You indicate a lot of things, that kind of get a bit lost in the long and winding road. Seriously, TL,DR.

I3 engines on motorcycles are often the smoothest most pleasant engines on the market. Go back to the K75 BMW; the Triumph Speed Triple; The Bennelli 900; the new Yamaha FZ-09. All of them, smooth throughout their rev range. I4's and V4's are not smooth motors! At most they are only smooth at certain rev ranges. And…

Good info. I could really use a bit farther horizontal range in my 1-story house and have looked at these antennas, but there's not a lot of critical info out there about them that I've found.

I'd give this a few months, maybe a year at most before it starts having real durability problems. This is probably pretty cheap but that's about the only advantage. You still have to buy the hardboard and get that stable and make sure the seems never pop up through the paper. How did she ensure that? Laminate and…

Little known fact: a man over the course of his life spends approx. 3.4 months just removing his shirt. So this guy now has that much more time to do important stuff. Working on his tan springs to mind for some reason.

There was a pretty authoritative article in the LA Times iirc about the situation not that long ago. The biggest problem with getting the rail system into LAX seems to be the last mile - integrating it into LAX itself. Tunneling is a problem, putting it overhead and over all the streets and ramps is a problem, and…

Yes you can learn a language in a few months if that is your full time occupation or principle focus. It really depends on how much time you can devote. And if you have good friendly access to native language speaking people. I have a young family and a more than full time job. My wife is Korean but not a good…

I'm a self-employed artist, sole breadwinner, family of 4. In metro LA area, I've had to serve a number of times, and they tell you right away not to bother trying to get excused as sole provider, as it won't work. I don't mind that much, jury duty is actually kind of interesting. However, if someone like me is sent…

A lot of people not from there don't think of LA as having steep hilly streets, it's mostly SF that get's the press, probably because most of LA's are tucked away in residential areas. But there are LOTS of them in a number of different areas for instance those NW of downtown. Echo Park, Mt Washington, Eagle Rock,…

Yes this guy is amazing. I saw the documentary Nat. Geo. did on him.

I regret buying a few early LEDs, so I can say be careful, don't go by cost alone, and just buy one or two to begin with of each type to see how well they work. They ain't toilet paper, they are expensive, light up your world, and last for decades so you will be stuck with a poor choice for a long time. I also…

I have a De Longhi burr grinder and the only thing I can say is: get one with a grounds receptacle with smooth round sides and no corners. Mine has sharp corners in the sides and bottom and it's hard to get the coffee out, especially fine ground espresso. This is also why I don't like blade grinders - the blade is in…

I assumed the photo was of Hedy Lamarr (it's not) and that the post would mention how Hedy Lamarr, super hot dame movie star, was also a bit of a mathematical genius who during the WWII era co-invented a frequency hopping radio message encoding method, an idea that is now the basis of a widely used spread spectrum…

So you didn't actually make it to the ground electrode site; and you drove up to the monastery gate but didn't actually visit it or talk to anyone there. Kind of like how I almost visited Paris yesterday - I drove past the airport in Los Angeles.

I think it's pretty important to figure out exactly what the absolute minimal amount of exercise is. Why? Because a heck of a lot more people (like me) will stick with a regimen if it's quick and easy enough. The difference between a 15 or 20 minute workout and a four minute fast walk may seem like little, but from a…

Optimizing was not the problem for me. I had to shut off Windows Search (or was it Indexing) for those folders or drives. I had a few big folders of large videos with like 300 plus huge files and even on 'details' view with no thumbnails it would take forever to list the files. So if you have this slowdown on certain…

Although I personally use Gimp and Inkscape because they are so rockin easy to install on any and all computers I use including Ubuntu - this is late but welcome. My wife is a graphic designer who has used CS2 for a long time (and I refuse to stay on the upgrade treadmill) and it has become very difficult to install…

Cost. How much does it cost. A short easy cooking period is great and all, but the deciding factor is whether it's cost competitive in its entirety - growing algae, energy and catalyst inputs, etc - versus exploring, drilling, transporting regular crude.

I clean my disposer, and have done for about 20 years, by turning it on with the water running.

1. Heat liquid for baby.