Phone Rep: Thank you very much for calling Sony Manned Spacecraft Technical Support. My name is John. May I be having your number of the phone beginning, please, with area code ( Read more... )

I am sure this has been posted many places across the web but for those who haven't seen it, occasionally matadors don't win ( Read more... )

So tonight I gingerly performed surgery on the Nissan Altima to keep it, yet again, from the freeway in the sky. For a while, okay 40k miles, there has been a noticeable but relatively quiet tick from the front of the engine near the top of the valve cover. At the time I first heard it I did my homework and it turns out that the engine used in ( Read more... )

So I know that almost no one reads LJ anymore, and certainly not mine but I still think this is the better place for this sort of thing ( Read more... )

I heard this on KWHL a couple of weeks and it reminded me of certain friends. I leave it to you to indicate if this fits your bill.

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FYI, fits me to a tee.

Okay, regrettably I have no pictures but today was my first leg of lamb! That is to say the first one I have ever prepared ( Read more... )

This post is kind of short and sad. It's just a post to show off a new web album of visitors to our front yard.



That is all.

So, walking into Sears Mall the other day, using the same entrance I have used probably a dozen times by now, I finally noticed the Hours and Rules sign. You know, "No skateboarding, etc.". Well, as the pics below show, this sign has some very encouraging wording.



Note, "No concealed weapons..." Alaska is, naturally, home to what is referred ( Read more... )

This post is just a quick note to wish everyone an exuberant and joyous new year. If last year was good, may it keep rolling. If it was crap, and for us it was mostly crap, may it turn around lickity split!

Well, that's all folks!

This really cool display shows the representative scale of many small things, from the visible to the atomic.