Saturday, September 05, 2026
Friday, September 04, 2026
Dallas put cameras on garbage trucks to scan homes on the routes, to use AI to find code violations to raise revenue from fines
Dallas homes are now being "blight scored" by AI-powered cameras the city recently mounted on trash collection trucks to identify possible code violations, to raise funds via fines. Welcome to the new age of taxes
before inflation, the 21 drinking age, the 55 speed limit, unleaded gas, and radial tires... there were lots of mom n pop businesses like this all across the country, with gas pumps and a bar
Government Lake in Lake County, Michigan, within Webber Township, on the west side of highway M-37, about one mile north of Baldwin, Michigan.
For over 50 years, it was famous for the historic Government Lake Lodge and Cabins, originally established in the 1930s as a beloved community gathering hub.
Baldwin resident George Duffing established the Government Lake Park in the 1930's, as a privately owned recreation area with a lodge and overnight cabins "built on the high wooded shores of Government Lake."
The resort offered a picnic area, and a bathing beach, along with boating and fishing guides.
The eight cabins along the edge of the lake were described as "one, two and three bedroom, built of varnished logs with hardwood floors and three windows each for ventilation and cool comfort."
https://mail.michiganlakes.com/counties/michigan-lakes-by-county/lake/government-lake.html
the only thing this could rescue is small town cops from a boring weekend
some police dept is out to have fun offroading, just my 2 cents
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1456055622886758&set=pcb.1456077969551190
a hairpin on the Amalfi coast by Sorrento Italy
there used to be a LOT of companies making stuff in the USA 60 years ago
this switcher still works, and is in use
Thursday, September 03, 2026
too many excavators have gotten stuck, and sunk, underwater... this one was sadly too much trouble to get out for the insurance company. There just aren't enough experienced excavator operators out there that regularly get these unstuck... I've seen a dozen or more pulled out, and even posted the videos. It's very time consuming, but not difficult.
this machine has a brand new engine in it, so after several months of recovery attempts, and the insurance company paying out out on it for a total loss, the home owner wanted someone to come pull it out for basically free in return for making a YouTube video about the recovery. There are a LOT of people doing "unstuck", underwater, and recovery videos on Youtube now
great and new car chase stunt, which is what I HOPE for with every movie... that the Hollywood people come up with something new and marvelous enneth Branagh
the new movie on Apple tv streaming, "Mayday" with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh has them using a USSR mobile ICBM launcher to escape from the KGB
and when the KGB try to surround the enormous mobile launcher, with little WW2 Jeep size 4x4s, the fantastic new move, is to extend the stabilizers! It pushes the little 4x4s off the road
The Convair Restaurant, Erie, Colorado in the 80s
The restaurant was made from the carcass of a Ports Of Call Denver CV 990 (a charter outfit) that had been stripped for parts and junked.
It was located at what was then known as Tri-County Airport, and there was a ramp outside where you could taxi up for a "fly in" dinner.
The airframe had been completely stripped, so the inside was fitted out as a long, skinny dining room, with the cockpit set up as a booth that would seat eight people. The kitchen was in the building underneath, along with a bar and lounge. Food would be sent up to the plane via a very finicky dumb waiter.
The restaurant was only around for a decade or so. It closed up in the late 80s, and the plane was scrapped in the mid 90s.
Wednesday, September 02, 2026
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