When your wallet doesn’t allow the 1:1 version, maybe an Amalgam version in 1:8 scale is something for you? Something like this will still set you back €7410 though . . . . .
(SpeedHunters.com)
Editor's note: 7410 Euro's = $8360 USD
Thursday, April 21, 2016
It's How Much?
When your wallet doesn’t allow the 1:1 version, maybe an Amalgam version in 1:8 scale is something for you? Something like this will still set you back €7410 though . . . . .
(SpeedHunters.com)
Editor's note: 7410 Euro's = $8360 USD
He's The Rocket - Arm Man
Hard-throwing Aaron Hicks starred on the mound, too
Yankees left fielder Aaron Hicks made headlines by making the fastest outfield throw ever recorded on Wednesday night -- a 105.5 mph rocket to get the A's Danny Valencia at home plate -- but it's not the first time he has drawn attention with his arm.
(ESPN.com)
Yankees left fielder Aaron Hicks made headlines by making the fastest outfield throw ever recorded on Wednesday night -- a 105.5 mph rocket to get the A's Danny Valencia at home plate -- but it's not the first time he has drawn attention with his arm.
(ESPN.com)
This Is The Craziest Fact Of Them All From This Famous Game
A closer look at Michael Jordan's 63-point game
Wednesday [4/20/16] marks the 30th anniversary of Michael Jordan’s 63-point game for the Chicago Bulls against the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of the 1986 Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
Jordan attempted 41 shots in the game and none were 3-pointers.
(ESPN.com)
Wednesday [4/20/16] marks the 30th anniversary of Michael Jordan’s 63-point game for the Chicago Bulls against the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of the 1986 Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
Jordan attempted 41 shots in the game and none were 3-pointers.
(ESPN.com)
The Highlights Of A Very Good Article
11 Things We Learned From ESPN's Tiger Woods Profile
1. The Cadillac Escalade he crashed into a fire hydrant is now owned by a man in Arkansas who had no knowledge of the car’s infamous past.
2. While many celebrities customize the tail numbers of their private planes, Woods had his blocked to thwart tracking websites.
Complete list (Golf.com)
1. The Cadillac Escalade he crashed into a fire hydrant is now owned by a man in Arkansas who had no knowledge of the car’s infamous past.
2. While many celebrities customize the tail numbers of their private planes, Woods had his blocked to thwart tracking websites.
Complete list (Golf.com)
You Know You Want One
Sitting in a 737 Jet Engine Chair Turns Anyone Into a Supervillain
The fact that Fallen Furniture doesn’t a list a price for this amazing creation—which features a polished aluminum swiveling base and an interior upholstered with black leather—is the least of your concerns. Even if you can afford one, you’ll then have to deal with the logistics of getting it into your office or home.
Because, and not surprisingly, Boeing didn’t take into consideration the size of your front door when ordering engines powerful enough to get a 737 off the ground. You can always knock down a wall, or just build a new home around the chair. Supervillains can do whatever they want, right?
(Gizmodo.com)
The fact that Fallen Furniture doesn’t a list a price for this amazing creation—which features a polished aluminum swiveling base and an interior upholstered with black leather—is the least of your concerns. Even if you can afford one, you’ll then have to deal with the logistics of getting it into your office or home.
Because, and not surprisingly, Boeing didn’t take into consideration the size of your front door when ordering engines powerful enough to get a 737 off the ground. You can always knock down a wall, or just build a new home around the chair. Supervillains can do whatever they want, right?
(Gizmodo.com)
The Inspiration Behind The Classic Song
The Real Story Behind Prince's 'Little Red Corvette'
It seems that Prince came up with the idea for the 1983 song while he was sleeping in Lisa Coleman’s (you know, from Wendy & Lisa) pink Edsel, after an all-night recording session. This comes from the book Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks, which was published in 2011.
(Jalopnik.com)
It seems that Prince came up with the idea for the 1983 song while he was sleeping in Lisa Coleman’s (you know, from Wendy & Lisa) pink Edsel, after an all-night recording session. This comes from the book Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks, which was published in 2011.
Another morning, after recording all night, Prince sat in Lisa Coleman’s pink Edsel. At this point, Lisa—a platonic bandmate—was sometimes staying in his home, or with one of his ex-girlfriends, and continued to appear in some of his songs. He was dozing off, but an idea arrived. “I guess I should have known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn’t last,” he thought.That’s right, an Edsel. A pink Edsel. The sort of car you’re most likely to associate with the terribly cheesy art on the walls of some strip-mall ‘50s-style diner than you are with the lyrics:
As more lyrics came, he jotted them down between short naps. He started creating a track filled with pensive synthesizer, and a lyric called “Little Red Corvette.”
I guess I must be dumbRight? I mean, “Little Pink Edsel” just wouldn’t have worked. Understanding that you need to swap the car to one more appropriate than the one you were dreaming in when you wrote this is what made the man such a pro.
‘Cause you had a pocket full of horses
Trojan and some of them used
But it was Saturday night
I guess that makes it all right
And you say what have I got to lose?
(Jalopnik.com)
He's In His Lil' Red Corvette On His Way To Heaven Now
Legendary Artist Prince Found Dead at 57
(Yahoo.com)
Prince,
a dizzylingly prolific multi-instrumentalist and virtuosic performer,
was found dead at his home and recording studio in Minnesota early on
Thursday, his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Hollywood
Reporter. He was 57.
Deputies
are on scene at Paisley Park in Chanhassen conducting a death
investigation currently, authorities said. No further details were
immediately available and the cause of death is not being released at
this time.
