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  1. Matt Taylor

    What is this, and why is it melted to my exhaust manifold?

    The day after having some work done at the dealer, I noticed a burning smell while driving around. While looking around, I noticed what the arrow is pointing to in the pic below. Is that a breather tube? It either melted itself on to the exhaust, or somebody "right stuff"ed it purposefully...
  2. Matt Taylor

    Caliper Bolts - was I supposed to use loctite?

    Because I didn't. Should one use loctite on the 4 caliper bolts on a DII? Thanks.
  3. Matt Taylor

    can a plane takeoff on a conveyor belt? (mythbusters)

    From a future mythbusters (wed, December 12th) "Finally, Adam and Jamie carefully navigate their way through a myth that has baffled everyone from web bloggers to pilots. If a plane is traveling at takeoff speed on a conveyor belt, and the belt is matching that speed in the opposite direction...
  4. Matt Taylor

    Prisoners of Katrina

    A friend of mine wrote a book about his experiences working as a nurse in Orleans Parish Prison during Hurricane Katrina. He was right in the middle of things when the shit hit the fan. I read an early copy of it and found it fascinating. It's on Amazon if you think you'd be interested. The...
  5. Matt Taylor

    undercover brother wrecks Enzo Ferrari (video)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ewLoh9kIA IRWINDALE, Calif. ? Eddie Griffin crashed a rare Ferrari Enzo worth $1.5 million into a concrete barrier while practicing at a racetrack, destroying the car but escaping uninjured. The 38-year-old actor-comedian was practicing Monday for a charity race...
  6. Matt Taylor

    UFC buys Pride -- megafights coming soon

    http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/6614284?MSNHPHMA from the article: ""We will be able to literally put on the fights that everyone wants to see," Lorenzo Fertitta said. "It will allow us to put on some of the biggest fights ever." In the past, there has been at least one case in which...
  7. Matt Taylor

    3 yr old solves Rubik's cube in 114 seconds

    Um, what? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqUcrFJ498
  8. Matt Taylor

    Bees disappearing

    According to Einstein, if the bees go away we'll have only 4 years left on the planet. Maybe this is why the mayan calendar ends in 2011. From this article on Colony Collapse Disorder: http://neighbors.newstimeslive.com/opinion/column.php?id=1031762 "Researchers have found the disorder in 22...
  9. Matt Taylor

    LSU professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox

    http://www.physorg.com/news90697187.html Gear up the flux capacitor...
  10. Matt Taylor

    Joe Rogan pwns Carlos Men"stealia"

    Apparently, Carlos Mencia has been stealing material for years and is hated amongst the comic community. Also apparently, Joe Rogan is a stand up comic. Anyway, follow this link if you want to see Mencia called out by Rogan and a few other comics while he was onstage. The video is a little...
  11. Matt Taylor

    Indomitable American spirit not accounted for...

    I received this as a crap email forward. The info at the end of it discussing which demographics voted for who was interesting. How Long Do We Have? About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the...
  12. Matt Taylor

    Trend Micro PCillin question

    I just downloaded Trend Micro's Pccillin. Once installed, I noticed the fan kept constantly running, so I pulled up the windows task manager and my CPU usage is really high, bouncing between 50% and 100%. It never gets lower than that, and the fan never stops running. Is this normal?
  13. Matt Taylor

    Swa-J-Ten, Netjaws, whatever...

    There was a shooting in his neighborhood last night, on Frenchmen Street. Somebody opened fire into a crowd of people for no apparent reason. Has anybody seen a post by him lately?
  14. Matt Taylor

    Hunter

    I found a local guy selling a 1991 Classic that is green with cloth seats. It looks to be a Hunter. He's the original owner and it's got 160,000 miles on it. From the brief once-over I gave it, it seems to be all original with no mods. He's asking $3,500. What's it worth?
  15. Matt Taylor

    Double backflip

    Anybody watch the X games? Anybody see what Pasrtrano did? Insane. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYSZtV6ZvI
  16. Matt Taylor

    After the wreck and long layoff...

    What should I do to get my 96 Disco running again? For those of you that remember, in December of 04 some punks ran a red light and I t-boned their expedition. The insurance company totaled it, but I bought it back, had the frame straightened, bought a front clip from Tillery, and had a guy...
  17. Matt Taylor

    A/C, Horn, Sunroofs dead

    My buddy's 94 classic. Sunroof, AC, and horn dead. Figured it must be a fuse, but they checked out. No other symptoms of anything wrong, and I didn't check the fuses under the hood. Shit, I don't even know if Classics have fuses under the hood; I've never messed with one before. I don't...
  18. Matt Taylor

    Newt

    Anybody see Newt Gingrich on Meet The Press yesterday? He is saying things that make way too much sense to ignore. He's talking of how campaign financing should be reformed, eliminating all contributions that come from Washington (lobbyists, etc). His point was that the elected officials...
  19. Matt Taylor

    Blackberry

    Fargin blackberrys. Anybody use these? A friend just gave me a 7100g and I'm trying to figure out if I want to use it or not. Any big advantages other than being able to email from it? I probably don't need that feature enough to pay for the data package from Cingular. Maybe in the...
  20. Matt Taylor

    Ever park next to one of these?

    strange picture you may enjoy...