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Post by epaul on Mar 7, 2024 9:33:30 GMT -5
I'd get one of these... if my wife would let me...
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Post by epaul on Mar 6, 2024 20:53:46 GMT -5
Just for the hell of it, I went to Open Road Honda's site (Mandan, ND) and clicked on the "email me a quote button". They replied:
"Thank you for your inquiry. We are currently sold out of that model. Please call if you have any questions. Dusty Caldwell,Open Road Honda,701-663-4023."
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Post by epaul on Mar 6, 2024 18:24:33 GMT -5
THIEVES! THIEVES! THIEVES!
That is the exact routine Todd worked up for the Duck Band at our Dilworth Feed and Grain show. I recall seeing a couple guys filming us that evening, but I had just assumed they were Hollywood talent scouts. NOT THIEVES!
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Post by epaul on Mar 6, 2024 11:51:28 GMT -5
OK. Same offer goes for a brand-new Corvette. Is Pearl Blue ok? If so, send me a money order made out to Rydell Chevrolet for $92,899 (my haggling skills saved you 28 bucks!) I can have it out there by Easter. (oh, and a couple hundred on my end for gas and burgers would be appreciated).
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Post by epaul on Mar 6, 2024 10:48:14 GMT -5
Morning.
Me, too! I took a nice hike across a stretch of dirty snowbanks yesterday. Exhilarating! Didn't take any pictures, though. Darn it!
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Post by epaul on Mar 6, 2024 10:41:59 GMT -5
If you decide instead on getting a new Corvette, I will deliver one from Grand Forks. But, I won't even cross the county on a bike, never mind the country. Them days (and back, knees, wrists, and butt) are long gone.
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Post by epaul on Mar 5, 2024 22:42:10 GMT -5
Oh, and if I'm even close about the pressures associated with these early-in-life exams administered in the Indian educational system that are used for school placement and subsequent career options, then the principal's words to the parents are good words. And his words, and intentions, have no context whatsoever in our domestic educational debate. This letter is ruled inadmissible as evidence in our courtroom. It could just as well be from Mars, and what the hell does Mars have to do with our schools?
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Post by epaul on Mar 5, 2024 21:39:13 GMT -5
Bit more Googling suggests the parents being asked by the Principal may have been those of kids at the International Indian School in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Not Singapore. More Googling might throw up other leads. I think the Principal advised the parents well. One purported source - I am unfamiliar with the education system in India, but hazarding a pretty good guess, there is a lot of pressure inflicted on kids early in their school life by exams administered by the school as these exams, early in life, determine the educational track, and subsequent professional opportunities, that will be available to the kid. Don't hit the 90% percentile in biology and chemistry on your 6th grade exam? Then the scientist and doctor career path is out the door and you are put on the trade school track with no way off. Get a 50% percentile score and it's following elephants as a street sweeper for you. There is no messing around in many school systems across the world. Competition is brutal and school test results are unforgiving and final. Pressure is intense and the winnowing severe. It is a strength of the U.S. educational system that a kid can be a compete screw off in school and drink his way through college yet find that doors to success remain open. We got the late bloomer thing going for us in spades. It is our strength. India would have tracked the thirteen-year-old Steve Jobs into the sweeping up after elephants trade with no way out. We don't appreciate the gifts, and advantages, our lax and lamentable educational system have given this country.
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Post by epaul on Mar 5, 2024 18:29:12 GMT -5
I wonder who wrote that? And why? (never mind, I know why)
But this country doesn't give year end exams to children (or semester end or whatever end time period you pick) . They are given various achievement tests that measure basic reading and math skills, but school-wide exams on specific topics like Chemistry, English Literature, History, and Physics? In elementary school? (Or junior high and senior high, for that matter?) Nope. No way.
I smell a rat! (that letter is as phony as a three-dollar bill)
Now, back when I was in third grade, yes, I had to take Chemistry, Physics and English Lit (John Donne was my favorite). But, Newfolden Elementary was demanding (not like those scowflaws in Middle River, all they did was watch cartoons and pick their noses. Their parents coddled them! Soft!).
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Post by epaul on Mar 5, 2024 9:39:55 GMT -5
To be remembered and missed means you did well. You did well, guys!
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Post by epaul on Mar 4, 2024 9:22:32 GMT -5
Morning.
Fish, trombone, then up to Warren to work on the musical, including some one on one time teaching King Triton how to act like a King!
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Mush!
Mar 4, 2024 1:19:54 GMT -5
Post by epaul on Mar 4, 2024 1:19:54 GMT -5
They were bred for the sled and that only. Without dog sleds and sled racing, they would not be. Period.
No existence. Nothing. Zilch. Full stop.
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Post by epaul on Mar 3, 2024 10:20:18 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Coach! In the cubby, there is a reservation for a week's stay at the Park Plaza in Fort Meyer and a 7 game ticket package just behind the Sox dugout at Jet Blue Park. ROAD TRIP
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Post by epaul on Mar 2, 2024 11:35:09 GMT -5
Morning!
I'm in a bit of a quandary. Is 10:30 too early for a nap?
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Post by epaul on Mar 2, 2024 11:17:51 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Howard! The perfect ride for a downtown guy! (and Todd installed his "Auto Park" feature, a wonder that will allow you to bulldoze up to three cars out of your desired spot!)
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Post by epaul on Mar 1, 2024 13:01:09 GMT -5
Congratulations, Dave!
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Post by epaul on Mar 1, 2024 10:00:45 GMT -5
The "Day of Frig" has a hedonistic, bacchanalian, and orgiastic connotation for me. Me too! It's all good. My favorite day, for sure!
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Post by epaul on Feb 29, 2024 23:40:16 GMT -5
The first third is about Tesla's thermal exchange/heat pump system and is twice as long as it would need to be (maybe three times as long). If that part gets a little much, skip ahead to the next section
(ok, so it has a clever 8-way valve that allows several parts of the car to take advantage of the energy transfer that occurs between fluids of different temperatures, repeating that over and over for ten minutes doesn't add that much to the "aha!" department)
The fun stuff comes later in the review.
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Post by epaul on Feb 29, 2024 21:04:25 GMT -5
While I was in my extended car search mode, I watched (and read) lots and lots of car reviews. Consumer Reports, Edmunds, and Car and Driver were the basics (virtually memorized), but I also plumbed YouTube, which is full, full, full of car reviews.
Most Youtube reviews are just a quick promo drive with camera in a dealer supplied car (but they do allow you to get a nice sense of the visuals, exterior and interior). But, some are pretty good... and fun. And this guy was my favorite: "Mechanic Reviews a ...". I still watch some of his Youtubes as they pop up just because he is so fun, and good.
Below is a link to his review of the Tesla Model Y.
(in a nutshell: The technology is amazing and wonderful, the car itself is a cheaply and poorly built: Tesla, sell your wonderful technology to someone that knows how to build cars).
(his review of the car's interior is wonderful) (and in every review I've watched, he has been very fair, even when critical)
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Post by epaul on Feb 29, 2024 9:20:20 GMT -5
Once again this forum has proven its worth. I didn't know today was leap day. Now I can tell everyone at band. For sure the drummers won't know.
Interesting deal, leap year. Every four years, they add an extra day to the earth to fix its wobble, kind of like adding a weight to one side of the rim to balance a tire. Well, actually, it's exactly like balancing a tire.
The drummers will be fascinated.
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