Muppet awesomeness. Enjoy:
HT: Thinklings
Category: Goofiness
Update …
Sorry for the silence. I’ve been busy with Christmas stuff (did the fam. presents last night), basement remodel planning and working on layout tweaks for salguod.net. More substantive (and not-so-substantive) stuff to come soon.
However, as I was slogging through CSS & HTML to get the look that I want, Jesse at Plasticmind pointed out on Twitter just what I needed to make salguod.net more appealing, mouthwatering and appetizing.
Bacon.
Seven Things
Kansas Bob posted 7 things on his blog. I’ve done these memes before too, but it’s been a while. So here are 7 unusual or less known things about me:
- I like eggs over easy and I dip my toast in the gooey egg yolks. The gooey egg makes my wife nearly ill so I don’t eat ’em much.
- I’m not a lover of fruit pies. I can appreciate a good apple or peach, but given the choice between that and chocolate pudding pie, I’ll take the chocolate every time.
- When the family is together going someplace, 99% of the time I do the driving. I enjoy driving and don’t much like riding in the passenger seat.
- Speaking of driving, I love to drive in bad weather. Rain, snow or fog, I don’t know why but I really enjoy it.
- In HS I really loved the Hitchhiker’s Guide series by Douglas Adams (still do).
- I drove the T’bird I currently own to the Homecoming dance in HS when my grandfather owned it.
- I passed up two affordable project cars during my college years. Between HS & college I had a chance to buy a rough but complete ’75 Hurst Olds W-55 that could have been had for about $800 and during my freshman year I passed on a very rough ’72 Camaro Z-28 4-speed for $1,500. Both cars are pretty rare (1 of something like 1,200) and both needed a lot of work. I did the wise thing in turning them down but sometimes wish I would have been stupid and had some fun putting an interesting car together.
How about you, what are your seven things? Blog ’em and let me know or leave a comment.
“You’re Sitting on a Chair, In The Sky“
Very, very funny and very true. We had rotary phones tethered to the wall through High School. Phone numbers with 0’s and 9’s drove me nuts. Oh, and try to win a radio contest. The 10th caller was already in before you finished dialing.
Via Jared
Jett-amino!
I came across this while taking the family to dinner on Saturday. It was in the Grove City OH O’Charley’s parking lot where there were a bunch of HS kids taking their dates to homecoming. I’m wondering if some lucky girl got to ride in this thing in her frou-frou dress. I quickly grabbed my daughter’s cell phone to record the find (Dad’s phone is so ancient, it has no camera).
Evidently a VW bunny truck wasn’t rare enough for this guy (he obviously had access to one) nor was he content with the all too common Rabbit/Golf to pickup conversion. No, he went the route of a second gen Jetta to pickup conversion. Never see another of those driving around Columbus!
This has all the marks of fine craftsmanship associated with any good car/truck conversion. Note the stylish C pillar extensions (move over Avalanche!), the exquisitely fabricated divider with the large glass opening (not evident in the photos is that it actually had a defroster grid) and the Great Stuff foam sealant for a comfortable, air tight cabin. Also not evident in the photos is the pop riveted body panels that gracefully smooth out the transition between the Jetta body and the VW truck bed extension.
If I had more time and a better camera, I’d have gotten shots of the interior which was mostly stripped if I remember right. The divider is forward of where the rear seat back was, so this is not a 4 or 5 passenger truck in the spirit of a Ridgeline as one might hope, but more like an extended cab. Instead, where the rear seat had been, there was a home made sub woofer box with 2 downward facing 12″ subs held down with clear packing tape stretched across their magnets. I’d be a little concerned that were the full power of those subs be unleashed, not only would they break free from their adhesive backed moorings, perhaps the entire bed would be as well. The impressive looking amps were cleverly laid loose in the passenger foot well, resting against the center console, considerately, to make room for the lady’s feet.
This, my friends, is why the terrorists hate us. Because only in America can a young man, armed with nothing but a pair of old VWs, a pop rivet gun and a can of Great Stuff foam, can create such a work of art, and then use it to transport his date (and some unknown box of, uh, stuff) to the big dance. God bless America.
Full sized images:
Front Back
To the Guy Who Picked My Old Trimmer Out of the Trash
I know you’re not likely to find this post, but if you picked my old Craftsman 32cc trimmer from along the curb, congrats. It was free to me about 7 years ago but recently wouldn’t stay running. My wife said 7 years out of a free tool is a pretty good return on investment (she’s an accountant, she should know), so I ought to jsut go get a new one. So I picked up a Husqvarna 125L at Lowe’s and chucked the Craftsman.
I got the Husqvarna – you gotta love a word with a ‘q’ in the middle that’s not followed by a u’. Fun to say too, say it with me … Husqvarna. See?
So, I got the Husqvarna set up and lo and behold it wouldn’t stay running either. Hmmm. What’s the only common denominator?
The gas.
I had filled the new one with the same gas, left over from last season, that I had used on the old. I drained and disposed of the old gas and got fresh gas and 2 cycle oil. Tada! It now runs fine, which means that old Craftsman you picked up will likely run fine too, once you give it fresh gas. So, you get a nice free trimmer and I’m $200 poorer.
Lucky you.
(Of course, you’ll still have to deal with the maddening bump head on that thing that has a tendency to jam up and actually pop off the shaft like those crazy cars in old movies where the hood poops up and the wheels and doors pop off when they break down. And I get to say Husqvarna. Oh, and mine’s orange, which is cool.)
Pavlov Would Be So Proud
Remember Pavlov’s dog? I think Pavlov would love this mutt.
I certainly do. I’m not sure if it’s the engineering nerd in me or the computer nerd in me, but I think that this is awesome.
It’s Pi Day
In honor of March 14th, I bring you this unique and rare Mazda3 sedan, the not-often-seen Mazda3.141592653589793238462643383, or Mazda Pi for short.
I think the license plate makes it.
HT – Jalopnik
Weathermen Are Easy Targets
Forecast for this morning:
Snow between 3 AM and 8 AM, accumulation of around an inch, a little more to the south.
I sit here on the northern side of Columbus at 1PM and it’s still snowing like mad. There was already 2″ when I left the house at 7:30 AM, looks like almost 4″ now.
Heh.
Did You Know …
… that vomit removes Sharpie marks from clothing? Yep. Well, it at least fades them.
Just a little insight into how the last 24 hours have gone.
We now resume the previously scheduled blogging break, already in progress.
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