I talked this over with my financial panther and he said ND.

Canadian chiming in.

Wasn’t all that long ago that dealerships weren’t interested in anything more than 5 to 7 years old unless it was some sort of specialty car that would bring people onto the lot to look at it. That’s why I was stunned to see a 45+ year old crap box on the lot. I don’t think they had more than 15 cars total, new and…

I didn’t stop to ask. Just didn’t want to engage. But it was brown so there’s that.

I had a ‘73. Shoehorned a 350 into it back in the day so it wasn’t as terrible as most were.

On a somewhat related basis, if you want to know how bad the used car inventory situation is getting, I saw a 1975 Vega on a dealership lot last weekend. I mean it looked in nice shape and all but, holy shit.

BTW, the quoted article was in the Athletic, not the Atlantic.

The struggle is real.

“The customer is always right” transcends food service into retail in general. We all know that the underlying intent of the phrase is to make customers happy. Absolutely, and for any business hoping to succeed, makes perfect sense. But we also know that way too many customers are fucking assholes. And it should be a…

“...the lightweight wood shift knob has a piece of tungsten embedded in it, adding just enough weight for a satisfying throw.”

The person who originally posted this video complained on Twitter that the flight crew didn’t communicate anything about what was happening and called their handling of the in-flight situation “disgusting”. What exactly was the flight crew supposed to do? They were paying full attention to flying an aircraft with an…

And a tomato on my burger is still gross.

Yeah, it’s difficult to explain. Tomato as a component in salsa, pizza or any number of things, fine. Tomato on a sandwich or burger, nope. There’s something about a raw tomato that just gets in the way. To quote Peter Griffin, a tomato “insists upon itself”.

I’ve found the kiosks were sometimes moderately helpful when travelling in a country where I’m not particularly fluent in the language. Change the language setting on the kiosk and boom order done, no fumbling back and forth between me and the poor kid at the counter trying to help me muddle through the menu.

“Locke, who is the founding president of the Tesla Owners Clubs in Vancouver Island and Santa Clarita Valley, promptly apologized after Musk scolded him for critiquing the software.”

I wish them well but I’m not sure this is anything more than a reactionary response to a tragedy. Australia is worlds apart from me and I can’t say I’m familiar with this case so truthfully, far be it for me to comment, but I understand the anguish and the impulse to do something, anything to seem like you can take…

The difference basically comes down to the distinction between profit and profiteering. If you, as an individual, buy a Corvette and then resell it for a profit, you assumed a risk in your original purchase that maybe you’re wrong about the market and you end up break even or even losing. Even if we’re all in…

No. I already know what most food looks like. And for the things I don’t, I’d prefer to leave that tiny bit of adventure in my dining out experience.

Testing the waters? Yeah, came back positive for cholera. Absolute ND.

Make it blare Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power out of the “exhaust pipes”. That’d be fun.