The best car chases, the greatest car chases, the best movie chases… Give it the title you want. I researched this matter exhaustively and below is a list of the greatest car chase scenes in movies that I could come up with. The best car chase sequence of all time is the climax of 1980′s … Continue reading »
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Pursuit of the Land Speed Record
Jimmy Ames has enthusiastically agreed to provide financial support to my and Brandon’s ambitious project to set a new land speed record on the flats of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. We’re aiming to break the 1,000 mph barrier (The current record is 766 mph). Here is a prototype of the vehicle we are constructing in … Continue reading »
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Oopsie At The Train Station
This made me late yesterday, but I got over it after I read the sign.
Lights Out Time On Frenchtown Road
At my first job during high school I used to work at Lucky bagging groceries. Justin Ames bagging groceries? Yeah, I’m not above a little manual labor now and then and it was a good first job because the hours were flexible and it paid quite well (Also, as I found out later, Snoop Dogg’s … Continue reading »
Project Daedalus
A project to send a large ship to another star still fires the imagination (at least it should). By the low standards of today, it seems an impossible dream, yet just such a ship was seriously proposed on a cold night in London in 1973. Members of the British Interplanetary Society (B.I.S.) conducted the Space … Continue reading »
Motorcycling Basics – Lesson # 9 – Never Use Your Front Brake On Gravel
Lesson # 9 – Never use your front brake on gravel If you do, you may end up with a shifter that looks like this (it should be forward, not bent back): A left turn indicator that looks like this (not very useful): A paint job that looks like this (not so attractive): And a … Continue reading »
