yeah, wasn't pretty :D

Evening David

Nope no cops. Still early...... that and the neighbors most likely to call have been gone both Sundays.

Got some work done on my truck today in preparation for the Concours. Finally found the valve that was just a little loose and making a horrible clatter. She purrs like a slightly regarded and mangled kitten now.

Pulled the crab pot in for lunch today
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Went fishing this evening and had a visitor
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Hey nynor, what's the word on that AR?

For my fellow bimmer fans....

Back to its roots II - the BMW M3 (modified) - Bimmerforums - The Ultimate BMW Forum

:drool:

Blacked-out kidney grilles spoil BMWs. Especially that one.

True... I liked the details of the car last year in these less stunning photos...

Back to its roots - the BMW M3 - Bimmerforums - The Ultimate BMW Forum

Justin is an OKC guy, and has a highly modded e9x M3 as well... Dude doesn't go halfass on cars, you have to admit...

Morning Y'all

Hey, Rick. Eastern time zone is sucking this Monday AM.

I can appreciate the work done, but it would interesting to find out just how much was spent on the car, and how much the car is really worth now. I would bet most of the money spent to personalize a car that much has evaporated.

Power to him for making a car he likes. He did not use my money so I will just admire a car guy spending his money the way he sees fit.

Good Monday morning folks.

I have some boring work I have to finish this week. We flight we shoot has film and a flight log sitting on a spool after it is scanned. I need to collect all the film from recent flights and tape them together into 500 ft rolls and catalog what is on each roll. It is tedious & boring but it has to be done if we are ever going to find that frame of film in the future. Every once in a while a lawsuit pops up and some lawyer will want proof of a flight date. We can show them the film with a date exposed into the film by the camera. That can't be modified, like any digital image can be.

You are just not devious enough Glen. You could make film from digital with any dates you wanted.

Nope, the camera exposes way more than just the date and time. It has the precise Lat-Long (accurate to within a few feet) altitude, direction of travel, and a LOT of other data it writes down both edges of the 9 inch film. All 18 inches of the edge of the exposure has data and on top of that the data chamber exposes between the frames, and the foreword motion compensation data is evident. The camera knows how fast it is moving across the ground and the film actually moves backward in the camera DURING the exposure. On top of that is is not just one exposure, but usually part of a flight line. We are in the middle of a job now that has a lot of flight lines and some of the flight lines are 140 miles long! Our pilot has a boring job, fly 140 miles at the exact same direction and altitude make a turn and go back shooting for another 140 miles, repeat.

He averages 500 hours of wheels up time every year.

I didn't say it would be easy, but new film can be exposed and developed.

Nope, the emulsion number would show the date is impossible. I can't shoot an image from 1999 on film manufactured in 2012. Anyone that is in the business would quickly know it is fake.

Even with the CIA and the FBI, Tom Cruse and the Mission Impossible Team and all the other tin foil hat folks working together, I don't think they could fool a small company like ours. The ground changes a LOT in populated areas. Not so much in the middle of nowhere.

One of the times that it came up was a flight we did for a company that does seismic work. They have huge heavy and wide trucks. We photographed the area before they set foot on the property. After when they were done we flew it again. They knew that property owner loved to sue. They wanted CYA proof.

Sure enough the property owner sued them because they had "destroyed the family heirloom peach orchard, and cause horrible erosion". The company pulled out the photographs that we took before they arrived. That shut them down, but the property owner insisted that we prove the date they were shot. He spent a lot of money trying to prove the images were faked. We had the film in a can ready for an expert. When the expert mentioned we had the original film to the opposing attorney the attorney convinced the property owner to give up, we had the truth on film. It saved our client millions, and the property owner had to pay all the legal fees.

Morning all. Yet another Monday.

mine was awesome!

i have it in hand, i picked it up today. what a nice piece. after buying a rear sight, it came to $740 pre-tax. it worked flawlessly. i only put 60 rounds down the tube (i had to take over child care duties). at 100 yards, 10 shots in 2 inches (unless someone else was fkn with my target), although high and right (i didn't have time to sort it out, due to fore stated duties), with cheap as dirt american eagle ammunition.

the spoon is all mil-spec, unless i am mistaken. the barrel is made by FN, double thickness chrome. frankly, i think this rifle is the biz.

i changed my mind from the S&W MP15 Sport for the following reasons:

1. Joe vetted palmetto armory. i really appreciated that conversation. thanks, joe.
2. the barrel is made by FN.
3. the rifle is mil-spec. interchanging/replacing parts will be a piece of cake.

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Cool!!!!

thanks, david. i am stoked!

Monday was bleh.

Tuesdays not much better so far, although Rammstein is helping today.

Evening all