Serious Thought For The Week

Close air support is safest from far away.

Will the Real E.T. Please Stand UP?

Photo: Dr. Martin J. Pasqualetti -Arizona Solar Center
I started seeing them in western Oklahoma, with a very few scattered across New Mexico and Arizona. But as you drive by Mojave you can’t help but notice that the mountain west of the airport is covered with them. Crossing the pass here, toward Tehachapi is the [...]

Congratulations Due

Oklahoma department of transportation engineer, Marvin Moron was recently promoted and placed in charge of the Turner Turnpike tollbooth design.
Mr. Moron’s previous design project on the Oklahoma highway rest stops contributed to his rapid rise through the engineering ranks. Moron had designed the world famous sinks in the rest stop bathrooms, where conventional sinks were [...]

Salsola Tragus, etal.

Saw my first tumbleweed of this trip some 30 miles west of Amarillo, Texas. Scooting across the highway, propelled by some pretty high winds, this Clint Eastwood movie refugee got me to wondering what they actually look like as a plant.
Some studied surveillance of the passing shrubbery didn’t really reveal anything until somewhere in western [...]

Music Reality

Although Jimmy Webb was from Oklahoma and living in Los Angeles when he wrote the song By the Time I Get to Phoenix, he had obviously never driven between the two.
If he had, I doubt the first line would have been “By the time I get to Phoenix she’ll be rising.”
It would have had to [...]

Rather Messy Formula

If you use the Colgate Toothpaste stuff that comes in the bottle like this. . .

you have to be careful traveling. I brushed my teeth after early breakfast in Oklahoma City (elevation 1299 ft.) and droned onward to Gallup, NM (elevation 6468 ft.) where I quit for dinner and brushed my teeth. Upon opening the [...]

Back and Forth

 
Just completed an 11-day, zoom-zoom round trip drive to San Francisco.  My original intent was to deliver my faithful BMW to my son and purchase an E-46 M3 and drive it home. While I had some misgivings regarding my old one passing California emissions testing, research via the Internet gave me some reassurance that all [...]

Well, This is the Pits!

Thought I’d give a little insight as to what goes on in a race when the rider gets bored and wanders back to flirt with all the little blond hotties that are always hanging around the pit crew.
In Moto-ST we are allowed six men over the wall and, depending upon what track we are at [...]

101 Uses For Napalm #6

This morning’s news included a report that a demonstration by thousands of lawyers in Islamabad, Pakistan was broken up by police using tear gas and clubs.
Thousands of lawyers?
All together?
In one place?

Daytona – End of a Season

The Daytona 8-hour race weekend began in its usual stellar fashion for R & R Racing, i.e., front forks for the #76 bike lost somewhere in the mail system on their way to Canada for rebuild; Brett driving straight through from Illinois and arriving at the track at 8:30 AM; paint still wet on the [...]