Ace-Garageguy

Superior performance and ability and accomplishment are often denigrated and criticized by the jealous and envious and insecure.

I feel your pain. They're the only provider of the fast cable connection I need at my current location. Intermittent unexplained outages seem to be what they most excel at.

Forecast low here Sunday night of 16F, which will be the second time it's been in the teens so far this year. It's NEVER been in the teens so early in the season as long as I've lived here, so I figure it must be the atmosphere warming that's making it colder. I'm so glad I understand all that complex dynamic.

"First things first" she said "like I'll need your banking information and employment history", which I thought was a bit much for an after-work coffee date.

Hot dog...imagine a fiery room full of porcupines and rattlesnakes, 'cause that's probably the place I'll go.

First model was an airplane definitely. The old man built planes and I wanted to be like him. Though I don't remember which one it was probably Revell. I bodged quite a few aircraft. First almost decent one I built was the Revell B58 Hustler. First car model was the Revell Ford Country Squire, which I must have brush painted 15 times without stripping (though I tried, with Testors enamel thinner), and it STILL looked horrible.

Kinda like those sea-monkeys and x-ray glasses way back when, huh?

Older is kinda OK if it comes with wiser, but all too often it doesn't.

"Dandelions" was the punchline of a kids' riddle about a hundred years ago, and Dandelion Wine is a novel by Ray Bradbury from 1957, the same year as Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

Very nice. Looks like a tasteful blend of Ford, GM, and Chrysler styling influences of the period. What AI did you use?

AI is real, it exists, it's already disruptive, and most people have zero clue about its capabilities or how it works. And it's NOT what most people seem to think it is, not by a long shot.

Messrs. Dunning and Kruger are proven more correct with every passing day hour minute.

If the "customer" had had significant input during the birth of the car industry, there would be no car industry. A quote widely attributed (perhaps misattributed but still entirely on-point) to Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

"Some days it's hard to keep going, but I find that attitude is largely a series of conscious decisions, and all any of us can do is try to make the most of the hands we've been dealt." Me