We had the Sherrif's Department ask to join one of our local autocross events once. We set up a 2-lap course that was exactly 2 miles (we had a HUGE venue at the time). The course was very open to accommodate big cars (The 'vette drivers were especially happy). The whole thing was quite revealing. My slowest time was…

Really glad to hear Foster is doing well. I was just wondering about him yesterday on my drive home from work.

Even with a 13yr old driver Mercury kicks Buick's butt. Jill Wagner is hot and Buick driver's are ALWAYS in my way, so Mercury FTW.

"[Cheese and Rice], and you think I'm reckless? When I fly, I'll have you know that my crew and my plane come first!"

I can't think of any questions I wouldn't already have found answers to before going there. Just as lawyers say never ask a question you don't know the answer to, never ask a car salesperson a question you don't already know the answer to. Do your homework people or be dissapoint. I don't want to hear any…

Post the undoctored pictures of the perp so we can turn the piece of dog crap into a meme! The French pansy who beats up submissive geeks from Canada. Show his face so I can make him famous as the worlds least intimidating bully!

Here's another idea: Construct a temporary standing-desk by elevating a workspace on top of your existing desk. Use your imagination. Put a board on blocks or something. Work from this temporary arrangement for a while. It will do 2 things. 1) You'll probably end up adjusting the height a few times until you find your…

"Take that, UPS"?

Nice to see this article. Long live the 914. A few tidbits that would have been nice additions to the article are the fact that Porsche built a pair of 914s with de-tuned flat-8 racing engines from the 908. Ferdinand Piech drove one of them as his personal car. As the director of development I think that says…

As I saw it coming I thought for sure the tires were going to unseat! That sequence was amazing.

Cool. When people ask where you work you should say "On a hawg farm." ; )

I think maybe that's part of Bill's point. You are saying it's okay because everybody else does it too (meaningless badge/sticker special editions). The fact that everybody else does it is why it's so wrong. It's like saying "Everybody else around me is out of shape so I might as well let myself go a bit."

Cool! The "Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls" or "CoCom" was a post-WWII treaty between 17 nations including the USA that was superceded in 1994 by the Wassenaar Arrangement. People still refer to some of the rules as "the CoCom rules" though. One of the rules is that consumer GPS receivers be…

I'm pretty sure this is what horns are for. If he won't move at least you can test the noise cancelling ability of his phone. I drive a BMW by the way, but I fully support dolling out punishment to asshat BMW drivers. I get stereotyped because of them so there is no love there. I only drive my car for the driving…

The APRS tracker carries it's own GPS receiver. The coordinates you see on those tracks (if you follow the links to aprs.fi) are the actual reported positions of the balloon, not ground stations. Each packet the tracker broadcasts typically contains callsign, coordinates and altitude. Many also broadcast temp and…

APRS is actually quite dependent on GPS. It gathers position data using GPS, then re-broadcasts it (in the USA the standard frequency is 144.39mhz). If the GPS isn't working the APRS isn't working either. (I have 2 APRS trackers myself)

Wrangler:

I had to go with CP on this one. I've been causally shopping for a Landcruiser for the past year and there are a lot of equally nice FJ80 at this price point. For the price I'd much rather have the FJ80.

Better yet, here's a story for you. Once upon a time there was a broke-ass student who worked his ass off for 50 years so he could one day buy his child a nice bike and send them to a nice school. Rather than thinking of ways to steal from that guy (indirectly via his child) just keep plugging away at your studies,…

A torque wrench is a delicately calibrated instrument. Please break his knees with a breaker bar, wrecking bar, or something similar instead. Keep your torque wrench dialed back to zero and stored in it's case where it won't get tweaked.