Saw this pop up on Twitter last night, and that was my first thought: why is this Amy Schumer’s problem, exactly? Dude is clearly a dick, most charitably maybe just enjoys going for shock value, which sounds totally par for a douchey comedy writer. Is she expected to closely follow the career of anyone she’s ever…

All double clutching a modern transmission does is wear your clutch and throwout bearing faster. There’s value in learning not to just dump the clutch on downshifts without giving it any throttle, but it has nothing to do with the syncromesh.

Keirin. Motor assist race with human powered sprint finish. Gold medal race in 2012 was so close they gave up trying to figure out who got third and gave out two bronze medals.

There was an NPR story on the other day. Journalist got a flat on the way to a meeting, and ended up using some app that will send a flunky out to put your spare on for you. Journo thought this was amazing and great; for only $25 or whatever, they were back on the road, and it only took like 90 minutes all told!…

Pocket Raptor

Ranger Raptor. There you go Ford, you can have that one for free.

It’s almost like it was written by a bunch of competitively self-absorbed Hollywood people who think everybody thinks like a competitively self-absorbed Hollywood person.

Consider estate jewelry. You’ll get a lot more for your money, and get something far more unique than anything a mall jeweler is going to carry. I got my wife’s ring (and several gifts since) from a local estate dealer, and it was both gorgeous and twice the rock I could have afforded at the Tom Shane.

Foreign nationals here on student visas seem to be a big market for them also. Fear of deportation makes people really dumb.

The cupholder on my ‘02 A4 was similarly stupid. Where shall we put this flimsy contraption, which shall hold flimsy cups full of liquid? I know, right over all the center stack electronics:

Just engineers living in a world of marketers all day long. It’ll make a person downright suspicious after a while.

Yes, I’m telling you that in today’s dollars an NES cost more than an xbone or ps4. You can do the math yourself:

I haven’t been able to find a non-garbage email client for Windows for years. <glares at Thunderbird>

As a software engineer that specializes in large-scale cloud services, I’m both very sympathetic to how hard it is to solve a problem like this, and completely boggled they didn’t have it solved before they rolled this out. The only explanation is that they were completely blindsided by how popular this thing is…

The original NES cost about $500 new, inflation adjusted. Between finding NOS silicon from the old systems, sourcing and integrating new chips for the upscaling and color correction, and milling a new case out of aluminum, it’s a freaking miracle they can do it as cheaply as they do.

I’m neutral about excluding them from Rio, but they should strip ALL Russian medals awarded at Sochi, regardless of lab results. I’m sure there were some clean Russians at the games, but part of the lesson needs to be that you can’t just keep your head down and pretend you're above it or it doesn’t affect you. The…

Y’all need to go borrow a good road bike or mountain bike from somebody and do some experiments. Set the bike straight and upright, and walk it forward holding only the saddle, and it will go straight. Lean it over, and the bars will turn with the bike. Bring it back up and they’ll straighten out. You don’t even need…

In the interest of trying to figure out what the kids are on about I’ve been trying to bring it on the morning dog walk, but it literally crashed every single time I looked at it this morning. I’ve lost a couple now to crashes right after catching them, and at least one to a crash while sending it off to the…

You have to have both for a two-wheel vehicle, motorcycle or bicycle, to work. The entire system depends on the interplay of leaning and steering via fork trail. Remove either one, and the bike will be all but uncontrollable or impossible to balance.

Eastern to Pacific is the t-ball of jet lags. You need to try Pacific to Central European (ideally with a 3 hour layover in Heathrow to mix it up) for a real taste of the big leagues. Honestly, though, I find going west worse - I can reliably sleep a little on a long overnight from the west coast to Europe. Coming…