One year ago today: March 17, 2025, WIP
Five years ago today: March 17, 2021, WIP
Nine years ago today: March 17, 2017, WIP
Random years ago today: March 17, xxxx, WIP
WT from Tennessee has a far-better equipped shop and the know-how to go with it. He’s taking a look at building a hot-air engine. Wish I could be there. He has mentioned a Sterling, a type of engine that uses heat and the expansion cycle of gasses. I have never been able to wrap my brain around either the theory or the popular fascination of the thing. He’s intending to video the build, so maybe we’ll learn something here. He’s mentioned previous failures, which in the robot club are called learning experiences. Good morning.
Here’s the gift boxes finished and ready for a trip to Miami. These have custom logos and the three strongly display their common heritage. Along with the driveway dandelion. Today, I made it to the Sheriff’s pound and that finished me by noon. Still awaiting a call from the medical office, I am getting right back in the sack.
It’s winter out there. I stayed tucked and read some statistics. The world output of infrared (heat-seeking) shoulder-fired rockets is around 750,000. Where are they? Outside of some 3,000 choppers downed in Nam and maybe Soviet 30 Hinds (Mi-24), that makes for a real imbalance. The missiles are cheap on the black market at around $50,000 asking. The rumors of Iranian sleeper cells got me thinking what would be the easiest and most spectacular attacks?
Once again, the Internet cannot answer my simple question of how many airliners are in the USA, but downing 500 of them would send a clear enough message. We are already seeing how Iran is able to keep loosing a small number of drones and missiles per day. Not a good sign. I got all this info trying to find the old Bogart movie, “Sahara”. WWII is really the only excitement that ever happened there. I want to see if the movie used real tanks, being the film is 1950s. So far they have one surplus “Honey”, the M3 Lee. So far the plot is historically okay, except for claims like being surrounded on three sides and escaping to the south. There’s one scene the tank guy says the range is 160 miles. Not on that tank.
Chesapeake Bay.
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Those who like nice quartz countertops may be out of luck. Turns out people who work all day cutting the slabs get lung problems. It seems breathing the dust all day without a mask isn’t good for you. So instead of telling these people to smarten up, places like California and Spain are banning the countertops. IKEA won’t sell them, and the courts are handing out million-dollar settlements. Because Pedro won’t wear a mask.
At 2:55PM I got the alert and twenty minutes later, I’m on my way. Check in later, in our wonderful modern world, I will again have no Internet access for at least two days. Did you know that between January 29 and February 21, I lost 70% of my readership?
