Our lanyards at work have snaps at the back for this reason.

I remember when I was a kid, my parents would go to AAA to get TripTiks before a road trip. They were basically long, skinny maps that followed your planned route and had it marked along with any particular hazards or directions you needed to be aware of. It worked better than a generic paper map, but it was still a…

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I wasn’t sure why he made that comparison: it’s actually bigger than a Focus, let alone a Fiesta.

#2's look says, “I’ve had worse jobs.”

Something I remember from a friend of mine commenting about a German porn: “It’s a machine shop. They can pretty much bolt anything down anywhere they need to.”

Lucas wasn’t really involved with this one.

This is basically why I don’t ride a bike at all: I trust myself, but I see idiots on the road every damn day. Doesn’t matter if they’re distracted, elderly, or just bad, you’re in the same shit either way. Everyone I know who rides has had at least one serious incident, no matter where they live or how careful they…

A friend of mine at work is a type-I diabetic. He’s told us to be on the lookout for him acting weird: he’s got a glucose pen in his desk we’re supposed to grab. I’m hoping it happens when I’m around purely so I get to stab him.

I read a story earlier this year that furniture makers can’t find enough upholsterers. It’s a trade that requires more skill than you might imagine, and the people just aren’t there. It’s also something that doesn’t require post-secondary education. The lack of skills in the workforce is at the core of why we’re…

I have a PhD and I wanted to take shop in high school, but my school couldn’t afford one. I didn’t get formal training until after grad school because even at those higher levels it’s not common anymore (a generation before me, everyone in my field was machine trained). Even as someone on the highly educated track,…

Regardless of any legal issues or snootiness, maintaining a shop is incredibly expensive. I’ve worked for lots of places which have had to close their shops because it was prohibitively costly just to keep them running. It was cheaper to send out to an external place or use another department’s shop even at the higher…

I frequently park between two giant trucks at work. It’s clear that most people think that’s not a space in between them. They’re actually so long that the front of my hood is back behind the front doors, so it’s not even an issue for them either.

With the exception of the Ford Flex, anything lifted that’s not body-on-frame is completely out of the question.

How did every previous generation get by with small vehicles? I only knew one family growing up who had a minivan. All my other friends’ parents had sedans.

I don’t know what this is, but it came up on the first page of hits for “space penguin” and it looks awesome.

The big issues are food and radiation: it’s hard to grow enough food for a large population hydroponically, and most potentially inhabitable bodies in the solar system don’t have a magnetosphere to protect us from cosmic rays etc. In principle these aren’t insurmountable problems, but they’re unlikely to be solved in…

How many buyers will they have there if it’s not CA street legal? This is the kind of thing you buy to show off.