let's average it out: I build a setting, an arc, and you guide it to its end. I build the bow, you hold the arrow until it finds the ...
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:06 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2846
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:34 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2846
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:09 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2846
Seriously, they're just making shit up, now. My theory on that is that they're not planning on going beyond season 4. I'm told there's a very real concern that they'll get Season 5 finished before GRRM - their affectionate abbreviation for their god - gets the next book finished. And even if he rele...
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 5:49 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Game of Thrones
- Replies: 149
- Views: 2846
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:25 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: hello again after 8 years
- Replies: 7
- Views: 307
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:04 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Fri May 17, 2013 12:34 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
- Fri May 17, 2013 12:24 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LvK2rQWOQbI/UZV0ye4MDtI/AAAAAAAARJA/1NeHR7JJj7c/s800/IMG_20130516_200626.jpg Some asshole drove my Cherokee through a bunch of bogs today, over a logging field [one of the most treacherous and damaging environments possible for such a vehicle] and far, far, far be...
- Thu May 16, 2013 3:25 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
Initial test runs with the Cherokee indicate the steering component replacements have done their job, but I'll be doing a more thorough test today. It's possible the new steering damper is just masking the problem - the alignment shop noted my ball joints are also shot - but at this point, I'll take...
- Wed May 15, 2013 1:06 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: New Bike (Alternate title: I'm a dumbass)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 335
Nice bike! I've been thinking about getting a cheap Enduro for a while now, something I can restore myself [so I can learn about how they work, since I know almost nothing about bikes] and not worry too much about wrecking. But if I'm going to ride it on the street, I want to wait until I have healt...
- Wed May 15, 2013 1:01 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
I tend now to buy cars/trucks that have just come off lease or were traded in after a few years on the road. Still have most of the new car smell, and tend to be very clean with 90-95% of their service lives left. The difference between a brand new car and one that has, say, 24,000 miles on the clo...
- Wed May 15, 2013 12:57 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882
Well, thank fuck. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x2NFLcOOWjQ/UZOEG6_WpcI/AAAAAAAARFE/3ZXekU-e3Oc/s640/IMG_20130515_084543.jpg We've been trying to get a good bleed on this Cherokee since day one, and haven't been able to. I replaced [and bench-bled] the master cylinder, and that helped some [wa...
- Sun May 05, 2013 1:03 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Cars, Part III
- Replies: 449
- Views: 6882