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I redid the battery bank in the Sprinter. Here's the old bank: Everstart Maxx Marine batteries from Walmart. They're hybrid batteries designed for trolling motor-type amp draws, so if your amp requirements are minimal (light, Espar, computer) then they're fine. Not so much with my...

James West of Australia has been receiving e-mails from the Tran Family in Florida for years. One problem: he doesn't know the Trans because he's the wrong James West. However, this year, he's accepting their annual invitation and joining their Thanksgiving. West, a 28-year-old from Sydney...

Or if you don't know where that is, look at the southeastern sky between about 3:00 AM and 5:15 AM on Thursday morning, Nov 18 (and Friday morning, same time), to see the annual Leonid Meteor Shower. Clear skies and away from city lights will let you see as many as 20 shooting stars per hour...

Take a close look at this. This is a close-up shot of the kind of painstaking detail that went into the project that took 10 years, and recovering from a stroke that has left him without any feeling in one hand, to complete. The Declaration of Independence, meticulously and accurately...

Nancy is delusional. Not only does she think she's going to be the Minority Leader this next term, she think this election was about America's frustration about high unemployment. OMG. Somebody give her a straight jacket. From her USA Today Op-Ed piece: You can read the rest of it here, but...

For those who might need it, here are a few links. 2006 Sprinter Service Manual.rar 42MB RAR file The Technical Service Manual, what you need to do your repairs yourself. Can be used with 2003 to 2007 model years. 2005 Sprinter MOPAR Exploded Parts Catalog.rar 5MB RAR file Exploded Parts...

Once you read the article, you'll have to wonder why Olbermann was singled out for this, since so many others, including entire networks, do the same thing. In any case, maybe the other networks will see this as a sign they need to clan up their act, and the acts of their on-air personalities...

Ohio McDonald's gives voting advice in paychecks "If the right people are elected we will be able to continue with raises and benefits at or above our present levels. If others are elected we will not," said the paycheck envelope insert. The handbill with a simple McDonald's logo at the top...

Fold a piece of paper 42 times and it's thick enough to reach from the Earth to the Moon. Fold it again and it'll reach to the Moon and back. Fold it 100 times and it'll take you beyond the observable universe. (Folding paper 42 times, doubles thickness each time. 20# paper = 0.097 mm thick...

KLST TV-8, the CBS affiliate in San Angelo, Texas gives us this weather forecast. If you're easily offended by humor, don't click the link. Or click it and read the comments and then see if you want to be easily offended by humor. All I can say is, if I were the cameraman or anyone in the...

It won't affect current customers and current contracts much, especially smartphone users with the $30 unlimited data plan, and the same the option to downgrade to $15 for 150MB/month, with a $0.10/MB overage charge. What's new is with the tablets. In addition to $20/1GB, $35/3GB, and $50/5GB...

Just checking... It also just happens to be the national standard grade for the optimal mix of fertilizer.

For those of you who don't know, Verizon and Sprint both have carrier discounts for Panther Partners. Driver Web | Reference | Cell Phone Under the Sprint link there is a code that you need to give them at any Sprint retailer or Sprint Customer Service Representative. Under the Verizon link...

Anybody who knows me at all, even here online, knows how silly I think all this is, and how saddened I am by it. I've said it a hundred times and it clearly needs repeating: Pay more attention to what was said, rather than to who said it. Stick to the issue itself rather than to the person...

You're probably aware of the anti-Islamic sentiment that is gripping the country of late. Most of it's a load of emotional crap, and everyone knows it. I'd sure hate to be a Muslim living in this country, what with all the crackpots we seem to regularly produce here. I'm sure 9/11 is just a...

Yeah, you really should read the rest of this one. The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS - Yahoo! News I wonder what the attitude towards this is from expediters and others who have GPD tracking on their trucks. I also have to wonder, if it's legal to secretly install...

Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov has taken old World War II photos and photoshopped them over the locations in present day. The scenes from places like Prague, Vienna, and Moscow are incredibly well done and a great way to appreciate history, to see just how war-torn it was in contrast with...

Here's a nifty little update that should thrill beyond words. Notice where it says it's temporary, and then later on it says a very open-ended date of "until further notice". I think "until further notice" means "until we merge the two programs into the Pilot Driver Payback program". <snort>...

Ok, so you're a card carrying member of the Tea Party. You've got your Palin 2010 bumper sticker on the back of your Hummer. You've signed all of those online petitions to add Ronald Reagan's face to Mt. Rushmore and the nickel. But are you really conservative enough? The first thing...