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Looks like someone had a knotty time!




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[GH85Carrera]

[IROC]

Cool picture of our race car from last weekend's race:

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[porsche930dude]

I was just wondering why dont make spoons like a flat shovel so you can clean your plate easier.

[Por_sha911]

Grouping isn't great and looks like only .22lr but I like the thought.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The only example of the XC-99 was put into service and made its first operational flight in July 1950.
It was used as part of Operation Elephant in which it broke a record by transporting 101,266 lb of cargo, a majority of which included engine parts and propellers for the B-36, from San Diego to Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.
The XC-99 would go on to break its own record in August 1953 when it transported 104,000 lb worth of cargo from Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda to Rhein-Main Air Force base in Germany via the Azores islands. The unusual design features of the XC-99 prompted many public spectators to turn out to watch it during the journey.

Weird, why does it look like the shadow of all but the 3 right most dudes was photoshopped to be a lot longer?

Katy Freeway in Houston TX is one of the widest highways in the world. I never want to drive on it!

Thank goodness it's that wide! I drive it 2 days a week on my 84 mile (each way) commute. I hit it at about 540am after having been on the road about 50 mins on the way in. On the way home, I'm on it around 230. Most of my commute is 75mph speed limit with the cruise set at 83mph. It drops down to 60-65 near Houston, but I keep the speed up in the 80-83 range if I can. Around Katy on the way home, I often run into about 5 miles of traffic that could be anywhere from 40-80mph.


Underside of a conical roof from a home that was built in the 1880-1910 time frame (I didn't keep the exact year from the caption).



sweat bee at the house. Solitary bee that is not very stingy unless you really harass them.

I did see a Lucid the other day on my commute, and often see a Rimac truck. And the other day I saw an Audi that reminded me of a Taycan. I have also run into a fairly new Alpina B6. Today I spend 50 miles trading spots with a newish M5 that sounded pretty good just cruising.

THis is a coopers jointer plane. Unlike most planes where you push the plane back and forth over the wood, this thing is huge and immobile and you push the wood back and forth over the plane.






A Stanley bailey #1 bench plane. Many, MANY different planes were made, but the standard bench plane that most of us are probably at least vaguely familiar with where made in sizes 1 through 8.


3-8 plus a couple of block planes


I'm really dying to get one of these, "Ultimatum Braces." It's a wood and brace brace (hand drill)

[Zeke]

I don't have a pic but the answer to the cargo plane shadow question is that there is not a row of troops in front of the last 3 men on the wing.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I don't have a pic but the answer to the cargo plane shadow question is that there is not a row of troops in front of the last 3 men on the wing.

Doh! I didn't see that there's a bunch (several rows) of guys on the ground in front of the wing.

Other cool, unusual old hand tools.

Corner brace (I'm going to need one of these too).






shoulder/breast drill

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by masraum

Weird, why does it look like the shadow of all but the 3 right most dudes was photoshopped to be a lot longer?

No photoshop. It's the curvature of the top surface of the wing. Lots flatter towards the outboard end.

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

No photoshop. It's the curvature of the top surface of the wing. Lots flatter towards the outboard end.

Yeah right. You act like you know about planes or something smart guy.

Waylon and a young Shooter....

[porsche930dude]

Originally Posted by masraum

sweat bee at the house. Solitary bee that is not very stingy unless you really harass them.

Is it really a bee or a fly? I remember them on long island when I was a kid at the beach I hated going to that one because I always got bit by them I called them radioactive flys. It was right behind the hospital in west islip I thought they were mutated from the hospital dumpster runoff.

[GH85Carrera]

Pubic wigs (called Merkins) were worn by prostitutes in the 1450s.
The reason for this strange accessory was that pubic hair was considered popular and attractive, but sex workers shaved their lower parts to avoid pubic lice (annoying) and used merkin to cover up sexually transmitted diseases from their clients, such as syphilis. .
In Hollywood film production, merkins may be worn by actors and actresses to avoid exposing genitalia during nude or semi-nude scenes.
The presence of the merkin protects the actor from inadvertently performing "full frontal" nudity – some contracts specifically require nipples and genitals to be covered in some way – which may help ensure the film achieves a less restrictive MPAA rating.
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first written use of the term to 1617.
The word probably originated from malkin, a derogatory term for a lower-class young woman, or from Marykin, a pejorative way of saying the female name Mary.


OK, who forgot the put the bolts on the landing gear!

[asphaltgambler]

I've akways called them $#it flys because growing up ona cattle farm, you'd see them on piles of cow $#it ^^^^^^

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

No photoshop. It's the curvature of the top surface of the wing. Lots flatter towards the outboard end.

I hadn't originally realized, but there are several rows and columns of guys on the ground in front of the wing, and that's what I was seeing. The photo showed really small on my screen because of my resolution so to me it looked like a photoshopped shadow.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

Very cool mirrors!

I'm pretty sure that it's a sweat bee. THere are several variations, and several that are native to Texas.
https://txbeeinspection.tamu.edu/sweat-bees/

[GH85Carrera]

Packed parking lot for game one of the 1916 World Series in Boston.


In June of 1941, Harriett Peterson, a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph employee, was photographed while perched on top of a stack of 2,000 copies of the new Tacoma telephone directory. 85 distributors began delivering the directories on June 26, 1941. The July, 1941 directory had more telephone listings, more pages in it, and more copies printed than any previous phonebook in Tacoma history. The information in the book did not become effective until Sunday morning the 29th, when approximately 4,000 phone numbers changed overnight and became dial operated. Imagine that, one could just dial the number and no longer HAVE to talk to an operator!


The large Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada. In 1979 a local child found a nugget of gold in the area. This caused a gold rush in the early 1980s. During its peak the mine employed around 100,000 diggers.

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