Things that make you go "Hmmmm…"

[Xyzzy]

We have always wanted to take delivery of our Corvette(s) at the museum, because they make it very exciting and fun, from what we have read and been told.

http://www.corvettemuseum.org/ncm_delivery/

But it is hard to negotiate a price for a vehicle that is not already at the dealer. The stealership is always willing to make a deal with the inventory on hand. We have owned three Corvettes and in each case we paid about $15K less than sticker on each of them.

The Warden has confiscated our current Corvette and has claimed it as her own. The way she drives, like a grandma going to church, the car will last forever.

We keep records on tire wear for all of our cars and motorcycles. Sometimes we think they put reduced tread tires (like reduced fill toner cartridges in laser printers) as the OEM tires.

New rubber needed:
2009 Z51 - 8,000 miles
2009 Z06 - 3,500 miles (!)
2012 GS - 18,000 miles and ⅓ of the tread left.

There is a (remote) possibility that the driver's actions may affect tread life.



PS - Check out the laser etched stuff they sell here: http://store.corvettemuseum.com/services/buildsheet.asp

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

The way she drives, like a grandma going to church, the car will last forever.

You obviously never rode with my Grandmother. Her 1956 Thunderbird was a fun car to ride in.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

You obviously never rode with my Grandmother.

As he is still posting here from time to time, for sure he did not!

[xilman]

In a couple of months it will be the 20th anniversary of the factorization of RSA-129. The five of us most to blame (Ron for setting the challenge, Arjen, Mike, Derek and I for daring to solve it) met up in NYC for the press conference. I was the only one with international travel; SWMBO and I stayed at Arjen's for the duration and so, of course, we got to ride in his then car. Can't remember the model any more but it was a refugee from the 70's --- enormous, built like a tank and significantly battered. Arjen said he kept it that way because other drivers would give him plenty of room. Their vehicles would come off worse in a collision and it was obvious that Arjen didn't much care about his car's appearence.

Somewhere I still have a scar on my right hand from the inside door handle, but that's another story.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by xilman

In a couple of months...

Very nice story, thanks for sharing it!
I am always interested in this part of the "history", this kind of stories must be collected in a book, somewhere...

[jasong]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Or, perhaps alternatively...

"You shouldn't undermine the natural super-structure, and suck out materials beneath you, and be surprised when the ground sinks."

"Fracking" anyone? (Sorry; that might come across as Liberal.)

Not sure I could differentiate between liberal and "too liberal."

For me, right-wing can be nutty sometimes, left-wing tends to come across as nutty unless they're talking about the Internet(arguably, it's a different universe, so governed by different laws). Conservative simply means using commonly accepted beliefs.

Gotta be careful opposing conservatism, you can easily go from kinda wrong to super-wrong.

[cheesehead]

Originally Posted by jasong

Not sure I could differentiate between liberal and "too liberal."

... because your view is biased, not balanced.

Conservative simply means using commonly accepted beliefs.

... as does liberal.

Gotta be careful opposing conservatism, you can easily go from kinda wrong to super-wrong.

What an example of biased conservative egotism!

Get real, jasong. Liberal and conservative are equally valid ranges on the political spectrum.

[chappy]

Cheesehead, you are much nicer than I am. For the record.

Chap.

[BudgieJane]

Australians do it better!

[kracker]

Originally Posted by BudgieJane

Australians do it better!

I actually laughed out loud for real.

[jasong]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

... because your view is biased, not balanced

I'm biased because I reject left-wing ideology? For the fucking ROFL.

Liberal, by it's very definition is new and untried ideas. Just like with new scientific theories, things are going to be wrong more often than they're right. The more extreme the change, the higher the likelihood for something bad to happen.