Ace-Garageguy

Pretty much the reason that if I write anything more than a couple lines, or something funny or pithy or otherwise worth keeping, I copy it to somewhere else prior to posting.

Interestingly, these systems supposedly incorporate "fault tolerance" so minor failures like this and the OP example don't stop the car in its tracks. Okaaaayyyy...

Creatures like cats and dogs and even humans are born with distinct personalities, propensities, and abilities, and no amount of "nurture" can entirely overcome "nature"

Ummm...'cause most of 'em are idiots?

PO's not sposed to release mail, tracked mail in particular, to anyone without proper confirming ID. Time to contact the Postmaster's Office. https://www.usa.gov/postal-service-complaints

I think we might have a "moon landing" shot there. Check out the direction of the shadow from the bugbus relative to the rest...

Chevy smallblock engines of the old-school variety are among the best ever devised by humans.

Fine sand in your engine is just as damaging as gravel.

eBay has frequent glitches these days, as their techies seem to have the need to tinker constantly, and in the process other things get buggered. Nobody there seems to be tasked with an ongoing functionality overview, so some things never get fixed. The function you need will probably come back in a day...or a month.

I really hope that all the cars destroyed in the fires, particularly the vintage and classics, don't get automatically crushed by the insurance companies as total-losses. Even a car in a quite hot fire can yield hard-to-find parts that are made of ferrous metals that will survive...like engine blocks, crankshafts, gearbox housings and internals, etc.

I have not personally tried it. It seems to work well according to this video, but this material also appears to need a dedicated intense UV-light source. Frankly, I really don't see the point. It's nice and smooth and requires no mixing of catalyst, but there are multiple products that are just as smooth and creamy, and with a little practice mix easily in the correct proportions. ONE potential upside, I suppose, is that because the stuff isn't catalyzed it shouldn't start to go hard unexpectedly in the middle of the application, as slightly over-catalyzed conventional fillers might.

No irks yet. but it's early.

Makes me think about building a steel-roofed steel garage with a 10,000 gallon rain-capture cistern and a couple of decent sized pumps... EDIT: with directable spray nozzles, and gravel or concrete for at least 20 yards in every direction

Novels about spies and crime and and science fiction and fantasy (like the Wheel of Time series) take my mind off the day's rampaging baloney and help me get to sleep.

I tried it eons ago, and so many people I didn't know (or care to) dumped their idiocy on my page, I quit very early on.

Pavement where black ice was a coupla days ago.

"For he's a jolly good fellow" they may have sung at his retirement dinner, but he's actually a grumpy old skinflint always crabbing about something.

Icing by USC is still my favorite polyester glazing putty.

Beta.

"Mind your manners" is a phrase that, these days, might as well be in Swahili.

Pea-emmed.

Pocket change won't even buy a candy bar these days.

Meme generators have been using AI-ish technology for some time, and it shows in some of the illogical and scrambled syntax.

"Not on my watch" said every pencil neck dwerble who wanted to sound like a tough guy after he heard it in a movie.

Which is pretty much my whole point. There is no GOOD reason to put everything in a car on the same network where one small failure can disable the entire vehicle. None, zero, period. Just like the oil-bath toothed "rubber" timing belts that are falling out of favor, it was embraced by the automotive industry, monkey-see, monkey-do, because it was new and different, and helped to ensure rapid unsupported system obsolescence and therefore lessened used-car usefulness, reliability, repairability, and value...not because it was more robust, cheaper, or lighter as is widely rebleated. And although a lot is written about "robustness" and "fault tolerance" and "wiring simplification", anyone working boots-on-the-ground in the post-warranty service end of the automobile industry knows this to be largely bull.