Fixed the check engine light!

If someone else buys this it will run forever. If I bought it, it would explode tomorrow. I have that kind of luck.

There is no more expensive car than a cheap W12.

Interestingly, here’s an article from Slate on just that issue:

He first blew out his flip flop, which means he had to go barefoot. No flip-flop penetration necessary.

I am deeply conflicted about this comment. I want you to know that. I applaud the use of song lyrics to downvote this van, but I hate that they’re Jimmy Buffett lyrics.

Even if I blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top, and cut my heel, I would not cruise home in this.

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But even that didn’t help as a lot of constants weren’t old enough to rent a car, or the money that was given wasn’t enough. One constant ended up pocketing what was left and figured the rest out.

Yeah, probably part of the bet. “I’ll give you 5 bucks if you go touch the track and back.”

I hope whoever edited that video catches nothing but red lights for a year.

Sometimes the bad quality is a perk and of itself.

There’s good exploration of Andrew (pseudonymously, as ‘Prince Mark’) being a dickhead in Ambassadors, the Mitchell and Webb comedy (‘Mark’ being played by Tom Hollander). It conveys both what an oblivious, narcissistic dickhead he is, and also why he’s historically been seen as useful (because he’s actually quite…

I am still curious about the inevitable conflict between Tesla and IG Metall.  There is simply no way that Tesla will be able to run a factory in Germany and NOT deal with IG Metall, and really the sooner they start working with them the better.  But Elon being Elon, I think it will end up being a nasty fight.  A…

That’s a long way to drive just to disappoint her.

I once drove 500 miles to see your mother

Musk also revealed “Gigabier” at this event.

Reminds me of the remote lot that a lot of folks who worked in the Twin Towers used. The images of the lot afterwards showing all the cars was hard to stomach.

it’s back to the 80's/90's for the anime dub vs sub war....

I was actually holding off on watching the show after seeing reports of how horrible some of the English subtitles are. I’m not totally fluent in Spanish, but I knew enough for it to be distracting while watching “Money Heist” (or rather “The House of Paper” which is the original, much better title to the show). It’s…