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A DIY sequential fuel injection conversion for a 1978 280Z!
Spoiler... At the end he gets it back to stock power and mileage.
I'm guessing that it will be a lot more driveable.
Why didn't it make more power than the stock rating? Those things are determined by the mechanical parts he didn't touch.
He got power back because he fixed the parts that had become too worn to work and were too complex to properly troubleshoot. Even Sarah-N-Tuned just replaced everything with new-old-stock.
While double checking a couple items for T2K, like the AN/PEQ-2, I noticed that they all pre-date rail systems that are common today.
"That's impressive, where on the rifle does it go?"
Proprietary mountings were the norm before the widespread adoption of Picatinny rails.
Tomorrow I have to get two of my players to make a couple of characters in advance of FuzzyGeff's imminent (not eminent you stupid autocorrupt) arrival.
JT needs a Funny New Guys AND a Twilight: 2000 character.
Marv just needs a T2K.
I have suggested that Marv make a 27 year younger version of himself and create a former Pershing II missile technician. Making yourself as a character has a long history for helping figure out the rules in a skill based game. Marv was once an electronics technician for the MGM-29 Sergeant.
Marv's character's commanding officer, "Well, we've fired all the rounds we had and there will be no more made... Here's a rifle, welcome to the infantry!"
Marv's character, "FUCK!"
T2K has the Pershing II making it to 1997 because the INF treaty wasn't on anyone's radar in 1985 when T2K was first published. I think one of the modules even mentions a ruined city having been hit by one.
Governor DeSantis is term limited from running again.
That means every "Republican" in the world is putting their foot in the ring.
So far I have gotten Fecesbook recommended posts from two that are all about divesting from Israel.
Oh and some family first stuff too, but divest from Israel!
SIGH. I thought BDS was done.
Just as a lot of Jews were considering jumping ship from voting Democrat to voting Republican too.
I recommend they register Republican so they can help pick a gubernatorial candidate who's not aligned with the National Socialist American Worker's Party.
Some of the verbiage of that "family first" stuff sure rings familiar.
History doesn't repeat, it rhymes.
The good news, however, is these people don't seem to capturing much in the way of voter recognition.
Harvey got me this absolutely deadly projectile weapon!
The "primers" are the triggers and the spring that lobs the plastic projectile is contained inside the case. The problem is when you load a round and close the action, the "primer" hits the breech face and goes off.
3D printing makes for a lot of fun!
A sword shaped dice box was not something I'd even thought of, and here it is.
Willard gave the best gift, though!
He says that it's been whining about being at his house among the Smith and Wessons.
If it looks familiar, it's the same gun I sold him to pay for my air conditioning a few years ago.
FuzzyGeff did some weird for T2K by making a sniper that thought his M21 rifle was enchanted. The stock was carved with runes and he spoke words over it at night to maintain the magic. This character and his rifle made two incredible rolls in a row that affirmed his belief AND convinced a couple of the other characters that it was magic in action.
This is being weird correctly.
Then there was Doug. We shall call him Doug because that is his name.
Doug wholeheartedly embraced the idea that you could make ANYTHING with GURPS.
And he did.
The problem was he didn't do so within the confines of being a member of the party or adherence to the concepts of the world.
Doug was a disruptive agent.
He routinely did not take hints and resented when more blatant methods were used.
Nothing we tried would get him to get along with the party, so I eventually had to ban him from my table.
The AR-15 has become the new Mauser.
Just about everyone is converting to some variation of the AR now. Some closer to the original than others...
The Sportsmaster only gets a decent cleaning once a decade.
It doesn't NEED cleaned like an arms room was taking it back.
I always do the bore after I get home, but most of the time let the mechanism get dirty.
And .22 rimfire always leaves a lot of gunk behind.
The 5.9 lb. AN/PVS-2 gives Night Vision 4.
Compare that to the natural vision of Chimera in Funny New Guys.
Coyote and Foxes have better night vision than the mechanical device and they don't need batteries.
They also don't suffer from color blindness, no depth perception and no peripheral vision while using their night vision.
"Shockingly" the fuel gauge in The Beast is inaccurate.
This is typical of GM.
The "Driver's Information Center" display will show me how many miles I have remaining in the tank in 5-mile increments down to 35 miles then change to "LOW".
At this point, the "Low Fuel" alarm will go off.
The distance is based on the current average miles per gallon the system calculates and the fuel remaining in the tank...
How many gallons are in the tank with fewer than 35 miles remaining displayed and 16.4 mpg average?
My math says less than two gallons in the tank.
The tank is 19 gallon capacity.
