Thanks for the TIL about The Michael Richards Show. It seems to have had a number of problems, one of which, implicitly, was that they didn’t publicize it very well. Another was perhaps the very title, which makes it a lot harder to watch the character rather than the actor.

Yeah, TV figured out a long time ago that there are eight million stories in the naked city and it’s a lot easier to tell them in an hour than just half an hour.   In fact, some of my favorite whodunnits and procedurals are one or more of: an hour and a half long long, two- or three-parters, or given to long plot…

And although set in the 60s and into the 70s, the show itself is the newest thing in the Morse-a-verse.

They do seem to confiscate an ever increasing number of guns (forbidden in the cabin long before 9/11 gave rise to TSA), and legally or not, more and more Americans are walking around with them, so there’s that.

At the airports I happen to frequent, I’ve never really seen any advantage to CLEAR over straight TSA PreCheck (or its superset Global Entry if you do much international travel). Their people usually seem to stand around looking bored, except at SEA, where they hung around the security lines, trying to get passers-by…

LinkedIn has the 411 on her.

Tempe

Deadloch really is that good if you like your British and Brit-adjacent whodunnits with a dash of humor, in which case you should also dig back a few years for New Tricks.

You can extrapolate to the heat-death of the genre, though — if this goes on, sooner or later there will be only two people left alive in all Britain, and if you already know which one is the detective, where’s the mystery?

Had all of them been wearing a seat belt, would the number of fatalities fall?

That puzzles me a bit. A battery pack is a lot cheaper than a whole bus (a full-size electric transit bus costs close to a million dollars), not to mention smaller. I guess energy recovery works so well in that stop-and-go use case, and a bus can carry such a big battery, that they can get through the day on one…

While the ad does play up the car’s amazingly low mileage, it does so to the detriment of pretty much everything else we might want to know about the wagon.

“Someone who buys an old British car (really any OLD car) who can’t turn a wrench had better have either very deep pockets or very comfortable walking shoes.”

I went NP on it (with the usual footnote of “in this market”) as a bet that, if it passed muster in a good look underneath as well as a test drive and mechanical looking-over, I could get my money’s worth out of it as the last owner.

1. EV SEMIs, garbage trucks, food service trucks are practical and desirable for local delivery routes - charge at night at the terminal. Solar/wind charge local batteries for the recharge.

I’ve never had Costco, which I’m told is awesome.

The sheriff’s department did not provide an estimate on how fast the car was going.

Looks like fun, but I’ll leave this to an extremely specialized market and spend my hypothetical $40k on a new Miata and an actually non crapcan commuter car to keep me from wearing out the Miata on things that aren’t fun.

Two or three years? I suspect that the average car goes to the junkyard with its factory brake fluid, unless a repair downstairs lets it out.  It’s probably the most neglected maintenance item around.

For your slicing and dicing pleasure: