Sadly, I made a couple of bad investments, and lost my membership to the 3 Comma Club. Looking at that paltry, pathetic, miserable $970 million in my account is a real downer.

No Aux port, unfortunately. I would absolutely use it if I had one. I do have a Bluetooth receiver that operates on an FM frequency, but it has trouble maintaining connectivity with my phone sometimes and the audio quality can be less than stellar.

Makes sense. I would get slightly less irritated the next time we have to cycle through 10 different restaurants for a night out because someone brought a friend that lives off only plant-based foods and feels the need to repeatedly tell everyone in depth about it.

I have no idea what you’re talking about, I don’t play Quidditch. This is America, speak American.

Last time I held a CD? Last week.

I wouldn’t eat puppies, because I’ve grown up with dogs. But that’s strictly a social construct. I don’t see anything inherently wrong with people who grew up eating dogs and see nothing wrong with it.

Life (of a cocaine addict) always finds a way.

We think it’s a real slam dunk.

Possible in our lifetimes? Not even remotely with our current technology. The stellar disk itself is about 2,000 light years thick. The fastest-travelling spacecraft we have launched thus far is Juno, which at its peak was trucking along at about 165,000 miles per hour.

So, they were able to raise over $840,000 from other awful humans about three years ago, and now they’re closing down? I guess they got other people to finance their retirement.

I was just in their Gaslamp tap room last weekend. Great stuff, but my personal recommendation among their IPA offerings is the Scorpion Bowl. Hits all the marks for what I look for in a modern IPA. Not quite a New England style, but not overburdening with the bitterness.

Yes. But “ale” is a very wide-encompassing term. There are several key differences between ales and lagers. Most notably the yeast used to ferment them, and additionally the temperature at which they are fermented (lager yeast prefers cooler temperatures). Diacetyl, while sometimes welcome in ales to impart a sort of…

I tuned out after their Too Weird to Live album. It played like a generic half-hour session of bland synth-rock with practically nothing to say. In fact, the one thing I enjoyed about it was the Hunter S Thompson-derived title.

Nah, don’t worry. They’ll just start signing out 120-month loans. It makes total financial sense for consumers!

I read the title as “The best method for cooking asparagus that’s 2,000 years old”.

Boeing 747's have a glide ratio of about 15:1. That means that the plane will glide 15 feet forward for ever 1 foot of altitude it loses when not under any sort of power.

Dear diary,

There are three things that annoy me to no end when I’m driving.

I’m not sure what’s worse: Being caught looking at...ahem...adult material as a teenager, or being called over to your parents’ house as an adult by your dad who swears that a classic car website gave his computer a virus causing a never-ending cascade of very sensual pop-up ads.

That caught my attention too. His position strikes me as the kind where there are a lot of social engagements he would potentially be attending, many of which serve some sort of wine or cocktails.