The Austin dealership folded and is on a long and painful transition of service to Maserati, with lots of questions remaining about warranty work, parts availability. The Austin Alfa Owners FB group is one angsty place, at the moment.

1. File permit with City to have 500-lb propane storage installed. Wait a year, pay $400.

Glass/ceramic cooktops stain line you wouldn’t believe. The second one of my cast iron or carbon steel pans touches it, there are black scorchmarks, and they drive my wife bananas. We’ve scrubbed the cooktop so many times the burner ring markers are fading. Any pan leaves marks, even the lighter aluminum and stainless…

We moved into a neighborhood with no gas whatsoever, so the house had a brand new Schott-ceramic cooktop. All of my cast iron and carbon steel stained the white ceramic so badly I’m banned form using them, and have transitioned to only traditional aluminum nonstick and stainless steel. The good pans are only for my…

Cinematography was amazing, for the 30 minutes of the movie we managed to watch. Honestly, my wife just couldn’t with Cumberbatch’s accent.

We’ve achieved a burger renaissance, where you can now go to McDonald’s and (probably) and get a quarter-pounder that honestly tastes far better tahn you remember, and even get a quarter-pound deluxe that no shit looks like the picture on the menu.

I honestly can’t comprehend the prices some folks are willing to pay to camp.

When I went to Japan in 2003 I did manage to try some of the different menu items at McDonald’s in Narita, and we also made several trips to MOS Burger, but the one that escaped was Freshness Burger. Someday.

All things being equal, Culver’s is the best chain fast food I’ve ever had. Everything is well-assembled and looks like food you’d make for yourself, it tastes good, the folks who work there are friendly and seem to be treated well (I’ve recognized several employees who’ve been there for many years) and at least…

My favorite show for some time.

I have a 2017 GTI SE DSG in tornado red with adaptive lighting, about 34,000 miles, one minor fender bender where a woman swapped lanes for no reason with no warning and crunched my front right fender a bit (repaired of course, and I kept dashcam video of the impact and photos of the damage), service records.

FWIW, I have two close Jewish friends who both LOATHE this show for the tacky veneer of Jewish representation. I mean they believe it’s offensive beyond caricature.

I still feel with The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson was asking the fans AND Lucasfilm to wonder what’s next? and to truly not know the answer. I think it made fans uncomfortable (it made ME uncomfortable, but only because it wasn’t clear where we were headed, much like at the conclusion of Empire Strikes Back), especially…

The death penalty isn’t about justice, it’s solely about giving people a pound of flesh. Not even the victims - just anyone who feels punishment is the only way to maintain order. 

― Raylan Givens

It looks pretty good from the front. It looks pretty good from the back. It looks like shite from the side.

It’s the same with science. Why should scientists, doctors or other experts in their field have any authority to tell us what’s best for us? Shouldn’t our feelings be more important than their informed opinions and conclusions?

My wife lived in a town without a Wendy’s, so when I describe the Super Bar to her she thinks I’m lying.

Insanity. Utter insanity.