Have served fondue to my two young children many times. It teaches them manual dexterity and to be careful. And kids will eat broccoli if it’s dunked in melted cheese.

Pet peeve: this drink existed long before the Moscow Mule. Ginger beer and lime are a great mixer, and originally it was made with rye or other Brown Whisk(e)y and it was calied a Whiskey Buck ir simply a Buck.

I get the impression he was more trying to get her to give her phone number. HERE is how to teach a new driver to handle a manual:

Any tire recommendations?

Excellent way to troll and cross promote with a minimum number of wasted pixels. Bravo!

I finally understand the hate! I have never owned one, nor has anyone in my family owned one. But I realize now that my lack of PT Cruiser hate marks my entry into Old. I remember when it came out, and the motor press actually liked it because it was one of the first departures from bland sameness in the economy car…

So your telling me that “Trade Negotiator” is an excellent career choice in the UK right now?

Taurus SHO owner here: i agree with you on this.

Has anyone mentioned this: the current Taurus (aka Ford 500) is built on the Volvo S80 platform. Hence the size & weight. If you think of it as a cheaper S80, it’s not so bad.

I own a 2012 Taurus SHO. Just crossed 80,000 miles a few months ago. Although the numbers are better than the original, the car itself is not in the same league. It’s a pig. A huge, gigantic, heavy family sedan with a big motor. The original SHO was a phenomenon, and something unique in it’s day. The durrent SHO is…

I repeat, have you no joy or playfulness in you?

Exactly! And that’s why they are needed in this world!

You have no joy in your soul.

I have some Viper-driving friends who swear they can be had for $35K if you avoid the extra-desirable versions, which are still crazy fast.

Lotus Elise/Exige, hands down.

It looks cool but it sounded exactly like a gunpowder rifle and I am very skeptical that you can store enough energy to get that kind of a shot out of such a small package. Unless there is a CRATE of capacitors off-screen, I am going to say there is a regular rifle hiding inside the futuristic case he built. That…

My guess is that none of the solar systems, planets, environments, or animals are defined until someone visits for the first time. Onc someone visits, the parameters that define the place (maybe a few hundred KB) are randomly generated and now need to be stored in perpetuity, in case someone goes there later. This…

It doesn’t sound too far off from a directory server. Like LDAP or AD. Note that it would need to scale more based on *users*, not quantity of objects (names of planets and animals) because there is actually a built in locality of reference. Meaning that you only need to pre-load the objects in your immediate solar…

I seem to recall that the Japanese were allies of the Nazis so that means a Prius is unacceptable too. Italian cars would be out as well. Henry Ford was a racist so no Fords. Chrysler is owned by Fiat and thus falls under the former Fascist prohibition.

Ding ding ding! I believe that’s the exact purpose of this document. It’s the “you are more trouble than you are worth" contract.