Rodan
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Couple of big boys working a local wildfire today... always impressive to watch these guys work!
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I've been a member for years at the Simeone Foundation Museum in Philadelphia, which is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic racing cars.
On one of my visits there several years ago, their 1967 Bizzarrini P-538 was in the shop, with the drivetrain cover off. It's a mid-engine design, powered by a Lamborghini 3.5 liter V-12, with six Weber 40DCOE carburetors, and inboard-mounted vented disc brakes...what a thing of beauty!
My best friend Paul was with me, and as we were ooh-ing and aah-ing and taking photos, we were laughing that the women in our lives would never in a million years understand this...
Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum | Ranked #1 in the world.
On one of my visits there several years ago, their 1967 Bizzarrini P-538 was in the shop, with the drivetrain cover off. It's a mid-engine design, powered by a Lamborghini 3.5 liter V-12, with six Weber 40DCOE carburetors, and inboard-mounted vented disc brakes...what a thing of beauty!
My best friend Paul was with me, and as we were ooh-ing and aah-ing and taking photos, we were laughing that the women in our lives would never in a million years understand this...
Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum | Ranked #1 in the world.
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Exiting a restaurant this weekend.
bigwheelzip
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I just spotted this new Jeep Wagoneer in my Ortho doctor's parking lot. First one of the regurgitated model that I've seen so far, but what caught my eye was the absolutely horrendous "woody" treatment on the side.
For a brand with a usually impressive styling studio, this homage to the past looks stunningly cheap and poorly executed. I just hope it's an aftermarket applique added in bad taste. Wow!
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For a brand with a usually impressive styling studio, this homage to the past looks stunningly cheap and poorly executed. I just hope it's an aftermarket applique added in bad taste. Wow!
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Couple of big boys working a local wildfire today... always impressive to watch these guys work!
They do a heck of a job and can cut down the time it takes to control and put out a fire.
However, here in Reno we did have a sad day when one plane lost part of its wing and all were lost.
Those planes need a lot of upkeep.
In 1993 I spent most of the summer on a project in Japan, and after that experience, told my boss if offered a position or project in Japan or NYC (our corporate location), I'd prefer Japan, for just the experience you described.
I've never been to Japan, but the words "civil" and "civilized" certainly describe Austria and Switzerland.
There's a gentility, a tranquility there...people are just...nice. It's great.
Which, to put the cat among the pigeons, might beg the question, "Where have we gone wrong?" Matter of balancing a lot of values, of course.
I agree. On one of my trips to Switzerland in the 1990's, I was in the city of Neuchatel, pop. about 35,000, and wanted to mail a postcard. My Swiss colleague suggested we walk to the Post Office and mail it there, which we did. A guy in a military-looking uniform, carrying a sidearm, walked by us as we exited the Post Office. When I asked my host what the guy's job was - I was thinking soldier? - he replied "He's our policeman."
"Policeman - as in singular, the only one?" I exclaimed.
"Yes, we only have one because we don't have any crime here - come here....." and we walked around the parking lot, where he pointed out that every car in the lot had keys in the ignition.
He also noted that almost every household in Switzerland possessed an automatic rifle with ammo and all the other accoutrements to go with it, because every able-bodied male had to serve and took his equipment home when his training was finished.
Yeah, I could live there too, if I could afford it.
Reminds me of a story about military-mad Kaiser Wilhelm II who visited Switzerland around 1910. The Swiss military, which numbered about 100,000, put on a very impressive show of their prowess and marksmanship.
"Very impressive", remarked Kaiser Bill. "But what if I were to invade Switzerland with a million men?"
"Well," replied his host nonchalantly, "we would each fire ten times and then go home."
A dozen years ago my sister bought a cute craftsman style house with a 60s era kitchen in a small farming town out east. I took the kitchen down to the studs,replumbed and rewired it and built a new craftsman style kitchen. I had planned to feed the circuits from a sub panel in the basement as the main panel was in the detached garage 100’ away. I found no way to shut off the power to the sub panel and hired an electrician to tie in my circuits hot. Some years later we learned the previous owner had fed the sub panel from his sisters house next doorAnd here I'm scratching my head trying to figure out which circuit a line is on in my basement
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I love my country and its ideals, but I'm not blind. We are a very large but very young and immature nation, with no single unifying national culture of civilized conduct. We have an unprecedented level of personal freedom compared to citizens in other countries, coupled with -- to be frank about it -- an attitude of disrespect for authority and disregard for the law that permeates our entire society at every level, and that permits people who are inclined to do so to do whatever the heck they want.
What really strikes me is that the criminal justice systems in Germany and Austria are extremely lenient by our standards, yet they have very little crime compared to us. It's just in their culture not to do certain things.
Here are some photos to illustrate what I'm talking about. Those bikes, at a subway stop in downtown Munich on a winter day, are just parked there, not chained. The second photo shows unchained bikes at the entrance to the Altstadt (Old Town, a pedestrian area) in Oldenburg. That display case in the Marienplatz in Munich is full of merchandise, but it sits there unmolested. I took the photos of the Meyer Jewelry store in Oldenburg in 2014, on a national holiday when everything was closed. Note the expensive watches in the display windows, with no bars or grates over them...can you imagine that in any American city?
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Re-reading this sub-thread and seeing that pic again made me notice something that hadn't struck me before: It is so CLEAN! It looks like it has just been meticulously wiped down and polished and you could do open-heart surgery on the floor if need be....This is a pic of the interior of the bus, after it had thinned out a bit.....
I remember that, and some time later, driving across WA state from Vancouver, BC to visit a (might-be) girlfriend at Gonzaga University in Spokane. There was a lot of dust from the eruption all along Rte.90 (?). For years I had a jar of volcanic dust from that eruption.
THE PILGRIM
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With the mutilated Cow Talk, got to thinking how many of you boys have actually seen a dead cow out in the wild.
I have seen a few, this was the last one.
This was a car kill on Open Range BLM Land.
When you are in the Boonies driving through Open Range you cannot be too careful!
I have seen a few, this was the last one.
This was a car kill on Open Range BLM Land.
When you are in the Boonies driving through Open Range you cannot be too careful!
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THE PILGRIM
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Today I was up on Sandia Crest which is the Mountain just East of here.
I was up on the observation deck looking back into the Rio Grande Valley.
Some folks were gathered in the middle of the deck and I heard them talking about cars.
I walk over and look down into the parking lot.
OMG! I tell the car guys come here and look at this! There’s a New King of the Mountain Car! You won’t need to ask me what car I’m talking about.
I was up on the observation deck looking back into the Rio Grande Valley.
Some folks were gathered in the middle of the deck and I heard them talking about cars.
I walk over and look down into the parking lot.
OMG! I tell the car guys come here and look at this! There’s a New King of the Mountain Car! You won’t need to ask me what car I’m talking about.
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Nice Vette. lol
