SerialThriller
SerialThriller
SerialThriller

Complexity, or lack thereof.

Honestly, I’d prefer tall grass, but the problem is tall grass keeps critters around and even worse are the invasive plants that would flourish if I wasn’t cutting the grass and pulling them now that they are visible.

The number operating the train likely isn’t going to change. The number needed to inspect the cars in the yard and fix what’s needed is a bigger issue. The management attitude of “if it rolled into the yard, it can roll right back out” is a factor in many of these derailments.

Get a new goat every spring and have a cookout in the fall.

The Red Bull-Honda team is going to have a big whinge...

Our yard guy has a couple of helpers and there are four houses in a row that they service.  They’re basically an assembly line and can get through all four in about 30 minutes.  It’s quite the operation.  I feel lazy not cutting my own grass but they cut, edge, blow and bag which would take me about two hours.  

My parents gave me their old Echo backpack blower last year and it will cut my yard cleanup time by probably 80% this fall if not more compared to my regular handheld Echo. So not sure what that saves emissions wise. I have a lot of electric tools where I can but I need the runtime and power of gas for my yard. Would

Backpack two-stroke leaf blowers are the worst. Not only are they fucking obnoxious to listen to, they are extremely dirty. How about just picking up a damn rake, broom or electric blower?

If I didn’t mow all May, the grass would be so long by June that it would be impossible to mow

My mower’s got a Honda engine. I’ll replace it with an electric one when it dies, which will be sometime in 3075.

So we are about three weeks from reading a headline about a homeowner who was “coal-rolling” with his lawn tractor and shot his complaining neighbor with an AR.

My grass is thick AF. If I waited a month to mow, I’d need to brush hog it.

So how are all of those government building’s landscaping so well manicured? 

If only the options for a fun hatchback weren't so limited, and a fun wagon not a unicorn

Sure port to nearby terminal is fine. In supply chain though the idea is to limit touch points and get the cargo to the closest DC to final delivery without having to unload. For deliveries made to the Midwest the transport would ideally be able to go all the way without recharging/refueling. I would hope that we can

California has some of the largest ports in the U.S. (port of LA, port of Oakland, and port of Long Beach) so this is big. If you are getting something from Amazon on the west coast or mid-West there is a high likelihood it got brought off a shipping container from a California port and loaded onto a diesel truck.

I remember not so long ago that young men, seeking the favors of young women, would drive sexy two door cars to project an image.  Now they want to drive the box the sexy car came in.  I don’t get it.  

Really? comparing a Corolla Cross to a GR86? and a Cx50 to a Miata? LOL

A CUV is a shittier version of a wagon. Taller, worse mpgs, can hold less stuff, etc. I get that wagons aren’t in fashion anymore, but they’re measurably better at most things than a CUV is. Every soccer mom driving around in an empty Escalade/Suburban/X7/Yukon/Grand Wagoneer really just needs a wagon.

I’m kind of inclined to believe that this has less to do with people having some kind of epiphany and more to do with people wanting a new vehicle immediately and just taking whatever’s sitting in inventory, which is generally sedans/hatchbacks.