Last seen: January 20, 2026 5:20 pm
Welcome to California!?ÿ Now go home.
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You have to say T1A out loud to know how funny it is!
@john-putnam: the Scoth-Guard for the upholstery and the extended warranty
Why is "abbreviation" such a long word? ?? George Carlin
I used to buy "toys" to see if I could make them productive later on.?ÿ Now in my dotage I buy stuff to make work easier. I may be losing money, but ...
Get a stopwatch. Cheap.?ÿ D=RxT. You can average the speed over the entire length or confine your timing to, say, the last 50 feet for the top speed.
Mohave Instruments in Signal Hill has dozens of old rods, or at least they did when I was looking for new face plates for my 13' Philly.
@holy-cow: I just wrote the formulas I needed on the inside of my eyelids and just closed my eyes to read them when I needed one.
@bryanmundia: Or a gull?
The best definition of a slide rule is "logarithms on a stick".
I spent one Thanksgiving dinner at the home of my daughter-in-law's relatives, none of whom I had ever met before.?ÿ The subject of the moon landing c...
@jitterboogie:?ÿ The left index on 2 on the D scale gives you 2 squared on the A scale. (And 0.996 on the LLo scale, 0.67 on the LLoo scale, 11?ø35' o...
@norman-oklahoma:?ÿ If you think you did addition on a slide rule you made the same mistake I did when I got one for my 13th birthday. I put the left...
Fixed height tripods aren't.
My tree location story concerns a, maybe, ten acre parcel being dedicated as a park to a city.?ÿ An arborist had tagged and numbered every single tree...