Back in my undergrad days, before YouTube, my friends and I would email strange music and videos to each other. "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" was kind of my nuclear option for inflicting maximum mental distress and it usually ended email chains. Then one of my friends topped it with "Yatta!"

Saw something like this on an AOTD a while back and I really really want one. I have a habit of owning wagons, and this pushes all my buttons.

And now I'm going to spend the next hour looking at El Caminos on Craigslist. Thanks!

Go, Speed Racer! Go!

So I don't hate it from the front. I mean, it's still a total CP for that price (and I love me some C3 Vettes). Then I saw that 3/4 rear view. There's just something very off about the back end. But then...I clicked through to the ad and looked at the image gallery and saw the amazing unicorn and completely changed my…

Yeah, I noticed that too. I think that may be at least partly due to the zoom on the camera. Sometimes when you zoom in, it throws off perspective for reasons that I don't totally understand.

First, do what it takes to get a good night's sleep. What helps me when I'm in a bad spot is to do something that helps me focus on something that's pretty neutral, cuz focusing on bad stuff is obviously bad, and focusing on good stuff can be really hard. In the past I've had good luck with video games that have a…

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Just skimmed the comments to make sure someone posted this.

I thought I read something a while back about how one of the pilots gets taken out of commission, so the other pilot has to go it alone, because PLOT and DRAMA.

Or "Pants". Fun game: Replace key nouns in quotations with "Pants". Works very well with Star Wars ("I feel a great disturbance in the pants.", "Chewie and me have gotten into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.", "Luke, trust your pants.", etc.). "Pants" is one of the great Mad-libs words of all time,…

Haven't been watching this, but I read the title in my RSS feed as "quantum ballet", so I clicked through to see what that was all about. I was kind of disappointed.

Yeah, McCaffrey was, umm, educational for me as a young lad. I always read significantly above my grade level, so when I finished the McCaffrey that was shelved in the YA section of the library (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, etc), I headed over to the adult fiction. The first time through, most of it went right over my…

For our first kid, we had my wife's Corolla (yes, I know, but she already had it when we got married) and my Subaru Outback. For one car seat, no problem in either vehicle. The bulky travel system stroller even fit in the trunk of the Corolla. The Subie died on me, and we were a one car family for quite a while, which…

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Sounds like I've got a whole bunch of new stuff to read. Thanks!

But you get to share a birthday with me, so surely that counts for something, right? Yeah, I have no idea who Olivia Spencer is either.

Oh my....I hadn't seen that one yet. It speaks to me on so many levels.

The 15 little 'Vettes sitting on my desk are all giving me the evil eye right now as I vote CP. I love me some C4, but I can't imagine owning that car and not driving it, but I also can't imagine paying that kind of money for it and driving it. Maybe we could get everyone to chip in a little and then take turns…