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ROFL BOX

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  1. Back when I lived in Broward County, this guy lived across the street from us.  He's got quite the livery; only 1 kid & has been divorced for prob. 18 years now, so his funding wasn't dented by the rest of life's foibles.

    Apparently still has his '73 Z28 RS, LT1 equipped.  No pics on his FB page other than a couple from racing it.  I'll have to dig around to find those pics as well.  Also has another Camaro,

     

    Current rides include both a 1980 & a 2018 Vette & he has this '67 Chevy II (IMO, that has the best "back half" of any muscle car, ever) & the Nova has dyno'd 530 hp in a 2,670 # car.

     

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  2. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/part-spider-part-scorpion-creature-captured-amber

     

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    Amber mined for centuries in Myanmar for jewelry is a treasure trove for understanding the evolution of spiders and their other arachnid relatives. This week, two independent teams describe four 100-million-year-old specimens encased in amber that look like a cross between a spider and a scorpion. The discovery, “could help close major gaps in our understanding of spider evolution,” says Prashant Sharma, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who was not involved in the work.

    Arachnids are a group of eight-legged invertebrates that includes scorpions, ticks, and spiders. Spiders, which crawled into existence some 300 million years ago, are known for their spinnerets—modified “legs” that produce silk and control its extrusion from tiny pores called spigots. Male spiders have also evolved another modified “leg” between their fangs and the back four pairs of legs that inserts sperm into the female. All but the most primitive spiders have smooth backs, unlike the segmented abdomens of scorpions, which are believed to have diverged from an ancestral arachnid more than 430 million years ago.

    But in 1989, researchers discovered a suspicious, spigot-bearing fossil that was 100 million years older than the earliest known spider. By 2008, paleobiologists realized that this ancient silk producer was just a spider relative, perhaps a stepping stone to true spiders. Researchers put it into the group Uraraneida, which was thought to have thrived between 400 million and 250 million years ago. That left unanswered many questions about when spinnerets and other spider traits first evolved.

    Then, several years ago, amber fossil dealers independently approached two paleobiologists at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology in China with what looked like 5-millimeter-long Uraraneida encased in amber. One of them, Wang Bo, pulled together a team to look at his two specimens, which they eventually named Chimerachne yingi (“chimera spider” in Latin). The other paleobiologist, Huang Diying, assembled a second team that examined a different pair of these fossils. The two groups say they didn’t know about each other until after they submitted their results to the same journal. But, despite some differences, “they draw the same conclusion—that fossil uraraneids, as this group is called, are the closest extinct relatives of spiders,” says Greg Edgecombe, a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved with the work.

     

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    I really wish I had come across this article earlier & could have posted it before most of y'all went to bed.  There's always Monday night...

  3. I have a Tundra grille guard for sale.

    Tried to copy / pasta the details from my FB Marketplace listing but for some reason my phone or FB have a conflict re: highlighting, so the screenshot pics will suffice for the description.

    Located in Drip, 78620.

    If you come out on a weekend, maybe I'll smoke some ribs.

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  4. Damn if the search function isn't shit.

    Is it my imagination or was there a thread in here or responses to some post where a Shagger built their own in the attic Yagi antenna?

    Amazon.com: ZDA Communications 902-928 MHz Yagi antenna, 17dBi ...

    Purchase this.

     

     

    vs. Make this:

    High Gain Yagi Wifi Antenna

    Looking to pick up a signal for OTA & where we're located, I think we can possibly get some San Antonio channels in addition to Austin.

    Also, are the powered versions (plugs into the wall... just add 'leck-trickity) any improvement / worth the expense?

  5. Hanging over the fence & it has more a few years before it would be a hassle for the road, but I think now is the time to do something.

     

    Trim a bit off both the end ("just the tip") plus maybe some of the smaller branches, take off some weight & thus give some lift?

     

    Take it a lot further back to the trunk?

     

    Rig up a lift or brace to keep it elevated? I do like massive Oaks with very long arms.a03f7b933c61235086fea92a107ad3e2.jpg

     

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