Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VII

[socalrappy700]

So when do you plan to be done?

   Hope to have it all done in 2-3 weeks.   I coach rec and select soccer plus ref lots of games so between that and the band i don't get too much time to work on house stuff.   

Then its on to the basement?

[SULLY0556]

   Once the yard and flatwork is finished, then it's on to the deck if I have time, otherwise I'll do a few things in the basement.  Before winter I want to install a pellet stove and move the washer and dryer down there.  The deck is the next big thing though,  should be around $10-12K

[socalrappy700]

What type of decking do you plan to use?

[SULLY0556]

  Trex or an equivalent.  Expensive but I don't want to have any maintenance.

[SULLY0556]

  The deck will be 12x40 with a 12x12 drop down.  2 sets of stairs and I'll have to put in a patio door from upstairs.   It'll be a fun project for us.

[socalrappy700]

Trex is the way to go, I've been really happy with how it seems to hold up.  Worth the cost IMO.

[Colorado700R]

Good morning all 

[Colorado700R]

Amigos, check Email 

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jul 10 1856

Inventor and electromechanical genius Nikola Tesla is born to Serbian parents in what is now Croatia.

Jul 10 1923

Hailstones as heavy as two pounds kill 23 people in Rostov, Russia.

Jul 10 1972

A herd of angry, startled elephants emerges from India's Chandka Forest, and tramples five villages, killing 24 inhabitants.

Jul 10 1984

British customs officials in London open a large wooden crate marked "diplomatic baggage" because of its extremely odd odor. Inside they discover Alhaji Umaru Dikko, Nigeria's former Minister of Transport and Aviation. He had been abducted, drugged, and bound for Nigeria to face trial for embezzlement.

Jul 10 1985

Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is blown up by in Auckland Harbor, killing a photographer. After the New Zealand government determines that French secret agents were responsible, the French Defense Minister resigns and the agents are jailed.

Jul 10 1992

Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega sentenced to 40 years in prison for eight counts of drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering.

Birthdays today...
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
1517 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
1723 - William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of J.C. of Latter-day Saints
1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
1839 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943)
1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
1888 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
1895 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
1896 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
1897 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1899 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1900 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
1903 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
1905 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1913 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
1917 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (d. 2007)
1920 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
1921 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer
1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist
1923 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
1923 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
1923 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
1923 - John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi(see Iwo Jima), (d. 1994)
1924 - Bobo Brazil, professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1926 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
1927 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
1927 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
1928 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
1931 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
1931 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
1932 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
1935 - Tura Satana, American actress
1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 - Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British economist
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1940 - Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945 - Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player
1945 - Ron Glass, American actor
1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1946 - Sue Lyon, American actress
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician
1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
1949 - Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 - John Whitehead, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
1951 - Phyllis Smith, American actress (The Office)
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1952 - Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1953 - Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker
1953 - Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph)
1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
1954 - Andre Dawson, American baseball player
1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
1957 - Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
1959 - Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer
1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1964 - Urban Meyer, American football coach
1964 - Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
1965 - Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1966 - Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
1967 - Tom Meents, American Professional monster truck driver
1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
1968 - Jonathan Gilbert, American actor (Little House on the Prairie)
1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
1969 - Alexandra Hedison, American actress
1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
1970 - Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That)
1970 - John Simm, British actor
1971 - Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
1972 - Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
1972 - Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1975 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1976 - Adrian Grenier, American actor
1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1976 - Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
1979 - Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
1980 - Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer
1980 - Orlando Jordan, American wrestler
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1983 - Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1984 - Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004

Famous deaths...
138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)
1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1956 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1987 - John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
1993 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2005- Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances...
Bahamas - Independence Day.
Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba.
Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.
Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.
Saint Kanute IV, King of Denmark, martyr
Translation of Saint Maclovius, bishop of Saint-Malo, confessor
The Seven Brothers (Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs
Saint Amalberga, virgin (d. 690)
Saint Felicitas of Rome, martyr
Saints Rufina and Secunda, martyrs

Have a great Thursday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Jul 10 1985

Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is blown up by in Auckland Harbor, killing a photographer. After the New Zealand government determines that French secret agents were responsible, the French Defense Minister resigns and the agents are jailed.



My goal next year to make it to Auckland.. 

While we were @ the port in Melbourne, there was a ship there called the Sea Shepherd. It's a U.S based activists group boat. It's painted all black and fly's a pirate flag. Here's a pic of the flag. Pretty bad ass:

[Flynbyu]

Named after Steve Irwin?

Awesome.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Brian, did you get my email??   I didn't get the bounce back this time 

[socalrappy700]

I hope they are not environmental activist.  They have no idea how much that big pig of a boat burns.

[Flynbyu]

So my neighbor left for China yesterday. I usually mow his yard out of courtesy while he's gone.

I figured he would cut his grass before he left......negative.

Now I have to cut my yard and his yard today.

I'm kind of pissy about it.

Oh, and yes I did get your email Aaron via Randy. I don't know what the deal is.

~Brian

[ThisGuyAlex]

no kidding and the exhaust goes directly into the water.....and most likely the water gets pumped through the engine as coolant