Just a couple of random facts about the 140-foot dish @ Green Bank.

1) The upper part - dish and its transit - weighs as much as a WWII destroyer.
2) That same upper part rests on a single ball bearing that floats on a thin film of oil between it and a half dozen or so hydraulic pads.
3) That ball bearing is like three…

“Ford had decided to give the sacred name “Mustang” (which, you should all remember, also adorned the sheetmetal of some four-cylinder crap-cans in the 1970s) to an electric unibody SUV, and this, to many, was blasphemy.”

I’m just waiting for Logitech to come out with a version of the Harmony Hub with something like FireTV embedded at which point we’ll have what you just described.

(In fact, I’m highly annoyed at my TV’s embedded FireTV because it won’t let me drop the TV’s remote in a box and just use the Harmony, so I MIGHT have…

I’m just waiting for Logitech to come out with a version of the Harmony Hub with something like FireTV embedded at…

Apparently a big fan of The Gumball Rally

So, as much shit as the media center is catching is actually ironic as the previous generation Escape (2016-ish to 2019) had an embedded display, but the 2020 has that “taped an Amazon Fire to the dash” look.

Blizzard, 2015: You all have cell phones, right?

So here me out here.

Hated that game. Or, more accurately, I was no good at that game and got my ass handed to me many times, which I did not enjoy, for quarters were often hard to come up with in sufficient quantity to be thrown away like that.

Okay, who had “I stopped playing in BfA post as the first reply” on their Kotaku bingo cards?

Fix the lighter and it’s NP.

Perfect!  This is always how I describe him anyway.

The Ekranoplan is going to be the feature attraction in Patriot Park, a military theme park that’s supposed to expand in Derbent later this year. Until then, it’ll just chill on the beach like a giant mythical creature from the deep.

Gonna just drop this here.

Excellent choice.
That song was also used for the Intel Pentium “Bunny suit” commercials. I can’t believe how long ago that was.

Feel that? That’s the relieved sigh of around 500 dirt track racers when they realized he won’t be coming for them next year.

Always happy for a chance to share an Atom destroying Clarkson’s face.

Yeah, pizza portal is da bomb. You order ahead, and it’s waiting for you when you get there. And they were doing that BEFORE the Rona.

I’ve had these devices for Progressive and (I think) Geico. They were only installed for a short period. After they gathered the data they needed, they asked us to send the devices back. Resulted in discounts in both cases.

:: squints ::

There’s a three-wheeler constructed entirely of Erector set parts just in front of the port-a-potty in the corner.

I’m sure if I was following everything that James May did I’d know all about it, but ... wow.

Oh, I absolutely came here for the B5 reference. It makes you wanna yell, MISTER Garabaldi!

/babylon hi 5