Are we being punked?

Most people don't create a PIN for their credit card and some places don't have the option to use a PIN when paying by card. If there's no signed receipt, credit card purchases must be approved some other way. I've noticed that a lot of places are forgoing this for purchases under $10 or so. Just swipe your card, get…

Exactly, just trying to answer your question about why the engines were not likely turned off. BINGO!

I don't know much about piloting a big ship, but I'm pretty sure inertia plays a big part in these kind of incidents. You turn off the motor, something that big is just gonna keep moving until an outside force stops it. Remember that big freighter that crashed into a dock in New Orleans a few years back? IIRC, it lost…

I'd pay the fine to be pulled over by this guy.

YES!

We all know this wasn't a continuous run, yadda-yadda, who cares. But has anyone mapped out this route using logical routes between the landmark points? That would be fun. Aside from the standing start on the Bay Bridge, I suppose the biggest problem is that Vermont St, between 20th & 22nd, that Ken drifts UP at…

Oh my god, that was painful to watch/listen to.

Subies are pretty popular in the SF/Oakland Bay Area as well. I'm more surprised that Oregon didn't go the way of the Subie either.

This does not teach me anything about flying a helicopter. I guess there are three controls? Are there two throttles, one for each rotor? What's the stick for? Helicopters are weird.

I was wondering about when that started changing. I grew up straddling the 70s and 80s. Very few people I knew learned to drive stick. But it was still an option that was offered in driving schools and folks who were driving any sort of "economy" car were usually relegated to rowing.

This is an all very true list of annoying things that people do. Do not understand outrage. Am I supposed to be outraged.

Not sure if the Midwest is really a cryptozoological hotspot.

What most of these Russian dash cam videos has taught me about Russia is that the music scene there must be awful.

Good job with the last of the V8 Interceptors and he's even got the leg brace, so they're adhering to the mythology. Good on them.

It's already impressive how close the race is. What's really incredible is how long it held the lead for. I don't really understand drag racing, but the Juke pulls such a massive lead right off the line, you kinda don't expect the Veyron to catch it at all.

Well, if Justice Sotomayor can be "fair and unbiased" and not let her experience as a Latina color her opinions, shouldn't we give this woman the benefit of the doubt that her blatant racism hasn't done the same. <sarcasm>

What's with BMW engineers just lopping cylinders off? Isn't that pretty much the only difference between the K750 & K1000 engines (in their motorcycles)?