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| I never let it get to 29. Amateur. |
It's oddly positioned, only 100 yards or so from a four-way stop and only another 100 yards from another stop sign, making it highly unlikely that anyone other than the most egregious leadfoot would ever register a dangerously high speed. But in another sense (that being the sense of my easily-distracted mind), it's perfectly positioned.
Ever since our town installed the sign two years or so ago, I've attempted to make the perfect pass: keeping the sign reading exactly 25 mph throughout the duration of my measured run. It's harder than it seems. To record the perfect trip, one must enter the recorded area at precisely the right speed, maintain that speed for several seconds, and then slightly accelerate at the very end in order to maintain 25 mph as the angle of the measurement changes.
I've probably attempted to record the perfect run over 1,000 times. I've been close, too close, dozens of times, usually failing by just a fraction, dropping to 24, or speeding up to 26 at just the wrong moment.
But last Friday, when I wasn't really concentrating, heading home at the end of the workday, I accelerated smoothly out of the four-way, then entered the zone at exactly 25. I kept it steady, then nudged the pace perfectly, recording the perfect pass for the first time ever. I celebrated by doing two laps of the roundabout that follows the next stop sign.
And then, on Sunday, I nailed it again. I'm a goddamn wizard.
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this made me chuckle a couple of times. my imagination took over picturing you with driving gloves, a little helmet, goggles, and a full-blown suit, but driving for some reason an old Honda civic...like from the 80's. did you ever drive one of those by chance?
We have a bunch of those in our neighborhood. There's one that I try to hit 50 on but there isn't enough of a runway for my car to do it. I need a bigger engine.
I drove in to NY for work early y/day - no traffic at Lincoln Tunnel at 545 AM - but had to drive home in heart of rush hour. Traffic was brutal and I decided to play Ministry loudly. That was my game.
In other news, 80's actress Lea Thompson (remember her!) apparently has a daughter. She's 21 and an actress. She seems...nice.
never had a civic, d-train. drove my wife's mint green toyota tercel for a couple of years after we had our first kid. that was pretty macho.
i accomplished this feat for the first time in our honda pilot, which is not my usual ride. smooth acceleration on that beast.
lea thompson definitely could've got it back in the day. even post-howard the duck.
They definitely went out of their way to make Lea Thompson less attractive during much of Back to the Future. But when her and Marty park before the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. Woo boy.
Anybody else completely out on the concept of 'work' for the last two days of this week?
My whole office has that vibe, Mark. Doesn't help that our firm is on the block again, a year after a similar dance. So my future ranges from "new 1-yr contract!" to "don't let the door hit your ass on the way out."
That backdrop, plus a sudden burst of sunny weather in the 80's, means a lot of folks have no fucks to give this week.
Am taking tomorrow off to spend most of it w/my kids solo. Taking them to the alligator farm among other shit they they dig. On Saturday their mom is taking them to see her dad in ohio. I will be solo for 3 nights & 3 days. Boom.
Baylor is firing Art Briles. There must be some (even more) reprehensible shit in that report on the football program that's set to be released.
Baylor should probably just stop doing big time athletics at this point.
I think prolonged ambivalence to rape is probably sufficient to see Art out, although I bet some boosters are pissed he's going. Six accusers is a lot. One is too many, but six suggests a real problem within that program.
wwbsd > wwjd
bs being barry switzer
Baylor LB Taylor Young (Twitter handle @tyoung_01) is making some REALLY poor decisions on Twitter right now.
If you ask me the real troublemaker on the coaching staff is one of the Asst Directors of Football Ops. His name is Casey Horny.
adopting 'what would dave bliss do' is probably where baylor started going sideways
Lea Thompson popped up again with other BTTF cast and crew members in last year's fairly-tepid documentary "Back in Time". Very few new nuggets of information on the film or making of, unless you want to see some scenes with Stoltz as Marty. A lot of the rest of it was focused on its marketing and cultural impact, but the latter on the very outer skirts (e.g. there is significant time dedicated to a band that dresses like the BTTF characters).
But Lea is in it and I'm... still interested. The 2015 version of the woman who played the original Jennifer looks like she can get it.
The older I become the bigger the pores in my "she can get it" filter get.
she never did it for me, sadly.
great job rob!
i was more of a daryl hannah guy back then (but wow-- daryl hannah has NOT aged well).
elle macpherson has, though. so i'm told.
I just read something that said that RoboCop was a Jesus Christ narrative.
Clarence Boddicker as Pontius Pilate? (He is perhaps the worst of us Clarences.)
Did Jesus ever say, "Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"
Pilate did once say, "I'd buy that for a dollar."
Based just on the excerpts from the report, this is far, far more than prolonged ambivalence. More like active obstruction and occasional retaliation.
I bet Elle MacPherson does Pilates.
i just read the full finding of fact. it's pretty damning in the abstract, but i wish it had more details. lots of room for interpretation, and for washing hands by administrators who can say, 'wasn't me'.
Darryl Hannah appears to have morphed into a blonde Cora Crawley.
Elizabeth Shue. She was hawwwt! And not sceered to take a racy photo or two.
Baylor findings:
https://www.baylor.edu/rtsv/doc.php/266596.pdf
Starr is toast.
tribe just picked up a transfer from boston college named matt milon - led all acc freshmen in 3-point shooting percentage (.494), averaged 5.4 ppg, dropped 25 on cuse. does not boost the squad's melanin quotient.
elle mcpherson! sirens. SHE was my favorite. my wife and her friend are sitting outside at the hipster bar up the street but instead of immediately meeting them i sat home and played the guitar and drank a beer because i'm so annoyed that they charge 7 dollars for a pint of fat tire. now i'm going to walk up, but i'll buy one less beer!
elle macpherson is a goddamn goddess. still and always.
Rachel Hunter.
Stephanie Seymour.
Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science
60 y/o Christie Brinkley ain't so bad either. But what about my Hannah Storm?
Cindy Crawford in that Pepsi ad though.
Seymour was tainted because or her relationship with a certain Rose.
Kelly LeBrock in Hard To Kill > Kelly Lebrock in Weird Science.
Stacy's mom has got it going on.
I have boycotted rewatching friends except for the Elle MacPherson episode.
The girl in the Chris Isaac Wicked Game video and every girl in George Michael video. Oh my.
Elle may just be perfection. How bout the SI shoots?
i suppose the next step is building a time travel machine. i am determined to see the end of this game.
My beer fridge was left w/ almost a case of Coors Light after a big family party a couple weeks ago. I would prefer to buy elitist beers, but I need to get the other product out of my fridge. It's a multi-week, necessary task - sucking down the mediocre beer while fantasizing about IPAs and Sculpins and what have you.
Life is too short to drink bad beer, but I need my fridge back. Quandary.
Livingston's hair is fantastic.
Shaun, not Ron.
give that shit to some local teenagers, tr
Huth's kids would buy it.
They mow lawns for beer.
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