Dr. Dre’s “Let Me Ride.” Had some more cars than Nuthin’ But a G Thang, and hit hard as shit right out of the gate. “Bodies being found on greenleaf with their fuckin’ heads cut off motherfucker I’m Dre” is how the first verse ands and it just goes from there.

I have a 2012 Honda Odyssey that’s just shy of 150K miles. The power door locks on the front doors no longer work. I can hear the mechanism trying to lock, and the sliding doors and rear hatch all lock. But the physical locks on the driver and passenger door just don’t fire.  Most of the time.  Sometimes the passenger…

haha i watched that when Russia invaded Ukraine last spring and it gave me such bad nightmares I quit twitter shortly thereafter because I found myself waking up in the middle of the night doomscrolling waiting for the nukes to fly

$130 billion over the next 6 years?  That works out to an average of less than 3% of what the DoD has obligated to spend in FY23

when I bought my alfa romeo spider in college, I drove home from MD to NC for winter break via US 29 in western virginia. top down, heater on, gloves, a beanie and a scarf.

legendary “that guy”

that’s a valid opinion, but I’d argue that Stephen King is not know for endings with explicit messages of hopefulness. even something like The Stand, where good appears to triumph over evil, we learn that such triumph is at best short lived.

Frank Darabont’s first ever film was a Dollar Baby for “The Woman in the Room.” Stephen King liked his adaptation so much, he made a handshake deal for the rights to....”Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.”

it’s not top secret.  there are wikipedia articles on the systems the Navy has around the globe for passive listening in the oceans

i gave you an inch but you’re not getting the mile. there are 24 alloy gullwings that would sell for more than the $6.2M, but “standard” gullwings “only” go for $1-2 million today.  can you get lucky?  absolutely?  but so are lottery winners.

an alfa romeo spider. near perfect balance that was always such a joy for me to take on winders in the Appalachians. they’re relatively dirt cheap, plus you’ll get the joy of figuring out why pushing in the cigarette lighter made the speedo short out

ok fine - there might be 100-200 cars in the world that would sell for more than the $6.3M you’d have from investing $18K in an S&P 500 index fund in 1962.

even the best investment cars can’t keep up with a basic index fund

I always recommend people read Asimov’s “The Last Question” when it comes to making assumptions about the known universe.

wait till you find out that the very first issue of nintendo power contained *gasp* cheat codes.

given that this is a mid-cycle model refresh, there’s not going to be any structural changes. this is mostly bolt-on mechanicals (like suspensions and wheels), cosmetic (like the grille), or tech-based (larger touch screen). and unless jeep decides to actually launch a 3rd row wrangler like the april fools joke had…

well, for one, the US Navy Virginia Class submarine isn’t completely controlled by a video game controller - only the periscope is. the systems that actually matter in getting you down and back to the surface are much more complex and, more importantly, have redundancies.

a baby bjorn potty chair and go-bag including doggy training pads, dog poo bags, clorox wipes, a few full size garbage bags, and paper towels. the training pads can soak up a ton , the poo bags are good to seal them up until we get where we need to go. my kids are 10 and 8 and both still use it when we’re without a…

if you want room for a board or sleeping, you want a van, not a wrangler.  I own one of both and know what’s for what