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Monday, October 12, 2020
Sunday, October 11, 2020
The way pay to park spots are enforced
of course, custom making a ramp, and carrying it in the trunk, instantly makes this useless
http://mildlyinteresting-blog.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-way-pay-to-park-spots-are-enforced.html
news
I start a new job 10 hours from now, and this will result in a lot less content.
The last job was at a car dealership, where the amount of work depends on the number of customers, which is why I, and many others, were laid off 7 months ago.
I never heard back from them, and unemployment runs out, so I was very motivated to get a job, and I was lucky to get one now, with only 3 months of unemployment left (there was an unexpected 4 month extention, as things never got better in the job market, in just the last 2 weeks, Regal laid off 20,000 workers, Disney laid off 40,000)
The last job was as a photographer at a car dealership, for 6 years, and it was great. As I was saying the work load depended on the customers, so there was time with nothing to do, for most employees there, the drivers who pick up or drop off customers in the service dept, the parts dept, the salesmen, the lube oil techs, there's a lot of people at a car dealership that have no work if there are no customers, and I had lots of time to add to the blog... and it was great while it lasted, but nice things don't last.
I'll be getting back to factory work, repairing and testing stuff, and believe it or not, it's a pay cut. Probably because new hires don't get paid much at any job, no matter how qualified, over qualified, or desperately needed they are. It has been like that at every job I've had, you start getting bless than your old job, but get a pay raise at the 6 month mark the 1 year, the 2 year, and the 5 year mark.
Or maybe it's just the glut of unemployed creating a moment when there's no reason to pay more than the lowest a company can, in order to increase profits and increase stockholder dividends. Stockholders always are a higher priority than employees, at every corporation I've worked for, Time Warner, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Solar Turbines, It's obvious, just look and see who gets catered meetings.
Anyway, the new job means I'm no longer sitting in quarantine keeping busy adding to the blog, watching tv, and other stuff I'm working on, so, 9 or 10 less hours a day than the past 6 years of blogging.
I think it's safe to say there will be no reason to look in a couple times a day to keep up. I won't be anywhere near half as much as I've been posting.
As always, if anyone wants to hire me full time, and see me get out and roam around to cover events, museums, and random stuff on the streets, they can just let me know and I'll quit punching a time clock
the first airplane ride I ever had was around 1975, on this airline
it was probably a DC 10, or 727 that I rode on though
This was back when the pilots would take the little kids (me) into the cockpit and show them the controls, and the kids would get a small airliner pin.
Have you heard the lie that automated camera tickets are reviewed by a cop, per the law that only the police can cite you with a ticket, before sending them out in the mail? If it wasn't obvious that is bullshit before, it is now
you can't issue a ticket for speeding to the car on the back of a tow truck, you law enforcement morons.
Clearly there's no one looking at these, or they are asleep on the job, or they are idiots. You pick one.
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2020/09/fucking-mondays_21.html#more
Saturday, October 10, 2020
El Noodlerino
https://el-dexturismo.tumblr.com/post/630366286512259072#notes
Found at SEMA 2018 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/11/race-ready-trans-am.html but this photo is far better than what I could achieve at SEMA without a ladder
Bill France could probably afford any car he wanted to drive in the Carrera Panamericana... choosing a Nash must have been due to a good reason (thanks Steve)
Bill France had cut a deal with Nash to make them the Official Pace Car of NASCAR. Nash even entered NASCAR races in at least 1950 - 1952, and even won a 150 lap race at Charlotte Speedway in 1950.
After the 1950 Carrera Panamericana (which allowed only strictly stock vehicles and included more than one Nash), the No. 37 car entered a few NASCAR heats.
After the 1950 Carrera Panamericana (which allowed only strictly stock vehicles and included more than one Nash), the No. 37 car entered a few NASCAR heats.
During the Carrera Panamericana, one Nash was running 1st when it blew a tire 10 miles short of the finish line. They changed the tire and took 3rd place.
ok, some one probably understands this, why does the closest bug look smallest?
the source says that these are a VW Brilkever, a Kever, and a Cabriolet, at the Zandvoort.
So, the split rear window bug is called a Brilkever, the Kever is a word for the bug/beetle.
I've never heard of the term Brilkever, so, learn something new every day!
The Brilkever had the split rear window, was built from 1945 to 1953 and had an output of 25 hp, and was compact.
I know that the Zandvoort is a racetrack in the Netherlands, maybe in translation it appears in the description as a word meaning where they are racing, and not trying to describe the 3rd car. Translations are not perfect
Friday, October 09, 2020
I don't see how this can be a good idea, getting kids to think that they can talk to cars (thanks Gary!)
the Ontario Safety League and British Petroleum got together in 1959, and from 1959 through 1964, the League toured Mr. Beep throughout Ontario during the summer, giving traffic safety lectures to schoolchildren.
The first roadside rest stop, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
the idea caught on, and about 10 years later one was made in the Lower Peninsula
https://www.facebook.com/groups/447886021929743/permalink/3606018269449820/
Thursday, October 08, 2020
The idea of taking a plane from the skies and burying it undergrownd is that of British contemporary artist Roger Hiorns, to symbolize the end of an era, a symbolic act of saying good-bye to an era of development represented by the MiG planes.
2 years later the country changed it's mind and exhumed it.
Riddle me this, why do we have robots on mars, but it took until now to put cameras on Georgia school buses to ticket the assholes that risk kids lives by driving past when the stop sign is out? buses are now taking pictures of "Stop runners". If you pass a bus while the stop sign is out and the red lights are flashing
The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office is working together with Carroll County Schools by reviewing violation video and license plate images for final approval prior to a citation being issued. In Georgia, the penalty for a violation will warrant the vehicle’s owner a $300 fine for the first violation, a $750 fine for the second, and a third violation in a five-year period will result in a $1,000 fine.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/569564550174447/permalink/991024321361799
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