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davintosh wrote:

a wrote:Very happy I had finished the coffee before reading. Yah , Dave, during chemo , it is a see food diet

Good to hear that; posted that same pic on FB and a friend who has been through treatment for esophageal cancer started ranting about how carbs & sugar feed cancers... totally wrong according to my oncologist.

Totally wrong?

Research into sugar and cancer cells continues...

Sugar and Proteins Keep Cancer Cells Alive.

It's been said that cancer cells are immortal – they don't die off in an orderly way like healthy cells do. Scientists have studied this effect and may have discovered what tumor cells do to avoid cell death. In laboratory research at Duke University, cancer cells appear to use a combination of sugar and specific proteins to keep growing when they should die. These cancer cells appear to use sugar at a high rate, in order to ignore cellular instructions to die off. So might sugar – which appears to make cancer cells stronger – someday turn out to be cancer's Achilles' Heel?

Developing New Sugar-Coated Cancer Drugs.

At Johns Hopkins University, a group of researchers looked at ways to fool cancer cells into growing more slowly and then eventually killing themselves. They studied abnormal glycosylation - how cancer cells put sugar and proteins together to sustain themselves. When these cells were given n-butyrate (a salt) with carbohydrates (contains sugar), cell proliferation slowed down. In order to feed the cancer a death-dealing drug, they produced a hybrid molecule made of a simple sugar and n-butyrate. Because the cancer cells absorbed the sugar readily, they soaked up this new molecule, which interfered with their ability to keep growing, and they died.

http://breastcancer.about.com/od/cancer ... r_myth.htm

Karl Grau wrote:All aboard for adventure!

I'm on the Pacific Surfliner headed to the OC to look at a car. OcCoupe is picking me up at the San Juan Cappuccino station.

What, no details? Tease.

Karl Grau wrote:Hopefully I'll be driving back to SD.

Let me know when you'll be crossing the state line; I'll have a welcoming party assembled.

Mike W. wrote:Where in the laws of physics is it written that if you drop a hose with a sprayer on the end, it will land on the handle? Pointing at you? I swear, happens 9 out of 10 times to me. At least.

It only happens to me 8 out of 10 times to me.

Mike W. wrote:Where in the laws of physics is it written that if you drop a hose with a sprayer on the end, it will land on the handle? Pointing at you? I swear, happens 9 out of 10 times to me.

If it doesn't spray me, it sprays the car that I just spent an hour drying off.

davintosh wrote:What, no details? Tease.

I went to look at a '95 e34 Touring. The car was very good cosmetically but had all the signs of a cracked head or at least a blown head gasket. It also had an Exxon Valdez size oil leak.

Karl Grau wrote:I had to let the Conductor know that some skank from Coach just tried to use our restroom.

Karma is a bitch. Business class was full on the train back to San Diego and now I'm sitting with the unwashed masses in Coach .
I feel like Steve Martin in PT&A..

On a serious note, I wanted to thank Mike (OcCoupe) and Mr. Kohler for their help in my e34 Touring search. I don't just mean today, I mean going back at least two years. Thanks for the help and patience guys!

Took apart an E12 thermostat housing as someone wants a cover. I guess someone in the past had trouble bleeding it. I think this one will bleed pretty easy. Not sure how well the heater will work in the winter though.

Damn! That's even worse than the one I did for my Mom's subaru. That fucker just wouldn't bleed and I was sick of it, all of a sudden I don't feel so bad.

You guys know they glue the e46 key fob together? Muthafuckas...

Wife says that I'm very hard on clothes. I'm not sure what she means.

Cool! My little guy got home from playing in the creek with a big leech between his toes. That's a life experience. Maybe tonight we'll watch African Queen....

The house across the street from mine (same size 3/2/2 1300 ft.) has just come on the market. Its being shown now and
NINE people got out of the mini van.

I hope the younger couple from last night made an offer already.

Not that I have anything against rug rats.

Mark 88/M5 Houston wrote:The house across the street from mine (same size 3/2/2 1300 ft.) has just come on the market. Its being shown now and
NINE people got out of the mini van.

I hope the younger couple from last night made an offer already.

Not that I have anything against rug rats.

All things (neighbors?) in moderation?

Twin Turbo Hamster...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhIVtGS3-dk

BDK wrote:Twin Turbo Hamster...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhIVtGS3-dk

I was expecting a hot rod kia. lol

Someone I don't care for much has left his vapor inhaler behind. A quick pic of it nestled between my butt cheeks fo' sho.

I just found this 2008 photo of my first vintage BMW, my 1988 635CSi. I miss that car, but it was right to sell it.

If you're using a high power, high torque drill you should really keep both hands on it in case the bit were to bind.

On an unrelated side note, I think Dremmel is owned by Lexmark or Canon. The tool is reasonably priced, but all the attachments? Oy Vey!

Karl Grau wrote:If you're using a high power, high torque drill you should really keep both hands on it in case the bit were to bind.

On an unrelated side note, I think Dremmel is owned by Lexmark or Canon. The tool is reasonably priced, but all the attachments? Oy Vey!

Yah , cut the price of the main unit to the bone . Make the money on the accessories. Harbor Freight had a pretty good sampler of bits for about 10 bucks.

June 7 is the actual day, but I don't see anything wrong with celebrating a day late. In fact, right now chocolate ice cream with hot fudge sounds really, really good, so I might buy a gallon of the stuff and keep on celebrating.

Saw one of those great big pretentious pickups today, you know with the 6" exhaust pipe thru the bed and sitting a good 6" higher than stock.

