my kid won't eat, long story, no need for details, but here's the big deal...

if your kid is not "normal" or close to it? as a parent, you will do ANYTHING you can to help your kid.

we've been to every doctor, we've run every test Stanford Children's Hospital offers. I don't mean "every" like some folks say "we argue every night" I mean, 100%, none left to do.

So, like any parent of a child with issues, I totally understand this. You do whatever you can.

before we had Tarzan (our son) I was a normal geek with the response of "oh well, scratch it and start again" now? I get it.

will do anything for the kid.

and I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, when he is 16, he will crash my car, when he is 18, he will suck down all my money for college, and when he is in his mid-20s, and becomes a smart, interesting person I want to talk to? he will move away.

Call your mom this weekend. remind her you love her.

C

wow, a mini roll chart. cool!

Off-road motorcyclists still use a version of this for enduro rallys.

when you register, they give you rolls of paper, that you load into your chart, as you ride along, you measure miles travelled, scroll the chart, and it tells you when to turn....

http://www.blackdogdualsport.com/Pics/bd2kchrt2.jpg

http://www.dualies.com/assets/images/MooseRollChart.jpg

starlight vocal band - afternoon delight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHYvkjH_QY

i think everyone who lost their virginity in 1977 still regrets this song, and gets chills when its played... and not in a good way

fifth amendment is gone man, don't you watch the news. The president's executive order on June 17th did away with the constitution.

you got NO rights.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

#13 collect and run drills is spot on.

collect, however, I dunno, (me)

I am not obsessive, my guns are not like, oh, say, my super cool vintage balsa & tissue model airplane kit collection. (yes, I just scored an original Nobler in cellophane wrapping!)

I actually have guns I have never shot, nor own ammo for.

This was a topic of dinner conversation recently. The economy is going right straight to heck. The dollar is weak against the Euro. Stocks are plummeting like Paris Hilton's panties when a photographer is around.

What can an average person invest a medium amount of money in, that will continue to appreciate faster than depreciate, is easy to hold as an asset, and has use no matter what?

Well, I cannot buy super exotic cars. Although I understand the Ferrari Enzo rises 25% in value every time some rich guy crashes one.

I do not want to touch gold. The Hunt brothers taught us you cannot corner the silver market. So what?

Guns. Not a chicom sks but something a bit different, a bit collectible. The .44 Magnum Dirty Harry used, for example. If you bought a Smith & Wesson model 29 in 8" barrel for $500 in 1990, you got a deal. they are now running $1500 and up.

So I have a proper gun safe, and every so often, I purchase a pistol or rifle, put it in the safe, and know, the value is appreciating. There is little maintenance cost. And if Zombies come for us, I stand a better than average chance.

I am not sure if that makes me happier, or indulges any violent fantasies. But I know, if the dollar plummets in value, I will still be able to sell or trade some of these firearms for food for my family.

It's just a thought, I am not suggesting it as a total portfolio strategy.

oh this is brilliant, and just in time for passover.

thank you. I will consider it when stopped up from the Matzah

http://www.jewishinstlouis.org/page.html?ArticleID=137163

Mark,

Go out today and get some flowers for your wife. Otherwise, the video will be horrific!

:P

crap, I am gonna get some flowers for MY wife.

this is insanity. But fortunately, according to the cards, "VICTORY!"

I saw her at Club Foot in Austin back in 82? Biscuit (r.i.p.) of the Big Boys used to open the side door and let some of his punk skater pals in for free.

Ripped to the gills on cheap lone star beer, all I really remember was three things:

FREE

some kid in the audience gave her a dozen roses, and she beat him with them.

she had a GREAT rack

Back then? wearing a bikini, or topless on stage was totally outrageous. We were shocked, we were in awe, we were amazed.

Nowadays, the stars flash cooch getting out of cars, and no one cares, or wishes they'd cover it up.

I remember seeing the Plasmatics and thinking, "wow, Punk Rock RULES, I am glad I am a skater now"

Austin was a blast back then.

Wendy, RIP

add a ball gag, and it looks like an odd pleasuring device. (not my cup of tea) but thought I would point that out

Well, you are right, I should justify the "i hate cops" simple, snarky post.

Pre-coffee this morning.

But cops appear to be the best metaphor for what is happening throughout our country.

10 years ago, you could approach a police officer, who was dressed in a uniform, and ask for directions.

today, most ( I said 'most' I am sure someone in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin will point me to the exception) officers are dressed like soldiers, ready for the next SWAT takedown.

And if you approach to ask a question, you ARE instantly, a suspect.

That's the part I don't like. Suspect. Everyone is now a criminal till proven otherwise. Heck, even the different administration agencies fight over who is the better power.

SCREW THIS.

It is not the USA I grew up in, it is not the USA our founding fathers built, and it is not the USA I want for my son.

Ya know what I want?

I want the kitchen of the future, and my personal jetpack.

