BlueDevil777
BlueDevil777
BlueDevil777

Beats the hell out of picking up each grain of sand by hand.

Beats the hell out of picking up each grain of sand by hand.

As I was boarding my southwest flight earlier this week, I thought to myself “I’m surprised Jalopnik hasn’t done a “Here’s why there are spirals on airplane engine impeller cones” and poof it’s here.

About that “still running” bit. I’ve got some really, really bad news.

(more to come)

“Incorrect but right.”

What you said about your family’s oldest car representing the best parts of the family really registers with me. My family is in harder times right now, and it looks like I’ll probably be giving the 1997 4Runner that I’m currently driving back to my dad this summer because he’s had to sell his car. The 4Runner was

This VW TDI.

Car pictured. Second owner of a 2009 Mini Cooper S, only about 52k miles on the clock when the timing chain tensioner failure happened.

Every bean in the pot wants to make sure they contributed to making it ‘better.’ I went through this with TACOM on a tank trailer where the answer to questioning ridiculous requirements was to claim that if it could survive that then it would be better. This after more than a decade of getting used in Afghanistan and

“... hit a set of spike strips going 115 MPH, subsequently barreled off of the road and into a drainage ditch, launched the truck into the air and landed on a car parked at a restaurant” 

I disagree, and I’m a licensed therapist (and so pretty invested in people attending face to face therapy). There are some great apps that use evidenced-based interventions in a quick and easily-digestible way (eCBT, DBT Diary Card, TF-CBT Triangle of Life, etc.). With escalating costs of healthcare (mental health

Counterpoint: We don’t need to talk about the Dodge Nitro! We don’t have to do it! We are fortunate to have made it to a future were Dodge terrifies us in a good way with 700HP straight-line cruise missiles, instead of the bad way. The Nitro way. The PT Cruiser way. The battery-in-the-fucking-wheelwell way.

Does it say different messages when something is broken like

He says “quarks”, get it right!

Somehow I think it would be a lot cooler if the font was 8-bit graphics.

Welcome to the Not-New Review, a new thing we’re trying out! Used car is best car! Let us know what you think and what you want us to do with it!

was on diego in 01 and end of 03- beginning of 04... my favorite deployment spot on the planet. I truly miss it.

Who needs Google when you have over 3,000 flight hours (and still counting)?

Asshat.