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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️

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NorCal native, retired mechanical engineer, golfer, freelance writer. I like golf, cars, motorcycles, books, movies, whiskey, wine, and BBQ – not necessarily in that order. Member GWAA.

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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On 18 February 2030 the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center will have been down for as long as they were standing (and open). Mark that date.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I just realized that my favorite actor in the cast of “The Pitt”, Katherine LaNasa, appeared in one of the worst golf movies I have ever seen: “The Squeeze“. I may not have liked the movie, but I did have something nice to say about her contribution as “Jessie”, in the review I posted back in 2015:
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@mavrocksgirl.bsky.social Your dad is on the cover of the October 2026 issue of Motorsport magazine. A great shot from “Grand Prix”.
A photo of the cover of the October 2026 issue of “Motorsport” magazine, featuring James Garner in a Formula 1 race car in a scene from the movie “Grand Prix”.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rebuild – and maintain. My former place of employment lost a considerable number of specialist-skilled employees – machinists, welder, etc., when an ongoing contract was cancelled in anticipation of the next-generation design coming on – but it was still in the design-development phase. 1/2
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: Chariots of Embers
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I used the PG&E online calculator to examine the impact of changing to a heat-pump water heater. Moderate annual energy cost savings, but here’s the kicker: TWENTY-YEAR break-even. I’m staring down three-score-and-ten at my next birthday, so don’t talk to me about 20-year break-even numbers.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If there is anyone in the ENTIRE world for whom we should lower the flag and bow our heads in mourning at their passing, it’s Dolly Parton.
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Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
All this is to say: more attention and conversation about this topic please. Everybody has an accent. If you think you don't, lucky you: your particular accent happens to the one others consider neutral and hence prestigious and door-opening. So spare a thought for those not as lucky as you.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is NOT what you want to see in the engine compartment fuse box of a car that you just bought! 🤦🏻‍♂️
Photo of an automotive fuse box.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Discount gas station on the corner was recently down to $4.999 per gallon; just noticed this morning that it popped back up to $5.099. So much winning…
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just put a fresh battery in an ancient Timex Ironman running watch that I dug out of a drawer. Default date was 01 Jan 1993… Pushed buttons until I figured out how to set the time and date and it is up and running again (though I’m not, more’s the pity.)
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Lots of talk about 62s at majors, and particularly the ones that have been shot this week at @TheOpen – but shouldn’t it matter what the course is playing to? A 62 at Royal Birkdale when it’s playing to a par of 70 (8-under) can’t count for as much as a 10-under 62 on a par-72.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Physics, baby...
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Few things in the publishing world piss me off more than a paperback release with a completely different title than the original hardback. The paperback has been on my shelf for years, unread, hidden by double-shelved books in front of it. I bought the hardback maybe last year. 1/2
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’m finding that attempting to organize my 1,700-plus-volume book collection is a futile effort when I. Just. Don’t. Have. Enough. Shelf. Space.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you were cool with this, you can shove that "Happy Independence Day" up your ass.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Starting my annual rewatch of the movie “Gettysburg”, despite its unfortunate bias toward the Confederacy.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just back from a successful trip to my favorite used-book stores, Recycle Books, in San Jose & Campbell. Left home w/2 boxes of books, came back with one and some cash. (And I only bought two more books...)
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
From a story on new laws taking effect as of July 1. Always remember that the RepubliKKKan Party wants an uneducated proletariat, a serf/peasant class to serve their corporate masters, and part of that is to make it more difficult/expensive for ppl to get an education.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Note to self: Schedule activities that include moving various boxes into overhead storage in garage for early in the day, before sun beating down on the roof raises the temperature to 100°F+ in that space.
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Rachel Lance @underwaterlance.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
How to avoid blowing yourself up with fireworks, a series by someone with a PhD in blast trauma! Part 2: never EVER assume a fuse will last a certain length of time
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Rachel Lance @underwaterlance.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How to avoid blowing yourself up with fireworks, a series by someone with a PhD in blast trauma! Part 1: when setting off mortar fireworks, always use the correct tube. Here’s why! #Americas250th #FireworksSafety
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Maized&Confused 🇺🇦 @maizedandconfused.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our president is officially a rapist today. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Like blue cheese and caviar, ranch dressing is one of those things the attraction of which mystifies me.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hot take re: golf – Caddies do not win tournaments, no matter how much advice they give the golfer whose bag they are carrying – which is usually too much.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A little delay in posting but enough about the @usopengolf.bsky.social just past – let’s talk about the next one – willotheglenongolf.blogspot.com/2026/06/good...