I want us to stop spending TRILLIONS of dollars on a stupid war, and get back to spending it on education and infrastructure improvement.

I want to be able to travel without the TSA roto-rootering my rectum looking for fake explosive liquids.

I want to not have to say "Naww, I'm not from the US, I'm from TEXAS!" whenever I am overseas to deflect a barrage of hateful anger to the current president.

(as a sideline, I want people to understand GWB is NOT a Texan, he was not born IN Texas, he went to Yale, and he smirks. NOT TEXAN)

but I sum it all up thinking about the metaphor, of the cop dressed like a soldier, patrolling the streets roughing up skateboarders and holding "REAL ULTIMATE POWER"

Where is our freedom?
What happened to the Great Society?
Why is dinner bad for us?

i hate cops

i go fishing in the sea of cortez every summer. First thing you do in the morning is use jigs and catch 2 or 3 squid. If you run out of bait fish, you can use the squid bits. if not, cook the squid for dinner.

The Mexican boat captains say the squid are eating everything else, and soon, we will only fish for them.

FEH. Now they are off the NorCal coast? that's it, I am not swimming again.

where is ceiling cat?

so cool. when the world was still exciting, everything was a little customized, and the place wasn't so sterile.

no one will say "wow, look what we found" when restoring a 1995 4 door honda civic

tons of monowheel info and links here:

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm

and video of the McLean Mono here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoKPdebrVOY

and his big V-8 job
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECyqD_f5Ts4&feature=related

WOW, I celebrated the end of school by skipping my last class and going for Pizza. of course, this was a LONG time ago, and? if the opportunity for outdoor orgy was there, I'd have chosen that instead.

Woo hoo>

collecting/collectors seem best exemplified by Jeff "Comic Book Guy" Anderson, or Android in the Simpsons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Guy

most things in the life is graded as Best or Worst. the joy comes from critiquing others.

I'm amazed at the collectors passions, and the savings and archiving of culture, history, brilliant. But? what happens when the collecting leads to hoarding, and it's never shared or displayed?

to steal from the comic book guy,

Boing Boing? Best Blog EVER!

:)

where's my jetpack? where's my kitchen of the future? Damnit, I grew up in the 70's when this stuff was PROMISED to us as the future.

Now? we have stupid kids, idiotic television, war that generates no profit, and? NO JETPACK!

I want my jetpack!

effin brilliant. thank you for making my morning so much brighter

dangit, this is not my week.

First, a cow-worker comes in with the Mac Airbook. LUST!

Then I see a Smart Car, sold legal for US roads! LUST!

Now, these really cool pants that will last forever. since I am not a fashionista, I dig them. LUST!

Sadly, I am in no position to spend the money on any of these items.

Thanks, they look cool, I am into it, I cannot afford it. :( The economy is going to hell in a handbasket, and I need to make sure I am still floating. Buy nothing, use less, grow my food. Wonderful, I live in Silicon Valley, but act like I am in backwoods of my beloved Texas. High Tex bracket, low amount to spend. My pants better last another year

damnit, there is coffee all over my laptop now.

and my nose

another of the good ones gone. RIP condolences to your family.

travel with guns. and not flare guns. Real BIG guns. You have a separate security check, and? if your gun is big enough? they look at you with awe.

Sadly, hard to do on international flights. But my last hop from DFW - SFO with a SPAS12 autoloader? I got grade A service, and all mu other luggage made it through un-mo-lested.

you will need a hard box with a lock, that goes in your luggage with a lock, but it is so totally worth it to see the TSA inspector's eyes bug when they see a real live gigantic shotgun built for hunting dinosaurs or riot mobs.

EVERY single time I've traveled sans-firearms, usually international, for work, I've picked up my bags to find all sorts of cool missing stuff. condoms, they really like to take condoms, in my experience...

Lived in rural Florence, Texas for a while, it's boring as HELL out there, so of course the local teens played mailbox BB.

and I got really tired of it. 4 mailboxes later, I had a solution.

purchased a large "rural" mailbox, and a smaller, 'standard' mailbox. Welded 1/4 steel plate into a box around the standard mailbox, but left the door uncovered

put large box on its back, poured in some concrete, then put modified armored mailbox INTO the large rural, and filled the edges with concrete. Let it set and cure.

attached 'superbox' to a steel plate, welded to a 2' metal rod, which then sat in a large PVC pipe full of aggregate, buried in the dirt. Not concrete, so it would account for moving earth, etc.. The Metal rod allowed the box to flex and pivot some, but not much.

the postman made a point of stopping at our house to say hello, and laugh about it when he saw it.

next saturday we found a green aluminium baseball bat on the ground near the box, a green strike point on the box, and phoned the hospital asking about any kids with broken arms the night before.

Was the local constable's SON! No, we did not press charges, no one was sued, but the son mowed our front 2 acres for a month after he healed, and I am pretty sure his father tanned his backside.

We'd had a fee more hits on the box, but last time I was in Austin, I drove out to Florence, the box is still standing.

