At that price I’d drive it til it grenaded and have it towed off to the pick a part yard. If I got two years out of it, winner! I had a 98' Ranger and it was one of my favorite vehicles of all time. Surprisingly good in the snow with some weight in the bed. 

The first time I ran into a squadron of javelinas on a trail I was like WTF... Then some research. You don’t want to be around them when they have babies and you especially don’t want to be near them with a dog, because in AZ their only known predator is a coyote and javelinas don’t make distinctions between canid…

There’s a link. It goes to a $1600 Samsung commercial display TV. Not spending that. But I do want a 65" dumb TV if possible. The link above to spectre.com put up by “Spengler” seems like the way to go for me (65" dumb TV $699). Or just never connect the TV to the internet. Or stick with my current 55" dumb Samsung…

I’ve been told the lead flight attendant makes the call at the beginning of the flight whether to enforce the mask mandate. It’s a simple math calculation. Are there more anti-maskers onboard than devout maskers? That is easy to calculate depending on where the flight is coming from or going. The anti-maskers have…

I have the first 10mm socket I bought in 1975 to work on a Bultaco trials motorcycle. Made by the Thorsen Tool company, still in business, you can barely make out the “10" on the side of the socket now. It has touched bolts on every brand of Japanese motorcycle, a BMW, several Japanese cars, and one obscure Land Rover.…

I doubt even a grand jury or a white collar criminal task force could find enough smoking guns to prove BaT itself is a money laundering scheme. Seriously, the founders sent each other emails, hey here’s a great idea to launder money! 18 United States Code, Sec. 1956 violations are very difficult to prove. You would…

T7 was the first thing that came to my mind. KLR650, now that it has EFI, is a good choice, although a little chubby. I’ve seen non-ABS models listed locally at $6399. There’s a million aftermarket farkles to spend money on too. 

You have a 5th Amendment right to silence and a 6th Amendment right to a lawyer. Don’t talk. You have two hands. Put up 4 fingers and a thumb (full hand) then put up one more finger (not the middle one if you know what’s good for you). Stands for “I’m taking my 5 and 6.”

She will likely do all her time in administration segregation. Alone. But her mistake of fact defense isn’t a defense under the facts. It’s simple.

Takes too long. Too many stops. A cab is much faster from SEATAC to downtown and you get exactly where you are going. Portland’s airport to downtown, on the other hand, has fewer stops and you end up right downtown, not in some subterranean cavern you have to fight your way out of onto the surface level. Then trudge…

DC Metro is pretty good when it isn’t broken which it always is. Toronto is probably the best in North America. Seattle’s airport to downtown train is a joke. Did that precisely one time. Portland’s system is probably still pretty good except for the part about the entirety of Multnomah County becoming a graffiti-marre…

Montana has way more hate groups than Idaho according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Idaho, on the other hand, has no labor union strongholds like Butte and Anaconda, Montana. Bozeman is where the current governor of Montana (Gianforte) got in a fight with a reporter. He was convicted of assault. Gianforte has…

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals is the most respected federal appellate court in the country because that is where all the difficult decisions are made regarding Federal Agency actions like their administrative rule making authority. The Senate confirmed her appointment to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals by a 53-44…

I got stuck on the wrong side of a river in Alaska after the sun came out and the glacial meltwater doubled the flow in the river in a few hours. 

I got stuck on the wrong side of a river in Alaska after the sun came out and the glacial meltwater doubled the flow in the river in a few hours. I remembered an old trick. Put a tarp over the front end of the vehicle. It will keep out the water if you plow ahead, just don’t stop. Range Rover had water over the hood,…

I flew from Antivaxxistan to Alaska two weeks ago through Seattle. Before takeoff the pilot said one hour to SEA. Wheels up to wheels down was 1.5 hours. How in the fuck do you get it wrong by that big of a margin? And BTW first class on AK Air is now less comfortable than economy plus was two years ago. It’s like…

In the 1960s I went to a Massachusetts garage with my father to get our station wagon inspected. The car failed. My father was muttering under his breath as we drove off. He had literally grown up in a mechanic’s shop, been in charge of truck fleets in WWII and was at the time in charge of fleet maintenance for a…

Radwood beckons me

I’d stay away from anything with regenerative braking. That crap makes me instantly nauseous. I think it’s the unexpected slowing inconsistent with regular braking. Maybe I could get used to it, but it’s like driving with a friend who is a terrible driver and speeds up in traffic and brakes too often. 

A VERY warm sleeping bag of the -30 variety.