Modern Vespa

^^^ Is that the new Royal Enfield model they have been hinting about?

Freaky thing just happened:

Watching tv and a helicopter goes across the screen and at the same time one goes over my house. Even went in the same direction!

My wife has me watching the TV series, "Vikings", a "TV series that follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who explores and raids distant shores." She's half of Norwegian ancestry (and one quarter Swedish and one quarter Mexican) so she feels a connection to the history. She has already seen the whole series, so she is watching it again with me.

Anyway, I'm reading a science fiction book that takes place two thousand years in the future, ("Cauldron of Ghosts", part of David Weber's Honor Harrington series) and I come across this: "Torch assault troops might be the modern analog of Viking berserks, but analogy is not identity. More than three thousand years of civilization had elapsed, after all, since the legendary Ragnarr Loobrok led his longships across the North Sea to plunder France and the British Isles."

Before this week I had never heard of the guy and now he pops up in my life twice in two days.

Dolby Atmos+ testing in progress.

Seems a bit low hanging to me

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell

ITA alphabet. WTF?

Being a living language WTF appears in every news article so it should have its own letter assigned. It's certainly more useful than the letter X which perhaps should be retired.

I also read that this morning - never heard of it!

Dealer

This ad popped up on a local Facebook 'For Sale' page.

I'll probably pass...

And I just finished watching José Jalapinõ on a steek, and Jeff.
Synchronicity in action.

Talk to me.

I'm holding.

I can beat that. Many years ago, when the bush fires came close to my house, I was standing at the end of my driveway behind the TV cameraman as he filmed a newsreader talking about the situation. At the same time my wife was inside watching the same newsreader on the TV.

Is it a GTS?

(excuse pic quality - the window I was shooting through was dirty)

That's a pretty cool plate ......

Looks like a 2T 50 with big ambition.

…that gets around.

looks hard to ride

Looks like it's been put out for the trash collection.

Inbred goats? Win me over? I do like the old-school technique for getting the word out.

Is that his Tinder profile?

Saw a guy in Oceanside, CA today riding a MP3 wearing a bicycle helmet.

Well, it's not a motorcycle…

Legally

in California

it is.

If I recall correctly a bicycle helmet exception for three wheelers (along with only needing a car license) was put in place to cover meter maids but then had yet more unintended consequences.

I'm going to take your word for it.

Curiosity had me starting to read up on it… then I realized posting anything more would constitute discussing helmet laws.

Saw this at a grocery store. Coincidence?

Call Monk.

There you go.

Unsurprised

(Yes AI / Google translate may be responsible)

Could really get in a pickle there.

Piaggio marketing ...

I'm sold!

Pile-O'-Bicycles. Pringle, South Dakota....

That looks like inside my shed.

You know what cracks me up about stuff like that? People who are "collectors" that have acres of stuff like that. We watch American Pickers from time to time, and I love when they spend an hour digging through someone's big pile of crap, covered in dust and raccoon feces, to dig out something at the bottom that hasn't seen the light of day in decades, and they proceed to offer them $50 for it, only for them to come back with, "Yeah, I was hoping to get closer to $400 for that one."

My son saw these at the store this weekend.

I gave him a hard, "no".

They should come in a kit with a wifebeater, a temporary face tattoo and a mullet wig.

Saw something similar, but not quite as impressive, a couple weeks ago after I picked up my truck from the body shop: