If they can enforce that rule (“Hey, you can’t use ‘Mondolorian’, your last password was ‘Mandolorian’!) then they are storing plaintext passwords somewhere.  That is security incompetence bordering on gross negligence.  Somebody’s head needs to roll.

With no passing as it is, a qualifying race wouldn’t help at all. Instead, put the Swindon Magic Roundabout between the pitlane and the track. Pit exit light goes green 10 minutes before race start and red 5 minutes before race start. At the race start, the roundabout exit light goes green.

Fauxbra, CP.

Malkovich, Malkovich.  Malkovich... Malkovich?  Malkovich!

Did anybody else start singing a song in their head from “The Sound of Music”, or is it just me?

Some people do have a very good reason for being shitty and leaving the scene of a wreck.  It’s that they were already doing something else even shittier by driving under the influence.  If they can sober up before the police find them, they can get away with being a shitty person instead of a really shitty person.

I tried a Beyond burger at my local TGIFriday’s recently just to see what all the fuss was about.  It tasted fishy.  Like I was eating a tuna melt instead of a burger.  I will not be ordering one again.

Your commitment to masochism is quite impressive.

The cognitive dissonance of these people is astounding. They’ve grown a garden for 18 years with airborne contaminants settling on them and on the ground around them the whole time. But as soon as someone sticks a shovel in the ground, they can’t trust it anymore? Seriously? SMH

By way of comparison, the NHTSA Motor Vehicle Fatality Rate for 2017 is 1.16 per 100 Million Vehicle Miles or 11.6 per Billion miles. I think it’s safe to assume that the average vehicle has more than one person in it which would explain the difference.

I’m sure it’s an easy fix on the technology side. The hard part appears to be getting the manager to care at all. This isn’t the first time that particular marquee has been displaying movies that are well over a year old.

I live near a theater that still has Justice League (and other equally no-longer-showing-at-that-theater movies) on their electronic roadside marquee. Whoever has the password to that computer is long gone, and the manager is too clueless or blase to fix it.

I have long thought that this would be a good idea.  There are a few tracks (Silverstone, Monza, etc) that sell plenty of tickets every year.  But then there are some new tracks (Korea, India, Turkey) that seem to do well for a year or two before all the local fans burn out and don’t want to spring for a ticket…

I remember a news story I saw back in the 90s.  A tanker truck was at a gasoline depot getting refilled for its next delivery run.  The filling pump didn’t shut off properly and overflowed the tanker.  The large cloud of gasoline fumes meant the diesel engine was sucking an air-fuel mixture in through the intake.  It…

I knew this had to be Torch article as soon as I saw those orange exclamation marks in the background.  I henceforth name that color Torch orange.  It is now the second official option on the Jalop car color chart behind Jalop brown and just ahead of BRG.

There’s a reason for that. Pilots are trained to aviate then navigate then communicate.  First order of business is to fly the plane.  Second order of business is to know where you are flying.  Third order of business is to tell people where you are.

My ‘09 TSX won’t play anything by Queensrÿche, but it’ll play Queensryche just fine.

I’m sure nobody will see this down here in the greys, but here goes nothing.

because they’re fast and don’t deal with traffic the way regular cars do.

Not so much a desperate way of getting cash, but the desperate measures I had to go to because there was no way I was going to get the cash.