There are some really good ‘shade tree’ mechanics around our local area… 57 Ford F-100 Panel truck. A 53 3100 Chevy pickup… And then there was ‘something’ that somebody had made up… Not old school, but pretty funny never the … Continue reading
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Maybe there IS a significant ‘cheating underbelly’ at the highest levels of ‘professional’ chess… U.S. chess grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann, the target of cheating allegations at the highest level of the game, has made a counter-move against his accusers, filing … Continue reading
Sneaky sailors… LOL The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought the master, … Continue reading
Sometimes you just have to laugh at a review… Excellent does not cover it. I am not much on sword and sorcery, but this is one heck of a fun read. Best waste of 20 min I have had in … Continue reading
The Lost 52 Project is an organization dedicating its time and resources to finding these lost subs. This month, the Navy History and Heritage Command verified the discovery of the Grayback, which the Lost 52 Project found 1,427 feet below … Continue reading
A little humor to start the week… ENGINEER IDENTIFICATION TEST You walk into a room and notice that a picture is hanging crooked. You… Straighten it. Ignore it. Buy a CAD system and spend the next six months designing a … Continue reading
Dammit… Charla King, her husband Ross King, and three of their five children (two are too young) are — or rather were — very active in the Cherokee County 4-H chapter. But disheartened by the stands the national chapter seemed to be … Continue reading
@#%$*( econazis, ecovandals, or whatever the hell you want to call them REALLY need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law! Two activists just threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s original masterpiece, “Sunflowers” to protest natural gas … Continue reading
I’m a day late, but Happy Birthday to the US Navy! And a bit of throwback… From 1945, the capture of U-505 by the USS Guadalcanal off the Azores. It’s 19 minutes long, but was filmed during the operation and … Continue reading
This is just a ‘tad’ odd… The Navy is investigating what caused the drinking water aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln to become rank and cloudy last month. It is at least the second instance of fouled drinking water on … Continue reading