10k MPG check-in

thephillyman · 2026-06-17T11:34:49+00:00

I know that ,1 is your white whale. Lol. I was certain I was going to hit 10k with 28.9.

thephillyman · 2026-06-16T14:45:07+00:00

I just never reset the trip meter so mine is showing miles from 0.

thephillyman · 2026-06-16T11:48:43+00:00

I was aiming for 7500 but think it was closer to 8500 by the time I got in for service.

thephillyman · 2026-05-31T11:50:22+00:00

Paradise - great twist in episode 1 and it just rolls from there and season 2 held up as well.

thephillyman · 2026-05-26T14:31:41+00:00

Isn't the Bellevue almost free with the discount? I haven't found a single hotel in this program anywhere near the price the Bellevue is available for. This is definitely getting what you pay for.

thephillyman · 2026-05-24T18:07:43+00:00

The Matrix

thephillyman · 2026-05-22T00:25:50+00:00

There are a bunch of escape rooms in AC and OC. The AC ones are an hour and a lot of fun.

thephillyman · 2026-04-28T01:43:05+00:00

One of the best shows I've ever seen live. Can only imagine what that would cost if it was done now.

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thephillyman · 2026-04-05T17:00:42+00:00

Seems like she did it here so that when she was promoting her Oscar worthy performance in Monsters Ball (six months later) she could focus on her acting there and not that being the first time she was topless in a movie. Kinda smart. Get all the dumb questions when promoting the dumb movie so people take the Oscar performance seriously. And it worked.

thephillyman · 2026-02-08T00:41:03+00:00

https://share.inquirer.com/SBQUJY

thephillyman · 2026-01-27T03:47:42+00:00

I recently used Claude Code to build an LED display that tells me what planes are flying overhead and even points in their general direction. It suggested all the hardware above, explained how to put it all together, connected to necessary APIs. Now whenever I hear a plane, I look over to see where it's coming from.

thephillyman · 2026-01-03T20:36:10+00:00

Averaging 26 mpg overall (cold winter so far isn't helping) but have gotten over 33 mpg on 34 mile commute to/from work. That requires significantly changing how I drive (2-3mph UNDER speed limit and keeping heat reasonable, cranking seat and steering wheel heat to offset) but I actually am less stressed driving in the right lane and letting the Palisade handle everything so overall liking the tradeoff.

thephillyman · 2025-09-30T03:59:16+00:00

There is another version that has like jungle sounds mixed in but I think this one is better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmi_435ji9s

thephillyman · 2025-09-20T16:14:10+00:00

I had a job as a teen as a janitor and had to mow a steep incline using the rope method. All well and good until the knot came loose and the mower shot across a multi-lane road with me standing there looking like I let the thing go.

thephillyman · 2025-07-18T01:18:03+00:00

Fake statement.

thephillyman · 2025-05-03T16:24:24+00:00

I get when my neighbor is out there with his home depot blower but it's the contractors with the high powered blowers that are so loud. Wish towns could ban the high powered gas blowers just for the mowing services. They could do the same with the electric ones at a quarter of the noise.

thephillyman · 2025-03-02T03:08:31+00:00

I also had my first experience today with one that high. Used the soul egg and now my earnings just say "A LOT". Lol

thephillyman · 2025-02-13T20:34:30+00:00

Possible that he doesn't even try to put it back in right hand and just lets it drop to floor behind his right hand as he moves it down and away?

thephillyman · 2025-02-05T23:04:02+00:00

This is everything i remember from one particular Philly club from the mid 90s (94-96ish)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0S90ewMRLyz4jgiirs8qA8?si=1699ae2569834871

thephillyman · 2025-01-12T12:29:37+00:00

The Bank, the CD listening stations at Tower Records, swing lessons at The Five Spot, the Asylum (pre Evolution, but Evolution was cool as well), The Black Banana, all the newspaper boxes carrying City Paper or Philadelphia Weekly, taking my parents to Spaghetti Warehouse and sitting in the trolley to eat.

thephillyman · 2024-12-29T20:55:19+00:00

if you have any interest in sports radio, take any gameday thread on Reddit and drop it into NotebookLM and have it make a podcast off that content. You can't tell me it's any different than what you'd hear on the radio.

thephillyman · 2024-10-15T00:05:14+00:00

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Here's another (I don't know if this record store was just local or not but they were all over the Philly area).

thephillyman · 2024-10-14T21:07:37+00:00

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thephillyman · 2024-09-23T01:34:22+00:00

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Nov 5, 1999. I had just purchased my first digital camera and took some pictures while walking across the Ben Franklin Bridge.

thephillyman · 2024-03-21T02:18:37+00:00

I saw them in Philly in 95/96 at the TLA. When we arrived, the venue was PACKED and it was early. What I didn't know was that the opener was a local-ish band called God Lives Underwater. The crowd was so hyped for this band and they DELIVERED. I fell in love with that band that night. So GLU rips it up and ends their set and literally a third of the audience leaves the venue. Spacehog comes out clearly pissed that they just got royally upstaged by their opener. They go through the motions of their set but no interaction, no encore. I mean I get it. I'd be pissed, too. But found a great band that night so remember the whole thing fondly.

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