Chit Chat Thread for the week of August 11, 2008

I love the new laptops have figured how to make the work faster with out making them Hotter. The heat is what usually kills laptops...and not having air flow from being against a lap...and not a hard surface.

Does anybody know if there's such device?

Yes there is.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134

I got a new laptop about a month ago. Know the problem with some of the keys moved around. Finally learned most of them. Only problem is that I still use an old desktop sometimes. Make some surprising boo-boos at times.

Redskins by 7 points tonight.

I drive a diesel truck- while on a recent trip, I found diesel in northern Texas for $4.269 so I filled up. Never saw it cheaper. Then In Albuquerque at the Flying J it was $4.299. In So Cal it is still $4.70 or more. Remember when it was cheaper than gas? Glad I don't have to drive everyday!

I remember buying gas for 17 cents a gallon while on vacation in Altanta, GA. There was a gas war on... and the regular price then was 32 cents a gallon and I thought that was high!

I am one that doesn't think oil came from dinosaurs... don't believe it. It may be an expendable entitity, but I don't think it will be expended in my life time or my kids life times.

The real problem with oil is that a "few" have access to the whole of the oil therefore they charge by their greed, not by their love.

It's all about the money.

But that's one man's opinion.

When we both can remember those prices I think we are showing our age but proud of it.
Retirement is great

hi, i wanted to state that is exactly how i felt when i first got my laptop. its is so much faster and better than my old one. contrats again.

So the price of a barrel of oil increases a couple of bucks yeaterday (Wednesday). Today, the price of a gallon of gas jumps ten cents to $3.69. Are we the ones getting drilled or what.

You Bet! and without a Kiss first!

Bob

I can remember putting .50 in a Renault gas tank as a teenager and running around all night in it.Man I am getting old.How many still remembers the Renault?

Le Car? LOL!

Years before there was Le Car, there was the infamous Renault Dauphine. The most technically advanced thing in it was its horn. Two distinct switchable tones - high or low. The rest of the car was - how would the French put it - la caa caa.

That is the one I was talking about the Renault Dauphine.Go a long ways on .50 cents.Now you know how small they are.My dad put 5 of us in it and drove from VA to Okla.I felt like a board.

Ouch! That sounds terrible. Sardines would have had more room in their cans.

If you don't know the vehicle we're talking about, check out this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Dauphine

Ok I remember the Renault had one and used the hand crank to start it quite often. Now let's test memories. Anyone remember the Reo, Kaiser Fraizer, Studabaker, Hudson, or Nash. Good old days.

We had a Nash Metropolitan. Two seater convertible. Always a two-tone body, either green and white, orange and white, red and white or black and white. Fun little car. Four teenagers could pick it ip and turn it around.

How about the old Ramblers (not the AMC version). Remeber the front seats (split bench) would fold all the way down and butt up against the back seat so that there was a bed-like surface. Gee, I was just a young kid when we had one of those. I wonder why all the teenagers in the neighborhood wanted to borrow that car.

Remeber them all.Don't forget about the Edsel.

I had a good friend who owned a Hudson (nice riding car) , a Brother-in-law who owned a Kaiser and an Insurance man who owned a Frazer.
Days gone by ! A little piece of my before 20 years !

Now I feel like I am in with some from my younger days. I had drove or worked on everyone of them. Some good cars in their day.

Actually I had one of them, One of my first cars, then got me a corvair (spider) and when i was stationed in Memphis (Millington) went to a chevy dealer and looked at a Corvette, a brand new one and they wanted 5,000 dollars for it, But couldnt afford it at the time.

I remember the Corvair.My friend had one back then.It is funny when you think about it now.You pay now for a car the price you would pay for a home back then.

miss poi, to go with that new laptop, you need an air card - so you can take the laptop with you, and have connectivity to the Factory wherever you go - without having to seek out a wifi hotspot. Mine is a Kyocera KPC680.

miss poi, to go with that new laptop, you need an air card - so you can take the laptop with you, and have connectivity to the Factory wherever you go - without having to seek out a wifi hotspot. Mine is a Kyocera KPC680.

We had a whole lot of them in my old neighborhood. I understand they own Nissan now.

Do kids these days know Nissan cars were called Datsun?

And when did they start collecting tolls for the Memory Lane?

Go Cubbies!

I owned a Datsun. They changed the name because it sounded too Japanese for the American consumer. Is Nissan really more American sounding?

Bump for the cause! My windmill!

Then we have the Isetta with it's one front door.

Produced by BMW! I'll bet that's something they want to forget.

Yes for the windmill.

Looks like hurricane Fay is going to pay us in the Tampa area a visit. Heading to the grocery store to stock up... just in case.

I just wish I still had or Studebaker.

At least "she" should be a TD by the time it gets up to you but with lots of precip.

Not forecast to become a cane !
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/093226.sh...
shows the best "available" new forecast track from NHC.

Can't you just see that Studebaker coming down the road now with the Nash behind it.Give me them good old days back.

I would like to be right behind you in a 1950 Hudson, commadore six. 2dr. with select drive..

And I'd be right behind you in my 1958 Packard straight 8. What a car! The faster you went, the smoother it rode. Thing weighted about 3 ton!

Joel

Now the latest NHC forecast has Fay coming ashore between Ft. Myers & Sarasota - reaching Cat I Cane just before making landfall. LOTS of rain for 80 % of FL peninsula.
Getting my Rubber Ducky out !

I hope that all our members who live in Florida, will escape from Fay without any damage to their homes. It looks it will start around Momday.

Looks like we are going to be on the right side of it.which is going to be a rain maker, arrrgghh...
More rain. just what i need.

Good Luck to all in FL. Hope it dies down before hitting you guys or moves more out to sea and doesn't hit you so hard. Keep in touch.

You and me, both

I don't like the 5 PM new tracck forecast as far as you're concerned Gary - keeps you in Tampa on the high wind side the whole way up the coast. Not to speak of the heavy rain side also.

5 PM forecasted track is at:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/205301.sh...

Keep a close watch on this one Gary !!!!!

Will be thinking of you - I've been thru about 15 hurricanes in my lifetime including riding a Cat III out on a destroyer in 1957. Scary ride.

In 2004, Charley scared me more. It was headed right for us and turned into Port Charlotte at the last minute. They really got tore up from that one.

We'll stay alert.

How about you Flaco? All prepared?

... in my book, at least.

BUT, please do follow the advice to next time check out such (potential) nonsense on snopes.com first.
If this will stop just one more bogus Internet rumor from being passed along and scaring folks needlessly, then it's worth the time it took me to type this.

First of all, good for you for bothering to check out one of the thousands (it seems) of dumb "facts" about Obama, rather than swallowing it whole.

But as you'll notice on that same page, McCain's plane also has no American flag on it (at the time of the photo, anyway).
But you know what? Once again, those of us who want this campaign to be about the serious issues our nation faces are left to wonder: "So what?"
Is either of these guys having a flag on their plane or lapel going to make my house worth $1 more when I plan to sell it, or make my steaks or my kids' colleges more affordable?

If I'm not hallucinating, I think I saw a restaurant on Food TV yesterday, that had a Nash Metropolitan inside as part of the decor. It was probably on "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives". But I can't find any photos on-line, so I may, in fact, be hallucinating.

You weren't hallucinating! I saw the same show on Food Network, but about a week or so ago.

Great air & water show here in Chicago this past weekend!