The SlowSwerve
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The SlowSwerve is bringing you tips, tricks, knowledge, and entertainment to keep you one step ahead
New knowledge dropping most every day.  Don't sleep on it.
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VCR.  VHS.  LP. SLP. Betamax.   Remember these?
For its time, the VCR was a quite complex machine.

Check out some history and cool behind the scenes tech.

Who is ready for the 24 hours of LeMans for 2017?  Day, night, rain, fog, a physical and mechanical torture test.  What's not to love?

Check over here for some great history of this amazing race.  This year is going to be one for the books.


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Newsflash:  They are illegal aliens.  Not immigrants.
For some reason, this concept is hard to grasp.  You wouldn't let someone break into your house and eat your food and sleep on your bed, so why are some OK with letting people break into the United States and work under the table and pay no taxes, yet receive hospital care and police and fire protection?  At least we are trying (well, probably more keeping up the illusion) to fight back against these invaders

Key word is 'Illegal'
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Who likes remixes?!  We do.  Some recently dropped Remixes on Youtube are worthy of top praise.  They go so hard.  Pac, Biggie, Mobb Deep, Nas...you get the idea
Thanks to 'RapMusicHD' ( a future mixing superstar)  we have some banging new tracks, only on Youtube at this point, hopefully on streaming services soon.

We put them here for your pleasure.  On repeat all day.














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Have you ever wanted to browse old Radio Shack Catalogs (Remember them? They are still around in some markets, but dying slowly)
Well now you can, thanks to this site:
Radio Shack Catalog Archive

It's amazing that someone (awesome) has taken the time to archive all of the catalogs from 1939 to 2005, and the site includes a bit of history and a few photos of stores throughout the years, and even some old TV commercials  At is peak, Radio Shack was a household name and boasted around 7000 brick and mortar stores.  The inner nerd in you needs to clear a few hours and check it out.
New for today:

It appears that the Houston, Texas based, direct to consumer,  RTIC coolers has lost a significant battle against the wildly famous, Austin, Texas based (for it's marketing campaign, not so much the unique idea, rotomolded coolers) YETI coolers.  You've no doubt seen the stickers and hats and clothing adorned with the YETI logo, even if you haven't used one of their coolers.  YETI was claiming that RTIC was blatantly copying the YETI style, and it appears the courts agree.  RTIC has to pay YETI ( and undisclosed amount) and redesign their coolers.  How this will affect the company and reasonable price of the RTIC coolers?  We shall see.  In the meantime, there are numerous other companies selling rotomolded coolers for you to choose from, some cheaper, and some more expensive.  These two companies are not the first of the block in this field.

Read about these battling companies:

​RTIC

YETI
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 Sidebar:
Here we have the McLaren F1 hitting top speed in early testing.  Hopefully you know just how ground breaking everything surrounding the development of this car was, and how it is still compared to the supercars of today.  If not, here are some links that will get you up to speed, literally.  One could spend days reading about the greatest car ever made, the history behind the McLaren race effort, the quirks and uniqueness or each car and its owner, and where each car is now.

Straight from McLaren

Another perspective

The owners club
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Lots of talk about the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline in the news again.  Thanks Trump.  Guess that's the new slogan.  Anyway, here is bit about how much petroleum the USA imports and exports.  Lifted from here: