Ace-Garageguy

IMDb is useful to me occasionally for finding particularly interesting locations where movies were made.

Yukon Gold taters is tasty, specially mashed with garlic and butter and cream and rutabaga.

"Ramada" always sounded to me like it'd be a good name for boots, so I floogled it and, guess what...it is.

You don't have to buy the latest-greatest high-buck digital SLR to take professional looking shots suitable for publishing to the web. The photos below were taken with an "obsolete" 4-megapixel Nikon that can be purchased used for $15-$50. It features 3X optical zoom and a macro setting. I bought one new many years ago and it's still going strong. I bought a used one for a dedicated shop camera 5 years ago and it still works fine too. I use a very capable Nikon photo editing suite (which was a free download) on my laptop. EDIT: Good lighting, a tripod, and some care with composition are also required.

And another thing that's apparently not widely known is that "sealed" battery packs may be compromised by running over road hazards, speed bumps, etc. If the seal is broken, ingress of water from driving through a puddle an IC car would have no problem with can cause an internal short resulting in fire. AND...multiple EV fires resulted from salt-water ingress when the vehicles were left parked in flooding conditions during recent weather events.

Dinner with family isn't something I do anymore, because...reasons.

With cameos by Gumby and some claymation dinosaurs.

Nice bunny.

Always liked these in full scale. Model looks great, especially the no-nonsense steel wheels.

Looks to be a stellar 2-door conversion. Great looking little car.

Some banks simply refuse login attempts from any IP address they don't have on file, and in the event you need to access accounts from an "alien" machine, require an annoyingly complex (but worthwhile and just about impossible to crack) multi-step authentication process.

"LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!" is the predominant message of a high percentage of social media posts.

This is good advice. Insurers are raising rates on EVs because of their non-economically-viable-repairability after even light crashes. https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/12/09/327691.htm Parking garages are beginning to ban them because of the propensity to catch fire. Sure, ICs will burn too, but they don't spontaneously ignite. Call your insurance provider ASAP, because if your policy doesn't SPECIFICALLY cover this unfortunate circumstance, you're not covered, period. And don't take some mumbled generalities from an agent, either. GET THE COVERAGE DEFINED AND EXPLAINED IN WRITING.

Lost keys, tools, and pretty much everything else small almost always turn out to be exactly where I put them.

Lotsa truth right there. And the push in the engineering community to go straight from simulation to production with no physical prototyping and testing phase will only make things worse.

Audience ratings don't mean much when so many don't seem to be able to follow a plot.

"Spoken, not stirred"...no, that can't be right.

Guitar strings aren't what g-strings means.

Double your pleasure; marry identical twins.

Gin labeled Bombay Sapphire is probably my favorite, but there's nothing wrong with old standby Tanqueray either, especially in a Martini with olives.

My first gut reaction was early '50s Ford, but nope. Further research pulled up what looks like a match for '53-'54 Chevy Bel Air...though it's apparently the general layout of all the '53-'54 Chebbys, which would make sense.

Late '60s early '70s big FoMoCo. I got a match for a '70 Mercury Marquis. The column and a few details (the PRNDL surround for one) are different from the '69.

Though the names have been changed to protect the innocent, I suspect this is part of the previously unreleased backstory of Sarah-n-Tuned's penguin sidekick.

So far same-old same-old...but nothing worth complaining about.

The pushbutton shifter quadrant can pretty much only be high-end early '60s Mopar. I found a matching image that says it's a '61 Imperial, though '62 and '63 seem to be very similar. The '63 wheel is different.