I have a soft spot for The Man With The Golden Gun, but maybe it's bleedover from the game mode in Goldeneye.

Your spinny disk will hit it’s MTBF long before you hit the read/write limit on your SSD, even if you sit there pounding it at max iops 24 hours a day. The only advantage old style disks still have is cost, and even that is fading fast.

Both my Audi wagons (A4/S4) had interior releases for the rear hatch. Always just used the button on the hatch itself, but they were there.

I’m into it. Needs more bench seats, though.

Nope. It was for $284 billion dollars, and it done got spent years ago. The hole we’ve dug is a lot bigger than that.

Media controls up ahead of the shifter would seem to make putting a stick in it almost impossible, at least from an ergonomic prespective. Sad - I got into Audis in the first place because they were one of the few brands that met my "must offer a stick in a non-base trim" and "must not have a BMW badge" requirements.

Gold leaf is not exactly a new invention - it's been around since the bronze age. Your time travel victims would probably be more impressed with the refined sugar and spices used in the cake.

These are always insanely off for me. Currently 5'10", 225lbs. With my best estimates in that thing, it's telling me I should eat 3000kcal for maintenance (2100 + 993). With your 20% rule, that means aiming for 2400 calories to lose weight.

A gentlemen famously showed up at my local MG parts shop looking to purchase a new steering wheel. His old one was completely broken it seemed. How did he get there?

My dad was an old school Lincoln fan, with a Jag fetish and a stick-shift fixation. When the LS was announced he pretty much shit his pants. It's the only brand new vehicle I can remember him buying.

NO GRAND TARGHEE IS TERRIBLE DON'T GO THERE

But seriously, can you imagine having to drive hours and hours across the desert with a bag of slowly-congealing quarter pounders on the seat next to you? I can't handle having an empty fast food bag in the car with me for more than five minutes, and that's on a cool day.

But will it still have the 6MT available in Alltrak trim?

As soon as the photo scrolled up, I knew nothing was going to save that pizza. That pizza was doomed from conception.

Why, oh why, doesn't this have a little diesel in it? That face just begs for some clatter and turbo whistle coming out of it.

Overcrowding delays seem to be the huge leap, doubling from 2013 to 2014. Assuming NYC hasn't seen an enormous leap in population, it seems pretty obvious this is a matter of the economy improving, and people going back to work. Improving economy -> falling unemployment -> more commuters -> overcrowded trains.

The "non-organic" mass produced strawberries are bred to be easy to harvest mechanically. But the same firmness that lets them stand up to machines makes them less juicy and flavorful. The best strawberries are incredibly delicate and absolutely require hand-picking and careful shipping, but that's more expensive.…

I DD'ed a 1974 MGB for a couple years, about a decade ago. It was surprisingly watertight, but the clutch slave liked to puke its guts out in rush hour traffic. And the alternator was a bit, er, anemic. In the winter, I just got used to the CD player rebooting itself every time I came to a stoplight and let the engine…

Gaylord National Harbor is truly one of the worst places on earth. It is exactly close enough to civilization to constantly remind you how far from civilization you actually are.

Many years ago I was ordering an emergency breakfast at a McDonalds for myself and my (at the time) mostly vegetarian wife. I requested an Egg McMuffin, no meat, please. And then I heard the following sentence through a tinny drive-thru speaker: