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roadburner

ab348 said:

Bah. Get something that can really dance.








I'll take mine in Dark Emerald Frost.

I don't want anything close to that big- especially with four doors. If I did I'd go with an M3 Competition- or a Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody.
Different strokes, and all like that.

As mentioned elsewhere, current finalists to replace the M235i are:
G42 M240i
F87 M2 Comp
F82 M4 Comp
400Z Performance

Long shots:
Cayman S(918)
F-Type S(RWD)
M440i
Supra 3.0 Premium

sda

roadburner said:

sda said:

roadburner said:

Speaking of the Club Sport, I submitted it to the Powers that Be for consideration as an entry in the Legends of the Autobahn East- an event held on the Saturday prior to the Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance. Only 50 BMWs will be accepted and there are currently 62 applications. Funny thing, another couple we know applied- and they own an Identical Club Sport- including the lack of a hole in the roof- and they are also the original owners...

What is the date for the event?

LOTA: November 6th.
HHI Concours: November 7th.

Drat. I was hoping early Sept as we will be in HI for a week. We love HI.

driver100

explorerx4 said:

@jmonroe1,
Here's what some of my $100 case of beer looks like.
I gave my Brother in Law just about half and delivered it.
Payback for buying wings and beer for lunch a couple of days earlier.

Don't you keep any food in your refrigerator?

abacomike

@ab348 said:
I can take or leave Jay Leno's Garage, but this segment with the CT5 Blackwing has some really interesting discussion with Tony Roma, the Chief Engineer for Cadillac.

https://youtu.be/FwCEVBIPay0

Tony Roma? I thought he was into ribs, not Cadillacs! Maybe his rib joints are investments in case Cadillac bites the dust. 😜🤪🤓

explorerx4

@drvier100,
My refrigerator has food in the freezer. Plus there is some yellow squash in the picture.

driver100

explorerx4 said:

@drvier100,
My refrigerator has food in the freezer. Plus there is some yellow squash in the picture.

Good, you got all your food groups, a vegetable and lots of different grains!

oldfarmer50

roadburner said:

ab348 said:

Bah. Get something that can really dance.








I'll take mine in Dark Emerald Frost.

I don't want anything close to that big- especially with four doors. If I did I'd go with an M3 Competition- or a Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody.
Different strokes, and all like that.

As mentioned elsewhere, current finalists to replace the M235i are:
G42 M240i
F87 M2 Comp
F82 M4 Comp
400Z Performance

Long shots:
Cayman S(918)
F-Type S(RWD)
M440i
Supra 3.0 Premium

I wouldn’t mind that Caddy but at $125k you could buy two of most other comparable performance cars.

kyfdx

Beer:

You can get really good beer at a lot of ballparks now, if you don't mind paying $15 for a 22 oz draft. Maybe not at a Cubs game, though. They do know their clientele.
Also, cans have become the preferred container for craft beer. If you only want your beer in bottles, you'll find a lot fewer choices.

snakeweasel

@kyfdx said:
Beer:

You can get really good beer at a lot of ballparks now, if you don't mind paying $15 for a 22 oz draft. Maybe not at a Cubs game, though. They do know their clientele.
Also, cans have become the preferred container for craft beer. If you only want your beer in bottles, you'll find a lot fewer choices.

Maybe not at Cubs games if they are on the road you mean. Last time I was in the Friendly Confines they had some pretty good selections. Alot of the craft beer around here comes on bottles. they now how to package beer here.

ab348

oldfarmer50 said:

I wouldn’t mind that Caddy but at $125k you could buy two of most other comparable performance cars.

