Oh that’s easy. That is part of a home expansion project. The courtyard walls eventually became part of the home’s outer wall as the family grew and made improvements to their home.

Source: I made it up.

My Transit van will probably be the first vehicle I don’t do my own brakes on. I’ve heard the rear brakes are a chore. Sounds like Kia rear brakes are similarly annoying

I don’t know Jack about Kias, but this is how I change my pads.

I use a large C clamp to compress the brake cylinder into the caliper, which releases the pressure on the existing pads and gives room for the new pads going on. I take it slow, and have never had issues using this method

For bound bolts/nuts I use a 50/50 mix of acetone and transmission fluid on any offending parts. I wait a few minutes for it to soak in, and voila! Don’t waste time with WD40, go straight to the good stuff

Since you haven’t opened anything within the brake fluid system, there’s no need to bleed. Except your knuckles. Wear gloves

Just because one man from Montana illegally imported one sheep, it doesn’t mean Americans are trying to steal your girlfriend.

Ewe’s safe, bud

he hasn’t figured it out yet

lol

It’s wild seeing Washington Court House (yes that’s the actual town name) in a general news byline. It’s such a small and insignificant town.

Weird

There’s probably a German word for this feeling

Barbie song, hands down

Me. First saw it when i was in my mid-twenties. I thoroughly enjoyed it, warts and all. Coraline was better tho

Admiral Cloudberg did an amazing write-up of this event. She can be found by that handle on Reddit and Medium. I’m pretty sure that article is on Medium by now.

Mentour has a good video on it too, but I’d recommend the Admiral’s write-up first

It’s funny, when they announced their third price increase in as many months, it was the final motivation i needed to set up a NAS and Jellyfin. And because i have terabytes of storage, I downloaded the entire catalogue… of Linux distros. And I continue to seed them

Ya it’s in the name. Google is synonymous with tracking and lack of privacy. Just another bit we give up to live in the most advanced and free country in the civilized world, governed by it’s its citizens and not a conglomerate of corporate overlords selling our minds by inches.

Yup.

Ah, I see you also have that’s Gboard

(I literally swiped “ghosts Gboard” twice to get the advice above. Oh look, it happened again)

I would watch this episode of Black Adder

Grab some lunch at Rose Goute. Then, do a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House. It’s a really neat bit of architectural history. Once you’re done, head down to Yellow Springs, take a walk on the trail at John Bryant, and finish off the day with dinner at Sunrise Cafe

So now is the time to buy an EV. Hit that sweet spot where new technology durability outpaces planned obsolescence

Funny, last night my wife and I were greeted by the shithole that is SEA, followed by a 45 minute wait for a shuttle to the car rental place. That airport is a joke.

(We’re exploring this part of the country, camping along the way and flying back home from Butte. If we were staying in Seattle we’d just use public transit/taxis)