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Recalling "Mike" the sentient computer protagonist in Moon is Harsh Mistress. Realizing that seeing and believing are now unlinked from...

I got a CL77, the last of the run had dual leading shoe front brakes...paid $12.50 and rode it the next day...and I still have the burns...

I looked it up. Fester is a heroin dealer in the film, they say. The chick is Phillipa Fallon. A real piece of work, and evidently a bit...

From 1930...and her face is a study in personalities ...On May 15, 1930, Boeing Air Transport hired eight registered nurses for a...

Is that Uncle Fester on the keys?

125 sounds fair to me, and I am a cheap ol' azzwhole. However ah do reckon I'd make sure it never fell off again! By my rough maths 125...

vague memory arthur godfrey saying they used similar flyers with 100 pound (?) bombs - one at each strut to wing.. Atlantic...

Seems as though a fella could make the moulds and lay up replica covers...for the right price. That said, my own aesthetic runs to...

Not really reading so much as thumbing through the 1901 edition of Knight's Modern Seamanship But I did download the book. Written when...

squalls. the boffins say maybe 2.5 cm/12 hour finished the weld project.

84 F 2 mph NE cloudless.

I know that banging into the ground is usually attended with regret, so it's serious...but also very funny... “We must reinforce how to...

diet Coke/diet Pepsi and scotch brite or maybe something less liable to scratch... the diet coke is for this purpose a dilute maybe...

People didn't talk about it much, but at the time funny business, generally long term affairs, between the older boys and lady...

Did the 20 mile loop and touched an indicated 102...probably close to 95, the road was kinna narrow and it was hard to see...in the cop...

In VW days and on an R 27 rocker cover, and such things, I used permatex - but always cleaned and painted both surfaces (unless I wanted...

For some reason the lady reminds me of the summer of 1965, and the astonishment when you realized in September that she was your algebra...

Incredible footage captured by a @saildrone unmanned surface drone from INSIDE Category 4 Hurricane Fiona. The footage was captured...

Weather dark calm cool & pleasant, and dry, except for the puddle of pee I left when I went to look. ;) Cop-O-Tronic monitor...

I keep a few scraps of copper for the soft sort of tap tap tap, and variety of wood scraps. Some hard, some soft. Actually a sort of...

I'd guess Hawaii, but the source said Greek Woman... either way a serene pose by the sea.

Honey I'm Home....

National Beer Day is April 7 (USA zone) In some SS stress changes the magnetic characteristics. After a time that goes away...mostly...

Rather the other way, we wuz his... operation unthinkable, which Stalin knew about, was the Churchill Plan to attack USSR (again, they...