According to the reviews, "comparable performance cars" are $20K-$30K more expensive.

explorerx4

The 'Hit by Pitch' was originally brewed for sale at the local minor league baseball team, but with Covid, they now sell it retail.

driver100

Speaking about baseball, I am sure we have never discussed this before!
I wear a baseball/tennis cap when I play tennis. Twice I left my cap on my tennis bag and Trixie has got at my cap, she steals it and she loves to tear off that button that is on the top. I looked up how you can find a new button....you can but padded buttons at a craft store like Michaels. But, a simpler solution, is to take out the sharp pin....apparently the button has no real purpose. The caps are sewn together with 6 pieces and the button has no importance. The matching fabric-covered button is also called a squatchee.

That is your lesson for today boys and girls...and you can impress your friends by calling someones button a squatchee.

stickguy

the button covers up the space where the panels all meet. Makes it look a lot nicer. And probably gives it some strength to avoid pulling apart.

driver100

It looks neater but according to what I read it doesn't add any support. I am going to try and go buttonless on the 2 caps where Trixie ripped off the button!

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

Speaking about baseball, I am sure we have never discussed this before!
I wear a baseball/tennis cap when I play tennis. Twice I left my cap on my tennis bag and Trixie has got at my cap, she steals it and she loves to tear off that button that is on the top. I looked up how you can find a new button....you can but padded buttons at a craft store like Michaels. But, a simpler solution, is to take out the sharp pin....apparently the button has no real purpose. The caps are sewn together with 6 pieces and the button has no importance. The matching fabric-covered button is also called a squatchee.

That is your lesson for today boys and girls...and you can impress your friends by calling someones button a squatchee.

It's just ornamentation to cover where all the panels meet.

Speaking of baseball caps why do we see this?

oldfarmer50

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

Speaking about baseball, I am sure we have never discussed this before!
I wear a baseball/tennis cap when I play tennis. Twice I left my cap on my tennis bag and Trixie has got at my cap, she steals it and she loves to tear off that button that is on the top. I looked up how you can find a new button....you can but padded buttons at a craft store like Michaels. But, a simpler solution, is to take out the sharp pin....apparently the button has no real purpose. The caps are sewn together with 6 pieces and the button has no importance. The matching fabric-covered button is also called a squatchee.

That is your lesson for today boys and girls...and you can impress your friends by calling someones button a squatchee.

It's just ornamentation to cover where all the panels meet.

Speaking of baseball caps why do we see this?

Style over substance. Like some cars.

explorerx4

Doesn't look as strange as putting you hand behind your head to shade it.

venture

kyfdx said:

venture said:

We are going to an Orioles game at Camden this evening. Will the streak continue?

I'm assuming that's a losing streak, since it's the Orioles?

We liked Camden. Went in 2019, and they were playing the Red Sox. Literally, 100F that day, though. The only beer my wife liked in the stadium was on the ground level, and we were in the club seats, so I got a long walk, every two innings. She is normally two beers max, but drank four that day (Dogfish Head Sea Quench).

Yes. Losing streak. Even though they hit some home runs they still lost to make it 17 in a row. They don't seem to have the hitters to string a bunch of hits together.

They were giving out bobbleheads to the first 15,000 people. Many must not have wanted them because a lot were walking around before the game with out one. When we left, a few innings early, they had cases of them left over. Of course attendance was barely over 15,000.

I hadn't been to Camden Yards in quite some time. Still a great ball park, but showing signs of wear.

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

Speaking about baseball, I am sure we have never discussed this before!
I wear a baseball/tennis cap when I play tennis. Twice I left my cap on my tennis bag and Trixie has got at my cap, she steals it and she loves to tear off that button that is on the top. I looked up how you can find a new button....you can but padded buttons at a craft store like Michaels. But, a simpler solution, is to take out the sharp pin....apparently the button has no real purpose. The caps are sewn together with 6 pieces and the button has no importance. The matching fabric-covered button is also called a squatchee.

That is your lesson for today boys and girls...and you can impress your friends by calling someones button a squatchee.

It's just ornamentation to cover where all the panels meet.

Speaking of baseball caps why do we see this?

Style over substance. Like some cars.

