What I don’t get in all of this crap the past few years is how smug those of us on ‘the left’ are...just because we think we are ‘on the side of the angels’. When it comes down to it, might always equals right, and the side with all the gun-toting, hate-filled fascists is the OTHER side. When it comes down to it, they…

Hey, maybe someone here knows this...I could swear there was one of these films called “Blood Runs Red On the Highway” that we saw at my (very small, parochial) prep school in the late 80s. I know I’ve heard the name joked about in some movie or TV show, but I was so sure we watched this one in class. I’ve never been…

All these films did was terrify people who were already scared about driving...and a scared driver is NEVER a ‘good’ driver. Ever.

Maybe if they showed less than 20hrs of cross-country skiing per day, it would be a bit better...it is more boring to watch than any sport in the history of ever.

The real take-away for people unaware of the intricacies of flying is: it’s NOT just ‘driving, but in the air’, which SO many people seem to think it is. Flying is astoundingly complex, even if you eliminate so many of the variables that come into play (wind, updrafts, downdrafts, different ground conditions that…

I’m still waiting for a game as good as Intellivision Football...it was not terribly hard to learn, but getting good at it was a challenge that kept you coming back. Their Baseball was pretty excellent as well...and both were possible because of the controller that had all those keys and buttons. WAY far ahead of any…

At the risk of sounding like one of those “Get off my lawn!” old-timers, I’m going to say that if you want a challenge, name a car show on TV now that is GOOD...it’s really hard, because almost all of them suck. And it’s a bummer, because it makes it seem like, if you are into cars, you are a money-obsessed…

VW did an interesting exercise recently with their ‘unlimited’ electric car that broke records pretty much everywhere...it was ineligible for any racing anywhere, but it WAS an interesting technical exercise.

Not sure if all dentists are doing this, but since the start of covid, mine makes me rinse with hydrogen peroxide before the exam....you want to talk about vile. Yeeesh. The Listermint rinse after doesn’t help, either, just adds minty acid on top of it.

As with everyone, I have my movies that I have rewatched endlessly, but I do think a couple of them are, or should be, universal. Pretty much any Mel Brooks movie bears repeated watching, if only to catch the things you missed in prior watches (I have seen “Blazing Saddles” literally dozens of times, and I still find…

There are a lot of yo-yo values on BaT...if you want a ‘deal’, check out auctions ending on Monday or even Tuesday. And, apparently, right around a holiday helps a lot. But why do cars that are so similar wind up with such varying final prices? Perfect example is R107 Mercedes SLs...they are all OVER the place.

I’m sure someone else pointed it out, but Brando didn’t play Julius Caesar in the film of that name, he played Mark Antony...and did a great job with the “Friends, Romans, countrymen...lend me your ears!” speech.

One note, and maybe it only applies to Neanderthals like myself who like to do physical backups, but Apple in their infinite wisdom removed syncing of Voice Memos from iOS 15. In order to get them onto your PC, or even Mac, you have to go through a ridiculous series of moving the files to iCloud, then login on the PC,…

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Actually, the price difference is quite obvious...in spite of the Guards Red being an excellent, historic Porsche color (and the looking quite fetching in it, I must say), THE color for the Carrera GT is silver, period. The initial prototype was that color, the final production version was that color, all of the test…

If it had been a straightforward thing, then I’d be unhappy but accept it. The fact that F1 broke their own rules to hand the win to Verstappen is what sticks in my craw. I’d give anything for it to have happened 5 laps earlier, they both could have pitted for soft tires and then raced for 2 or maybe 3 laps to the…

Hmm. Some of these are just plain incorrect. Yes, ‘manifold’ and ‘header’ are separate things, as your colleague humorously pointed out, but his (humorous) definitions are also incorrect...a manifold is a unified casting where all exhaust passages immediately merge into a single outlet, whereas a header is independent…

Basic maintenance, as well as ‘what you should have in your car’ (season dependent, of course), are naturals, certainly...but I think a good basic series on ‘how to drive’ would be good. I don’t mean the ultra ‘this is a steering wheel, this is the brake pedal’ crap...I mean vehicle dynamics.

Yeah...that whole ‘one guy in the band has more ego than the rest combined’ thing was a bit of a turn-off. And then Pig Lib came out and I heard “Vanessa from Queens” and...yeah. Malkmus can do (and say) whatever the hell he wants, he’s a pop music god, to me. “1% of 1" cemented it. And the rest of that record, now…