Welcome to the IHoP

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

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cover up the hole, best thing I ever learned in prison....

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Any doubts about Michael Jackson's megastardom should have ended after news of the singer's death tripped up Google and crashed AOL Instant Messenger, Wikipedia, TMZ and, of course, Twitter. A survey of the epic traffic:

* Leading news websites saw traffic surge to 4.2 million visitors per minute from around 2.75 million visitors per minute, according to Akamai.

* CNN's traffic grew fivefold in one hour and the site clocked 20 million pageviews.

* Twitter had its biggest spike in traffic, to 5,000 tweets per second, since Barack Obama's election as president, according to co-founder Biz Stone.

* Facebook status updates tripled.

* AOL Instant Messenger went down for 40 minutes.

* TMZ, which broke the news of Jackson's death, crashed several times amid a surge of traffic.

* The LA Times, which got early confirmation of the death, went down, as well.

* For about half an hour, Michael Jackson queries weren't working on Google News.

* Wikipedia froze amid an edit war on Jackson's page.

[Duran 387]

Does anyone know how to convert .aup to .mp3?

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

June 26, 2009 02:26:00 AM MEMPHIS TN US Departure Scan

June 25, 2009 08:43:00 PM MEMPHIS TN US Arrival Scan

June 25, 2009 04:30:00 PM NASHVILLE TN US Departure Scan

June 25, 2009 06:04:00 AM NASHVILLE TN US Arrival Scan

June 25, 2009 03:14:00 AM LEXINGTON KY US Departure Scan

June 24, 2009 01:10:00 PM LEXINGTON KY US Shipment received by carrier

June 24, 2009 05:41:30 AM Campbellsville KY US Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit

slow package is slow

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

Audacity should be able to export AUP to MP3....

[seanbw 1]

still getting used to this software

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

new software killed the hop

[Acidburn 10]

^----- best whiskey evar for reference.

wallpaper will come down, cabinet backs not done. There will be some more lighting similar to the light in the middle of the kitchen right above the pass through. We still have the designer, stripped-wall-adhesive-and-dangling-outlet-and-switches look going on.

it's really tough with it not finished.... but it's a huge deal to actually have a usable kitchen.

Gorgeous counter tops.

<--likes the wallpaper

not as cool as the hummingbirds

dey is gone yo

i know but the memories are still there

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

http://jalopnik.com/5302246/awesome-defined-the-10+liter-radial+engined-goggomobil

that thing is nasty loud...

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

And done (for now):

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/Penguin4x4/Projects/DSCN0175.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/Penguin4x4/Projects/DSCN0176.jpg

now framing can be easily finished, even if it is 110+ outside....air conditioning ftmfw

[Duran 387]

Audacity should be able to export AUP to MP3....

It says something about downloading another program...I don't wanna

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

new software killed the hop

Ehh usually slow coming up to a weekend, it will slow again for the 4th.

[Duran 387]

Audacity should be able to export AUP to MP3....

It says something about downloading another program...I don't wanna

Nevermind, I got it

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Just got this forward email, thought there were enough funnies in there to share:

ONLY IN AMERICA ~~

ONLY IN AMERICA….MUST WE SPEND BILLIONS BECAUSE WE CAN'T LET CHRYSLER GO BANKRUPT, AND THEN, LET CHRYSLER GO BANKRUPT.

ONLY IN AMERICA….CAN CONGRESS FORCE FANNIE AND FREDDIE TO BUY SUBPRIME LOANS, AND THEN BLAME FANNIE AND FREDDIE FOR BUYING SUBPRIME LOANS.

ONLY IN AMERICA….A MAJOR CRISIS REQUIRES SWIFT ACTION TO PASS A BILL WITHOUT READING IT, THEN THE PRESIDENT VACATIONS FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE HE HAS TIME TO SIGN IT.

ONLY IN AMERICA….YOU CAN BE LEGALLY ILLEGAL

ONLY IN AMERICA….THE CONGRESS MAKE LAWS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW

ONLY IN AMERICA….WHERE YOUR VICE PRESIDENT DECLARE's 'JOBS' A 3 LETTER WORD.

ONLY IN AMERICA...DOES THE MILITARY GET INVESTIGATED BY HOMELAND SECURITY AS POSSIBLE TERRORISTS, WHILE OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN.

