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Many people seem incapable of resisting the urge to say and do monumentally stupid things when a camera is pointed at them. I mean, look at all that’s happened since the advent of C-SPAN.

Hey, everything in that used motor oil came from the ground at some point, you’re just returning it to the earth from whence it came.

Where that approach will NOT work is with a smooth, level floor and a table with one leg shorter or longer than the others. This can and does happen quite often when a threaded leg adjusting pad gets tweaked, sometimes by someone just sliding the table across the floor.

It’s $100K, not infinity.

I’d set aside a little of it on an engine for my current project, blow a little on a nice vacation with Mrs., and probably discreetly find ways to use the rest to make a few people’s lives less crappy without anyone finding out where it came from.

That explains why I'm perfectly happy with my little vacuum stopper things for a few days. My fancy wine is Carnivor at about $9 a bottle from Sam's Club. The everyday stuff says Kirkland on the label. I've been tempted to try some really good wine, but there are thousands of choices and ALL...

Mine arrived yesterday. Don’t know when I’ll install it; I realized too late that have some extra tubing for the static line, but I don’t have a tee.

Nope, if you look through the window you can see the flap on the other side is down also.

Flight schools are no different from other businesses. Some great, some not, and run by everything from savvy business owners to well-meaning people who fail to outright lying thieves. I would never advise anyone to pay up front for training. I got taken in by an offer to pay a lower rate up...

I’ve only put a couple of people on ignore here, and they are gone. Don’t think anyone is on the ignore list now. Edit: OK, I just checked. There are actually three that I have on ignore that haven’t been banned, and none have been seen for at least 6 years.

I used to donate. The last time I went there, though, I had an appointment at a time they set, during a work day. I took an early lunch. After sitting there waiting half an hour they finally called me. Then I spent 20 minutes undergoing an interrogation trying to prove who I was, despite the...

A+, and mosquitos love me long time.

And that, right there, is why things have gotten as bad as they are and will continue to be bad -- and will likely get much worse. There is really only one way to get a contractor to change how things are done, and that is through financial pressure. If they can run six years late and nearly...

I don’t recall that I’ve ever had a vendor-supplied hot dog in my hand until after the vendor was paid.

Visual entertainment so the tone deaf can enjoy her act too. She really can sing.

Oh my goodness. Just leaf it alone!! Otherwise this could branch out and get really punny. Restraint, guys. Maintain at least a veneer of propriety. I’m rooting for you.

I wouldn’t buy one unless I had someone of known skills and expertise, familiar with the type (used here in the English language sense, not the FAA sense), who I know and am whose judgment I trust. In fact, that’s exactly what I did. I had a friend, who is an EAA tech counselor and has built...

When a new fiber company installed service at one of our rentals, I told the guy I might relocate the ONT. He left me a 40’ fiber cable and a little plastic butt joint connector to plug the two together. Not being an expert on fiber stuff, I was kind of surprised you could do that… but it worked…

Along with lots of paint strippers, solvents, insecticides, plastics...