Reading the signs...

Excellent video from Craig Douglas of Shivworks here. Really worth the watch.

If you haven't trained with Craig, you really should.

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Take Some Memes Home for the Weekend!

Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• The original (and best) reportage on the 24 Hours of LeMons...


• "The China the World Sees Is Not the One I Live In"


• AI slop videos of phony ICE raids clog social media.

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Middle of the Week Memes!

Meme Dump!

Happy Birthday, Devil Dogs!

"Here’s a joke about the U.S. military services that you may have heard: The Army and Navy are branches, the Air Force is a corporation, and the Marine Corps is a cult."

Would you like to know more?

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What fresh hell is this?

Minding my own business over lunch yesterday, having watched the Colts pull off a nail-biter against the Falcons in Berlin and engaged in watching the Bears hold off the Giants, I glanced out the window to notice that winter had rather abruptly arrived on the scene.

This morning there's an inch or so of snow on the grass, it's still coming down in fits and starts, and it's starting to stick to the roads.

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Memes to Make it Through Monday!

Automotif DCI...

Saturday afternoon was warm, with highs in the mid sixties, quite breezy, and partly cloudy. Sitting on the patio at Fat Dan's with the Pentax K7 and 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens, I spotted a pair of yellow Corvettes: That '77 C3 L82 car in Corvette Yellow, and also a Velocity Yellow C6 Z06.

Tab Clearing...

• Why did they used to dye pistachios red?


• The internet is full of sick fucks.


• FBI warns of crooks posing as feds.

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Holy Memes, Batman!

Meme Dump!

It was almost inevitable...

With the discovery that the number one engine and pylon assembly had departed the aircraft just before the aircraft departed the runway, UPS grounded their MD-11 fleet, followed shortly by FedEx, who is the other big operator of the type.

The last passenger flights of the MD-11 occurred in the mid-'00s, with the remaining flying aircraft converted to cargo haulers. The USAF retired its McDonnell-Douglas KC-10 Extender fleet, also based on the DC-10, last year, replacing it with the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus.

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