Singing Bird Pistols

Wow, you've got the check these pistols out. While they certainly do not shoot bullets or anything like that, they are absolutely mechanical marvels. I understand that they sold for 5.8M at Christies.

The Only Pair of Matching Singing Bird Pistols

Train plowing snow - WOW

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Can someone help me understand, drivers

I wonder if someone out there can help me understand something that our society is doing. First let me explain that you should picture a four lane road, two lanes going north and two lanes going south. Of course there is some sort of divider between, but these quite honestly can be a simple stretch of grass or a cement barrier.

In days of old, drivers would stay to the right. Whereas today, there is a tendency to move into the left lane and stay there. This is where I just don’t get it!

Here are my points:

1) The general rules of the road state, that you should travel in the right lane(s) and to pass on the left.

2) Traveling in the left lane, causes traffic to become congested. It is NOT up to anyone to control the flow of traffic and must move to the right so that others can pass them. Instead drivers are tending to just ride right along side of another vehicle traveling at the same speed. This of course, in our two lane example, totally blocks the road. Or you have drivers weaving in and out of lanes trying to get around, thus causing dangerous situations.

3) Let’s assume that you are traveling at 50 MPH, as is a car coming in the opposite direction. If one of you, for any number of reasons, moves into the others path, they will have a head on collision of about 100 MPH force. Personally, I’d rather drive as far away from oncoming traffic as possible!

So, can someone please explain that this is all about? I just don’t understand why people do this and of course it causes road rage as well.

Computers, where did they come from

I actually built (my own design sort of) a computer like the Altair. Unfortunately over the years it has gone to computer heaven as many old things do. But, somewhere I still have that copy of Popular Electronics magazine that they reference in this video. Enjoy this walk down memory lane.

Part 2

Sears/LG strikes it's final blow

If you remember some time ago, I posted a story about our Sears Kenmore refrigerator.

Well, several days ago I noticed that the display had bad message on it. Err and then a temperature setting of FF didn't look quite right to me and the inside was warmer than normal, as in NOT cooling. Well, I unplugged it, and replugged it in thinking that maybe it just needed to be reset. And it worked for about an hour, when it happened again and then again..

In my original story, they had delivered several of the circuit boards that were replaced. So, thinking that maybe the replaced one was defective, I replaced both of them with those that I had received. This time it worked for about 15 minutes!!!!

We have now replaced that piece of CRAP refrigerator with the Kenmore name on it, but manufactured by LG. Four years old and Sears doesn't want to hear anything about it. That's the last of those that we'll be buying.

Good luck if you own one.

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Massachusetts teen convicted of homicide in texting-while-driving case

It's emotional story, but I feel that this must be stopped. Everyone should watch this and take heed. Watch the CNN video of the teen that has been convicted of murder due to texting while driving.

And then there is nothing

And then there is nothing… I was listening to a book review recently on the radio. The interview was with the author (sort of) and the subject was the Titanic. It seems that the gentleman’s grandfather, through no fault on his part, became a survivor and was rescued and then continued on to New York. While traveling to New York, he wrote of his experiences of this disaster. His writings are within the book that was being reviewed, hence my “sort of” comment. The book was finished and published by the grandson.

Anyway, during the interview the gentleman stated that if his grandfather had not made the decisions that he had that night, he in fact would not be here today. I heard that and started thinking about it, ‘not be here today’. I mean his thoughts, expressions, physical body would not exist, and there would be nothing. It’s like when someone dies, there is nothing. Some people might argue that point, be that as it may. Also, to extend this thought a bit, if that gentleman had died that night, any potential descendants would just not exist as well. I wonder, moving into future generations, how many more would not exist. It could be hundreds, or thousands. The impact could not be known. There would be hundreds and thousands of nothing. It’s unimaginable.

Now we can move forward a little bit in time and my wife and I are sitting having dinner with some good friends at their home and somehow the subject of the Titanic comes up. We were told the story of his grandmother and the Titanic. It seems that she had tickets and was going to sail aboard the Titanic, but for a personal reason had to delay her trip. She sold the tickets to someone on the dock prior to sailing. Our friend stated that he wouldn’t be here if she had taken that ship.

Now, this is getting close to home as we would not have our very good friends. It’s amazing the ramification of our decisions that we make. Because she sold that ticket, we have good friends.

It is really mind boggling if you sit and think about this, isn’t it? The only difference between someone dying and someone not ever being born is that after dying there was someone there. In the other case the person that was never there would be only there in your mind if you just happened to think about someone that never existed. Strange.

Memorial day thought

Memorial day has come and gone. During that time I was emailing information to friends that I had received in recognition of the day. My friend Mel responded with the following, which is extremely accurate these days. With his permission, I share it with you.

"THOSE WILL HAVE TO SUFFICE AS GOOD OLD DAYS, WHEN WARS COULD BE WON, NOT MERLY FOUGHT. 67 YEARS AGO, THE LINES BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD WERE CLEARLY DRAWN, AND THE WORD VICTORY COULD STILL BE IN THE VOCABULARY."

How true.

The case of the spinning egg in milk

Now here's another thing to ponder on a nice day like today. Yes the weather is actually nice today, not hot and humid, not raining, not snowing, just nice and sunny (so far anyway)..