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I had a friend back in the 70's who built a pair of Klipshorns from scratch. They were awesome. I never got into horns, but the best sounding speaker I ever heard in my life I built out of a discarded open-back TV cabinet (21" B/W Westinghouse if I recall correctly) when they were still made...

Here's a snapshot of the view from the hilltop. The smoke rising from the jungle is betel nut husks being burned to heat bath water at the various farms in the valley.

Everyone there has a generator as backup. Power lines are already on site, but the power is notoriously fickle. To prevent my freezer from thawing, my bore well pump operating, and my television and computer running, I'll use an automatic generator that runs on an LPG fuel tank which is also...

Hi, Brewer: Bangalore is not my first choice for health care. Sorry if I gave that false impression. The nearest town is Puttur (pop. 48000), about 20 minutes away on relatively good roads. Many decent private hospitals there. Mangalore (pop. 540000) is about 45 minutes (15 miles) away, and has...

Healthcare is one of the reasons for moving there. Medical care is much less expensive than in the US. Plus two of my sister-in-laws are doctors in Bangalore, so I think I'm well covered in that arena. Private health insurance is about Rs 20000 per year if you want to buy it (that's about...

Inspired by the Off To Thailand topic, I am thinking about moving to India semi-permanently. My wife's uncle has 20 acres that he farms (betel nuts and bananas) just east of Mangalore. It's situated in rolling hillside country, lush with palms and rice paddies, about 25 km inland from the...

Constitutional Amendment Before any tax increase in enacted into law, all Representatives and Senators, and their spouses and dependents, must liquidate and pay 95% of their total net worth prior to the tax increase going into effect.

Dr. Evil is spinning in his chair! ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Pixies, Throwing Muses, Thin White Rope, fIREHOSE are 4 that come immediately to mind. YMMV.

CPI came in at 1.2% for September.

The city of New Orleans is dead, may she rest in peace. The scenes I have seen out of there today remind me of the Road Warrior, buses fleeing the city, gangs terrorizing the refugees, no civil authority. Either that, or Beirut in the 70's.

Nearly 50. Duh!

I've been playing with this for about a week now. It's a lot of fun looking for things left outside. I suggest you check out Edwards AFB (34 57'N 117 53'W) and see if you can find the SR-71's parked outside. The boneyard at Davis Monthan AFB (32 9'N 110 50'W) is also quite interesting to poke...

While true that spending on luxury class items like the aforementioned Lexus and overseas vacations probably decline, there's a baseline level that everyone needs to spend just to maintain a life, and this is increasing as time goes on. Could it possibly be that spending goes down as you age...

Re: Its funny joke Thursday! I went into my proctologist's office for my first rectal exam. His new nurse, Elaine, took me to an examining room and told me to get undressed and have a seat until the doctor could see me. She said that he would only be a few minutes. After putting on the gown...

Re: Its funny joke Thursday! On their way to get married, a young couple are involved in a fatal car accident. The couple find themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they begin to wonder: Could they possibly get married in...

Re: Its funny joke Thursday! A man was leaving a cafe with his morning coffee when he noticed a very unusual funeral procession.  A funeral coffin was followed by a second one about 50 feet behind the first.  Behind the second coffin was a solitary man walking with a black dog.  Behind him was...

Only two??? I would have thought at least 7.

Unfortunately the test only scores along one axis. The libertarian y-axis is imaginary (running from Authoritarian to Libertarian), so I was hoping more for a score of z=28 + j28. I consider myself a anti-statist libertarian (socialy liberal, fiscally conservative) and place more importance on...

I'm not sure what to make of all of this. The rescuer should at least have charges dropped and get a formal apology from the police chief. Gov't is always despairing about the lack of citizen involvement, but when one does help he gets arrested. This is absurd. There were no police in the water...

33/40...gosh I was hoping for a 40. Guess I need to sharpen my knives and cut out whatever I am doing wrong.

Re: Its funny joke Thursday! Three ducks walk into a bar. "Say, what's your name?" asked the bartender to the first duck. "Huey," replied the first duck. "How's your day been, Huey?" "Great. Lovely day. Had a ball. Been in and out of puddles all day. What else could a duck want?" said the...

Re: Its funny joke Thursday! A blind man enters a Ladies Bar by mistake. He finds his way to a barstool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, 'Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?" The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet. In a very deep...

Re: Its funny joke Thursday! A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you...

Sigh, and to think I voted for him back in the 80's. Everybody knows gold is passe -- cold-pressed latinum is the benchmark to beat.