My experience is with a VW pop top Eurovan. Very cool but since these haven’t been made new and available in the US for many years, it seems like an RTT would turn a lot of vehicles into something comparable. I think it’s true that the biggest hassle with car camping is all the time it takes to set up and move your…

I remember seeing PR about the new Flex and then eventually I saw one in person. It was a turn off because it was far larger than I thought it would be. Since then I got a family, bought an old Eurovan and have much more appreciation for spacious family haulers that aren’t dumpy minivans or hulking SUVs, so - too late…

The steel wheels definitely came out of the parts bin, and the parts bin might have been marked somethingi like 1986. That takes some cojones, Ford. But yeah I know, under $20k. Of course they go away at higher trim levels. One thing that can’t be unbolted though, the indented wheel arches at all four corners . . .…

GALAXY NOTE PHONE. The dead-screen-pull-out-the-stylus-and-write-a-note function is just tailor made for this kind of thing. Yeah, this is a rather old post at this point, but I just wanted to add this. The author and a lot of people in the comments mention, “This is great but I already carry a phone and I don’t…

You can clean a fork beautifully with a paintbrush.

Have tried a number of these and results for me have been disappointing to useless with bad and glitchy connections.

I almost never lose keys, phone, or wallet. My wife loses these things quite a lot. I think it’s exactly because I wear clothes with pockets that fit these things, and she almost never does.

Putting things “down” and putting them “away” are usually very different things. “Down” will be a highly visible high traffic place like your desk top or kitchen counter. When you put something down it’s often because you may want or need to pick it up again really quickly.

Cool. I did not know the linesman splice. But can’t help but wonder: why not just a square knot? Good conduction contact, great holding power, everyone (well . . .) knows how to tie one.

Have mixed it cold for years. Never found hot or warm water to be necessary in the least. Just cool filtered water. Some air space in the jar helps agitation a whole lot when shaking. I shake initially for only about 20 sec. Let it sit for a minute or two, it will continue to dissolve. Then shake another 20 sec.…

I guess I don't know why telling someone how productive you've been is less of a brag than telling them how busy you are. Rather the reverse.

Airplanes are filled with thousands of gallons of gasoline, and miles of electric wiring and thousands of connections that could short. And oh by the way, engines that catch fire. And thousands of planes have caught fire and burned and crashed due in one way or another to those hazards. But let's blame lithium…

I have two Win 7 htpcs, love them, used them for like 8 years. But I would take issue with a lot of things I see about tiny quiet pc's making great htpcs. In my experience it takes horsepower to run. Unless you just don't care whit about HD video, I guess. Win 7 is arguably the best OS to use, but it needs a min. of…

I have two Win 7 htpcs, love them, used them for like 8 years. But I would take issue with a lot of things I see…

You get more done, but you maybe do a lousy job. Probably not worth the discomfort. Plus they say you ought to get up and move around at regular short intervals if you have a sedentary job. Also drinking plenty of fluids to keep your system flushing is supposedly better for you, which dovetails nicely with taking…

I absolutely hate to use on the phone with my left ear. Had no idea there was some kind of physiological explanation for this.

Murphy's.

You indicate a lot of things, that kind of get a bit lost in the long and winding road. Seriously, TL,DR.

I3 engines on motorcycles are often the smoothest most pleasant engines on the market. Go back to the K75 BMW; the Triumph Speed Triple; The Bennelli 900; the new Yamaha FZ-09. All of them, smooth throughout their rev range. I4's and V4's are not smooth motors! At most they are only smooth at certain rev ranges. And…

Good info. I could really use a bit farther horizontal range in my 1-story house and have looked at these antennas, but there's not a lot of critical info out there about them that I've found.

I'd give this a few months, maybe a year at most before it starts having real durability problems. This is probably pretty cheap but that's about the only advantage. You still have to buy the hardboard and get that stable and make sure the seems never pop up through the paper. How did she ensure that? Laminate and…