Great clip -- thanks!
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:59 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/yj38v4w
RLE
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In a discussion about pizza a couple of weeks ago, conveyor ovens were
implicated in the blandness of Domino's pizzas. Apparently they've made an
attempt to address the blandness – I wonder if they found a way to
compensate for the ovens?
http://www.seattlepi.com/food/414103_pizza12.html
I could see powering one of these with a W123 diesel:
http://www.vimeo.com/2638558?pg=embedsec=2638558
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This guy is having way too much fun traveling around the world in his W123
TD, and getting some great photos of his car in the process.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/300tdorg/sets/72157609267375263/
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I'm in the northwest corner of Indianapolis, just about four miles from
downtown Zionsville. We're practically neighbors!
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On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM, LWB250 lwb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Mark,
Where are you in Indy?
Dan (in Avon)
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Have you considered replacing the biodegradable wiring harness instead of
repairing it? It's an expensive part, but a funky one can cause a bunch of
problems. In my car's case, three cylinders quit firing.
--mf
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.netwrote:
Jeez. Westside
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:43 PM, LWB250 lwb...@yahoo.com wrote:
I gotta laugh about this CL ad. Not only is the title screwed up, but the
description is good, too.
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/bfs/1534689731.html
Dan
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Westside sounds about right, is what I meant. This little Dell is pretty
neat, but it's a little trigger-happy.
Mark Finch
Indianapolis
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:11 PM, L Mark Finch mfi...@katzenfinch.comwrote:
Jeez. Westside
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:43 PM, LWB250 lwb...@yahoo.com wrote
I recently ordered a Dell netbook with a six-cell battery and Ubuntu, which
is scheduled to be delivered to me tomorrow. I'll get a standalone USB DVD
player/burner that I can use with either it or my Macs. It ran $354 plus tax
and shipping; the only options I got were the six-cell battery and
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:25 AM, LarryT l02tur...@comcast.net wrote:
Maybe everyone else has had better luck with Dell than me. I have 2 Dells
(my son bought one from a friend for $20) and both are the slowest 'puters
I've ever seen. I have a gig of RAM in both and the HDs are almost empty
There's a video of Jay Leno zooming around L.A. in a new AMG gullwing at
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/29/video-jay-leno-recreates-cetait-un-rendez-vous-on-las/.
After watching that I felt compelled to go look at the original, and
in
the process discovered that it was filmed in a 450SEL
I just added that to my Amazon list. Thanks for the recommendation!
--mf
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
For anyone interested, I can enthusiastically recommend a book on the
topic, American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza by Peter
Reinhart.
True enough. But Apple stole the GUI and mouse idea from Xerox PARC.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Not just DOJ: Without Apple, the M$ world would still be typing in command
line stuff in MS-Dos 26.3.4 by now! Where do you think M$ gets ideas to
Actually, the $29 version of Snow Leopard will do a full install. I
reformatted the hard disk on my MacBook and went from 10.4.11 to 10.6, no
Leopard in between.
--mf
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
My complaint is that Apple hits you for $139 every
An ethanol advocacy group says cars built since 2001 should be able to burn
a 15% blend with no problem. That isn't reassuring to those of us whose
vehicles were manufactured in the 1990s or before.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/ethanol-blend-15-percent/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SsangYong_Motor_Company
SsangYong Motor Company of Korea licensed the W124 design and continues to
produce a stretched version of the W124 as the Chairman, with a Ssangyong
badge. It has a 2.9 m (110 in) wheelbase and 3.2 L Mercedes straight-6 M104
engine. Chairman
pedant
Quality doesn't mean much of anything by itself. It requires a modifier,
such as high, poor or questionable. When somebody speaks of a real
quality item it drives the editor in me right up the wall.
--mf
/pedant
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Dillon, Meade M CIV
Dali Museum in St. Pete for sure!
Bern's Steak House in Tampa, especially if you're a wine lover -- 100,000
or so bottles in their cellar and another 500,000 at a backup location,
and many are reasonably priced. And steak any way you want it –
http://www.bernssteakhouse.com/ .
Dockside Dave's in
Well, that was fun! Thanks.
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one at Costco yesterday.
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Rich Thomas wrote:
Presented without comment.
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Yes, please do give us reports. I have a 300E and an E320 that will
need head gaskets sooner or later. (As does the XJ6 out in the
garage, but that's another list.)
-- Mark
On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:16 PM, E M wrote:
I want to do the head gasket on my '88 300E too. Keep us updated
as you go
This seems a little like turning lead into gold, without the lead:
http://gas2.org/2009/11/10/biofuels-breakthrough-making-fuel-from-air-with-engineered-microbes/
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Nice. I like the Arts and Crafts columns. It will all look really
good when it weathers in.
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Costco's Kirkland brand Lamb Rice and Chicken Rice kibble are of
high quality, and they don't cost an arm and a leg. My Weims and
Dobes have thrived on it, along with the Kirkland wet food.
