Beautiful starry night tonight. Not too cold either for late December in the mountains. Tonight is my 9th night I’ve spent camping this December, which means I’ve spent nearly one out of every three nights in my tent this month. If I weren’t going to pour and gust tomorrow it would be exactly 1/3rd the month….
"A 400-pound Marshmallow Peep will drop during Peepsfest, an annual New Year's celebration that takes place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania."
"Pop quiz: You’re at a cocktail party. Inevitably, the conversation turns to electric cars. An"
I doubt any internal combustion engine driving engine wheels has a future. Three phase alternating current electric motors are superior to both piston and rotary motors. Electric motors are more efficient, they have nearly full torque at their full range of speeds and no gear box or transmission is required. If anything in the future, gas motors will serve as backup generators to make electricity when on board batteries get low, similar to diesel electric locomotives that are widely used.
I just wish they would have kept the state names on the interstate signs after 1978, as interstate numbers are reused in different states. You can't take New York Interstate 88 to Illinois Interstate 88, nor can you take New York interstate 86 to Idaho Interstate 86. Maybe at some point New York Interstate 99 will connect to Pennsylvania Interstate 99 but that's likely a decade away as several major upgrades to US 220 will be needed to make it a reality.
"Blue stands for cooler temperatures, and red for warmer ones. Over time, these maps get really red."