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Re: Mother's fury at school sending boy, six, to psychiatric ward after he drew video Several disturbing things about this. One, the family already has a therapist because their SIX YEAR OLD has separation anxiety. OMG. Second, her name is Syndi. How cute. <barf> It's no wonder they have a...

It's not light bulbs, it's energy consumption, and of course by association - greenhouse gas emissions. Cuba actually led the charge by banning the sale and import of incandescent in 1995. Brazil and Venezuela also started to phase them out in 2005, and the European Union, Switzerland and...

It's a JPG image hosted at Photobucket. Click the link above, and when the page loads, click on the picture and it will explode violently to the full size picture, where you can either scroll your brains out, or right-click and print/save the image.

Plus, the Sprinters are manufactured by Daimler AG of Stuttgart, Germany, not Chrysler. They've always been a Mercedes-Benz vehicle, going back to the joint venture with Volkswagen with the original body style of Volkswagen LT and the new body style Volkswagen Crafter. Taxpayer bailouts and loan...

Neat, yes. Truly God's gift? Probably not. You go through all the various possibilities of words that add up to a given percentage, and the ones that fit what you are trying to say are used, and the ones that don't are discarded. Like, "Love of Devil" = 128%. Why didn't they include that one? Or...

No, usually it's the actual weight at the time, rather than the GVWR capability. In Ohio, for example, some speed limit signs say "vehicles over 4 tons" or "vehicles over 4 tons empty". They are concerned about weight and how dangerous heavy vehicles are. If my Sprinter weighs 6200 pounds, it's...

I found out early on that there were good Sprinter dealers and bad Sprinter dealers. Just because they were a Sprinter dealer didn't mean the Sprinter tech was all that into properly diagnosing and repairing Sprinters. That goes for both Dodge and Freightliner Sprinter dealers. Some good, some...

If I'm over 8000 pounds, or close enough to it that I'm not 100% confident that I'm under 8000 pounds, I'll pull in. Wisconsin, for example, requires all vehicles over 8000 pounds to stop, but that's the actual gross weight of the vehicle (GVW), not the GVWR of the vehicle. So if I'm loaded with...

The other driver is ignorant of the rules and regulations, and as is usually the case when someone is ignorant of the actual rules and regulations and their applicability, and instead are relying on flawed deductive reasoning, he is wrong. The DOT FMCSA regulations apply to Commercial Motor...

In 1959 Wisconsin became the first state to pass a comprehensive collective bargaining law for public employees, and it was the birthplace of the national union representing all non-federal public employees. Whoops.

Stick to The List and "think like a European" pretty much sums it up. Take all the stuff you think you know about maintaining a cargo van and toss it out the back door, and learn how to maintain a European vehicle with a European mentality. Then there's always this instant classic. :D

When it comes to the DOT and the FMCSA, uhm, no, the rules aren't made to be broken. The FMCSA regs don't apply to vans and Sprinters, but most carriers (all that I know of, actually) do not distinguish between CMV and non-CMV when it comes to things like passengers, because the insurance...

If you run a story about the 2011 Des Moines Balloon Race and show controversial video from the 2010 race, and pass it off as what happened in the 2011 race, that's not sloppy editing, it's by design.

El Paso, Tejas. 77° yesterday, 81° today.

A restraining order from Jennifer Aniston says otherwise. :mad:

Not a lot of people have done it that way, mainly because they don't know that it can be done. But yeah, I know several who have done it. If I had thought about it when I did mine, I'd have had spray-on insulation done. It'll save 3 or 4 days of insulating, and it'll cost the same or less, all...

Yeah, we just can't have people's feeling hurt. Have you ever had someone say something to you and you did not understand what they said? Either a word of the entire sentence? You respond with something like, "What?" or "I'm sorry?" or "Pardon?" Then they say it again and you don't understand...

Pulling off the oil cooler and pressure testing it won't test for bad oil cooler o-rings, which is probably where it is leaking. Since the oil is finding it's way into the coolant, it has to be from someplace where it is under pressure above cooling system pressure, and that usually points to...

Uhm, no. Sorry. My personal opinion about the whole thing would make writing for it most definitely a conflict of interest. Besides, the important point was not grammar, but that external opinions mean diddly with regard to who operates the HoF, and in how they operate it.