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Comic for December 02, 2021

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It Took an Entire Month to Build This Elaborate Treetop Hot Wheels Track That Includes a Powered Elevator

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One of the many joyful things the internet has brought us is seeing people take their favorite childhood toys to the extreme. If you thought the Hot Wheels track you built as a kid that spanned half your house was impressive, it’s time to hang your head in shame while watching this truly amazing treetop layout.

Although the track zig-zags through a towering tree and races along branches, the creators of this course explain on Reddit that they didn’t use a single screw or nail to attach the structure to the tree. It was tied on using string so that when the fun was over the track was easy to remove without causing any permanent damage.

All-in-all the folks behind the Backyard Racing channel estimate it took two whole weeks to design the layout of the treetop track and test that all the various obstacles would work, and another two weeks to put it all together. In addition to the track sections that seem perilously perched atop tree branches, there’s also jumps, full loops, tunnels, Kodi the Australian Shepherd, and countless boosters that keeps the Hot Wheels car zooming along the track when gravity power runs out.

Without a doubt the most impressive feature (with the beautiful Fall foliage coming in at a close second, and the popsicle stick swinging bridge just behind that) is the drill-powered gondola lift that takes Hot Wheels cars from the very bottom of the track all the way back to the highest point in the tree again. Operated by a small Lego minifigure at the controls inside, it turns this whole track into a continuous Hot Wheels roller coaster, but more importantly, it means no one has to climb a ladder every time they want to launch a car.

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Watch: The Infamous ‘WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop!

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I don’t have many Thanksgiving traditions. One involves a bottle of Pappy I partake in once a year. I sit on the porch with bourbon and a cigar and reflect on the things for which I am most thankful. Mostly bourbon. And content. Sweet, sweet content. I drink my way through whatever lame football matchups are on and wonder what kind of a God would force his children to sit through Joe Buck talking. At some point, I eat. This year I’ll be skipping the Thanksgiving Turkey and instead be making the Thanksgiving Waygu Tri-Tip, smoked over mesquite wood. Try not to be jealous while pretending Aunt Bertha’s turkey isn’t dry AF.

But the day is always started with reliving the infamous WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop of 1978. Since you and I both know you were going to look for this video, too:

They sent Les Nessman to a strip mall, so Herb and Mr. Carlson could throw turkeys out of a helicopter. In 2021, PETA would be involved. MSNBC would claim this was white supremacy. And Les, instead of almost being killed by a man and his two children, would be yelled at for not wearing a mask.

Aaaand the money quote:

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Quite frankly, that was the greatest marketing stunt this side of giving away a hand-etched mug with every annual subscription to the world’s greatest political comedy show.

From all of us here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website, have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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If you insure through USAA, you might want to check the status of your account…

 

… because it appears some of their customers are having problems.  Beans, blogging at Chant du Depart, describes what he found.

So, there I was, Saturday, planning on holiday meals and planning bills (like car tag renewals and such) and while reviewing my bank statement (on-line, I’m not a total Luddite) and lo and behold, something was missing.

Utilities – check.
Cable/Internet – check.
Rent – check.
Death insurance – check.
Scamazon – check.
Food, food, food, food – check, check, check, check.
Drugs (legal variety) – check.
Car insurance – 
Car insurance – 
CAR INSURANCE!!!???? 

Lo, and behold, the wondrous USAA of which I have been a valued and happy member, thanks to Dad and Mum, for a very long time, has not dunned my account for October or November.

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USAA lady – "Hello, how can I help you?"

Me – "Why have you not dunned my account for October and November?  And does this mean I no longer have car insurance?"

USAA lady – "Well, (goes onto short but clearly understandable explanation of how USAA has gone to new computer system and they migrated most data over, like phone numbers, addresses, email addys, shoe sizes, but not billing info)."

Me – "Just my billing info?  Because that would be my usual luck."

USAA lady – "No, a lot of billing info."

Me – "So you’ve been answering a lot of these calls?"

USAA lady – "Yes."  Deep remorseful sigh…

There’s more at the link.

Of course, I immediately called USAA, and found that our insurance premiums had been debited as usual.  However, our account was no longer listed as "verified", which meant I had to do that at once, otherwise our December premiums would not be withdrawn on time.  That’s in hand right now.

Full marks to USAA for sorting out the potential problem as soon as I queried it;  but it’s not so good that I had to find out about it through a third-party blog on the Internet.  If you insure through USAA, you might want to give them a call to make sure that everything’s on the up and up with your account.

Thanks, Beans, for the heads-up.  It was very timely.

Peter

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The Evolution of macOS

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The Evolution of macOS

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Apple released its first Macintosh computer back in 1984, running one of the earliest graphical user interfaces for personal computers. The guys at Nobel Tech put together a retrospective of every version of the Macintosh operating system, from its first public release, System 0.97 to the latest version of macOS 12, Monterrey.

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