There’s someone on the ‘Tube who has a channel, “Demolition Dave Drilling and Blasting”. I think he’s ‘stralian, mate.
In this video, Dave reviews a Chinese generator.
How do you say “Harbor Freight” in Australian?
Mike the Musicologist sent me this: it is a little more recent than I’d like, and I think I’ve seen it linked on Hacker News, but I still think it’s worth highlighting here.
“What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?” from Practical Engineering.
Finally, here’s something that’s just about 25 minutes long, and that I think some folks will enjoy: “The Unfortunate History of the AMC Pacer”.
“There’s a fine line between uniqueness and strange.”
Content warning/spoiler: The kitchen has everything. Even carpeting on the floor. I repeat, the kitchen is carpeted.
Bonus #2: I really don’t have a good category to stick this under, so I’ll just leave it here: “Boys Town: A Place Called Home”, from about 1951.
As far as I’ve been able to determine, Father Flanagan has been named a “Servant of God”, but has not been canonized yet, and it’s not clear to me that the process has advanced in the past nine years.
Continuing in our tour of the United States: “The Secrets of St. Louis”, a documentary from the 1960s about St. Louis history.
Bonus #1: I’m posting this less to tease certain commenters, and more for the scenery: “America For Me”. Yes, this a Greyhound promo film, but there’s a lot of spectacular scenery. And a love story, but you can skip over that and just watch the scenery go by.
Did you know that Chrysler built turbine powered cars?
I’m not talking about the one that raced at Indy: Chrysler had an active program from (roughly) the 1950s to 1979 developing turbine powered passenger cars. Between 1963 and 1964, they produced 55 cars.
“Here’s why the government made Chrysler destroy its 46 jet cars.”
(I know the numbers don’t quite match: Chrysler kept two, five are in museums, and two are privately owned.)
Bonus #1: “The Mazda RX-8 Is a Fun Car You Probably Shouldn’t Buy”.
Bonus #2: Breaking slightly from the car theme, but…”Evel Knievel: The True Story” from 1998.
But I’m going to start off with an exception. Today is Tax Day in much of the United States. (In parts of the country that were impacted by winter storms, tax day falls on June 15th this year.)
So here’s something thematically appropriate for today: “Helping the Taxpayer” from…
…I’m sorry, I can’t keep a straight face…
…I’m laughing too hard…
…Okay, better now. Those wonderful folks at the IRS (in cooperation with the American Institute of Accountants).
With that out of the way: Ward Carroll has a YouTube channel!
That name may not ring any bells with some of you: Mr. Carroll is a former Navy pilot who has written several books. I liked Punk’s War quite a bit, and need to pick up the other Punk novels (when I see them at reasonable prices: cheese louise, Mr. Carroll, time for Kindle editions of those.)
“Dogfighting 101”. Bending a rule here, but I’m obsessed with dogfighting (in the aviation context, not in the Ron Mexico context). Have been since I was a little kid reading WWI and WWII histories and wondering, “Okay, so Dick Bong shot down a bunch of planes. How?” Textbooks on dogfighting were not readily available in elementary and middle school libraries: I didn’t actually pick one up until I was in my mid-30s.
I thought I’d do a sampler platter today. Roughly from short to long:
“The Creation and Behavior of Radio Waves”. This is a 1942 Army Signal Corps film: I guess technically this could be MilHisMonday, but it is more about the theory of radio than specific military radio usage, so I feel like it qualifies here.
“The Nuclear Look”, a pro-nuclear power propaganda film from Westinghouse.
And speaking of nukes, “Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation”.
Finally: I know this was just posted recently, and I’m trying to avoid using anything that’s not older than at least a month. But I haven’t done any space science recently, I haven’t done anything from the Soviet perspective, and we’re moving towards closure here, so: “Conquerors Of the Universe”, a documentary about the Soviet space program. Don’t worry, it’s narrated in English.
“Skallagrim” discusses “End Him Rightly”, a fighting technique from the Gladiatoria.
Bonus #1: Here’s another video from the good folks at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC): “Integrity in the Workplace”. Or, things you shouldn’t do as a Federal employee.
Bonus #2: A little something for FotB RoadRich again. Guy picks up a 1973 Piper Cherokee Cruiser for $9,000 (it needs an overhaul and the owner couldn’t afford it) and does a restoration and rebuild.
Besides putting this up as RoadRich bait, I’m posting this because that’s a really nice looking airplane. I could see myself flying something like that.
Bonus #3: And speaking of the Cherokee, “50th Anniversary of the Piper Cherokee” from the good folks at Piper.
Lawrence sent over an obit from one of the Indianapolis TV stations for Edgar Harrell and James W. Smith, both of whom passed away this week. They were 96 years old.
He was drafted by Washington in 2008 as a backup, was cut two years later, went to the Raiders, and was cut again.
According to his family, he was in a car crash in 2010 and was never the same: “…broke his collarbone and ribs, caused head trauma, and resulted in blood clots that would plague him the rest of his life”. He descended into addiction. Recently, he had spent four months in a rehab center.
The one time I took the ‘Hound on the ground, it was only about three hours each way (Austin-Houston and back), and I think by that time smoking was verboten on Greyhound buses. However, in the interest of fairness…
Bonus #1: “10 BAD Things That WILL Happen on the GREYHOUND BUS” from the “Frugal Travel Guru”.
Bonus #2: This one’s a long one, but probably somewhat more pleasant than traveling by bus. Especially if you have a good car: a man with a good car doesn’t need to be justified.
“100 Years on the Lincoln Highway”, a Wyoming PBS documentary about the first coast to coast road.