I wish I could disagree. Nostalgia tells me they were a lot better (fresher, too) before they got featured on whatever food show that was and got some national exposure.

A center reat seatbelt.

Don’t knock DSL until you check the available service speeds - in my area I can pull down 120Mbps over DSL which is PLENTY fast for what I need. I’m personally fine anywhere north of 40/5 Mbps, so it’s definitely a negotiation point with the providers.

And unlike pretty much every other high-end phone these days, the Z4 doesn’t have wireless charging either (though there is a mod for that).

Common mistake.  Subaru dealerships cater to the OTHER “flat bill” crowd.

Because people are dumb and think it’s worth it?

There’s a chance that it falls out of some motorcycle lighting regulations - headlight within such-and-so distance of the centerline at such-and-so height above ground, marker lights/ accessory lights at least XX inches away from centerline...

Indeed.

Of course, they’ll just amend the bylaws later and start the whole process over again

Or one of the smaller Leatherman multi-tools. Not quite as classy as a Benchmade, but everyday useful to a pretty wide range of folks.

Or one of the smaller Leatherman multi-tools. Not quite as classy as a Benchmade, but everyday useful to a pretty…

I have one. It is getting passed down to my son when I die because it is built to outlive me by a solid margin.

I have one. It is getting passed down to my son when I die because it is built to outlive me by a solid margin.

Pro-tip: Amazon’s running Linux on the back-end. Gotta use “sudo”.

The first time I heard that cover show up in my Pandora station, I was very pleasantly surprised.

Simple questions I didn’t find answers for:

Simple questions I didn’t find answers for:

I see this deal is live again (I went for it last month).

I see this deal is live again (I went for it last month).

I have one of these in my tool cabinet at home (overflow from my father’s collection) and it’s... about the most useless thing in there for home use.

I have one of these in my tool cabinet at home (overflow from my father’s collection) and it’s... about the most…

One of my better commutes was getting to watch an uppity goose get its comeuppance on a 4-lane, 50-mph road.

Winner: whichever one you can find used on Craigslist for a hell of a lot less, even if it is 4 or 5 years old. 

Winner: whichever one you can find used on Craigslist for a hell of a lot less, even if it is 4 or 5 years old. 

Ditto. Plenty cheaper to do it this way.

Yeah, that is pretty lame since they don’t actually warn you about that anywhere that I saw.

Yeah, that is pretty lame since they don’t actually warn you about that anywhere that I saw.