Rothenberg was a very fun city to visit, and very picturesque. The Jalop in me most remembers it as the first place I saw a “Privatparkplatz” sign, which does in fact mean what you think it means. It also used to have an exotic car rental/Autobahn ride along place that I would have loved to have used, but they were…

daVinci origami videos have been around since at least 2010.

My wife is a daVinci surgeon. I was very confused reading the “Never fear: the doctor isn’t in the room and this lil’ friend is left to do its thing.” line in the story. She always operates with another daVinci qualified surgeon as her assistant (or as an assistant to another daVinci qualified doc) and they have a…

It must be the “public” hospital part that’s different. My wife has used the daVinci in surgeries for several years. It has definitely been a positive development for her patients.

I think the Hilux approach is similar to the Chuck Norris approach — it doesn’t dodge the moose, the moose dodges it.

Damn. And here I was about to make a comment about my 3 car, double deep, garage just barely being big enough for two cars after adding in bikes, lawnmower, work bench, second fridge, freezer, etc. I should look into a lift for our 3 season car (also a 2 seater convertible), but I’m not sure any of our other cars…

Pretty sure he’s got a trunk of voodoo dolls at the foot of his bed that he pulls out for occasions like this.

We rarely get significant snow accumulations here, so ground clearance hasn’t been an issue. The hilly terrain has more of an impact on whether a road is passable or not. Getting more than 15mpg around town was a priority. A full size SUV or pickup was not something that my wife had any interest in driving. After 15…

Upon further review, the ruling on the field of a Catch-22 has been overturned.

We already have one minivan. We didn’t need another. As much as we like it, the 15 mpg we get with it around town is not something we needed to duplicate. We looked at wagons, too, but we were replacing a Volvo XC70 wagon with this purchase. It was fine when our kids were younger, but their legs are longer and their…

Zero. We didn’t pay 30k more than we would have for any other vehicle.

There were no other cars on the market that met our requirements at a comparable price or lower. We needed a car (not a van or an SUV) that could comfortably seat 5. We needed it to be AWD. AWD means a tunnel and a hump for the middle seat passenger…

I understand the math that you’re using, but I think the disconnect is due to the language you’re using to describe it. My usage might increase by 50%, which would, as you say, result in an increase of 450 from 900 to 1350.

My electrical bill probably went up about 20% a month. That’s about to go down some, however, as the utility is reducing the rate for green power purchases as those purchases have become less expensive as more green power sources have come on-line.

When we add our Model 3, we expect to pay another 20% for electricity.…

In the last 27 days of charging my Model S at home, I’ve spent a grand total of about $41, much less than I would have paid to drive the same number of miles on gas or diesel. That’s a little more than it would otherwise be because I’ve chosen to pay a premium to my electric company for “green energy.” The green…

I just finished a five day, 2,000 mile road trip in my Model S. Over the entire trip, I spent a total of 9.5 hours charging. That number was much higher than it needed to be because several of the stops involved stopping for meals or coffee, shopping, and generally doing all the things you do to stretch your legs and…

The popular answers here have all involved stupid things done while driving fast. Mine was trading in a car before it killed me or someone else, and timing it so that the dealer couldn’t test drive it and discover my secret.

Not sure you have to worry. Standing in the direct path of a car heading towards a junk yard ramp tends to resolve those issues without outside interference.

So glad to hear that my wife and I aren’t the only ones to have had a “snot sucker” in our arsenal.

Tomorrow’s Alt-Right headline: Florida Court announces election to be fixed.

The words spray painted on the building were spelled correctly. It might not have been a Trump supporter.