Maybe it’s not the time that’s the best but the place that’s the best. For instance, I’d never book an airport that’s surrounded by Russian SAM systems....

Not that long ago, my family drove across Nebraska through one of the Great Plains grasslands restoration sections. IIRC, we drove through something like 60 miles or so of essentially graded dirt road. On the GPS, it was shown as highway. IRL, as graded dirt/gravel we could maintain 50/60mph but it’s be a bit of a…

That's so excellent...

It is hilariously annoying, isn’t it?

Amen to that. BTW, DT, your adventures always remind me of stuff that happened to me in my youth but also a famous story by Peter Egan from R&T back in day when he threw together a Westfield 11 and drove from LA to Elkhart Lake, WI to attend the SCCA Sprints. he too, had an intrepid support crew (his wife, Barb). It’s …

Yeah, this is pretty much a how you eat issue. Asians/Chinese have been eating non-meat “meat” longer than most people think. The thing will be more about how the item is packaged vs. how it tastes or looks. A burger patty will be fine as a burger but then how many Chinese eat burgers like Americans do? OTOH, ground…

Someone in my extended family is an adherent to the 5 spice idea; it’s really a case of veganism gone wild. He’s not a member of clergy or such but is involved in a VN sect. In the family, he’s regarded as a bit of the crazy uncle since he insists on sending emails with all sorts of Interwebs craziness. It’s a…

Yup!

This is the difference between a site like Petrolicious and Jalopnik. Most people do not have the funding to custom-build a top-end boutique Porsche and the boutique garage/living room to go with it. But the same Venn diagram of people appreciate cars for whatever reason so some people have to live with not having a…

Good eye, it is a Shay. The diagram is from the El Dorado Historical Museum ; they have a Shay although most of the time it’s behind closed doors. The others are from Railtown 1897. The Shays do make a racket, don’t they? But they’re quite interesting, aren’t they?

Wait a sec, is this Munchausen syndrome by proxy in action?

First, trench foot, next , crotch rot?

Oh yes. Definitely, in fact, one of the proposed freeways (never completed) runs, in theory, directly down my street and property. Much of the hillsides on the Westside and BH and Brentwood would actually have freeways running through them. Politically not possible even then, nowadays, it’d be impossible. Those…

Well, in a test of 4 S9s, 2 Motorola G6s, and a couple of iPhone 6s, all except 1 phone (mine) have sustained cracks and chips from standard usage and typical drops from waist height. One replaced screen had a protector on it which saved it from another screen crack when the protector took the hit instead. My personal…

You should try it with chicken skin; my kids will lurk around the stove when they find out I’m doing it.

You should try it with chicken skin; my kids will lurk around the stove when they find out I’m doing it.

Hahahaah, you should see the development plans and methods used to create the Los Angeles freeway network. It’s entirely Byzantine in method and practice. 

There’s some interesting stuff in Gold Chain mining and logging country in California where they had to use narrow-gauge and flat bed engines with geared reduction drives as opposed to the direct drives the bigger units used.

Yes, more than likely a member of the Turkish NIO who almost always surveil unknown foreign flights...

This sounds a little like Chengdu pork ribs by Pei Mei. Some tweaks for modern ingredients.....sounds tasty anyways....