Freaking nightmare.  IIRC you had to change the two rear spark plugs through the firewall.

I can’t even carry a conversation with someone IN THE SAME CAR when I’m driving, I really don’t understand how/why anyone would want to do it via text or mess with their phone for other stuff. Turn on the radio or shuffle the MP3s on a flash drive before I leave the garage, and I’m set for a five hour drive.

• Corporations made cars safer with tech like seatbelts, airbags, crumble zones, disc brakes, etc.

This headline seems pretty clickbaity, since there’s nothing here that says this problem is exclusive to Apple CarPlay rather than touchscreens in general. Why pick on Apple specifically, rather than use this as another rallying cry to bring dedicated, physical controls back to cars’ center consoles?

Youtube has (thankfully) made the Haynes/Chilton manual a supplemental resource instead of a primary one.

This is the new adulting. Thanks to these type of posters I’ve replaced my ‘06 xB alternator in a parking lot, fixed my (horrible) samsung dryer 3x, kept my ancient beast of a washing machine working through no-longer-available part failures, fixed my dishwasher, built a chicken coop from junk, and gotten my kid to…

You actually found a useful Haynes manual?  

Yes, you young pups with Youtube channels available for wrenching projects have no idea easy you have it. Try wrenching back in the old, old days where if you couldn’t go to your old man, you had to resort to a Chilton repair manual.

Here are some I like:

I still lament the traditional writeup — that I can print out and take with me. I learned to wrench when car forums were still huge (no Facebook groups) and still believe that a dozen annotated photos and written instructions are superior to video in most cases. Further, they’re much easier to edit or tweak on the fly…

“See, Joe, that’s what snakes get on Whacking Day.”

Hear me out:  The St. Louis Chargers.  Eh, eh?

“Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers.”

To be fair, as an Eagles fan, I truly hate the Cowboys more than any team except the Eagles.

You have to take a few min and read this 1986 scorched earth profile of Bob Irsay from the SI Vaults. It’s cliche to say sports journalism no longer has teeth but this piece has teeth made of knives and flaming swords.

Irsay’s mom calls him “a devil on earth.” He denies being raised Jewish and uses Jewish slurs. He…

It’s like when someone has a horrifying brain injury and when they recover they are a harp impresario or have somehow become fluent in French.

Well, that's an extra step that you don't need. Why remove the husk? Leave the husk on and heat in the microwave about 3 minutes on high and it will come out perfect and you don't have to waste a paper towel..

Even better... microwave the corn IN the husk (4 min per ear). When it's done, cut off the bottom of the cob (where it attached to the stalk) so that you remove the stalk and some of the cob. Then grab the silk and husk at the top of the cob and shake the cob out onto a plate (you can also squeeze it out like…

What do you think the microwave does to fresh food?

I did the same for year (the auto setting on our microwave for corn on the cob works perfectly) but recently I started leaving it in the husk. The silks come off much more easily after cooking and the corn flavor seems more pronounced. I just cut off the root end after it's cooked and the ear usually slides right…