peejman

    Excellent perspective here.  Thanks.

    Indeed, fantastic movie.  Given the option, I'd much rather have subtitles than over-dubbed.  Crouching Tiger is one that immediately comes to mind as being horrible when over-dubbed. 

Saw another one yesterday while getting the kids an ice cream cone.  It was somewhat comical as well, though in a different way from the one I saw the other day.  To each his own. 

      Scruffy looking nerfherders, thank you very much.    :)

I saw a guy open carrying in a restaurant at lunch last week.  The image it presented was rather comical IMO.  I saw a few folks notice, but no one did more than roll their eyes or shake their head.  This restaurant is frequented by detective types (cops not in formal uniform) and National Guard folks.  Even my wife said "really?". 

Think Jedi's ever did bayonet charges? My little one decided his light saber needed a bayonet. :)

    I seem to recall reading somewhere that the above is part of the reason for the full length forearms on many old guns.  They knew there was plenty of variation in the ammo.  They may not have fully understood barrel harmonics and such, but had plenty of empirical data of what worked the best. 

    In his car, he said that at some point.  Car with a toddler in it, no less. 

Cool.  Heirlooms come in many forms.  Things that connect us to times long past can have great intrinsic value.   It looks well used, which is the best kind IMO.  The angled pattern on the blade makes me think it was made from an old file, which would also explain the short tang.  I'd also get some mineral oil, tung oil, or walnut oil for the handle.      btw... did you get the Boker catalog in the mail?  Some cool stuff in there...

    Sounds good to me. 

    Sure it's the car driver's fault for hitting him.  At the same time, your friend was in condition white while waiting for the light.  You can't ever be in condition white when riding a motorcycle, bad things happen too fast.  He didn't take simple and reasonable steps to save his own life, and that's his fault.  I refuse to accept that my continued existence is at the mercy strangers, most of whom can't walk and chew gum at the same time.  Making sure I stay alive isn't their responsibility, it's mine.  Everyone is trying to kill you all the time.  Let your guard down and they just might do it.  That's life in the saddle.          I can say from personal experience that it hurts more when you hit things at 60 mph than 35 mph.  But it's also true that people fall off the couch and die.  Given no other info, there's only speculation that he might have lived if going slower.  I never said the driver had no responsibility.  The guy was riding like an idiot and it cost him his life.   I guess I'm a callous bastard because I don't have much sympathy.  90% of what went wrong was his choice. 

    Sarcasm doesn't always convey well in written form.

When I see that, this is the first thing that comes to mind... Hut, hut, hut, hut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quc-iQ96R0

True, but the impact is much less likely to kill you. I'd say yes, understanding that would be an unpopular opinion. That happens often enough that every rider should be aware of it. As such, I always check my mirrors frequently when I'm sitting at the back of the line at a light. I keep the bike in gear, in the left track, and with enough space and pointed in a direction such that I can escape quickly (typically between the cars ahead) if needed. When a vehicle approaches from behind, I flash my brake light a few times. If it still doesn't look like they're gonna stop, I get outa dodge. And I've done that once or twice. One occasion I'm certain was warranted as the car stopped about 2ft from the car I was behind and the lady driving it looked startled, as did the folks in the cars I was now between. I agree, but the likelihood of death as a consequence sure goes down. It doesn't appear that the rider hit anything other than the ground/trees. Makes me wonder what exactly killed him. Broken neck maybe?

14 lbs?!?!? :panic: You can't possibly carry a rifle that weighs more than 7 lbs from the truck to the shooting bench. You'll have to stop for a rest break on the way or get one of those little carts.

Being an asshole isn't illegal.

There's few things in this world more pissed off than a racoon in a cage.  I feel sorry for the dog.

    Of course both are at fault, but mostly the rider.    As a motorcyclist one has the responsibility to expect everyone else to be doing stupid things.  It goes with the territory.  Life is not a race track where everyone is a trained professional who inherently receives some level of trust.  I don't expect anyone to see me, much less yield to me, ever.  If I'm riding so fast that I can't stop or otherwise evade when someone doesn't something stupid, it's MY fault, not theirs.    From what I can tell in the video, it looks like the car started to turn, saw him, and stopped.  He was going much too fast and riding in the right edge of the lane, both of which make him less visible and give him less time/space to maneuver.  When he clipped the corner of car, it appears to be stationary.  Had he expected the car to pull out in front of him and had an escape route in mind before he even got to the intersection, it wouldn't have happened.    There are times where you're just screwed and can't do anything, but those are very, very rare. 

20+ years later, I've still got the card in a dresser drawer. 

    I napped more during the preceding MotoGP races than the Masters. 

Ask.  I'm certain they'll find something they can sell you...

Anyone else notice 1400 reviews?  At $120,000 ea?  $168,000,000 in sales?   For that one item?  :squint:     Ok... I looked at the reviews and didn't see a single one that game the impression that person actually bought one.  Seems Amazon could stand to clean that up a bit.  Though I guess traffic is traffic. 

Look up your local soup kitchen, food bank, church, Habitat for Humanity, various homes for abused kids (or adults), Big Brothers Big Sisters, etc.   There's plenty of opportunity.    I've volunteered at our local Second Harvest Food Bank a couple times.  I've never seen that much food in one place in my life.  Over the course of a few hours, we repackaged more than a ton (literally) of food from bulk to individual servings.  I found it amazing that a handful of people could move that much food in so little time.

    Agreed. Ride like you're invisible and everyone is trying to kill you.    He traveled that road routinely.  He saw the oncoming traffic and knew that intersection was there.  It's a sad case of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."   The average driver is completely unprepared for the closing speed of a bike (or anything else) traveling twice as fast as expected.  RIP.

Very impressive. Congrats to him.