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My friend Darrell gave me a free ticket and VIP parking pass to the annual Tucson Classics Car Show, so I spent a happy morning mooning over beautiful metal. Car shows and auctions these days are dominated by 1970s muscle cars (this one was no exception), but I’m interested in older, stock cars, the kind […]
As the kids pulled out of the driveway to start their trip home to Las Vegas earlier today, I thought about the fact that we and they drive nearly identical Chevy Trailblazers, and how well these cars serve us. I started buying American in the early 90s. During the 60s, 70s, and 80s, I’d only […]
Pwn: internet slang term, derived from the verb “own,” meaning to appropriate or conquer, implying domination or humiliation of a rival. — Wikipedia. From the New York Times, 21 July, 2009: Driven to Distraction U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving By MATT RICHTEL Published: July 21, 2009 In 2003, researchers at a federal agency […]
So I’m down at the corner coffee shop this morning, and I see this guy outside the Safeway next door: His name is Don and he’s the inventor. He told me the fan pushes him along at 25mph on flat ground. He’s in the process of securing his patents and is just starting to market […]
Some after-action reportage from our Las Vegas visit, this time with photos: My son Gregory arranged for us to ride a couple of BMW motorcycles Saturday morning. We checked out a dual-sport R1200GS and an R1200RT touring bike. Both were 2008 models with low mileage. We rode north from Las Vegas to Mount Charleston, skirting […]
Like most men and women these days, I use a multi-blade razor. Several months ago, sticker shock over the price of replacement brand-name blades drove me to generic store-brand blades, which were a lot cheaper. The trouble with the generics, though, was that I couldn’t rinse the whiskers out from between the blades, which became […]
. . . or maybe fun’s uncle. You know, the uncle they keep locked in the attic? Donna likes to watch NCIS. I like to watch reruns of The Office. Naturally, the shows are scheduled head to head. Time for TIVO. Comcast, our cable provider, offers DVR capability for $8.95 a month. So I called […]
We drove to Phoenix with Darrell and Mary Anne yesterday for one of our semi-annual cultural outings. On past trips we’ve we’ve gawked at first ladies’ gowns, renaissance masterpieces, contemporary photography, plasticized corpses, and relics of the Titanic. This time we beamed up to see a traveling Star Trek exhibit: Our friend Mary Anne, it […]