That’s it. I got a 25 model, but it looks basically the same. They tweaked some internals from 24 to 25, but that’s the bike. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for me, and I jumped on it. Definitely my largest impulse buy ever. I figure my friends all think I am having a mid life crisis, but it’s just a dream bike of mine that I never would have fathomed I would have a snowballs chance in hell of owning.

Totally agree. The amount of hp this bike has blows my mind. But the thing like I said is just how smooth it is in the delivery and execution. The shifts are smooth and effortless, and the throttle is just smooth. You can dial in the power you want with different settings, so you can tone it down for things like riding in the rain. It’s so much different than my 01, which was just raw power and no electronic goodies other than fuel injection. I love having both, and have a ton of miles on the 01 which I am looking forward to matching with the new bike.

My son works at a motorcycle dealer. He sends me a pic of a bike they just got in. A CBR1000RR-RSP. Well after putting on my boots and asking him if it’s for sale, they said they would sell it to me. The person who ordered it had to back out so if I could make it down there it was mine. I hopped on my 2001 CBR and headed to the store where I bought the bike. And to answer the question, YES it was definitely worth it. That motorcycle is the absolute hands down smoothest machine I have ever been on. It’s like riding a stick of butter down a teflon pan. I still can’t believe I own one as I honestly never even thought I would ever even see one in the wild.

An older co-worker was getting dentures, and had all his teeth pulled in preparation. For a week or two he had been on liquids only. We all sat down at the lunch room table to eat every day as a routine. Most of the company was family so they were all mostly related as brother, sister, etc. So said co-worker proudly exclaims that this will be his first time eating solid foods in weeks. It turned out to be two cans of vienna sausage. So about halfway through the meal he opens up the two cans, and then stares at them. Then he calls out to his brother sitting across the table and lifts the two cans up, and says “What do you make of this?” One can of vienna sausages was visibly lighter than the other can. I immediately interrupted with “That’s an easy one.” Pointing to one of the cans I continued with “That one is lips, and that one is assholes.” We were all rolling on the floor laughing except for denture guy. He was so pissed off he just threw out the two cans and walked out. I have never had another moment like that where the joke just came to me in real time. It was a wonderful moment that I will cherish always.

Here’s my situation. The og switch battery is fried. I have a mario kart cart for the switch and when I was deciding which v2 option to get, I went without the mario kart world since I think I have played mario kart a handful of times and none of my family or friends have it or play it.

Yeah, I get that it’s a small one, but it’s pretty annoying nonetheless.

The only drawback here is that the og pro controller will not turn on the Switch 2 using the home button.

I feel like people who join really early are basically saying “Tell me you have nothing to do without telling me you have nothing to do.”

My personal all time favorite is this one: https://theonion.com/general-motors-introduces-new-instant-win-airbags-1819564102/

I had two giant servers sitting under my desk when bitcoin started up. I was trying to decide whether to put them to work mining bitcoin or using them for seti at home. Well I decided to go with seti. And I am actually complacent with that decision, because had I got into bitcoin I know that I would have some sort of anxiety over when I sold, or what I paid for something like a pizza. I know those people who are searching trash dumps for their old hard drives are just in a weird hell that I am glad I never put myself in that situation.

Or just have the cashier who had to unlock the case and get you the box open it and ensure there is a cart inside before you leave the store.

Rush - Losing It.

This is going to get good when a passenger airplane is shot down.

Software “passing” a written test where it has been fed all of the answers is not that impressive to me, except from a programming standpoint. From the intelligence standpoint, not so much. Just because it can pass the bar doesn’t make it lawyer worthy. This software cannot think, and that is ultimately what you pay a lawyer to do. None of this software is coming up with new thoughts, it’s just regurgitating what it has been fed.

I had a particular set of notes stuck in my head for decades. Then one day about 10 years ago I finally managed to remember one of the words of the song, and with that actually managed to google the song. I thought it was something I would never hear again. That song is My Love is Alive by Gary Wright. I remembered the 6 notes in the bass line and that had been driving me nuts for decades.

You should try the fries Animal Style and In-n-Out.

All three Audioslave albums. I just love the fact that they gave Chris Cornell space and didn’t all try and overshadow his vocals.

The boardgame Heat is one of my all time favorites. Thunder Road Vendetta is right up there too, and I am waiting to put them together for an all road race/rage saturday with my boardgame peeps.

Same here. Facebook I am still on only because of a handful of people I know are there.

Don’t take this wrong, but I am going to pick on this statement in particular. This is mainly the reason that we are all in the position we are in right now. No one can be the least bit inconvenienced and are allowing third party companies to just rape our privacy and then turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. I mean hey, I have a handful of people I know too, and I just use the phone to connect with them. If you have facebook loaded on your phone right now you are giving them all the data they can scape about you just to keep in touch with a handful of people. I am willing to bet the app is running right now collecting data on where you are at this exact moment, how long you have been there, if any data they have access to has changed like contact info for anyone in your contact list and not just your handful of people, calls you make or receive, etc. I could go on and on down to the level of how long your screen stays unlocked. Everyone I speak with about social media has an excuse of why they continue on with total disregard for their own, and other’s privacy. Yes, people I know that are using facebook exposes me to their system by proxy. I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake people up out of this, but it sure looks gloomy and as long as people are making statements like this, and not actually taking action nothing will change. Again, sorry to pick on you in particular, but damnit, it’s not that hard to keep in touch with people and not supply some company with a treasure trove of YOUR data.

Even Arbys has shrunk things down. And don’t get me started on them removing potato cakes!!!