It’s been a few years since it snowed, and even with practice PDX has easily the worst snow drivers anywhere ever in the history of bad drivers.

From Clackamas to home is about 15 minutes with no traffic.

I get the feeling his main complaint was that there weren’t more prequels with more talking and mooning and riding giant space ticks.

Yeah, they’re just describing dieseling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieseling). Any old carbureted engine would do it if the mix was too lean or the idle was too high or it was just too old and clapped out. Freewheeling is totally unrelated, other than making it impossible to stop using the transmission.

OK, sure - it runs hot and will diesel a little after shutoff. My ‘83 Ford did the same thing. Nothing special about that, just the joys of old carbureted motors. 

This makes no sense. I looked it up. It still doesn’t make any sense.

When I see a car in the snow with the wipers up, I take it as the international sign for “I’m not comfortable with this situation and probably shouldn’t be driving today”

Easier solution to drive wheels problem; just put chains/snow tires in the drivers side of the car. You’re probably driving alone anyway, but as long as the driver is safe and secure, everything will be fine for passengers.

I’ve heard a lot of people argue that modern interconnectedness and globalization will save us all from this; the Chinese can’t possibly do more than huff, because we’re too intertwined. Even if the economic entanglements weren’t so huge, the old Cold War math of mutual destruction will stop any two major powers like…

I don’t always ski behind my Ferrari, but when I do, I make sure to only put my boots on halfway.

We test drove some cars a few weekends back just so we’d be ready when things did settle out, and the Ford dealer said he could see this coming. People were already coming in getting ready to buy like they expected cash to arrive November 1st, and acting like he was crazy for suggesting it might take a little longer…

I commuted with a stick for 15 years. Never once occurred to me that a slush box would somehow fix traffic.

Thing about these is with the aluminum body they can look like they have “minimal” rust when they’re actually only staying in one piece out of habit. Ask me how I know.

1) 1970 Ford F250 4x4 for doing actual work

The lack of a sequel or at least a remaster for World in Conflict is a goddamn crime. Or maybe not; why mess with perfection?

So they force people into storing them on post-its instead, or just not using strong passwords at all. Great policy. “Sorry, we heard a hardhat gave somebody ass cancer once. Just make sure you duck if anything comes at you.”

Get what? That they’re using “security reasons” to prevent people using from using password managers? That’s like using “health and safety reasons” to prevent people wearing hardhats.

You have to install a “bookmarklet” in Safari, and even then it’s an extra couple taps to bring lastpass up. It’s a kludge, but it works fine - I still highly recommend it.

“fine adjustment tool”

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