The Abode of McThag

I'm a proponent of equal rights. I have discovered that this makes me either racist, sexist, or both, depending on whom I'm talking ...

I'm reading an article about how a Japanese city council member is advocating that no social support go to non-citizens in his city.  Re...

If you can't run it offline, you don't own a copy. If the failure of someone else's computer takes it offline, you're rentin...

There are fucking metal detectors to go into the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. Because someone might hijack the aquarium and force the fish to ...

 

Today is Veteran's Day! It is not Memorial Day, even if it is Remembrance Day in the rest of the English speaking world.  Easy to get th...

Stacy Keach has passed on. I lost track of the number roles he played that I enjoyed. Mike Hammer and Papa Titus loom largest.  It is of not...

Even though the modern form of the Marines is actually from July 11, 1798, we celebrate their birthday from today in 1775. Happy Birthday to...

David Freiburger has a saying, "Don't get it right, just get it running." The idea is that a running car is one you will drive...

The Beast has a collection of beasts!  With the windows down, they'd fly around and there was a distinct chance of losing one overboard....

Thirty seven years ago the Berlin Wall came down. So did I. This is also the anniversary of me jumping, not to the back deck as planned, but...

Happy Heavenly Birthday to our dear, departed, Neptunus Lex. I will drink my toast later this evening. 

I've been observing for a while. One side is using violence. The recent report that Dave Chappelle is pleased that Charlie Kirk was murd...

If you're trying to comment anonymously, you must sign your comment. If you don't sign it, I don't publish it. Someone or severa...

I ran a, successful, Twilight: 2000 converted to GURPS campaign for several years. I lived in Ames, Iowa and we played at the Memorial Union...

Back when I did my map-light mod I focused on the mechanical process of getting the right wires in the right position on the new connector....

While I did vote party-line, I remain unhappy about it. They ask what we want and resolutely do what they were planning on doing to do befor...

You can spend all your time making money You can spend all your love making time* I am a believer in comparative advantage. That's where...

I've been working steady on  The Beast  for three weeks and, while I was tired, I wasn't sore. TODAY, now that I'm done, my leg ...

With El Niño going on the local weatherman was asked when we'd be seeing some cooler weather. I realized that now that my AC is fixed, w...

Today, 71 years ago, a prominent inventor from California was inspired to create the flux-capacitor. This simple device is what makes time t...

Added 17ish ounces of R134a to  The Beast . Temperature at the vent and the pressures on the gauges are close enough to what the book says I...

Shadow is getting braver. Beeper is not less aggressive towards her. What this means is Shadow is more willing to be in the same space as Be...

Drier = less moist. Dryer = thing that makes something less moist. I have used both spellings incorrectly frequently. 

You can get the cap off the filter / dryer capsule without taking the condenser out of the car. You cannot get the old bag of desiccant out ...

Robert K Brown, of Soldier of Fortune Magazine fame, apparently shuffled off the mortal coil back in August, but his wife waited until what ...

Things that have been getting progressively fixed and upgraded on  The Beast  are really paying off. My Lords she's smooth and surefoote...

If you don't vote you don't really have a right complain about the outcome because what you chose was, "let someone else decide...

One of the news reports about the Palm Beach Learjet crash made a point to tell us that one of the passengers was wealthy. Um... Us poors do...

The missing windshield wiper nut was located sitting on top of the washer tank just behind the bumper. It'd ridden there for two test dr...

I try to avoid Dancing Monkeys frothing at the mouth about politics because, invariably, the ones who do so are dumb as posts. Today's e...

I've been finding posts with dead pictures in them. In nearly every case it's a an unresponsive link to Flickr to a full size image....

  That they were open minded about it says a lot about how the tone has shifted over the years.

I just noticed that I we went right past the 9th anniversary of the Mandalay Bay Hotel shooting in Las Vegas without 24-7 rending of garment...

I stopped watching his channel a while ago, but I don't think a national from a nation that LITERALLY made  quarantine facilities  conce...

There were four things missing when I did inventory after buttoning  The Beast  back up. 1. The cute little sweatshirt cover for the shifter...

This year we only had 35 kids stop by for Halloween. We prepare for 90+. Bummed.  It was a rainy off and on and that never helps. We're ...

The new wheel was a bit cocked when I got The Beast back on the road. Simple fix, get an alignment and they center the wheel for you! So I ...