My stepdad had a hauling business. Huge stakebody diesel truck he called Big Blue, you’d call him and he’d bring us kids over and we would load the truck. He’d take it to the dump or wherever they wanted.
Usually us kids rode in the open back of the truck with whatever we were hauling, which was usually old furniture and trash.
One day we were moving a TON of furniture and the whole truck was packed. So packed that there wasn’t much room for us but there was like a littke pocket in the middle.
Being stupid kids, we decided to start clambering around on top of the furniture, never mind that the truck is barreling down the state highway.
Well i was climbing up on some dressers towards the back of the truck, but they had been covered with moving blanket.
When all of my weight got up on top of the dresser, the wind pressure started sliding me and the goddamn moving blanket backwards, and since the dressers were taller than the stake walls of the truck that meant me and the moving pad were headed directly off the back of the truck, going 60+mph
I of course tried to scramble back to safety but all my effort just pulled the damn furniture pad towards me and I kept sliding.
My feet went off the back of the dressers, dangling over the highway, when one of the kids with me heard my terror screams over the wind, realized what was happening and jumped and caught the edge of the moving blanket ending my rearward progress.
We kept riding in the back on hauling jobs but I learned to be more careful.
bonus: That same stepdad, one of his own natural kids was real wild. He stowed away on the roof of their Winnebago before the mom drove it over the Maryland Bay Bridge. She said she couldn’t figure out why everyone was honking and pointing but it’s not like she could pull over on the bridge!
I saw this lot on marketplace yesterday with only 1 photo but I could see 2 of the chassis so I jumped on it. All told there are 6 chassis in various states of dress 40ish motors, 3 pistol transmitters, 8 or more twin stick transmitters, receivers, servos, only 1 or 2 speed controllers, 1 body, and a bunch of other stuff....
this method is how we discovered Neptune and Pluto and many exoplanets. Kepler’s laws are extremely specific about orbits, so once you pin down the disturbances the planet makes you significantly narrow down the places it can be.
a cookie is a cookie but a newton is fruit and cake!
god these were such treasure as a child! I don’t think my children have even tried them but I sadly expect they might not love them the options are so much broader today.
And my store is having a sale on them now how lovely if the kids hate them I am sure i will at least get the satisfaction of finding them having been enshittified since I last tried them a decade ago!
A couple months ago, it was rumored that Robert Pattinson might play Case in Apple TV+'s Neuromancer. It looks like that rumor fell through because it’s now official, Callum Turner will play Case. I’ll be honest with you, I have no idea who this guy is. But an official announcement about Neuromancer means this project is...
I just re-read these and man they hold up. It’s so wild that Gibson had no computer experience at all when writing them. He said the only computer he saw was through a window!
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what a nice read, this lady really put in the effort it sounds like.
also:
As an award-winning violin player who has performed at Carnegie Hall and a member of the Science Bowl and USA Biology Olympiad at North Hunterdon High School, Zhang has no shortage of talent and ideas.
the bridge is coming up on 50 years old. maryland DOT regulations require a safety certification inspection every 5 years but every 50 they get a really thorough inspection where they use radar and sonar to check the concrete foundation pilings.
When the FSK was built back in the 70’s the mob was doing big business in ports all up and down the eastern seaboard and it’s widely known in charm city that the bridge was made with shady mob concrete and was done really shoddily. There is zero chance that bridge was going to pass its 50 year inspection and the owner was going to be absolutely fucked and probably do an entire retrofit.
It just so happens that the bridge changed hands last year to what looks like a shell company at a discount and as part of that transfer the insurance policy was updated and increased (which is normal) but the inspection reports the insurance company uses are the 5 year reports which don’t do the deep concrete scans.
And it also just so happens that the ship that hit the bridge was used in an insurance fraud scheme a few years ago where they sideswiped a pier in europe. It ended up that the mafia was involved in that, too.
I have no proof of anything shady but when you look at all the pieces…
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I saw this lot on marketplace yesterday with only 1 photo but I could see 2 of the chassis so I jumped on it. All told there are 6 chassis in various states of dress 40ish motors, 3 pistol transmitters, 8 or more twin stick transmitters, receivers, servos, only 1 or 2 speed controllers, 1 body, and a bunch of other stuff....
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