I still owe you the third and final installment of “Utterly Unexplainable”, but it’s been a rough week for a number of reasons, one of which was that the internet went out at my house mid-week. The cable modem is upstairs and I’ve been using, well…
This thing has been working wonderfully for some time. Rather than running a CAT5 cable from upstairs, this uses the house’s electrical wiring to carry the network signal down to my wifi access point. Turns out, it doesn’t work very well when people working on the unit upstairs unplugs it upstairs.Oops.
Plugged back in, literally and figuratively, let’s move on to the rest of the list…
Atlas Obscura
The Choctaw people, who had just been forced from their land to to an Oklahoma reservation, who had everything stolen from them, still put together funds to donate to the Irish during the potato famine. Another instance of those with the least giving the most of themselves. This lifted my spirits after a rough week.
Car & Driver
The last two Bullitt tribute Mustangs were beautiful, and I absolutely adored the reveal of the forthcoming 2019 Bullitt Mustang when it was revealed during the North American Auto Show next to… the original Bullitt Mustang. Here’s the fascinating story of how that car went from being “lost” in a garage to the brightest stage in the automotive world.
Jalopnik
Meet one of the best Ferrari mechanics in the country and how she persevered through some rough times.
Car & Driver
If you’re a car nerd, then this is pure car porn. For most people it’s just a new engine that’s going into some of the top-of-the-line Mercedes, but like so many technologies that start at the top, this engine provides a preview of what’s to come for the future of the internal combustion engine: the conversion of the engine electronics from 12 to 48 volts; the addition of a particulate trap (like on diesels) to offset an unintended consequence of the increasingly-necessary direct fuel injection; an electric supercharger that spools up almost instantly to negate the larger down-stream turbocharger. It’s a beautiful, brilliant piece of engineering.
