Recent content by CalifEd

I do a lot of multi-lane metro driving in the early morning/late night and find the left lane sight seeing tourists or the wanna-be lunatic race car drivers a danger to life and limb. However, it is almost a habit with me to avoid the far left lanes during those hours, not only because of...

Many of those malcontents are politicians, or wanna-be politicos, looking for votes and have to be perceived as "doing something for the ________________" (fill in the blank with latest trending issues). some of my favorite latest issues are: For the children the environment our future the...

hmm, DuPont? Didn't they promise, "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry."? or am I getting my advertising slogans confused again. :eek:

"Tis but a flesh wound"

Remember sighing that special contract? You know, the one that has the part about "for better or worse"? She's gotcha ya.

Same with Los Angeles. Lakers and Dodgers all seem to cause riots. Don't know about the Clippers and Chargers yet. Oops correction - Civil Disturbances, same broken glass and burned out trash cans and cars though.

I was with a group that went to City Tavern in Philadelphia to sample some colonial food, or so it was advertised. They had a beer sampler, 5 different brews, according to them these were authentic and produced as they would have been back in the 1770's, original ingredients and methods, etc...

My irksome emailer is Brownells. I get several a day touting some 'great deals'. I solved my irk by adding a filter, they just get sent to a separate folder as they are received. I can read/delete when I want.

It was called, "The Odyssey". "A vessel larger than any city Earth had ever conceived, was a sarcophagus of ambition and hope. Launched two hundred years prior, the multi-generational starship carried the last remnants of humanity on a one-way journey to Kepler-186f." Another is "Orphans of...

You would be considered a Wizard or Warlock considering your modern attitudes and knowledge of math, science, medicine and a wealth of other "ordinary" knowledge. If you were lucky, you might be highly respected but you might also be feared and burned at the stake.

I agree, don't give anybody access to your real, long time, credit card, saving, or checking account. Go get a prepaid credit card, maybe $300 or so, and give them that number.

Absolutely. Why buy foreign when the US grows some of the best crops going. I understand that some of the best are shipped to other countries, farmers have to make a profit too, but the seasonal items are still great.

Some people call them locomotives.

Hot days of Summer on a Sunday morning dressed in sloppy shirt, shorts and floppy sandals or slippers. Open the slider around 6am to get the morning breeze through the house while I cook eggs, bacon/sausage, English Muffin and coffee. Then going to the outside table and eating while watching...

How was your walk on the wild side? Anybody asked how many rounds the magazine held or why were you only shooting it single shot?