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AI is Coming
Are you worried about the coming of AI? Here’s my take in a nutshell, it’s coming, no matter what we can do. We seem to have two choices, 1) what the doom merchants and Democrats say: restrict it to...
View ArticleVenezuela & Pennsylvania & More
Why Venezuela Democrats’ Plot to Derail Trump’s Revolution: The AI Cult’s Doom Switch Keep your eyes wide open and cui bono!!! If you remember, President Autopen wanted AI restricted to a few highly...
View ArticleOperators
It’s always critical to differentiate between skills and credentials. That’s one of the major problems we face in replacing us old guys. What we know, we learned over 40+ years sitting in the seat,...
View ArticleWhy We Do Some Hobbies
This is something I indulge in from time to time-I was really into it in college and the bug reoccurs now and then. He’s right all five of his reasons enter into it, and perhaps some more. Actually...
View ArticleMoving Power
Getting the things we need where they need to be Logistics is a hellova headache sometimes
View ArticleInteresting
Does it matter? I don’t know but it’s surely interesting. What do you think?
View ArticleAluminum Overcast: Rearmed, Reengined, Ready
Grampa Buff is getting a facelift I think it looks pretty good, considering she’s my age. A century in Service, Only in America
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Sea Lines of Communication
[I wrote this back in February of 2012. If you remember, Obummer was prattling about a swing to the Pacific. If I recall, he had some good points, but no idea how to disengage from all the fracases we...
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American Innovation
We talk a good deal about innovation here, and indeed it is one of the hallmarks of American manufacturing, and it goes back to the Founding (and probably farther. It 1700s we wo9rked mostly in wood,...
View ArticleGuard the Margin, Lose the Farm
I’m getting a bit tired of hearing abou John Deere. It’s the same story over and over but this one caught my eye because they have a point. It is the same as we saw with Harley-Davidson. Let them...
View ArticleSunday Matinee
One of the more accurate war movies around, Welcome to the Sunday open thread
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Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
I just saw this last night and well I find this kind of thing fascinating. Not least with this kind of execution. You’ve heard me say often enough, slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and this illustrates...
View ArticleA Look Back – How America Made Itself
I want to take a bit of time to lookback this week at how we built this place we call America. For make no mistake, we built it, and to no real plan. Just what interested us at the time, and one of the...
View ArticleInnovation
This is fascinating in its own right not least because we don’t often see CEOs of large companies innovate like this, but he did because he hit a conventionally insolvable problem. One of the reasons...
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Along the Old Nickel Plate
Well, have you been watching the Coast to Coast tour of the Up’s Big Boy restored stea, engine? Yes, it is monstrous in person in a way that film can’t show. I like that it is accompanied by NS 1776...
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The Bloody Hundreth
Back in 1843 a Bomb Group was training on what is now my airport when I fly anywhere. It was Kearney Air Diexw Vase, and the Bomb Group was the 100th Bomb Group. It bacame a very famous unit, sadly...
View ArticleHighballing through Nebraska
Coming through where I live now. This stats in Baily Yatd at North Platte, the largest yard in the world. And going until it is right across the Missouri River from General Grenville Dodge’s home in...
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Tooling Up Friday: Wrenches
Let’s return to our legacy in how our trades get things done. All the tools here, I’ve used. Did you know Klein makes wrenches? They do and they are pretty much the equal of the others here, there only...
View ArticleSteam Tour
I’ve seen this several times (there is something to be said for living along the Transcontinental) but if you haven’t it’s really a great show of power, far more than the impressive Challenger. Here’s...
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Buff the Magic Airplane
Well, SCOTUS has decided that bang black is not in and of itself a reason to discriminate for or against you. That’s about 60 years late, if it had been done in 1965 when it was the clear intent of the...
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