Recent content by gsfish

Good rendition of our National Anthem at a 1994 baseball game.

You did better than a friend of mine back in the 80's. He was on his first day at a woodworking shop and they had him running wood through a table saw that was cutting a 3/4" wide groove with a DADO blade. As he explained to me later from his hospital bed it was very difficult to push the wood...

Real. I believe I even saw it on 60 Minutes a few years ago. A guy with cash to buy a load of Christmas Trees. Some states allow them to drain your debit cards too. Right there in the right of way. Search for previous threads on this subject. Here are two...

Sorry for intruding BUT, I just watched an interesting Youtube video that explains how people cheat with cards counting computers and dice while using movie clips as examples. Well done, entertaining and informative. I don't gamble but I did take a chance at the Powerball tonight. I could be a...

I'm 75 pages into re-reading "Krakatoa" by Simon Winchester. Amazing natural disaster that occurred in 1888. I picked up three books at the flea market for $5. One is "Indian & Eskimo Artifacts of North America" by Charles Miles that I am finding very interesting after a quick browsing. Another...

When I first saw this thread I thought it was about fire shelters after all the forest fires that have been in the news. I would hate to need one but managed to pick one up at the flea market for $10. I've used lots of fiberglass fire blankets to control slag and sparks while welding too. This...

What Spiff said. ^^ Guy

I have been able to identify friends that have difficulties when it comes to thinking logically. I still love them just don't understand them. The friends that I have lost or nearly lost cause me to value every day more than before the storm. Guy

Yesterday at the flea market I picked up yet another flashlight. Last night at first use it became one of my favorites. It is a Nightstick XPP-5422GMX. Made for industrial applications it is Intrinsically safe (explosion proof) and rugged. There is a horizontal spot beam and a wide beam that...

One of my neighbors is hosting a friend with a Earth Roamer RV (how the other half lives). Their rig is set up like KarlH's project (^). Engine can heat water and water heater can heat the engine. The couple that owns the Roamer are wildlife photographers and have been boondocking in as low as...

I bent a triangle shape onto the end of a stainless welding rod and chuck it into my drill to stir my separated peanut butter. Guy

"Devil's Gate" was a fascinating read. I will never understand the torment that people will endure for a religious concept. I am near finishing up "Incidents of a Whaling Voyage". A journal written in 1839 buy a man who traveled on a whaling ship as a passenger and then traveled around the...

I haven't had a barber shop haircut since 1972. How much have I saved? When I start tucking my hair in with my shirt I know it's time for a trim. Back when I had more of it I would chop it a foot at a time to donate for kids on Chemo. Guy

I answered a ad on Craigslist last week. The subject of the ad was "Anchor" and the price was given as $20. I bit and the listing was for a 45# CQR anchor!! I emailed and he called the next day suggesting we meet at the West Marine parking lot that would save me 40 miles of driving. I had a...

I picked up a NuWave II  for ten bucks at the flea market yesterday. Looks new, works great. Regarding EMF, if all the warnings were even half true I would have been dead long ago. I spent 25 years as an electrician in an industrial environment, all kinds of energy flying around. Up to 60K...