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Weird Al Yankovic - Albuquerque

That’s the situation I’m in. I got a massive discount to take the white car on the lot. It was my least favorite color, but it was also a good enough deal to put up with it. I’m contemplating getting a wrap (or a half-wrap, and two-toning it).

I had the realization a few years back that I could have just gone out and bought a Prowler and that was a dangerous day.

I bought a Vibe in 2007 that I’ve only finally replaced in the last week (and it seems to be running fine despite its ancientness). At the time, I could have easily seen sticking with the brand for a while; they had a few fun cars (like the Solstice) that I really liked the look of.

Layoff-happy CEOs genuinely don’t seem to understand that the people who leave on their own in these situations are not the deadwood, it’s the people who will have the easiest time finding another job. And that’s generally better employees. The deadwood holds on to their jobs like grim death.

I really liked the design of these when they came out (and still do); if I had the means to do it, I’d kind of love to do an EV conversion on one to get it the power it should have. This one wouldn’t make any sense for that, though.

I wish going to the vanilla store wasn’t such a miserable experience, then. 

If the solution to this is anything “weird” (that is, not just regular human military stuff or some natural phenomenon we’re unaware of), I still think it’s more likely they originate on Earth than another planet. Pre-human civilization seems more likely to me than aliens (not that I think it’s either, though).

Considering that the balk half of the car had a nuclear reactor in it, probably less of a weight imbalance than you might think.

Is this amount lost on the incremental cost of producing an individual car or is this just if you include all of the sunk costs of R&D and investing in production facilities? Because it’s significant if it’s the former, but incredibly misleading if it’s the latter.

The SSR. I know it’s an incredibly stupid vehicle, but I’ve seriously considered buying one and doing an EV conversion on it. If no one is going to make a small EV pickup I’ll just make my own.

I loved this when it came out. When I realized, a couple of years back, that I could afford to buy one, I seriously considered it for a while, even though it’s utterly ridiculous and impractical.

Anyone done the “What’s in the box” scene from Se7en yet?

I had a reservation on an Alaska that I cancelled after the earnings report came in. I really like the design, and I’d really like a compact EV truck, but between the quality issues and the financial issues, it just seemed like a bad idea.

I suspect that most of the time someone is ordering the $19 burger, they’re not the one who chose the restaurant, and them ordering the burger is the price you’re paying to have the party there at all. It’s like the perfunctory vegan item at the steakhouse.

US automakers have spent decades setting the stage for cheap imports by cutting back further and further on entry-level models. They could do a lot to undercut the threat of Chinese imports by putting out some cheap cars themselves. 

Cooper wasn’t more talented, he was just the oldest, and was the first one to get attention. He was good, but part of why he was good was that he had Peyton throwing to him. I played against both of them in middle and high school, and we all knew at the time that Peyton was the stronger player.

My first car was a 1974 T-Bird, and I think I’d rather walk than deal with the nightmare that was trying to keep that thing running.

Everybody should probably have to work a customer-facing job at some point in their lives if only to know what it feels like being in that position. You can tell the people who never did because they’re the ones screaming at the people who are.