Unibody platform engineering is crazy, craaaaaaazy stuff.

Um, $150 a pop ticky-tack tickets for bullshit offenses?  That’s how they do it where I live.

I feel a bit like the dryer comparison is more and more what cars will become as we transition to a driverless experience.  It’s all pushing in that direction, even with things as innocuous as plastic covers over all the oily bits of engines, the complete disappearance of manual transmissions from the American…

I have a 2015 Premium with a 6 speed manual. I will never understand how they offered a manual, and a sporty model with a turbo, but didn’t offer them together. That was such an utterly idiotic idea, it beggars comprehension.

It too just doesn’t have enough power, it feels sluggish, and is let down by the motor. I hope…

“Youthful.” That killed me dead.

I’m pretty stoked, really.

Last fall and winter, I enjoyed crunching through the leaves with my kid on beautiful weekend afternoons, and later on skiing in the mountains near us every Sunday morning. I’m giddy to do the same again this year, as a Giants fan I’ve been set free.

You can be too.

You have nothing to lose but…

Jesus, Gruden.  Sunscreen.  Cancer is no joke.

WITH FAST FOOD BATHROOM HAND SOAP.

Clint’s take feels dead-on for me as a Knicks fan...

“It has to happen sometime, right?”
“Not really.”

“Team just got fuck” is pretty apt.

Also, I love a festive Christmas McAdoo.  It’s just such a festive part of the season.

I had this exact car, the 1990, with a stick, the white-faced guages, and all that business. I loved it.  It was a great car to drive... I miss it still.

I’m 43.  I find that time does things to you, even if you’re all ego and fury.  I’d say getting humbled, and shamed, and losing everything a few times over probably changes your perspective just a little bit.

I’m one of those people who somehow started watching golf when Tiger was Tiger, those few years of just stunning, lights-out dominance, where every course was rearranged to make it harder for him. Hell, I didn’t even play the game, and I watched to watch HIM play it. I wouldn’t make an appointment to watch the majors,…

Cyanide is pretty horrifying, but apparently inert gas asphyxiation is really quite mellow... it’s used by the hemlock society among others as a means to bring about death oneself for terminal patients. Nitrogen or helium, apparently, or any noble gas as well, will do the job.

A room filled with nitrogen would likely be a bit simpler than that and is completely painless...  I’d say the lethal injection isn’t even about the executioners, it’s about the people feeling like it’s a killing that has been done in a clinical way.  It’s nonsense, but it’s the thing everyone wants to believe.

Per the only record of it, four full power rifle bullets to the heart in an instant resulted in the heart stopping within 15 seconds, and death was pronounced in 134 seconds. That’s a hell of a lot better than suffocating and having your heart stopped by chemicals while you’re on a paralytic to keep you from moving.…

I’d pick the firing squad over lethal injection without hesitation.  The lethal injection protocol is dedicated to making the act seem uneventful and painless, while they incapacitate the subject so we just can’t see any pain or suffering.  Even before the disastrous changes in availability, lethal injection was…

It would, though, be as if I found out that Cabela’s had a strong relationship with the NRA, (which they do) and I burned the six person tent I’ve had from them for years before putting it on youtube.

I am making an effort in light of the uncomfortably close relationship (from my perspective) there with the NRA to…

This is my favorite joke today.

Extra batteries or battery cells from the early days would have been wired in series or in parallel, to increase voltage, and the same roughly applies now. So, you can easily go 12 to 24 or 24 to 48, based on standard electrical units of storage that exist already. There’s otherwise no real reason, but multiples of…