Ace-Garageguy

"Recipient" is a concept some USPS employees apparently struggle with.

Stone cold sober is a good way to be if you intend to accomplish anything that requires presence of mind.

Maybe it's the backup camera disrupting the CAN bus...

If I was going to stay here, I'd definitely have some real-looking signs made up saying $1500 FINE FOR LITTERING PHOTO ENFORCED and put them on the street in front of the house with fake cameras. It would be an interesting experiment, at least. But I'll be gone fairly soon, and the trash-throwers can live in as much garbage as they want to afterwards. Not my dog.

Have Gun, Will Travel was a great old "cowboy" series that always had a moral lesson just under the surface.

"SYSTEM FAILURE" isn't what you want to see on your biohazard containment monitor screen.

Nice little model. I LOVE Neons. One of the best-handling cheap cars you can buy, with a whole lot of potential.

Yeah, but the thought occurs to me that on finding a locking cap, whoever will just put a brick through one of the windows for spite. Locking cap short-term, then I'm thinking a micro-switch on the gas door, wired to an alarm...

The Blazer sleeps at the end of the driveway, right at the street, with the filler cap away from my windows. Easy mark for somebody who parks in the Mr. Fixit business lot next door and knows how to siphon. Losing the fuel is annoying, but I guess I ought to be happy, as one fairly recent local SOP has been to punch a hole in the bottom of the tank and drain it into a large capped pan made for oil changes, letting any excess drain out under the vehicle. Amazing there haven't been serious fires...yet.

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There's nothing "horror" about building the kit chassis if you have reasonable skills, follow the instructions, pay attention, and don't rush it. HOWEVER...I started this one on a zee'd AMT '32 phaeton chassis a long time ago...

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970) made some remarkably accurate predictions about today's world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

It's not kids here who are constantly littering. Several of the neighborhood homes have been rezoned for a particular kind of business, and the crews in the work trucks going by appear to be the worst offenders...at least they're the only ones I've seen in the actual act of throwing out their trash as they drive by. I was in traffic not too long ago (one street over from my house) behind a car full of adults and kids, at a stop light. All the power windows went down pretty much simultaneously, and trash flew out every one. When the light turned green and cars started moving, it looked like a garbage can had just been dumped on the street. This used to be a very clean area.

Cool kit. Seems cheap for what you get. Great to see new large-scale contemporary armor. Pretty cool background info too. And the M1A1 is a thing of great beauty IMHO.

People who text in lieu of any other communication rarely have much of any great importance to convey, though texting can be very convenient for some things; for business communications, I still insist on email or snail mail, as hard copies ensure both parties can refer back and see what was actually discussed and agreed to, in unambiguous depth and detail, and no inadvertently "lost data".

Page turning, bookmarking, and storage of printed matter are so difficult and stressful that reading by the technically savvy is now done on electronic display devices where you often don't actually own anything but the device...not the text.

HISTORY: https://velocetoday.com/merit-124-scale-model-kits/

And no...the Merit / Smer / Atlantis Talbot-Lago race car is NOT the Heller kit. Entirely different tooling, not even distantly related.

Atlantis had reboxed a couple too... Double kit... ...and single kits.

I don't think we're allowed to call anything 'deficient' anymore...

Several of the Merit kits have been repopped by Smer...

Out of left field did that one come from.

Really like the concept. With the engine set back in the chassis like that, and assuming an aluminum engine and lightweight front body panels, you could probably get very close to 50/50 weight distribution, and something like that would be a real blast to drive on twisty roads.