Quick bit of back-of-the-envelope calculus here: Trump tells automakers “less regulation”. Can Volkswagen now appeal everything around Dieselgate, claiming fake news and fake emissions test pseudoscience, and ex post facto overreaching government regulations, and we’re all fine now. Diesels are clean enough. Just…

This story reminds me of a line of dialog from Ernest Goes to Camp.

Agree to disagree.

I had an interesting layover in Honk Kong in 2013. The tug that was tasked with pushing our A380 back from the gate developed a faulty claw, the bit that grabs on to the front landing gear. The A380, being a shiny, fancy plane, has the front-facing camera turned on, and as a member of the passenger-audience, I did my…

Beware the Ides of Dick. -Soothsayer

The Pharmaceutical Retail Association would like to offer this check mate:

Their activities certainly are. Militaries themselves are more like camp with really great supplies and forts.

First, though, I’m a bit confused. Is there a word for a back-and-forth discussion of facts online without resorting to insults? I seem to recall an archaic term, but it eludes me.

This calculation is the answer to ‘why motorcycle.’ My DD R1200GSA is about on par with a Bugatti Veyron Vitesse at 4.55 23.8 power-to-weight ratio, per the method used below. (edit: used WtP before, still right)

metaferry

two design teams? one for horizontal operation, one for vertical, or everything on pivots? All I want to do is watch a 94-hour Discovery Channel show on every last detail of this vessel and its operation. Just me?

Hoal: Loal

Now just a moment, brother Tom. This is FA. Let me help you:

Welcome, Terrell! Great background, and clearly super relevant to what we (globally) face in the years to come. I appreciate having a news and analysis source that lives somewhere between The Washington Post and Jane’s Defence, with a non-crazy comments and discussion section. Looking forward to reading more!

This gif will complete your life if you play some Slayer while watching it.

Don’t get me wrong. I am of the petrolhead tribe. However, this hard-g gif really drives home (no pun intended) how absolutely banal and primal the internal combustion engine is. Even at it’s most sophisticated, we just talking about making fire.

As your Francophone friends about whether they would buy a car with this name. The rest will be self-explanatory.

There is not a desk big enough to fit all of my shame under now either. Retraining to be an astronaut this morning; maybe it’s out there. Somewhere.

More difficult to fold up and store a 4Runner under your desk during the day, but point taken.

I rode and URB-E at a demo event at CES three years ago. It is truly the most fun you can have with wheels that small. Totally outstanding experience. I did not take the opportunity to get in on the $1000 special special price back then.