At least it is better than this;

The backwards cap is usually worn by guys who drive souped low riding up Civics.

abacomike

@driver100 said:
At least it is better than this;

The backwards cap is usually worn by guys who drive souped low riding up Civics.

It’s worn that way so his girlfriend can’t whisper sweet nothings in his right ear - but she can in his left ear. 😜🤪

laurasdada

Gas today, Costco:
$2.80 RUG
$3.10 PUG

Locally, some rain, some wind; we dodged the worst. Left the Cape last night, no traffic coming or going!

oldfarmer50

laurasdada said:

Gas today, Costco:
$2.80 RUG
$3.10 PUG

Locally, some rain, some wind; we dodged the worst. Left the Cape last night, no traffic coming or going!

Another big nothing by the fear merchants. It finally started raining here but not that hard.

jmonroe1

oldfarmer50 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

Speaking about baseball, I am sure we have never discussed this before!
I wear a baseball/tennis cap when I play tennis. Twice I left my cap on my tennis bag and Trixie has got at my cap, she steals it and she loves to tear off that button that is on the top. I looked up how you can find a new button....you can but padded buttons at a craft store like Michaels. But, a simpler solution, is to take out the sharp pin....apparently the button has no real purpose. The caps are sewn together with 6 pieces and the button has no importance. The matching fabric-covered button is also called a squatchee.

That is your lesson for today boys and girls...and you can impress your friends by calling someones button a squatchee.

It's just ornamentation to cover where all the panels meet.

Speaking of baseball caps why do we see this?

Style over substance. Like some cars.

I thought it was because everyone wants to look like a catcher even though they wouldn’t know the first thing about how to play that position.

jmonroe

driver100

abacomike said:

@driver100 said:

At least it is better than this;

The backwards cap is usually worn by guys who drive souped low riding up Civics.

It’s worn that way so his girlfriend can’t whisper sweet nothings in his right ear - but she can in his left ear. 😜🤪

Which is hard to do when he is driving.

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

laurasdada said:

Gas today, Costco:
$2.80 RUG
$3.10 PUG

Locally, some rain, some wind; we dodged the worst. Left the Cape last night, no traffic coming or going!

Another big nothing by the fear merchants. It finally started raining here but not that hard.

It seems they tend to overestimate these things....rather than underestimate.

stickguy

these storms always have a cone (range). You got lucky. There are towns down in NJ that are flooded out (some got 6" of rain in a few hours). I think where it landed in Ct. got smacked too. Just glad I don't street park in Hoboken of Jersey City right now.

all the luck of the draw!

ab348

driver100 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

laurasdada said:

Gas today, Costco:
$2.80 RUG
$3.10 PUG

Locally, some rain, some wind; we dodged the worst. Left the Cape last night, no traffic coming or going!

Another big nothing by the fear merchants. It finally started raining here but not that hard.

It seems they tend to overestimate these things....rather than underestimate.

Always. I have taken to calling Environment Canada forecasters "weather terrorists" because they are always trying to panic the citizenry. This one has the most bizarre forecast track I've ever seen, making a 90-degree right turn like Jerry Rice in his prime running a square-out pattern, to show it heading straight for us. Meanwhile the forecast is for 12 mph winds and an inch or so of rain. Head for the hills!!!!

ronsteve

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

laurasdada said:

Gas today, Costco:
$2.80 RUG
$3.10 PUG

Locally, some rain, some wind; we dodged the worst. Left the Cape last night, no traffic coming or going!

Another big nothing by the fear merchants. It finally started raining here but not that hard.

It seems they tend to overestimate these things....rather than underestimate.

Always. I have taken to calling Environment Canada forecasters "weather terrorists" because they are always trying to panic the citizenry. This one has the most bizarre forecast track I've ever seen, making a 90-degree right turn like Jerry Rice in his prime running a square-out pattern, to show it heading straight for us. Meanwhile the forecast is for 12 mph winds and an inch or so of rain. Head for the hills!!!!

