TheFilipinoStig

Hey LP'ers. It's been awhile! I'm back and happy to announce a few major ventures in my life. Since I've been gone I got (some) of my shit together, got my real estate broker's license, and am working for Berkshire Hathaway here on the northside of Indy. It's a wild business. I also recently launched a side project I've been hard at work on the past few months - Lemur Ink. I loved writing with fountain pens, saw a gap in the market where I think I could make a few changes, and started this fountain pen store on a total whim! It's been incredibly rewarding so far, with orders already placed and my time now consumed trying to figure out how to grow without growing too fast. I'd love to hear your guys (and gals) feedback on the site, even if you aren't a fountain pen junkie like myself. Hopefully the the next major announcement has 12 cylinders...

Congrats! Glad you enjoyed it here in Indianapolis - that track truly is one of a kind. I highly recommend to all to try and make it to next year's 500 mile race, for the 100th running - it will be incredible. Also, the SVRA Vintage Race held in June (second year was this year) is a great event that is very open to the public (garages, etc) and is great bang for your buck if you have any sort of "vintage" race car (modern up to current era is even accepted in certain classes). They have sessions of oval racing as well as plenty on the GP course. I need to upload my photos to Flickr from the past two years, but it's getting better each year and I look forward to it almost more than the 500 itself.

I just got an email from Vice and saw your photo on there, gf and I had a good laugh. She's taking the LSAT in a few weeks and she mentioned doing a job shadow with you and I told her "Ya, you'd be great next to conc in his new Aventador SV!"

RIP. So sad to hear. fcuk cancer.

Putin would be at the top of the leader board, every time...

Reviving this thread like it's Nikki Sixx (without the snorting) I'm a crossroads in my personal life and going to go out on a limb and share this all with LP because fcuk it, life is too short. As some of you may know I've been struggling to get my business started and get in shape for several years. I graduated college, have been through several family crises, had my fair share of relationship woes, and generally have felt like I've been trying to lift off the ground/break through the wall so to speak many times over. As a kid I was diagnosed with ADD and given Ritalin/Adderall as well as Zoloft. I was fighting losing several close family members as well as just generally not giving a fcuk in school. I always tested high in everything but math, considered myself a smart kid, but just felt school was a waste of time. On Ritalin/Zoloft I always felt like a machine - I was doing well in school but crashed a lot feeling depressed as well as just "not myself." I think I was too fcuking young to be on the shit plus overweight/not exercising. Now at 27, I feel like the years have flown by and I don't know where they went (or what I did). I keep going back to "It's been X number of years since I wanted to get my business started and X number of years (too fcuking many) since I've wanted to get in shape." Those two things permeate anything else I've been through and dominate my thoughts. I have had some great times and some real bursts of inspiration or motivation, followed by just a lull that just couldn't be shaken. I have a ton of ideas, feel the desire to get out and do shit, but then just lack the clarity or drive some days. Recently, I lost several pounds and am back on track to losing weight and eating healthy (thanks in part to some help on here as well as kettlebells). I have always felt my best though when I was either at my healthiest (for that time) or when I was well-rested, nourished, and had just worked out. Sorry for the mini life story, but I know there are a lot of no BS, successful people on here who surely have either been through this or can spot my troubles from a mile away and figure out what the fcuk is going on. I'm in the process of self-diagnosing as ADD/ADHD and also in the process of finding a doctor to either prescribe some meds or work though my issues. Edit to add link: I found this in a rampage Google search to self-diagnose and was truly frightened how I checked every single one of these. Check it out: http://www.simplywellbeing.com/20-questions-are-you-add-adhd

I wish I had the balls and knowledge to do an engine out service like that - very cool! I would have some seriously badass cars if I could wrench like that!

I think the Mac 675LT looks better.... Anything looks better. There's better design elements in a Panamera.

Price reduced - $35 shipped

Old one was serious business

Really badass vintage Countach poster. Measures 24x36. $50 shipped to anywhere in the CONUS. Overall excellent condition, just a little wear as seen in photos.

My biggest concern was consuming more protein at one time than my body can process (50g in a shake post workout).

Recently started a kettlebell workout (taking my time on getting form down). So far it's a great way to workout at home. Using Pavel Tsatsouline's instructional video. Question for you guys, though (since too many meatheads on other forums/sites): How much protein can I take during the day? I usually have a protein shake after working out (2 scoops of ON Whey in a shaker with skim milk) but have read that I really need at least 1g per pound of body weight. Besides eating chicken and trying to eat better, how can I absorb that much protein effectively if the Internet is saying my body can only absorb 8-10g of protein an hour?

