Archive for the 'Family' Category Page 2 of 41



Detroit Could Have Built Safe Cars With Only Seven Moving Parts in the Engine

Suppose Detroit could make a car that would seat four comfortably, buzz down the highway at 80 mph easily, and the engine had just seven moving parts? They would have built the DKW. My brother had a DKW.  It wasn’t the puke green shown above, it was red. Amazing how much better it looks in red. The DKW was [...]

The Poorest Designed Most Indispensable Gizmo

Tivo’s remote, lest I keep you in suspense, is the most indispensable gadget I have around the house. It is also the one I use the most and the one that gives me the biggest frustration. Only until tonight, was I able to determine why I love my Tivo remote but hate it so much. It’s a [...]

Gloomy Sunday Foreplay

This looked like a fun meme I found while reading Blog 365. Annie wrote hers and I found it interesting. It seems like it requires SOME thought, but not the deep soul-searching on which many memes focus. It’s a gloomy, chilly fall day, and NASCAR doesn’t start for a few hours. I’ve added some qualifiers [...]





ss_blog_claim=296fe88b30322f268784aa6b5837fee2