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When I was a pre-teen, a cousin and I used to occasionally eat a Milk Bone dog biscuit as a snack. My mother was shocked that I would eat such a thing, but it kept out teeth clean and our tails wagging. :)

The demand for C8 Corvettes is now less than the supply, and major Corvette dealers have loads of cars on the lot and are discounting from MSRP. MacMulkin in Nashua NH is the largest volume Corvette dealer in the country, and here is what they are selling brand new cars for out of their...

West Virginia would be a terrible place to be old and to have a sudden heart attack, out in the boondocks. If I lived there, I would consider Huntington or the Eastern Panhandle.

My garage is not detached, but I want to keep it above freezing in the winter, and have the ability to warm it up so that I can work out there for extended periods. I have an overhead heater in the garage that is a separate zone on my hydronic oil fired heating system. The zone is controlled...

One of these days I will upgrade my original Compaq, with its built in CRT, 8088 and two floppy drives. :)

For air traffic moving on the ground, crossing active runways, moving on taxi ways, etc. avoiding collisions with other aircraft. I often wondered why there are not traffic lights or illuminated signals, such as used on railroads, to tell pilots when to go, stop, and which direction to turn.

The Argyle, on Kearny Avenue https://www.northjersey.com/story/life/food/2020/01/03/kearny-nj-argyle-fish-chips-restaurant-has-closed/2804025001/

i was born in the late 1940s in Kearny NJ, which at the time had many first generation immigrants from Scotland. There were many Scottish style fish and chips restaurants. The last one closed about four years ago. Anyway, as a kid in the 1950s, I remember a fish and chips dinner at one of...

If you were going to charge 6 cars simultaneously, you would have to locate the charging station next to a 500 kv transmission line.

If the engine gets overheated, it can weaken the head gasket. So watch for cooling system issues. Otherwise, its valve guides and valves, then rings.

I have gone Milwaukee because it makes and sells a wide variety of battery powered tools, and in comparison tests, such as by Project Farm, they always seem to do much better than average.

Thermal heating and cooling of cast metals, such as in pistons, relieves internal stresses in the materials.

If there were a class room full of dummies, you could put a sign on the door "students in this room have IQs up to 150", even if the brightest student had an actual IQ of 80. "UP TO" does not equate with "ACTUAL"

At least they are not smoking cigarettes as they load the cases with powder.

If you drink Cherry Cola you might meet up with Lola.

There is a difference. If you encounter snow on roads, go all weather. No snow, all season should be satisfactory.

The most break in occurs at the outset and then gradually declines as the miles pile on. I believe there continues to be improvements after the "break in period" in the manual. On my Corvette, I did not go full throttle until 10,000 miles.

I am signing off the air (going QRT) from my amateur radio station. Made several contacts tonight to Australia, Chile, and Spain. My FCC assigned station call sign is K1XV

SING "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" once an hour.

With the Soul biting the dust, I guess the hamsters will have to start walking again.