Preach. I have a friend who has plenty of disposable income but is irredeemably frugal. His old SUV (which he has since replaced) had a broken fuel gauge which he was too cheap to fix, so you couldn’t know how much fuel remained in the tank. He kept a logbook and a pen and would log the miles traveled until he…

As I responded above to a comment about Pinnacles, I liked that it was relatively quiet and uncrowded for a National Park, but it’s fairly accessible if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I love that people still ask the park rangers about the blue dye they put in the water. I’m sure they never get tired of answering that question.

I came down here to see if anyone mentioned Pinnacles. The first Google hit for “list of national parks” doesn’t even show it: http://parks.mapquest.com/national-parks…. I guess hardly anyone mentions it because it’s a recent upgrade to National Park status, and in comparison to other heavily-visited parks in…

Can confirm. We saw her at the Independence Beer Garden across from the Liberty Bell last weekend before the convention started and she handed out one of her “Mississippi 4 Hillary” buttons to a friend of mine. In addition to the outfits shown here, on the day we saw her, she was wearing a blue and red dress with…

Like other commenters noted, they do it for the attention. The news station cameras and photographers alone probably outnumber the WBC contingent. They publicize their plans and invite this, and how do you counter-troll a troll? Shouting at them doesn’t work, so maybe this positive energy is a better alternative.

Thank you for responding. I did not know this. I knew of other examples, like San Francisco has different weather from Oakland, or some parts of Buffalo get hit with lake effect snow more than others.

You may be right, and Alexandria’s nice enough, but who would consider “occasional flooding” a point in its favor?

This is a important question, but I’m curious how they rated Arlington and Alexandria’s weather average and Rockville and Silver Springs’ weather below average. Aren’t they only 10 miles apart? Is there some micro-climate variation on either side of the Potomac I’m unaware of?

How do you feel about butterflies, though? I once met someone who was genuinely afraid of butterflies. Not just recoiling in disgust, but actually afraid - like, would run away from them screaming. Maybe because of the spindly insect legs? I tried to explain that butterflies pollinate and don’t actually have teeth or…

One of the meanest college pranks I heard of was someone releasing a single cricket into another person’s dorm room. They hide, of course, and they stop chirping if you try to look for them. Then when you finally give up and begin enjoying the silence... chirp, chirp, chirp...

Everyone is entitled to his or her travel lodging preferences, but I don’t regret being an Airbnb host. I enjoy meeting travelers from across the globe, and I haven’t had any horrible experiences. I am a homeowner in Philadelphia (the same neighborhood as this story, in fact) and I rent out the second floor of my…

Not necessarily. I’m an Airbnb host in Philadelphia and last year the city council passed a bill regarding regulation and taxation of rentals, same as hotels. Airbnb levies the tax automatically and passes the revenue onto the city. The laws would vary from city to city, of course.

“Because you never know these days.” Like you don’t know where your own damn baby came from??? Good grief, that’s insulting.

Yeah, experiencing this circus once was enough. I’m a year younger than Ron Goldman, and before the murders, I lived in Brentwood down the street from Nicole Brown Simpson’s condo on Bundy Drive. I’d walked past her place many times. I’d eaten at the same Mcdonald’s restaurant where Kato and OJ ate the night of the…

I’ve had my recycling bin stolen twice. Not the recyclables in it, the actual bin. Why? The City of Philadelphia gives them out free. It’s like people see stuff lying around, they have to take it, no matter what it is. Which maybe explains the Eagles’ transaction history.

WIT’ onions, if you please.

I was sitting in Section 101 right behind the wall where this happened. The crowd gasped after the hit, but her fellow cheerleaders picked her up afterward, and she wasn’t carted off the field with a neck brace in an ambulance, so I think she escaped serious injury. Maryland’s defense had a worse day. But my personal…

Preach. I love that this BCO post about bad restaurant bosses became a thread about (not) letting people borrow your pickup truck. I’m amazed how universal this issue is, although maybe I shouldn’t be. It could be its own topic on Jalopnik. About 20 years ago, a coworker friend asked to borrow my Toyota 4x4 for a day,…

I can’t help but think that the Denali naming is another example of Obama trolling the hell out of John Boehner.