I hope motorbike trips are okay in here. this was back in the 80s. Me a buddy had gone from San Francisco to Death Valley for a BMW rally, some camping, and great rides in and around Death Valley.

I mapped out a route flying a Cessna 150 VFR across the country (don’t laugh, people have done it) I threw this together quickly, it looks like I could cut out about half of those fuel stops, and the 7 gallon an hour is conservative, I usually get about 5.5 gallons an hour in cruise. It came to roughly $2400 that was…

It is polite that among the toxins there is a compound to relieve the suffering. Other venomous creatures should take note.

Will this mean even the crappiest Chinese cars will be imported for sale? I thought it was safety, emission, and fuel economy standards keeping many imports out? Cheaper, crappier imports for everyone!

There’s never enough time or money to something right the first time, but there’s always enough to go back and do it again.

It’s hard to imagine how one could make this mistake. Runway marking are easy to see from the air. The big numbers, the centerline, the lines at the threshold. Taxiways look completely different, yellow solid centerline, no big white numbers no big white threshold marking. He must either have been VERY distracted…

The man’s got over 5000 hours flying. It will be interesting to find how this happened. It’s not too difficult to tell the difference between a runway, and a taxiway.

The plane was s probably worth more than his neighbors cars. Though I hate see planes sit unused. If the guy can’t afford to keep it, and fly it. He should probably sell it to someone who can. I hate seeing planes like this sit, and not get used.

Simple computers and automation have moved in and take many low skill jobs. I think the biggest threat from AI is it will take many of the higher paid, high skilled, white collar jobs in the near future. How we make the transition from a labor based economy to one of automation and AI poses more of a threat to…

“spending too much time on disgruntled ex employee complaints and sensational events instead of in systematic enforcement of standards.”

I was offered a job on the assembly line at the Fremont plant, didn’t take it for a variety of reasons, one being you can’t live in the bay area on what they pay.

He is king of the trolls, and he’s trollling on a global level. The He upsets the nation and the world the more he loves it, and the more his troll followers love it. We are currently living in a troll nation.

I need to get a dashcam. Passed a car the other day that had a pretty healthy engine fire in progress the was driving the other way. My first thought was is there any way to warn them their car is on fire, my second thought was, “Damn I wish I had a dashcam”.

As I recall it looked like this, only more like one of these that had been owned by a poor person under the age of 21 who had used on jeer trail in the Rockies, and thought maintenance and repairs were a waste of time.

I had a friend back in the early eighties in Colorado who drove an old Chrysler New Yorker that had no heater. He tried using a kerosene heater, but he had to keep a window down so you didn’t get asphyxiated, and an accident or sudden change in direction posed a fire danger. It was not a good idea. Just get the damn…

I have found that simply crossing the half century mark age-wise has given me perspective to realize that It’s not worth my time to get upset about the actions of the idiots around me. Getting in a rage is just going to ruin my day, So screw it.

As fuel economy requirement went up companies were forced to test cars in wind tunnels to reduce drag and increase mileage. Now there is basically one sedan shape, an SUV shape, a coupe shape that works in a wind tunnel. Modern car design is basically done by bureaucrat safety regulators and wind tunnels. Then…

How could you not see that? If had collapsed would you just drive off the edge of that too? Sadly the loading dock owner will be blamed for not realizing how stupid people are, and how we need to protect our idiots like the valuable resource they are.

He loves the 2nd amendment, hates the 1st. Not a fan. Believe me.