From my government via the National Weather Service which ruminates about the minutia of advection and troughs and progging 850hb molecule collisions and all that before getting to the money quote:
...EITHER WAY NO COLD AIR IN SIGHT.
Free market Nostradami agree, warm for at least the next two weeks.
Ahhhhhh.
Mar 5, 2012
Mar 4, 2012
Awwwww
The man who gave us the refined wookie, the self we wish to be, had died. RIP Ralph McQuarrie.
Speaking of civil discourse...
Ron Paul finishes second in Washington and the local press reports;
Attending his first caucus at the Labor Temple in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, Dillon Smith, 31, vowed to write in Paul's name no matter who is on the ballot in November...
Good for you, Dillon. And it isn't a "wasted" vote. It is a statement of enlightened disgust, of which we have too few.
"I would rather die than vote for any of the other candidates," said Smith,...
That may be carrying things further than necessary. You could just move to another country, like maybe Malawi, where all of our over-the-hill celebrity sex sirens lived and adopted babies during the eight years of the Bush Administration.
... because the country needs someone who will "basically slit the throat of the federal government."
Attention all aromatherapy clinics in the Los Angeles-Frisco corridor! Surely you understand that Dillon is speaking metaphorically and has not demanded ventilating any actual human jugulars.
Attending his first caucus at the Labor Temple in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, Dillon Smith, 31, vowed to write in Paul's name no matter who is on the ballot in November...
Good for you, Dillon. And it isn't a "wasted" vote. It is a statement of enlightened disgust, of which we have too few.
"I would rather die than vote for any of the other candidates," said Smith,...
That may be carrying things further than necessary. You could just move to another country, like maybe Malawi, where all of our over-the-hill celebrity sex sirens lived and adopted babies during the eight years of the Bush Administration.
... because the country needs someone who will "basically slit the throat of the federal government."
Attention all aromatherapy clinics in the Los Angeles-Frisco corridor! Surely you understand that Dillon is speaking metaphorically and has not demanded ventilating any actual human jugulars.
Five neighbors who showed up from his precinct also supported Paul and voted 6-0 to elect Smith as a delegate to an upcoming legislative-district convention.
On the other hand, you never know. If I were a thug bent on violence, I think I'd avoid taking my jugular to Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.
On the other hand, you never know. If I were a thug bent on violence, I think I'd avoid taking my jugular to Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.
Mar 2, 2012
Air solution
Some fellows manage to run a house and even a hobby gun-tinkering shop without compressed air. This is sad. Forget people on food stamps; an airless man is the truly deprived soul.
Couple of months ago I became one. The 10-or-12 year-old Campbell-Hausfield blew up. It was my own fault. A consumer-grade machine -- the happy-homeowner model -- it still would have lasted years longer if I were more religious about turning it off when I left the shop. A slow leak in the system kept it needlessly cycling on and off, at least trebling the wear.
I recently hauled a new one home. It's also assuredly non-professional, with an advertised output smaller than the old one, about five cfpm at 90 psi. That's enough for most of the work around here, but too wussy if I decide to use air-hog tools -- sanders, etc. The situation is improved by adding an extra tank to the system.
Aha! Opportunity knocks.
I've never had a convenient air outlet in the gun/reloading shack. But now the old C-H tank will be mounted in or adjacent to the room and fed by the new magic air densifier thourgh permanent piping to its on-board tank. A whip hose will be handy to the bench. One result: tidier gun innards. Another: About 35 gallons of total storage capacity, just in case I want to sand-blast this or that.
Well, that's probably already more than you want to know about me and my air. So I'll sign off now.
Oh wait, you have a question? ...
Well, yes, hot compressed air is sometimes useful, but I'll be damned if I can think up a way to pipe Al Sharpton into the system
Couple of months ago I became one. The 10-or-12 year-old Campbell-Hausfield blew up. It was my own fault. A consumer-grade machine -- the happy-homeowner model -- it still would have lasted years longer if I were more religious about turning it off when I left the shop. A slow leak in the system kept it needlessly cycling on and off, at least trebling the wear.
I recently hauled a new one home. It's also assuredly non-professional, with an advertised output smaller than the old one, about five cfpm at 90 psi. That's enough for most of the work around here, but too wussy if I decide to use air-hog tools -- sanders, etc. The situation is improved by adding an extra tank to the system.
Aha! Opportunity knocks.
I've never had a convenient air outlet in the gun/reloading shack. But now the old C-H tank will be mounted in or adjacent to the room and fed by the new magic air densifier thourgh permanent piping to its on-board tank. A whip hose will be handy to the bench. One result: tidier gun innards. Another: About 35 gallons of total storage capacity, just in case I want to sand-blast this or that.
Well, that's probably already more than you want to know about me and my air. So I'll sign off now.
Oh wait, you have a question? ...
Well, yes, hot compressed air is sometimes useful, but I'll be damned if I can think up a way to pipe Al Sharpton into the system
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