Category: Words

Which car brands are best according to mechanic Scotty Kilmer?

Which car brands are best according to mechanic Scotty Kilmer?

(Updated 11 October 2018 with Nissan section.) After binge-watching auto mechanic Scotty Kilmer’s YouTube videos, I needed to record some of what I’ve learned about the various car brands. Scotty has over 50 years of experience as an independent mechanic, and he freely shares his experience and advice through his YouTube channel and the Scotty …

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The S.W.E.A.T. Pledge by Mike Rowe is fantastic!

The S.W.E.A.T. Pledge by Mike Rowe is fantastic!

Mike Rowe’s creed and philosophy is contained in The Sweat Pledge, which he has for sale as a poster on his Mike Rowe Works Foundation website. All proceeds go the foundation, which does a wonderful job (pun) promoting the dignity of work in general and work in the trades in particular. I love Mike’s sense …

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Dragon statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dragon statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Because I’ve been told I’m part Slovenian but know nothing about my homeland, any time I encounter a reference to Slovenia, I’m all over it. I recently found this picture of a Dragon statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I don’t know where Ljubljana is, nor how to pronounce it. But since I’m XX% Slovenian, I’m damn proud of it. 

Like alcohol and driving, it’s hard to mix cultures

Like alcohol and driving, it’s hard to mix cultures

(Below is blog post. It contains naive ramblings and no great conclusions—and lots of mizpellings and grammatical errors.) Why is it hard to mix cultures?…What is a culture? A culture is a collection of people who share certain beliefs and values and, to some degree at least, share ideas on how those values should be expressed. For …

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I didn’t know what I wanted to do…

I didn’t know what I wanted to do…

The original quote from Diane Von Furstenberg is… “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.” ― Diane Von Furstenberg But as a male of the species, I prefer this gender-neutral adaptation: