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All this digging up roads is actually new to me. Having to dig up a road was quite rare back home. About the only places they did have to dig up roads, was where the road was widened for the third time, and even then, a lot of the work could be done without tearing up the roads using modern boring e...

Hi Yogi You are way over my head here. I do know I have to install Windows FIRST, then add Linux later to prevent problems with Windows booting. But as you discovered, put GRUB on the Linux partition, and let it find the Windows OS. Then grub will send the boot sequence to the original Windows mbr t...

Back home, next door to my brothers business is a car restoration company. The completely rebuild pre-1980s cars, mostly muscle cars, until they are like new again. Actually, they are better than new, because they use better components, and more modern equipment in the cars. In other words, they are...

Cities also don't use their brain too much either. I've lived here like twelve years now. Neighbors begged them to resurface our street for at least five years before I moved here. They finally got around to it before the winter of 2013. Then in the first week of March 2015, they tore up the street ...

Hi Icey This was an article from early last year. But still an interesting read. I did hit a line that was confusing, but perhaps you have different words for things than we do over here on this side of the big pond. FWIW: Over here a "Saloon" is the 1800s version of today's "Tavern.&...

I have this bad habit of not explaining myself very well. I did not say we did not pay taxes, we paid them like everyone else. What I said, if you read closely, "Our City DID NOT Collect any form of Taxes." Which worded that way was not entirely accurate. Our City did collect some local ta...

Hi Yogi I saw your mention of it on Farcebook yesterday. VERY COOL Machine indeed! Not being able to run Linux on the first motherboard I got is why I had to take my brand new computer I bought after the lightning storm back and wait for them to order another motherboard. FWIW: My mobo is an ASUS F2...

I think they have the safety features pretty well established. We can only see about 30 frames per second, while a computer eye can see thousands per second and react to them just as fast. So as far as outmaneuvering an accident situation, I think the self-driving cars will have a major edge over a ...

I hear ya Icey... I'm sure I mentioned how the town I was raised in operated, mostly before I was born though. The Mutual Protective Association was the only law they had at first, for the town itself, as a County Sheriff handled the criminal aspect, if he came around that is. The MPA, although thei...

Not to change the subject, but it sorta applies. Has to do with computers, GPS, and self-driving cars. Remember my talking about my son buying me a GPS unit? It came with a then current 2006 map. Three years later when the 2009 maps came out, I replaced my 2006 map with the 2009 map, due to so many ...

The entire world has gone crazy. It started slow and then accelerated to the point, almost every law is to protect the criminals and harass the victims.

Hi Pil If you have a canister type vacuum, where you can plug the Hose to the Outlet to use as a blower, although no one ever does. You can get a long section of swimming pool hose for real cheap, hook it to the outlet of your vacuum cleaner and stick the other end out a window, closing the window d...

We were at a store when those "Glasses" came out. Forget the name of them now already. Perhaps it was just "Glass"? The Monitors on those things were tiny, only about 3/8 inch, but that close to your eye, it looked like a 50 inch TV screen. I have to chuckle at some of the TV Car...

Their Motto "To Serve and Protect" has not applied in a couple of decades now, if not longer in some areas. It should be something more like "To Avoid Conflict and Blame Victims" these days. They no longer Protect anyone from crime, they only make reports of crimes after-the-fact...

Although I prefer exterior mounted motors, they don't seem to hold up as long as those mounted inside. I think the heat and cold takes their toll on them all too soon. Although the little squirrel cage blower on my desk which exhausts my ashtray smoke outside can get annoying only a foot from my ear...

Thanks for the Link Yogi. I bookmarked it to look at later. I agree with you wholeheartedly, which is why I did all of my programming by hand using only gedit instead of some helper programs. Recently I downloaded Sublime Text, but didn't see any advantage to it, so fell back on BlueFish for right n...

I lived in an era when we still had Beat Cops. You got to know them, and they knew you, your family, and often every one of your employees. Even after most of them were Traffic Cops, in our little town anyhow, they were still required to park at one end of the strip malls or other store areas, and w...

One thing we used to do as Ham Radio Operators is get lone shut-in's interested in the hobby. We would visit and let them use both local repeaters and worldwide HF radio's. It also helped that our particular repeater had over a dozen other shut-in's who like to kibitz. Our club had many hand-me-down...

Although I let Debi do all the cooking now. Right after we were married and I moved her to St. Louis, I was still used to doing all the cooking, since my late wife was unable. She was amazed at how fast I could whip up a full-course meal for a dozen people and have everything come out at the right t...

Hi Yogi I think I'm going Meshugenah. Spent three hours trying to figure out why placing a jumbotron to the right of an image don't work. So began studying the grid system. It works to put a jumbotron to the right of an image. Even though I have the image and jumbotron in totally separate div elemen...