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Snow sucks.

I’ve won a handful of first place ribbons and a best in show for pie at the county fair and have a thought about this. The actual enemy to a flaky crust isn’t the moisture content, in my experience, but whether the fat in the crust has formed into streaks in the dough. If you knead the dough, you’ll get a tough

I’d rather have better roads, bridges that won’t fall down any time soon, rail systems that work and educational funding in place to get us all educated so we can keep up with the rest of the world.

Good call. The lower priced cars will be the rarest. When I was in college, the highways crawled with 70s Celicas. Try and find one now.

If you’re thinking ahead, now is the time to start acquiring early 90s cars. The millennials will get around to them in the next 10 to 15 years and good clean examples will sell well. Consider Supras, Preludes, even old Accords and Civics that have low mileage, a service history and no modifications. They’ll be

You might be able to remedy it with a can of contact cleaner. Some are specifically made for cleaning rheostats in stereo equipment.

That’s why I buy Makita power tools that don’t use batteries. So far, 20+ years on both my chop saw and table saw. Got about 15 on my variable speed corded drill. They weren’t the cheapest options, but I expect them to last the rest of my life.

They often do “make stuff like they used to”, but when we go to Target and see a mixer for $9.99 and another for $49.99, guess which one is going home with us? The one that’s made with plastic gears and costs $9.99.

At least he didn’t get RSted.

1951 Ford F-1 Pickup truck, back when I was in high school in the mid 70s.

Litigators. Not all of them, but enough. The ones that aren’t assholes tend to be very smart and often extremely funny. But the asshole to nice person ratio is fairly high. After all, these people are tasked with solving “bet the company” level litigation issues.

It’s a great car and 30 year old me would have loved it. 58 year old me, the current me, looks at it and politely declines. I’m an old dude, and I like my comfort when it comes to 4 wheels these days.

Ditch that albatross. It’s time to stop throwing good money at this no win scenario.

My prime objection to using chain lube is that they often advertise that it “doesn’t fly off”, which is great. Except that the stuff is horrendously sticky and it holds all kind of small grit and gunk that will destroy the Orings. So far so good over 40+ years of riding. The manufacturers generally recommend just

You need to put them under stress. Interruption is a good starting point to that, as is letting them start to answer for a bit and then interrupting them with a completely different question. Another tactic is to drill down hard on them.

Maybe use a following distance index to separate the assholes? Less than 1 car length = solid asshole. 2 car lengths = asshole potential. 3 car lengths = not an asshole, very careful. 4 car lengths = likely to call in sick a lot and not take anything too seriously.

I do it in a couple ways. I ask questions that are kind of open ended about projects that went sideways or how they dealt with a tough customer. That’s the starter. Get them to tell you how they solved a problem.

Google “behavioral interviewing”. I’ve used it for years to test for assholes.

After tens of thousands of miles using WD40 as a chain cleaner and lube, my experience is very different. My VFR usually gets about 15K on a chain with nothing more than WD40 on it. I get a bit less on my Ducati, presumably because it makes more power and tortures the chain more than the Honda does.

It’s largely kerosene, so you can use it anytime you would have used kerosene as a cleaning agent. I have motorcycles and WD40 does a great job of getting old chain lube and general crud off the chain prior to lubricating it with a real chain lube.