It was only ever advertised to go across Nova Scotia as a depression, and the stall-and-turn is not as uncommon as you think. It's still on the track. Are you sure EC was trying to scare you, or did you just look at the track with your area in the crosshairs and think they wanted you to be scared?

bwia

@stickguy said:
these storms always have a cone (range). You got lucky. There are towns down in NJ that are flooded out (some got 6" of rain in a few hours). I think where it landed in Ct. got smacked too. Just glad I don't street park in Hoboken of Jersey City right now.

all the luck of the draw!

Thank goodness we escaped Henri. What is surprising though is that Southwest Airlines canceled my daughter's flight from Sunday to Wednesday when we had bright sunshine overhead with nary a gust of wind.

I have to believe that perhaps their planes were moved to sheltered locations and logistically not available for flight duty in the Northeast.

ab348

ronsteve said:

Are you sure EC was trying to scare you, or did you just look at the track with your area in the crosshairs and think they wanted you to be scared?

My perception of EC forecasts and the amplification of them done by broadcast and online media is that they are only ever interested in scaring the citizenry, and not particularly interested in informing them of what is most likely to occur.

driver100

The other day I went to play tennis. Weather Network said there was a 30% chance of rain, Mrs D checked Weather Advisory and hers said 80% chance of rain. We played for almost an hour and hers was right....very heavy rain, how could they miss that?
I like the terms too, 20% or 30% chance of rain....so that if it does rain they can still say well you must have been in the 20% area!

ab348

ronsteve said:

It was only ever advertised to go across Nova Scotia as a depression, and the stall-and-turn is not as uncommon as you think. It's still on the track.

What track? The one they created at the end of last week showing it taking a path up the east coast and targeting the Maritimes? Or this one, which gets to the same destination but in a way I have never seen a weather system behave before? I get that info changes over time but why even bother with something long in advance which is bound to be unreliable at predicting results? I suspect weather forecasters are all heavily invested in bottled water and battery businesses.

imidazol97

ab348 said:

ronsteve said:

Are you sure EC was trying to scare you, or did you just look at the track with your area in the crosshairs and think they wanted you to be scared?

My perception of EC forecasts and the amplification of them done by broadcast and online media is that they are only ever interested in scaring the citizenry, and not particularly interested in informing them of what is most likely to occur.

On late night talk radio last night (this morning) a friend of the host and he were talking about the old days when the weathercast was exaggerated to get people to watch more. The friend was an ex-meteorologist. It seems that nevermind honesty in journalism these days, just exaggerate the weather threat to get those precious ratings dollars for advertising and ratings for the particular talent involved.

I believe the station was 770 WABC and it was perhaps 1 am.

ronsteve

NWS in the States, and EC in Canada are there to help communities, and especially emergency managers, prepare so they can mitigate the impacts of a weather system. The media are the ones blowing it up into hype.

To my knowledge EC uses the National Hurricane Center’s official track, which never went straight up the coast into the Maritimes. Maybe your TV people were trying to extrapolate the NHC track up in there to scare you? NHC goes out 5 days, and now you know why they don’t go longer.

ab348

ronsteve said:

NWS in the States, and EC in Canada are there to help communities, and especially emergency managers, prepare so they can mitigate the impacts of a weather system. The media are the ones blowing it up into hype.

To my knowledge EC uses the National Hurricane Center’s official track, which never went straight up the coast into the Maritimes. Maybe your TV people were trying to extrapolate the NHC track up in there to scare you? NHC goes out 5 days, and now you know why they don’t go longer.

I find EC worse than some in the media in that they prognosticate on things they are unqualified to judge and have little hard data to forecast - things like power outages, which you can only say sometimes happened in the past but cannot predict going forward.

