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RW>RN> So, by that reckoning, if I stand on my head fifteen minutes a day,
RW>RN> my over-sized belly would wind up in my chest?  (-:
 
RW> It's already too late to reverse it. :o) You'd have more luck in doing ab
RW> excercises to strengthen you belly muscles. Sit ups work fairly well.
 
I lay flat on my back and do leg pullups, getting my knees as close to my
chin as possible.  Walking a couple of miles in the morning helps, too. 
When I lived in Mandeville, I used to walk four miles per day, five days a
week. Good for the circulation.
 
RW> A guy who worked for me would go fishing in San Diego bay or just off
RW> shore of Point Loma. When he caught a shark, he'd beat it over the head
RW> with a pipe and then throw it back. The other sharks performed
RW> cannibalism right before his eyes.
 
Yeah, they have no qualms about eating each other.
 
RW> That reminds me of that high school buddy who got me interested in radio.
RW> He had forgotten more than I'll ever know.
 
I said that of the other fellow with some sarcasm intended, which is out of
character for me.  Anyway, if I had hung around the fellow who was W5LLX, I
would have learned much.  Sorry I didn't, now, but I was interested in
other things.
 
RW> I never subscribed to any of those for the same reason why I dropped the
RW> Photography mag. It was 98% ads and no substance worth my time. Most HAMs
RW> dropped 73 magazine because of the rants by the author.
 
All magazines were chock full of cards that would drop out when you flipped
the pages, but PC Magazine and Compute! had many an interesting article in
them, to say nothing of BASIC programs, and THAT, I was very interested in.
I'm self-taught in BASIC, but it has been so many years since I delved into
that language, I'd have to start over.  It's just like riding a bike,
though.
 
RW> It's awfully hard to pull a wrench when your pot belly won't let you
RW> under the hood.
 
I'm close to that.  My problem is a slight case of arthritis (How does one
get a slight case of that?) and trouble seeing up close, even with glasses.
I need a lot of light.
 
RW> With such a short stroke, 3", it depended on RPM, rather than torque to
RW> move the car. Chevrolet's 265s and 283s could rev to 7000rpm from the
RW> factory. Ford's 5L had the same problem with it's 3" short stroke.
 
That car, at idle, sounded like a tugboat, but at 40MPH, it had the
sweetest sound my ears ever heard from a car.
 
RW> Launching a 3500 lb car without torque won't happen as fast as the same
RW> car with a longer stroke engine in it. That's why Chevrolet increased the
RW> stroke to 3.25" (327) and eventually to 3.48" (350).
 
And then they shot themselves in the foot when they had the M427 engine
which everyone, including me, wanted and discontinued it.  There was
something special about that engine.
 
RW> Hot rodders stroked them even more with the a 3.75" crank. These act like
RW> they're big block engines with more torque than you could imagine having
RW> in a 3" stroke engine.
 
That must be the guys I lost to at Pensacola and Hammond.  (-:
 
RW>RN> The site you gave me yesterday finally came online and I did indeed
RW>RN> find The Soldier on DVD there, but just as I feared, it was PAL
RW>RN> format, which won't play on NTSC players.
 
RW> Awww. Did you ask them if they carried it in NTSC?
 
They don't.  Europe only, which means PAL format.  I think rather than hope
that they put it on an NTSC DVD, I'll just go ahead and dub it, once I can
get that VCR side of the combo working.  I think I need some cabling for
that, but I'll check the manual.  Not a whole lot of VCR info in there,
including how to eject a tape, but what I don't know I can call the factory
for and get help that way.  Getting back to ejecting the tape, it should
eject when the stop button on the remote is pressed twice, but it doesn't. 
I have to use the one on the unit.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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