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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️

@willotheglen.bsky.social
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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 · 06/10/2026
Capitalism: Anyone can get rich Communism: No one can get rich Socialism: Anyone can get rich and no one has to be poor
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A little flexibility is a good thing in such structures.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You missed/misplaced some commas. They make a difference.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Quote it correctly, or not at all: “What a piece of work is a man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god…” Commas matter (and some of those should be semi-colons.)
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The trick with “peruse” is how to convey which meaning is intended.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m surprised that it isn’t in a big flashy medallion on a heavy gold chain…
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Something to look forward to!
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, when your chosen artistic endeavor is writing, the f**kers are trying to take that away from us. Also graphic arts of all kinds – and hook the damned things up to a multi-axis mill and you take away sculpture. And then there’s computer-generated music... I. Just. Can’t. With these ppl.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just paid $1.34/gallon MORE than that for regular.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I bought the latest hard copy dictionary and /now/ they come out with all these new words? (BTW - I strenuously object to “California sober”.)
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A battery power wall in my garage sounds LOTS better than the space laser thing...
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scratched my head recently when reading the “Hail Mary” book (in advance of seeing the movie) when the author referred to two characters who were often at odds with each other as “getting into a peeing contest”. Seems an overly delicate rephrasing of the more common term: “pissing contest”.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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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 · 09/09/2026
I've always gone with either “cō-yō-tay” or “kai-yō-tee”. Emphasis on second syllable in both cases.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There are some shortcuts (shortcomings?) in the questions in the full-length quiz; for example, the question about what you call the local transit system. I call it “BART”, because that’s what it’s called! That’s not dialect, that’s just a specific question that nails your location.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nailed me, location-wise, despite only just over half of my answers corresponding to those of “a typical resident”. I suspect that the remainder of my answers reflect my “CIO” (California-improved Okie) status – I was raised in California by Oklahoma-born parents.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The Jessie character is an odd mix of wise-cracking lady grifter and fading Southern belle, but Katherine LaNasa plays her with a go-for-broke enthusiasm that only just falls short of overcoming the weak material she had to work with.” Anyone else remember this movie?
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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 · 03/09/2026
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wouldn't trust him behind the wheel of a pedal car.
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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 · 30/08/2026
And/or don't pour flammable liquids into an active flame..
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The contemporary “Lost Causers” are the most delusional group of losers in the USA. I have two direct ancestors who fought with the Confederate Army, that I know of, and can only shake my head at the thought of that stain on my family tree.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There was a big rehiring effort, and a big climb up the learning curve required, once it came time to fabricate development units of the next-generation design.
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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
Dropped it or were kicked out?
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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’ll plant some f**king trees to offset my CO2 footprint...
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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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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If I were into gaming that would be very interesting; as it happens I am not, but I can see the appeal.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My stance on tipping softened somewhat when my youngest child worked in various restaurant jobs, but this current trend is spiraling out of control.
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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 · 19/08/2026
I can't decide whether LIV stock is the equivalent of an ownership stake in the Titanic just before or just after first contact with the iceberg...
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The last RepubliKKKan president? Don’t threaten me with a good time...
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Breaking news: Man discovers that TV shows are not like real life.”
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
First time I had Thai food was on a business trip with three coworkers. The other newbie in the group suggested medium-hot, and the waitress – bless her heart – allowed as how they could always make it MORE spicy after we tried it, but couyld not make it LESS spicy. Base-level spicy was just fine.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I have seen photos of just that – an accumulation of rusty detritus on the sill plate, between the studs, in the wall behind a bathroom cabinet.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hmm… lend money to an entity that recently pitched the tax write-off for losses as a selling point to potential investors?
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One of my favorite movies, which I rewatched quite recently (look for Glen Hansard on guitar, by the way.) I think that it was re-edited to a certain extent for the blu-ray special edition that I bought to upgrade from DVD, but I no longer have the DVD version for comparison.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“converting their owed money into equity in the league”
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Your takes on the liberties that Nolan took with the story and the characters I will concede, conditionally, until I see the film for myself, but this is ridiculous.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Did I miss the deadline, Duchess?
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The thought of being the guy(s) doing the removal work is…
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is my annual reminder to not read reviews before I see the movie.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is where we fall afoul of “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, because these loons WANT to hear “the good word”. I’m with Roger Zelazny, who said (through one of his fictional characters), “It should be ‘Do unto others as they would be done unto’”.
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Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️ @willotheglen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Well, the tach and the temp gauge have been acting kinda wonky... I’ve got top men working on it. Top. Men.* * My daughter named the car “Indigo” because it is a deep blue – “Indie” for short.
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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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