Recent content by JKalchik

Found Satan...... :D

My dear sir..... Germany says "hold my beer." :)

Hopefully, your roof doesn't cause you any grief. We went through this a few years ago. New roofs on the house & detached garage, several thousand dollars in sheet metal repairs on the truck (whole panel replacement,) and my Civic now looks like a golf ball. Amazingly enough, no glass damage...

State bird.

Time for a bit of cold water thrown on things. The term "A.I" as being thrown around this days is nothing more than marketing <BEEEEP>it. What is happening are Large Language Models getting loaded with mammoth data sets, also with some fairly impressive programming. These systems can tabulate...

A Coastie I worked with 30 years said "Mark with micrometer, mark with chalk, and cut with a fire axe." Ted was a good guy to have around.

Interesting. B+B has been the most consistent in terms of sizing for me, but yeah..... some of the pieces are out there. Never found one that big. Did find a half lb. piece of clinker in a bag of Royal Oak lump, though.....

https://tvwbb.com/threads/el-diablo-mesquite-lump-charcoal.100785/ (posting a link to my original post.)

It's available in Costco Business for $25 per 40 lb. bag. And based on other posts here, it's been around for a while. I picked up a bag..... And not likely to pick up another. For one very simple reason. The piece size is wildly variable. In the first half bag I dumped, there were a...

Wile E. Michaels. Soopah genius! :D Been there, done that. Autoranging meters spoil you after learning on an old analog needle device (complete with calibration....)

Wow. That's pretty impressive.

Keep your chin up, man. (y)

Jeebus...... are those things gold plated, at that price?

She was gone. Dead to the world, rumbling madly away, and forepaws wrapped around my neck. One of her favorite places to snooze.

Another snuggly little beast.