News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Chevy Trax

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I bought one. It is Chevy’s smallest SUV. There is a bigger one with an instantly forgettable name, and then the big iron, Suburban. I...

Friday, February 24, 2023

You should buy a radial arm saw.

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Reason? They are very cheap and plentiful on eBay. In the old days, when I was a kid, most fathers had a shop, somewhere, the baseme...

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Cannon Mountain ski weather. 23-Feb-23

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I got six inches of nice new snow on my deck. My deck is easy walking distance to Peabody slopes over at Cannon. So if I got six inches,...

Sunday, February 19, 2023

You can teach your child to read.

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The Internet is full of stories of public school were NONE of the children could read at grade level. This is astounding and discouragin...

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Hot Box.

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Old railroading term for an axle running hot in its journal box. Trains have a lot of axles, four per car. In the old days, before ...

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Shooting down “objects”

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Of the four “object” shoot downs, two went into the water and two went down above the Arctic Circle. The Navy is still trying to salvage...

Monday, February 13, 2023

Gold plating everything runs up the cost of defense.

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Gold plating is the tendency of our military services to require expensive and unneeded fancy equipment added to nearly everything they buy...

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Dstarr: Franconia, New Hampshire, United States

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