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Sorry to hear about your problems. Is that the 3.3 (non-EcoBoost)? How many miles on it?

Not quite the same thing, but I had a lot of fun at the Museum of Flight back in 2007 scooting around in "space", doing an EVA with an AMU. IIRC, this was at an exhibit sponsored by astronaut Pete Conrad's family.

We're waiting by our departure gate in YWG. Embraer to MSP, and then A320 to SFO. If the Airbus flight crew ask for help landing, I'll know to not volunteer. 😉

I ran Twin Cities, back in '92 and '93. Beautiful marathon!

Arg, that sort of law is so frustrating!

Ask me in two years. 😁

@OVERKILL, you're making me feel good about our safe little enclave here in Winnipeg (which has a relatively high crime rate).

In the same spirit, there's a good line attributed to Sir Robert Watson-Watt, a British RADAR pioneer, c. 1938. I paraphrase: "I say, when will this radio-detection device of yours be perfected?" "It will be perfected in 8 to 10 years ... or I can have a workable system ready in a year - in...

Is it hard to pull the starter on the 3.6? I removed a dead hard-to-replace starter (1997 Mazda MPV 3.0 V6) some years ago, and applied 12 V and ground to confirm the starter was the problem. (It was.) I would have preferred to do this on the vehicle, but it was actually easier to remove the...

Back in late '82/early '83 I was working 12-hour nights testing hard drives for mainframe computers. There were about six of us, working 1800 to 0600. About once a week we'd go to Country Kitchen after work for burgers, patty melts, and fries at around 0630, while the most were waking up to...

It bugged me too. If anything I would have guessed they would have welcomed some free publicity. Yes, the filming was being done on a series of residential streets in a quiet tree-lined neighbourhood. I suspect they're filming the scene where Officer Tippit is slain by LHO. I don't know if...

A fair number of my Boomer peers never learned to drive MT.

That's me and Goodyear.

The title says it all - I have a set of the Tenhulzen alignment plates for checking and setting toe-in, and find it's hard to get totally consistent readings due to how the plates sit against the rims by using plastic stand-offs. I saw the bolt-on style, and wonder whether they would be more...

That sounds expensive, until one considers the cost of training on a real aircraft. I'm sure someone has done a cost-benefit analysis and has determined that the simulators are the way to go.

If you see the movie, I'd be interested to know whether you think they captured what Dallas would have looked like back then. Has Dallas, like most cities, since lost its elm trees? We still have many thousands. I wonder whether that's why they close to film here.

It's a novel, and the 2nd shooter is a plot device. The book does not contradict any of the evidence presented to the Warren Commission. It's a good read, but perhaps nothing more than that.

Stephen Hunter makes a really good case for a 2nd shooter in his novel "The Third Bullet". It's a great read.

Per the 'net, this movie will be "the true story", and says the Mafia was responsible. James Lifton's book "Best Evidence" was about a government cover-up. Jim Garrison's book "On The Trail Of The Assassin's" dovetailed with Lifton's, looking more at the legal side of the alleged government...

Yesterday I met up with a friend for coffee (well, actually cold icy drinks given our present heatwave) and cycled back to his house with him before heading home. He mentioned that the movie "November 1963" was being filmed in his neighbourhood, and to watch for it as I headed home. Sure...