New toy!

[Mr. Analog]

@%&# man, I think I have a spare vid card for ya somewhere

Don't know why it just hit me

[Darren Dirt]

I have to say...

good job for teaching him to be cautious, though.  Drivers can be skilled and cautious, skilled but not cautious, not skilled but cautious, or not skilled and not cautious.  Too many Edmonton drivers fall in that fourth category.

Thanks. (I hope I'm right )


The stuff I listed there, all but the skid control I learned and/or practiced in paid-for drivers training (the skid control was in the advanced course that I couldn't afford at the time, the trailer-backing was theory only).

Good detailed descriptions there. I think most of it I kinda knew, but just didn't realize that I knew, or haven't had to put the practice into practice with specific thinking about what I was doing or why.


re-entering a car while fueling - putting gas in the tank creates gasoline vapour, getting in and out of a car can cause you to charge up with static electricity, touching the metal nozzle while still charged up can ignite the vapours (this is pretty damn rare, though); it's also important to fill containers like jerrycans on the ground rather than in the air or on a bumper of a vehicle

A lot of the gas stations are starting to have a bright easily-visible sign or sticker that summarizes this important fact... I wish as an eye-opener for the masses some big Hollywood production would have a typical Gas Station Explosion scene be triggered by this common danger, instead of something rare that is actually in violation of the laws of physics!

Have a great weekend everybody! (and Tom/Mr.A, a heads-up for the May 24th weekend: if your ears or eyes are super-sensitive, check out some Free Entertainment almost in your neighborhood -- bridge demolition! for the Northeast Section of the Henday!) <-- EDIT: oops, my eyes saw "Baseline" and my brain thought "Meridian" i.e. a bridge over the RIVER... but of course there isn't one there yet!

[Thorin]

A lot of the gas stations are starting to have a bright easily-visible sign or sticker that summarizes this important fact... I wish as an eye-opener for the masses some big Hollywood production would have a typical Gas Station Explosion scene be triggered by this common danger, instead of something rare that is actually in violation of the laws of physics!

This is the best we get: http://youtu.be/tuZxFL9cGkI

As opposed to Hollywood: http://youtu.be/IdOF7xg5lug

[Darren Dirt]

As opposed to Hollywood: http://youtu.be/IdOF7xg5lug

How Birdemicepic!

This is the best we get: http://youtu.be/tuZxFL9cGkI

I actually JUMPED when the orange flame appeared -- but I was expecting it eventually, after all she (1) sat back down in her car seat for some reason, AND (b) was tugging on her sweater for a bit -- after both of this things she didn't touch the metal frame of the car, but touched the gas pump nozzle