Reading an article like this reinforces that we Americans often live in different worlds with totally different skill sets. The very idea that you couldn’t rig a light screen, plug in a timer or a smart switch, or even haul 1 cubic meter of stuff to your home is so foreign to me. Then again, so is the idea of living…

Thanks Jason for the most entertaining (if you’re a geek like me) content. I hope GMG doubles your salary every time more talent walks.

This one needs a third option. Crack Pipe at Any Price.

I’ve got an idea. How about the Post Office double the junk mail rates? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption

Or an ode to a 60,000 mile Nissan CVT.

What a beautifully useful vehicle. Are those rear window privacy shutters?

Do all businesses close during school summer vacation?

Hiro, our vinyl budget is out of control. I know it’s expensive hunting and skinning all those naugas, so no more full vinyl. From now on, everything is to be “vinyl trimmed”.

Skynet 0.9

I come to America. I get Mustang. Life good here.

Obviously New York Ballaban was holding back the Corvair coverage. Or maybe V.W. Torchinsky was jealous of Ed Cole’s air-cooled goodness.

I own a ‘64 Corvair Coupe and I race cars. When properly configured (tire pressures, alignment, tires, steering), the Corvair handles almost as well as my ‘76 2002 and better than my ‘64 Austin Healey. There was something wrong with the one you drove.

Jalopnik is one of those precious things that everybody loves but no one makes any money from. Going back 3 owners they have struggled to monetize the mayhem. The writers have some fun, hone their craft, and leave for real jobs. I’ve worked for a lot of startups just like it. Hell, I created a startup just like it!

The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are not closely related to any passerine species. Swifts are placed in the order Apodiformes with hummingbirds. The treeswifts are closely related to the true swifts, but form a separate family, the Hemiprocnidae.

Perhaps the water of the Thames and Cam Rivers ironically inspire dry wit? Alas, mine springs from the Chattahoochee.

Yes, American advertising in the 60s shows small trim people to make the cars look larger.

Brunelleschi pioneered the use of perspective during the Italian Renaissance but it took centuries to reach the furthest outposts of civilization - marketing departments.

Yes but it is the opening offer, right? Most people don’t start with their bottom line.