Ace-Garageguy

Me.

Hole-with-a-toad-in-it, actually "toad-in-the-hole", is a popular classic English dish consisting of sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding.

There is another vid I started to post that visits that idea, but unfortunately, topics that would be deemed "political" here are mentioned, so I refrained. One interesting thing that's happened very recently, however, was a major hacking attack on The Wayback Machine. There are, apparently, some who would like to remove access to historical records.

Kinda depends on what yer building, and there are as many ways as there are builders. Like Mr. Rotten, I'm a fabricator of 1:1 stuff, and as he says, the first rule is "square, straight, and level". I've seen people use everything from a soft pine board with wire nails driven into it, to "breadboards" made for electronics, to a sheet of tempered glass with metal angles hot-glued to it as appropriate. But above all, the very first thing to do, no matter what you're building, whether a rod or big truck or tube-frame race car or even a sheetmetal or composite monocoque...get the main, lower frame elements dead square and parallel, then build from there. And pay close attention to symmetry every step of the way. You can't go wrong looking at how the real-car guys do it.

Reference book...

Do test scores show US high school students are not as proficient in reading and math as they were in decades past? https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades#

Malarkey is often spouted by those who claim not to the loudest.

Metaphysical ideas can get a bad rap for their sandals-and-candles trappings, but when defined as "relating to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses", we get into pure math-and-science spaces like quantum foam and the nature of gravity and time, and even the documented healing power of the mind. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-of-healing-thoughts/

"Die" and "dye" are two more of those words that are commonly incorrectly substituted for each other.

100%

"Blackpool" sounds like it could be in the same scary story as Black Rock.

Gene splicing brings us delicious (but hard to eat) creatures like the porcupus chimera.

Notice I said "yet". And that said, I've seen some AI-generated images (not cars) that were staggeringly beautiful and emotionally evocative. Just as there are differing levels of innate human talent and ability, so it is apparently with AI engines.

As of October 2024, Artificial Intelligence was more like Artificial Stupidity with some creative ability.

Interesting...but it's pretty immediately obvious whatever AI engine this is doesn't yet understand context of lotsa things we take for granted.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.

Adverts are to ads like converts are to cons?

I should have been more clear. Somebody bought both my '89 GMC stripper longbed single-cab and my '92 Silverado extended cab new...and I just can't fathom how anyone would have bought either of them new without limited-slip diffs. An actual truck without limited slip? What were they thinking? Anyway, around here when it snows or ices, a fair number of the late-model high-dollar whatevers with 4WD, traction control, and all the rest of the whiz-bang techie wonderfulness find themselves upside-down in ditches, or sliding through intersections and crashing into stopped vehicles because their clueless operators think the money they spent on them makes them invincible, immune to the laws of physics and coefficients of friction on ice. So me and my old trucks and cars (that I can usually get around in just fine, thanks, 'cause I learned to drive in snow country a long time ago) just stay home. So far, nobody's crashed into any of them in the driveway. So far.

Dumbell use can make you smarter, because exercise has been shown to improve cognitive function in a number of ways.

Forum contributors who show their methods during their builds are enormously helpful and inspirational to the less experienced.

TAKE THE WARNINGS ABOVE SERIOUSLY. EXPOSURE TO ISOCYANATES, TYPICALLY USED IN CLEARCOAT PAINT "HARDENERS", CAN RESULT IN BOTH IMMEDIATE AND LONG TERM SERIOUS HEALTH EFFECTS, INCLUDING DEATH. RECURRING EXPOSURE TO EVEN "NONTOXIC" PAINT MATERIALS CAN HAVE NEGATIVE HEALTH EFFECTS. BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO BE AFRAID. J U S T B E C A R E F U L

Styrene monomer is what makes polyester resin for fiberglass smell so strongly. (However, the first several results from google are full of misinformation on the subject. Typical.)

Oh yeah. THAT is cool.

No. It's because there's no shortage of people in the world who seem to think anywhere is their dumping ground, that they're somehow entitled to other people's property, and as long as they don't get caught stealing or otherwise infringing on other people's rights, it's OK. And that is, unfortunately, part of the dark side of human nature. It's a moral / ethical / cultural failure. "The people who are supposed to enforce the laws or ordinances that affect our quality of life" may provide a deterrent to those lacking the moral and ethical makeup to police themselves, but they are not the core of the problem.