Because the publishing industry is centered in NYC. Who tells you that it’s awesome? Publishers... who live in NYC... who have a vested interest in telling people that NYC is great. I’ve been there. It’s a shithole outside of 2-3 parts of central park.

We’ve done 6 round-trip so far with our now 21 month old. Sub 6 months, they will pretty much sleep if you are holding and occasionally nursing/feeding. Changing diapers in the bathroom is a breeze at this size. 6-12 months... Screen time and cloth books are the key. This was the first time the boy had watched a movie…

The big issue with modern cars is they almost always run on a CAN bus system. The horn button isn’t a momentary contact switch. It’s a computer. A computer that is polled every 500ms or so. Are you on, are you off. You press it, it sends out a “I am on” message and the horn is activated by the body module of your car.…

Running full power to bad headlights doesn’t fix those crappy headlights.

I have yet to see an HID system, or stock projector system available and legal here in the USA that had better light output/spread/cutoffs than a simple and cheap Hella E-Code reflector headlight. This is pretty much solely down to the archaic headlight rules that the federal DOT imposes on headlights for sale here.

Step one in buying anything with 7" round headlights... Throw away the stock headlights and put in (best choice) Hella E-Codes with good H4s, or put in one of the new LED headlight replacement housings (3 of them are good, the rest are JUNK... Get either Trucklite, VisionX Vortex, or JWSpeaker). Never have to deal…

Good halogen headlights also have a nice sharp cutoff. My 26 year old sports roadster has better headlight than what you drive, I can almost guarantee it. The Hella 7" E-Code headlights and the Cibie Z-Beams are widely regarded as the high-point in headlight tech in real world use. Yes, HIDs and LEDs use less power,…

Couple additions.... Dog “dirt” bags in their little keychain dispensers are the BEST way to get rid of “used” diapers. They are designed to reduce the smell of dog “dirt”, so they will do wonders for your crotch-fruit’s “jobs”. They are SO MUCH CHEAPER than ziplocks and they pack super small and you can clip the…

XTerra, LandCruiser 70 series or 80 series, Jeep TJ, Nissan Frontier.

Not going to say NEVER thought I would own this car, but I will say I didn’t think I would be owning it at this point in my life. Bought a 2015 Wrangler while my wife was pregnant! Sold a nice practical wagon, and bought a 2-door top heavy, poor handling, vehicle with bad crash test ratings and poor fuel economy with…

Wrangler is the perfect beach car. Hot summer day? Top off, doors off, cooler in the back... If you get the 4-door, you can take 4 of your friends, and still have room for that cooler. You can drive on the sand if your area allows it. (I have seen bagged jettas make it across the sand in Pismo...) and, when you are…

Bought the last 4 vehicles we have new. Why? Well, trucks get beat on, so wife got her 2000 Tacoma right off the lot. Was a special order that the orderer turned down. Unusual combo, but exactly what she had been looking for on the used market. V6, 5speed, 2wd, SR5 Tacoma. That is probably the rarest combo of any…

That was interesting when my wife and I flew back from Dublin, Ireland. We re-entered the US while still in the airport. Nearly missed our flight as we didn’t realize we had to do the USA Customs line. It was interesting as they showed us pics of our checked bags to make sure that they were ours. We didn’t have to…

So, you’ve been reading “The Man in the High Castle”...

Cargo areas are just as pressurized as the rest of the plane, otherwise Fluffy the family pet who was crated and stowed in the cargo area would die on every flight. There is 1 pressurized bulkhead in the plane and it’s the back of the cabin.

Even had the lower ball-joints fail? Let me tell you how much fun THAT is. First off, they are in tension, not compression. Ball Joints don’t like to be in tension. The car hangs off of the lower ball joints. When they wear, you will have about 45 seconds of “Funny, the steering just got very tight...” followed by…

The 4.0 thermostat issue. You MUST change the thermostat every 30k miles or it will eventually lock closed and kill the motor. That’s how my parent’s got a ‘98 for like $2k and dad swapped in a new 4.0 and they drove it for another 120kmiles....

Anytime somebody says Rubicon while speaking english sentences, you should assume the Rubicon Trail in nor-cal. It is famous even outside of off-roading circles. In a scale of 1-10, those who have never seen or heard of Fordyce rate the Rubicon a 10 in difficulty. But, over the years, it has been graded and ruined so…

While I am sure that this button is there... the picture from directly to the side shows an odd reflection of the leading edge of the steering column cover.

Pretty sure what they’re actually seeing is a reflection of the front edge of the square steering column cover where it’s not obscured by the round base of the steering wheel.