I actually had an economics professor that said we would save lots of trouble if we stopped dancing around the subject why we spend so much on defense. His proposal was to build aircraft carriers sans nuclear fuel, fill them with a full compliment of planes, stock with everything needed for a deployment, send it out…

Pic 1 deserves a geeky followup to explain the “hamster pouch” shaped CFM-56 on the 737s. It’s not your imagination the intake is an ellipse shape.

1955 Mack B-61. That twin stick quadruplex transmission is hard to master. Swore up a storm when I got the infamous “double nothing” every few shifts.

I do have a possible explanation. Back in B school, lean manufacturing was all the rage and everyone was pushing how far they could take just in time inventory. One case study was how Toyota and all their suppliers were in complete sync on all matters to shave seconds off production. All details on the cars rolling…

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, :-)