The three caballeros of Right Angle saddle up and ride to save America. And you were there.
https://youtu.be/S28M7ujearY
The three caballeros of Right Angle saddle up and ride to save America. And you were there.
The three caballeros of Right Angle saddle up and ride to save America. And you were there.
https://youtu.be/S28M7ujearY
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Gents, it amazes me that with his approval rating at 36%, Biden thinks he is doing so swimmingly that he is talking about running for reelection in 2024. I understand this is to give Kahmahlah the nudge, but it still shows tremendous ignorance.
Nice shirt Scott!
I’ve come to realize that Scott only has two shirts. This one he wears in all backstage episodes and the black one on right angles😂 Makes getting ready easier!
I stopped using Subway here in the UK back when they made some of their shops halal. Not Subways where you can get halal meat, but where there is ONLY halal meat. Today there are 150 or so. I emailed them at the time to ask exactly what they meant by the stores being halal. As halal/haram is much more than a matter of meat, I specifically asked about the financial arrangements and if they employed gay men or women at “certain times of the month”. They never replied.
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I use my dremmel tool a lot. Not for surgery … I save that for my woodcarving tools. This happened last night.
Had a melanoma removed back in 2011. I am missing a bit of muscle after the surgery, but 10 years beyond and still nothing came back, makes me very happy. That driver instructor sounds a lot like my Dad, who taught me how to drive with a stick shift.
3d printing with metal is 100% real look at a printer called the Mark Forge V and look at a competitor to SpaceX called Relativity Space
I, too, remember that Disney piece, The term they used for it was chain reaction.
Lol, Steve would hate the lights on my Jeep … I can create near daylight with the flick of a switch.
Of course, it’s not particularly legal to use them on public roads and I try to be a responsible, courteous, safe driver. I’m in no hurry, and have no need to cause any rancor but … I’ve been known to occasionally, under certain circumstance, flip that switch for an oncoming driver who has “forgotten” his brights are on.
Well before the point where he’s close enough that total loss of night vision might cause him to blindly crash into me. Those lights reach pretty far. I can light up a highway sign from a mile away.
Very handy lights if you’re out in the boonies with the local CERT trying to find a lost hipster bonehead in the middle of the night too. Hopefully while he’s still on his feet because dead bodies cause a whole ‘nother set of problems.
I don’t do this to just anybody either. It’s those people with hyper-bright bright lights that think they need to see the other side of the Atlantic Ocean when they’re on the road at night. Even then, if they drop their brights we have no problem. Likely the same people Steve is talking about needing a limit to the lumen output of their headlights.
Then there are those Karens that think they need to flash their brights at anyone who might, just maybe have their bright lights on when they should not. When I pull my boat back home from a day’s fishing the boat is just heavy enough on the hitch to lift the headlight aim a little. Those Karens always have to scold me with their bright lights.
So I flash my regular, normal, not hellishly bright headlights back at them to show I don’t have my bright lights on. If that’s the end of it then well and good. The headlight aim is a little high when I’m towing and I know that, and an honest mistake is an honest mistake. I know I’m dealing with a sincere, scolding Karen when after I do that they toggle their brights on and leave them there.
Big mistake.
A couple seconds of “the switch” usually clears that misunderstanding right up completely. I hope they’re big fans of purple spots. Because they’re going to be seeing them for a while.
The Nest device …
That’s saved my sister thousands of dollars. Let me explain.
She has a heat pump for HVAC. The old, dumb thermostat is not programmable at all and switched the system over to backup propane gas when the outside ambient temperature hit 50F. The heat pump system has two zones and is capable of providing heat to her 4,500 sq. ft. house down to about 36F, though loses efficiency the colder it gets.
But where I live electricity to run the heat pump is much, much cheaper than propane gas. Also while we do go through significant periods of the winter where we’re below 50F, there are far fewer instances where the ambient gets below 36F for any amount of time. She was seeing heating bills of around $450 to $500 during the winter months. For that expensive LP gas.
So I did some research and this was all well before Google/Alphabet bought out Nest Inc. The Nest thermostat, being fully programmable even down to when the backup heat source parameters were triggered and the point where burning LP was activated, was the best choice at that time.
She has two zones. She bought two Nest thermostats. I installed and programmed them for her. After they were installed she further dialed in the programming for maximum heating efficiency. The heat pump was then operating down to much lower ambient temperatures and the LP gas was consumed at a much, much lower rate.
