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[Eric.]

Or rather, he's half an inch too small...

 

[CodeRedR51]

Just bought a driving force gt off ebay. Would post a picture but I'm sure everyone here knows what it looks like.

Shoulda bought mine.

 

[Casio]

Or rather, he's half an inch too small...

Maybe he'll grow into it.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Knipex CoBolt Cutters

 

[Joey D]

My 2010 Michigan State Park pass. I know it's July and everything but it's like $8 for the day or $20 for the year and I go more then twice so it's worth it.

 

[exigeracer]

Replaced my set of bocce balls again. Lost a couple last time we played urban bocce all afternoon (one to a streetcar and one to a car trying to parallel park).

 

[TB]

"Just ball? As in bocce?"[/J.O'Neill]

 

[Omnis]

Replaced my set of bocce balls again. Lost a couple last time we played urban bocce all afternoon (one to a streetcar and one to a car trying to parallel park).

Cool. I used to play with my grandma's old Croatian friend when I was younger. He died a couple years ago though.

 

[exigeracer]

If you're not playing on a boring, flat, obstacle-free pitch, it's a pretty fun game. The alcohol helps too.

 

[Omnis]

We played on a clay court, but the best bocce I've played was in a gravel courtyard in belgium.

 

[GTP_V8SuperCars]

Got me a playseat Evo.

 

[Solid Lifters]

More of these...

For this...

 

[Terronium-12]

Your son is totally going to steal all of your tools when you're not looking.

 

[Omnis]

More of these...

For this...

So are those better than Snap On?

 

[Open Addict]

Just got Bullitt, just for this.

 

[NLxAROSA]

Received this in the mail today:

Replaced the fitted spring (green) with the high-boost spring (yellow):

Now it needs to be attached to the turbo, replacing the wimpy GM recirculation valve.

 

[Solid Lifters]

So are those better than Snap On?

About a 1,000 times better. 👍

 

[Ibonibo]

Just got Bullitt, just for this.

Got mine too this week. On bluRay

Received this in the mail today:

Replaced the fitted spring (green) with the high-boost spring (yellow):

Now it needs to be attached to the turbo, replacing the wimpy GM recirculation valve.

for what car??

 

[Omnis]

About a 1,000 times better. 👍

Yeah, you know, I just realized that little zyklops tool with a couple heads could replace my entire toolbox. Won't replace my toolbag with my hammers and blades, but the screwdriver and ratchet set could go bye-bye.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Yeah, you know, I just realized that little zyklops tool with a couple heads could replace my entire toolbox. Won't replace my toolbag with my hammers and blades, but the screwdriver and ratchet set could go bye-bye.

Wera makes a ratchet that'll make your hammers go 'bye-bye' too.

Koloss

 

[Omnis]

Can never have enough hammers.

 

[NLxAROSA]

for what car??

My slightly modified 2009 Opel Corsa OPC 1.6 turbo. The original one is made of swiss cheese.

 

[RandomUsername]

Just got Bullitt, just for this.

Got mine too this week. On bluRay

I need to see Bullitt again
I don't have the BluRay but I've rented it twice just to see the chase & and all the cool old cars in the background.

 

[Open Addict]

I need to see Bullitt again
I don't have the BluRay but I've rented it twice just to see the chase & and all the cool old cars in the background.

I only got the standard DVD as I do not have Bluray either. But, it would be one of the best car chase scenes in cinema history.

 

[CodeRedR51]

^^^ Add the original Gone in 60 Seconds to that list as well.

 

[FoolKiller]

I actually got this last month. I can't believe I haven't posted about it yet.

A new hardcover from my favorite podcast novel author.

Official summary:

ANCESTOR SYNOPSES

“The ancestors are out there … you have to believe me.”

Acclaimed author Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling creator of INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS, offers a chilling tale of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.

Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a compatible heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to monopolize that technology.

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering thousands of animal genomes, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock and re-created the progenitor of all mammals. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection.

There's just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, the work has given birth to something big, something evil … something very, very hungry.

As creators become prey in an ultimate battle for survival, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research reveals its own cold-blooded agenda.

 

[Neal]

FK: Sounds a (little) bit like the new movie Splice

I take it it's good? The summary sounds pretty interesting and gripping, the paper back is out next month so may get it as his other books are very highly rated.

 

[FoolKiller]

FK: Sounds a (little) bit like the new movie Splice

Except he first released it as a free podiobook, before he signed his book deal with Crown Publishing, years ago. Oh, and these aren't remotely humanoid. While the background science sounds a lot like Splice the scary bits are more like Jurassic Park.

He has since done a rewrite and connected the background details to his other books, Infection and Contagious, which all take place a few hundred years before his self-published book, The Rookie, in the same universe.

I take it it's good? The summary sounds pretty interesting and gripping, the paper back is out next month so may get it as his other books are very highly rated.

I like it. I also own the original TPB version (signed) that he released years ago through one of those printing houses that does a sort of print on demand thing. So, I actually have two copies (different versions) of this book.

At one point he was negotiating with Sci-Fi, er SyFy now, a movie deal for their creature feature thing they do, but they turned him down because they prefer not to have a lot of scientific explanation for their monsters, and he gets into some detailed genetic stuff. So, it is good enough to have caught their attention before he had a publishing contract.

Also, if you have an iPhone he has an app that has six of his audiobooks included in it.


Basically, though, I support him in his endeavors as he releases everything he does as a free audiobook via his podcast. He has put his fans first in his writing career, including turning down publishing contracts that didn't allow him to continue his podcasts of everything he did. He even did a book tour last year at his own expense to visit smaller mid-size cities, like Indianapolis and Nashville, that his publisher never sent him to. That's how I met him in Cincinnati.

 

[nick09]

Just bought Quake 4 for 6 bucks from a garage sale. For some reason it also came with a Doom3 manual behind the Quake 4 manual in the case.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Koken 3/8" socket T-bar...