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And in every seat of every commercial flight. Last "smoking" flight I was on was back in 1999, Aeroflot New York to Moscow. As a smoker I chose the section in the back where it was allowed. Yeah, bad idea. Out of boredom finished about 2 packs and arrived with nicotine poisoning and worst...

I remember when TVs (and electronics in general) came with the full electrical schematic as a fold out page in the manual.

Concrete inside of the cone to make it heavy and oil on the outside surface to make it slippery. Watch him trying to move it.

I was very close with both, but definitely more so with mom's dad. Of many things he taught me how to drive when I was 13. Once we got pulled over in a remote area during practice. The cop turned out to be ex security guy at the newspaper where my grandpa was the chief editor. He let us go and...

Two neighbors meet on the street. "Hey John, stop buy this evening I'll give you money so you can invest in some curtains, otherwise I can see from my house when you copulate with your wife." "Hey Bill, better invest that money in some binoculars so you can better see WHOSE wife I'm copulating...

So does the well known idiom regarding rats leaving the ship applicable to the airships as well?

Some wear it as a fashion statement. Not kidding, one of our office employees wears a weaved, silver, jeweled mask (a fly can get through that). I currently wear it because elderly in-laws are visiting us. I guess everyone has their reasons, and yes, some even political. Interesting about...

I have learned about this today. Price’s law says that 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work. Of course naturally I thought of my workplace and it's absolutely true. There are 48 of us and the majority of work is performed by 7...

...so that's why he's always accompanied with a long legged hen, a spherical donkey and a wet cat.

...it says "celebrate", not "celibate"

...I can't stay awake after 10pm even on weekends. And to think that only 21 years ago my schedule was: 7am-3pm work #1 (factory) 4pm-9pm college 10pm-2am work #2 (valet parking) And I was fine on 4 hours of sleep.

One thing I've noticed during my 25 years in manufacturing industry is that there is an increasing gap between design engineers and manufacturing engineers. The new engineers sure are really good with Solidworks, but absolutely unaware of the manufacturing tools, practices and manufacturability...

If she's the president then that plane must be the Air Force One

Boss, we tried everything. Those tires just won't take the invisible paint.

"What's an eternity?" "It's the time it takes for the car in front of you to start moving after light turns green" "What's an instant?" "It's the time it takes for the car behind you to start honking after light turns green"

You mean brown part up front and the yellow part in the back?

On a somewhat related note...have you seen videos of those supposedly "cartel" planes landing on 1000ft mountain runways, with trees on both sides barely a wingspan apart and a surface condition that I'd be hesitant to take my 4x4 on? These are not bush or STOL planes. Are those pilots that good...

How about land at KVNY and take Flyaway straight from VNY to LAX?

As an exampme, about a year ago we were making fun of 2-3 Cardinals that were listed for around $200k (very high $100s to $250). Now it seems more like a norm, and nowhere nearly as well equipped (avionics) as those. I hate quoting Aerosmith, but..."dream on".

Yamaha's FJR1300 fits your description, and will last forever. My 1986 FJ1200 is still going strong.