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Those would look mighty fine on this car:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katzenfinch/3191679368
On Wed, October 28, 2009 4:57 pm, Mitch Haley wrote:
If you can't afford a set of rims, just put aluminum foil on the stock
wheels and write BBS on them.
http://www.uncomm.com/web/pimpride.jpg
will be up at Picasa this evening.
--mf
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Yep, we have us some doozies of politicians here in the Hoosier state
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1995 320E wagon
On Thu, October 22, 2009 6:16 pm, Rich Thomas wrote:
Earl Landgrebe, an incumbent who was running for Congress in the locale
where I was in college, was
I'm partial to Rivendells. Don't have one yet, but one of these days
http://www.rivbike.com/
--mf
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criminy,...very little special about these bikes except the logo,
and most of what actually *is* special isn't good.
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Microsoft Vista Sales Slip
in Digital Media | Tech | Web/Tech
Barron's Eric Savitz (Tech Trader Daily) notes that Windows' Vista
isn't exactly lighting it up over at Amazon's Software best seller
list. Quoting Fred Hickey, Savitz observes:
The real point here is that the slow uptake for
Rebut this:
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/historical03.jsp
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A3.lrg.gif
get the preferred parking spots. What a simple
way to
garner respect and appreciation from your employees.
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Just for the entertainment value. The flying effect is fun, as is the
ability to change the view so that you're looking a the landscape
with a view of the horizon rather than straight down. There's also
the option of clicking on icons to see user photos of the area you're
viewing. It's
I've been running Google Earth on my Macs. It works well, and it's
free. Runs on all three major platforms.
http://earth.google.com/
--mf
On Jan 14, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Zoltan Finks wrote:
Has anyone installed Virtual Earth 3D and run it successfully?
It's that
map/locating program, but
And after you've assimilated that catchy little tune, have a look at
this:
http://eclectech.co.uk/parp.php
On Jan 12, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
What, you haven't seen it yet?
Garrison Keillor(sp?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMWp5D2ulfA
I like the song, the animation and
I am now -- she's rather fetching.
On Jan 3, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
that's crystal, dude. pay attention
snip
On 1/3/07, Sunil Hari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
who's the blonde?
$57.04 and $28.43 for me.
On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Desert Rat wrote:
There is a calculate button on the listing. Put in your zip code
and
then say you got to be kidding!
My zip was only $57.04 parcel post and $30.64 for UPS.
hybrids out of center
stage just
like hybrids kicked out electric vehicles.
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tranny, and didn't have to worry about
rediculously
expensive batteries, it looks like things are moving backwards.
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A friend of mine is working on an '84 230TE and needs a wiring
diagram. Does anybody have access to one that they could scan and zap?
TIA,
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Also PDF Maker. It costs $35.
On Aug 10, 2006, at 8:03 PM, Russ Williams wrote:
Kaleb
Try Paperless Printer it will convert Plain Text file to a JPG
among other
formats.
I've used it to convert PDF's To JPG's, Text to PDF's works great.
Russ W.
Fmiser wrote:
rumor has it that Kaleb
of the analysts that
are
concerned about the pipeline are from asian countries/companies.
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Before you leave, take a printout of all of us clowns on Chuck's
frapper
thing. I'm sure none of us would be opposed to getting a ring when
you pass
through if you need a place to recharge/cleanup/car upkeep/
homecooked meal
etc.
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Can't help but wonder why there are no photos of the front of it...
On May 8, 2006, at 10:02 AM, andrew strasfogel wrote:
Sorry - meant to say that I can't believe not a SINGLE bid of $100.
On 5/8/06, andrew strasfogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't believe it - not a since bid for
I heard and felt a clunk in the right front while I was driving my
1982 300D today. It still steered and rode OK but it did rattle when
I ran over bumps, so I took it pretty easy on the way home. A little
while ago I stuck a trouble light under the car to see what I could
see, which was
Hmmm. Democrats? Y'think?
Also in 2004, the federal Government Accounting Office released a
report indicating that in an investigation of three diploma mill-type
schools, the schools confirmed having 463 people employed by the
federal government, more than half of whom were employed by the
, February 13, 2006, at 04:16 PM, L. Mark Finch wrote:
Hmmm. Democrats? Y'think?
Also in 2004, the federal Government Accounting Office released a
report indicating that in an investigation of three diploma mill-type
schools, the schools confirmed having 463 people employed by the
federal
I'd think a crankshaft kit would be available from any number of MG
parts houses. For that matter, wouldn't an MG/Austin engine bolt
right in? A Metropolitan with twin SU carbs (or better yet, a Weber)
sounds like fun.
On Feb 4, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Peter T.Arnold wrote:
Well, to tell the
Science says you can have brains OR balls:
http://tinyurl.com/c24fq
On Jan 28, 2006, at 10:19 AM, lee wrote:
On Saturday 28 January 2006 8:02, Peter T. Arnold wrote:
I've seen fellows pull wheelie's at 70MPH on the interstate to
impress
a pretty girl in a car. Some will run several
-seat G3s), has had trouble with
them---mostly hardware problems suggestive of corner cutting and
decline in quality of materials.
