Saturday, May 31, 2025
Automotif DLXXX...
Considering that they made over a million and a half of them over the course of a ten-year model run, not a lot of Corsicas have survived into hooptie-dom. This Malachite Metallic Corsica LT is, I think, a 1990 model, based on the combination of the 3.1L motor with the door-mounted shoulder harnesses. In 1991 they got airbags and the seatbelts were moved from the doors to the B-pillar, and before 1990 they used the 2.8L V-6.
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Friday, May 30, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Vibe
With the Pacers up three games to one over the New York Knicks in the conference finals, the city has a vibe very reminiscent of Atlanta in 1991. It's been a quarter century since Indianapolis's squeaky roundball team won their conference and went to the championship (and they haven't won a championship since the old ABA days in 1973) so folks are pretty amped up.
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Tab Clearing...
- Could Lockheed-Martin's loss be Saab's gain?
- Entropy is always the safest bet.
- The CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan site.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Automotif DLXXIX...
Pretty cool modified Jeep Wagoneer. Looks like a 1969 with a rhino grill swap from a pre-'67 Willys and the slotted wheels off... I think an '80 model? I'm far from totally savvy with Jeep nuance. Anyway, it's a pretty groovy ride, and I'm not even all that into trucks.
EDIT: Apparently the wraparound turn signals in the rear went back further than I thought, so this could be an Eighties vintage?
Snapped with a Pentax K20D and 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens.
TurboMonday
The biggest downside to three-day weekends is that it turns Tuesday into turbo Monday, and also that you now have one weekday fewer to get all the shit done you need to get done before Saturday rolls around again.
On the upside, it stayed dry all day yesterday... not a common occurrence for the last couple weeks ...so that gave me a chance to beat the front lawn into submission. That cordless electric mower was money well spent. No futzing around to get the gas mower up and running in the spring, you can mow at odd hours without pissing off the neighbors, and the two batteries are more than enough for the dinky expanse of lawn with which I have to deal.
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Monday, May 26, 2025
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Multiculturalism
A highlight of the Indy 500 is being in earshot of someone who’s finna learn about the Irish Diaspora by expressing surprise on hearing that driver Pato O’Ward is Mexican.
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“Bro, wait’ll you hear about Confederados in Brazil and Japanese Peruvians. The world is way bigger and weirder than you think it is. Did you know that elementary schools in some parts of rural Indiana taught in German up until 1917?”
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It's that time of year here.
It's race day here in Indianapolis which means I'm not going to get my political talking head shows this morning because all the local stations are doing an all-hands evolution to get their slice of the action at the track.
I was going to go to MCF&G on Friday morning to do some chronograph work but remembered at the last minute that I generally avoid that whole side of town this week.
On the other hand, Memorial Day weekend also meant that the Hoosier Model T fans were out doing their little cruise yesterday.
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| Touring Sedan |
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| Touring Sedan |
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| Station Hack |
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| Runabout |
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| Doctor's Coupe |
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| Station Hack |
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| Doctor's Coupe |
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Three down, one to go...
Yesterday a Nissan Figaro in Pale Aqua drove by while I was eating lunch. I happened to glance outside at the right moment to see it, and went running out there, camera in hand, to get the shot.
That makes three of the Nissan "Pike Cars" that I've spotted in the neighborhood.
The first one was the S-Cargo that I saw parked up at a local auto broker's lot.
A while after that came the Pao. It must be local because I've seen it parked on College Avenue around the lunch hour a few times now.
Now I just need to see a Be-1 and I'll have spotted all four Pike Cars in the wild.
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Friday, May 23, 2025
Automotif DLXXVIII...
The bumpers mark this Jaguar XJ6L as a 1974 model. I spotted it on an overcast and unusually cool Thursday afternoon in late May here in Indianapolis.
It's got the 4.2L DOHC 12V inline six with a pair of Zenith-Stromberg carbs, rated at 186 SAE net horsepower.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Automotif DLXXVII...
The Triumph GT6 Mark III is such a good looking little car. I've seen this one before, but when it rolled past on Sunday I couldn't resist snapping it again.
It was snapped with the Canon EOS 40D, so it can be embiggenated nicely.
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Tab Clearing...
- AI hasn't made it any better, but Google search results have been sucky for a while.
- While everyone was busy being reminded by the media that Biden is old, the US lost its last AAA bond rating. At least the BBC noticed that one.
- I'm smelling farm bailout in the near future.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
Smile, You're on Candid Camera!
Surveillance cameras, both private and government-owned, have become nearly ubiquitous in an era when digital video sensors are small and inexpensive, bandwidth is nearly too cheap to meter, and storage is (at least relative to a couple decades ago) effectively unlimited.
It was therefore likely only a matter of time before a municipal police department would be caught red-handed using real-time facial recognition technology to scan the input for the faces of suspects. According to the ACLU and WaPo, New Orleans Police Department had been doing just that for a couple years.
They pinkie-swear that the program has been paused since April, though.
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Automotif DLXXVI...
Sure, it's close to a certainty that this is some manner of kit car or reproduction... but who cares? Even a fake Shelby Cobra is ridiculously good looking. And this one sounded like it wanted to party, too.
Snapped on Saturday with a Sony a700 and 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* zoom lens.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
Tab Clearing...
- The prudes are after your porn again.
- The overhead views of that fertility clinic bombing show an extremely linear blast pattern. Whoever built that VBIED knew what they were doing.
- How TeleMessage got hacked so quickly.
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