I once had a private YT video flagged of my kids with a medley of Star Wars music themes *played by me* on synthesizer. At least it was unflagged when I appealed. This was years ago. The response was so fast it had to be some kind of automated system. I’ve always wondered if it was just the fact that I appealed, or…

Rainbows everywhere!

Wow, that footage from Wings really does hold up. Better than a lot of much later aerial shots or greenscreen.

Mine is very similar to yours, but at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka in 2006. I did have a decent instructor with me, and I didn’t completely loose braking, but they had faded a lot. I was on the back straight heading into turn 8 (or 10 depending on which map you look at) and had very little brake left. I told…

With a Pixel there are several similar options. For example, you can go to Settings > System > Gestures > One-handed mode and turn it on, which will let you swipe down on the bottom edge of the display to make the top reachable with your thumb. I believe Lineage OS also has a one-handed mode that shrinks the entire…

I wonder if that’s related to or a new version of Dawn Power Dissolver? The only thing I’ve used that will clean our smooth cooktop, but it’s hard to find it anywhere now.

Years ago, pre-allegations, one of our daughters was a big fan. For her sixteenth birthday we drove 6 hours away to take her to a live show. We can’t remember that birthday with much joy now. :(

It’s been quite a few years ago now, but I remember my wife very noticeably lost hair when she was pregnant. I don’t mean she started going bald or anything, just that there was clearly more hair in the shower drain when she was pregnant.

Not sure where you are, but when we were in the DFW area we got 4 or 5 inches of snow several times in the 13 years we lived there. Best of luck to you. I have a friend outside Abilene who said her power is out already.

It sounds suspiciously like a bacterial genus. But missing the capitalization.

The Fossil Gen 6 is currently on sale for less than $200. (Also it now has Wear OS 3.)

I guess my personal automotive highlight is still upcoming. Back in the spring a tree fell on my SRT-4 Neon, which I bought new and now have about 242K miles on. There’s an old engineering saying along the lines of, “Good, cheap, fast. Pick two.” I opted for good and cheap. The company I work for does some painting of…

Super! I always swore I’d teach my kids to drive stick. I succeeded with two of them at least, who each drove one of my CSXes for a couple of years.

Now, see, these are the exact kinds of design decisions that went into the AMC Pacer, a car ahead of its time. :) Excellent visibility all around, passenger’s side door longer than the driver’s side for easier access to the rear seat, etc.

Also the malted milk cows

It sounds similar to the interior of a malted milk ball?

Something I do every so often is take our Roomba out to the garage and blow it out with compressed air. There’s an amazing dust cloud when I do that. It really helps keep the sensors working well.

I’ve mentioned this here before, but I had an interesting experience with the Chevette I drove when I was in college. One day on the way to class as I was downshifting coming to a stop light, the shifter came off in my hand. Not the knob, the entire shift lever and pivot mechanism. It had been spot welded to the…

A Turkish breakfast is my favorite, typically cheese, olives, eggs, bread, tomato, hummus. Usually I just abbreviate it to cheese and olives.

There’s an insane amount of room in the Element, but I gotta say it’s not comfortable for a long trip. When I did my One Lap of America gig in 2006, our media team was in an Element for the ~3000 mile trip, and the amount of space we had was the only positive. It didn’t ride or drive very well for that length of trip.