Wow. It lands just like rockets from 1950s science fiction movie or TV show. It also lands in a baseball diamond. Which would be a good opening for a science fiction movie. Or has been.

Saw Kingsman the other day. My wife and I both wish we’d seen it in a theater. And we’ve rewatched parts of it because we passed it while flipping channels, because pretty much every part is good.

There is truth to that. All of it. But the simple fact is, any portion of the 405 or 10 or 101 or 5, averages 300,000 cars a day, including weekends. Our most used rail line in So Cal is the Red Line, which handles 145,000 people on a crowded work day. Half the number being carried by the 101 that it parallels. Even…

I would like to remind people that the cheapest way to get hydrogen, is from petroleum and coal. Refineries throw out excess hydrogen mixed with methane, and light it on fire out of their vent stacks.

The ELR would have been fine if it had a bigger electric motor and a bigger battery. The mistake was offering what was essentially a luxury Volt, and that wasn’t enough. It needed to be more than a Volt, faster, more powerful, better handling.

One that was popular in the 60s and 70s, was a world taken over by conservative patriarchal Christians, who plunge the world into a new dark age. I wonder why those disappeared?

I don’t know how the AAA gets that cost, but we don’t spend anywhere near that and never have. With two cars and insurance and fuel and depreciation and $350 a month payments (to own) on one for 4 years, we don’t hit $5000 a year. And when the payments are done, that’ll drop significantly. But we own our cars for as…

emission controls choked a 455 cubic inch behemoth into wheezing out a puny 290HP

I would say the Ford LTD and Galaxy from 78-81 in general. I had a relative that worked at Ford at the time, and he told a story about how they ran out of a right side trim part for the rear cabin, and people on the line were told to force the part meant for the left side in the hole cut for the right side. It didn’t…

We’ve got a quarter bottle of this left in the fridge. It’s really tasty, and makes a great Jack and Ginger. Opened it the same day we bought it and kept it in the fridge, so no problem.

Well, your conclusions might be different, and I support your decisions to live your life as you want...but I’m not interested in a bicycling as transportation lifestyle. It is recreational, and if the weather isn’t too hot or too cold, I might use it for local errands.

Wow, the term “safety meeting” is spread in more groups than I thought. First heard the term from friends in roller derby.

People sometimes assume the effects of weed and alcohol are the same. They are not. And it’s different for people who are “acclimated”, and people who only smoke occasionally or just started.

It’s the new Lamborghini Frankencari.

Well, the gravitational lensing occurs on objects that are millions or billions of light years away. We don’t have telescopes yet that can zoom in close enough to see what the individual star is up to before it blows.

California really needs to work on aquifer replenishment during high rain seasons as is probable. In the past, the gauge was “Do we get the snowpack, and are our reservoirs full?” If you go strictly by that, some past El Nino years have delivered that. The aquifers are a whole other matter that is only now being…

You’d think progressives would show up to polls every election with the intent of voting the Republicans out of office.

There is a point where the banks and insurance companies will start experiencing dramatic financial losses due to interaction between the rising ocean and coastal property. At that point, they’ll be squaring off against the fossil fuel industry in the propaganda, campaign finance and lobbying war.

Well, modern automotive design doesn’t exactly stick to traditional automotive values about rear visibility. Pretty much why all cars now need rear facing back up cameras. I can’t see out my back window on my Focus ST if the rear passenger head rests are left in place (which they aren’t, because I think they’re a…

Radical right wing Republican legislators believe that poisoning our drinking water and air and killing off endangered species is the God given right of every wealthy, aristocratic private property owner.