I was a senior in high school driving around 60 on an intestate with heavier traffic. I saw motion to my right, and looked over to see a tire rolling down the side of the road. I looked at it for a second thinking, “How...?” and looked up to see a work van stopped in the middle of the interstate a few car lengths in…

Whipped cream flavored vodka.

I think Peter Sagal goes amiss when he says “Still, we may deduce the hot dog’s essential sandwichness simply by changing any variable. Swap out the hot dog... we see that any other combination of filling, including other sausages, in the same kind of bun is naturally a sandwich.”

I tried this out and it was pretty neat! Giraffes Can’t Dance is a great example of what this app does- the specific music cues are great (I’m all about imagination, but my kids aren’t going to imagine what a waltz or a tango are), and little things like an actual violin starting to play when you read that the cricket…

I enjoyed Red Cliff, and it didn’t have much “super-human kung-fu” in it.

A read an essay awhile ago (long enough I don’t remember the source) about this topic. Hollywood films are full of their own super-human fighting. Think about your basic action hero who gets hit/kicked/stabbed/shot/falls from great heights and…

I took my car in for an inspection. Long story short, the guy wanted to charge me $200 to “fix” things so it would pass inspection, including $20 to replace the license plate bulb. There was also the shop that poked a hole in the red taillight tape, told me they couldn’t pass the car because of that, and it would be…

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If a short person doesn’t want to get stuck behind me, they can get to the venue before I do.

I have a laptop that unlocks with facial recognition that uses a similar setup with infrared light and such. I can have any combination of glasses/hat/beard/headphones (and occasional sunglasses) and it will still unlock. The biggest issue I have is if the sun is shining through the window- I’m assuming infrared…

Thanks for sharing the pictures! I have in-laws in Fairfax and try to make it to Katie’s C&C whenever we are up there for the weekend. I saw the “Crazy mad max car” two-ish years ago when it was a twin turbo and the owner (who does all the work himself) was talking about wanting to do something different with it. I…

That looks like a button to turn off the parking sensors.

These were from Katy’s Cars & Coffee from a while ago. I figured there would be a lot of people there and getting pictures of whole cars would be tough, so I focused on getting details.

I live in coastal southern NC and thought hard about leaving, primarily because of our kids. The simple answer: where is there to go? Family and friends that lived close enough were still in the path of the storm. Looking for someone else we could stay with meant at least a 10 hour drive. We could have maybe gone…