Sparky could be a reverse Cylon.

Sparky hasn’t gotten a derogatory nickname in a while, so I’m calling him a ‘red belly’.  Or maybe enhance his last insulting nickname.  He can be a ‘red belly skunk pig’.

That’s better.  Reminiscent of Biden calling some random guy, a “dog faced pony soldier”.

In Kanji, Sparky’s Japanese code name is written like this.

Practice writing those characters.

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Dash Cam project

It feels reckless to drill holes and change wires on a new truck, but I’m going to keep doing it.

In the thirteen years that I had my last truck, I modified it to add desirable features.  My new truck doesn’t have those features, but it does display a bunch of cryptic symbols as it does stuff that I am already doing.  Stuff like steering and watching what other cars are doing.

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NPR should spare us the pink nightmare

For decades, every Thanksgiving, one of NPR’s founding mothers, Susan Stamberg, would give her “Mama Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish” recipe.  It wasn’t interesting, but like a batty aunt telling a boring story about the time her husband wore bowling shoes to Christmas mass, she retells the story every year.  Everybody feigns interest, and nobody complains, because it’s your batty aunt, and she’s earned the privilege

Two things have changed since last year.

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