Easy one.

Almost all hotel restaurants are open on Christmas, as they would be every day of the year. While prices vary, most of these are great places to eat and easily outclass any of the fast food chains. Some of the bigger hotels even have something like a special Xmas buffet. One of the most fun holidays we had was when my …

The Real Italian Job!

You probably shouldn’t describe cycling-specific shoes as specialized. There is a bike company called Specialized that makes everything from $10,000 bikes to $100 shoes and even $10 water bottles. As such, Specialized shoes are a specific subset of the things known as cycling specific shoes.

Looks like someone already drank the shoes!

Craft service. Everybody on set gets to eat for free. It’s how they get people to work 16 hour days with temperamental artistes. BTW can you guess how craft service got it name.

The launch was the ultimate expression of humanity, in all our glory. Musk managed to combine the technical achievement of space travel with the stupidity of polluting the solar system. I get that the launch itself was a test and that is a perfectly fine reason for putting stuff in space, even if for no other reason.…

4th Gear: Just Don’t Call Them Wagons

I did too, even asking out loud if she was from an obscure country. Then I saw the rings. How many times have we been intrigued by something only to be stopped by rings?

Did you have to get off his lawn?

Seems to me every generation and every culture has a word for it. Mine called it vegging out.

Looking at other comments, it seems that quite a lot of people are mistakenly “reassured” that the effect of a nuke are somehow less than they expected. Just recalling my Strategic Studies classes at uni tells met that folks need to much farther away than the suburbs to escape death or long-term disability.…

And offer a special Pikes Peak spoiler kit.

I always end up paying extra for my 10 favourite shortcut keys. Fortunately, laptop makers always throw in another 11 keys for free.

More likely an old Isuzu.

You should show the lede photo to Mario Aguilar. I don’t think he’s ever seen a designer work on a tablet.

7-Zip for obvious reasons

My wife’s idea. Upfront fee, then written test prior to renewing the driver’s licence (here’s it’s 5 years). Pass and licence renewal is free. Fail and not only lose your fee but then renewal requires a pass on both a written test AND a road test, both with upfront fees. Fail the road test and proof of (some minimum…