Monday, July 27, 2026
looks interesting. Of course I bought a copy, just look at the cover!
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but it will not get read for a little while... who has time? I get home around 6pm, I wake up around 6am, and have to stuff in blogging, catching up on email, facebook, commentary, posting, etc...
I've heard SO MUCH about the new book series Dungeon Crawler Carl... and spotted this, the 8th book in the series, cover.... looks interesting!
Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.
I was at the Grimm 15th anniversary panel in Hall H when the least actor, David Giuntoli, mentioned his score of a Land Rover from the production company, for 900 bucks. a couple hours later, I was walking by the celeb parking area, and ...
notice the back tire on the curb? Dude, take a sec, get it right. Don't damage your tires on curbs
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters joins Teamsters Canada and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) in calling on Canadian National Railway (CN) to immediately stop operating trains through active wildfire zones and put the safety of Teamsters Canada rail members first.
A recent viral video on social media shows a CN freight train engulfed in flames while traveling through an active wildfire in Northern Ontario. The train was operated by Teamsters Canada Rail Conference members, whose quick thinking and professionalism ensured that no one was injured. But those workers should never have been put in that position. CN should never be sending train crews into such dangerous conditions.
for just the video, without the news anchors facebook.com/reel/1350124187104363/?s=single_unit
Sunday, July 26, 2026
beautiful... why don't I know where there are high quality videos, of someone who has recorded the drive through scenery like this... with nothing but the camera on top of the vehicle, and the sound of the vehicle?
This is what the back roads in Houghton County Michigan looked like in late August in the 80s, when I was a kid
the Daily Timewaster just posted this : Tazio Nuvolari | Moto Vitelloni, and thanks to Robert Menking, I learned the history of this car, the Porsche type 360 Grand Prix designed by Cistalia in Italy, built by Porsche
the history of the Cistalia Porsche at https://www.stuttcars.com/porsche-type-360/
It was designed on behalf of Cisitalia by Porsche between 1946–47, and is therefore also known by its Porsche project number, Typ 360.
At the same time there was one Austrian-born former racer and self-taught engineer Karl Abarth living in Italy who wanted to work with racing machines as the war was over. He contacted Ferry Porsche. Abarth knew the Porsche family through his wife who used to be the secretary to Anton Piëch (husband of Ferdinand Porsche’s daughter and Ferry’s sister Louise). In Italy, Karl Abarth had became Carlo Abarth – a name every auto enthusiast knows. In the end of September 1946, Abarth became Porsche engineering company’s representative in Italy.
this concludes about an hour of going through photos and posting so you have fresh stuff to look at on Monday!
Comic Con 2026 is over, and I found some good stuff to post, but it's less vehicle related than my typical daily variety
I would ordinarily post more, but I haven't gotten much sleep lately, and I'm wiped out, and need to get more than the last couple of weeks of 6 hours or less per night.
During comic con, nightly sleep varied from 6 hours on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday, 2 on Thursday, and 2.5 on Friday. Saturday I got about 10 to catch up some on the lost sleep... I felt better, but still a bit groggy
On average, Tuesday night to Friday night, I got about 3.6 hours a night
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