No, I’ve read your stuff. You’re crazy.

And you wouldn’t know brevity if it bit you on the ass.

I haven’t been here regularly for some time, so I know anon isn’t refering to me. But he probably would if he knew, and I knew.

Goesh was absolutely correct that might makes right, in the same senes that heat burns flammable materials.

Some people are too self-righteous to understand the wisdom of the times. Reminds me of crabs in a bucket. “you’re much better with us in the bucket, so don’t try to climb out” mentality

Ginger, it would be a lot easier to ignore people if you didn’t have to scroll through a bunch of text with the name at the end, and unable to collapse comments like blogger had.

With Haloscan, not only can you NOT know the names of comments ahead of time, but you also can’t skip them automatically. You have to do so manually, which certain saboteurs know about and make much use of.

I make no apologies for my methods for one simple reason; It freaking works.

Now, I suggest you do the same.

Also, there needs to be ranting against the crappy tinkertoy jacks provided for removing tires. Neo, if you actually got use out of one of those go to MIT. Collect an MS in Mechanical Engineering. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.

What does Pete’s rant have to do with tires?

Some of the regulars’ comments here are appalling by anybody’s standards yet their contributors are almost never taken to task. I can think of one occurrence, when Goesh was upbraided for stating that “might makes right.”

Appreciate that your conversations are taking place way out here — in public — and not behind doors in an echo chamber. You’re better off for it.

You’d have loads more time on your hands if you 1) stayed on topic and 2) maintained a current time line and 3) found somewhere else to post where your nonsense might be taken as serious.

Neo, you have the patience of a saint. I am forever reaching for the ‘delete’ key….many times am very saddened to not have one.

“Iraqi officials last night said an American helicopter fired on a wedding party in western Iraq killing more than 40 people, including many children, in another damaging setback for the US occupation.”
– Wedding party massacre

Hostess: you’d have a lot more time on you hands if you dealt with your envy in private rather than in a public diary.

Anyway, back on topic, a lap is actually a lousy place for a laptop. I’m spending 6 hours a day in the passenger seat of an automobile using one. I have to sit funny so I can balance it on my knees in order to be able to minimize wrist flex, and, it being a Dell, the heat is starting to worry me.

It’s not a permanent solution, regardless of what anyone says (this is personal experience talking). And it doesn’t work well for lower profile tires (anything below a “60R”), nor does it work for gaping holes, and is lousy for tear-type tire injuries. But, that said, for most punctures on many tires, it works well enough to let you put off a trip to the tire store until it’s convenient.

And: Lucky you. Last flat I got, it was rainy, cold, and I had to pull over in a not-so-clean spot, so not only was I soaked, I ended up gettin’ pretty muddy to swap out that tire.

Guy at the tire store actually chuckled and asked if I just went swimming. Fair question, given that I was leaving a huge puddle on his floor.