Jump to content

G650

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    11210
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by G650

  1. 5 minutes ago, choripan said:

    For a real ass-puckering bridge adventure, may I suggest taking an iced-over Mackinaw Bridge on a cold, windy day?

    200 feet above the water and 5 miles in total with a longest span around 3/4 of a mile long.

    image.png.a0babbb319fabb0562ae1ff39c28d9c4.png

    Yeah I was going to say a lot of y'all would faint on the Mackinaw Bridge. It sways pretty good in the middle.

     

    It's not around anymore, but the old Cooper River Bridge in Charleston was insane, two way traffic, straight up and down, and waist high guardrails

    • Hook 'Em 2
  2. 24 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Literally every fear and nightmare I have coming up on bridges. I drive as fast as I can over them and those fucking tunnels in Norfolk 

    Well that's better than the dipshits that drive 35 in them and fuck everything up

  3. 2 minutes ago, CoTex said:

    On the subject of ships, I need a ride on the Ker or Carkeek or whatever the hell it is.  Time to make it happen.

    Carkeek. Indeed. She is staying on the bay this summer but I'm sure we will be in Florida over the winter again, let's see if something works

     

     

  4. 1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

    BTW- Surly Grammar police are going to nail you for using actually when not needed. Cover your ass, they are mean.

    Actually screw them lol.

     

    This very ship actually came from here to Baltimore btw.

    • Hook 'Em 1
    • Drool 1
  5. 2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    It is not on I95. Lots of roads to go to I95, but not on a primary artery.

    I-64, I-664, US-58 are all direct to 95. We have much better connectivity than even Baltimore, which is why a shitload of equipment already comes here. Plus the new Port of Va facility in Portsmouth has the best intermodal link in the Mid Atlantic, and tons of space.

     

    Charleston, where I used to live actually, is by far the worst. One way in and out, I-26

    • Hook 'Em 1
  6. 2 hours ago, BamaATL said:

    Just an idea, and without knowing anything about the local geology, but I do wonder if wouldn't be quicker to tunnel.  Those massive boring machines can chew about 1/6 of a mile in 30 days or so.  Considering the total length of the bridge, about 1.6 miles they could conceivably bore that in about 180 days.  Fitting the tunnel after the fact is another matter, but it may well be a quicker solution.  

    As someone who is a road builder and lives in a area with multiple underwater tunnels, two currently under construction for parallel tunnels,  I can assure you this is seriously not the case.

    • Hook 'Em 4
    • Like 1
  7. 2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    yeah we usually take that route when we're driving to NYC. That whole stretch from DC up to NYC is busy all the time.

    It's a bit more of a choice from where you area coming from, but I always recommend going up the eastern shore and avoiding I-95

    • Hook 'Em 1
  8. 8 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    Pogo has been on fire in the early part of the season, too.

    Yeah, Catalunya was basically his personal spring training camp.

     

    He switched coaches this offseason, I'm curious to see how the season unfolds. I'm slightly nervous he is too good to soon.

  9. 34 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    What’s the Martin? I’d say 28 but the bridge looks like rosewood? And I guess the d28 usually has a black pickguard…. D…16e or something? Although again with the bridge 

    D15 Special spruce top

    • Hook 'Em 2
    • Like 1
    • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
  10. 5 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    I am. They don't appear to make anything that works in this any more, and I can't even find used BW's anywhere. So it'll sound different. Either way, looks like $150-$250 depending on brand, etc.

    Peavey still makes BWs as far as I know.

     

    But anyway, the amp is what makes it a Peavey, not the speaker.

    • Hook 'Em 1
  11. 1 hour ago, utee94 said:

     

    Well at least there was no sports media coverage of F1 in the USA, to spoil it for you, until you finally managed to watch it.  Oh wait, there STILL isn't...

    They also occasionally had F1 on ABC's Wide World of Sports.  That's how I first started watching it in the early 80s. 

    Yup, me too

    • Hook 'Em 1
    • Like 1
  12. No bass player last night so improvised an acoustic session. It was actually a pretty productive thing to try and work out acoustic arrangements for our songs, I dug it more than I anticipated.

     

    20240321-182812.jpg

     

     

    • Hook 'Em 4
    • Like 2
  13. 8 hours ago, ConferenceRoom said:

    Spoiled rotten. Back in my day, we sometimes had to wait until Monday before a Sky or Channel 4 torrent was uploaded. 

    Sheeit. Back in my day there wasn't an internet. You had to go get a VHS from the store 6 months after the fact.

    • Like 1
  14. Low key good week of racing this week. Catalunya, Brugge De Panne today, COppi e Bartali (unfortunately not on TV, but  I think on Youtube?), E3 Harelbeke or Saxo or, whatever the fuck it's called now, Friday and Gent Wevelgem on Sunday.

    • Hook 'Em 1
×
×
  • Create New...