This more than halved her LP gas costs while only adding a couple percent to the electric bill. It was a major savings well worth the effort. The cost of the new Nest thermostats was fully recovered with a tidy dividend the first winter, which happened to be a colder one for this area.
Being as they also have a fairly decent fireplace insert she decided to supplement her grid/LP heat with wood. They go through around a cord of wood per year, they can cut their own and I’ll help if they do. Or if they don’t feel ambitious or don’t get around to it in time for the wood to properly season they can buy seasoned wood for around $150 – $200 a cord.
This keeps the Nest thermostats from kicking in at all during the daylight hours as a rule. There are some exceptions but they’re not a large portion of the winter. The wood heat is also a particularly warm and comfortable sort of heat.
This further reduced the propane bill to only about $50 a month, maybe $75 on an unusually cold month. Long way from the $450 – $500 she was paying before.
It’s not all sunshine and roses however. Because the propane consumption dropped so drastically the propane company took her off “keep filled” and put her on an “as needed” sort of schedule. Then they rescinded all the discounts they were giving her for her propane purchases because they said it cost them more to maintain her as a customer being she bought less propane.
Even so it was a very nice net gain, just a little irksome to be paying more for a gallon of propane but nice to not be buying nearly so many gallons every winter.
If you include the wood and the electricity it costs about $125 +/- a month to heat that house in the winter now. Sometimes as high as $180, sometimes as low as $75. Depending on weather conditions.
Thousands of dollars in savings on heating bills since then. The Nest was a very crucial component in realizing those savings.
You’re welcome to your own opinions but in ours it would be silly to blow off the idea of a programmable thermostat providing the programmability is what is needed for this situation.
To my knowledge the Nest thermostats do not have any sort of commercial selling-type interface. You can’t buy anything through them and they do not carry any ads. At least the older ones pre-Google that I installed for my sister don’t have that kind of thing. For all I know they now have Google Voice or Alexa in them so YMMV.
Good to see you all having fun again.
“The three caballeros of Right Angle saddle up and ride to save America. And you were there.”
Heh … I like that and yes I was.
Thanks much for letting me come along for the ride. It’s well worth it, no matter how poorly cinched any saddles might be.
Hoping your biopsy results are favorable Bill.
re falling from a horse: That actually happened to me… many many moons ago I went for a ride on a horse (a week before I was due to be inducted into the Israeli army) and the saddle slipped sideways and I went down and hit the ground and my head hit the asphalt of the road that was there… I still don’t remember the actual fall… and ended up in hospital… changed the entire trajectory of my life… though I was finally inducted 2 years later…
re driving lessons… I went for a Motor league course in Toronto and I never forgot hearing… Remember , a car is a killing machine…
but didn’t have enough road experience before I moved to Israel … and had to learn on stick shift… One day it snowed in Jerusalem and it was glorious and pristine… and there were few cars on the road… so I walked downtown for my driving class… and found the school closed… of course… the next day there was a snowman competition judged by the Mayor! and probably a day or so later it was gone…
I got my license… I am convinced my teacher told the tester not to worry about some mistakes… he knew I would only drive automatic…
re grave quotes: My friend (who was a giant teddy bear ) had them write… Thin at last…
and no strobes please…..
Good story. I had some fun experiences in Israel when I was over in that part of the world and your story took me on a nice ride down memory lane. A couple of those experiences involved horses, hence the memory-by-association trigger. I hadn’t thought of those in a while.
Thanks for sharing.
The Turbo Encabulators is the name of my new band!
The original turbo Encabulator.
The 1977 update: The Rockwell Micro- Encabulator!!
I’m impressed that Steve read “Life in Hell”, takes me back to my college days.
Yes..Bill and Scott talk over Steve waaay too often. More on backstage (because it’s more free flow). Thanks whoever it was that wrote in that letter. I agree. More Steve, less Scott awkwardly laughing.
And if Bill and Scott actually heard Steve’s zingers, they would comment and BackStage would hit 1:30. I am all in on this. Backstage should be as long as a typical, short-version of TSL. Go for it!
Ooo. An oblique Bugs Bunny reference to end the show! Way to go, Scott!
HEY! Steve fixed his mic. Neat.
