AAA. Worth every cent the first time you call for roadside assistance.

The fries are just fries. You know that, right? Potatoes, cut up, dropped into hot oil, add salt. They’re what fries are supposed to taste like, but too many of us are conditioned to prefer mashed potatoes formed into fry shapes and the taste of the added chemicals needed to hold them together in fry shapes. Yum.

Spasibo, tvarisch!

She was good. Wicked, but good.

Flag officers are all referred to as Admiral, be it Vice-, Rear-, etc. The distinction in rank only comes into play when dueling there are dueling admirals; such as a Rear Admiral deciding to overrule the orders of a Vice Admiral.

Why a, “small part?” Cuz Jimmy Smits is too full of baddass for anything more. Our puny minds couldn’t handle it.

“Anakin whining scenes.” Don’t hold back, now. How do you really feel?

We’ve encountered the $75 hold for gas. But, only far away from home, on a weekend, when we really, really needed the gas. Given that the car’s tank only holds about $30 worth, it was incredibly annoying and stress-inducing. A call to the bank the next day got only a, “we’re sorry you had this experience, we don’t…

I’m still kinda amazed that thing actually ran and was drivable.

The real, “The Big Bus.”

One thing practically always missed is rust. This show is set in Indiana, and a ten-year-old car should be showing signs of rust around the fenders, the rear quarter panels, running boards, and so on. This would be especially true of cars owned by, “just regular folk.” After all, salt was and remains the anti-icing…

Too much money. Owned a Yugo because it’s what I could afford. I got lucky in that it was built mid-week by relatively sober Zastava workers. The worst thing about it was that it required a 4.5 liters of oil which is only sold in quarts, so there was always a partially-full can of oil hanging around. Unless someone…

They tried. It failed. Really badly. And, the Federation signed a treaty saying they wouldn’t try to develop cloaking technology. ST:TNG episode all about it. So ... that’s why having the Romulan cloak on The Defiant was such a big deal.

Given that autopilot is crashing cars on open highways, we are a long, long way away from a semi backing itself into a loading dock. There’s a whole lot more to driving a truck than, “signing paperwork.”

Or, just drive north on I-5 into Oregon to be treated to the sight of caravans of big rigs crawling up the mountains at perhaps 30-40 mph. Dragging up to 80,000 pounds up an approximate 4 percent grade (what the Interstate system is mostly at) takes huge amounts of torque and it usually doesn’t happen at high speeds.…

Except that they are estimating only 250 miles of range. Less than half of what a diesel truck can currently accomplish with good conditions and within time-of-service regulations.

That, “half a car height,” exists because the trailers are loaded and unloaded at ... wait for it ... loading docks. These are at a mostly uniform height.

250 miles? As an average, sure. But, given that on any given day there are thousands of trucks carrying cargo coast-to-coast and all points in between, and that the only way this becomes truly cost-effective is that drivers can easily cover 500 or more miles a day, every day, a range that is only half of that makes…

Well, there was that arrest and imprisonment for a failed coup. Research: Beer Hall Putsch.