Thursday, September 24, 2026
I'm just going to recommend you not use Zeus Transport out of Miami
They arrived like this, then told the car owner to pay up and get his car off - himself - or they haul it away
I'd just flatten their tires, and let them figure it out.
New York’s only fraction of a street, (the only street with a fractioned number in New York City) 6 1/2 Avenue was given its official signposts in July 2012 by the Department of Transportation.
The thoroughfare is part of the over 500 areas in the city that are known as Privately Owned Public Spaces. These POPs originated in the 1960s when the city gave property developers incentives for creating public spaces as part of their new buildings. These privately owned public spaces usually took the shape of plazas, atriums, walk through arcades.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Keller winery in Petaluma has a couple race car sculptures, one is of the founder in a 29 Benz
Above was made by sculptor Lawrence Braun
I haven't found out anything about this one yet
https://www.sonomamag.com/local-winery-shines-spotlight-on-under-the-radar-petaluma-gap/
an interesting photo of the Nardi Bisiluro 750 LM55
if you want to see more of this car, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/12/coolest-photo-ive-seen-in-while.html
and for something similar but maybe cooler, the Pegaso Bisiluro, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/pegaso-z-102-bisiliuro.html
Drunk driver hit the the truck and trailer while it was parked in Kansas for kustomville this past Sunday around 4am.
Railroad lettering from engineering departments and draftsmen, who would create letters and designs which their railroad would use when painting its equipment. Very few lettering fonts existed in the signpainters era
Lehigh Valley never used the letter "S" but the draftsmen drew up a complete alphabet.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Putin blew up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border Saturday morning, in what seems to have been an assassination attempt on former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, former CIA chief David Patraeus, and security advisers from several European Union states.
very cool to see a classic Land Rover on the new season of Ted Lasso, it's rarely on screen, but the character that owns it (goal keeper) has nothing but trouble with it
Deputy Dumbass Carlos Ramos, was relieved of duty following a video showing him tailing a driver too closely, for a LONG time. The Galveston County Sheriff, Jimmy Fullen, called the officer's actions "inappropriate, unacceptable, and inconsistent with the department's standards,"
Hooray for dash cam, and to all asshole cops that think they are immune to punishment for their daily asshole behavior, here's notice... the day is coming faster than you think.
"As soon as she passed, he just swept over into her lane right behind her, and he rode her bumper the entire way," she said. "It was like harassment, and purposefully abusing his power just because she passed him."
Officials said the deputy tailed the driver for an extended period. It is unclear why the deputy was following the driver.
The Galveston County Sheriff's Office identified the deputy as Carlos Ramos.
According to records from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, Ramos has been with the sheriff's office since 2018.
the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight planes, five Spitfires, two Hurricanes, a Lancaster, a Dakota and two Chipmunk aircraft, are kept airworthy for displays and commemorative events using tech manuals dating back to 1945, which assumed levels of knowledge and experience that were no longer taught.
The aircraft are flown by regular and reserve RAF aircrew between May and October, and about 40 engineers and technicians at Coningsby help keep them operational.
"We've had to have wheels made for a Lancaster because they don't exist anymore," he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5zjzg7mzzvdo
major gas chains, including Walmart and 7-Eleven have been using AI software to collude and keep pump prices artificially high, and a new federal lawsuit by California will prove it (but I bet they settle out of court to avoid conviction)
The case tests California’s updated antitrust law, which now treats algorithm-driven common pricing as potential price-fixing, amid statewide gas averaging $5.46 a gallon and growing scrutiny of corporate pricing tactics.
Kalibrate’s program, according to the lawsuit, encourages gas stations to upload private price data. The company’s AI-powered software, called Kalibrate Fuel Prices, then uses the data to recommend prices in real time, promising in its marketing materials to help gas companies “squeeze out profit.”
“The quintessential image of price fixing is a secret deal made between competitors over cigars in a smoky back room,” attorneys wrote in the complaint. “But as technology has advanced, so too have the mechanisms available to competitors to fix prices without the cigars, the smoke, or even the room.”
The lawyers represent two firms that include staff members who worked at the Federal Trade Commission during an era of bolstered antitrust enforcement
The lawyers represent two firms that include staff members who worked at the Federal Trade Commission during an era of bolstered antitrust enforcement
By the way, the price of gas isn't the only thing that California is #1 in more than one thing, it's also the highest price of electricity in the lower 48. It turns out that when you have made an effort for decades to prevent nuclear reactor powered generation stations from operating, and haven't worked at increasing hydro dam numbers, and are in a drought over and over, that prevents the few dams from getting enough water to run the generators, and done nothing to capitalize on your oil reserves by having state owned refineries. How the hell is California not as affluent as any other oil producing state (looking at Alaska)? Do we GIVE the oil to the oil companies? Or just let them take it, and profit from it?
I think we're 1st, or 2nd, in cost of living, and cost of rent, and cost of homes, and cost of car insurance.
So, yeah, we're number one. Yippeeeeee
Sidebar,
The cost of gas is going up, so, why is the price of oil dropping? Not just a little, but the lowest in 44 years
This idea didn't come from marketing. It was proposed by Jamie Durnin, an Aer Lingus cabin manager.
Starting October 25, Aer Lingus's Dublin-to-Nashville service will fly as EI95, a nod to "9 to 5." The return flight to Dublin becomes EI92. On approach to Nashville, the crew will identify themselves to air traffic control as "Shamrock 925."
some idiot construction crew were digging alongside an Amtrak rail line in New Jersey, and not consulting the city about what was underground... they hit the main fiberoptic line, 400 individual fibers, and stopped flights at New York's three major airports: Newark, JFK and LaGuardia
According to Verizon: a fiber-optic cable running alongside an Amtrak rail line in New Jersey. "Construction contractors working in the area dug up and cut our cable," the company said.
By early afternoon, FlightAware counted 681 flights affected. Some departures had resumed at JFK and LaGuardia by 1:30 p.m., while Newark appeared to remain grounded.
The FAA has not yet said whether the JFK and LaGuardia stops were caused by the same problem.
A Philadelphia controller shared the cause of yesterday's equipment outage with waiting pilots.
FAA administrator Brian Bedford told reporters that the primary circuit into that air traffic control facility, which carries in and out data, failed Monday morning.
Then, the agency discovered that the backup fiber optic line had been severed somewhere between New Brunswick and Newark, New Jersey.
Amtrak said that the fiber cut did not involve one of its crews. "This incident occurred on New Jersey Transit property and involved a New Jersey Transit contractor. Questions regarding the outage and related work should be directed to New Jersey Transit," a spokesperson said.
President L B Johnson was notoriously demanding and constantly complained that the cabin temperature on Air Force One was either too hot or too cold, driving the flight engineers crazy with requests to change it... so they installed a temp control knob by his seat to shut him up. It wasn't wired to anything, and did nothing - except make him feel he had control over the temp
Technicians retrofitted the cabin wall near the president’s desk with a prominent, custom-built control knob labeled for climate regulation.
Unbeknownst to Johnson, the dial was completely dummy hardware, connected to no electrical wiring, pneumatic ducting, or actuator assemblies whatsoever.
Whenever the temperature felt off, the president simply reached over and turned the non-functional dial to his desired setting, fully satisfied that he was actively commanding the jet’s internal atmosphere.
The annoying complaints ceased immediately
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