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I just paid $3.19/gallon (mid-grade). The expectations are that gas will hit ~$3.50 in the spring and maybe $4.00 next summer when the driving season starts. Here's my situation. I have two cars which both get 30mpg. I drive 40 miles/day and the gas is starting to bite. I might buy a 65mpg...

G-Man, Thank you for your excellent and very detailed precis of this fine watch brand. I actually read your analysis three times before I was convinced to buy an Orient. I bought the future/retro bike model and it is a fantastic example of japanese technology. I also have a less expensive 'AAA'...

Hard to split those watches. Two of the absolute finest. Be careful, a display like that in some neighborhoods might make you missing a hand. BTW, I found that my oyster datejust was (relatively speaking) almost as $$ to maintain as my old mercedes.

I just bought a new Orient Star watch. It retails for ~$550 but I got it for less than half that on ebay. There are several very reliable dealers in Japan. This watch is rare in the US. They market this in asia and Russia mostly. Orient mechanical watches are some of the best made around. They...

I guess I'm just interested in mechanical things. A rotor winding a mainspring making an escapement divide minutes is something I can understand. A pill sized battery making only three hands move bores me.

Wow! Moribundman you have taken tribology to the next level.

tks, the black one in the picture on the left looks just like mine but the one I wear has a blue face. Mine is 28 years old and keeps good time.

In addition to tribology, I am very intersted in wrist watches. Knowing time is a slippery notion but probably predates human concerns with oil. My preferences are for Swiss watches and only the mechanical types. I have a Rolex and a 36 year old Tissot. They are very reliable and with periodic...

11 years with the world's finest Coast Guard and 13 years with the world's finest navy!

make that +2, what a timely precis.

I have XM in both of my cars. Oddly enough the sound quality is best in the one which the XM receiver transmitts to the car radio. The other car is hard wired and doesn't have the same fidelity. My receivers are XM Roadies, very small and compact. XM radio had a promotion about 6 months ago and...

I've been an XM radio subscriber for about a year now. This might be the most important development in radio since Marconi invented it. Eventually commercial radio will be the complete wasteland it has made itself; screaming car dealers and rap music stations.

The Skipper advises that if I explain this, I'll be banned. Gilligan concurs.

I once was a believer of Darwinism probably owing to my misfortune of having had a public education. After a cursory examination of the 'facts' such as they are about evolution I've become an apostate and realized that things couldn't be the way they are randomly. This was Darwin's challenge...

I just finished reading Ann Coulter's book 'Godless'. She completely destroys Darwin's theory about evolution. This got me to thinking about how life came to be. Things always go to beginnings so I wonder, can we be the pinnacle of life in this universe? I mean, might there be intelligent life...