$25 on craigslist will get you a really nice stroller.

Above 15000 feet, there isn’t enough air pressure to keep any sort of orientation. It just tumbles. Below 15000 feet, there isn’t enough time to establish an orientation before it impacts the ground. Most cars dropped from 14-15 thousand feet (the highest practical drop height) hit the ground within about 75-80…

If you’ve ever seen a car fall from an aircraft, you’d know that they tumble a lot. That’s because they aren’t tear-drop shaped. This means that they produce turbulence that keeps them from establishing a consistent orientation. The drag coefficient goes way up. In fact, it’s multiplied by surfaces unseen in a…

But that’s what you’re getting for your money... a Golf. Performance wise they aren’t far apart. Bigger injectors and the K04 are about it.

Wranglers. Fucking Wranglers...

I long for the return of the old sound of WRC cars, before anti-lag and the incessant pop-pop-pop to keep the turbos spooled up. That first Gymkhana video he did still has the best sound. It still gives me chills.

TR3 has hinge holes for a top mounted hinge. I don’t see any holes. Also, the TR3A has a raised area on the center of the hood, and the sides tapper to nearly vertical at the rear of the hood.

This was more true of older media than it is of modern media. Media produced today and stored under ideal conditions has lifetimes that typically exceed your long-term storage needs. So much so that it’s often harder to find hardware to recover your data from obsolete media than it is to find the media has degraded…

Just $1200. And wow... Only $15 shipping! Sweet.

No need for two beds. Just set it up Unimog style. Cab over design with a big bed out back.

I really like this thing, but simple isn’t safe enough. Looks like no airbags, which means it won’t be sold in the US.

At MOMA in New York, there was an exhibit of “art” that basically looked like benches. They cordoned off the area with yellow tape (on the floor), and posted a security guard, and I still managed to see people sit on the “art.”

We have a toddler, so eye level magnets are pretty much unreliable (we had one though, no idea where it is now).

1992. The radio and cluster have those digital LEDs.

What we really need is proximity based voice communication between vehicles, so that when I yell “stay in your lane, asshole,” or “stop texting and drive, shit-head,” those in the wrong will correct their behavior accordingly. Oh... and train horns. Those never get old.

This is one of those bits of wisdom passed down from when gasoline was dirty. It was stored in metal tanks in the ground that rusted. Water and road debris would wash into the fuel tanks. It’s why glass gas pumps existed... so you could see how clean the fuel was.

About 12 years ago, I was looking for another Cherokee to add to my collection of Jeeps (think David Tracy levels of jeep collecting). I found a cheap one on eBay with a “blown tranny”. Two door. Manual. Four wheel drive. I won it for $300 because there was no picture in the ad.

As a software engineer, I know just how digital and foolproof these things are. That said, the fastest way to improve software isn’t by testing it. It’s by using it. I’m completely comfortable letting machines do the work of driving, because when they make a mistake, it isn’t because they were texting, looking at…

Until you’ve stood next to the shuttle, you don’t really appreciate the size of it. The thing could haul a school bus into LEO. It’s a technological marvel with an unfortunate habit of exploding on take off or disintegrating on re-entry.

There’s nothing more offensive than hearing [bleep] censored.