Overall it is cheaper and simpler to put up a hump and a sign to alert cyclists to dismount than it is to have people continuously getting injured, some of whom will require a visit to a medical provider.

If there was a sign and perhaps a berm I wold agree with you. But it is not unreasonable for a cyclist approaching an unmarked crossing to assume that there is no need to take precautions.

I doubt that will happen, at least not in any significant numbers. They already pay this city income tax if they spend more than half of the year in NYC. This would just take the existing top income tax bracket in NYC from 3.9% to 4.4%.

Baylor was at the helm for the first Rockies appearance in the playoffs. RIP Don.

No. I think it was mentioned on TWIB or something.

That is really sad. In addition to being a heck of a ballplayer, I will always remember him for his brief appearance on the soap opera Santa Barbara.

I have owned two tintop Vanagons. I would get so many smiles, waves, and fist pumps around town. Plus it was really cool sitting on the front axle and piloting that boat around, which is surprisingly simple to maneuver for a vehicle of its size. It is very easy to parallel park a Vanagon, because there is no confusion…

So right now the over/under on the Jets win total is 4.5 with a lot of juice on the under (I am seeing -170). Maybe they steal one from Buffalo, and beat Cleveland. But other than that, I don’t see any games on their schedule where they have more than an outside shot of winning. Am I crazy or is the under still a…

Austen:

The Arizona D-bags

I haven’t priced it out, but I am pretty sure that the carrying cost of storing data for 20 years in the cloud is going to be much higher than putting some tapes into an old salt mine. Daily backups would probably be best for the cloud. But I think tapes are still the ideal solution for deep archived data that will…

If you have to archive shit-tons of data in a geographically remote location that would only need to be accessed in a catastrophe scenario (thereby no expectation that it be available in a short time frame) at minimal cost, tape is not a bad choice.

I visited the Porsche museum in Stuttgart this past April with my father. He grew up on a dairy farm and is not really a car guy. This was his favorite exhibit:

Reddit is a microcosm of the internet. Onc can find plenty of good, bad, and otherwise at the site. Even though some people may associate it with shitheads, there are plenty of good people putting forth solid content on Reddit. If you stay away from a the bad parts you will have few encounters with the shitheads of…

Here’s a lifehack for the TSA screening: When you are waiting in line to show your ID and boarding pass, go ahead and remove everything from your pockets (except ID an boarding pass) and place them in a small compartment of your carry-on or in a jacket. That way there will be one less step for you when you prepare to…

The marketing of the Model 3 frunk is crunk.

Why was the sitting governor of New Jersey in Wisconsin watching a Milwaukee-Chicago baseball game?

It would have worked had the comment been restricted to stadiums. By mentioning the Olympics, homeboy derailed it.

What does the 1996 Olympics have to do with a stadium opening in 2017?

Not to be daunted by it’s steadily increasing mileage, the sturdy V6 kept turning.