One of my friends’ mom’s cars had the oh so helpful fuel economy gauge right alongside the gas gauge and speedometer. You could gun it, watch the economy go to zero and pretty much see the fill gauge creep left as massive amounts of gas were consumed.

One of my high school buddies had some sort of 70s/80s Olds (Cutlass, maybe?) with a massive front bench seat that you could pull forward and recline fully so the top lined up with the front back bench seat, turning the entire interior into a red pleather queen-sized bed. Once he actually got a girlfriend it solved so…

My favorite element of the land yacht is the gradually damping sine wave when you hit the bottom of a hill at speed. Takes about 15 seconds to gradually stop the smooth porpoising and flatten back out. Like a yacht.  An oddly pleasurable sensation.

I couldn’t hold back laughing basically in a salesman’s face the first time I saw an invoice with “Overhead” on it after we’d negotiated price. You pay overhead with your profit on the sale, asshole!  Maybe don’t have such a Taj Mahal showroom?

I know a guy whose family has been in the dealership business for a few generations and he was complaining about how little they actually make on new car sales. I told him it’s their own faults, with an assist from the manufacturers. Buyers have been conditioned for years to believe that there’s always another pot of…

I basically backed into this structure long ago by having all pricing conversations on a drive-out basis. “I’m willing to pay $XX,XXX total for this car, all-in, and how you allocate that across sale price, taxes, overhead, destination fee, etc. is entirely up to you.”

Them, and everyone they sell your contact information to.

Same. Availability of help at HD is much better, and they seem more knowledgeable. I do miss the days when they hired actual tradespeople and would always have one plumber, electrician, etc. on hand at any time who could help you devise a solution instead of just show you where what you want is located.

My firm has a couple of clients that are basically consulting firms that help independent manufacturers and retailers get onto the various e-commerce channels, most notably Amazon Marketplace. Amazon ranks its products the same way Google does, using a variety of algorithms to push certain products to the top (just…

Just hold your nose and call an installer. They can probably get it cheaper than you anyway and even after the couple hundred bucks they charge you will probably come out ahead. 

As a Houstonian who has seen a bunch of these contraptions up close along the Ship Channel, it’s impossible to to articulate the size and complexity of offshore oil and gas equipment. Seeing a dry-docked rig leaves you wondering how they hell they ever got something the size of a few city blocks (and just as tall) out…

“What I learned is that workers used what’s called a “horizontal directional drilling system,” or HDD for short.”

She’s said in the past that when she walked into a meeting she’d give the men a minute or two to stare, then get down to business.

The definition of “at risk” is definitely about to get more elastic. 

Wall is a better fit as long as Harden is around, plus that protected pick might end up being worth quite a bit if Washington isn’t so bad that they end up lottery. And the Rockets have said they’re not considering trading Harden right now, especially since he was trying to direct a trade to a single team. Not the…

Yeah, for all the talk about a return to the normalcy of the Obama years, Biden’s not actually trying to put the band back together.

Has Milla Jovovich aged in the last 15 years?  Anderson must be a happy man.

Yeah, if you’re going to make this movie you just gotta go all-in. 

How about recognizing that the “defund” concept is wildly unpopular and doing pointless damage to Democrats? Pull back from the slogan, find some reforms that the public will support (mental health interventions by trained professionals being a prime example) and then reengage.

Even the title seems like someone at ABC said “You know what? People sure do like that Yellowstone show. Now we don’t want to be some Johnny-come-lately with another Wyoming show. We’ll do Montana.”