Alex Chamberlain
'87 300D Turbo
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Well, seeing as how your wife won't be along on this long drive, why
don't you name the car Heidi Klum?
The new car and I can bond it is very important to bond with your
Mercedes. Did you know that?
My wife is not coming. I don't think 24 hours in the car would be good
for us.
I need a
I've sometimes thought the way to financial independence would be to
make duct tape for specific interior colors, particularly for Volvos.
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:44 PM, LT Don wrote:
I think the duct tape on the driver's seat is a nice touch.
Just noticed at the local Speedway station that regular unleaded
gasoline and diesel are both $2.49 per gallon.
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Well, there you go. So maybe I _wasn't_ on crack when I paid $3,000 for
a pretty nice '82 300D Turbodiesel that I found on eBay and drove it
back to Indiana?
--mf
On Dec 30, 2005, at 8:44 PM, Ed Booher wrote:
On 12/28/05, Dave M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks nice, but wow the bid
Hobart, eh? If you pick it up on a Thursday or a Sunday, I'll meet you
at Hunky Hollow for lunch. They have damn fine lake perch.
--mf
On Dec 30, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
speaking of cheap SDL's, was half way bidding on this thing and just
got
a 2nd chance offer
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Rick Knoble
1985 300 CD
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Hobart, eh? If you pick it up on a Thursday or a Sunday, I'll meet you
at Hunky Hollow
On Dec 28, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Donald Snook wrote:
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Good spontaneous rant in the seventh paragraph.
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lights.
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(mid 40s) that I washed the car at the
local
Spray-It-Down and drove around town with no coat, window rolled down.
Almost
took the motorcycle out, but some ice on the roads was still in the
process
of melting.
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Are you sure you're not thinking of Grit? It still exists, too:
http://grit.com/ .
On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Bob Rentfro wrote:
Grist?! Holy crap I haven't seen anything from them since I was a
kidI
thought it went the way of green stamps.
Geez, I'm reluctant to do this for a number of reasons ... but I'll
offer $100. Please don't be offended.
--mf
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that applying power to a heater that I've never used
and
then wondering what could be wrong when sparks fly from under the
front of the
car might reveal that matters electrical are not at the very top of
the owner's
interest areas.
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morning to see just exactly where the problem was, but even
without seeing it I'm sure I'll be replacing some wiring
--mf
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-5252 and he will get one speeding on its way to you.
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of the car and that I
was covered by insurance. Got home without incident, and the car is now
legally registered.
--mf
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I like the morally-degenerate-but-in-a-good-way definition. It would
make a good band name.
--mf
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?
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.
--mf
On Nov 20, 2005, at 11:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What kind of wine should I take to a Thanksgiving dinner? I'm a non
drinker
and I am clueless.
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(And yes, I sell wine for a living.)
Speaking of Moose, does anyone know where I can buy a MUTCD-compliant
Moose warning sign? Some dastardly scoundrels made off with mine a
couple of days ago.
--mf
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Or possibly elk:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4419876.stm
the phrase intoxicated moose is funnier, though.
On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:42 AM, Fmiser wrote:
Stockholm, Sweden --
... residents of an elderly home in southern Sweden had to
deal with a pair of intoxicated moose invaded the
Did Volvo make the engine? They sold a 240 diesel too, but it was
powered by VW.
Interesting timing belt trivia. I'm replacing the one in my
(gasoline-powered) 240 wagon today.
--mf
On Nov 5, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Tom Hargrave wrote:
Volvo even manufactured a 740 diesel for a
while. The
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My bias is for the 240s of the late 80s and early 90s. They're good,
solid cars, parts are plentiful and cheap, and they're relatively easy
to work on.
--mf
The local stations in Zionsville (northwest of Indianapolis) were
advertising diesel for $3.70 9/10 today, up a penny since yesterday.
--mf
I drove from central to southwestern Indiana and back today, and diesel
prices ranged from $3.09 per gallon* to $3.68 per gallon. I noticed
that some stations have taken to advertising the price of the off-road
diesel (the stuff the farmers buy that doesn't include road-use tax).
*The $3.09
I don't think the government is too concerned with the food supply --
we can all just eat cake, right? What will inevitably bring on
regulation is the realization that they're losing motor fuel tax money.
On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:03 PM, B Dike wrote:
If we think
the government wields a heavy
At CostCo, it's 71 cents per quart -- $2.84 per gallon. Cheapest diesel
fuel in these parts is $2.97.
--mf
On Oct 4, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Wilton Strickland wrote:
35 lb. jug of soy oil = ~4.6 gal.
Wilton
to the
Fuhrer's G3.
Wonder what the likelihood of forgery is? There are
legendary cases of SSK forgeries (or is it SSKL?)
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1989 Volvo 245
1985 Jaguar XJ6 SIII
1982 Mercedes 300D
1960 Austin-Healey Sprite
1969 Triumph TR6R (MC)
1950
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