Jimmy Johnson was hilariously bad. He even started a few laps down because he couldn’t log on. 

The complete absence of manufacturer interfaces (UConnect, iDrive, Entune, etc.) gives away the con. “Automotive touchscreen interfaces” don’t make news, Apple and (to a lesser extent) Google do.

Pacing has been the worst part of the series by far. To me, it feels like the producers were told somewhere during principal photography of Episode 3 that their 13-episode order was cut to 11, and they had a weekend to re-edit all of their remaining scripts. It’s like there are enough little bits of exposition and…

The Zhat Vash have been handled better than Section 31 to me. Sec31's relationship to Starfleet at-large is poorly defined, which leads to some of the nonsense we’ve seen over the various Trek series they’ve appeared in. They’re just there, you know? The writers want some Federation skulduggery or have painted…

Chris Bangle saw the Z-pattern in the doors and wept for joy.

[Everyone in Atlanta disliked that.]

Oh, good. I’m not the only one who got “Shepard makes contact with the Prothean beacon on Eden Prime” vibes from the Admonition ceremony. And Picard sure sounds like he’s choosing the Destroy ending.

Class 4, right?

Class 3. It’s basically a Klingon Bird of Prey, but with a really, really, really long “neck” and its FTL drive routes through Hell.

1: I think 4 should be divided into 4a: ships that are actually industrial in nature like the Nostromo from Alien, and 4b: ships that are busy with details because the art director only said that they’re not “sleek”, like an Imperial/First Order Star Destroyer.

In the immortal words of Michael Bolton...

Great, now my brain is trying to fit Brass Bonanza to a dub rhythm, and it’s at least an hour and 20 minutes too early on the east coast for that.

Well, maybe not this specific peacock design. And the jewels in the steering wheel boss that would become high-velocity rounds aimed directly at my face if the airbag ever deployed are right out.

I believe the preferred phrasing is “hobbit-adaptive”.

I still think giving Metropolis a life meter instead of Superman was the best way to gamify his invincibility. It’s a shame Superman Returns had so little else going for it than that.

Sumwalt talks in so many circles in that paragraph, I’m amazed he didn’t lap Romain Grosjean. “Drivers should use the feature already built into the phone. Why doesn’t the phone maker want to put that feature in their phone? Drivers should install an app to do what the phone already does.” Which is probably why…

The NTSB isn’t really blaming Apple for the “who’s driving?” problem, which nobody, including the NTSB, has a solution for. They’re blaming Apple for not having specific HR policy for operating a motor vehicle for the purpose of commuting to and from the office.

On extant consoles, SSDs will smack hard off of bus limits, either USB 3.0 externally on either platform or SATA internally on PlayStation. They help, but not nearly as much as NVMe hanging directly from the CPU’s PCI Express lanes will in XSX and PS5. And as someone who already has a PC with said NVMe configuration,…

Hey, kids! Remember your older siblings save-scumming for sigil stone enchantments in Elder Scrolls Oblivion? Here’s your chance to relive those golden days!

Bill’s Porsche fandom goes way back. His infamous mugshot was taken after he was arrested for having a little bit too much fun with his first 911 on the desert roads around Microsoft’s original office in Albuquerque.