I can only imagine how many hours are on that engine. I’m guessing this one did not have a genset. Once onsite, I am fairly certain the engine would stay on to power all the equipment. 2M miles is quite an achievement but add on all the hours idling and that beast is truly a mechanical wonder.

Are uber, Lyft, and other “ride sharing” companies essentially illegal gypsy cabs in most areas? Heck yea but I still choose to use their services anyway. My rides have always been safe, clean, courteous, available when I needed one, and no nonsense.

All credit goes to the office manager. She received many high fives for weeks after. Called many towing companies before she found one that would do it and even then had to leave a credit card on file to guarantee the tow.

Interlocks won’t work because the people hell bent against seatbelts will do what they can to defeat it. One guy at work loops the lapbelt and shoulder harness behind the seat and buckles it in to stop the alarm. As other have said, let natural selection take it’s course. For me, it’s such a habit ingrained in…

Not as crazy as some of the other stories but certainly got great revenge on a royal witch. At one company I worked at, employees were assigned parking passes to designate which lots they parked in. Earlier hires got the better spots and later hires got stickers that relegated them to lots further from the building.…

LOL. Irony is one crazy bitch.

Tyler Rogoway please come back. FA articles have been painful to read lately.

I know the feeling well. All my projects have to take into account the extra cost of the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) Tax.

My wife and I treat credit cards like debit or charge cards and make them work for us. Not only do we pay them off every month and never pay a penny of interest, we actually gain through generous rewards programs. The both of us churn through 2 - 3 cards each every year. We get back thousands of dollars a year in…

Lazy articles like this remind me how much I miss Tyler Rogoway. This read was all fluff and no substance with a few copy/paste tidbits. The mention of non-ionizing cellphone radiation in relation to ionizing radiation from (the not mentioned) fallout are completely different beasts. How can an article on a nuclear…

Breville Juice Fountain.

Oh the memories. When I first met the person that became my wife, I went over to her place to make dinner and impress her with my chef-fu skills. She was not handy in the kitchen back then and stored all sorts of things in that nice drawer beneath the over. Unbeknownst to me, I fire up the broiler to preheat it. …

Those are As. A trains use a pintle/dolly to connect the pup while B trains have a 5th wheel on the lead.

Of course it’s BS that he got slapped in the face. According to my father, the real outcome when a soldier becomes mentally incapacitated is to slap some stars on his shoulders and make him a general!

Those that perished on the USS Arizona during the initial explosion were the “lucky” ones. I always shudder when I think of the sailors trapped aboard the USS West Virginia and overturned USS Oklahoma. For weeks, knocking could be heard as survivors did what they could to signal to those on the outside. I can’t even…

My wife tells me I have a face made for radio. Those that want to get ugly will find me a tough opponent, :-)

As Noct stated in a reply to my post, when a youngster asked if slavery was returning, the answer should have been, “No” along with an explanation of why. To toy with a five year old child’s emotions in that manner is flat out wrong.

I thought the same thing as you did. While I did not vote for Donald Trump and disagree with much of what he says, I am taking a wait and see approach. Reasonable people know much of what has been promised cannot be done for a variety of legal reasons. Still, it does not stop the hysterical and biased from going…

If these teachers are examples of who guides our kids, I weep for our future. There is a reason the American education system is falling behind the rest of the world. Rather than use the election as a teaching moment to present fair and balanced information, the teachers are using it as their own political soapbox…

Sums things up well. Those that are up in arms about a Trump victory need to take a hard look in the mirror and see they share some of the blame. Having lived and travelled all over this country, I have spent time with people from all walks of life. The hard core Hillary Clinton supports did quite a bit to alienate…