Monthly Archives: April 2021

onda de m’coul’s

¿Qué onda?

wankel in the middle of the night

Trying to come down from the discomfort of getting home, I was up at 3 AM watching videos of how a Wankel engine works. Strange the things that are interesting in the middle of the night.


I remember when Mazda offered the Wankel for the first time. Lotta geeks I knew had to have one. A friend took me for a ride. Me: “oooh, fancy!”


https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/what-is-a-wankel-engine-and-how-does-it-work.html

flight of fright

It’s red out there on the end where the man was sitting.

Then he slipped off.

‘merican

From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee
Across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea

From Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA
Well, there’s pride in every American heart
And it’s time we stand and say*:

*[fill in the blank with what we say]

industrial parks

While driving by industrial parks, sometimes I can smell the tax-free (actually fraud) aroma in the air. I need a little piece of land and a building in one of those.

Companies with names you’ve never heard of in brand new pristine buildings with a manicured campus. Some of them are one-trick one-product ponies manufacturing such important things as an anti-static wipe or a plastic injector pen.

Huge beautiful buildings with 75 loading docks, but you only see three or four trailers out there. The pavement is not even dirty where the trucks supposedly run around. I bet the trailers that are parked out there are props.

hunger games

It looks like everybody is hungry.

Ebony, the black one on the left, still has her blue donut on due to a head scrape. Looks a little funny.

fun cd/dvd shopping

I love shopping at CD Universe. I’ve been a customer there since forever. I can almost feel a sense of humor in their email subscriptions.

A few years ago, I got this great movie from there that was filmed right outside the Vatican. lol. It was a real humdinger. 😁

amazon price check fail

I just wanted to check a price, but Amazon doesn’t like my IP address (I’m on a VPN), so the progress bar goes halfway across then stops. Next image, it fails. The web server won’t serve.

Fine. What I want is cheaper over at CD Universe anyway, and they won’t give a damn about a VPN. I’ve only been shopping with them since the dawn of the Internet.

CD Universe conveniently has “adult,” too. 😉

contextless qotd

My contextless quote of the day:

He hangs onto those children all the time as some kind of desperate proof that he’s not homosexual.

hear dem bells, 78 rpm

The things that The Internet Archive have are mind blowing. I have this 78 RPM record in my garage somewhere. It was a favorite of mine when I was a child. I enjoyed singing along.

This actually predates my parents a bit, so it was probably my grandparents, possibly great grandparents.

https://archive.org/details/78_hear-dem-bells_harry-c-browne-peerless-quartette-mccosh_gbia0016730a