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    Ad absurdum per aspera

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    Best posts made by Ad absurdum per aspera

    • RE: What Do You Do Outside of Oppo?

      I am the emotional support animal for three cats and three dogs.

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    • DITPL: This Actually Is Your Father's, or Grandfather's, Oldsmobile

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      A 1952 Olds 98, apparently an unrestored survivor, nice inside and out, that I've occasionally seen around town.

      I make the colors to be Palm Green over Royal Turquoise. More things need to be those colors. (Typically of the period, it's really more of a three-tone, the third being chromium for miles.)

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    • RE: No Guesses Where This Took Place

      Tailgater < tail gator.

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    • DOTS a first generation CRX to steelie your heart

      These days, a survivor this nice with nothing fast and furious done to "upgrade' it is not an everyday sight. Only lambskin seat covers seem obviously non factory to my quick inexpert glance. Looks to be just an everyday car that somebody uses for car stuff, per its appearance in a home-improvement big box's parking lot.

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    • DOTS: "Before" Pictures

      And we have aficionados of each of these models right here...

      Hopefully destined to get some love at the body shop:
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      A drop-top '64 'Bird with or without the Kelsey-Hayes wire wheels always makes my toolbox itch, though this one needs a fair bit:
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      @Shop-Teacher bait, in primer:
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    • DITPL: Tracking down an uncommon sight

      Not just every day I see one of these at all anymore, never mind such a nice example. They had a good color palette; squinting through some available-darkness photography, I think this one is Tropical Green Metallic (and if it's from around here originally it has certainly been garaged).

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    • DOTS: the green, shade dappled Amazon

      This one almost fell under my fish-in-a-barrel rule, since I was in a part of town largely devoted to automotive shops and back-lot operations of dealers, but it was street parked and so perfect...

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    • Paging annoying-salman...

      Many decades ago, some explorers had to shed their cameras when their intended airplane exeunt from a Yukon mountaintop turned into a grueling hike. They meant to go back for them later but never did. Now the cameras have been found. The condition of the film is not yet known, but hope springs a leak eternal...

      https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/world/canada/yukon-mountains-cameras.html

      Side note: On first scanning the story, my brain interpreted "DeVry "Lunchbox"" as "Devil's Lunchbox," which really ought to be the name of a geographical feature somewhere if it isn't already. (It turns out to be a handheld movie camera of the 1920s.)

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    • Thinking outside the box for bike shelter

      What do you do with a dead blade for one of those big wind turbines? Here's one idea (might be kind of important to orient it correctly with regard to prevailing winds, though)...

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    • RE: Dwellings of Oppo: Show Us Your Rad Pads

      Location and landscaping make it hard to get a good angle on the house itself — it kinda vanishes, which is how we like it — so by way of apology here's the back-courtyard water feature and some hungry bois coming up for their lunch.
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      Judging from the size of the rocks that make up the waterfall, it was probably put in as the house was built ca. 1964 and certainly before the now big trees grew to a truck- and equipment-blocking level of maturity.

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    Latest posts made by Ad absurdum per aspera

    • RE: Poutine Week

      @ash78 said in Poutine Week:

      I blame the word "curds" which is a phonetically gross word

      Yeah, the word "curdling" is not a good association with dairy products.

      Call a highly curd-adjacent thing "cottage cheese" and Americans buy plenty of it, though most do prefer to eat it cold.

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    • Now DOTS an intriguing and evocative business name

      In a better timeline they use a white Charger and offer overknight delivery.

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      Though their website doesn't explicitly address the name, they seem to specialize in something called Stone Polymer Composite (SPC) flooring that I haven't (knowingly) encountered.

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    • RE: they found it

      @іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi said in they found it:

      just leave Superroo to roam the outback solving crimes and vanquishing drunk miners.

      As long as the sequel has a climactic showdown with Isotope Bunny, awakened in its burrow at Maralinga...

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    • RE: Good Morning, Oppo

      @ash78 -- Consider pruning hard and keeping your fingers crossed. Established rosemary in particular is tougher than one might think.

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    • RE: So... I spoke to the owner of the Studebaker...

      @AkioOhtori -- People do wild things with these, and maybe even come closer to what the car should be if its one false note, the clunky bumper, goes away.

      One came up on NPoND the other day, reminding me that these early 50s Champions have a posse among design enthusiasts.

      Many of the (completed, successful) resto-mods that people have done to it really bring out how it simultaneously looked back to streamlined, high-speed WW2 aircraft (it always makes me think of the P-39 in particular) and forward through the Avanti (apex of the visually wild side of Studebaker even as the company itself was doing a cliff huck) and onward to the best of the late 60s and early 70s.

      Curbside Classics had a good article on this.

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    • RE: Songs about not caring

      I can't seem to embed it, but Warren Zevon comes through on this one with "Finishing Touches"...

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    • DOTS: the green, shade dappled Amazon

      This one almost fell under my fish-in-a-barrel rule, since I was in a part of town largely devoted to automotive shops and back-lot operations of dealers, but it was street parked and so perfect...

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    • RE: What are you paying for electricity?

      @AestheticsInMotion said in What are you paying for electricity?:

      I have never had a gas line in any place I've lived. Is that strange?

      It varies a lot with geography. Washington state, which produces more than a quarter of the nation's hydroelectric power and makes it available inexpensively—and has essentially no fossil fuel resources of its own—has a far above average take rate on the all-electric home.

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    • RE: What are you paying for electricity?

      @AestheticsInMotion said in What are you paying for electricity?:

      I wish I could convince him to go no-heat for one billing period just to see if it really is all in the electric furnace.

      Do you have a bill from this time last year, and/or some pre-housemate January, for an apples-to-apples comparison?

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    • RE: Chandelier Talk

      @tophercrowder said in Chandelier Talk:

      I don't think the fixture is wired.

      I do however think the fixture is weird.

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