Hobo Jungle

[GP]

Grasshopper leaves us as he travels down the endless road.

Practicing Auto-Erotic Asphyia can lead to the end of the road much sooner Grasshopper.

[webenda]

Practicing Auto-Erotic Asphyia can lead to the end of the road much sooner Grasshopper.

Depends on your religion doesn't it? I do not know, but would not be surprised if Grasshopper continues along the endless road to his next reincarnation.

17 hours into 24 hours of Le Mans: Peugeot still holding position 1 and 2.


Peugeot 908 Hdi at 2007 Le Mans 24 hours

The Peugeot 908 is powered by a 5.5 L (340 cu in) V-12 HDi diesel engine.
The engine was reported to produce over 700 horsepower and 890 ft·lbf of torque when introduced in 2007.

Peugeot's choice of a closed cockpit is possibly intended to allow the 908 to run a larger air restrictor due to rules mandating the use of air conditioning on closed cockpit designs. I can just imaging David Brabham, (one of three drivers) inside, air off so he can go faster, sweating like a pig, cursing the design rules.

Recognize the name, "Brabham?" David is the youngest son of Jack Brabham, Formula One World Champion.


Peugeot 908 RC Sedan... same engine, same power!

[rogruth]

Wasn't there a Brabham [Jack?] that set a land speed record at Bonneville?

[Tramp]

Wayne, since we're without TV, I watched the opening at my mother's apartment, then watched some on Speed's free live feed on my computer. I liked seeing the dawn arriving behind the big Dunlop tire bridge.


If any of you want to see real racing, watch the MotoGP race from Catalunya on Speed at 6pm EST.

[webenda]

Roger,

I seem to remember that too. I found lots of Brabham/Bonneville hits on google, but not one where Brabham drives the car. Here is one: http://www.weismann.net/bonneville.html

Tramp,

Reminiscing about France? I have experienced sunrise at diverse locations. My favorite was the desolate sunrise at Kelso, California.

24 Hours of Le Mans is over.

Team Peugeot: Car # 9 1st place (6 laps ahead of 3rd place Audi.)
Team Peugeot Car # 8 2nd place (5 laps ahead of 3rd place Audi.
Team Audi Car # 1 (a 600 hp V10 diesel) 3rd place (6 laps behind 1st place)

These diesel race cars do not belch black smoke. They are very clean running and fuel efficient. I would not mind owning one of those 168 mph Peugot sedans if it got 35 mph.

[The Dirt]

Holy Cr*p!!

They're calling this a 'bad location'?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/garde ... terstitial

I guess it's true... one man's trash is another man's treasure!!

[webenda]

I like the train in the back yard too. And the train was included in the deal for free. This episode, "When the train thundered by that Saturday morning, though, Ms. Hulser awoke to a chorus of pre-teens shrieking in terror." is priceless.

[rogruth]

She doesn't realize how many train nuts,me for one,would love it.

I lived about fifteen yards from a track for five years.Only about eight trains a day and two were at night.There was a curve that made it appear,especially at night,that the train was coming into the house.I loved it.

[webenda]

Hobos, we have just lost another icon.



"They give us those nice bright colors.
They give us the greens of summers.
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day,
... So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away."

Paul Simon



Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak is taking your Kodachrome away. Everyone has gone digital.

The following URL links you to Kodak's tribute to the late great Kodachrome film.
http://homepage.1000words.kodak.com/def ... em=2388083

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's a wonderous resource. Thanks, Wayne.

[2railjon]

Hobos, we have just lost another icon.

Dang Wayne, you had me scared for a minute!! I thought you were referring to the dude in the turbin!!!

[webenda]

That's a wonderous resource. Thanks, Wayne.

"You Press the Button, We Do the Rest." I have always admired Kodak for keeping it simple. Typically, when Kodak explains how to do something, it fits on one page.

Hobos, we have just lost another icon.

Dang Wayne, you had me scared for a minute!! I thought you were referring to the dude in the turbin!!!

The conductor with the flag and a lantern? Naw, he's OK.

[The Dirt]

Just got home from work at midnight to an ebony sky, absolute quiet but for the crickets chirping, huge swath of Milky Way in an arc from north to south. Overhead, the long-necked swan wings right down the center of the river, straight over the eagle with its baleful eye looking earthward, and on the southern horizon before the central bulge of our galaxy, Sagittarius with his fully-drawn bow aims at the scorpion with the blood-red heart and it's curled tail tipped with a double-starred stinger, as a perfectly stoic Jupiter rises over the mountain in the southeast. Just gorgeous.
Alas for you city-dwellers!

It's said that fireflies are visible only for the last two weeks of their short existence, when the males fly high and the females lay low, each frantically advertising for all they're worth for the perfect mate. Well, being in a crop program may be a pain in the ***, but in late June with the grasses unsullied and chest-high, it shows its worth as an absolute Firefly Paradise. Standing on high ground beyond my pool and picket fence, looking down the south field lined by thick trees on either side in the midnight blackness, its entire length and breadth and heighth of trees on both sides, are alive with a bazillion lightning bugs in a desperate sexual frenzy. But for being totally silent, it looks like the most completely raucous Chinese New Year celebration you could ever see. Wished there was some way to get that on film.

Reminds me that I gotta get my OGCMA green wooden bench fixed. That very spot is where it used to sit.
Tramp, wherever you are tonight, I thought of you!

I took a sunset pic the other day.



My arms might be too short to box with God, but maybe I could give him a foot race!

[webenda]

Great photo Pete and fuunnnny caption.

Give the firefly photo a try. Your camera might surpise you.

My daughter in-law (from Los Angeles) visited us here in the desert and was awed by all the stars. She asked if she could take a photo of them with her digital camera. I told her, "No, it takes a camera that is capable of time exposures." So, she aimed the camera at the great square (Pegasus) and got, not only the stars, but the faint glow of the Andomeda galaxy. Women! They never listen.

[ANG retired]

I had the telescope out last night, taking a peek at the eagle nebula, as well as a few other pretties in the sky.

Dark skies ROCK!

I did discover a few years back, that newtonian reflectors and fireflies don't mix. I got fixated on Saturn when all the sudden, BOOM! green glow blasted the eye through the eyepiece! Took me a minute or so to figure out what happenend. A firefly had gone down the optical tube, right near the mirror, and decided at that moment to announce his intentions. Took a while to get my night vision back.