David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've a two talented kids; the younger said, 'Stop with the lectures.' Then asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
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Matters of Import & Timely Expertise
repressing gossip and hate-speech.
An Unmapped Ponderocity:
To say: '"He is a man of truth," is to say nothing; to say: "He is a man of of," is to state an elementary truth of logic.'
Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; known endeavor: actuarial contributions to The Donald; since has contacted me and sadly is quite ill. Ask prayers for recovery; thanks for his brilliance and music.
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George F. Will - Dark Green Doomsayers - washingtonpost.com
Human Affairs, Science
George, on this presidents’ day, a fellow Trinity College (‘62) alumnus, originally from Illinois, has shared some space with myself. But he’s older, so that’s a hopeful sign for me and to those who should listen to their elders. I’ve most always enjoyed listening to George.
Ecology is not dead, but is actually trying to optimize life as its best mission. E.O. Wilson might agree that: pollution, including chemicals that attack life propagation, cause cancer, injure wildlife are continuously sprayed on lawns, in homes and around your favorite parks. Factories, belching mercury, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and other corrosive chemicals have been reduced from smokestacks everywhere thanks to scrubbers and using cleaner burning coal, more natural gas, and cleaner oil. Automobiles with catalytic converters using paladium and platinum are expensive and the back pressure actually increases fuel consumption and engine wear (that’s why the Amer. Auto guys love it). With increased efficiencies, and especially with the lead taken out of fuel, and the cost of $1000 per vehicle is really, evilly stupid. I had my catalytic converter on an 1981 BMW 320i gutted when I had the clutch rebuilt in about 1988 (oil leaked from the master brake cylinder onto the clutch; so the clutch wasn’t worn out… it was slipperly - not so good.) The mileage increased, as did the power; I sold the care with over 330,000 miles; the engine valves had never needed adjustment … (I checked). I used synthetic motor oil, Duralube, and Slick 50 at 90,000 miles.
Duralube is neat because it’s magnetic … it actually finds the metal parts (if they’re ferrous) and sticks. So cold weather starts are much easier and easier on the engine. So that’s in case we get to an ice age…. if we go the other way, Synthetic oil does not break down under heat and exposure to exhaust blow by (although small, over time wears down ordinary oil). And better yet, combine all these and put a Coates head (stock symbol COTE) who has replaced the top poppet valves on an engine with a rotary system which creates a 20-30 percent efficiency boost and 50,000 miles between engine service (no valve stems to catch oil and leak exhaust.
So incremental improvements to technology, including electric plug in high freq. bug deterrents are much better than chemicals (they’ve been working in our house in south Florida for 10 years or so. We even leave dirty dishes out … very rarely a bug … but you have to realize that there are always scouts … sent out to see what’s possible. I’m sorry I have to out these guys … but after all they’re bugs .. and they don’t pay rent … a deadly combo.
