Man, the place can’t catch a break.
On the up side, it’s another opportunity for the Clintons to do well by “doing good.”
Category Archives: General
A Nice Story
Paul Spudis
At the request of his widow, Anne, I have updated this post from about three years ago to correct the record.
12 Anti-Free-Speech Arguments
XKCD is great when it sticks to science and tech, not so much when it comes to the First Amendment.
On The Road Again
We’re flying to Denver this afternoon, and driving up to Wyoming on Monday, returning to CA the following Monday. I’ll have a laptop with me, but blogging may be light. Consider this an open thread, but be good in comments.
Amazing Illusion
Happy Easter
…to all of my Christian readers.
Off The Air
We flew to St. Louis yesterday for the weekend to visit Patricia’s family. Probably not much posting until Tuesday. Consider this an open thread.
Well, That Was Fun
The BMW has been running rough, and the OBD says that it’s misfiring on #6. I changed out the plugs, and swapped the #6 coil with #5, to see if that moved the problem. It didn’t.
Next step (since it’s two decades old, with 180,000+ miles on it) was to check out and clean the injectors. So I spent a couple hours figuring out how to get them out, cleaned them, put on new O-rings, and reinstalled. Now #2 and #4 are leaking at the rail. Now I’m wondering if it was a mistake to change the O-rings, but I’m just scratching my head at how, as hard as they were to get in to both the port on the head, and the rail, they could be leaking.
Big Sur
Welp, the road was washed out again, this time at Rat Creek.
Trying to figure out how that happened. Presumably there was a culvert under the road to allow the water to pass through. Did it get clogged with debris? Fortunately, no one was hurt, but who knows how long Big Sur will be cut off from the south?
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Yup, as I suspected, the debris flow clogged the culvert.
As I note in comments, this was one of many washouts waiting to happen.