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An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)

Friday, March 29, 2024

Mobilization

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 "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." - Voltaire
Sunday, March 24, 2024

"I'm not dead yet"

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 "The mirror is a worthless invention.  The only way to see yourself is through another's eyes." - Voltaire
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Waiting for Springtime

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 "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, that is called a mistake." - Confucius
Sunday, March 03, 2024

Return of the Measles - A public service announcement

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 "All external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassion...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

The Black Market - It's amazing what you can buy!

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 "No man is so foolish as to desire war and not peace.  For in peace, children bring their parents to the graveyard.  In war, parents b...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

The Big Easy

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 "But this I know: If all mankind were to take their troubles to the marketplace with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what h...
Sunday, February 04, 2024

1999 Subaru Legacy Engine Heater and Timer

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"A society prospers when men plant trees whose shadows they will never rest in."  - Ancient Proverb
Monday, January 29, 2024

Half a Sunday

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 "Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man." - Bertrand Russell
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Quick update, late January 2024

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 "The US policy toward the third world should be depopulation." - Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of State
Friday, January 19, 2024

After the cold, snow

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"The poor tell us who we are, and the prophets tell us who we could be.  So we hide the poor and kill the prophets." - Philip Berr...
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I served on a nuclear sub during the cold war, and worked in a nuclear test facility doing 'Star Wars' research. I have also worked in geothermal, coal, and natural gas turbine power plants. It's all been interesting, which is what makes it fun.
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