Gary K. McCormick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻🌊🏌📝 🔩⚙️
@willotheglen.bsky.social
NorCal native, retired mechanical engineer, golfer, freelance writer. I like golf, cars, motorcycles, books, movies, whiskey, wine, and BBQ – not necessarily in that order.
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Hot (and probably unpopular) take: “Wake Up Dead Man” left me cold. Aren’t there enough earnestly religious people making the world a miserable place without making a whole movie about them?
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hot (and probably unpopular) take: “Wake Up Dead Man” left me cold. Aren’t there enough earnestly religious people making the world a miserable place without making a whole movie about them?
Just now, for the second time in about 10 minutes, something big (well it sounded big) and loud and not showing up on @flightradar24.com overflew my house. 🤔
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Just now, for the second time in about 10 minutes, something big (well it sounded big) and loud and not showing up on @flightradar24.com overflew my house. 🤔
I'm rewatching “Ford vs Ferrari” and had to laugh at Enzo Ferrari’s telling off Lee Iacocca about Ford’s “big ugly factory” and “ugly little cars” because Enzo never gave a damn about the Ferrari road cars. They were only a means by which to raise money to build race cars.
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I'm rewatching “Ford vs Ferrari” and had to laugh at Enzo Ferrari’s telling off Lee Iacocca about Ford’s “big ugly factory” and “ugly little cars” because Enzo never gave a damn about the Ferrari road cars. They were only a means by which to raise money to build race cars.
WTF is up with this iOS update? My phone keeps flashing the dialogue box to select btwn “UPDATE NOW” or “LATER”, but for about a half second; too quick for me to even make a selection.
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
WTF is up with this iOS update? My phone keeps flashing the dialogue box to select btwn “UPDATE NOW” or “LATER”, but for about a half second; too quick for me to even make a selection.
I feel compelled to call out something absolutely unbelievable in Ep. 8 of “Down Cemetery Road”: The bad guy hotwires a Triumph Stag and it starts immediately and he drives off just as nice as you please...
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I feel compelled to call out something absolutely unbelievable in Ep. 8 of “Down Cemetery Road”: The bad guy hotwires a Triumph Stag and it starts immediately and he drives off just as nice as you please...
Watching “Tora, Tora, Tora” and had to mention a glaring anachronism – the women in the movie all seem to have late-’60s/early ’70s hairstyles.
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Watching “Tora, Tora, Tora” and had to mention a glaring anachronism – the women in the movie all seem to have late-’60s/early ’70s hairstyles.
Every year on December 7th I am reminded of my first visit to the USS Arizona memorial, in 2003. In the theater for the presentation before riding out to the Memorial I was seated next to an older British gentleman. He told me that he was serving on HMS Argus in the Med when they heard the news…🧵
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Every year on December 7th I am reminded of my first visit to the USS Arizona memorial, in 2003. In the theater for the presentation before riding out to the Memorial I was seated next to an older British gentleman. He told me that he was serving on HMS Argus in the Med when they heard the news…🧵
I have been aware of “Blackadder” for years but never watched it. Dipped a toe in on the first season, and then jumped to the last season, which I had heard so much about.
Gained a whole new level of appreciation for Rowan Atkinson, and I have to say that the final episode was tremendously moving.
Gained a whole new level of appreciation for Rowan Atkinson, and I have to say that the final episode was tremendously moving.
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have been aware of “Blackadder” for years but never watched it. Dipped a toe in on the first season, and then jumped to the last season, which I had heard so much about.
Gained a whole new level of appreciation for Rowan Atkinson, and I have to say that the final episode was tremendously moving.
Gained a whole new level of appreciation for Rowan Atkinson, and I have to say that the final episode was tremendously moving.
Well, no excuse not to finish writing that novel, I have /all/ the words now.
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Well, no excuse not to finish writing that novel, I have /all/ the words now.
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
Thanks @merriam-webster.com and @hicklebees.bsky.social
Yesterday evening on “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” I learned that as the last Ice Age wound down and the planet grew warmer and wetter, allowing grasslands to expand, giant, as in 10-foot-long, otters ruled the African savannah.
Ten. Foot. Long. Carnivorous. Otters…
#otters
Ten. Foot. Long. Carnivorous. Otters…
#otters
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Yesterday evening on “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” I learned that as the last Ice Age wound down and the planet grew warmer and wetter, allowing grasslands to expand, giant, as in 10-foot-long, otters ruled the African savannah.
