September 2019

23 Sep

Posted at 08:17h in Blog, Dick's Rant by

I am going to have to be careful with this post - I wish to make a comparison to a mega-giant of industry. I am well aware that they have lawyers and I don't. So it will be no names and no pack drill. I bought...

19 Sep

Posted at 08:23h in Blog, Dick's Rant by

Attitude indication is performed differently in many situations - teenagers do it by pouting and shouting, nations do it by taking political hostages, and airplanes have instruments on their dashboards to measure it. Here's a selection of different types in diagrammatic form - as seen...

16 Sep

Posted at 08:50h in Blog, Dick's Rant by

Carlos and Sam at the Stirling Street Store are real life savers. When I'm casting about for a topic to include in the week's reports here on the weblog column, they always have something new - or newish - to show me. This time it...

13 Sep

Posted at 07:47h in Blog, Dick's Rant by

You've seen those war movies of the aircraft carriers in the Pacific or Korea. There's an officer standing on the port side aft with a flying helmet on and two big cloth paddles in his hands. As an aeroplane comes into land on the deck...

12 Sep

Posted at 08:02h in Blog, Dick's Rant by

I wasn't allowed to look inside this box last Wednesday. It was plastic-sealed from the factory with a $ 3795.00 sticker on the outside. If the clear plastic wrap and the admonition weren't enough to keep me out, the orange sticker was...