$500 for an oil change? Is there something magical about changing the oil in a diesel, or in a Cayenne, that I don’t know about? Or is that just Porsche being Porsche?

Haven’t been to Raleigh in ages. Now that I live downtown and walk most places, the idea of driving to Raleigh seems more and more equivalent to flying to the moon for dinner.

Sure, it’s dumb and bad and nonsensical. But it’s funny, too. Like watching a kid fall off a bike. I could watch kids fall off bikes all day. I guess I'm a bit of a simpleton, but that's okay. I can grow up any time I want.

I mean, yeah, but it’s totally ripping off The Night Watch in a way that I love. Just look at the old, Captain Barbosa-looking Batman with the yellow cloak! There’s even different models of Bat-Suit!

It’s also a pretty poor reflection of Wall Street’s supposed expertise, given most of us normies knew these AIs are little more than stupid toys to play with for a few minutes, at best. That’s not to say it can’t produce some fascinating stuff. For example, a friend and I were going back and forth asking AI to make…

This’ll be a weird one, but I’m going with the idiotically-named Kia Stonic I drove while in Ireland. Those of us stateside likely won’t know about it (mercifully so), but it’s a Euro-market smallish crossover. It was so forgettable that I had to use Google to recall it’s name. It had the wimpiest 1.0L three-cylinder…

The best part about them is that the sun visor mirrors aren’t fixed in the visor. They are removable and portable. It’s great for whatever you might have needed a small-ish, oblong, handheld mirror for in the 1980s. 

On the one hand, probably right! On the other hand, does it block the headlights? Without access to this exact car, we may never know haha

The older ones look... Recognizable as the same car, but much more restrained and clean, if those words can ever be applied to a Lamborghini

I’ve said for many years that people can be educated, they can be intelligent, they can be both, or they can be neither. Those traits do not necessarily beget one another, nor can they substitute for one another.

Thankfully everyone survived today’s lesson.

I’ve seen plenty of the older ones that don’t have the extra body-kit stuff that are wing-less, but this might be the only one I’ve ever seen with the late-era rocker panels (non-round-belly?) that lacks the wing. Like maybe it was the only Countach that was ordered while the buyer was clean and sober.

I can count the number of times I’ve been called “Doctor” outside of my friends and I doing a Spies Like Us bit on one hand. Typically, it’s when some poor undergrad calls me to solicit donations. But in science, it’s only the real douches who call themselves “Dr. So-and-so,” so people (myself included) generally…

Compressed gases are harsh mistresses. Those who do not treat them with the utmost respect, WILL eventually be reminded just how much force a simple equation like PV=NRT can transmit to the unwitting.

The rear ones I think you could argue are distinctive and interesting. But boy, that front end looks like a Countach tried to grow a mustache and it really can’t pull it off. Like, why does it stick upward at the sides?! What kind of monster would do that? Just let it be horizontal. Don’t put weird protuberances on it.

The bumper is weird.  But that’s not the weirdest thing about it.  There’s no ridiculous wing back there.  It just looks like it’s missing something.

It would be fun for a few minutes, until it broke.

Maserati didn’t really try to sell a 2.0L turbo four cylinder for $90,000, right? That has to be an error on someone’s part.

It’s less “discrimination” and more “recognizing subtle signs of wealth” in these cases, I would say. I could show up in a suit, but I hate them. The little “Duke Medicine” insignia can go a mighty long way in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. I can dress like a schmuck *other* than the Duke Med logo and once they…

Right now, it’s a Miata RF. Currently looking for something with a little more V8. And you’re very right. If you look the part, you’ll get less questions. I can’t help what my face looks like, but whenever I need to “look the part” I throw on my trusty Duke Medicine jacket. It’s subtle, but unmistakeable here in…