(Yahoo.com)
Where You Can See Some Classic Porsche's
Luftgekühlt is an incredible car show for air-cooled Porsches
Air-cooled Porsches: Three lousy words and four lousy syllables. String them together and you get an expensive, emotive cocktail. If you've always wanted to own one, you know that truth, as prices of vintage 356s, 911s, and even 914s have risen steadily and then recently, skyrocketed.
But Long and Idelson, both SoCal natives who met as kids racing karts, wanted to make something of the air-cooled Porsche car culture, not of the collecting culture. Hence the birth, less than three years ago, of Luftgekühlt. "It's literally 'air-cooled' in German but has that nerdish, Instagram picture-trading offshoot of a kind of Porsche cult," Long says, noting he's less interested in defining the brand that now sells t-shirts and posters and more interested in keeping things loose.
As such, he was still floored by the recently convened Luftgekühlt 3, the third party he and Idelson have put on and by far the largest. It was held in the shadow of the L.A. skyline at the headquarters of Modernica furniture. More than 400 air-cooled Porsches and their owners convened. The location was no afterthought. "We wanted people to come for the cars and then be blown away by the venue: It has to be interesting. It has to attract different kinds of people."
(AutoBlog.com)
Air-cooled Porsches: Three lousy words and four lousy syllables. String them together and you get an expensive, emotive cocktail. If you've always wanted to own one, you know that truth, as prices of vintage 356s, 911s, and even 914s have risen steadily and then recently, skyrocketed.
But Long and Idelson, both SoCal natives who met as kids racing karts, wanted to make something of the air-cooled Porsche car culture, not of the collecting culture. Hence the birth, less than three years ago, of Luftgekühlt. "It's literally 'air-cooled' in German but has that nerdish, Instagram picture-trading offshoot of a kind of Porsche cult," Long says, noting he's less interested in defining the brand that now sells t-shirts and posters and more interested in keeping things loose.
As such, he was still floored by the recently convened Luftgekühlt 3, the third party he and Idelson have put on and by far the largest. It was held in the shadow of the L.A. skyline at the headquarters of Modernica furniture. More than 400 air-cooled Porsches and their owners convened. The location was no afterthought. "We wanted people to come for the cars and then be blown away by the venue: It has to be interesting. It has to attract different kinds of people."
(AutoBlog.com)
Hey Tesla, Gull Wing Doors Are Aren't A Functional Feature
Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won't shut, windows won't close
Tesla Model X owners are suffering from "a series of first-world issues," according to one owner.
But owners of the $138,000 sport utility vehicle – whose many features include falcon-wing doors, a 200-plus-mile battery range and proximity sensors that prevent it from coming into contact with other cars – are being confronted with more immediately irksome issues, including car doors that suddenly won't shut and windows that won't close.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the issue yesterday, spotlighting several Model X owners who've been taken aback by unexpected malfunctions, including one customer whose falcon-wing doors wouldn't open as she prepared to drive her children's carpool to school. "It's a bummer," she told the outlet. "You spent all this money...and the doors won't open."
Consumer Reports also published a lengthy piece yesterday about unhappy customers, including Michael Karpf, a 75-year-old retiree who picked up his Model X from Tesla's Fremont, CA, factory earlier this month, only to be faced with a string of problems with the car. Among them: falcon wing doors that wouldn't close and proximity sensors that failed to sense an overhang, allowing the doors to bang into it. Karpf also said that the huge infotainment screen in his Model X has repeatedly frozen.
(AutoBlog.com)
Tesla Model X owners are suffering from "a series of first-world issues," according to one owner.
But owners of the $138,000 sport utility vehicle – whose many features include falcon-wing doors, a 200-plus-mile battery range and proximity sensors that prevent it from coming into contact with other cars – are being confronted with more immediately irksome issues, including car doors that suddenly won't shut and windows that won't close.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the issue yesterday, spotlighting several Model X owners who've been taken aback by unexpected malfunctions, including one customer whose falcon-wing doors wouldn't open as she prepared to drive her children's carpool to school. "It's a bummer," she told the outlet. "You spent all this money...and the doors won't open."
Consumer Reports also published a lengthy piece yesterday about unhappy customers, including Michael Karpf, a 75-year-old retiree who picked up his Model X from Tesla's Fremont, CA, factory earlier this month, only to be faced with a string of problems with the car. Among them: falcon wing doors that wouldn't close and proximity sensors that failed to sense an overhang, allowing the doors to bang into it. Karpf also said that the huge infotainment screen in his Model X has repeatedly frozen.
(AutoBlog.com)
Art Imitating Life Turned To Gold
Aerosmith earned more money from Guitar Hero than from any of their albums. (article)
Activision says Guitar Hero: Aerosmith has earned the band more royalties than any of their albums. Activision chief executive Bobby Kotick was quoted by MTV Multiplayer at the company’s analyst day as saying that the band is enjoying more than just exposure to new fans and renewed interest of loyal rockers thanks to the videogame tie-in.
“[Their] version of Guitar Hero generated far more in revenues than any Aerosmith album ever has,” Kotick said. “Merchandising, concert sales, their ability to sign a new contract [have] all been unbelievably influenced by their participation in Guitar Hero.”
(CavemanCircus.com)
Activision says Guitar Hero: Aerosmith has earned the band more royalties than any of their albums. Activision chief executive Bobby Kotick was quoted by MTV Multiplayer at the company’s analyst day as saying that the band is enjoying more than just exposure to new fans and renewed interest of loyal rockers thanks to the videogame tie-in.
“[Their] version of Guitar Hero generated far more in revenues than any Aerosmith album ever has,” Kotick said. “Merchandising, concert sales, their ability to sign a new contract [have] all been unbelievably influenced by their participation in Guitar Hero.”
(CavemanCircus.com)
'Merican Finances
Approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account (article)
(CavemanCircus.com)
(CavemanCircus.com)
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