ONLY IN AMERICA , CAN YOU GET A TAX REFUND ON TAXES YOU DIDN'T PAY

ONLY IN AMERICA, YOU HAVE MORE RIGHTS BEING ILLEGAL, THAN YO U DO LEGAL

ONLY IN AMERICA, CAN YOU BE 13 AND HAVE AN ABORTION WITHOUT TELLING YOUR PARENTS, BUT MUST HAVE A WRITTEN NOTE FROM YOUR PARENT WHY YOU MISSED SCHOOL.

ONLY IN AMERICA, CAN CHRYSLER GET 10 BILLION IN AID FOR THEIR COMPANY OF 30,000 EMPLOYEES. I GUESS IT IS DIFFICULT TO RUN A COMPANY FOR $333,333 PER EMPLOYEE.

ONLY IN AMERICA….WE CARE ABOUT 3 GUYS THAT GET WATER UP THEIR NOSE, WHILE OUR ENEMIES ARE BEHEADING US AND BLOWING CROWDS OF PEOPLE UP WITH SUICIDE BOMBINGS.

ONLY IN AMERICA….YOU CAN SAY OTHER INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES WORK, BUT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE TECHNIQUES ARE.

ONLY IN AMERICA, WHATEVER GOES WRONG WILL ALWAYS BE BUSH'S FAULT

LASTLY, HOWEVER, IN AMERICA, YOU CAN ONLY BE PRESIDENTIAL……………………WHEN THE TELEPROMPTER IS ON!

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

A group called the Ad Hoc Committee of Consumer Victims of GM and Chrysler put together a commercial to run on Comcast throughout the weekend. The group numbers 460 people, 300 of whom are plaintiffs against GM, the rest against Chrysler, all of whom claim catastrophic injuries or the deaths of relations due to defective vehicles from the two companies.

The ad attacks the issue of New GM not being responsible for such liabilities. The claims, said to add up to about $1.25 billion for just the GM parties, would be addressed by the Old GM and lumped in with every other unsecured creditor's claims. That means that if the plaintiffs received anything at all, it wouldn't be much. GM is just following the government's orders -- it was the Administration that decreed post-bankruptcy Chrysler and GM won't be responsible for vehicles sold previous to bankruptcy.

GM's attorneys called Comcast, and Comcast explained pulling the ad by saying "We have temporarily stopped airing the ad while we conduct a review of the claims it makes." The commercial only asserts a few facts which could be easily checked, and makes a generalization about claims that won't be reported if people know nothing will come of them. Comcast hasn't given any timeline for that review, though.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

catching the early bird showing of Transformers 2...wouldn't be caught dead there on a Friday night...or a Saturday night for that matter...

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

catching the early bird showing of Transformers 2...wouldn't be caught dead there on a Friday night...or a Saturday night for that matter...

I might try to see it next week.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

tried to catch the early bird, ticket person said all showings for today sold about around lunch time....fucking internet ticket sales...

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

did get an OBD II code reader though, I guess it balances out...

[MKader17 332]

wow I walked up for the 9:50 Transformers last night at 9:45 and got 2 tickets

[MKader17 332]

Before

After over an hour of polishing

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Not perfect but much better

[MKader17 332]

And just for reference the before wheel was cleaned with soap. It "wasn't" dirty

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday had some of his strongest words for Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his country's disputed election, which has resulted in protesters being beaten and killed.

Mr. Obama said he doesn't take seriously Mr. Ahmadinejad's request for an apology for the U.S. meddling in the June 12 election. He also said Mr. Ahmadinejad should instead "think carefully" about his obligations to those beaten, shot and killed in the post-election marches.

"The violence perpetrated against them is outrageous. We see it and we condemn it," Mr. Obama said an East Room news conference after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The president also said his administration has not interfered in the election and has made every effort to make that clear.

Mrs. Merkel said the international community must help to identify victims who were beaten, arrested or killed by the Iranian government.

"We will not forget," she said through a translator. "Iran can't count on the world community turning a blind eye."

Mr. Obama nodded as he listened to the translation.

The president said the post-election violence will have an effect on international negotiations to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, though he said he doesn't know how they will be affected.

Protesters claim irregularities and have demanded a recount in the election is which Mr. Ahmadinejad won in a landslide victory over Mir Hossein Mousavi. The violence occurred in the days after the election when Iranian security forces turned back hundreds protesters marching in the streets of Tehran and elsewhere in the country.

The death count varies from the government count of 20 to the protesters' count of 200. Hundreds more have been beaten and arrested.

[Acidburn 10]

http://jalopnik.com/5302246/awesome-defined-the-10+liter-radial+engined-goggomobil

that thing is nasty loud...

holy shit!