From everything I thought I understood about egg-eating snakes* this is a remarkably measured relationship, on both sides.

*mostly lifted from Chuck Jones’s Rikki-tikki-tavi and Jungle Doctor’s Fables.

Sweet. Even better than my time with a Charger in Yosemite. I drive a sweet convertible at home but wince at the price to get something similar on the road.

Interesting. Alamo in Cali has been pretty good to me—including once bumping me a couple classes for a reasonable upgrade price then deciding at the gate to drop the surcharge—stock problems making it a freebie I guess. Late night at a small airport that time too...

Scarcely. I despise ponytails and man-buns on any modern guy. I’ll take my medieval age ahistorically close-shorn.

False. Proud owner of multiple non-fantasy swords here, and my hair’s never longer than 5-6", usually 3-4".

I’ve occasionally seen a non-stinker in January. I loved ‘The Finest Hours’ in January 2016...in my top 3 for the year, I think?

I’m no fan of that movie, haven’t seen it since film class in college, but it was what came to mind for me, too...

Oh no, it’s going to be hugely confusing for nontechnical users. There’s 3-5 modes and levels of support for things that may be permitted on USB-C connectors. USB 3.0, USB 3.1 speeds, ethernet (maybe that’s not optional), Power Delivery, DisplayPort, and now Thunderbolt 3. It’s going to be a little crazy unless you…

Not quite. The CPU is rev-ed quite a lot. Skylake’s a major improvement, just maybe not as polished as Kaby Lake is rumored to be. Power consumption and integrated video should both be rather improved over Broadwell/Haswell.

But the RAM, sounds like DDR4 at 2133MHz...yeah, I expected to see the same available at 32GB…

My money’s on the 2017 having Kaby Lake and 32GB RAM as the headline upgrades...

Excited about a lot of these updates, but sad about the lack of 32GB RAM as an option. I will be pegging out most of the configurability on a 15", but the 32GB of RAM seemed a no-brainer. I have 16GB in my five-year-old 17", and use most of it every day as a developer.

And not figuring out a Magsafe-style breakaway…

Thunderbolt 3 is implemented as an alternate mode (superset of features) over a USB-C connector and cable. It will be able to do things no default USB-C cable can—PCI-E signaling for instance. Definitely interesting, but no, they’re not just rebranding USB-C as TB3.

To my understanding, powered by A/C wall power, but providing power and receiving data from the MBP over USB-C/Thunderbolt 3.

The big thing Kaby Lake will enable is lower-power/more ports available for Thunderbolt 3, since the controller is on the CPU, rather than requiring the Alpine Ridge chipset. That’s the main reason I’m still hoping for Kaby Lake!

I’m actually really sorry for Toyota mostly, they almost beat Audi this year and they would have been on top of the world. Now, if they beat everyone else next year, there’ll still be some glory stolen by Audi leaving unbeaten.

Interesting. I don’t frequently have the mental time and space to process that sort of reading, but I’ll put it on my list to check out.

Good point. Also, though, it’s not impossible to affirm the human spirit or hope even through desperate circumstances...I have a lot of respect for Solzhenitsyn and how ‘A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch’ maintains that dignity even through horrors.

I was a bit worried about the trans in my Jaguar XK8 (not quite vintage, but headed that direction) today on a mountain road 200+ miles from home. Very glad to have a AAA card in my wallet, plus that charged cell phone. I’ll do most of the work myself but a trans might need the pros’ involvement. Thankfully it behaved…

And you can invest some serious sweat to avoid overuse of the first ingredient...

Not one but TWO quarries within the last 3 miles of my commute to work—to a software company, no less. And while one is sort-of avoidable, the one in the last mile isn’t...not unless I go find a dirt road detour.