My daughter (11) recently rode in my dad’s 2000 Toyota Tacoma. She called it “an old fashioned car” because it has manual door locks and window cranks. I am truly failing as a parent.

Caravans are awesome! They’re also complete piles of trash. It’s like they just barely give you a glimpse of how potentially good having a minivan could be, but at the same time bad enough to make you never actually spend money on one. We rented one in FL this past spring and I found myself thinking, man, if this were…

Well, I would be, but life. Dammit.

This is my get rich idea and you can’t have it! Okay, you can, please do it because I’m not going to.

Google search? Where I live, the county has a “Household Hazardous Waste” drop-off facility. They take anything that you shouldn’t put in the trash, a lot of it free of charge.

Note to self: Start parking on the upwind side of parking lots.

Probably because the wind can’t turn them so unless the wind happens to be coming directly from behind, they won’t move.

I sad laugh whenever I see people who are about the right age to be parents of “kids today” bitch about “kids today”. Really!? Who the fuck do you think taught the “kids today” to be the way they are!?

SxS manufacturers have to take “hey ya’ll, watch this!” into account.

What do you call the person who graduates last in their class at medical school? Doctor.

So a tricycle has three wheels, a bicycle has two wheels, and a unicycle has one wheel, right? Then why does a Triscuit have 4 corners and a biscuit have none? And what does a uniscuit look like!?

That’s probably it. That’s also a good reason why it is just a tire and no wheel. That’s also a good reason to use fabric. Reducing weight goes a long way toward reducing energy consumption, be it gas or electric. 

Please allow me to introduce you to skin on frame boats.

Really, I can’t say that I’m that shocked that he did so well. For a 2500 mile long race, reliability can be a huge factor. How much HP you have and how fast you can go doesn’t matter much if you can’t make it to the finish line.

I grew up with a carburetor on top of a 302 that made maybe 150hp. Starting it was an art form in the summer and at 10ºF you had about a 50/50 chance.

I’d skip the AWD for hybrid and towing, but the only way to get the towing is AWD and non-hybrid.

Or... single motor that drives only the rears and ICE that drives only the fronts. For city driving when you don’t want/need AWD, RWD works just as well as FWD. That would, I’d think, not add much of any cost over a FWD only hybrid, but what do I know.

Sat in on at the state fair last weekend. It is pretty small. Maybe not as “compact” as some would like, but its the smallest new truck I’ve been in for quite a long time. Most of the “not small” complaints I’ve seen complain about the length. That’s only one part of it, overall width and wheelbase are more important…

He’s just upholding SD Republican traditions:

Personally, I prefer to not use anything with exposed combustion in an enclosed space, especially when working around volatiles. I just layer up and freeze my ass off here in MN working on stuff in the winter.