If your benchmarks for high quality chocolates end at Green & Blacks and Ghirardelli, then you’ve stopped at the gate and haven’t gone beyond. The world of high quality chocolates rises far above those products and there are plenty of chocolate makers in the US competing against the world’s best.

160k miles and going strong. Well, sort of. My second power steering pump is about to give up the ghost. The paint’s rough but undented body so other than those things it still runs great.

People driving with their high beams on isn’t the big problem with headlamps these days. It’s people who are too lazy or don’t understand that you can’t use LED or HID bulbs in reflector housings. It’s maddening these days how many cars are running this illegal combination of bulb and housing. The effect is like…

I took typing as an elective at school on old electronic typewriters. It’s the skill I use the most on a frequent basis. Well, maybe second to mediocre basic grammar rules and vocabulary, I suppose.

Two of my cars are underdogs. a 2006 Mazdaspeed 6 and a 1995 Ford Probe GT. Neither car is the one the vast majority out there would choose vs other cars of their class and year.

My first car was an automatic back in 1991 because my dad helped finance it. In 1995 I switched to a manual and never looked back. I still own 3 out of 4 manual cars I purchased, including the first, a 1995 Ford Probe GT. I’ve logged 400,000 miles now rowing my own gears between those four cars.

I order my steaks medium. If they come out medium well, still very palatable to me. If they come out closer to medium rare, still palatable. I just don’t care for mushy meat and I want to ensure a good sear/crust. Not to mention after many years of trying to find some enjoyment, I’ve determined that my taste buds find…

I have to ask though. I assume that the appetizer wasn’t just the cheese alone. Or was is seriously 13 pounds for a hunk of cheese plopped on a dish? Seems like they would have served it with something to spread the cheese on, so maybe a bit unfair just to complain about the cost vs retail for the cheese alone.

Cheers to a fellow DWANGO veteran. I played quite a bit out of SoCal for a while.

I’ve been harping and railing against the improper use of names for ages about many things but after a while nobody gives a shit or I get backlash and get called pedantic. After a while I just shrugged it away because people on average kind of suck anyway and can’t be bothered to learn the correct words and phrases or…

How is your goose stepping practice coming along? Your right arm getting tired yet from vigorous thrusting upwards?

Obviously editorial error. The end of that blurb should end with “, yo.”

Ahh yes, I remember that article. It’s just that on first impression the title just made it sound like some mad boffins turned a more sedate Civic (Si perhaps) into something rivaling the Type R. Obviously reading just a few sentences cleared up that brief confusion.

Is it just me or did anybody else initially read this as “How to turn your own Civic into a Type R”?

“You’re a rabbit now; you’re a kid now”

Only a blithering idiot would think he can successfully run a drag racing business where the I-5 crosses the 605.

The Aussie is running on stock rubber I suspect, not drag radials like in your video. Plus manual vs automatic.

Got ticketed for doing 45 in a 45. The road was nigh empty except for him about 200 feet back. Apparently he felt that conditions were unsafe to drive at that speed (the road was slightly damp but drying after an overnight rain, no standing puddles).

The Ford Probe had several generations of the 3 spoke wheel.

I would have taped the part that would have been covered by the plate frame and plate anyway, where surface damage of the clear coat isn’t going to make one lick of difference anyway. And besides, the front is going to get covered in nicks and digs more than any other part of the car, if the plate was going to be…