Off lease or 2 year old Ferarris are already trickling down from the top 0.1% to the top 1%. How much more do you want?!

Honda’s designs are so baffling in general - like they’re always a generation or two ahead of being great. I have a 3rd gen CRV, an ‘09, for my daily in the most common light blue.

Every day, I feel it getting a little cooler. Even the color is surprisingly nice, but just too popular. The interior is nicely designed,…

Ad it'll look good while doing it. That green, MMMM.

In an actual racecar, the line between fast and out of control is razor thin while the super/hyper car allows an untrained driver to go fast relatively easily and comfortably with a large margin of error before losing control. Plus, you get factory service.

Within the context of an earnings call while describing a system with consistent safety and reliability requirements, it’s a meaningless phrase.

As a software engineer, “feature complete” is a bullshitter’s term used when a deadline or estimated date of completion comes up and you want to tell people your stuff is done but it isn’t actually done and the things that are done are broken. It has no place in conversations about systems used to pilot vehicles.

Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.

I was surprised, and somewhat offended, at first by how many people don’t do the math on things like a car purchase before asking questions, but I’ve come to realize that most people just don’t know and that’s why they are asking. They don’t know how to do it, don’t know that they can do it, don’t know that they should…

I’d compare Tom to Dr. Drew on Love Line. Hearing the same kinds of questions over and over again but somehow not replying as if jaded.

Although, I did notice Dr. Drew getting frustrated by a few people calling in just for validation and balking at the answers he’d give because it didn’t match what they wanted to hear.

Yeah, I should have mentioned and made clear that the highbeams thing is some dangerous and inconsiderate booshi.

People also put value on doing nothing, but I can only speak for myself. An appointment to cover the things he’s covering here would take ~2-3 hrs. at my local dealer, which is a 5 minute drive from my home. The waiting room is sufficient for me to work or do training, which makes me money and I enjoy, or read. They…

I think this is fair. He even closes in saying he could do better by planning better.

Does it matter what he did? Neither you nor I can put value on whatever else he decided to do during that time. I do know my Honda dealer offers a shuttle service while cars are being serviced and a comfortable lobby in which I can do work or training, things which makes me money, while I’m waiting.

Yeah, it’s all about opportunity cost and no one accounts for the things you have to do in addition to the actual work - proper fluid disposal, cleaning up after yourself, the free wash you get at the dealer, using the RIGHT fluids, GETTING the right parts/fluids.

Figure all of that stuff and the time I could spend, I…

You can love a thing, be enthusiastic about it, and write well about it but find it inconvenient or find a lack of desire or ability to do basic things with it, especially if it’s your appliance.

Foodies are enthusiastic about food, but many don’t like dealing with the dishes that come with cooking their own.

And here I thought the $8000 ‘market adjustment’ on the Type R at my local Honda dealer was crazy.

I cannot accurately express how much my wife and wallet hate that decent examples of this car with the V8 are landing in the $20,000s. Sigh.

KINJAAAAAAA

I crossed seeing Living Colour live off my list last year, finally. They played our local venue’s first show since re-opening after a 5+ year ownership/tax/remodeling battle.

I saw them live last year and their opening song and segue was not exactly, ahem, friendly to Trump and his supporters. The crowd in this reddish-purple area at what used to be a venue for cover bands didn’t expect this for some reason. I loved it.