The low fuel light comes on with 4 gallons remaining. I know this because when I refuel with the low fuel alarm on, it accepts 15 gallons of fuel not 17.
I've seen the press complain that several suggested (and implemented) means of deporting illegal aliens makes them "second class citizens."
For fuck's sake, for a profession that's supposed to be highly educated in the use of words and language you sure don't seem to know what words mean.
They can't be second class citizens because they're not even citizens!
A black person in Jim Crow Mississippi is a second class citizen. That person has every right to be there and every expectation to the same rights and privileges as every other citizen. That they weren't getting all the same rights and privileges is WHY they were second class citizens.
An illegal alien isn't a citizen, is present in the country in violation of the law and should have no expectation of the rights and privileges of a citizen.
Acting otherwise is causing a mind boggling amount of problems.
I've seen several pro-gun lawyers saying that illegal aliens have gun rights because, of course, they have all the other rights like free speech and protections from illegal search and seizure.
But I think that's wrong.
I think that they don't have all those other rights because of the illegal nature of their presence.
They get the illusion of those rights because the process must not violate the rights of people whom are here legally.
The police must operate on the off chance that the person they are arresting is actually a citizen and behave accordingly; this gives the appearance that the illegals have rights.
PS: If a prison in El Salvador is unacceptable, we COULD release them in Atlantis. What? You never heard from them again? Atlantis is very nice...
The Remington 341A Sportsmaster that Harvey was shooting was bought new by my mom's dad in 1938.
It's not the only gun he left me. I got his pipe too!
Missing from the guns he left me is a .25 ACP pocket pistol. We think that went to my uncle's family.
I wanted that gun, but I don't begrudge them it.
Christmas Eve is Chinese food.
Mom started that tradition with her friends by going to a restaurant in Ames called The Mandarin. There's an empty lot there now.
I carried the tradition to Florida with me.
Christmas dinner is lasagna. Rather, it's lasagne. Grampa always spelled it with an 'e', so it's a tradition!
I think I started this one because my mom wasn't a big turkey eater and once a year at Thanksgiving sated her for a year.
She didn't like shopping for, or cooking, a ham when there were so few mouths for dinner and leftovers.
So I suggested we just make a lasagne on year and it stuck.
My friends came out of the wood-work for that where they kinda avoided turkey or ham...
So I keep up the tradition because Harvey is not a big turkey eater and we JUST had ham for Thanksgiving...
Things to bear in mind...
Lasagna does not have egg in it. I blame the Irish of New York for this abomination. I don't care if they're actually guilty. (wink)
We use cottage cheese instead of manicotti ricotta (don't do a lot of "holiday cheer" before posting kids). Great grandma was never satisfied with the manicotti ricotta she could get in Iowa and was happy with cottage cheese. So we just kept using it in our own recipes.
I don't make my own noodles, great grandma did. I don't make my own sausage, great grandma did. I don't make my own sauce, great grandma did...
Mom and grandma taught me to make all of those and showed me that store-bought was the same if you picked the right brands. Barilla, Winn-Dixie house brand hot, Hunt's garlic and herb.
The way I've remembered making it comes out VERY wet if you eat it right out of the oven.
The next day in the microwave it's awesome.
Last year I discovered that if I cooked it on Christmas Eve, put it in the fridge and then cooked it again on Christmas Day... PERFECT! 350° until the cheese is all melty on day one. 375° until the cheese is browned on day two. Everything else is already cooked before assembly so it really only needs to get melted and hot.
After many years of strengthening and therapy, and no small amount of anxiety, Harvey has fired a long gun from the robo-shoulder!
My grampa's old rat-slayer still works great!
We ran it at 7 yards because she was familiar with that distance.
The book Les Liaisons Dangereuses is set in the same year it was published, 1782.
Since it's main characters are all French nobility, they only have seven to ten years or so before the revolution overtakes them.
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil will not have to suffer her humiliation long...
From the NAGR Facebook feed.
How are you supposed to tell a threat from someone going about their life?
Gonna answer your question with a question.
Are they being threatening or going about their life?
If they are going about their life, then you're fine. This will be 99.99999999999999999999999% of the gun owners you see open carrying.
Even if they are carrying at you. Which isn't actually being threatening with a gun, it's just being really blatant and obvious that they ARE carrying a gun. Technically they aren't going about their lives, they're carrying a gun openly as the only thing they are doing. Ignore them. They're attention seeking and don't feed the trolls.
A threat will be pointing the gun at people. Probably followed by shooting the gun at people.