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Goodbye, Shinnecock; Hello, Pebble Beach
The last putt dropped in the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills about 30 minutes before I started typing this story, and it had been a day. ...
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I wasn't even sure that it was a word. Wordle 1,829 5/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Just picked up “Hounded”, by Kevin Hearne at my local indie bookseller, @hicklebees.bsky.social . When @theauthorguy.bsky.social mentions that he is reading a series, I just have to check it out.
Photo of the cover of “Hounded” by Kevin Hearne, Book 1 of the Iron Druid Chronicles.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ready for a movie recommendation that is appropriate for the eve of the @usopengolf.bsky.social ? It’s “Tin Cup”. Read this 🔽, and then watch it (it’s available on disc, or to rent from Amazon Prime: willotheglenongolf.blogspot.com/2026/06/tin-...
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“Tin Cup” is the best golf movie ever made, and I will brook no argument
The eve of the 2026 United States Open, is, I think, a good time to talk about a movie that I consider to be the best golf movie ever made: ...
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Went to trivia night at a local place tonight and totally blanked on who won the Masters this year, so I guess I should turn in my GWAA card now…
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I just closed the cover on my first read of “Eagle Days” by Dr. Victoria Taylor, aka @spitfirefilly.bsky.social – and I have to say that this is a book which belongs in the collection of anyone who wants to have as complete as possible an understanding of the Battle of Britain.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Currently rewatching the very enjoyable British television series “Foyle’s War”, and the time period – especially the first two seasons, which take place during the summer and fall of 1940 – fits well with my current reading, @spitfirefilly.bsky.social ’s quite excellent “Eagle Days”:
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Its an interesting sensation to know exactly where your father was on a certain date 82 years ago. My dad was rolling into Rome on June 4, 1944 with the 1st Armored Division as the Allied forces liberated the Eternal City.
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Kilted Dude @kilteddude.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
FDT.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Found two Golf Galaxy gift cards I’d forgotten about, not for a lot of 💰. The only golf-related thing I need right now is golf balls (I lose a LOT of golf balls), and the two cards just covered a dozen new Titleists – that I will at some point donate to various outlying districts of my local course.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our 16-year-old terrier-mix doggo has been having trouble getting in and out of the house via the doggie door, so I made him a step. This is why dads keep bits of scrap lumber from DIY projects. The next thing might be repainting that doorway… 🙄
A wooden step outside of a door which has a doggie door installed.A wooden step outside of a door which has a doggie door installed.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There is an increasing chance of a two-Democrat race for CA governor, with Steyer edging out Hilton in the primary. Which scenario is more favorable for a Becerra victory – Becerra vs Steyer or Becerra vs Hilton?
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I hope his ass is still sitting in jail...
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Here's my very human promise: no AI, not for me, not ever, never. It will never be in any writing you see from me. I'd sooner die.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Last night I finished a two-night binge of “Legends” on @netflix.com. Had never seen Steve Coogan in a dramatic role–he was excellent. In fact, all of the principal cast members were excellent, though I would like to single out Hayley Squires for particular praise as tough, ballsy (if I may) “Kate”.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I am almost ashamed to admit that I have only now started reading the copy of “Eagle Days” by @spitfirefilly.bsky.social that I purchased around this time last year. Two pages into the introduction I dashed to my desk for a pad of my brightly-colored sticky notes to mark memorable passages.
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Go through your days assuming everyone you meet is insane. I promise you you'll never be disappointed.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New releases from @billfields.bsky.social and Tom Coyne, of course purchased from my local indie bookseller, @hicklebees.bsky.social . Now the quandary – which do I read first?
A photo of new hardback copies of the books “A Course Called Home”, by Tom Coyne, and “A Quick Nine Before Dark”, by Bill Fields.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I love a dictionary as much as the next person; I own half a dozen or more - including the new M-W 12th - but I don’t know about sitting and listening to an hour-and-five-minute podcast of ppl talking about a new dictionary.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Better to be lucky than good… Wordle 1,781 2/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“Play the ball as it lies, and the course as you find it.” Bryson is the worst...
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hands down, the best summation I have read of the life and death of LIV Golf. golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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LIV Golf outlived its usefulness to Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's PIF is shifting priorities, making LIV Golf and other sports ventures expendable after serving their purpose.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
You know, miss a decimal point in the calculations for a free-return trajectory and they'd drift off into deepest space, never to return.
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