Is this like, supposed to be a Logan’s Run reference? Like, you are getting to that age, time to start your midlife crisis!

Thanks for the gratuitous “I own a racing suit and helmet” posts. Everyone is really impressed.

Eh, I’m not back. Just helping my buddies hopefully do something great.

120dB x 4 actually only = 126dB in a perfect situation. When you have two sound sources of equal power they only work to increase the sound level 3dB due to the logarithmic scale of sound power. So add 3 more sources and you only increase 6dB in a perfect world. The equation is 10logN(dB) where N is the number of…

Why should I buy this Aston Martin Lagonda for the price of a Fox Body Mustang?

Mickey Rourke

I want to know how many new trucks I can get for $40k.

Headlights are nice!

Top Gear UK didn't just get me going on cars, it's hands down the best travel show around, which is a whole new dimension you don't hear many "petrol-heads" talk about. The best episodes were the adventures out into the world's wild and unpredictable roads, which had a fantastic way of making you feel like you went…

Now I'm going to have that awful jingle stuck in my head.

Alford Motors on Vine Street used to be a Mercury Dealer

Related problem: If people start getting the impression that you are a lot smarter than them, they'll start committing you to projects that they don't understand without confirming if it's even feasible, on the assumption that you'll just "figure it out".

Yum, a delicious 4-way!

I'm envisioning a funny Top Gear bit where a customer LaFerrari is tested, but get around the threat by replacing the image of the car with some other random image (like a chicken, or a pile of BS) in every video (so Ferrari can't tell which customer's car was used) and then announce the time at the end.

Some in Detroit believe that the huge difference has to do with currency manipulation, as the weaker yen makes exports from Japan cheaper in the US and lines the pockets of Toyota and other Japanese automakers.

http://world.honda.com/history/challe…

So how did it get that way? Was it just a six-sigma outlier on the quality distribution in every major piece as well as the whole, or is "lent us his personal set of tools" also an important clue?

New Kitchenette sub-thread: Can You Bacon That? Yes We Can!

Yes, you're quite right. However, as the recipient of my fathers largesse of donating old Mopars to the teenage driving cause and then Chevy Vegas for the "economy" of it, I will dispute the '80s as being the "starting" point of their uncoupling from reality. In late '73, the Arab oil embargo occurred which really…