A decent rule of thumb for the people who are scared of open carry is, "if you wouldn't freak if a cop was carrying like that, then you shouldn't freak if a citizen is carrying like that."
Today is the day that slavery was legally abolished in the USA.
Right after a war that decided that it would be THE USA.
Since the oldest person ever verified was "just" 116 years old and the oldest person claimed was 122...
I think we're on pretty firm footing that any former slave in the United States is no longer with us.
Probably even outside their grandchildren's lives.
I'm not saying that racism and bigotry did not happen after the 13th Amendment was ratified.
I am saying to stop citing slavery when speaking of the injustices you wish to address.
Also, limit yourself to injustice that happened to YOU. Not your brother's nephew's cousin's roommate.
I am slowly weening myself off Youtube.
I finally figured out how I spot robo-voice. There's no variation in the pronunciations. I'd been sitting here wondering why a given narration was so grating and finally figured it out.
The "documentary" videos are getting irritating.
The straw is a video on USS Wasp. Nominally, it's about the flaws in her design that led to her sinking. But they can't just talk about that. They have to waste my time talking about her entire history up to the sinking WITHOUT saying a word about the design except the obligatory aside about the Washington Naval Treaty.
Something else that I've noticed is the plodding, slow, deliberate pace of the robo-voices.
They sound almost normal at 1.25 speed. That tells me it's a deliberate choice to make the video length fit some Al Gore Rhythm Section.
Then there's the videos that are clearly geared at people with severe ADHD and constantly explaining in great detail things that are self-evident and backtracking to explain them in a way that interrupts the narrative.
And I am over it.
I am getting sick of all the people on our side of the gun debate constantly coming up with new ideas to use in court against us.
Thankfully, it seems that what they've come up with is almost entirely theoretical still.
But the current round of speculation is about what training you've had and if your lawyer is being paid by some form of CCW insurance.
Because those things indicate "planning" to create a "self-defense" situation where you get to shoot someone.
Oh, and not getting training indicates gross irresponsibility and negligence.
There's no way out of the process as punishment.
Especially since it appears that the ccw insurers are essentially scams because of all the exit clauses built into the contract that lets them not pay for what you think you hired them to pay.
Apparently every single member of the US Armed Forces is getting a $1,776 check.
Pretty decent year end bonus!
Now taking bets on exactly how many hours it takes the E-4 and below community to spend it and have nothing to show for it.
I expect a banner weekend at strip clubs near base.
The Bondi Beach and Brown University shootings have something in common.
Both took place where the victims were banned from having a firearm.
Both sets of, alleged, shooters were Moslem. This turned out to be a rumor.
Neither nation is predominantly Islamic.
One was definitely, "let's murder the Jews!" The Brown shooting might have been trying to shoot a specific Jew.
The Bondi Beach shooting was slowed down by the intervention of a Moslem!
This will be touted as justification for not stemming the flow of immigration.
The thing is, you cannot tell whom in the crowd of immigrants are waiting for their moment to enact the intifada and who wants to live a quiet live in a mostly secular manner.
If you cannot tell, then you kind of need to accept zero immigrants from places that have any people who're waiting for their moment to murder our citizens.
If the people you do accept refuse to assimilate, they should be deported. They clearly wish to remain citizens of their homeland, so they should live there.
If the children of the people we accept turn out to have a trend of being criminals and non-productive citizens, we should definitely stop accepting immigrants from those nations too.
The poem in the Statue of Liberty has no legal power. The New Colossus was written by Emma Lazarus and she was of a political bent that eventually coalesces into Socialism.
Don't be fooled by her pretty words!
I find, as a student of history, that I have to keep pointing out that the prior mass-immigrations to the US are an anomaly. The Swedish, German, Italian and Irish waves came from a people very much like the Americans they joined and they assimilated readily... Though it took years of prejudice and change for the mistrust of Catholicism in the Irish and Italians to fade.
Yet, despite language and religious differences, these peoples became Americans.
I repeat myself again...
I want every single immigrant to this nation to either already be an American with the misfortune of being born a foreigner; or to become an American as quickly as they can.
That means abandoning their, former, national identity.
It means learning to speak English.
It means respecting our laws, and forsaking the laws of their homeland.
It means abiding by our culture and ways of doing things. This includes dropping things from their culture or religion in conflict with our culture and laws.
If they cannot, then they don't get to stay here!
Americans strive to be the good guys. We want to help people in need. We want to save people.
But there are times when you have to realize that you cannot save everyone and you most especially cannot save anyone if you won't save yourself. Saving yourself sometimes means letting others die.
We still have time to avoid our generosity from becoming a suicide pact.
