1. Thanks for these articles; the detail and specific lessons learned are awesome.
2. That pickup, though. Moar.
3. Every XJ and TJ I have owned has the same dang electrical bugs. Bang on the starter, wiggle the battery lead, wire brush the ground on the block. At least 6 times a year I go through that list.

When I was 15 I watched a man and woman on a bike get hit at an intersection while passing illegally. She was ~250lbs and took the brunt of it; he was up front, neither wore helmets. They were hit laterally at about 20mph. I worked at the gas station on the corner and watched it all happen. I ran out to them and…

I’ve done the auto-to-manual swap on a Mk4 Jetta. It’s getting the right parts the first time with which I had the most trouble. I did a 6-speed because go big or go home, but I shouldn’t have. It would have been a lot cheaper to do a 5-speed, and the benefits just aren’t there to make it worth it.

Loved those novels. Loved the whole D’ni culture and story. Fascinating and unique.

Still not believing it until I see a plant retool for it.

A 2-door was the only expected one until this picture, because of the frame/tooling. Good article on allpar about it.

My dad had a regular bed for years and just recently sold it and bought one of these. Low miles, perfect shape, one owner. The looks have grown on him.

A kindred! I switched from my Lumia 1520 to a Note 5. So disappointing. I spend half my time with this phone setting default applications or trying to figure out how to stay notified without being overwhelmed with stupid notifications. I miss Live Tiles. I’m a developer that wants to see Cortana succeed because of how…

The phone interface is the only really good thing about Windows Phone. It’s incredibly intuitive and simple, and it communicates quickly to the user what’s going on. I miss it. Android is terrible at this. Pull down from top to see a long scrolling list of notifications, most of which aren’t useful because they are…

I use this daily, but it’s missing something important to me.. a hard scale setting. I need to get a static, 40-mile view of my metro area so I can, at a glance, see which highways are congested this morning. While the route suggestions are nice, I know better. Every time I launch the app, I have to immediately zoom…

Cars and Curmedgeon

ps.. ungrey pls?

This is the first time I read about a minivan and thought “oh, that would be nice”. It was the vacuum that did it. And the doors.

Would probably have to be a “for off road use only” item because of pedestrian safety rules, I’d guess.

VW TDI

Wow I so remember that feeling of the cover-less batteries under my fingers while playing. I’d be mid-game and a battery would turn and power-cycle. So annoying! I put tape over it at some point which only marginally made it better.

Try Inrix. Google Maps with social functions. They sell their data to Google, I think? They did before Google bought Waze anyway. Not sure now.

I’m strongly considering a cordless miter just because of that battery.

Yep. True for me in the opposite direction, to some degree, if I’m honest. I drive a POS to work everyday because why spend a ton on something nice and rack up a lot of miles on it when something not nice gets the job done. And there’s a part of me that wants people to know this is a choice I make.

A number of people in my family work seasonal jobs, and in the winter, buy and sell cars for profit.