Swapped a water pump on my Mitsubishi Montero in the parking lot of a parts store in Kentucky.

Seems very reckless to take a road trip in a vehicle with notoriously unreliable motor and not even have a basic set of hand tools. You were lucky you were in a decent sized city at a decent time of day.

Ahh, the dreaded onramp. The nemesis of every 6.0.

Just wait until you get issues with the EGR cooler.  I highly suggest upgrading the EGR cooler if you want to have a truly reliable 6.0.  They are a known failure point and can end up leaking coolant into the intake stream.

You don’t carry common hand tools with you? Even knowing you’re on a 3 week road cruise? Every car I’ve owned, I’ve always carried common hand tools in it. Even a brand new car.

The interview about “how hard it was to leave Detroit for LA” was hilarious.

I’d expect these people to have more reasonable daily drivers than an Audi and a Porsche. Those draw too much attention. They need something lower level like a Buick Verano or a Dodge Dart to go get dinner in incognito style.

As a person who has lived with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis since age 4, I could have told you all of this from experience!

I don’t get when people do that while driving, alone, any modern car should be well insulated enough that any phone should be able to pickup the voice from the backseat

To do this, Beldner said, make the device thicker—by propping a rolled up washcloth or t-shirt behind it—to take the stress off the joint.

Everyone in the story is a dickhead.  That is true.  

I feel pretty comfortable here saying that there are no heroes in this tale, just varying degrees of fragility and stupidity.  

The cops arresting a guy for being angry at them for blocking a parking space: assholes.

Well, technically my phone isn’t selling me any targeted ads. It may be showing them to me after having been sold to some ad network but they’re not selling any to me.

she Googled the supplement, has me in her phone contacts, and our location data showed that we were in the same location.

If this isn’t a great reason to use an ad-blocker, I don’t know what is.

I don’t like Lethal Inspection because it’s another pointless retcon that puts the main crew together a long time ago because... why? Why is Hermes now the inspector for Bender? Yeesh. They got on that train with the movies and it is never a good train. 

The original run of Futurama is still one of my favorite shows. The movies, overall, are even decent. But the Comedy Central seasons? That is not Futurama. That is a weird, uncanny valley version of Futurama.

Years of successfully blocking that episode from my memory down the drain!

Well, I’m happy Billy West, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom and the rest are getting more work at least, but sorry, I’m never forgiving Revival!Futurama for that Susan Boil episode.