I was on a 70s government conspiracy movie kick about 5yrs ago. Watched em all including “Capricorn One”. The movie held up pretty well. The part were 3 OH-6s are taken down by a crop dusting bi-biplane is as silly as it was in the late 70s.
Just added to my Netflix queue – any other recommendations?
They’re all pretty good from a nostalgia perspective. 3 Days of the Condor, Black Sunday, Day of the Jackal. Parallax View is OK but Warren Beatty was meh and it looked pretty low budget even for the era. OTOH, The Domino Principle was surprisingly good. Not great but Gene Hackman’s always fun to watch.
And of course, the only one I haven’t already seen (Domino Principle) isn’t on Netflx
There should have been an alligator at the end of the movie. I was seriously expecting an alligator at the end. Like that alligator that popped up in “Crocodile Dundee”.
We need more movies featuring scenes with both alligators and hot blondes in thong swimsuits
Great. Now you’ve given me a new search term to look for.
Cheese Shop! thanks for that laugh Scott.
There is 3D Metal printing how it works I do not know.
The BabylonBee got it right about Beto:
As long as there are four lights!
Careful – that kind of talk got Picard banned from Twitter
https://babylonbee.com/news/picard-suspended-from-twitter-for-saying-he-sees-only-four-lights
I just realized I am channeling Fluffy Goat and just commenting as I am listening. I blame the Laphroaig.
Ditto!
Subway – not now nor will ever be a sponsor of Right Angle
There is at least one company that is 3D printing full-sized rocket bodies and nozzles out of metals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E&t=919s), so I must quibble about Bill’s quibble and say printing a small SS part would be child’s play.
Ah, quibbling a quibble. I like it.
(Follows a nonsensical quibble of a quibbling quibble while channeling the ghost of Lewis Carrol.)
But can they 3D print a rocket body with the nozzle in the right place using only one hand while standing on their heads during a blue moon when snow is falling up and the spirits are afoot? I think not.
Because the Democrats ate the unicorn necessary to such a delicate operation. They claimed it wasn’t rainbowing its “fair share” and they were experiencing a supply chain shortage of pretty colors to put on their Not American flags. You’re either advancing the agenda or feeding it. With those guys you’re either cheering or you’re chow.
As everyone knows, the only way to get snow to fall up when the spirits are abroad is via the buoyancy of carefully filtered unicorn rainbow farts using only the blue and yellow colors from the exhaust of the rare Blue Unicorn.
Even then, while any of the blue colors will do — With the firm exception of Navy or Air Force Blue, because they hate those darn military baby killers, or baby blue, an inappropriate reminder that they already aborted all the babies — The yellow must be the precise, exact shade of the stripe down a Democrat snowflake’s back.
In a real pinch if the unicorn rainbow fart filters aren’t tediously calibrated you might end up with buttercup yellow instead. That will do, but only if Democrats control the White House and Congress so they can change the rules and hide the new parameter in a load of pork when no one is looking.
This,a pinch of delusional thinking and the eye of Newt Gingrich, plus just a drop of hallucinogenic psychotropic bootleg pharmaceuticals, is what provides the lift for snowflakes to fall upwards. The most critical components for the spell are only obtainable from a blue unicorn found only during a blue moon and it is always in the company of a proper Red Komrade Feminist Virgin.
Ol’ Red provides the slogans needed for the incantations.
Good luck finding her, too. Komrade Virgins are even rarer than blue unicorns. Komrade Feminists are common as dirt and resemble it a lot too. So don’t get the two mixed up.
If you do manage to find one, wear gloves. Thick gloves. Really, really thick gloves. Seriously. They bite. Hard. On anything hard. Like the bones in your hand. Get your mind out of the gutter, how are you going to wear a glove down there?. Biting hard on hard things is how they stayed virgins.
You’ve been warned.
There’s only one way to find this elusive, rare, repugnant creature. Sneak into a Joe Biden rally with a bar of soap tightly wrapped in plastic in your pocket and wearing a Kamala Harris mask. The lightweight fluffy liberals will move aside, prostrate themselves in adoration and allow you in while the heavyweight hard core Leftists eye you suspiciously.
Be careful with this next part. It’s dangerous.
Hold up the bar of soap. Quietly, don’t say anything. The aroma of the soap needs to waft gently across the crowd. As they realize what is happening they will start to panic and run away. The fresh, clean smell of soap is like garlic to a vampire for them. Don’t get trampled, it will be like a herd of panicked cats fleeing a flea bath.
