Seattle is... unique for motorcyclists, I think. No place I’ve called home has had more informed or skilled riders as a community, both commuting or as enthusiasts... because the conditions sort of force you to ride (the ferry from the kid-safe Kitsap Peninsula to the jobs in Seattle, is almost $30/day for a car, but…

Living in Seattle and working in the IT epicenter up there... knew both owner/racers of Miatas, and my own single-track commuting, wrenching, and racing community... can’t really distinguish which group is the more hardcore about their vehicles. But suffice to say, you like a vehicle when you’ll commute in 25 degF…

Bagpipe Lung — as Scottish a musician’s disease if there ever was one...

Big question is — has the head gasket problem been addressed on this unit? My guess is no... but if so (and only if so), may actually be a good buy.

IME Rain-X beam wipers tended to flutter, spot water back onto the glass, and make big noise on both the cars I had them on, a ‘99 Escort & current ‘04 Civic. They also lost their clean wipe after only a few weeks, much worse than the Bosch InSights I use now... and no difference in wipe (not at all like applying…

IME Rain-X beam wipers tended to flutter, spot water back onto the glass, and make big noise on both the cars I had…

Why they plonked Sentra base output, into anything with even modest sporting intention, is baffling.

Amazing. I’ve always had a ken for storms...

In 1993, I got to cross the upper Midwest in a car during the (then) unprecedented strength of summer storms in that year... having been raised not-in-the-Plains, had no idea how massive, and how utterly tiny you feel, when a supercell is barreling towards you. Sheet…

Castle, just awful. And any residual Browncoat love bridge I had for Nate Fillion was Semtex-vaporized by the end of that show...

Sorry-not-sorry guilty-pleasure vote: House, M.D. S2 - S6, it throttled-up and reached orbit. S7 - S8, was its Columbia reentry. Just rewatched all 8 seasons on Netflix, and yeah... S8 in…

That rotoscoped one looked gorgeous...

Aw, sorry to hear that, man. My day job is a deep-tissue bodyworker... and your wrist is probably one well-placed pull in the right place, away from being right again. I see tons of shoulder, elbow and wrist problems in the office...

Aw, sorry to hear that, man. My day job is a deep-tissue bodyworker... and your wrist is probably one well-placed…

Good article with common-sense reminders... always welcomed during this time of year. :)

Fine — just don’t ride on Maui. The squids (and drunk wanna-be tourists on cruisers) roam in schools here...

Being an ATGATT rider all 21 years (had to give it up to save my hands for my work)... riding around Maui, and its parrothead-cosplay tourist culture, makes an enthusiast want to, well... put up their gear.

Nah, mostly reef fish. I don’t mess with ulua... imo that’s for the deepwater guys with bangsticks and spearguns... 50+ feet is way too deep and the inhabitants waaay to big for a Hawaiian sling. Much rather use a pole and have a beer. ;)

Nope.

LOL — there is no better lesson for a mentor to teach a student, in the water, than a situational awareness one. :D

I friggin’ hated the big, brown, bully moray eels. Used to spearfish my Sunday dinner with my old man from about age 10 to 16. He’d get tako, I’d get fish. And both of us, whenever we saw ‘em aggressive…

What happened to the wrist? Had a track wreck on my racebike almost 10 yrs ago that saw both ulna and radius shattered and plated... luckily it was my left hand, but it’s still only about 80% as strong as it used to be (scar tissue binding everything that’s supposed to slide over each other, sucks).

Here’s a…

What happened to the wrist? Had a track wreck on my racebike almost 10 yrs ago that saw both ulna and radius…

Jalop AND steampunk... well-played, sir.

When I was a kid, used to be a locomotive that originally transported burnt sugar cane from the fields to the mill back in the early 20th century, restored and run for the tourists, right in front of my neighborhood. Friends and I used to try to catch up to the caboose on foot,…

Is that a big rig’s tire carcass under that Vette’s booty? Any correlation to causation here?

Ditto on D-Dubya’s sane suggestion (no prep or extra stuff to buy, likely availability of location, no LEO involvement), but with the caveat of doing it all, with the A/C plus all electrical loads on (wipers, fans, defrosters).

Led Zeppelin, up to Zoso... relaxing and chill yet energizing at the same time. Used to listen on earphones in the shops I’ve worked in. Come to think preferred a lot of classic rock while wrenching in my day.

Personally now I like electronic, either more mellow or more intense than classic rock. If it’s a long job…