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LavaCon 2026 and the future.

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LavaCon is a conference now going on 25 years. Its always fun at conferences where folks collaborate on what the future holds. This year I drove to Charlotte NC from Duluth GA to attend. I used the Tesla in Full Self Drive. I went park-to-park without touching the wheel for over 200 miles. It's crazy. I don't think most people understand how well it works. Lots of nay-sayers still, but it really does work. Be on guard, but enjoy. I spent some of my time "driving" while conversing with Grok as part of my daydreaming. I was discussing with Grok an idea I have of building a West system (cold molded) old style barrel-back runabout maybe 20 feet long- all varnished Mahogony. Of course this boat would have an exotic 12-cylinder engine under a transparent engine hatch between the twin cockpits. We discussed the designs, available actual study plans and pre-lofted design documents for the hull. We also discussed the best engine (perhaps a BMW N73) coupled with a Velvet Dri...
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Museum of hoaxes It is Easter. I am on spring break this week so I only had to spend about 1/2 an hour on homework. That was nice. We got some gravel down in the driveway this morning. The driveway is just downright bad now, a big improvement over its previous state. I have to calculate how much crusher run to get... Actually forget that I'll just order a super jumbo truck load. That should be good for a couple of weeks. I am also figuring out how to lime my fields. I need about 40 ton of lime. I am planning on mounting the spreader to the rear of the tractor so I can apply lime while I am mowing. We had another chicken croak. She was sick and one of her sisters poked her real good when I was in with them. She dropped in about five minutes after that, Dead Chicken. Douglas has an ant farm working in the kitchen. That is a lot of fun. I am going to have to post a little movie of the ants in their mindless drive to make tunnels. No plan, no real reason, just instinct. Click ...
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