Since it’s after midnight and it looks like nobody scheduled an OOT for tonight, here’s a taste of what I’m listening to to close out my birthday tonight: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood tearing it up at Madison Square Garden in 2008.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFNEmEm0xmg
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I didn’t know it was your birthday, Happy Belated Birthday!
yenta-fada wrote:
Thanks.
I was trying to forget, but apparently Facebook tells people when it is.
//Another reason not to use it…
Brit says internet is making kids brain dead.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2253170/The-internet-leaving-children-brain-dead-Inventor-warns-Google-generation-spend-life-screens-losing-creativity-skills.html
What he doesn’t mention is that it makes us more creative wrt making a living while we play on the computer.
From the same show:
@ yenta-fada:
“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
lobo91 wrote:
You take that back. /
@ yenta-fada:
Everyone knows Leia’s a dog
7-15 inches, the other service says up to 18″.
there is already 8 on the ground…i love lake effect snow. the kids are gonna have a ball tomorrow.
lobo91 wrote:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qlbzy36uDHc/UJaERyqEE1I/AAAAAAAArUM/8Iruo8s4yqY/s1600-h/Snoopy_Dancing_by_jessie4508%25255B47%25255D.jpg
@ coldwarrior:
We didn’t get much here. Just as well, since I still don’t have a working heater/defroster in my car yet. Maybe tomorrow.
@ coldwarrior:
snow=four-letter word.
/grinch
@ yenta-fada:
That looks like Leia’s brisket dance.
@ lobo91:
hopefully the motor is accessible
yenta-fada wrote:
not at all. my parents retired up here to be in the lake effect snow. they are real ‘snow-birds’.
it will be a hoot, build a bon fire, run the kids ragged. make sure to have plenty of ‘spirits…’
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s not to me, since it’s 25 degrees in my garage.
Of course, if it was warm, I wouldn’t care.
@ lobo91:
been there…oh have i been there.
MG@ coldwarrior:
I’m thinking it’s a loose wire or something. It worked fine on Friday.
coldwarrior wrote:
Lucas, the Lord of Darkness.
//Why I don’t own a British car
@ lobo91:
its either the fuse, the switch, the relay, or the motor.
lobo91 wrote:
‘get home before dark’ -- on the lucas family crest
lobo91 wrote:
My guess is that the electronic speed controller went bad. They can do that without blowing the fuse.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
often found near the fuse box
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s not the fuse, the switch or the relay.
It’s either the motor or the wiring from the relay to it.
lobo91 wrote:
you havent seen an electrical system go bad until you see a jag xjs v-12 get all bitchy.
@ lobo91:
troubleshot the easy stuff i see.
The Lucas Electric motto: “Get home before dark.”
Lucas denies having invented darkness. But they still claim “sudden, unexpected darkness.”
Lucas--inventor of the first intermittent wiper.
Lucas--inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
The three-position Lucas switch--DIM, FLICKER and OFF. The other three switch settings--SMOKE, SMOLDER and IGNITE.
The original anti-theft devices--Lucas Electric products.
“I’ve had a Lucas pacemaker for years and have never experienced any prob…
If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either.
Did you hear about the Lucas powered torpedo? It sank.
It’s not true that Lucas, in 1947, tried to get Parliament to repeal Ohm’s Law. They withdrew their efforts when they met too much resistance.
Did you hear the one about the guy that peeked into a Land Rover and asked the owner “How can you tell one switch from another at night, since they all look the same?” “He replied, it doesn’t matter which one you use, nothing happens!”
Back in the ’70s Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which didn’t suck.
Quality Assurance phoned and advised the Engineering guy that they had trouble with his design shorting out. So he made the wires longer.
Why do the English drink warm beer? Lucas makes the refrigerators.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone.
Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb.
Joseph Lucas invented the Short Circuit.
Recommended procedure before taking on a repair of Lucas equipment: check the position of the stars, kill a chicken and walk three times sunwise around your car chanting: “Oh mighty Prince of Darkness protect your unworthy servant.”
Lucas systems actually uses AC current; it just has a random frequency.
@ coldwarrior:
I had a friend who owned a ’56 MGA.
Two 6 volt batteries under the seat. Made perfect sense…to someone.
lobo91 wrote:
WITH a positive ground no less!
and with that i am taking phoebe dog out into the quiet night. and it is quiet up here.
night all.
merry christmas and happy boxing day!
@ coldwarrior:
And wooden door frames. Pretty sure DOT wouldn’t approve…
Night
A different kind of snow…
And the finale:
With that, I’m out
What that generation of Brit auto people did get right was building a series of neat lttle “tossable” cars, something Americans never succeeded at. The idea eventually worked its way into all makers’ fleets.
@ Mike C.:
CW’s Mazda Miata being a perfect example of my point, since it’s a direct lift of the old MG/TR/Sunbeam/AH idea, except built so that it actually works properly.
Day by Day this morning…
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
@ coldwarrior:
And here I thought it was Wrestling Day….!
Gunfight Day…
LOL, oh, irony! Of course, nothing will happen.
Washington D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has confirmed that the department is looking into allegations that NBC’s David Gregory violated D.C.’s gun banning laws during a recent taping of Meet the Press.
Cuba on the Chesapeake where I live has a similar though not quite as draconian law. Where you cannot sell or buy larger capacity magazines, but you can own them. The effect is that if you buy then in a store or gun show in a more American state like PA or VA, you can transport them yourself to you residence and posses them legally. However you cannot purchase them on-line from an out of state vendor and have them shipped. Of course having these serpentine laws only artificially drives up cost for those involved, and does not much else. Some vendors won’t even sell to those in MD rather than try to figure out and remain current on the laws.
Criminals remain undeterred, because as is obvious they are criminals who by definition disregard the law, and asinine laws don’t change human behaviour. Of course a feature of these type laws and burgeoning regulations is that it is almost impossible to avoid being in violation of one of them making us all criminals and controllable by the threat of selective enforcement.
BRB
Good Mornin All….make it a great day!
freezing rain here…..good day to stay home
citizen_q wrote:
This is, I believe, part of the intent of these laws. They make virtually every gun owner subject to improper arrest and being forced to prove tyheir innocence rather than the State beng forced to prove their guilt. I am lucky. I live in a State where most odf the firearms laws are minimal, though we still require a license to carry concealed, and we have some assinine knife laws that prevent me from carrying a decent defensive knife (like the MercWorx Seraphym that my wife gotnme for Christmas). On my ToDo list for the new year is getting in touch with a legislator that I know will be sympathetic to my cause and trying to get some of our knife laws changed. You should be able to carrya a double-edged weapon, and one with a decent length blade. Right now it is easier to carry a gun, and less jail time if you are carrying unlicensend (a misdemenor) than if you are caught with a switchblade (a felony offense)
@ Iron Fist:
Practically impossible for a serf like me to obtain a CCW in this state. It looked like due to recent court wins that might change some, but to the nanny-state totalitarians the recent tragedy is a crisis they are not going to waste and are moving with all speed.
FWIW, my daily carry knife is a stout Zero Tolerance folder that I can open with one hand. I have carried a pocket knife of some type practically every day since I was a cub scout.
I tired to see Clapton/Winwood at Madison Square garden but it was sold out.
Mike C. wrote:
most reliable car i have ever owned.
and so much fun!