Goodnight DesertDuck!

and may I say in departing: If you hear a sneeze in the kitchen, cancel that order for nachos/April is sexual awareness month....so practice safe sex.

practice, practice, PRACTICE!

Yeah, Easter! Bunnies, chocolate, eggs, bonnets, dresses, easter sunrise service at the church of elvis...

Computers have glitches, pilots have rationale. I HATE computer controlled automobiles. When something goes wrong, you can't troubleshoot it yourself & fix it with toolbox tools, you have to get the damn thing scoped, and technicians cost a helluva lot more than mechanics. And also, I want to see gu...

I'm sure pilots have had times when they need to override autopilots, like when another 747 cuts 'em off. You honk the horn, roll down the window & flip the other aircraft off....then just keep flying to your destination. Anything goes in international airspace.

I sure as hell wouldn't fly in some pilotless plane! Sheesh...autopilot is one thing when you're at cruising altitude, but already there are commuter trains w/o operators & that's iffy enough. I guess the good thing is that I don't recall ever reading about a wreck w/fatalities on one of those autom...

That automated plane was (I think) an Airbus A-330 for Air France. It flew just above the ground and floated into the tops of a forest full of trees and blew up. I think three people were on board. Seems there were survivors, but that went up in such a plume of smoke, I don't see how anyone got out ...

what a few stiffies & a pair of pliers will do for a toothache....

On the same website, or maybe break.com or youtube or one of those video sites, there's a video of a model B-52 crash. That was a big model plane--not quite the size of the Airbus, but certainly bigger than a California condor. When that thing went down and burst into flames, a lot of thick black sm...

Little Johnny was just hit by a cannonball. A few tears, a squirt of Bactine, a Band-Aid, and the kid's back out on the playground rackin himself on the monkey bars with all the rest of them.

I'd like to see a dentist that practices acupuncture...!

That model Airbus A-380 flies like it's made out of styrofoam. I bet four model jet engines would seriously overpower that aircraft. I bet only two engines really work, and even then they probably had to be baffled. I'd really like to know how much the thing weighs. I'm willin to betcha around thirt...

Somebody just needs to invent sugar that's an enamel-builder, thta's all.

I've got ambesol too--kills tooth pain pretty good. Then you can buy that enamel cement stuff at Albertson's and fill in the cavity--problem is--with a root canal, you gotta get the infection out or you're just cementing over an active wound. They say it's only temporary "see a dentist immediately" ...

ouch...tooth pain, eh? What ever happened to the good ol' days of tooth pain--you can just run over to the corner market & buy some clove life savers. I remember the sign about tooth care in my dentists's office--kinda scarey: "ignore them & they'll go away" I have a box of ora-gel too...only there'...

I'm gonna put the grapes in my socks, then shove my feet into them. Instant filtering.

I'll download the pics tomorrow & lt you know where to view them--I've been using flickr since I can re-do w/smaller image url's there...

Check out this meal served aboard an Air Koryo flight (probably an Ilyushin IL-62M) between P'yongyang and Beijing: I wonder what the beverage is...

Actually I hear North Korea beer is generally darker, but potent and tasty....

smell-o-vision is one thing, but I can't wait for serve-o-vision! All the coffee and coctails jump right off the screen & you can consume them right on the spot.

Right>click>serve!

(Actually, I think the Firesign Theater did a spoof on that in the 70's)

Welcome back, CC. What's the good word?

I actually drank a hot cuppa Dr. Pepper, served up hot like tea. Nuked it for a minute & still had plenty of carbonation. Nice with a clove & lemon.

Hey, my legal ID is for real...even though I'll admit- I signed it in crayola and moved the decimal point to the right one space....

(and by the way, isn't cyberspace kinda like being in international waters?)

Mustn't really be any more difficult than back in the early 20th century getting on and pedaling those big wheel bikes.....

I think the wildest thing I ever heard about being built in a home shop was an exact replica of an Airbus A-380 with Emirates livery built a year ago. It actually flies w/miniature jet engines and is reputed to be the largest R/C fixed-wing model aircraft ever built. It looks like a human can just j...

That bike on your avatar....how do you get up on that thing--you have to launch from a loading ramp or a stepladder? I mean--it looks real & functional, but getting on must be tough.

I'm actually getting sleepy--starnge--I just got out of bed eleven hours ago (but had a huge party night last night after waking up early yesterday)

I'd like a big 5-phase JET table saw w/full extensions & a shop to put it in.
I'd like to start a wintertime seasonal business doing electric vehicle conversions.

That's just it--Craftsman has that great lifetime guarantee indeed

CC, in case you're still here--I'm going to see if Drop-in P's has an update on the break-up on their myspace page

I just had a thought....you just never see a Snap-On-Tools truck driving around like you used to. Maybe they're getting harder and harder to find, like travel agencies and Irish setters.

my wrenches are so old, they say Made In Formosa instead of Taiwan. They hark of an era when Mtn. Dew was actually carbonated, and when harass and Uranus were pronounced correctly.

(and the occaisional door-to-door metric crescent wrench salesman)