I drive 81 miles per day to work, and average around 30k a year with all the stuff we do on weekends. Comfort, mpg and tank range are my most important factors. When VW bought back the Jetta TDI I was driving, I parlayed the winnings into a BMW 535D which on paper does 37mpg highway and in reality can do over 40…

There’s 3 of us at home, and a stack of 3 plates in the microwave for 1 minute gets them nice and warm. Plus, with the microwave over the stovetop it also gets a little heat from the food cooking below, so you don’t even really need to time it very carefully. Just nuke the plates sometime close to when the food’s…

Sure it was a boondoggle, but Boston’s Big Dig also changed the city pretty dramatically.

On newer phones, the camera live view is very smooth. But anyway, couldn’t they solve the issue of buffering video content if the full frame data was processed down to 1080 before writing? I mean, the phone already has the capability to process digital zoom on the fly when recording video.

Well that’s terrifying.

Which is sort of confusing to me, because the live view when capturing a photo is easily 30fps and is the whole frame. I guess there is additional processing load when video recording to write data and do the anti-shake stuff. Maybe that’s why.

There are a lot of devoted diesel fans (just look at the pickup truck market) that would love to pour money into a car they personally enjoy.

Yup. Assess the risks, and mitigate them as best you can. It was never at a level worth scrapping the mission but it was most definitely worth thinking about.

It wasn’t everyone, but the risk assessment did give a nonzero chance of a few hundred thousand extra cancer deaths. A mishap during the gravity assist was definitely the worst-case scenario.

Yeah, this is kinda the shitty thing about the whole situation. The people being affected the most negatively by it really had no part in it.

In high school, a friend of mine had a first-gen GS (non-turbo) eclipse. Relatively big, sticky tires, not much power. A very nimble car.

In Colorado it’s not uncommon to see people who drive a lot replace their windshield nearly annually (thanks, low-deductible glass coverage). They just get beat up in the mountains and especially in winter with road salt and other hazards.

We wanted to eat at one of those hipster pizza places in Brooklyn one time, and went in the evening. It was more than a 2 hour wait (we decided to go elsewhere for dinner that night). The next day we walked right in at lunch and enjoyed a delicious meal.

My BMW 5 series does 38mpg on the highway. It weighs over 2 tons. It’s 2017; 36 MPG is not an unachievable figure.

I’m contemplating going the other way, drop off my TDI with as much crap stashed in it as possible. The smellier the better.

Trump wants to be this generation’s Reagan, but I think we’ll find he’s more Nixon.

Not really a date, but in my younger days I was at a party chatting up this girl. She wanted to leave the party but found her car’s battery had died. Since I was in no condition to drive, I graciously offered to jump her car with mine, and in the dark I reversed the cables. Not 10 seconds went by before they were…

Raven or GTFO

There are so many other ways to stay connected with old friends these days that this is the best option, really.

I went batshit crazy and parlayed my dieselgate winnings into a BMW 535D.