Elevations on land, contour lines on maps and depths on nautical charts are based on the long-term average of sea level. This is complicated by the fact that sea level around the world at any instant is not the same, due to local variations resulting from differences in water temperatures, currents, atmospheric…

For the folks who aren’t familiar with this, it is two holes with a connecting tunnel at the bottom. The hole with the fire acts like a chimney and pulls air down through the other hole through the connecting tunnel. As BigHeadEd wrote, these things can get HOT.

A last-minute weather change left us a choice of finding more warmth or cancelling a trip. We didn’t have time to seek out additional gear, so I stopped by the drugstore and picked up some Thermacare Heatwraps. They are easy to pack, don’t require fuel, and provide 8 hours of heat which is perfect for a cold night.…

It was a rolling start. He didn’t have any problems until after he let off the gas. I’m thinking he went from a high-torque condition under acceleration to the opposite high-torque condition under deceleration when he let of the gas. That snapped the front u-joint.

I spotted a white one yesterday. The black fake grills looked like teardrop tattoos.

Yolk? There’s your problem. You should use the whole egg.

From the article:

Use fried shrimp instead of lobster, use a baguette instead of a hot dog bun, and it becomes a po’ boy, common fare here in Louisiana.

My old Subaru GL Wagon is enjoying retirement at a summer camp doing duty as the cleaning ladies’ car. No more registration, no more inspections, no more trips on a public road. Just quietly buzzing around camp with a load of nice smelling cleaning supplies in the back.

As other posters have said, the secret to climbing is maintaining a high cadence. As I used to tell my friends, “sit and spin.” High gear = low cadence = knee strain. You don’t want knee strain.

Although this might be nice for a few signature bridges, most of the nation’s 630,000+ bridges don’t fall into that category.

My vote goes for the Sterling for no other reason than the “door” and the four-foot long wiper arm.

“...where the crank and peddle are fixed...”

Looks familiar.

Success depends on the candle. My kids and I tried this with multiple candles and only certain candles would relight as expected. We thought the lack of relight might be caused by a lack of sufficiently heated wax available, so we tried letting these burn until they had a pool of wax around the wick. It still failed.

I am reminded of the lessons learned in The Woodlands, Texas. The developers designed the lots to hold water so every home had on-site storage. After the first big rainstorm, homeowners were calling the developers to come fix their drainage “problem”. After they explained that it was part of the design and would not…

I wish this were my story. A friend of mine - let’s call him Mike - worked for a small diesel shop. The owner of the shop bought an old Jeep CJ on which he did a full frame-off restoration. The only problem was that he couldn’t get it running. It would crank until the battery was dead, but refused to start. On the…

GPS transmits positions once per second. Any values derived from a higher refresh rate are interpolated from your last known position and the speed/direction you were traveling.

Not true. GPS positions are broadcast once per second and any system that can receive the signal can calculate a position.

It’s called Selective Availability (SA). It doesn’t turn GPS off, it adds a semi-random error into the system that only military-grade equipment can decode. The error reduces horizontal accuracy to approximately 100 meters.