I can imagine the old guy driving home: "Oh, I'm fine, don't worry, I saw worse in the war, haha! Just help me carry my things out, son."

Let's just get a bit of context for where computers were when Sutherland and his team were developing the procedures and algorithms used for 3D modeling and rendering: computers were still at least refrigerator-sized things, and most regular people hardly ever encountered one directly. Video displays were still a…

NP for someone with deeper pockets. Like most on this site, dropping $19K on a well-used and well-modified car from 1983 just isn't the sort of thing that's possible to do without many second thoughts. I'm sure what you get is well worth it...

So... VW took a confessed classic-Beetle-lover to an event with a classic Beetle and hoped that something other than this article would happen?

Get offline while driving, or Guy Meurice will get you:

Interesting. Thanks!

So the majority of America says that fuel mileage will be a major consideration in their next car purchase. But will it be a factor in your next car purchase?

I thought you were agreeing that the plane lost power, but now I realize what you were saying.

A car crash is immediate; most likely, I won't know what hit me.

If the cargo broke free and shifted to the way back of the plane, causing the CG of the plane to shift, it could cause an uncontrollable climb, stall, and then an uncontrollable decent. If plane lost power, we wouldn't have seen the dramatic nose-up climb.

...and then they take it out of your security deposit.

I've seen those in use, but never had a chance to have a bike with "analog" shifters on a stand in front of me. I thought they worked on the same principle, though, and as you move the lever up or down it will cause the derailleur to take up/release slack in the chain, thus contacting the next gear.

There's something about utilitarian vehicles that's inherently attractive. They are built for a purpose, and they excel at it. The newer vans are even comfortable enough that you can DD them without hating what your life has become.

I don't have any pictures, but I dressed warm, wore my winter boots, and learned how to slide a bike. After some practice, it wasn't very difficult. The important thing I learned was to squeeze the brakes and shift a couple of times each mile, otherwise my derailleur would freeze up.

If it's a standard setup with a derailleur, your chain passes through each one of the gears on its way to the next gear. It may not be there for very long, but it doesn't skip any rings.

You're supposed to stop when it snows? ;-)

If we're being pedantic, you're still passing through each gear. I feel you though; my commute is mostly flat except for this one, huge, hill.

But those are sequential gearboxes!

I can only fathom that whatever will be announced will be revolutionary.

They make battery powered angle grinders. DeWalt's is the DC411B, you can find it on Amazon. It's basically what you'd expect.