Tuesday, July 28, 2026
good news on the bridges and roadkill issue, in the Amazon, "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"
Project Reconecta installed eight rope bridges in a municipality in Brazil, and a 15-month study used camera traps to document thousands of arboreal wildlife adapting to new aerial crossings.
Reconecta’s creator, biologist Fernanda Abra, a National Geographic Explorer and winner of the Whitley Award, is now expanding these low-cost conservation tools to other Brazilian biomes and neighboring Suriname.
Brazil’s federal transport department has officially designated the rope bridge design as the recommended national standard for highways to curb the millions of wildlife deaths recorded on roads annually.
Sean Murphy's latest solo project (famous for outstanding comic book illustrations, graphic novels, and Batman) is published SIDEWAYS--a wider format helps capture all the car mayhem!
"In the future of America, cars have been outlawed. The people have gotten use to the comfort and convenience of PODS, giving power and control to the Money Barons who secretly control the cities. The only driver left is a man named CLUTCH--a smuggler (and retired stuntman/race car driver/overall badass) who's forced to get behind the wheel ONE LAST TIME in order to save his granddaughter. What starts out as a simple car chase quickly turns into a political upheaval as onlookers start seeing Clutch as a revolutionary hell bend on regaining the freedom that most Americans have surrendered."
Think "Escape from NY" meets "Vanishing Point".
Also, the book is published SIDEWAYS--a wider format will help me better capture all the car mayhem!
I posted about Sean last August when I discovered his incredible art https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/08/you-can-be-damn-sure-when-artist-has.html
The Gordie Howe International Bridge officially opened to vehicle traffic this week, the event was led by the Governor of Michigan driving a Mustang ( built in Michigan, engine assembled in Canada)
Named after the legendary Canadian-born Detroit Red Wings hockey player Gordie Howe, it's the first new international border crossing between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, in over 60 years.
Compliment of the month from Bert! Thank you Cacophony!
Dear Jesse,
I can't grasp or even imagine how you managed to accomplish so much, all the while juggling work and leisure
into the mix.
Most folks are like me, looking in on you, almost religiously in fact, without commenting.
Not for not wanting to do so,
but unable too because of our own self-centered, and overly hectic, too busy, preoccupied lives.
My words may appear to be only an octogenarians ramblings but believe me when I say, my day would be significantly
impoverished if I wasn't able to access your blog as one of the first items on my days to do list!
Catch you on the other side Jesse, enjoy the ride in the meantime.....
Bert L
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! Fyi, Peacock is bringing a live-action television adaptation of DCC
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 lead 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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