Yeah, he’s one of the few people on the Gawker network that I would call an actual journalist.

YOU WIN.

Indeed! Although, I suspect I would need to grab a coffee and find a comfy chair even for that! :)

Have you read anything written by Tyler? He's one of the most thorough and respected authors on Gawker.

OK, that is a genuinely awesome story.

Can someone please post gifs for the reaction of Mini owners to this? When a Fiat is preferred over you for reliability...

I did a Cummins swap into my ‘75 W200 crewcab. It fit perfectly and I used the wiring harness and dash from the donor ‘93.

He’s gotta make his way to the Dirty O. Best hot dogs (and ambiance!) in the city.

Welcome to Pittsburgh, Phil. I recommend checking out D’s Six Pax and Dogs:

Jerome Bettis, Casey Hampton, Roethlisberger (in some seasons), Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, Spanky LaValliere.

"Of course it doesn't have machine guns, air-to-air missiles made them obsolete. Gun battles will never happen in future conflicts." - McDonnell Douglas, 1955 (XF4H-1).

"Oh, you need a knife? Well, I and my team of hundreds of engineers, scientists, PR drones, marketeers, lawyers can, with proper funding, create a Individual Edged Dual-Purpose Combined Penetro-Incisive Close Quarters Warfighter-Retained Weapons System, or 'knife', if you must. We will leverage an ultra-hard…

I call this the "nerd mentality": "newer and more complex specifically only for the exact required function = equal better".

C-5M Pilot here, it's an awesome jet. The upgrades make it takeoff and land, at least in feeling, to the T-1 trainer aircraft that we all fly before getting heavies. I think our reliability rates are low because, as you said, there are very few of them out there, and so very few maintenance capable bases that also…

Just this once, I'd love to see St Louis, Oakland, and San Diego all tell their NFL teams to get fucked when it comes to asking for publicly-funded venues at the exact same time, just to see what happens. It's not like all three of them can move to LA simultaneously.

He was unarmed. His character is irrelevant. The state needs to stop executing citizens on the street.

What is their next major focus? Super fuel efficient narrow body regional jet? A Dreamliner-esque 737 replacement?

The A380 programme will probably never turn a profit.