If you kept traveling fast enough, you could outrun the news forever

Douglas Adams also pointed out that light travels so fast, it takes most civilizations thousands of years to realize that it travels at all. And yet, compared to the vastness of space...

If anybody is still wondering why we haven’t had contact from intelligent aliens: just assume for a moment that the speed of light limit really is a hard one, that there are no loopholes like warp drive or portals or hyperspace lanes or... Even if you could figure out a way to cross the distances between habitable…

Thanks again. In case its not obvious I know next to nothing about growing things. If it wasn’t for the lockdown I probably would not be taking this experiment!

TYVM. I’m going to start with thyme (I read that does well) and parsley, and try to find a rosemary variety because I use that a lot.

TL;DR: JK Rowling has daddy issues.

I’d like to grow herbs on my screened porch (which otherwise goes sadly underused). Can anybody suggests herbs that will do OK with the limited sunlight?

I like to ask for a lime twist, as that allows me to feel superior to both sides.

You might be tempted to wonder why they bothered with back seats, but don’t fixate.

I really want a dashcam, but I hate dealing with the trailing wires. Isn’t it about time carmakers started providing USB ports in the back of the rear view mirror or in the headliner? They’re already running wiring up there for the interior lights.

I really want a dashcam, but I hate dealing with the trailing wires. Isn’t it about time carmakers started providing…

Other than the Epstein enablement, for which he needs to be held accountable, none of this would matter if people could stop pretending that “royal” is a thing. It’s the 21st century.

I have a list of Signs You are Getting Old. It includes things like “you own a Personal Hair Trimmer, but you use it only for your nose and ears”; and “every compliment you receive ends with the words ‘... for your age’”.

So wait a year for the demand for RV rentals to return to normal as hotels reopen, and get a bargain on an ex-rental RV as the rental firms find themselves owning a surplus?

A lot of the cars on the Hertz site are already listing below market. A couple of tips from somebody who has been looking into this ever since Tom wrote it up over on Jalopnik:

That sounds like it would have been a really good movie. I’m imagining Judi Dench or Maggie Smith as the lead, Tommy Lee Jones (maybe a bit too old?) as the male lead.

He made a mistake that anybody who has ever cheated on a high school paper knows to avoid. If you’re a C student and you hire somebody to write your paper, you shoot for a B, because you know that an A is going to attract scrutiny.

In fairness, Jeep built one that rolled over before it even got out of IIHS crash testing, which was courteous of them.

The only reason for this movie to continue to exist is the sight of the naked ass of an obvious stand-in for Nicholson during the hospital scene. (I don’t know if the clumsy cuts are because Nicholson insisted that the director make it obvious it’s not his ass, or if it’s just edited that badly.)

This means that…

I had a Kia Soul of the Damned as a rental once. What an awful experience. It handled like a fat drunk man trying to get out of a too-soft couch. Cornering felt like it had oversteer and understeer simultaneously. The whole thing felt like a rollover looking for somewhere convenient to happen.

Objectively speaking, this is probably the worst rom-com in modern movie history.