Ace-Garageguy

"Finished" is a concept with which I'm unfamiliar.

Her standard question before we went out was always "does this skirt make my butt look fat?", to which my standard answer was always "it's not the skirt".

I really like what you came up with, but it looks more like a Camaro with a Corvair in the woodplie than a genetically pure Camaro.

Chips and dips in front of the tube isn't the secret to getting back in the jeans you wore in college.

Haven't done anything with this one other than push her into the new showroom, just to remind myself that I do occasionally build model cars.

Now that the weather's getting decent to paint outdoors again, I figgered I'd put her up on her wheels to give myself a little inspiration....but somewhere along the line I misplaced the decklid. No worries. I took the mold to the big-car shop where all my epoxy fiberglass stuff is at the moment and made another one. Next trick is to get the hood fitting a little better, then block everything again, and shoot her all in white primer. Rear axle needs a little adjustment to get the slicks dead center in the cutouts. This is disturbing, and I don't know where it crept in. Oh well.

4:20 is, amazingly, a reference I didn't get until I was in my 50s.

...Yup. Heading out as soon as I finish my first-of-the-year 'mater sandwich. Life is pretty good some days.

Lines of...paperwork makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around...

Beautiful day here. Sun shining, birds singing, low humidity, clear very blue sky, forecast high this PM 77 F. Trying to get my paperwork done early enough to go for a long hike in the woods later, but if it's not done, I'll probably just go anyway.

The FAA is certainly not solely to blame, but everyone who is part of a chain of events that results in a catastrophic failure shares some of the responsibility. Boeing's internal executive incentive focus has changed from emphasizing quality and passenger safety, but I can't elaborate on it here because of its "political" nature. Simply put, priorities directed away from building the best possible product are simply irrational...insane...when the product flies through the air at 500+ MPH with hundreds of people onboard. But the FAA's role was always intended to be the oversight that would protect the flying public from greed, stupidity, incompetence, and sub-standard work. The current trend towards allowing "self reporting" concerning critical engineering issues and construction procedures is rather like letting the fox run the henhouse, and thinking everything will be OK because the fox promised to be a good boy.

"Frustrating" describes my interactions with people who don't have a well-defined sense of self and a reliable moral compass.

Thing is, there's nobody overseeing ground "fleet vehicles" like the FAA is supposed to. And ground "fleet vehicle" mechanics aren't required to have extensive training and licenses like aviation mechanics are supposed to. There was a time when shortcutting aviation maintenance procedures was a big deal if you were caught, and could get you shut down, grounded, out of business. But both the FAA reps and the standards aviation mechanics are performing at have been deteriorating for decades. When everyone was qualified and did his or her job reasonably well, everything worked pretty well. Today not so much. And I speak as someone who's seen it from the inside. The laws and regs are all in place to insure against aviation "accidents" pretty effectively, but just like in a lot of other arenas today, if laws and regs aren't enforced for whatever reason, bad things happen. There HAVE been catastrophic airliner events in days past, like the De Havilland Comets literally exploding in flight as the result of metal fatigue in fuselages operating in flight regimes never encountered previously, or the wing failures of Lockheed Electras that, again, experienced conditions nobody had seen previously and so failed to engineer for. But these disasters taught engineers how to build the safest commercial aircraft humanly possible. The problems arise when shortcuts or excessive cost savings or misplaced priorities creep into the chain...from drawing board on out. Again, IF everyone is properly qualified AND does his or her job right...and those are BIG ifs.

Corned beef brisket, with potatoes and lentils cooked in the pot, and sour cream on the side. Never did one before, and my primitive cooking situation isn't conducive to haute cuisine...one huge propane burner that's also my heat, one toaster oven, and a microwave...but man oh man, that was one of THE best meals I've ever had. Pretty decent Australian Yellow Tail Big Bold Red with it, cheap screwtop, but surprisingly well-rounded and complex...perfect for a hearty meaty dish. And there's plenty for dinner all weekend, and sammiges next week.

WARNING WARNING DANGER DANGER...do NOT be confused by this Monogram mess labeled as "Revell". This is NOT the droid you're looking for.

Motors and engines are not really the same thing, as motors are correctly thought of as electrical, and engines have something to do with combustion, but the terms are often conflated.

Yeah, I seem to remember the original Hot Rod mag was cooler than sliced bread right out of the gate (pardon the mangled metaphor). They managed to get it right the first time, with no decades of experience behind them.

Show me some big...horsepower.

Pity the poor bozos who don't know where apostrophes goes, which is a terrible poem, but I'd rather laugh at 'em than show 'em.

Very cool. Always enjoy seeing landmark work from the wayback.

I like heem. I wonder what kind of power that injected Jag XK engine is making, and at what RPM...

Probably the flimsiest of the clear materials readily available will be whatever is used for report-covers, sold by stationery/office supply stores. If PTE from a soda bottle is too stiff for your application, I wouldn't even bother trying polycarbonate. EDIT: If you want to put in the effort to get a precise fit...

Sentence-structure rivet-counters could find their heads exploding due to some of the posts in this thread.

Girls don't find me as attractive as they used to, and I'm pretty sure it's 'cause I quit wearing the Rolex, and I don't have a man-bun, tattoos, a murse, or a neckbeard.