Yep! Good work Kinja!

I was in that neck of the woods, so I made a pass through. Didn’t see anything especially stupid going on, but maybe I just didn’t have the vantage point.

Procrastination has ended. I’m not concerned about the bill, better to be under rather than over unless you’re getting fined. My effective tax rate is down about half a percent from last year, I’m mainly paying more because my investment income was higher. I am annoyed that TurboTax charges a $25 for online MA state…

I’m no tire expert, but I suspect that these are probably not optimal for my fairly boring old Volvo sedan in a cold, wet climate (I have Pilot Sport A/S 3+s on the car now, and am pretty happy with them). I’d lean towards the ones on the left though.

Saw this guy today, I feel like it’s probably been 15 years since the last time I saw one.

Update: Took it to the shop for an oil change and to get a professional opinion on the noise. Their initial impression was the same as yours, that it was probably a rock between the brake and the backing plate. However, when the pulled the splash guard off the bottom to change the oil, they found the crank pulley nut…

I was thinking about the Oppo Map (as set up by Clemsie McKenzie) today, and it hasn’t been posted recently and seems to still work, so I thought it could use a bump.

Via the Washington Post:

As expected, Airbus is ending A380 production after the A380's largest purchaser, Emirates, slashed its order of order A380s. Emirates has agreed to buy A350s and A330neos in its place. The last delivery is scheduled to take place in 2021, with 14 more planes being built for Emirates and 3 for ANA. The A380 is the…

NASA has officially ended their attempts to make contact with the Opportunity rover on Mars. Launched 15 years ago on a 90-day mission to the red planet, Opportunity roved on until last summer when contact was lost amid a massive months-long planet-wide dust storm. It is suspected that either cold damage occurred due…

As I noted the other day, Kinja has been doing a weird thing where it duplicates my posts in the dashboard:

I do want them to have money to keep the sites up after all. Then I find myself browsing without an ad blocker, and get reminders of why I don’t:

Apparently when you drive an electric car, they don’t apply to you or something:

Sources have been telling Tyler that as many as 17 F-22s were unable to escape Tyndall Air Force Base prior to hurricane Michael.