Hazard Triangle Placement: Check your tandems

What is wrong with this picture? answer: This disabled truck driver has placed his emergency triangles in the wrong position. Click here The triangles are too close together to warn approaching vehicles. Below is a more fit distance of triangle placement: 10, 100, and 200 feet.   Even this diagram is misleading, or incomplete. Many…

High Beams are Bright Lights: Check Your Tandems

Rolling westbound on a major highway at night, with my high beams on. I was passed by a state trooper. Normally, I flick off the high beams when I’m overtaken at night. This time I didn’t, forgetting that they were on. The trooper hit his blues, brake lights flaring. The trooper pulled me over. His…

Time Travel vs. Upgrade: NBA comparisons across era

A topic that keeps rising among NBA fanatics, is comparing players from different decades/eras. I tend to look down on the common way of doing this, which is the “time travel” comparison: For instance, taking a 1980s NBA player and air-dropping him into the present. Or, vice versa. “Past NBA players wouldn’t do very well…

DeBrie’s Alexandr, page 51

This is the syndicated version of Chris DeBrie’s Alexandr comic book. Be sure to catch more Alex on his homepage, at the mean pimento site. PAGE 50   PAGE 52 Click here While surviving years of abuse, poverty, crime, and prison, Alexandr Vikayanov was transforming into a lethal weapon. Chapter 1: “First Blood”        Click Here!     Chapter 2: “Feed Your…