With a bumper sticker that said, "Girlfriend of a Marine"

Driven by a guy.

Oh well, I guess with the less clearly defined gender roles these days it might make sense in a prison "girlfriend" context. Or whatever.

I won't go there.

1st 5er wrote:I won't go there.

well, they are sailors.

You ever fallen into the zone while highway driving, and it feels like you and the car are what is standing still, and the landscape is actually what is moving backwards past you? Whoa.

Minotaur wrote:You ever fallen into the zone while highway driving, and it feels like you and the car are what is standing still, and the landscape is actually what is moving backwards past you? Whoa.

West Texas. You can see for miles in every direction. If there is no traffic or livestock to break up the scenery you start to feel like your on a treadmill.

We went to my niece's wedding yesterday. It was a rainy crappy day outside, and when I pulled my glasses off to wipe the raindrops from them, the bow on the right side popped off. Not just loose, but broken. Crap. The fishing line under the lens was hanging loose, and I thought sure the lens would fall off at some point, but it stayed in place. And the left bow was snug enough that it kept the glasses on my face for the rest of the service. Win. Held on long enough to get home to grab another pair of specs that I haven't used in about ten years; way out of style and really crappy correction, but at least the room doesn't move when I turn my head. Another win. They'll get me through to Monday.

That was the first time I had been inside St. Joe's Cathedral since it was refurbished a few years ago; it's beautiful inside again!



It was my family's parish church when I was growing up, and I knew all of the elements very well; the colorful bas-relief sculptures on the walls & ceilings, the dark oak pews (with their built-in hat clips that made lots of noise when bored little boys played with them), the columns, the stained glass windows, etc... Then in the '70's, some genius decided the nave needed to be remodeled, and in the process everything was painted over with something close to eggshell white. It was hideous. I was pretty young then, but I remember little old ladies who saw the place opened in 1918 weeping when they saw what had been done.

Now though... It's breathtaking.

Cutting grass today and remembered the time my good friend invited me out on his boss's yacht for an afternoon. We all had a grand time until a lightning storm came up and we had to be out of the water. I was climbing the ladder with everyone to get out when those in the water stopped smiling and things turned sour, arms waving frantically at me. Evidently the blowup alligator I was carrying kept sticking it's snout up the CEO's ass as we were climbing the ladder together and about the 5th time he got goosed, he was shouting at me to stop. REALLY pissed. I guess I was busy looking down instead of up. Whatever. I had fun.

davintosh wrote:We went to my niece's wedding yesterday. It was a rainy crappy day outside, and when I pulled my glasses off to wipe the raindrops from them, the bow on the right side popped off. Not just loose, but broken. Crap. The fishing line under the lens was hanging loose, and I thought sure the lens would fall off at some point, but it stayed in place. And the left bow was snug enough that it kept the glasses on my face for the rest of the service. Win. Held on long enough to get home to grab another pair of specs that I haven't used in about ten years; way out of style and really crappy correction, but at least the room doesn't move when I turn my head. Another win. They'll get me through to Monday.

That was the first time I had been inside St. Joe's Cathedral since it was refurbished a few years ago; it's beautiful inside again!



It was my family's parish church when I was growing up, and I knew all of the elements very well; the colorful bas-relief sculptures on the walls & ceilings, the dark oak pews (with their built-in hat clips that made lots of noise when bored little boys played with them), the columns, the stained glass windows, etc... Then in the '70's, some genius decided the nave needed to be remodeled, and in the process everything was painted over with something close to eggshell white. It was hideous. I was pretty young then, but I remember little old ladies who saw the place opened in 1918 weeping when they saw what had been done.

Now though... It's breathtaking.

I'm not one much for the Old School Catholicism and all it's trappings but That cathedral is beautiful!!

While eating lunch today, there were some folks at an adjacent table having a conversation. I picked up a few words I could tell were automotive in nature, so my curiosity was piqued and I had nothing really to pay attention to, so I started listening. They were talking about Honda platform stuff much like how a bunch of us could get together and talk about the intricacies of the various E28 changes and such. It was pretty interesting seeing that. They didn't look at all like a group of people I'd associate with, but they seemed to have a similar passion about their interests. Then they started talking about friends in prison and then that turned to their experiences in various correctional facilities. At that point, I decided that E28s were pretty okay.

djazz wrote:

Minotaur wrote:You ever fallen into the zone while highway driving, and it feels like you and the car are what is standing still, and the landscape is actually what is moving backwards past you? Whoa.

West Texas. You can see for miles in every direction. If there is no traffic or livestock to break up the scenery you start to feel like your on a treadmill.

Ya know, there's a lot of Nevada like that. Not near as big as Tejas but still big, I've personally been over a stretch a number of times with two gas stations in a 260 mile stretch. 9-5 only, it's all dark at night.

6:30 am and the dumpster people are calling to drop a roll-off at a residential project. I tell her they are a bit early, after 8 is what I scheduled, and the residents will probably all still be parked down the driveway. She tells me they are really busy today. I tell her good for them, have they ever heard of communication? I wished her goodluck in getting a driveway filled with college-aged kid cars cleared out at dawn.

I Was sitting at a light today and an E46 pulled up. It took me awhile to recognize that it was an E46.
2 tone paint job, Black over Blue, a riced out body kit, fake M3 Side Grills and white rims...
Once I realized that it was a BMW I was just floored!
That paint was good quality from where I was sitting but damn what a Butt Ugly car!!!!! and someone paid a lot of money to make it that way!

Of course, I was so dismayed that I forgot to take a pic...