So close to the Bay Area, will there be any sightings over the weekend? I owe you at least 3 martinis, and I am positive Null owes ya more....

having a kid, i gotta tell you, the only difference between an oral and a rectal thermometer?

the taste

innit summat like that in San Framcisko?

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/10/sunday-sunday-s.html

just for lulz....

i may have to consider this now that I have a kid, and need to be seen doing MUCH more dangerous, irresponsible, and fun things than roadracing motorcycles.

there's one on eBay right now.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Marx-Great-Garloo_W0QQitemZ140202595183QQihZ004QQcategoryZ2662QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

but I can't justify two THOUSAND dollars, I need to save up for the giant erector set

Vintage Popular Mechanics at its best.

"The Boy Mechanic" is a BRILLIANT 4 book series full of this type stuff. However, ~ 60% of it is impossible today, can't buy the chemicals, or can't find "barrel staves from the home spares pile"

You can surf eBay till you are blue in the face looking for this set, or you can download the first one as PDF from Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12655

(some unscrupulous BASTARDS also sell the exact same PDF on eBay.)

And if you like it, the whole set is sold through Lee Valley Tools here:

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=32453&cat=1,46096,46100

YAY TerraCross

http://www.terracross.com/en/index.html

they turn Unimog into sexy motorhomes for the true professional.

I've seen one of these in the pits at a Paris Dakaar, but never seen actual pricing.

I believe the reason for all the different comments on the interior/exterior photo diffs is due to photos of different machines.

If I had unlimited funds? this would definitely be in my stable.

I especially like the 2 KTM dual sports hanging off the back of one.

this beats heck out of the classic American Fun-Mover for zombie deterrence.

http://www.giantrvracing.com/funmover-frame.htm

mark, your stock just went up another notch with me.

OMG, this will cause my brain to seize up!

it is super cool, I am not talented enuf

Sasha Baron Cohen is ORTHODOX????

GTFO I do not believe this. Conservative maybe, but not Orthodox. Maybe raised as, but heck, he shaves....

I'm just sayin....

Ditto on travel through Israel.

In and out in

The agent looked in my eyes the whole time, and was profiling.

it was fine.

stop the theater of security Please

umm, errr, not that "I" would do it, but...

would this be a good tool for making furry suits?

oops, I found a mirror with it up, and some reaction videos
http://www.paulvids.com/2_girls_and_1_cup.php

FYI

www.2girls1cup.com

the website is down, or broken

it is horrible, it is something you can never UN-see!

can of compressed air, upside down, cool the exposed metal, whack soundly with hammer, no more cheap lock

I actually found a fabulous video at Instructables

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Freeze-A-Lock-Off!/?comments=all

the point is not that it is a better method, just that there are many ways to quickly and cheaply get a lock off.

Heck, bolt cutters are small enough to hide under a coat, and you can rifle your ex's locker with no issues.

good source for lockpick tool and instructions:
http://www.lockpickshop.com/LS.html

RacsalKing is right, locks are a deterrent. Only

Nerkles asks: What is a good lock? Well, there aren't really many out there. The best lock? Carry important stuff with you.

The Union DTEC is almost decent, but? in the end, if someone wants your stuff, they will get past a padlock
http://www.uniononline.co.uk/prodcat/index.asp?fuseaction=catalogue.showproduct&prod_id=891

hook up an Auto Taser?
http://www.netside.net/~spyshops/Stunguns1.html

:)

Blech, Feh. My best friend used to force me to drink this when we were growing up (in Longview, Texas) It was horrible in 1974, I am positive it cannot have improved.

I also thought it was a Texas only thing, till I read all the comments.

You can order the "sugar cane" Dr. Pepper formula off the web here: http://www.retrosoda.com/flavor-dr--pepper.html

if you cannot make it to the TX bottling plant.

While you are ordering your retro Dr. Pepper, you might as well do the whole "when I was a kid" thing and order retro candy to go with it, if you are from Longview, Texas, some peanut patties ought to do the trick:

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/products.asp?dept=1050&number=HFCA905&pagenumber=1

Scarry ain't the only one. Cleary's Mouse and the Motorcycle has been "updated"

FOOEY!

My son WILL read vintage adventure tales. Not the dumbed down, politically correct tripe available now.

Read the classic tales, Verne, Wells, Kipling, in the original forms, these guys were writing for KIDS. I have to work to read them as an adult. We are becoming a world of idiots.

Do not accept the least common denominator. Do not accept the politically correct.

Skep's right. Closed Source Real Estate. Feh.

Pay $10k just to look? and the realtor is in LA? sorry, as badly as I want an evil lair? There is just too much going against this.

DON'T TASE ME BRO!

:)

Filler. Meaningless words.

THIS is what's chapping my hide lately. Say what you want, in simple, plain terms. DO NOT attempt puffery. I hear it in job interviews, meetings, and in line at the grocers.

C'mon folks, say it simply, then STFU