Glad we agree on this. It's an antiquated design. It feels good in your hand - but so does a SIG.

Ford is on their A-game at the moment. Chevy seems plagued with issues and Dodge has historically provided shit products (nothing but issues on older models - do you trust them yet?)

Death grip on wheel. 10 and 2 instead of 9 and 3. WAY too fast for that road and conditions. I have been on stretches of German Autobahn where one could easily do 250 - early morning on a Sunday when no one is out. But this road/conditions were not for that. It's a shame cars are so safe now, Darwin really keeps missing his take.

Love the car and color!

Exactly.... This was also from Hitchens (shame he left us) and a bit more direct. Quite chilling when you really break it down... “It’s coming to a place near you. The Qurans that are given out in our prison system, to Muslim prisoners by Muslim chaplains, paid for by Saudi Arabia, are Qurans written to the Wahabi tune. They’re not just your everyday Quran; they’re the Qurans that the Wahabis want you to read, containing direct incitement. They’re being given out with taxpayers’ money in the prison system, where militias are forming. Next you’ll have militias of this kind with their own chaplains within the United States armed forces. Are you ready for that? Are you ready to have Wahabi preachers in the U.S. armed forces? You better get ready for it, unless you’re going to take the James Madison view that there shouldn’t be any chaplains in the U.S. armed forces to begin with, or in the prison system. People want to pray, you can’t stop them. But we cannot have state subsidized prayer. We cannot have state subsidized preachers or chaplains. Give it up, or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you. This is very urgent business, ladies and gentlemen, I beseech you: resist it while you still can and before the right to complain is taken away from you, which is the next thing. You will be told, you can’t complain – because you’re Islamophobic. The term is already being introduced into the culture, as if it’s an accusation of race hatred or bigotry, whereas it’s only the objection to the preachings of a very extreme and absolutist religion. Watch out for these symptoms… The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it’s your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you.”

$915 on the S1. GOD that's gorgeous...

Concerning this cluster fcuk, I think it is important to recall what free speech really is. This is a heavy video, but only 20 minutes. It picks up halfway through and is spot on (IMHO).

Congrats on 8 years! It was a long-winded post but I was ready to rant. Feel for my buddy and had some confusing moments as of late (and I tend to say stupid shit - I'm still learning). Certainly not trying to make marriage a zero-sum game, but the idea and reality of divorce just scares the shit out me - heard too many horror stories. I always try to be a realist and when the crazy comes out or you bump heads, it's sometimes difficult to not ask yourself "Is this going to be the rest of my life/normal?" Congrats on 15! We've had lots of talks about those things and we aren't even engaged - most of the time we agree. This seems to be a constant. To me, it seems that women are more worried about their man running off than vice versa. And if that fear exists, it seems difficult to make that fear go away from the back of their head.

Not to Jihad this thread, but I was just talking with an old friend of mine about divorce/marriage/happiness/life just a minute ago for a few hours. Both of are reasonably smart kids, good education, capable, young, both aspire to do well in life. We talk about all sorts of shit - religion, gun control, cars, music - and can pretty much narrow things down to why people like certain things. For the life of us, we cannot seem to make any sense out of women or relationships. More specifically, marriage is the big clusterfuck sandwich that just doesn't seem to add up whatsoever. (He just recently got engaged). More recently, I had a fun conversation with my gf about checking/savings accounts after marriage (not sure how the fcuk we got on this topic) and I mentioned that it seems totally reasonable to have separate savings accounts (since we both plan on working professionally) but a joint checking account where we each contribute a % of our income to for expenses. This set off the avalanche of shit storm... For those of you with any money going into marriages, relationships - how do you handle this shit? Divorce rates seems WAY too high of a % for me to consider risking wealth accumulated over multiple generations and prenups seems like something only old billionaires with 20 year old wives can ever get them to agree to. Also, if anyone has the key to eternal happines with women - also please include that.

Good read about all this crap. Very sad overall. But if I ran a newspaper, you better believe the front page would be a fcuking collage of cartoons. http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/on-the-...n-imaginary-god

Holy shit. RIP.

Awesome! I was looking at the LPP and Interceptor models years back but just never pulled the trigger. I don't drive enough highway to really need it. But all my tickets minus the first have all been from laser. The worst part about the V1 (not that they can do anything about it) is the laser "warning." Nice way to tell me to pull over.