Ten. Foot. Long. Carnivorous. Otters…
#otters
Ten. Foot. Long. Carnivorous. Otters…
#otters
My infrequent but sorely needed reminder that when abbreviating a decade (“the 1960s”, for example) it's “the ’60s”, not “the 60’s”, which is incorrect in two ways – it lacks the apostrophe that stand in for “19”, and the apostrophe that IS there indicates a possessive.
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
My infrequent but sorely needed reminder that when abbreviating a decade (“the 1960s”, for example) it's “the ’60s”, not “the 60’s”, which is incorrect in two ways – it lacks the apostrophe that stand in for “19”, and the apostrophe that IS there indicates a possessive.
They listen to someone else reading a book to them and call it “reading”.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
They listen to someone else reading a book to them and call it “reading”.
For those who are commenting on (whinging about…) the lack of punctuation in the title of the latest “Glass Onion” film from @rianjohnson.bsky.social Johnson – (Should it be “Wake Up, Dead Man”, or “Wake Up Dead, Man”?) I offer this possibility: …
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
For those who are commenting on (whinging about…) the lack of punctuation in the title of the latest “Glass Onion” film from @rianjohnson.bsky.social Johnson – (Should it be “Wake Up, Dead Man”, or “Wake Up Dead, Man”?) I offer this possibility: …
Ordered a new carafe and carafe lid for a Krups coffeemaker through Krupsusa.com. Reasonable price, though shipping was a bit steep. No intimation that the items were coming from the EU, no heads-up on import duty. Got a message from the shipper that import duty must be paid or items returned.
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Ordered a new carafe and carafe lid for a Krups coffeemaker through Krupsusa.com. Reasonable price, though shipping was a bit steep. No intimation that the items were coming from the EU, no heads-up on import duty. Got a message from the shipper that import duty must be paid or items returned.
@sarahloumiller.bsky.social I just watched the episode of “My Grandparents’ War” that you appeared in. What a great series!
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
@sarahloumiller.bsky.social I just watched the episode of “My Grandparents’ War” that you appeared in. What a great series!
@kejamieson.bsky.social I'm watching you on telly, in “My Grandparents’ War”!
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
@kejamieson.bsky.social I'm watching you on telly, in “My Grandparents’ War”!
Why yes, I am a bit miffed that the publication date for the new @merriam-webster.com Collegiate Dictionary was pushed back a week. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼 for tomorrow.
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Why yes, I am a bit miffed that the publication date for the new @merriam-webster.com Collegiate Dictionary was pushed back a week. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼 for tomorrow.
Second grade. They sent us home from school.
I was eleven. Teachers started coming in the classroom and crying. A day we will never forget. A time we long for.
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Second grade. They sent us home from school.
So the name of one of the historians who is doing commentary on Ken Burns’s “American Revolution” sounded familiar – and it turns out that I reviewed a book she wrote about the so-called “Boston Massacre”. Ten years of grant-funded research to produce a 320-page book that I gave ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Link follows.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
So the name of one of the historians who is doing commentary on Ken Burns’s “American Revolution” sounded familiar – and it turns out that I reviewed a book she wrote about the so-called “Boston Massacre”. Ten years of grant-funded research to produce a 320-page book that I gave ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Link follows.
This ⬇️ is what passes for “art” these days...
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'emotion' for Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay at Chippenham Museum ⚱️
This work features, exhibition open until 21st Feb👉 https://www.chippenham.gov.uk/chippenham-museum-subversive-forms-revolutionary-approaches-to-clay/
📷 'Wonky' by Sam Lucas
This work features, exhibition open until 21st Feb👉 https://www.chippenham.gov.uk/chippenham-museum-subversive-forms-revolutionary-approaches-to-clay/
📷 'Wonky' by Sam Lucas
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This ⬇️ is what passes for “art” these days...
A left-handed musket? #AmericanRevolution
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A left-handed musket? #AmericanRevolution
Disappointed to hear “comprised of” in the narration during Episode 4 of “The American Revolution”.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Disappointed to hear “comprised of” in the narration during Episode 4 of “The American Revolution”.
If you’re not shaping your leaf piles like wightish barrows what are you even doing?
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you’re not shaping your leaf piles like wightish barrows what are you even doing?
Is this the part where the guys who FA'd don’t have to FO?
Henrik Stenson, who lost Ryder Cup captaincy due to joining LIV Golf, is headed back to the DP World Tour
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A Former LIV Golf Captain Is Returning to the DP World Tour
Henrik Stenson, who was relegated out of LIV Golf this year, is going back to the DP World Tour after paying fines and serving a suspension.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Is this the part where the guys who FA'd don’t have to FO?