Easy, the Bader Racing Karmann Ghia 993 RS!
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@Cheeseslap spanks his ACR for being good: Couple of things wrong here. First, you're grouping me with the Midwesterners, a group to which I do not belong. Second, @Mac is right, there's a difference between being too simple to revolt and being smart enough to realize when you and the train crew are on the same team. In the bitter colds of the Dakotas, where did we expect to go that the engineers on the train weren't going to take us? The train crew was outside in the subzero temperatures on our behalf attempting to repair the train's electrical system, a job I was certainly not going to volunteer for.
Last year just after New Year's Eve my girl and I were on an Eastbound Empire Builder that lost its electrical system in the subzero temperatures just West of Fargo, North Dakota. After failed repair attempts at the Fargo station, the train continued to Minneapolis where folks were finally able to disembark and gather in the warm Minneapolis depot. We were fortunate to have the means to grab a cab and buy a flight out of MSP. Despite that experience, I have booked two Amtrak trips for this Christmas season in the Northeast. Our experience with a cold train in the Midwest was entirely different than what @ABC7Stephen describes here. Perhaps it says something about the personality of Midwesterners that when our train was stuck in the bitter subzero cold, everyone remained calm and friendly.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on the claim of "Donner Party of Amtrak" since the City of San Francisco was actually stuck in Donner Pass in January of 1952, and the situation was far worse.
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The lesson I learned from my own bitterly cold train ride was to never put my wool winter coat in my checked baggage, and to travel with an extra blanket in my carry-on. Problem solved.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on the claim of "Donner Party of Amtrak" since the City of San Francisco was actually stuck in Donner Pass in January of 1952, and the situation was far worse.
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The lesson I learned from my own bitterly cold train ride was to never put my wool winter coat in my checked baggage, and to travel with an extra blanket in my carry-on. Problem solved.
As part of my ongoing effort to live like the Mad Max future is just moments away, I've long kept a spare universal low pressure electric fuel pump in the truck toolbox next to the extra plugs and belts and the big bag of zip ties. Whether you grab one out of a junkyard or drop $50 at Auto Zone, this has consistently been one of the best investments I've made in making it home in the hoopty.
Really? Not a single joke about His Cox?
It's heartening to see so many chase the runaway success of the Lagonda.
Beyond just saving water, this is excellent for saving hot water as well. If, like me, you live in a house with a very very small electric water heater -- often barely enough hot water for a full shower for one person, and you have multiple people showering in succession or simultaneously (everyone's gotta be to work at the same time), a trick like this can make the difference between misery and bliss.
@krank23: On the contrary, I'm a life long UNIX and open source software user with contributions in a number of open source software projects, including one that I maintain. I switched to a Mac from Linux, not from Windows. I continue to use a great deal of open source software on my Mac, but my time is valuable and the integration between the OS and the hardware provides a much smoother experience and also speeds up the actual operation of the computer. I also don't mind paying developers a reasonable amount for software if it does a better job than the free or open source equivalent. After all, I make my living on getting paid to write software.
Here are the things that would make it possible for me to use Linux as a desktop operating system:
1) Not only a prettier Linux environment, but prettier Linux hardware. If a company sprang up based around Ubuntu that operated like Apple Computer in terms of providing a unified hardware product line and shipped Ubuntu with guaranteed 100% out of the box driver support for everything in that intentionally limited hardware range, and made the hardware appealing and sexy instead of standard economy PC fare, that would go a long way.
2) Integrated rootless virtual machine support for running Windows or Mac apps side-by-side with X apps. Integrate something free like VirtualBox so that any user can quickly and easily install Windows or Mac OS X and fire it up in rootless/seamless mode.
3) A real shareware economy. What makes the Mac so great is that there are countless $20-50 apps that work really really well on scratching some specific itch and the Linux desktop is completely missing that. Open source doesn't always address my needs and can't always do that. Would be nice to have this kind of focused, for-pay community software available on Linux.
Land Rover Defender 110 Station Wagon with the inward facing rear seats.
@franzouse: I see your entry and raise you:
The RoadHEAD. There's nothing flappy about this transmission. Speed is continuously variable and changes are initiated by voice command. Transmission makes all the right noises right up 'til redline, where it becomes a real screamer. While cars equipped with RoadHEAD have a spotty safety record, we stick by our slogan: RoadHEAD, what a way to go (go, go!).
That's a ZX.
Swear to God, until I got to the word gentlemen, I thought I was looking at an ostrich caught in a trap.
VOTE: vim
An expert in vim can accomplish his task far faster than an expert in any other text editor.
Close second would be Emacs with viper mode, but if you don't need the programmability of Emacs then it's weight and speed can slow you down.
A real embedded vim InputManager for Cocoa would rock so many worlds.
Dude, where can I get this kit for my 914?
I once horse traded a tiny window unit air conditioner left by the previous tenants of the centrally cooled house I'd just moved into for a white 1972 Chevy LUV with what hot rodders call a nice "patina". I rewired the "bad" alternator in the dude's front lawn (it wasn't bad at all, just wasn't wired correctly), jumped it, and drove it home. Had it for 2 years as a parts getter for my daily driver Datsun 720. Anytime the Datsun was in need of repair I'd fire up the LUV and off to the parts store I'd go. Loved that truck. It had 4 on the floor and a scrappy little Izusu 4-banger with a manual choke on the carb. I'm sorry I finally got rid of it, but the high price of scrap steel was too tempting one month when I needed to pay a bill.
I personally like the '63 and '64 Rivs the best. Here's one I caught Down At The Staples recently.
Junior Brown has a thing or to say about Redheads and Rivieras.
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