Do not come between a Jiggly-Puff and the exit, that can be fatal. If you don’t know what a Jiggly-Puff is, don’t worry about it. It will be obvious when you see one.
When they run away what’s left will be the truly dangerous part. While everyone else was running away, Komrade Virgin has begun to stalk you. She’s the one in sickly green miasma and hallucinogenic aura on the back of a blue unicorn. She or the unicorn will try to bite the soap and take your hand off. Doesn’t matter which one does that but it will usually be the unicorn. Because soap bubble rainbow unicorn farts are something it thinks is very entertaining. Unicorns have a weird sense of humor.
That is your quarry. How you proceed from there is up to you and good luck.
What, you might ask, do the spirits have to do with all of this? See Ron SAE for a recommendation in that department. Where spirits are involved anything can happen. It’s necessary to create a state of “anything can happen” or else this sort of project won’t work. Strong spirits definitely have to be involved.
If you’re lucky you’ll wake up safe and sound the next morning with a minor memory gap and no sudden urge to chew your arm off. Those sorts of arm urges manifest with urgency, to escape whatever you brought home and is now laying on said arm. No urge, no problem.
Do not under any circumstances allow Komrade Virgin anywhere near your arm. She’ll chew it off for you, whether you want to escape or not. Think along the lines of “Gigantic Gila Monster with matted hair, flaccid figure, open sores, an unceasing menstruation period, terrible breath and hemorrhoid induced bad attitude”. (More reasons why she’s still a virgin.)
Just keep her in her cage and feed her anything convenient. She’s used to pretty much anything she can swallow. Small shrubs, any sort of recyclable … Even road kill works just fine. So leave her there and don’t mess with her. You only need her for the slogan incantations and she can do that just fine from her cage with a mouthful of road kill. She comes with the unicorn and you need the unicorn aromatic byproducts. She’s also there to keep the unicorn from running you through with that wicked looking spike on its forehead. Blue unicorns go berserk without a Komrade Virgin close by.
You have been warned. Again.
The really good news is that when you get all of this just right, squint very hard, bang the heels of your Chinese Nikes together enthusiastically chanting “There’s no place for Trump” and hold your mouth in just the exact required smarmy sneer … Abra Kadabra and BANG! You have achieved Socialist Utopia! Hooray for the Polychromatic Hydrophobic Unicorn Brigade, heroes of the revolting revolution and saviors of mankind!
That is … Until you run out of money and the guys below you drag you to a nice, tall lamp post in the street. Someone has to be a scapegoat and you’re up there on a pinnacle making an easy target. So enjoy it while it lasts. Which won’t be long.
Because there’s some other guys, rough looking characters, coming up the street with rifles and tanks and that kind of stuff. Grumbling something that sounds alarmingly like “Drain that damned swamp for good this time …”
I have the sneaking suspicion they may be hunting unicorns.
😉
Yes, Bill – 3D printing has come a long way.
https://all3dp.com/2/stainless-steel-3d-printer-how-to-3d-print-stainless-steel/#:~:text=Like%20aluminum%20and%20titanium%2C%20stainless,put%20into%20even%20more%20uses.
I owned and drove a 1976 Buick Century station wagon for the first 8 years of college. It was as long as the Grand Marquis, but not quite as wide. It was amazing how many freshmen males can fit inside one of those land yachts. Definitely a car full of clowns.
Good times.
1969 Caprice Classic – My brother mounted a couple of our model airplane on the hood as if they were taking off from an aircraft carrier. The wind was not kind to them ;-(
Mine was a ’75 Malibu – nowhere near the size of your land tanks, but I still miss that car nearly 30 years later
My mom took off work and I was late to school the day of my 16th birthday because we were at the DMV. I don’t think I had to ask, my folks just didn’t want to have to drive me places anymore.
The day I turned 17 my recently retired uncle was nice enough to take me to the DMV – I couldn’t wait
Thank you Bill – Safety is job #3 – Mike Rowe would be proud of you.
Bill – now you will never be able grow a mustache like Scott has.
“Running the red light by two or three seconds.”
WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO!
WE ARE THE THREE AMIGOS! AND AMIGOS FOREVER WE’LL BE!!!!!!!!