In all honesty, I used to hate donks. I’ve now come to respect them. While I don’t particularly like the look - I can’t help but be impressed at the typically meticulously excellent build quality of these cars.

I’ve watched a guy drop out of a normal life and take up living on a narrowboat. I’ve watched a guy that grew up listening to one type of music start listening to music I grew up with. I’ve watched a guy drop a cat and explain the physics of how it landed on its feet. I’ve watched guys laser strip old tonka trucks and…

One of the sad things out there with social media is that about once a month, there is a news story about someone that had something like 1000 followers that decided to do something insane to gain followers. And only got past the 10k mark after something horrible and predictable went wrong.

Police serve a vital function to society and their presence is needed. I think virtually everyone with any measure of sense can admit that at some level. However, one bad apple really does spoil the bunch. Until police officers and their unions are willing and able to act in the best interests of the society they are…

I think I’ve found the euphemism of the day:

That’s more like it!

Oh... I, uh, don’t know if I’ll still come around anymore much after this.

The problem is more that it requires utilities to pay the retail rate for electricity under Net Metering, rather than the actual rate they can get for electricity elsewhere. Essentially they’re being forced to over-pay for electricity.

The scariest part is how quickly the driver turns to justifying what happened. That level of blind support for anything is a commentary on so much of what is happening around us... on either side of any issue.

See my above reply. It’s not a question of “can the government mandate”, because of course they can (at least it is settled law the states can; Congress needs to clarify this on the federal level before this fucking Supreme Court settles that how we know they would, this will not be the last novel virus to fuck us).…

It’s unclear if the two had had a prior run-in on the road, or if the truck driver simply didn’t want the sedan getting ahead.

Covid pricing, blah blah. If you get a year out of it, the price breaks down to a dozen pretty modest car payments, and you’ll be carrying bare-minimum insurance. If you know when to cut your losses, about as cheap to run as you could get.

If you take a look the brakes are the old XT V brakes with 2 pivots and a linkage, sometimes called parallel push, sometimes called dual pivot because there are 2 pivots on each arm. As long as you aren’t riding in the wet (and really, who even does that?) they’re fantastic brakes. 

What the heck is with these comments today?

Reminds me about the questioning for jury duty when I was part of the selected pool. Lawyer asked me if I could render a guilty verdict. Me: “Well there’s the law and then there’s justice. I would do what’s right.”

People don’t outright scrap cars that are truly perfectly good. They trade those cars in and they end up on the BHPH circuit after auction. But what happens is usually a repair that exceeds the value of the vehicle. Such vehicles are typically only saved if someone can DIY the repair (bringing down the cost below…

My experience has not been this. I have taken very good care of a number of GMC and Ford trucks. And yes the last one of each has been very deep into the insolent category despite very good care. My Toyotas have been completely abusable with rarely a hiccup. I’ve done everything from water over the hood(and into the…

My grandmother gifted each of us an ornament every year before she passed, so my sister and I each had a head start on meaningful ornaments when we moved out on our own.  I am still putting those on my tree some 40 years later, they are my favorites.  She marked each with our name and the year in her handwriting,…