Designers are telling us that the short fat US license plate is an abomination, Svelte euro plates are the way forward. And we should change the design of our plates to make them work on cars. The stick on reg number on the Jaguar is works particularly well. We should do that.

Of course you lose the opportunity for ye…

It’s not porn if you can’t see the bits.

Yes. This blog post article is about 1200 words too short.

My father had an old one of those that he slowly beat to death like he does all of his rigs. Sold it about 15 years ago to some laborers in town, says he stills sees it around town once in awhile.

I’ve always loved the Vega, and later, particularly the wagon (of course I have never owned one) it really sucks that we screwed the pooch with the engineering.

This one is new to me. “Baffles in the engine’s water jacket oil pan were supposed to make nose-down train shipping of new cars possible but resulted in…

I read earlier that Minneapolis PD gets training by Isreali Security forces, and thought “When you’re trained for fighting a war, the area you patrol begins to look like a war zone”

The parochial backwater where I grew up in rural Oregon has one of these.

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Saw this fine example outside my gym one morning 10 years ago.

I can’t even imagine the load it would remove from my shoulders if I didn’t pack around the knowledge that a medical bill for my wife or I is liable to take our house from us in the next 15 or so years.

Maslow’s Hierarchy is upstairs/downstairs.

20 years ago I was on a flight from Copenhagen to SFO and I was seated next to an Asian woman, and after awhile struck up some small talk so I could get that out of the way and go to sleep.

I asked her if she was in tech and if she had been out of the country to work, or holiday.

Turns out that she was Danish, and…

I prefer “kicked out of Europe for being religious nutcases” ; by people who used stuff like this on people in the name of Jesus.

This one.

Swing voters are an odd lot...granted maybe swing districts aren’t so dependent upon swing voters per se.

But honestly, how do you get to “I can’t make up my mind between this centrist pro business democrat, and a fringe right conspiracy touting racist?”

Don’t get me wrong, assholes in the county where a bunch of asshole…

If you can do wheelies, then you can do wheelies.

If you can’t do wheelies, then you must stay at home.

haha. No names. No good names, no bad names. No babies, honey’s, darlings, or sweeties during sex.

Just no.

I’m 50, and losing my hair, but am currently cultivating (by that I mean doing nothing) the Sting as Dune’s Feyd-Rautha look with my hair.

Wow. That seems reasonable, but the idea of “a long enough straight” as in that the driver could have been going > 150mph for multiple minutes, is indeed terrifying.

Wow. I really wanted a purple gingham check shirt (0r was it a tie?) 15 years ago when I wore a jacket to work.

Find something simple, like accounting, or bookkeeping, being an electrician or something. And start doing it, and keep doing it.  And stay physically fit.

Before you know it, you’ll be 50 with 5-6 weeks of vacation coming to you, and enough income for fancy vacations or expensive toys.

or not.

Trust me, I know.

“finding…

Jump back, what’s that sound?