Harvey reports that the local McDonalds has put up no gun signage.
Concealed means concealed if you still wanna go there, and the worst they can do is ask you to leave and have you trespassed if you refuse AND wait around for the cops to give you your trespass citation.
I think I am inclined to shop elsewhere for my heart attack inducers.
I like Culver's and Wendy's better anyways.
My copy of Shooting Times tells me that this is my last issue.
Bummer.
I am allowed to change over to American Rifleman or American Hunter.
I chose American Rifleman in print and online editions.
Actually used a P-38 to open a can, instead of posing one next to a pull-tab can...
It is not difficult. It's a bit more tedious because I really couldn't set up a rhythm the way it cuts.
It's set, cut, set, cut. You don't get the cut-slide motion like with the Swiss Army knife.
The edges are far rougher too. I can now see what they were modeling from cartoons showing open tin cans!
If you have a P-38 to open cans you will not starve. Open a few and you will seek an easier method.
I think I'm going to try the P-51 tomorrow.
Update: I was going the wrong direction! If you go counterclockwise around the can, it's set-cut. Going clockwise lets you set up a rhythm! I experimented with the already opened can's bottom side. The bigger paddle and blade on the P-51 is MUCH nicer.
I remember when you could get a quick, concise answer to any question just by typing it into a search engine.
Like, "Was Rob Reiner anti-gun?"
That just gets you hits from news sites about his death and nary a word about his stance on gun control.
I didn't ask if he was dead.
I didn't ask if he was murdered.
I asked if he supported gun control and the search engines don't answer that.
It pisses me off.
PS: He was an advocate of gun control, I wanted to make sure I'd remembered correctly because I can't think of anything more embarrassing than being murdered from a lack of shootin' back.
Rob Reiner has died.
Considering how often he lectured me about my politics, I will not miss him much.
He made a lot of stuff I enjoyed watching, and if he'd limited himself to letting his art speak for him, I'd prolly be more upset.
Update: It's being investigated as a homicide.
I'm familiar with most of this kit from photos and books, but never seen most of them in action.
Pretty neat!
Once again:
The possession, use, or storage of Weapons or Firearms is strictly prohibited on all [Brown] University Property and at [Brown] University-sponsored events, except as authorized under this policy.
There cannot have been a mass shooting at Brown University because firearm possession, use and storage has been prohibited.
Do not repeat the lies of the mass media.
Or, maybe, just MAYBE, gun free victim zones are the problem and not the guns.
I don't recall any mass shootings since Texas legalized campus carry.
There's a faction of people who are wanting others to stop discriminating against them for their "immutable characteristics," but are more than happy to condemn "cisgender white men."
You know, discriminating against straight white guy's for their immutable characteristics.
I guess the best thing about being a liberal is getting twice as many standards as everyone else.
I dunno why people say opening a can with a P-38 is difficult. It only took me a moment.
I don't know what everyone complains about.
It appears that Dan Crenshaw is suing Shawn Ryan for asking how he got so wealthy on his congressional salary.
I find that I want to hear the answer to this question because I know several people who've been working for longer at a congressional pay scale and aren't millionaires.
Almost as if there's something congress creatures get to do that normal people don't.
I am not sure if it's Blogger or Flickr that's the problem with putting pictures on the blog.
The "by URL" inserter from the WYSIWYG interface barfs on anything bigger than x1024.
It will happily display a linked photo that's much larger if you write your own HTML string.
I am not sure if this is Flickr refusing to parse for the inserter, or the inserter being unable to process larger files before it times out.
Harvey decided she needed some time to herself so I decided to go for a drive.
Five hours later, I am home.
The Beast is just a nice cruiser.
Took some new roads and did some small exploring.
Florida between Crystal River and Chiefland is about as nothing to see as you can get.
Lots and lots of deer. Paid close attention to that with a foot hovering over the brake.
There's a truism about WW2; "The war was won with British intelligence, American steel and Russian blood." It's attributed to Stalin himself.
I became aware of this truism from some British subject explaining how us Americans didn't really do much and we shouldn't be saying we won the war.
They refer to WW1 in this light too.
Well, WW1 would probably have ended differently after the collapse of Russia and without the injection of American troops to the Western Front. Even if the Germans eventually lost, the surrender terms would likely have been a lot less provocative. Might even have prevented WW2 from happening at all.
But the "American steel" part misses something very important.
American FOOD.
If we'd sat it out completely, England would have starved. Literally.
I don't believe that the US won the war in Europe single-handedly. But I do think that the US was instrumental in achieving that victory.