Here is the map to which I referred. Looks official to me.

ronsteve

Big picture stuff from the NHC/CHC doesn't often distill down to local impacts very well. That's where local offices are important. In a tropical system, when any part of the circulation is over water, the odds are very good that the strongest winds are over the water and impacts on land are going to be much less.

Key messages from the NHC at that time were more like this, hardly scary...
"There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

Interests in the northeastern U.S. and Atlantic Canada should
monitor the progress of Henri."

Or this...
"1. Henri is forecast to be near the northeast coast of the U.S.
late this weekend and early next week, and the risks of storm
surge, wind, and rain impacts in portions of the northeastern U.S.
and Atlantic Canada remains a distinct possibility. Interests in
these areas should closely follow the progress of Henri and check
for updates to the forecast."

At that stage, they're just telling you to keep an eye on it, not hoard water and batteries. It's a "possibility." If they were to embargo the information and only say anything 2 or 3 days ahead, you would be griping that they didn't give you enough notice!

abacomike

@laurasdada said:
Gas today, Costco:
$2.80 RUG
$3.10 PUG

Locally, some rain, some wind; we dodged the worst. Left the Cape last night, no traffic coming or going!

My nephew owns a home on Nantucket that he and his wife and three sons use as a summer home. They all left last Friday and the boys went back to their homes or college and my nephew and his wife flew back to Raleigh yesterday after a few nights at the Ritz in NYC to avoid the storm back in NC. He reported no damage to their 4500 sq ft house on the island. They plan to sell their condo and move to their Nantucket home when he retires in 2 years so he can teach at MASS General and Brigham and Women’s as an adjunct professor with Harvard Med, his alma mater.

ab348

ronsteve said:

At that stage, they're just telling you to keep an eye on it, not hoard water and batteries. It's a "possibility." If they were to embargo the information and only say anything 2 or 3 days ahead, you would be griping that they didn't give you enough notice!

Well, when they issue a map showing something heading here in a straight line and show triple-digit winds associated with it, I don't know what other conclusion you are supposed to draw. I'm glad the winds are now supposed to be 12mph instead, but not sure I should believe them.

explorerx4

@abacomike,
That's going to be an interesting commute from Nantucket to the Boston area on a daily basis.

ronsteve

ab348 said:

ronsteve said:

At that stage, they're just telling you to keep an eye on it, not hoard water and batteries. It's a "possibility." If they were to embargo the information and only say anything 2 or 3 days ahead, you would be griping that they didn't give you enough notice!

Well, when they issue a map showing something heading here in a straight line and show triple-digit winds associated with it, I don't know what other conclusion you are supposed to draw. I'm glad the winds are now supposed to be 12mph instead, but not sure I should believe them.

Not triple digits by the time it got up there (and never triple digits in MPH). Not to mention that the maximum winds in a tropical system don't cover nearly as much area (and usually zero land area) as people are left to believe by the media. Someone needed to give you more information than the scary map. Sometimes that information is buried in plain sight, for example in your local forecast.

cdnpinhead

I was thinking the same thing. Those ferries take awhile and they're not cheap. Helicopter? If you're living on Nantucket (or Marthas Vineyard) you might have money for that.

driver100

To be fair, how can you predict something so unpredictable? Here is a picture of Henri before it hit the NE;

This tells a lot;
The center of the storm made landfall at around 12.15 pm near Westerly, Rhode Island. At that time, its maximum sustained winds were around 60 mph.

Had it not weakened, Henri would have been the first hurricane to hit the region since Hurricane Bob in August 1991. Bob was the first Atlantic hurricane of the 1991 season. It made landfall in Rhode Island as a Category 2 hurricane, killing 18 people and causing around $3 billion in damage, when adjusted for inflation.

How are you going to know it will weaken beforehand? IIRC, they always laid out various scenarios.

ab348

ronsteve said:

Not triple digits by the time it got up there (and never triple digits in MPH). Not to mention that the maximum winds in a tropical system don't cover nearly as much area (and usually zero land area) as people are left to believe by the media. Someone needed to give you more information than the scary map. Sometimes that information is buried in plain sight, for example in your local forecast.

