I just got to touch a plane engine (Cessna 150 series). I feel like squeeing like a 14 year old meeting musicians from a local band. It's so nifty! And I got to touch it! I'd say I'll never wash that hand again, but there was a gasket leak, so nsm. I'm not sure the simile tracks that far.

The engine reminds me of the engine in my first car--a 1976 VW Dasher.

Excellent, Calli!

Sometimes I can't tell if it is Loki bolting bunny-style up and down my stairs or the little girl next door running up and down hers in hard shoes. I think that says something about how noisy he is. (I really can't hear much from next door, usually. )

Lycoming or Continental?

Either way, air-cooled, flat four -- not much different than what was in the original VW Bug.

Now I'm reminded of Bill Cosby's routine about Fat Albert's car, with the "Cessna airplane engine."

eta: Wikipedia tells me that the 150s have Continentals, it's the 152s that have Lycomings.

Wikipedia tells me that the 150s have Continentals, it's the 152s that have Lycomings.

Oh, good. 'Cause I had no idea. Now we're learning about fuel. (Carolina Blue ftw!)

Oops. They are 152s so I guess they are Lycomings. I'll have to look those up when I'm home.

OMG, y'all! I just looked at the foot of the futon, and Loki and Devi are curled up next to each other! I don't think Devi knows (she was there first) but it proves my theory that him being such an asshole to her is him wanting to play and being a kitten, not actually trying to piss her off. [link] He slid into touching her just now.

Did he just take a swipe at the SCotUS?

Yep.

Monstrous extinct animals. Some of which I knew about, but that shark and that "centipede" are the stuff of nightmares. No one tell Syfy.

That centipede makes an appearance in the Walking with Dinosaurs prequel, Walking with Monsters. (As does the sea scorpion.)

I am such a fogey. I fail to get Lady GaGa, even ironically. eta: and her interviews make it even worse

She certainly has talent, and I find her songs catchy on first hearing, but for me they have a short shelf-life. I'm also surely not the only one here who hears "I want your loving and I want your revenge, you and me could write a bad romance", and is less concerned about the quality of her romance than the quality of her grammar.

(I also realised the other day, watching the video for "Video Phone" - my favourite part of that song is her singing "Hubba hubba", apropos of nothing - that she bears a striking resemblance to Marilyn Manson.)

Wow.

I think Lady Gaga (especially in the first shot of the Bad Romance Video) looks like young Barbara Streisand.