Regarding Jets and their texting system, can anyone confirm if your loyalty points will transfer? I’ve been holding out using the text system because I have an insane amount of loyalty points at my local Jets. Due to their crappy website, it took me a long time to learn how to actually use my loyalty points. As a…

Some of those reveals were pretty cool in person. The one that sticks out in my mind was the Ford GT reveal in ‘15. It caught people by surprise, and was a neat event. That said, the only people who witness such things in person are media and industry folks. The general public watch those events online, so it doesn’t…

As someone who has lived in Michigan their entire life I’m used to the cold. I have found I like it less and less with each passing year. LA’s importance grew in recent years, but for a very long time the Detroit show was unquestionably the most important US show on the calendar from an industry perspective. 

You don’t miss finding somewhere to park and walking around Detroit in what was almost guaranteed to be frigid weather every year? 

I had kind of a philosophical disagreement with my doctor about the statins when he wanted to put me on them. My total cholesterol was somewhere around 220, and I had no other risk factors for heart disease. At the time of that reading I had just started my changes. He relented and said he’d give me the chance to…

My son didn’t really have much trouble with it at 7. He didn’t really need help any more than I did when I played through it myself. He did stop right at the end of the game though; when I played through it he was devastated at the end when it all turned out to be a dream, and I don’t think he wanted to live through…

Preemptive apology for the long-winded reply :)

I might have been more meh about it if I’d played the original version. My kids also watched me play it, which led to my then 7 year old son picking it up and falling in love with Zelda for the first time. That might play a role in my fondness for it as well.

I’ve actually been kind of happy to see auto shows die for personal reasons. I’ve worked in the industry as an analyst for 15 years; the first half of that was for a supplier, since then I’ve worked for an automaker. Up until COVID I had to attend the Detroit show every year during media/industry days. At my old job…

“After all, it would not be healthy or smart to lose weight forever. Since the way we lose weight is by eating fewer calories than we burn, the exact meals and habits that help us lose weight are not going to be the ones that help us maintain our ideal weight once we get there. At the very least, you’ll have to…

Auto shows have been dying a slow death since before introducing vehicles at CES became the thing to do. With the rise of the internet automakers have discovered that they can have their own combination of virtual/in person debuts at a time of their choosing, and without risking being overshadowed by a surprise from a…

This remake was my first experience with Link’s Awakening. I’m old enough to have played it when it was originally released, but alas, I never owned a Game Boy. Link to the Past was my favorite Zelda game from the time it was released until I fell in love with BotW. As a kid I used to devour Nintendo Power, and that…

My Michigan house has no insulation in the exterior walls either. It really wasn’t that common back when my house was built. Yes, I’m aware I could add it now. Very little of my plumbing runs along exterior walls. 

Honestly my house is barely any different. There is insulation in my attic, but I’m all but certain it was added later. As you mention there is nothing between my drywall and exterior walls but studs. I’ve seen it with my own eyes when doing projects. Insulating houses properly is a fairly modern practice. As I write…

I have heard of running faucets to try and prevent freezing pipes if the power is out. That doesn’t seem to be what the article was talking about though. As the article points out, water will still freeze anyway. I actually witnessed this firsthand; To make a very long story short, one January a relative’s house was…

Nothing is insulated in my 65 year old house. 

I’ve lived in Michigan for all 40 years of my life and I’ve never heard of anyone letting their faucets drip to prevent freezing. Do these people not have heated homes? 

My 85 year old grandmother who still starches and irons her sheets.

GM does offer smaller cars and trucks. I also don’t know if you realize that margins are very thin or negative on smaller vehicles for the American OEMs. The import brands have long known how to make these vehicles profitable, but that has long-evaded the domestic automakers. At the same time, if you have bigger…

This sounds like a great way to encourage mold growth on your mattress, especially if it’s foam.