Finally just heard back from my appraiser. They’ve agreed on a value that’s actually fair, and more than twice what the insurance company initially offered. Well worth the cost and hassle of getting an appraisal and going through this process. And it should be enough to fix it, which is the important part.

I thought it was stupid when I thought it was actually real water. It seemed needlessly complicated and would have required a lot of expensive planning and construction. Knowing it was just fake water makes it less so. Now I see it as simply a fairly successful attempt to tie in a very “Miami” look as one of its…

In order of most driveable to least.

2011 Suzuki SX4:

You mean the Mexican-built truck is kicking ass and taking names of two competitors built in Alabama, right?

In theaters, Thanksgiving 2022...   One last job.

Watched a video on that lawnmower.

I love em, but can see why others probably don’t. Great wheel in my opinion.

When you’ve got kids and are forced to watch every Pixar movie 400 times, you become an expert on what represents a good and bad Pixar movie. Cars 2 is an excellent Pixar movie, Cars 3 is the one you want to go after.

Go on...

How the hell do you know how it drives?

...0.5 percent of the cars in Russia are EVs — that’s just 13,000 cars in a national fleet of 45 million...

As someone born in San Antonio and currently living just outside of Austin, I’m glad you enjoyed my hometowns!

This level of stupidity makes me sad.

Well, shit. If it’s good enough for an internet stranger’s epidemiologist’s former roommate, it’s good enough for me!

I used to work for LM in their Arizona location. The auction for that location (what was left of it) was a few weeks ago- glad it didn’t get publicized. I got some good stuff from it. It was also fun as a former engineer to watch the mystery items get bid up speculatively, but to know how worthless they were- or…

Belgian post used to buy UK rhd small vans but resale value was next to nothing when they were 4 to 6 years old. Now they buy lhd but just drive against traffic on the bike lane and nobody cares they do this.

Here’s this ship under its former name, Super Servant 3, carrying a load of three US Navy minesweeper ships.

Gotta disagree with you there.

Analog gauged may be old fashioned, but they generally stay where the fuck they are supposed to be.