Gotcha. I’m just glad we (I live in Seattle) are actually getting some snow this year. Last winter was hot garbage.

I salute their approach to snowboarders. I need to make it out there one of these days.

Which resort?

Definitely wasn’t a 4S, it didn’t have the big Turbo-style taillight or widebody. I guess either someone just slapped an S badge on it, or I remembered that part wrong.

Earlier this winter I chased a 996 C2S on Alaskan plates, with a roof rack and skis on top, up the road to Mt Baker in my S4. Talked to the driver (a woman in her late 40s maybe) for a minute when we got there. She’d basically just quit her job, bought the 911, and was driving around the western US skiing. She is a…

What. Everybody else is wrong then. Those look fantastic.

It is incredibly unsophisticated hacking, but nonetheless, still hacking.

Those google street view images are a ton of images stitched together obviously. The gull just moved between the two being taken, so the merged image looks weird

I didn’t realize that about vasectomies, but that’s interesting, and makes sense. That does sound like a huge problem with this then.

Exactly. Having the switch there sounds like a recipe for disaster when it inevitably gets flipped by accident. It also just doesn’t jive with how I have to imagine most people want birth control to work. It’s not like you’re going to alternately want to turn it on and off all the time.

Yeah. I’m a guy, and I would love for there to be a semi-permanent form of male birth control available. Just not this one.

Also, of course I did a terrible job of phrasing my statement calling out someone else’s phrasing. Goddamn it.

You’re totally right, but the way you phrased the statement about playing each other for more than 100 years isn’t phrased well. Saying something like “first played each other more than 100 years ago, including every year since ____” would convey what you mean much less ambiguously.

Passed is a verb form only. Past can be a preposition. In the sentence above, the verb is see, so the use of past is correct.

Didn’t watch the video, but colder air has a lower capacity to hold water. Turning the A/C on will condense some of the water out of the air that you’re blowing onto the windshield, thereby reducing the amount of moisture that’s present to condense on the windshield.

Dedicated winter tires aren’t strictly necessary (source: I lived in Upstate NY for 22 years) but they sure are better than anything else in snow. Depending what you drive, how much you need to be able to get places at any time (e.g. being able to take a day off work if there’s an especially bad snow storm) etc. you…

This happened to me while driving my GF’s 2014 Impreza with the stock headlights.

That sounds undeniably great, but it does not sound like a 911.

I don’t know of anything modern that does, but lots of older vehicles do. I’ve driven them most in old 911s.

The thinking is that since you’re on the throttle most of the time, with a bottom hinged pedal you can rest your heel on the carpet and have a slightly more natural motion to actuate it by moving your ankle. On the other hand, the clutch and brake a) get used less and b) are usually stiffer, so they get actuated more…