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Friday, August 7, 2026

House Fashions

Airport Commerce Center Sign

We are getting ready to start the 2nd phase of our remodeling project, so we took a trip over to the eastside to visit the Let's Remodel showroom. It's in a strip mall at 122nd & NE Airport Way. Surprisingly, almost the entire mall is given over to construction and remodeling businesses, as you can see from the sign above.

Airport Commerce Center

As you can see it's step up from the typical strip mall - they've added some landscaping.

Crowd Management Services

Next door was this curious sign. Security personnel for your fancy event.

Shower Head Demonstrator

Next stop was Ferguson's Home to pick out some gee-gaws and do-dads. Lot's of very fancy stuff.

Fancy Bathtub

Range with a zillion knobs

Dog washing station

Fancy range with bronze fittings

I don't think we're getting any of this stuff, maybe some new plumbing fixtures. Some people like fancy cars, some people like fancy houses. We can afford this project because I didn't buy a race car. I would kinda like to have a race car, but I really don't have the time for a big new project. I'm busy piddling around with my computer, going out to lunch and watching Netflix in the evening.

Inside or Outside?

Saw his in an ad in a coffee table magazine while I was waiting for my wife to finish perusing the merchandise. When me and the boys go out to lunch we'll eat outside if the place has a patio and the weather is decent. Funny how people are like that. Sunshine and blue skies are wonderful. Of course, good weather brings out the hordes. It'll be nice when it starts raining and all the fair weather fiends crawl back under their rocks and you can drive across town without having to make like a slug.

Rocket to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Science Fiction becomes science fact. SpaceX booster hits the moon.

Detections by the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, show evidence of a plume on the moon caused by the impact of a SpaceX rocket on Aug. 5, 2026. (Image credit: Carl Schmidt/Lowell Observatory)

Funnies





Pioneer Zephyr


1,015 Miles On $16 Of Fuel — The Train That Executed The Steam Locomotive
Cab Forward

I really enjoy listening to this guy. I presume it's a guy, not a computer, but these days there is no telling. He makes the story a little more dramatic than he needs to, but drama seems to be very popular, so I can understand him doing that. For me, the simple mathematical facts are plenty, but half of the country is innumerate, so, drama. The narrator does a good job with the facts and I appreciate it. This train really really forged a new path. That's what happens when someone with money is willing to bet on some whiz kids to design a new, improved, machine. It was ahead of its time, but it wasn't just a prototype test machine, it ran for 26 years and that, to me, is the more impressive part of the story.

10 Short Videos #6217

10 Short Videos #6217

  1. military chopperland takeoff airforcelover - Osprey
  2. She was just waiting for the right song to make her comeback
  3. Portable Morse Code Trainer
  4. The Engine So Loud Marshals Warned Spectators, Mazda 787B, Le Mans 1991
  5. SWISS Machine into Centerless GRINDER
  6. Big Ship pulling BIG rubber pipeline💪💪💪🏽💪🏽
  7. Using Ramset Powder Actuated Tool To Break Pipe Fitting
  8. Ranking The Best Instruments (Part 3)
  9. V6 engine assembly casting.
  10. When Students Laid Siege to a Medieval Castle Over Beer

Enola Holmes 3 - Netflix Movie


Enola Holmes 3 | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Stupid bit of fluff, although we do get to visit Malta, and Khost gets mentioned, which can lead to a rathole from which there is no escape, at least not without getting half of your army killed and spending a king's fortune and bankrupting your country.

Previous Enola posts:
I'd never hear of Khost, so I had to look on a map:

Northern Pakistan
Khost is at the lower left. Map shown is about 300 miles across.

Several big cities in this area.

Afghanistan

Khost

Looks like fairly level ground, river runs through the town, and the entire area is ringed by mountains or at least serious hills.

Update August 2026 fixed missing links. Don't know how that happened.

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Mid-East Oil


It Was Saudi Arabia That Broke Iran, Not the US
Maxinomics

It's always good to learn a little more about how we got where we are.