Do you think giving it a matte black finish would help?
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JonaWerks
Am engineer, can confirm, math checks out.
Picked up this 1967 Jaguar 420 from a garage nextdoor to my grandmas in Brooklyn NY. When I was a kid there she was rumored to be in there, but it never saw light from 1979 to 2017. Only 57k, I’m the second owner.
Here’s to hoping the station spontaneously combusts when they read the news.
WEEI is going to need a whole WEEK of sensitivity training over this.
I’ve never met anyone who gave a shit about what a street was called
Oh God, Curt Schilling is logging into the Internet right now.
They paved the church
And put up a parking lot
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I really hope Annie makes it. Sweet dreams are made of this!
Find a male/female. Copulate. Baby. Life. Cost to achieve? A few beers.
Never ever ever leave my phone/wallet/keys in car, plus manual so theft proof anyways amirite
Dude, that wall was at least a foot thick solid masonry and looked like 5 feet tall, running the length of the building. Rule of thumb numbers put its weight between 80-100 pounds per square foot. So, let’s say it was 50 feet deep and only weighed 80psf. That’s ten tons of brick. Hardly tiny.
I was there at the bar that night, it’s the back pocket bar of a very well known Stockholm restaurant (Sturehof) it was a great evening, at first he was just gonna play a few songs promoting the Audioslave Revelations was being released but it ended up being 13 songs, covers, Soundgarden, Temple of the dog and…
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Thanks for the great article Clay and thanks to all of you who have commented. It’s a constant source of amazement that so many have joined us on the ride and are enjoying what we’re doing. We’re flat out preparing the next episode right now so it won’t be too long to wait for an update.