We’ve all had bad days

Lots of lessons learned, no winners.

Yeah.. I think Brosnan was a good Bond, but overall-good movies in which to be Bond had been hit-and-miss for some time and would continue to be.

I don’t use my phone (which can run out of batteries at a bad moment, or get dropped and broken, and is frequently out of my pocket and at proportional risk for getting lost, and is a tempting target for theft...) for anything that has cheaper and more-robust substitutes or that offers trivial marginal benefit. Not…

Yeah, my (mis)understanding has always been that the A-12 program was a 360-degree mess in technology, management, and government oversight. I think it cost an undersecretary, two admirals, and a captain their jobs, and the last lawsuits weren’t settled (in the government’s favor) until 2014.

An excellent idea — sort of the Poirot equivalent of Endeavour?

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner.

My wife and I did a pandemic rewatch, reinforcing my opinion that although others played Poirot before and have done so since, David Suchet was pretty definitive in that role.

I think the timeframe of head-of-state visits is dominated by both the protocol and, especially in the case of the modern US Presidency, the logistics arrangements, not the speed of the actual air travel.

You’re thinking of diesels, which were taking over the super-duty hauling/towing market as these big gassers were looking up at the giant meteor. One of the reasons was the way the already poor gas mileage of the latter sagged under heavy load.

Boy, the seller really likes capitalization.

My (mis)understanding, possibly correct, is that they chose the 747-200 as the basis of the VC-25A rather than waiting for the -400 in order to take best advantage of a lot of engineering work done for the E-4.

An “ugly” (it’s a relative term) Ferrari is usually better than most of its contemporaries... 

The outside and most of the inside look amazing for their years, but that’s a wrinkly driver’s seat and a highly visible carpet goober for 51,000 miles and 14,000 dollars... and a 4100 that someone I know and trust hadn’t raised from a pup is a big gamble on an engine that was not exactly a massive powerhouse even…

This makes me think there needs to be a movie (along the general lines of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, only, you know, good) that reveals the real job of the habitués of the Algonquin Round Table: solving murders. (Which of course they do while exchanging quips and pickling their livers.).

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around a waterpark named “Kalahari Resort.”

I think you just won Valentine’s Day.

Unfortunately, Hazzard County stereotypes notwithstanding, such practices were hardly limited to the South.  Or the past tense.

Some of this is just driver ignorance of their car’s settings and their effect. But some of it is, I think, a cultural element in the US these days of deliberate, ostentatious inconsiderateness toward others.

One does not simply walk into Mordor. One drives there in a van with wizards and dragons airbrushed onto it.