TIL, via a birthday present CD from my oldest granddaughter, that the Ramones covered the Stones' "Street Fighting Man."
I have no idea why I didn't know this previously, but a small part of my life is now complete.
TIL, via a birthday present CD from my oldest granddaughter, that the Ramones covered the Stones' "Street Fighting Man."
I have no idea why I didn't know this previously, but a small part of my life is now complete.
In reply to Stealthtercel :
Oh, wow. I know what I'm searching for next.
TIL what all the construction is about in town. 10 miles to the north and about the same distance south, lines of dump trucks and heavy equipment are at every train crossing, bridge and where you can see tracks; hauling 10 X 10" beams and bales of hay. What I can see are the logs laid down on hay, then more hay and the equipment runs down it to the work site.
Interesting.
"The Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) is an innovative power transmission project that will deliver clean, renewable hydropower to the New York metro area. It is an approximately 1,000-megawatt underground and underwater high voltage, direct current electric transmission facility extending from the United States' border with Canada to Queens, New York."
The other day. ....That I'm supposed to be de-scaling the tankless water heater once a year. OOPS. Ordered the pump, de-scaler solution, and two hoses and doing that now. about 15 min left.
TIL that my 2012 Impala has a crazy 15 year/150k mile emissions warranty, since it's a PZEV. I could have gotten both the in-tank fuel pump and high-pressure fuel pump that I replaced done for free. At least I'm getting the evap vapor line for free.
Every horse in this years Kentucky derby is a descendant of secretariat.
a US quarter is about an inch across if you need to measure something....
well really .955 inch 
In reply to californiamilleghia :
I've been using the end of my pinky for years.
A (US) dollar bill is a pretty handy way to measure six inches. They're a little over at 6.14" but certainly close enough for rough field approximations.
TIL (from FB):
In 1960, Alfred “Freddy” Heineken visited the island of Curaçao and was shocked by what he saw. The beaches were covered in discarded Heineken bottles, and there were few systems in place to collect or reuse them. This experience troubled him—not only because of the environmental mess, but also because of what it said about poverty and waste. At the time, beer bottles were usually returned to breweries and reused multiple times, but on this island, that system didn’t exist. Freddy saw a problem, but also a creative solution: what if the bottles themselves could be reused in a practical and meaningful way?
That idea sparked the design of a bottle that could double as a building block. In 1963, Heineken developed the “WOBO,” short for “World Bottle.” It was a rectangular beer bottle with flat sides and small grooves so the bottles could stack like bricks. His hope was that empty bottles could be used to build houses or shelters in areas where construction materials were expensive or hard to find. He even built a small prototype house using WOBOs on his estate in the Netherlands to show how it could work. Though the idea didn’t catch on widely at the time, the concept was ahead of its era—combining recycling, social impact, and design. Freddy Heineken’s vision for the WOBO showed how creative thinking could turn a simple product, like a beer bottle, into something that could help solve bigger problems.
Pretty handy if you're building an Earthship like those n Taos, NM.
I was in Curacao last year and noticed a few houses that had green glass bottle "skylights" in certain rooms and this makes so much sense now. I really loved it there if you are looking for a nice vacation spot.
After 3 tanks of gas, TIL the LaSalle gets 5.44 mpg. The new 16 gallon tank is smaller than the stock 20 gallon and the gage never read full when I know it was full. (no vent tube so I knew it was full when it blew back in my lap). Filled it, noted the miles and refilled after 70 or so miles.
5.44, Yikes!
TIL that 3/8 coarse bolts and m10x1.5 are so similar that they easily spin into each others nuts (that didn't sound right) but they should not be mixed up
In reply to loosecannon :
They're close but not interchangeable. Now, 10-32 and m5, different story.
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