Well, we've now come full circle. That map wasn't created by a media organization looking to get clicks or eyeballs. You will note that it is from the Canadian Hurricane Centre, whom, one would hope, would know all of those factors you mentioned. The CHC is located right here in town, BTW, so you might have thought they, or their colleagues at EC down the hall, would speak in some way to the local effects. So I can only go back to my original statement that they are trying to alarm the public, for reasons of their own.

ronsteve

ab348 said:

ronsteve said:

Not triple digits by the time it got up there (and never triple digits in MPH). Not to mention that the maximum winds in a tropical system don't cover nearly as much area (and usually zero land area) as people are left to believe by the media. Someone needed to give you more information than the scary map. Sometimes that information is buried in plain sight, for example in your local forecast.

Well, we've now come full circle. That map wasn't created by a media organization looking to get clicks or eyeballs. You will note that it is from the Canadian Hurricane Centre, whom, one would hope, would know all of those factors you mentioned. The CHC is located right here in town, BTW, so you might have thought they, or their colleagues at EC down the hall, would speak in some way to the local effects. So I can only go back to my original statement that they are trying to alarm the public, for reasons of their own.

The way it works in the States, and I know we're dysfunctional sometimes, is that NHC will put out a "big picture" forecast similar to that map you posted. (Actually I would wager dollars to donuts that CHC's forecast comes very close to exactly mirroring NHC). All that those NHC or CHC maps provide is the forecast position of the center, a likely range of where that center could end up AKA "the cone," and the max sustained wind speed, which is going to be relatively localized and very unlikely to occur over land.

When a particular area is likely to be under the gun, the local Weather Service office will push more detailed information on the local effects, using the overall NHC forecast as guidance. Problem is that media types will hype based on the bigger map, and many people barely even know their local office exists. So you end up with a HUGE messaging issue and often don't end up back on the same page until it's something bad enough that state/local emergency management starts issuing emergency declarations and evacuation orders.

If I was invested like you seem to think we all are, I would have made enough to retire by now. And I'm only 50.

jmonroe1

Hey guys, I thought this was a dishwasher site not a meteorological site.

jmonroe

driver100

jmonroe1 said:

Hey guys, I thought this was a dishwasher site not a meteorological site.

jmonroe

Just because your knowledge on different topics is limited, doesn't mean we all have limited knowledge.

I saw the CBS National News weather report the day before Henri reached R.I. Lonnie Quinn said there were several tracks the storm could take, and he laid out which one he thought was right.

Last year Eta hit the Florida Keys, they thought it would go right through central Florida. Several sources had different predictions where it would track....as it turned out the British tracking system was the most correct.

abacomike

@explorerx4 said:
@abacomike,
That's going to be an interesting commute from Nantucket to the Boston area on a daily basis.

He won’t be teaching every day - he has a condo in the Boston area that he uses when he is in town. His youngest son uses it since he is attending Harvard.

venture

jmonroe1 said:

Hey guys, I thought this was a dishwasher site not a meteorological site.

jmonroe

See. Now you've gone and done it. I noticed a tiny rust spot on the dishwasher door where, what looks like, steam comes out.

Thanks.

jmonroe1

venture said:

jmonroe1 said:

Hey guys, I thought this was a dishwasher site not a meteorological site.

jmonroe

See. Now you've gone and done it. I noticed a tiny rust spot on the dishwasher door where, what looks like, steam comes out.

Thanks.

It sounds like your dishwasher was made in a plant close by to where @oldfarmer50 lives.

jmonroe

ab348

venture said:

See. Now you've gone and done it. I noticed a tiny rust spot on the dishwasher door where, what looks like, steam comes out.

Thanks.

That's not a bug, it's a feature!