Pin boy in the 1980s? Doubtful. I’ve been bowling here and there since the late 1960s and have never seen anything but an automatic pinsetter. Now automatic scoring...that seemed magical when it started to hit in the late 1970s. 

Also make sure you don’t lick the mickey mouse stamps, and watch your Halloween candy for needles. /s

Seriously, this is the kind of moral panic that does little good, and grossly overstates the risks. See, for example, https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/free-public-phone-chargers-fbi-warning-bad-actors-threat-bogus-d…

Gotta admit, though, that Russia probably didn’t arrest her because she had some weed vapes. The whole thing looked like a hostage taking. With that as context, ol’ Kim there could have at least said something sympathetic. At least she was on brand with Baylor, a school whose men’s team was implicated in covering up a…

Seattle is not a northern city in the usual sense. It does not snow often there, and when it does, it melts fairly quickly. Because of this no one is really equipped to plow or salt the streets (it’s not really necessary) and no one has snow tires. Seattle handles snow about as well as Raleigh, or Atlanta, or…

They want 25 grand, but can’t show me the interior? The interior would provide clues about how hard this has been rode, and how wet it was put away. Nope.

The 1974 Ford Pinto Wagon (non-explodey edition) that I learned to drive with in the mid 1970s. It screamed “malaise era America.” Actually, to be fair, it just shouted that. The Chevy Vega was doing the screaming. 

Not in June.

Fair enough, but why is “wear light clothing when walking at night” beaten into our heads from Kindergarten on? Yes, the victim can wear what they want, but your argument is akin to an argument for not urging/requiring people to wear seat belts. 

I almost hit a pedestrian yesterday who stepped into the crosswalk near a roundabout, and I was so intent on the traffic in the roundabout (I live in the south, and southern drivers haven’t really solved these things yet), so I saw her just at the last minute. Had it been dark or rainy.... So, yeah, I can understand…

How would the airline do that if they are assuming that I am going to take that connecting flight. If I fly from, say, Atlanta to Anchorage via Seattle tomorrow, and skip the SEA-ANC leg, how is the airline going to know in advance that I am a no-show on that leg? One way that the airlines could use those seats is…

Dang. Now that’s a nice car. 

I’d be all over this for 5 or 6k. Almost ten grand for a car this old? Nope.

Comment of the year, thus far. 

I know I am a day late to the party but I had to say that that steering wheel is ugly AF. Does this thing have a functioning driver’s airbag? Because planting one’s face into that steering wheel would hurt and be stupid. My wife paid three grand for a functioning 2000 New Beetle three year ago—and it’s in the…

I rented an HHR once and most assuredly did not hate it. I thought its lines spoke to its heritage—the 1930s Suburbans. The PT Cruiser spoke to some simulacrum of nostalgia that was really just a pile of crap. But I do agree that visibility out of the HHR was godawful.

I had one Android tablet, a Galaxy Note. It was slow, unintuitive, and the apps were often janky. Every Apple device I have owned--phones, tablets, and my Macbook Air--have been well built. And I really like how they work together. I didn’t see that kind of integration in Android world. I had an Android phone once,…

My teen offspring got tossed off of Nextdoor when, in an act of high parody, he asked if anyone knew if these strange Black birds had any business being in our neighborhood. It was hilarious, and proved a point about Nextdoor and its policing of POC. 

Solid list, but Right Where You Left Me by Taylor Swift is, I think, even better than Champagne Problems. 

This weekend?

Voted NP, because someone will buy this at this price. Clean trucks are hard to find, of course. The high miles are a bit much, but it’s a diesel.... I see I am in a distinct minority, but someone is going to hop on this.