He looked at the Siennas too. :-) Oh, he was so close to getting a Sienna when our last minivan was showing its age, but it was a Dodge Caravan with stow-and-go in the middle row, and that’s really really really hard to give up once you’ve had it.

It’s a very close contender, and he’s looked at it. But the deal-breaker (besides the fact that our T&C is still running well, and it’s very nice not having a car loan — plus, it being an older vehicle, the taxes are low) is that the middle row is not stow-and-go. It’s hard to get around that, since the battery pack…

What my husband keeps saying is that he wants is a hybrid version of the Chrysler Town & Country, or something equivalent. He loves the economy of a hybrid, the reassurance of a gas engine in remote areas, and the convenience of being able to transform the interior between passenger-carrying and cargo-carrying with…

Glasgow ice cream trucks?

That sounds wonderfully adorable.

Very important to mention the stick houses. The difference in housing construction material is completely overlooked in this piece (although I admit I didn’t watch the video to see if it’s covered there). European houses are much more commonly made of brick or cinder block, while American homes are almost universally…

Hah!  The designation comes from the service operating the vehicle, not whether it’s a rotorcraft.  So it’d stay Marine One as long as it was a USMC Osprey.  What I’m more curious about is whether they give Navy One designations if the Navy flies the prez anywhere.

He already has the base locked in (they’d vote for him if he collapsed and went into a coma tomorrow because they’re mainly voting for Trump), so there’s really nothing strategic to gain from it.  No, this is so he can feel all big and tough and cool.  If you gotta do that, you aren’t big and tough and cool.

The timeline’s backwards. He put in his resignation *before* his unit was notified, at the same time he gave notice at the school he was teaching at, so he could focus on his Congressional campaign.

The other day it occured to me that RFK, Jr is the comic relief candidate. And y’know? Given what we’ve all had to endure this election year, regardless of who you support, I think we all need some comic relief. Hardly anybody’s gonna vote for him, but we need that comic relief so bad, maybe it’s actually a good thing…

This makes me wonder if the Cybertruck is auditioning for the Device Orchestra.

Best kind.  :-)

He does know that the C-32 is not actually designated for the Vice President, right? That’s pretty common knowledge. I mean, I know he was Marine Corps, not USAF, but he was a *journalist* in the Marine Corps, so you’d think he’d have at least a passing familiarity with some of the better known elements of the VIP…

Man who flew a desk for four years whines about a 24-year national guardsman not being military enough. Vance is funny, in the same way RFK, Jr is funny.

I’m really skeptical of this report that’s getting echoed repeatedly without anyone ever attempting to verify it. It’s all coming from one guy, Eric Berger, who cites mysterious unnamed sources as saying Starliner is incapable of autonomous undocking and reentry. (Which would be pretty surprising, since nobody has…

I am slightly embarrassed at how long it took me to get that. :-D

That thing is monstrous, useless, expensive, and impossible to store. It’s also an absolutely gorgeous piece of art deco styling.  If I had billions of dollars, I would want it.

I thought so too, but that’s what my brother said.  Mind you, he was pretty sleep deprived by that time, and trying to wrangle two young kids, so I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if some details were muddied.

You’d think -- but my brother had to deboard from his Delta flight when it got cancelled because they couldn’t find the pilot.  No idea how it got so far that they were loading the pax without a pilot identified.

Wipers that detect rain exist, and are notoriously unreliable. There are a bunch of problems. Cars with automatic wipers exist, for instance — they have sensors that detect wetness on the windshield. They’ll turn on the wipers and the headlamps automatically. But they don’t always reliably detect the rain, and they’re…