trinacriabob

Senti, hai bisogno di acquistare un "emoticon" nuovo. C'e un po' di tempo che te lo volevo dire!

Do you work well under pressure? For a class tonight, I had to turn in a paper in the 7 to 10 page range. This is a more conceptual management class, so it had no numbers. (I like the objective ones better, actually). Last night at about 11 pm, I started a scratch outline. This morning at 6 am, I had no paper in process. It was due at 5:30 pm. I kicked into overdrive at about 2 pm, and walked in at 5:35 pm. It's all adult-type working students, so it didn't matter. I made it. I always get through, but I hate it. The eating at a diner and writing and all that stress to make a deadline. I always plan out "boxes of time" in advance but don't stick to them. What about you? Do you produce more under pressure or under a laid-back timeline?

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Actually, scharmer is also a level-headed guy with a good sense of who he is and a good head on his shoulders...given what I've seen him post. I'll bet that he had good parenting.

Nao esquicir: muito cuidado...ok?Response to thread: rat

No. Can't afford it.

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I will say that, for the money, this is one heck of a package. You can buy one out the door for about $ 20,000 before taxes and the like. I do have a problem with some aspects of the packaging, having rented about 10 of them. The dashboard has some hard plastic at the sides that gives a "rat-tat" sound when you tap on it. It could have been clad in vinyl, at the very least, as they do with other cars. The general level of articulation on seat surfaces and door panels is kind of weak. However, the engine has an exhaust note. I don't think it sounds bad. The exhaust note in the first year of this version (2004) sounded absolutely horrible; the current one doesn't. The powertrain on the base model is proven and rock solid. Also, that same powertrain is hushed in a LaCrosse. At the end of the model run, this car has been as "perfected" as it can be; however, it could have been a little better. Still, I would be ok with owning one.

Well, they identified the perpetrator. Whenever they reveal the profiles of these people, it's not very pleasant. In addtition to the destruction he created, his family will have to live with the stigma of who their son was. In the Pacific Northwest, Ted Bundy's mom, who was from Tacoma WA, reportedly had these kinds of troubles whenever she went into a store or a service establishment and had to give her name. It's so sad that these people leave a bad legacy on so many levels.

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fluster

A very flattering view! This (actually the 1976) was my first car, as a hand-me down after my Dad used it for a while...low mileage.This is one of America's most beloved cars. And for good reason. In 1976, it took a leap from its previous resemblance to its stablemates (Regal, GP, MC) to be more progressively styled and win the beauty contest....hands down. In 1977, minor changes were introduced...the passenger side of the dash lost the circular vents in favor of rectangular ones. The other thing that jumped out were the color changes in 1977....a light green interior came into being and the deep burgundy of 1976 (called Mahogany) gave way to the red you see in this car. What a find! Congratulations! What powers it....a 260, a 350 or a 403? Either way, they are all Oldsmobile Rocket V8s and should perform impeccably well... and with a sexy engine note to boot, from both inside and outside the car. (I know, I used to lower my passenger window over bridges to hear the engine). BTW, take real good care of it with the elements up there. And it was actually the 1975 Cutlass Salon coupe that was my first childhood automotive love...Persimmon metallic, white landau top, the plump bucket seats in beige cloth and color keyed rally wheels...was there anything more beautiful?

No Intrigue on the list?

Ok, ok, I was ASKING! I'm not the native of the area...I just never detected much "paak the caar" in their schpiels. Ok, so it's authentic. Still, it's authentic ON STEROIDS to ham up their effect.

Agreed. However, since I am in a transition mode (relocation and job/career), I want to snag one last W-body with a 3800 V6 so I can hopefully get through the next 5 years without as much as having to think about the car and what's under the hood.

With sheepskins from MIT, these accents have to be somewhat "exaggerated," right? I mean, no one who lives in Greenwich CT or Stamford CT has a "NYC accent or derivative thereof" - the mucky-mucks who live there...and come from there... speak "broadcast English."Since you're a native New Englander, their accents are a big put-on, right? Not only that, they sound more like a New York tri-state accent than a New England accent, and the latter is quite easy to pick off (Kay McCarthy of Star Markets, ouch).

Eu fale' com as minhas primas em Florenca (Italia) ontem para planificar o nosso viagem pela "Sardinia" (nao conheco a palavra em Portugues) no verao e faze' o mesmo na sua cidade --- 27 C! Que sorte!

cow chip

Camino, come on now! At a quarter of a million miles (soon approaching), my W-body is the best car I've ever owned. At each oil change, the oil comes out full...and gold. My tranny fluid remains a clear bubble-less pink. What more can one ask for?Ending production dates, to the best of my knowledge: Monte Carlo - May 2007 Grand Prix - December 2007 LaCrosse and Impala - the entire 2008 MY and possibly a little "hangover" after that, depending on the when the replacements (G8 and such) start rolling. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Some people are despondent and take their own lives. Are they cowards? Maybe, but we don't walk in their shoes. Some people are maladjusted and take other people's lives and then their own? Are they cowards? Yes, of the worst kind. I think this happened at UT-Austin as well and that's why those college campaniles tend to be off limits now. But, unfortunately, no one is completely safe. Weird in the sense that I was super interested in going to their arch-rival, U-Va Charlottesville, for grad school in architecture. I didn't get in because they had 260 applicants for the 20 spots in the extended M.Arch. (for unrelated prior degrees). I stood a much better chance of getting into Va. Tech., based on the applicant ratio, but if I was going to go to the East Coast, it was going to be snooty U-Va or NOTHING. We can say it's a sign of the times but these cowardly acts have occurred every century, it seems. It's just that maladjusted people exist everywhere and we need to be on guard to the best that we can. My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, friends and those who will be traumatized by this senseless lunacy.

Meat carne, carne, carne, viande :AH-HA_wink:

surgeon

I was thinking the same thing! Donner Pass on I-80 had a chain requirement on Saturday (the 14th). I had to drive across it on Friday when the weather was temperate. The ski resorts up at "the Lake" are operating.

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I don't mind him. (Ann Coulter, what a pill). Oh yeah, and Fred Thompson up above. I looked him up. He's from Tennessee, law degree from Vanderbilt, relevant experience, but then this part is weird....also a "character actor" with a list of films on imdb, is married to a woman 25 years his junior on the second go around (more power to him, I guess), and has lymphoma in remission. Interesting.Like I said, absolutely nobody "linear" like in previous elections appears to have come forth.