Ace-Garageguy

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come” Wm. Shakespeare

"Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you" Benjamin Franklin 1773

Keep It Simple, Stupid KISS

Matter dan a vett henn I vas ven Sven vas late mit der rent again.

EDIT: There are some glaring flaws, but overall I think it's beautifully done. Far as the women go, they're all fully clothed and are a lot less --------- than what young people are constantly exposed to on the web, so hopefully nobody finds anything here offensive.

Yup. Battery in my '89 GMC quit yesterday. It was due, as it lasted an incredible 11 years. Happy it quit at the house too, instead of 50 miles away in the middle of nowhere.

Things that go "bump" in the night here are usually cats playing.

“A is A”

Subjective judgements often ignore objective reality.

A N A L O G D Y N A M I C S T A B I L I T Y Priceless.

Hurricane winds often take down power lines, and electric chainsaws with nowhere to plug 'em in are of limited usefulness.

Children probably shouldn't be entrusted with real chainsaws.

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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.

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"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.