It’s the, “But, your Honor, I was drunk” of the 21st Century.

Maybe better at LifeHacker, but just taping a 3x5 index card behind the port increases sound ranges and directs the sound out, instead of down. Not much, but does attenuate the ‘thin-ness’.

Maybe better at LifeHacker, but just taping a 3x5 index card behind the port increases sound ranges and directs the…

I lived adjacent to the Shell fields and Baldwin Hills Reservoir (now the Kenneth Hahn Park, I think). The hills were alive with derricks, then; since replaced with pumpjacks. As a kid my mind was blown when I first saw a pumpjack in an actual neighborhood (Beverly Hills, of all places)! One derrick at the top of the…

Even monkeys fall out of trees

One of my comments, when passed on the freeway by some jamoke (usually in an SUV) during a snowfall is, “Four wheel drive does not equal four wheel stop”. This coming from a guy who lived for 35 years, prior to NH, in Los Angeles!

We all need something to aspire to!

A ray of hope for you: As of the date of your post, the days are getting longer.

Wow! A confluence of two of my interests - Giz and guitar!

That’s two, A!

“But the reality is they are paid in full every month, and have been for 20-odd years. And you get NO credit for that.”

A/C is a term that have come to associate with cooling, but doesn’t specifically mean that. Logically, true A/C would cool, heat and humidify/dehumidify - as in, ‘conditioning the air’. For all intents, my home’s oil-fired boiler is two things: a hot water maker and an air conditioner, even though it only heats.

Or mfgrs could, I think, come up with an option for us Northerners - a small heating coil (see: blow dryer) that warms the air at the windshield/dash vent that is turned off by a thermal switch when the thermostat opens. Christ, everything else has an option available (inc. variable wipers - the Tacoma I bought in ‘15…

Yeah. It was clear that the center wasn’t holding with Flagg, but it didn’t build up to a point where climax was inevitable. Deus ex (or cum ) machina, indeed.

It’s Indy with the Ark.

He’ll come runnin’ back...

Ovaltine! There’s a blast from the past! I loooved that stuff as a kid (we’re talkin’ the late 50s-60s here). Is it still available?

It’s almost like a cycle.

That’s a lot thicker than I had supposed.

You sound like you have experience w/these cutters.

Actually, he became known as ‘TAFKAP’, then. Humans are verbally lazy.