2.5 years late on this reply, but I know him and it was.

We’ve bought two Subarus in the last few years as modern, safe, and functional options for young drivers. Trying to figure out the actual price of the cars was the most frustrating part of the process, and we were purchasing using Costco because Subarus in our area don’t leave much, if any, room for negotiations.

You…

In 6th grade, we were supposed to write a report on a fictional monster that threatened our survival. I created a fictional James Watt, Reagan’s famously anti-environmental Secretary of the Interior. I guess my politics were well established by then.

My Grandfather had been a Union President. My Dad worked nights when…

I noticed you beeped the horn several times during the first run, and appear not to have done so during the second. I think I found some of that 7 second improvement right there.

They’ve studied a significantly larger number of cases than just those first two. Preliminary indications were than 90% of the cases in Washington analyzed could be linked using genome studies to one single introduction in January. If there were other sources running around, the genomic analysis would show that.

My…

This puts an entirely different spin on the discussion about how Schweddy Balls taste.

Controls in the 3 are actually simpler than controls in the S.

I’m glad someone did that. I almost had to figure out how to create an account and do it myself.

Last division it was pretty easy to make a decision. Several times in this division I wanted a third option -- YES, to cancel both.

You could be one of my roommates from college — except that she made absolutely no effort to hide her skills. Six of us lived in a shared house just off campus. You could hear her coming up the stairs to our front door. Sitting in our living room downstairs, you could hear her from her bedroom upstairs.

No one ever…

Every time someone bitches about automatic emergency braking or something similar I can point out that I’ve been rear ended three times while stopped in traffic — once at a red light while an ambulance with lights and sirens on passed through the intersection in front of me, once while stopped in heavy stop and go…

Adjustable on a 1 (closest) to 5 (furthest) scale. If I have my car set on 3, I regularly have cars diving in between me and the car ahead, causing my car to hit the brakes. In heavy traffic, I’ve had to start reducing the following distance to 2 or even 1 to try to avoid causing issues with cars diving into the…

Starred, unstarred, and starred again. 

Once upon a time, this would have been a desirable property. It didn’t fit neatly into the mold of what was expected of cars of the era. It blazed it’s own trail, and refused to be what others wanted it to be, instead sticking true to itself. That refusal to bow its head gradually turned it from a niche vehicle to one…

If you had the under on Deadspin, congrats?

Also, there’s an autoplay ad currently playing through my adblocker, installed after an ad served here tried to install malware on my computer a little while back.

That would require some physical exertion, and we know that @45 believes that we each are born with a finite number of heartbeats and anything that increases ones pulse decreases ones lifespan. Otherwise, CTE does seem a reasonable explanation. Maybe there was a brain injury while stapling the rugrat to his golden…

These are good dogs, or, as I never call them, canines. 

I read this story when it was first published. I remember this comment clearly. I don’t know how I hadn’t starred it already. It must have been because I was on the floor, dead.

He also clearly referenced a glass jaw, and boxing has no place here (or anywhere in our CTE aware lives). 

Does anyone have odds on this place making it to 2020? This is feeling very bad.