I’ve just finished reading Jack McDevitt’s latest novel in the Alex Benedict series, Coming Home. It’s set some 10,000 or so years in the future. Few of the stories happen on Earth, but this one has some major plot lines on the home world, including a search for artifacts from Earth’s golden age of spaceflight (though…

All I care about is a removable roof and the availability of a manual remaining with the 2018 Wrangler. It could be carved from a chunk of Wolfram and I’d still consider one for my next vehicle.

I read the bulk of your post in Agent Smith’s voice.

This guy is a legend among the P80 generation Volvo guys. Has a damn video for everything, I mean everything on these cars. Not only great knowledge but actually puts together a pretty damn nice walk through as well. Really nice guy as well.

I’ve owned a few of these, absolutely amazing trucks. SCCA champs, SCORE champs, solid axles including a dana44, and the metric ton offering higher payload than an F150 new today.

Jobs tomb at the epicenter of it all, we’re the apple children will be sacrificed for their blood... or for not finishing that fucking project in time.

Not a computer story, but this is the most memorable IT story from like 8 years ago. I was working on a network device remotely (3000 miles away) in the middle of the day and had the simple task to update an ACL (access control list). Normal thing to do during the day. Well, I applied the wrong ACL denying all…

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If things go well tonight, I’ll be placing an order tomorrow.

No, but you should be taxed if you are removing a valuable resource from the city without contributing like the rest of us.

Do pharmaceutical pirates chase the dragon?

Some guys buy cool guns and do cool things. Some guys buy iMacs and wear man buns and drink fagachinos at Starbucks. Whatever floats your boat.

This is hardly a new revelation. It’s been known since the mid-90s that if you can hack the Gibson, you can literally sink a ship by flooding its ballast tanks.

I have often though about buying many smashed, clean-title cars for pennies, selling them as scrap piece by piece, pawning their titles at a title store, and then disappearing into the night with millions of dollars to start my own car company. Maybe I’ll call it Elio. Or SuperReplicas.

As someone who used to design parking for retail, I can safely say this is full of crap. Are there places with too much parking? Yes. Did they used to have too much parking? No. Will they sago need that much parking? Maybe. Generally, parking for combined big box retail is 5 spaces for every 1000 square feet of…

Reminds me of Steven Cahn and his “Religion without God” proposal, in which he surmised that human could have a ritualistic, superstitious belief system purely for the sake of community.

You’re absolutely sure about this? I guess you are since you feel quite confident in calling me a “lunatic” after having expressed what I feel is a quite reasonable slant on things. But answer me this: if gun availability is the main reason for these shootings, then how come we don’t see them happening at anywhere…

I have a huge effing beef with regards to all this talk of gun control in response to school shootings. Not once will you ever hear the subject of WHY these shootings occur discussed among all the shrill hyperventilating about gun laws. You’d think that in the spirit of intellectual honesty and, you know, a real…

Really? You are going to use a bunch of quotes about National Parks to argue against selling off a bunch of federally controlled land?